They lumped in ass-grabbing while being restrained.
Where was the 'restrained' part mentioned? The summary only says 'touching'.
Note that a report on violent crime in general lumps in armed robbery victims and maybe people forced into a fist fight with rapes and murders, and I haven't heard anyone complain about that.
Probably nobody has complained because all of those crimes are... wait for it... violent!
No. There are set laws that companies are required to follow. You telling them to not take the job would be the equivalent of some guy driving his car on the sidewalk, and you advising somebody wanting to walk on that sidewalk that they should just use another sidewalk that the car isn't driving on.
Where was the requirement they notify prime contractor with an opportunity to fix the problem?"
See the large box marked 'Campaign Donations' sitting next to the member of congress that controls spending? The 'requirement' is several large checks deposited there...
By many accounts, owners of gas-powered cars often take up desirable parking and charging spots that companies and cities reserve for electric cars.
The biggest mistake was to put the chargers at the closest parking spaces. Why are we treating electric car owners like the handicapped? They should have put the chargers out at the farthest parking spots to limit the chances of ICE cars parking in the prime spots. And before you complain about making them walk farther, consider this obvious fact: They are using those spots to charge their car, which takes a lot of time. The time spent walking to and from the car is insignificant compare to the charging time.
A Google computer manager said he had sold 9,000 of the EV Etiquette Survival Packs that he created. For $15.99, a pack includes hang tags for vehicles that urge fellow drivers not to unplug others’ cars while charging.
BWAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Seriously? People paid $15.99 for a sign?
More public chargers are the obvious long-term solution.
Is it? Where are you going to put these chargers? In existing parking spots? The more regular parking spots you convert to EV, the more likely it is that regular parking spots will not be available for non-EV people. This increases the chances of non-EV people parking in EV spots.
show that thyroid cancer is suspected or confirmed in 137 of those children
Elsewhere, the disease occurs in only about one or two of every million children per year by some estimates."
Why do you include 'suspected' cases? How about splitting up those two completely different diagnoses? If it is 1 confirmed and 136 suspected, that would change the conclusion of this study, since it could potentially put it more in line with the estimates. Also, you would need the results of the same ultrasound checkups on a few hundred thousand kids living outside Fukushima to really determine if there is an increased risk of cancer or not. Going by some vague estimates isn't as accurate.
The great thing with this new slogan is the ambiguity of it. Do the right think, but just don't say WHO you are doing the right thing for. Are you doing the right thing for customers and users? Or for shareholders and executives?
Now kids are drinking 'energy drinks'. Not sure if this is an improvement or not. On a side note, soda isn't really that bad, it's just that they give such gigantic amounts of it to you now. I wish my company vending machine would just vend a can of coke, rather than the giant 1/2 liter bottles. And god help you if you order a 'large' soda at any place now days...
And of collisions between drivers and pedestrians, 64 percent were the driver’s fault.
Given what I've seen of how pedestrians acted when I worked in SF years ago, I'm shocked that that number isn't reversed towards pedestrians being more at fault. They routinely waited OUT IN THE STREET for the light to change, rather than stay two steps back on the nice, safe sidewalk. It was truly the most bizarre pedestrian behavior I have seen in a city.
They also would start crossing a busy six lane main road when there was no chance for them to make it across before the light changed. Many times I would be in the far right lane, and couldn't see pedestrians meandering across because of large trucks to my left. Light turns green, I start to go, and... whoops! Almost hit a clueless pedestrian.
But driving 3000 miles on a martian landscape with a rover-like vehicle while pulling another vehicle is quite a far stretch.
If I remember the book correctly, the rovers were designed to be towed. And he carried the solar cells to recharge the batteries each day. And electric motors have incredible torque (perfect for towing at slow speeds). What is it that makes that scenario a stretch?
This was a complete waste of time. The only statement that sort of tried to explain anything was:
"With one line of code you can break down how it happened," Kaul said. He described an "'if' statement with two clauses: If you do this, then do that. If something doesn't happen, do this."
Shit, I already knew that, and I only know some basic programming. Wake me when someone explains some technical details of how the engine ran in test mode and in real world driving.
Doors can be broken down without a key, hence the reason law enforcement doesn't bother to try and have a key for every door in the country. Don't try to equate it with encryption.
As I've said before, the government/law enforcement has nobody to blame but themselves for this. We tried to trust you to only look at private information that was vital to an investigation, AND with a warrant. But now that we know that you scoop up everything you can at look at whatever the hell you feel like at any time, warrants be damned, we can't trust our data to be un-encrypted around you people. Deal with it.
Soft drinks are carefully formulated to be addictive and not quench thirst.
I can believe the first, but what would be the point of the second? If I drink something, and it doesn't quench my thirst, I'm not very likely going to be drinking that next time I'm thirsty. That would be like selling marijuana that don't really deliver a very good high. Besides, I seldom drink soda to 'quench my thirst'. I drink it because it is so damn tasty!
Between drones and cell phones, we are going to have to start allowing prisons to jam radio frequencies around their immediate area to prevent this. The technology is too cheap and widespread to think that they can keep an eye out for drones and smuggled cell phones.
I noticed the same thing when buying a new car recently. Back in 2003 we purchased a new Nissan Murano w/ AWD. Out the door price was about $35k. After 12 years we replaced it with a 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe. The Santa Fe was superior in every way. Seated seated seven vs. five in the Murano, gets slightly better gas mileage, more cargo room, navigation, etc. Price? $40k. So, in 12 years, the average inflation rate was about 1%. And the car is BETTER than the old car.
"Electric cars will be better than any alternative, including the loud, inconvenient, gas-powered jalopy,
Loud? Inconvenient? This guy seems to have no clue how a modern gas-powered car works (I have no idea what a jalopy is. Maybe a French word for 'car'?) Another person who thinks people don't like their gas-powered car, even though we gladly buy them by the millions.
The Tesla Model S has demonstrated that a well made, well designed electric car is far superior to anything else on the road. This has changed everything."
I can buy a pretty awesome gas-powered car for $100k. Tesla keeps promising something under $50k, but until I see them out on the road, it is just vaporware. The next person who brings up the Tesla as some type of viable alternative to a $20k gas-powered car gets a timeout in the corner.
So, France wants their dumb "Right to be forgotten" rule to be applied world-wide. OK, but what happens when Iran wants any references to the Holocaust to be deleted from search results because some Iranian court rules that the Holocaust never happened and is all just a Zionist hoax? Now French citizens can't lookup information about the Holocaust. And China wants all search results about Tienanmen Square removed? The French need to learn that the internet is about open access and information. Try to restrict perfectly legal information, and you might as well shut down the internet.
So, gay marriage was ALWAYS legal (constitutionally) and just now found out?
No. There was no constitutional protection of gay marriage until the SCOTUS ruled on it. It WAS illegal (in states banning) but now it is not. Slavery was legal at one point to. Lots of things that we consider bad now were perfectly legal. Times and minds change.
Interesting viewpoint.
Your viewpoint, not mine.
So, believe everything said by 9 people in black robes about law is correct? Even when the overturn previous rulings made by the same court?
Belief in a ruling isn't required for it to be in force. I disagree with lots of legal rulings, but I still must abide by them. And courts overturn rulings as arguments, times, and minds of the general population change over time.
I am quite clear that not all things that are "illegal" are "wrong". I'm wondering why that is so hard for people to grasp.
Where did 'wrong' come up in this thread? The OP only mentioned Uber being illegal (in his opinion). I feel that you are trying to make arguments that no one else is making.
What makes it intrinsically illegal? Just because there is a law?
Uh, yeah. That's kind of how that works.
I wonder how you feel about Illegal Aliens (er Undocumented residents).
I feel that they are here... illegally?
Gay Marriage was illegal just a few months ago in a wide number of places in the US.
Yeah, there were laws against it, so it was illegal. Those laws were ruled unconstitutional, so those laws are void. Now gay marriage is legal.
So you believe that business models deserve protection from competition by creating legal loops that do not do anything except protect economic interests?
No, just that all businesses operate under the same set of rules and laws.
Is there some part of this that is confusing to you?
If it takes too much time, people won't bother. My wife and I actually looked up how long the bus would take us to get to work. We live in a moderately populated area. Our commutes are about 20 and 35 minutes. The 20 minute drive would take her an hour, and my 35 minute drive would stretch to nearly 1-1/2 hours. There is no practical way (especially now that we have kids) to give up 1-2 hours of our day sitting on or waiting for a bus. I'm sure each situation is different, but cost is not always the driving factor for transportation. I'm not willing to save the 10-20 bucks a day my gas and car upkeep cost to waste that much time.
...given his track record of helping build a diverse cast as director of the "Star Trek" reboot films
Uh, was Abrams really going to have white people play Sulu and Uhura? And the only other major female character I remember were the green chick in her underwear and the blond chick in her underwear, so Abrams didn't exactly help along the fairer sex in his films. I think the writer had no clue about the history of Star Trek.
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They lumped in ass-grabbing while being restrained.
Where was the 'restrained' part mentioned? The summary only says 'touching'.
Note that a report on violent crime in general lumps in armed robbery victims and maybe people forced into a fist fight with rapes and murders, and I haven't heard anyone complain about that.
Probably nobody has complained because all of those crimes are... wait for it... violent!
about one-quarter of female undergraduates said they had experienced nonconsensual sex or touching since entering college,
So, they lumped in rape victims with women that had their ass grabbed by a drunk frat guy. How am I suppose to take this "one-quarter" stat seriously?
You idiots really think we need to shovel more money into organizations (I use that term loosely) like this?
The vehicle code is a mutual agreement among all road users.
No. The vehicle code is not a 'mutual agreement'. It is a set of laws.
Is it morally wrong for Amazon to...
We were not discussing the morality of this. We were discussing the legality of this.
No. There are set laws that companies are required to follow. You telling them to not take the job would be the equivalent of some guy driving his car on the sidewalk, and you advising somebody wanting to walk on that sidewalk that they should just use another sidewalk that the car isn't driving on.
Where was the requirement they notify prime contractor with an opportunity to fix the problem?"
See the large box marked 'Campaign Donations' sitting next to the member of congress that controls spending? The 'requirement' is several large checks deposited there...
By many accounts, owners of gas-powered cars often take up desirable parking and charging spots that companies and cities reserve for electric cars.
The biggest mistake was to put the chargers at the closest parking spaces. Why are we treating electric car owners like the handicapped? They should have put the chargers out at the farthest parking spots to limit the chances of ICE cars parking in the prime spots. And before you complain about making them walk farther, consider this obvious fact: They are using those spots to charge their car, which takes a lot of time. The time spent walking to and from the car is insignificant compare to the charging time.
A Google computer manager said he had sold 9,000 of the EV Etiquette Survival Packs that he created. For $15.99, a pack includes hang tags for vehicles that urge fellow drivers not to unplug others’ cars while charging.
BWAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Seriously? People paid $15.99 for a sign?
More public chargers are the obvious long-term solution.
Is it? Where are you going to put these chargers? In existing parking spots? The more regular parking spots you convert to EV, the more likely it is that regular parking spots will not be available for non-EV people. This increases the chances of non-EV people parking in EV spots.
show that thyroid cancer is suspected or confirmed in 137 of those children
Elsewhere, the disease occurs in only about one or two of every million children per year by some estimates."
Why do you include 'suspected' cases? How about splitting up those two completely different diagnoses? If it is 1 confirmed and 136 suspected, that would change the conclusion of this study, since it could potentially put it more in line with the estimates. Also, you would need the results of the same ultrasound checkups on a few hundred thousand kids living outside Fukushima to really determine if there is an increased risk of cancer or not. Going by some vague estimates isn't as accurate.
The great thing with this new slogan is the ambiguity of it. Do the right think, but just don't say WHO you are doing the right thing for. Are you doing the right thing for customers and users? Or for shareholders and executives?
Now kids are drinking 'energy drinks'. Not sure if this is an improvement or not. On a side note, soda isn't really that bad, it's just that they give such gigantic amounts of it to you now. I wish my company vending machine would just vend a can of coke, rather than the giant 1/2 liter bottles. And god help you if you order a 'large' soda at any place now days...
And of collisions between drivers and pedestrians, 64 percent were the driver’s fault.
Given what I've seen of how pedestrians acted when I worked in SF years ago, I'm shocked that that number isn't reversed towards pedestrians being more at fault. They routinely waited OUT IN THE STREET for the light to change, rather than stay two steps back on the nice, safe sidewalk. It was truly the most bizarre pedestrian behavior I have seen in a city. They also would start crossing a busy six lane main road when there was no chance for them to make it across before the light changed. Many times I would be in the far right lane, and couldn't see pedestrians meandering across because of large trucks to my left. Light turns green, I start to go, and... whoops! Almost hit a clueless pedestrian.
But driving 3000 miles on a martian landscape with a rover-like vehicle while pulling another vehicle is quite a far stretch.
If I remember the book correctly, the rovers were designed to be towed. And he carried the solar cells to recharge the batteries each day. And electric motors have incredible torque (perfect for towing at slow speeds). What is it that makes that scenario a stretch?
"With one line of code you can break down how it happened," Kaul said. He described an "'if' statement with two clauses: If you do this, then do that. If something doesn't happen, do this."
Shit, I already knew that, and I only know some basic programming. Wake me when someone explains some technical details of how the engine ran in test mode and in real world driving.
How the hell did this idiotic city council think that the ruling was going to go their way?
Doors can be broken down without a key, hence the reason law enforcement doesn't bother to try and have a key for every door in the country. Don't try to equate it with encryption.
As I've said before, the government/law enforcement has nobody to blame but themselves for this. We tried to trust you to only look at private information that was vital to an investigation, AND with a warrant. But now that we know that you scoop up everything you can at look at whatever the hell you feel like at any time, warrants be damned, we can't trust our data to be un-encrypted around you people. Deal with it.
Soft drinks are carefully formulated to be addictive and not quench thirst.
I can believe the first, but what would be the point of the second? If I drink something, and it doesn't quench my thirst, I'm not very likely going to be drinking that next time I'm thirsty. That would be like selling marijuana that don't really deliver a very good high. Besides, I seldom drink soda to 'quench my thirst'. I drink it because it is so damn tasty!
Between drones and cell phones, we are going to have to start allowing prisons to jam radio frequencies around their immediate area to prevent this. The technology is too cheap and widespread to think that they can keep an eye out for drones and smuggled cell phones.
I noticed the same thing when buying a new car recently. Back in 2003 we purchased a new Nissan Murano w/ AWD. Out the door price was about $35k. After 12 years we replaced it with a 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe. The Santa Fe was superior in every way. Seated seated seven vs. five in the Murano, gets slightly better gas mileage, more cargo room, navigation, etc. Price? $40k. So, in 12 years, the average inflation rate was about 1%. And the car is BETTER than the old car.
Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point?
Nope. Next obvious 'no' question, please.
"Electric cars will be better than any alternative, including the loud, inconvenient, gas-powered jalopy,
Loud? Inconvenient? This guy seems to have no clue how a modern gas-powered car works (I have no idea what a jalopy is. Maybe a French word for 'car'?) Another person who thinks people don't like their gas-powered car, even though we gladly buy them by the millions.
The Tesla Model S has demonstrated that a well made, well designed electric car is far superior to anything else on the road. This has changed everything."
I can buy a pretty awesome gas-powered car for $100k. Tesla keeps promising something under $50k, but until I see them out on the road, it is just vaporware. The next person who brings up the Tesla as some type of viable alternative to a $20k gas-powered car gets a timeout in the corner.
So, France wants their dumb "Right to be forgotten" rule to be applied world-wide. OK, but what happens when Iran wants any references to the Holocaust to be deleted from search results because some Iranian court rules that the Holocaust never happened and is all just a Zionist hoax? Now French citizens can't lookup information about the Holocaust. And China wants all search results about Tienanmen Square removed? The French need to learn that the internet is about open access and information. Try to restrict perfectly legal information, and you might as well shut down the internet.
So, gay marriage was ALWAYS legal (constitutionally) and just now found out?
No. There was no constitutional protection of gay marriage until the SCOTUS ruled on it. It WAS illegal (in states banning) but now it is not. Slavery was legal at one point to. Lots of things that we consider bad now were perfectly legal. Times and minds change.
Interesting viewpoint.
Your viewpoint, not mine.
So, believe everything said by 9 people in black robes about law is correct? Even when the overturn previous rulings made by the same court?
Belief in a ruling isn't required for it to be in force. I disagree with lots of legal rulings, but I still must abide by them. And courts overturn rulings as arguments, times, and minds of the general population change over time.
I am quite clear that not all things that are "illegal" are "wrong". I'm wondering why that is so hard for people to grasp.
Where did 'wrong' come up in this thread? The OP only mentioned Uber being illegal (in his opinion). I feel that you are trying to make arguments that no one else is making.
What makes it intrinsically illegal? Just because there is a law?
Uh, yeah. That's kind of how that works.
I wonder how you feel about Illegal Aliens (er Undocumented residents).
I feel that they are here... illegally?
Gay Marriage was illegal just a few months ago in a wide number of places in the US.
Yeah, there were laws against it, so it was illegal. Those laws were ruled unconstitutional, so those laws are void. Now gay marriage is legal.
So you believe that business models deserve protection from competition by creating legal loops that do not do anything except protect economic interests?
No, just that all businesses operate under the same set of rules and laws.
Is there some part of this that is confusing to you?
If it takes too much time, people won't bother. My wife and I actually looked up how long the bus would take us to get to work. We live in a moderately populated area. Our commutes are about 20 and 35 minutes. The 20 minute drive would take her an hour, and my 35 minute drive would stretch to nearly 1-1/2 hours. There is no practical way (especially now that we have kids) to give up 1-2 hours of our day sitting on or waiting for a bus. I'm sure each situation is different, but cost is not always the driving factor for transportation. I'm not willing to save the 10-20 bucks a day my gas and car upkeep cost to waste that much time.
...given his track record of helping build a diverse cast as director of the "Star Trek" reboot films
Uh, was Abrams really going to have white people play Sulu and Uhura? And the only other major female character I remember were the green chick in her underwear and the blond chick in her underwear, so Abrams didn't exactly help along the fairer sex in his films. I think the writer had no clue about the history of Star Trek.