Wow you got a 3% return on your text books, I was lucky if I could sell mine back especially for the various liberal arts courses where for some reason a new revision comes out every year or they were switching each semester. On the rare occasion that I wanted to sell a book back and it was still in use often it was refused because I would take notes directly in the margin and they don't want a marked up book.
I might actually care if this was a couple of orders of magnitude closer in power to that one. For me all this means is that if the sky stays clear I might be able to drive out a ways into the country and show my oldest the aurora since that might be a big deal for him at age 5. The biggest issue is the amount of light pollution in my area.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was ammonia it seem perfectly reasonable. Then again I am surprised they managed to find explosive residue since I gone though screening with a coat pocket full of 12 gauge shotgun shells (about a dozen of the 3 1/2 inch magnum waterfowl loads) and another time an almost full box of 7.62x54r rifle rounds. Both times I put the coat on the x-ray scanner and picked it up on the other end and they never stopped me. But every time I take my old SLR film camera it gets additional screening, wiped it down, send it through the x-ray again, disassemble it, check out every accessory and question why I would own it, etc. I am almost tempted to take my old folding camera through just to really confuse them, especially since mine still has the stylus.
Don't you know all the terrorists are currently residing in Washington D.C. and regularly appear on TV
All kidding aside I figure there must be very few actual terrorists of which 99.9999% don't reside within the US given how soft many targets are in the US. The few "real" ones out there seem to like to make videos and send them to foreign news outlets. These frequently feature the leader yammering about The Great Satan (tm) and have a couple of masked men behind him with AKs or rocket launchers. Given that these individuals are far off in some other country and couldn't get to the US the pose no real direct threat. They do however serve as great propaganda piece to allow the massive erosion of rights and expansion of government. So I guess they do pose a pretty good indirect threat to the citizenry of the US.
Shhhhhh. Don't let the secrete out of the bag./sarcasm
Actually I am with you people need to be less emotional about the stock market. When it took a dump in 2008 I decided it would be a good idea to up the amount I had been investing each month. Now if I needed to I could sell it all and pay off my house but typically I make more from my investments each month than my monthly house payment so I would be stupid to do that. I actually look forward to the next blood bath in the market since it will be a great buying opportunity. And for those of you who are nearing retirement you should have most of your money in more stable investments since you can't just wait it out for decades like I can as someone who is still fairly early in their career.
My understanding is that the smaller the yield the dirtier it is. Take something like the Davy Crocket device or some of the bombs used in Operation Plowshares to see nuclear weapons not specifically built to make a giant radioactive mess, make a giant fucking radioactive mess.
Or better yet reprocess it until all the hot waste has been used to make power and all that is left is stuff that is about as radioactive as bismuth. If it is so radioactive as to be dangerous then it is radioactive enough to be making electrons do useful work.
It is rather rare for people remain consistent with their principals. I feel that you are correct, especially given how often I was called a bleeding heart liberal when bush was in power but now am called a raving right wing looney. My only though of what if it were President Romney now is that maybe there would be more outrage in the general media with them actively going after the administration but one could hope. Romney was someone who was easily hate-able as he seemed like a rather pompous prick with a 2x4 stuck up his ass.
A year ago I'd call it paranoid fantasy. Right now, I'll put money on it.
I have had a similar experience but what depresses me is that it didn't come as any big surprise either. At least I was complaining about these exact issues as hypothetical slippery slope issues when writing my congress critters so at least I tried to do something, and no I didn't vote for any of the individuals representing me in the US congress (house or senate).
Similar things can be said about the other side of the court as well. I take issues when it becomes convenient to rule one way then the other, the worst of these was the first and third parts of the ACA ruling where it was found to be both not a tax (for purposes of having standing) and a tax (for purposes of being legal for government to do) so either we now have a form of quantum law or the court immediately overturned its own decision. In either case I lost all faith in the court since rulings should be clearly applicable (not some bizarre quantum superposition type of law) or they are just so incompetent that they feel the need to overturn something immediately after ruling on it.
The problem is that while people hate congress, they like their congress critters and they view the others in congress as the problem. In the 2010 election cycle there was a rather large throw the bums out wave and look what that got us, although that was more about having the correct label, not necessarily any ideas on how to fix things (sounds like the presidential election of 2008).
I don't think representatives in DC give a flying shit about what one constituent writes them in disapproval about, well, not unless they can spin it in their favor to land votes.
That is easy, let them know that you will actively work against them in the next election cycle and will be supporting a primary challenger if there is one or will be supporting their opponent. specifically mention that you will be reminding all of your neighbors of their misdeeds when the election comes around. When you see their campaign workers in your neighborhood let them know what you really thing, they do take notes. Then actually follow through with it. Also it helps if you regularly contact them and offer support when they do something you like. Also not every issue can be one you revoke support for since then you just sound like a whining child but do remind them of their previous poor decisions.
I never said it was a good method with how we do it and I agree it is pretty stupid. I don't get why people throw out refrigerators or other white goods, the recycling center will pay you good money if you can transport one to them and there are companies that will pick them up for free since they can get money for recycling them. I throw very little away, food waste gets composted, anything that can be recycled is, so most of what get tossed really is trash that can't be reused or things I want gone (the pile of rocks I have dug out of the garden) and apart from the rocks would be highly combustible.
Because the incinerators here suck and are a money pit. There was an article a little while ago in my local paper about one such plant if anyone care to read it.
To me, if it makes police work easier, cheaper, and more efficient, then I'm all for it. I'm more angry at the criminal elements who like to take advantage of a society that bends over backwards to try and be understanding and open.
And you are the reason why we have the Patriot Act and why more people don't believe that what the NSA has been doing is a bad thing.
With modern license plates that many states are rolling out that are designed to be high contras in the IR band and easy to OCR, I would imagine that a RPi with camera and low cost GPS receiver could handle the processing and collection. Since all you would need to store would be the time stamp, location data, plate state, and plate number which would be a trivial amount of text data so a 32GB SD card would be able to hold a lot of data. I mean really why bother storing a large detailed photo when what you are after is location and time of a specific vehicle. Now since we are already processing an image we could also OCR out the make and model of vehicle as well as record the color for a more detailed description. Having multiple people doing this and contributing and uploading each day in a similar fashion to Open Street Map and it becomes trivial.
He probably doesn't because that takes too much effort and planning. I find you also get better quality if you buy locally since the farmers catering to that market know that their customers expect a higher quality product. The example I use is my father's friend who raises cattle, we pay the farmer for the beef and pay the butcher for the processing and it comes out to be about the same price per lb as the really cheap crappy ground beef but we get good ground beef, steaks, roasts. I have seen some meat that is somewhat comparable at the grocery store but it seems obscene to pay $10/lb for ground beef when I cut out the middle men and pay just under $4/lb and get all the cuts and ground beef.
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Wow you got a 3% return on your text books, I was lucky if I could sell mine back especially for the various liberal arts courses where for some reason a new revision comes out every year or they were switching each semester. On the rare occasion that I wanted to sell a book back and it was still in use often it was refused because I would take notes directly in the margin and they don't want a marked up book.
It sounds like work is already being done on this.
There was an article in the August 14, 2013 The New Scientist about just such a thing.
I might actually care if this was a couple of orders of magnitude closer in power to that one. For me all this means is that if the sky stays clear I might be able to drive out a ways into the country and show my oldest the aurora since that might be a big deal for him at age 5. The biggest issue is the amount of light pollution in my area.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was ammonia it seem perfectly reasonable. Then again I am surprised they managed to find explosive residue since I gone though screening with a coat pocket full of 12 gauge shotgun shells (about a dozen of the 3 1/2 inch magnum waterfowl loads) and another time an almost full box of 7.62x54r rifle rounds. Both times I put the coat on the x-ray scanner and picked it up on the other end and they never stopped me. But every time I take my old SLR film camera it gets additional screening, wiped it down, send it through the x-ray again, disassemble it, check out every accessory and question why I would own it, etc. I am almost tempted to take my old folding camera through just to really confuse them, especially since mine still has the stylus.
Don't you know all the terrorists are currently residing in Washington D.C. and regularly appear on TV
All kidding aside I figure there must be very few actual terrorists of which 99.9999% don't reside within the US given how soft many targets are in the US. The few "real" ones out there seem to like to make videos and send them to foreign news outlets. These frequently feature the leader yammering about The Great Satan (tm) and have a couple of masked men behind him with AKs or rocket launchers. Given that these individuals are far off in some other country and couldn't get to the US the pose no real direct threat. They do however serve as great propaganda piece to allow the massive erosion of rights and expansion of government. So I guess they do pose a pretty good indirect threat to the citizenry of the US.
Shhhhhh. Don't let the secrete out of the bag. /sarcasm
Actually I am with you people need to be less emotional about the stock market. When it took a dump in 2008 I decided it would be a good idea to up the amount I had been investing each month. Now if I needed to I could sell it all and pay off my house but typically I make more from my investments each month than my monthly house payment so I would be stupid to do that. I actually look forward to the next blood bath in the market since it will be a great buying opportunity. And for those of you who are nearing retirement you should have most of your money in more stable investments since you can't just wait it out for decades like I can as someone who is still fairly early in their career.
My understanding is that the smaller the yield the dirtier it is. Take something like the Davy Crocket device or some of the bombs used in Operation Plowshares to see nuclear weapons not specifically built to make a giant radioactive mess, make a giant fucking radioactive mess.
Or better yet reprocess it until all the hot waste has been used to make power and all that is left is stuff that is about as radioactive as bismuth. If it is so radioactive as to be dangerous then it is radioactive enough to be making electrons do useful work.
I miss the days when a executive branch controversy was if an intern was smoking some presidential pole or not.
It is rather rare for people remain consistent with their principals. I feel that you are correct, especially given how often I was called a bleeding heart liberal when bush was in power but now am called a raving right wing looney. My only though of what if it were President Romney now is that maybe there would be more outrage in the general media with them actively going after the administration but one could hope. Romney was someone who was easily hate-able as he seemed like a rather pompous prick with a 2x4 stuck up his ass.
A year ago I'd call it paranoid fantasy. Right now, I'll put money on it.
I have had a similar experience but what depresses me is that it didn't come as any big surprise either. At least I was complaining about these exact issues as hypothetical slippery slope issues when writing my congress critters so at least I tried to do something, and no I didn't vote for any of the individuals representing me in the US congress (house or senate).
Imagine what Bush would have done.
I prefer the administration agnostic variation on that:
Imagine what the other party would have done.
Similar things can be said about the other side of the court as well. I take issues when it becomes convenient to rule one way then the other, the worst of these was the first and third parts of the ACA ruling where it was found to be both not a tax (for purposes of having standing) and a tax (for purposes of being legal for government to do) so either we now have a form of quantum law or the court immediately overturned its own decision. In either case I lost all faith in the court since rulings should be clearly applicable (not some bizarre quantum superposition type of law) or they are just so incompetent that they feel the need to overturn something immediately after ruling on it.
The problem is that while people hate congress, they like their congress critters and they view the others in congress as the problem. In the 2010 election cycle there was a rather large throw the bums out wave and look what that got us, although that was more about having the correct label, not necessarily any ideas on how to fix things (sounds like the presidential election of 2008).
I don't think representatives in DC give a flying shit about what one constituent writes them in disapproval about, well, not unless they can spin it in their favor to land votes.
That is easy, let them know that you will actively work against them in the next election cycle and will be supporting a primary challenger if there is one or will be supporting their opponent. specifically mention that you will be reminding all of your neighbors of their misdeeds when the election comes around. When you see their campaign workers in your neighborhood let them know what you really thing, they do take notes. Then actually follow through with it. Also it helps if you regularly contact them and offer support when they do something you like. Also not every issue can be one you revoke support for since then you just sound like a whining child but do remind them of their previous poor decisions.
My guess is a similar number as those who signed this petition.
Well if you don't want to sign that petition then there is always this other one asking the president to remove the director of the NSA in light of the current revelations on their activities.
I never said it was a good method with how we do it and I agree it is pretty stupid. I don't get why people throw out refrigerators or other white goods, the recycling center will pay you good money if you can transport one to them and there are companies that will pick them up for free since they can get money for recycling them. I throw very little away, food waste gets composted, anything that can be recycled is, so most of what get tossed really is trash that can't be reused or things I want gone (the pile of rocks I have dug out of the garden) and apart from the rocks would be highly combustible.
Because the incinerators here suck and are a money pit. There was an article a little while ago in my local paper about one such plant if anyone care to read it.
To me, if it makes police work easier, cheaper, and more efficient, then I'm all for it. I'm more angry at the criminal elements who like to take advantage of a society that bends over backwards to try and be understanding and open.
And you are the reason why we have the Patriot Act and why more people don't believe that what the NSA has been doing is a bad thing.
With modern license plates that many states are rolling out that are designed to be high contras in the IR band and easy to OCR, I would imagine that a RPi with camera and low cost GPS receiver could handle the processing and collection. Since all you would need to store would be the time stamp, location data, plate state, and plate number which would be a trivial amount of text data so a 32GB SD card would be able to hold a lot of data. I mean really why bother storing a large detailed photo when what you are after is location and time of a specific vehicle. Now since we are already processing an image we could also OCR out the make and model of vehicle as well as record the color for a more detailed description. Having multiple people doing this and contributing and uploading each day in a similar fashion to Open Street Map and it becomes trivial.
You forget that those sorts of things costs money and will never show a profit so why would they do that sort of thing.
He probably doesn't because that takes too much effort and planning. I find you also get better quality if you buy locally since the farmers catering to that market know that their customers expect a higher quality product. The example I use is my father's friend who raises cattle, we pay the farmer for the beef and pay the butcher for the processing and it comes out to be about the same price per lb as the really cheap crappy ground beef but we get good ground beef, steaks, roasts. I have seen some meat that is somewhat comparable at the grocery store but it seems obscene to pay $10/lb for ground beef when I cut out the middle men and pay just under $4/lb and get all the cuts and ground beef.
They only care about it when it shows their incompetence or leads to a lawsuit.