I think it's unreasonable to expect that the average person has sufficient medical training to be more help than hindrance. I know that the average person I meet in public is not someone I would want tasked with making quick, high pressure decisions related to keeping me alive.
A few hours training can teach you CPR and a few other things. Blindly applying CPR will not help in all situations. Shoot, it won't help in MANY situations. Knowing WHEN and WHY to do WHAT is the important part, and that will not be learned in 3-5 hours of training. The ability to stay calm and collected in high pressure situations often cannot be taught at all.
By all means, I feel there is a moral imperative to try and get assistance to help others. I've stopped on the side of the road to help stranded drivers more than once, and phoned emergency services for an accident as well. I would not want nor expect the average passerby who took a 3 hour course to assist in major medical needs any more than I would want my mailman who took a 3 hour computer training course to design my network.
I think your option 2 is the most realistic of the ones listed. If I could get an electric vehicle that could go 250 miles on a charge and be recharged in under an hour at available locations (like gas stations or restaurants) I'd be very interested.
As is, the technology is close, but the charging performance/distance capability isn't quite there and we still have substantial infrastructure needs. The health system I work for does have high speed charging stations available in our parking lots and parking garages; just swipe a credit card and plug in for fast charging, so we are at least moving the right direction.
I like the concept of what you're saying, and I run ethanol in my race car currently, but the "minor conversion" bit is a little misleading. Methanol is a pretty nasty fuel overall and requires quite a bit of work to make function from a retrofit standpoint (essentially the entire fuel system, the computer programming and usually the ignition system must be replaced). It's actually about on par with a hydrogen or CNG conversion; it does not require a pressurized tank to hold, but it does require more ignition power for a proper burn, while hydrogen and CNG do not.
That's a pretty terrible law as described. Short of calling emergency personnel (no real need to stop to do that), the average person is likely to make a situation WORSE by trying to help. Unless a car is on fire and you're pulling people away from danger (at which point you are putting yourself IN danger, which seems unlikely to be required by law), a person without medical training may likely aggravate injuries by failing to handle an injured person properly and/or injure themselves in the process of trying to help.
I have some medical training, and honestly, unless there was imminent danger to the person(s) in the accident, I would phone emergency personnel and stay away from the accident. In this country (the US) I'd fear legal repercussions from those I'm trying to help. A sad statement on the state of people in this country, but an accurate statement nonetheless.
I spent a great deal of time (in high school) talking to girls from my high school on AOL Instant Messenger back in the day. I bet 90% of that time was spent trying to get sexual favors. I'm sure I was often inappropriate, but I wasn't a pedophile (kinda hard when all parties are 16-18 years old).
I know it's in style currently to slam Fox News, but if one takes a good look at ALL the US news sources, there is far too much editorialization of stories to bring the "wow" factor. Unfortunately your average person picks the news "side" that they agree with, then take all of their words as gospel, instead of actually seeing the huge amount of opinion and hyperbole written into the stories.
BBC is not innocent of this, but they at least seem to be less guilty than the average US sources.
It's certainly not a panacea for all the issues, but everywhere I've gone in the US we have crumbling and decaying infrastructure and THAT does require a great deal of manual labor. If nothing else we could buy a lot of time by putting people to work on that.
People noting that GPS devices are not needed have perhaps never lived in cities like the one I occupy. Roads often change names several times over the course of a few blocks, sometimes jog over a half block or end abruptly, only to begin again 2 blocks down the road. This is a city of 300k people, so not a particularly small town either.
I've lived here long enough to learn (most of) the idiosynchrosies, but my wife, for example, has only been here 6 years and still needs help finding places. I would purport that a normally functioning GPS, if used appropriately, is safer than trying to glance at a static paper map while driving. It is not a perfect solution by any means, but it would seem to be the best option we have for someone who is not familiar with an area.
Most (quality) manual transmission have stops for the shifter in each gear. Thus if you drive with your hand on the shifter you're simply pushing against those stops and not causing any wear (well, I suppose technically the shifter or shifter rail is sitting on the stop, so over 100 years you might slightly dent the metals where they contact one another). Even if you for some reason pushed the opposite way of the stop, you still have to move the internal mechanisms about 1/4" to even consider disengaging the slider from one gear/synchro toward the next, and that would translate to 1-2" of movement at the shift lever, pretty substantial.
In fairness, I've only ever driven performance cars, perhaps Kia does not employ the same design.
I work for a healthcare system. If you go to our competitors (for non-emergency) you aren't covered as well by insurance. This seems like common sense in the business world. Why is this news?
I have several friends that work at a local (large) GM plant. Not all of them drive GM, or even domestic or UAW produced vehicles. That said, if you drive a non-GM vehicle, you have to park at the far lot; GM vehicle drivers are welcome to park much closer.
While I liked the film as a stand alone movie, I completely agree with your points here, and it is a shame that the movie didn't do anything to push some of society's convention, which is really what Star Trek (TOS anyway) was really about. Even the later ones (TNG and DS9) had episodes dealing with somewhat deep subjects from time to time (DS9 "In The Pale Moonlight" comes to mind as an example). I do not see a good reason, beyond "it's hard" that they could not have kept some of that alive in the 2009 movie.
As an action movie, it was above average. As a Star Trek film, eh. My wife likes it, which is not a good sign for a science fiction film.
While your somewhat pedantic point is entirely valid, this is generally done to make the general public understand it in a (dramatic) frame of reference they are familiar with. I do agree it would be better to give the speed in mph (or kmh if you're somewhere with a sane measurement system).
You're failing to address the fact that there are far more than 3x as many white than blacks in Connecticut. That's why they call minorities, minorities.
If you look through the tables, there is for example a nearly 8x higher murder victimization rate among blacks than whites in 2004. So either there are a TON of white people murdering black people and getting away with it, or the rates are much higher among blacks than whites per capita.
BTW, before I'm called racist, I'm simply correcting a view on statistics. The crime rates among minorities have to do with issues in their communities, not the color of their skin.
I'd say it's a bit more like if you took a very high quality (though often not QUITE as good as the original) scan of it, produced prints of that scan and hung them up for people to see without going to the museum.
That sounds like a FANTASTIC idea. As such, it's reasonable to assume it will never be implemented in the US.
I've long had issue with the fact that the people who profit from writing tickets are the people who write the tickets, and the people who decide guilt regarding the tickets. That's an intrinsically broken system, and is guaranteed to be exploited. The concept you explained above does as much to divorce them as is reasonable possible.
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I think it's unreasonable to expect that the average person has sufficient medical training to be more help than hindrance. I know that the average person I meet in public is not someone I would want tasked with making quick, high pressure decisions related to keeping me alive.
A few hours training can teach you CPR and a few other things. Blindly applying CPR will not help in all situations. Shoot, it won't help in MANY situations. Knowing WHEN and WHY to do WHAT is the important part, and that will not be learned in 3-5 hours of training. The ability to stay calm and collected in high pressure situations often cannot be taught at all.
By all means, I feel there is a moral imperative to try and get assistance to help others. I've stopped on the side of the road to help stranded drivers more than once, and phoned emergency services for an accident as well. I would not want nor expect the average passerby who took a 3 hour course to assist in major medical needs any more than I would want my mailman who took a 3 hour computer training course to design my network.
Thank you, that clarification makes much more sense.
I think your option 2 is the most realistic of the ones listed. If I could get an electric vehicle that could go 250 miles on a charge and be recharged in under an hour at available locations (like gas stations or restaurants) I'd be very interested.
As is, the technology is close, but the charging performance/distance capability isn't quite there and we still have substantial infrastructure needs. The health system I work for does have high speed charging stations available in our parking lots and parking garages; just swipe a credit card and plug in for fast charging, so we are at least moving the right direction.
I like the concept of what you're saying, and I run ethanol in my race car currently, but the "minor conversion" bit is a little misleading. Methanol is a pretty nasty fuel overall and requires quite a bit of work to make function from a retrofit standpoint (essentially the entire fuel system, the computer programming and usually the ignition system must be replaced). It's actually about on par with a hydrogen or CNG conversion; it does not require a pressurized tank to hold, but it does require more ignition power for a proper burn, while hydrogen and CNG do not.
That's a pretty terrible law as described. Short of calling emergency personnel (no real need to stop to do that), the average person is likely to make a situation WORSE by trying to help. Unless a car is on fire and you're pulling people away from danger (at which point you are putting yourself IN danger, which seems unlikely to be required by law), a person without medical training may likely aggravate injuries by failing to handle an injured person properly and/or injure themselves in the process of trying to help.
I have some medical training, and honestly, unless there was imminent danger to the person(s) in the accident, I would phone emergency personnel and stay away from the accident. In this country (the US) I'd fear legal repercussions from those I'm trying to help. A sad statement on the state of people in this country, but an accurate statement nonetheless.
So, how do they determine that it's illegal?
I spent a great deal of time (in high school) talking to girls from my high school on AOL Instant Messenger back in the day. I bet 90% of that time was spent trying to get sexual favors. I'm sure I was often inappropriate, but I wasn't a pedophile (kinda hard when all parties are 16-18 years old).
I wish I had mod points to give you on this.
I know it's in style currently to slam Fox News, but if one takes a good look at ALL the US news sources, there is far too much editorialization of stories to bring the "wow" factor. Unfortunately your average person picks the news "side" that they agree with, then take all of their words as gospel, instead of actually seeing the huge amount of opinion and hyperbole written into the stories.
BBC is not innocent of this, but they at least seem to be less guilty than the average US sources.
It's certainly not a panacea for all the issues, but everywhere I've gone in the US we have crumbling and decaying infrastructure and THAT does require a great deal of manual labor. If nothing else we could buy a lot of time by putting people to work on that.
People noting that GPS devices are not needed have perhaps never lived in cities like the one I occupy. Roads often change names several times over the course of a few blocks, sometimes jog over a half block or end abruptly, only to begin again 2 blocks down the road. This is a city of 300k people, so not a particularly small town either.
I've lived here long enough to learn (most of) the idiosynchrosies, but my wife, for example, has only been here 6 years and still needs help finding places. I would purport that a normally functioning GPS, if used appropriately, is safer than trying to glance at a static paper map while driving. It is not a perfect solution by any means, but it would seem to be the best option we have for someone who is not familiar with an area.
Most (quality) manual transmission have stops for the shifter in each gear. Thus if you drive with your hand on the shifter you're simply pushing against those stops and not causing any wear (well, I suppose technically the shifter or shifter rail is sitting on the stop, so over 100 years you might slightly dent the metals where they contact one another). Even if you for some reason pushed the opposite way of the stop, you still have to move the internal mechanisms about 1/4" to even consider disengaging the slider from one gear/synchro toward the next, and that would translate to 1-2" of movement at the shift lever, pretty substantial.
In fairness, I've only ever driven performance cars, perhaps Kia does not employ the same design.
When life gives you deer that eat your garden, make venison brochettes for dinner.
I work for a healthcare system. If you go to our competitors (for non-emergency) you aren't covered as well by insurance. This seems like common sense in the business world. Why is this news?
I have several friends that work at a local (large) GM plant. Not all of them drive GM, or even domestic or UAW produced vehicles. That said, if you drive a non-GM vehicle, you have to park at the far lot; GM vehicle drivers are welcome to park much closer.
While I liked the film as a stand alone movie, I completely agree with your points here, and it is a shame that the movie didn't do anything to push some of society's convention, which is really what Star Trek (TOS anyway) was really about. Even the later ones (TNG and DS9) had episodes dealing with somewhat deep subjects from time to time (DS9 "In The Pale Moonlight" comes to mind as an example). I do not see a good reason, beyond "it's hard" that they could not have kept some of that alive in the 2009 movie.
As an action movie, it was above average. As a Star Trek film, eh. My wife likes it, which is not a good sign for a science fiction film.
Sounds like a pretty crappy design to me.
I saw the same and did the same. The fact that they politely offered me the ability to disable ads was reason enough for me to leave them enabled.
True, but it's certainly a field with potential to do amazing things in the future. Hopefully a future sooner than later.
While your somewhat pedantic point is entirely valid, this is generally done to make the general public understand it in a (dramatic) frame of reference they are familiar with. I do agree it would be better to give the speed in mph (or kmh if you're somewhere with a sane measurement system).
You're failing to address the fact that there are far more than 3x as many white than blacks in Connecticut. That's why they call minorities, minorities.
If you look through the tables, there is for example a nearly 8x higher murder victimization rate among blacks than whites in 2004. So either there are a TON of white people murdering black people and getting away with it, or the rates are much higher among blacks than whites per capita.
BTW, before I'm called racist, I'm simply correcting a view on statistics. The crime rates among minorities have to do with issues in their communities, not the color of their skin.
Google isn't suing people to try and block sales. It's a debatable point, which is why I stated arguably, not absolutely.
waaah, I want an Android phone
Out of curiosity, what phone is a better option? An arguable more evil Apple phone? A Microsoft phone?
I'd say it's a bit more like if you took a very high quality (though often not QUITE as good as the original) scan of it, produced prints of that scan and hung them up for people to see without going to the museum.
I own a machinery's handbook, as well as the engineer's handbook. Handy things those. I'll pass on the slide rule for a solar calculator though.
That sounds like a FANTASTIC idea. As such, it's reasonable to assume it will never be implemented in the US.
I've long had issue with the fact that the people who profit from writing tickets are the people who write the tickets, and the people who decide guilt regarding the tickets. That's an intrinsically broken system, and is guaranteed to be exploited. The concept you explained above does as much to divorce them as is reasonable possible.
W2K was fantastic. It was not a consumer OS though, it was NT5 (literally). In the corporate realm it was heavily used though.