The employee in charge of the background checks could not log into the system, the investigator learned. The problem went unresolved until discovered by another worker in March 2017 — meaning that for more than a year applications got approved without the required background check.
So, even though there was no background check done, this employee signed official government documents stating that it had been done? Isn't that fraud?
So, you think a guy from Chicago or Baltimore drove down to Florida, applied for a concealed weapon permit, then drove back to their home city and shot somebody? You... are a freakin' loon.
Luke realized he was going about the whole force/training Jedi thing so had been SEARCHING for the planet most of the time he was gone, then had started his studying the history of the Jedi to help him understand the Force better. I don't think there was ever a clear timeline given for how long Luke had been gone, so it's not like he had to have been hiding for a decade.
Rian went with: I came here to die. Eff my friends and family.
Which Luke would you rather pay good money to see?
A young girl with force power appears and begs for his help in learning about the Force and to help her fight Snokes and the First Order, which is about to wipe out the resistance. Luke, using his newfound wisdom, takes a different approach to training Jedi, learning to not be so afraid of the Dark Side. They then leave together to help Leia and the Resistance.
Rian went with: Piss off, little girl.
Which Luke would you rather pay good money to see.
Rian had options of which direction to go with this story, and he choose poorly.
...if we need to build a road and there is a building in the way we use imminent domain in the interest of the public but erasing the wealth of a tiny fraction of population...
We don't just 'take' the building. Fair market value is paid for it. We don't 'erase' the wealth, we simply change it from property to cash.
... it was to take a widely-loved hero and turn him into a coward that just shrugs his shoulders and abandons his friends and family during their time of greatest need!
And this is where Rian Johnson absolutely effed up. It wasn't just the boring, logic-defying 'chase' that lasted nearly the whole movie, or the pointless side quest to the casino planet, or all the SJW stuff. He was handed one of the most liked, iconic, heroic characters in movie history... and turned him into an asshole that I couldn't really root for anymore. I'm fine with a character changing as they get older, but TLJ Luke was completely unrecognizable from the trilogy Luke.
Governments of the world need to stop 'encouraging' people to have more kids. The reason we keep using more power is that more people keep popping up. Duh!
registration can be paid via the internet, assuring that one never has to make a last-minute trip to the DMV's no-appointment Hell Line.
What moron actually goes into DMV to pay car registration? I've been paying online for about the last 10? 15? years? It's been so long that I've forgotten when I started paying that way. And what this has to do with a waste-of-money 'digital' license plate is beyond me.
...60 percent of those polled happily download apps without reading terms and conditions...
Why would you waste the time to do that? First, the odds of those T&C ever affecting you is about.0001%. Second, who knows what those long winded T&C even MEAN. Third, who even knows what would be legally enforceable by law anyways. I have way better ways to spend my time.
Oh, and those T&C needed to be ruled unenforceable by courts anyways. Seriously, if somewhere in there it says, "By using crappyapp 42, you are agreeing to pay us $100k", are courts REALLY going to make you fork over that money? No, so stop pretending that they mean anything.
They shot a man in his doorway in his pajamas... in what they thought could be a hostage situation. How did that idiot cop know whether the guy was shooter or hostage?
They just shot a guy that was in the doorway that had no weapon. If you consider THAT appropriate, then I shudder to think what you think a cop would have to do to be inappropriate.
The police where rolling up on what they thought was an active shooter situation with hostages
I think future SWAT procedure should include figuring out who is the shooter and who is the hostage, because for all that idiot cop knew he may have just shot a hostage.
as to whether the police were criminally negligent by failing to properly assess the situation prior to storming the building.
Well, they didn't actually 'storm the building'. They just shot a random guy standing in his doorway, which I think is at least as criminally negligent as calling in a fake SWAT situation.
I know you are on/. so you probably don't hang around a lot of women, but have you seriously not noticed that nearly every woman wearing pants puts them in their BACK pocets?
But those taxes are not because of electric vehicles. Gas is so high in many countries because of taxes to pay for roads and transit. When gasoline taxes dry up with the shift to electric cars, where do you think politicians will go to make up that loss?
"At least the QR code could be, I don't know, digitally signed by proper authorities or something, so that you couldn't fake it or even move it."
A QR code is just a picture. How would one 'digitally sign' it so that I couldn't just take a snapshot, print out my own, and place it somewhere else?
I know, we could make all stop signs the same color! Like, uh, red! Yeah! And then would could make them all the same shape... but something distinct from other signs. Hm, I'll need to think on that one for a while...
...do little more than keeping a bearing. In aeroplanes
Well, what else would they NEED to do? There is no traffic, pedestrians, construction zones, sharp turns, animals, etc. for aeroplanes to worry about. You people that keep bringing up the 'Well, AIRPLANES have autopilot!' argument need to consider the whole comparing apples to oranges thing.
Electricity rate for electric vehicles is $0.1/kWh.
You think that rate will stay the same once electric vehicles reach critical mass? All those gasoline taxes are now going to start getting attached to the electricity that you charge with.
The closest other manufacturers have come is the Renault Zoe...
"Hi, I'm the Chevy Bolt! Apparently we've never met..."
I'm amazed by the number of posts that have completely IGNORED the existence of the Bolt when talking about lack of competition to the Tesla 3. It's almost like you don't want to let people know that there is an alternative that is CURRENTLY AVAILABLE!
You don't need tons of charging stations, because generally the most convenient time/place to charge is at home at night. You only need enough charging for people that have driven a lot that day or forgot to charge (or maybe don't have a parking/charging place at their residence).
There's no evidence whatsoever that people driving Teslas don't know that autopilot is an assistive technology,
This was ONLY after Tesla gives them all sorts of warnings that 'autopilot' won't actually automatically pilot your car reliably (Tesla should be sued into oblivion for marketing with the term 'autopilot'). To people that have never driven a Tesla and hear about 'autopilot' crashes, they assume that these are automatically piloted cars.
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The employee in charge of the background checks could not log into the system, the investigator learned. The problem went unresolved until discovered by another worker in March 2017 — meaning that for more than a year applications got approved without the required background check.
So, even though there was no background check done, this employee signed official government documents stating that it had been done? Isn't that fraud?
Not when they happen in Chicago or Baltimore.
So, you think a guy from Chicago or Baltimore drove down to Florida, applied for a concealed weapon permit, then drove back to their home city and shot somebody? You... are a freakin' loon.
Luke realized he was going about the whole force/training Jedi thing so had been SEARCHING for the planet most of the time he was gone, then had started his studying the history of the Jedi to help him understand the Force better. I don't think there was ever a clear timeline given for how long Luke had been gone, so it's not like he had to have been hiding for a decade.
Rian went with: I came here to die. Eff my friends and family.
Which Luke would you rather pay good money to see?
A young girl with force power appears and begs for his help in learning about the Force and to help her fight Snokes and the First Order, which is about to wipe out the resistance. Luke, using his newfound wisdom, takes a different approach to training Jedi, learning to not be so afraid of the Dark Side. They then leave together to help Leia and the Resistance.
Rian went with: Piss off, little girl.
Which Luke would you rather pay good money to see.
Rian had options of which direction to go with this story, and he choose poorly.
...if we need to build a road and there is a building in the way we use imminent domain in the interest of the public but erasing the wealth of a tiny fraction of population...
We don't just 'take' the building. Fair market value is paid for it. We don't 'erase' the wealth, we simply change it from property to cash.
... it was to take a widely-loved hero and turn him into a coward that just shrugs his shoulders and abandons his friends and family during their time of greatest need!
And this is where Rian Johnson absolutely effed up. It wasn't just the boring, logic-defying 'chase' that lasted nearly the whole movie, or the pointless side quest to the casino planet, or all the SJW stuff. He was handed one of the most liked, iconic, heroic characters in movie history... and turned him into an asshole that I couldn't really root for anymore. I'm fine with a character changing as they get older, but TLJ Luke was completely unrecognizable from the trilogy Luke.
...and that Rey and Kylo Ren are the future,...
Kylo killed his own father just to prove how 'bad' he was to impress his master. How is THAT guy the future?
Governments of the world need to stop 'encouraging' people to have more kids. The reason we keep using more power is that more people keep popping up. Duh!
registration can be paid via the internet, assuring that one never has to make a last-minute trip to the DMV's no-appointment Hell Line.
What moron actually goes into DMV to pay car registration? I've been paying online for about the last 10? 15? years? It's been so long that I've forgotten when I started paying that way. And what this has to do with a waste-of-money 'digital' license plate is beyond me.
Why would you waste the time to do that? First, the odds of those T&C ever affecting you is about .0001%. Second, who knows what those long winded T&C even MEAN. Third, who even knows what would be legally enforceable by law anyways. I have way better ways to spend my time.
Oh, and those T&C needed to be ruled unenforceable by courts anyways. Seriously, if somewhere in there it says, "By using crappyapp 42, you are agreeing to pay us $100k", are courts REALLY going to make you fork over that money? No, so stop pretending that they mean anything.
But the police acted reasonably, ...
They shot a man in his doorway in his pajamas... in what they thought could be a hostage situation. How did that idiot cop know whether the guy was shooter or hostage?
threatened to shoot other hostages
Well, the cops did that anyways, because they wound up shooting an innocent man. How is that better?
I don't think they acted inappropriately.
They just shot a guy that was in the doorway that had no weapon. If you consider THAT appropriate, then I shudder to think what you think a cop would have to do to be inappropriate.
The police where rolling up on what they thought was an active shooter situation with hostages
I think future SWAT procedure should include figuring out who is the shooter and who is the hostage, because for all that idiot cop knew he may have just shot a hostage.
as to whether the police were criminally negligent by failing to properly assess the situation prior to storming the building.
Well, they didn't actually 'storm the building'. They just shot a random guy standing in his doorway, which I think is at least as criminally negligent as calling in a fake SWAT situation.
Where are the charges for the actual shooter?
(where the front pockets are)
I know you are on /. so you probably don't hang around a lot of women, but have you seriously not noticed that nearly every woman wearing pants puts them in their BACK pocets?
this rate already includes taxes, BTW
But those taxes are not because of electric vehicles. Gas is so high in many countries because of taxes to pay for roads and transit. When gasoline taxes dry up with the shift to electric cars, where do you think politicians will go to make up that loss?
"At least the QR code could be, I don't know, digitally signed by proper authorities or something, so that you couldn't fake it or even move it." A QR code is just a picture. How would one 'digitally sign' it so that I couldn't just take a snapshot, print out my own, and place it somewhere else?
I know, we could make all stop signs the same color! Like, uh, red! Yeah! And then would could make them all the same shape... but something distinct from other signs. Hm, I'll need to think on that one for a while...
...do little more than keeping a bearing. In aeroplanes
Well, what else would they NEED to do? There is no traffic, pedestrians, construction zones, sharp turns, animals, etc. for aeroplanes to worry about. You people that keep bringing up the 'Well, AIRPLANES have autopilot!' argument need to consider the whole comparing apples to oranges thing.
Electricity rate for electric vehicles is $0.1/kWh.
You think that rate will stay the same once electric vehicles reach critical mass? All those gasoline taxes are now going to start getting attached to the electricity that you charge with.
I love how the trolls switched from "You can't get a Model 3" as their go-to line to "you can't get a $35k Model 3".
Article title: "Tesla's Promised $35,000 Model 3 Is Still a Long Way Off "
Are you not clear on which Model 3 version we are talking about? Or do posters have to keep adding the $35k every single time?
The closest other manufacturers have come is the Renault Zoe...
"Hi, I'm the Chevy Bolt! Apparently we've never met..."
I'm amazed by the number of posts that have completely IGNORED the existence of the Bolt when talking about lack of competition to the Tesla 3. It's almost like you don't want to let people know that there is an alternative that is CURRENTLY AVAILABLE!
You don't need tons of charging stations, because generally the most convenient time/place to charge is at home at night. You only need enough charging for people that have driven a lot that day or forgot to charge (or maybe don't have a parking/charging place at their residence).
You want a Tesla, know about the existence of the Leaf... yet you managed to overlook Chevy Bolt? http://www.chevrolet.com/elect...
Are you kidding? Or are you just trying to make it seem like the Tesla is the ONLY decent e-car out there?
There's no evidence whatsoever that people driving Teslas don't know that autopilot is an assistive technology,
This was ONLY after Tesla gives them all sorts of warnings that 'autopilot' won't actually automatically pilot your car reliably (Tesla should be sued into oblivion for marketing with the term 'autopilot'). To people that have never driven a Tesla and hear about 'autopilot' crashes, they assume that these are automatically piloted cars.