Cigarettes used to slowly degrade your teeth, affect your eyesight and turn your face into something that looks like roadkill. Looks like these e-cigarettes are a huge improvement then! No more waiting 20 or 30 years for the cancer to set in, instant results in the blink of an eye.
He was using it in his car? OK, that's kind of hard to find an excuse for. I thought it was during his commute on a train or something like that, so he wouldn't get bothered by people using their cell phones.
If you buy something which, according to the company website, is "FCC approved", you shouldn't be on the hook for such a ridiculous amount of money just because you got scammed by that company.
If I buy a lawnmower robot and it has an unadvertised feature that makes it sneak out at night and kill cops, will I be convicted for that? If it has all the legal labels and no mention of any features other than cutting grass?
That is indeed a pretty steep fine, especially if he was mislead by the company website claiming it was legal and FCC approved.
On the other hand, it's not like he was using it on his own property, he was actually using it during his commute. Kind of hard to claim that you didn't know there was anything wrong with that. Still, $48,000?
You are right, it does shut off when the grid is no longer powered. It also has a maximum power it won't exceed (so even if it did end up supplying our town for some reason, it still would not melt).
It works that way in my house. Got solar panels installed last year. Inverter syncs to the grid, a couple of fuses make sure nothing melts, and that's about it. The meter runs backward when we're producing more than we're using.
I must say this advertising campaign is downright genius. It's all over the online newspapers here in Europe.
And I bet lots of couples will post their scores on social media, too. It's just the right level of acceptable naughtiness.
I first heard about Pornhub when they launched a viral ad where an old man got a voucher from his grandson. Then there was their campaign to save the whales, and now this. Before all of that, I had never even heard of them.
- The death penalty increases recidivism - OK, maybe technically, recidivism is actually impossible - But: according to some alternative definition of recidivism which has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual word, it does increase recidivism!
I was going to just write "woosh", but apparently you did get the joke (as evidenced by the "yes, I know" part) yet still want to insist I'm wrong. Strange.
It certainly won't make them worse (if they are unrelated), and if they are periodic, the new period will be the least common multiple of the originals.
You don't want a true random number generator then.
Take 23 random people, and there will be a better than 50% chance that two of them will have the same birthday.
Apple actually had to make its "random" shuffle less random when people complained about hearing the same songs too often. A bit like picking 23 people but making sure they don't have a common birthday. The more random you make it, the more people will complain about it not being random enough.
Maybe your shuffle still has the old, truly random shuffle routine.
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Exploding cigarettes are a big improvement then, since they do have an immediate effect.
Did you read the summary? Lost teeth and eyes, charred faces,... Looks pretty similar to the link in my previous post. What more links do you need?
Cigarettes used to slowly degrade your teeth, affect your eyesight and turn your face into something that looks like roadkill. Looks like these e-cigarettes are a huge improvement then! No more waiting 20 or 30 years for the cancer to set in, instant results in the blink of an eye.
He was using it in his car? OK, that's kind of hard to find an excuse for. I thought it was during his commute on a train or something like that, so he wouldn't get bothered by people using their cell phones.
If you buy something which, according to the company website, is "FCC approved", you shouldn't be on the hook for such a ridiculous amount of money just because you got scammed by that company.
If I buy a lawnmower robot and it has an unadvertised feature that makes it sneak out at night and kill cops, will I be convicted for that? If it has all the legal labels and no mention of any features other than cutting grass?
That is indeed a pretty steep fine, especially if he was mislead by the company website claiming it was legal and FCC approved.
On the other hand, it's not like he was using it on his own property, he was actually using it during his commute. Kind of hard to claim that you didn't know there was anything wrong with that. Still, $48,000?
Ours does that. I know it doesn't seem to make sense, but when our grid shuts down, so does the inverter of our solar panels.
You are right, it does shut off when the grid is no longer powered. It also has a maximum power it won't exceed (so even if it did end up supplying our town for some reason, it still would not melt).
It works that way in my house. Got solar panels installed last year. Inverter syncs to the grid, a couple of fuses make sure nothing melts, and that's about it. The meter runs backward when we're producing more than we're using.
OK, Little Britain then.
Bio-ethanol will be outlawed after a few accidents.
Well, those toilets don't clean themselves, you know.
If they know the scores given by men and women separately, why don't they just post both? Problem solved.
Possibly make a graphical representation with a blue and pink bar?
Hey, it's only a matter of time!
In other news, space elevators are only a matter of time!
And faster than light communication, too, is only a matter of time!
Those are special characters. We can only handle ASCII characters. We are planning full UTF8 support in 2032.
That's 2032 in hexadecimal
Sure gives a new meaning to the term "bunnyhopping".
(Not to mention Object Boosting, Wallclimbing, Peek-a-Portal,...)
I must say this advertising campaign is downright genius. It's all over the online newspapers here in Europe.
And I bet lots of couples will post their scores on social media, too. It's just the right level of acceptable naughtiness.
I first heard about Pornhub when they launched a viral ad where an old man got a voucher from his grandson. Then there was their campaign to save the whales, and now this. Before all of that, I had never even heard of them.
Absolutely brilliant.
And you can share your score on social media to brag about it, too!
Most countries allow some sort of parole or release even on a life sentence.
Here in Belgium, "life" means "30 years" and you can get out after half that time on good behavior.
In the US, it depends on the state. Many allow parole after 15 years.
So what you're saying is basically:
- The death penalty increases recidivism
- OK, maybe technically, recidivism is actually impossible
- But: according to some alternative definition of recidivism which has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual word, it does increase recidivism!
I was going to just write "woosh", but apparently you did get the joke (as evidenced by the "yes, I know" part) yet still want to insist I'm wrong. Strange.
The death penalty has clearly been demonstrated to reduce recidivism.
It certainly won't make them worse (if they are unrelated), and if they are periodic, the new period will be the least common multiple of the originals.
You don't want a true random number generator then.
Take 23 random people, and there will be a better than 50% chance that two of them will have the same birthday.
Apple actually had to make its "random" shuffle less random when people complained about hearing the same songs too often. A bit like picking 23 people but making sure they don't have a common birthday. The more random you make it, the more people will complain about it not being random enough.
Maybe your shuffle still has the old, truly random shuffle routine.
I wonder if we can launch an indiegogo campaign to support them. They're a non-profit now, right? I bet lots of people will want to help.
Or this one