You would be wrong in expecting that, the Tesla uses its center as a crumple zone if the sides are too stiff in the NHTSA test the car will stop too fast leading to injuries in the crash test dummies and a poor rating. Because of this it is fair to assume that the sides are not as strong as another 5 star crash test recipient with a front combustion engine. If there is only a partial impact the combustion engine still has half its crumple zone while the Tesla will have 25%.
You are assuming that the Tesla and other cars both start with the same "amount" of crumple zone. But if the Tesla actually has twice the amount of crumple zone, then having 25% of it left would be exactly the same as 50% of the normal car's. Taking the engine out gives the Tesla extra margin, it doesn't just move the same amount of margin around.
The problem with all this is that "money laundering" generally comes from activities which are victimless crimes, and are therefore not a crime because they don't affect anyone but the person doing them.
"It's a victimless crime, like punching a guy in the dark" - Nelson
If this is a private transaction between two individuals, how is the government even involved? I can see if it is a regulated or licensed company like a hotel, but just 2 people on Craigslist?
This article made me go and buy Aziz Ansari's special: http://azizansari.com/
I had always meant to, but it reminded me that a $5 directly to the artist does WAY more than spending $20 on a dvd to a large company. I had bought Louie CK's thing the day it came out, but waited on Aziz's.
I bought Aziz's and then went and bought Jim Gaffigan's also, even though I've never heard him perform before. It's totally worth $5 to encourage this kind of behavior by artists.
http://www.jimgaffigan.com/
I dont think talking is going to distract me (but i am well above average in every aspect) . And if you cant talk and drive at the same time, then your license should be taken away. that should be part of all the new driving tests. you have to call and talk to a memeber of your family for 10min while navigating the streets of San Francisco.
Thanks. I came to this thread just to see how long it would take someone to make the claim that they were "special" and that these problems didn't apply to them. I'm glad your pretentious comment was able to satisfy my curiosity.
Shouldn't there be a Godwin's law equivalent for that sort of self-aggrandizing statement?
So if I put up a wall around my property to keep people from seeing my laundry, and then they climb the wall and look over the top, that's just too bad for me because I should have built a higher wall? So any protection that isn't perfect is unacceptable when it comes to protecting trade secrets?
Could you at least have the fucking brains to DO THE RESEARCH YOURSELF before opening your mouth like a fucking parrot?
Why should I do the reasearch myself when the State Attorney General's office, whose job it is, has already done the research and determined that the statute of limitations has expired? After all, shouldn't they have a pretty good idea of what the law is - at least more so than some random Slashdot poster? You know, since that's their job.
If I was a worse person, I'd make a snarky comment along the lines of "apparently the iPhone 4S disappointed him to death" - luckily I'm a better person than that.
RIP
but this is a violation of due process if not, and as far as i'm concerned places Amazon out of what could be reasonably considered a common carrier on their EC2 platform
Doesn't due process only apply to governments? It's Amazon's service, and, generally speaking, management reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. Not to mention that hosting what are essentially stolen documents is probably against their TOS.
You Americans are so cute with your fear of terrorists. You're quite happy for thousands of people to die on the roads, but one itty bitty terrorist attack and you go cower indoors.
Home of the brave my ass - you should try living somewhere with a real history of terrorism and you'd see we pretty much just get on with our lives. Some idiots blow up the tubes yesterday? Ah well, as long as mine is still running, I'll use it today with no changes to security. The IRA blow up another pub? Well, this one is still standing, so I'll have a pint. ETA blowing up shit all over the place? Can't let the fuckers win, so we'll get on with our lives.
But no. America has ONE attack on their own soil and they go mental.
Maybe, but what was the reaction of the British population after the first IRA bomb went off? Or after the first multi-pronged attack that killed 3000 people and destroyed two iconic skyscrapers in your "prestige" city? Oh, I guess that second one has happened yet. Lucky you.
But AMD didn't make graphics chips until the merger. So really, three companies (ATI, NVIDIA, and Intel) became three (AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel). Do you need charts to illustrate that?
If that were the case, wouldn't the city have to maintain my driveway and sidewalk to my house? Since they don't, it is private property. That and the fact that the technical term for what you are describing is an easement, which would have to be declared when the house was sold. So again, I don't think you'd get much traction arguing that my driveway is an extension of the public street, and by extension public property.
You seem to be missing an important point. Bags of cement and boxes of ceral aren't advertised and sold as "up to" 50 pounds (for cement) or 18 oz (for cereal). They are sold as that weight, which is why they normally weigh pretty darn close to that weight. Your comparison/complaint would only be valid if the ISPs were offering "8 Mbps", not "up to 8 Mbps".
Sure, that's what we think Net Neutrality means, but does Congress think that's what it means? Who knows what the "Net Neutrality" bill will actually say or dictate - it's ripe for bait and switch.
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You would be wrong in expecting that, the Tesla uses its center as a crumple zone if the sides are too stiff in the NHTSA test the car will stop too fast leading to injuries in the crash test dummies and a poor rating. Because of this it is fair to assume that the sides are not as strong as another 5 star crash test recipient with a front combustion engine. If there is only a partial impact the combustion engine still has half its crumple zone while the Tesla will have 25%.
You are assuming that the Tesla and other cars both start with the same "amount" of crumple zone. But if the Tesla actually has twice the amount of crumple zone, then having 25% of it left would be exactly the same as 50% of the normal car's. Taking the engine out gives the Tesla extra margin, it doesn't just move the same amount of margin around.
The problem with all this is that "money laundering" generally comes from activities which are victimless crimes, and are therefore not a crime because they don't affect anyone but the person doing them.
"It's a victimless crime, like punching a guy in the dark" - Nelson
How about making it illegal (except law enforcement, no grandfathering) any firearm that can be fired within 1,000 feet of a school.
I'd you can ban magnetic balls then you can do this.
It's already illegal to kill kids, so how will making it double illegal help?
If this is a private transaction between two individuals, how is the government even involved? I can see if it is a regulated or licensed company like a hotel, but just 2 people on Craigslist?
The Transcontinental Railroad cost $1.2 billion in 2012 dollars. The Eisenhower Interstate System cost $425 billion of the same.
Are you sure you don't understand why a decentralized "pod" system wouldn't work?
How many miles was the Transcontinental Railroad, and how many miles is the Interstate System?
This article made me go and buy Aziz Ansari's special: http://azizansari.com/ I had always meant to, but it reminded me that a $5 directly to the artist does WAY more than spending $20 on a dvd to a large company. I had bought Louie CK's thing the day it came out, but waited on Aziz's.
I bought Aziz's and then went and bought Jim Gaffigan's also, even though I've never heard him perform before. It's totally worth $5 to encourage this kind of behavior by artists. http://www.jimgaffigan.com/
I dont think talking is going to distract me (but i am well above average in every aspect) . And if you cant talk and drive at the same time, then your license should be taken away. that should be part of all the new driving tests. you have to call and talk to a memeber of your family for 10min while navigating the streets of San Francisco.
Thanks. I came to this thread just to see how long it would take someone to make the claim that they were "special" and that these problems didn't apply to them. I'm glad your pretentious comment was able to satisfy my curiosity.
Shouldn't there be a Godwin's law equivalent for that sort of self-aggrandizing statement?
I think the math on oil (see other poster) works out to 140,000 kilograms per second, not tons.
So if I put up a wall around my property to keep people from seeing my laundry, and then they climb the wall and look over the top, that's just too bad for me because I should have built a higher wall? So any protection that isn't perfect is unacceptable when it comes to protecting trade secrets?
THE FUCKING STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS NOT EXPIRED.
http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/2008/09/statute-of-limitations-texas-l.html
Could you at least have the fucking brains to DO THE RESEARCH YOURSELF before opening your mouth like a fucking parrot?
Why should I do the reasearch myself when the State Attorney General's office, whose job it is, has already done the research and determined that the statute of limitations has expired? After all, shouldn't they have a pretty good idea of what the law is - at least more so than some random Slashdot poster? You know, since that's their job.
If I was a worse person, I'd make a snarky comment along the lines of "apparently the iPhone 4S disappointed him to death" - luckily I'm a better person than that. RIP
You know you can unload that monopoly money onto (other?) idiots for real money...
And the fact that you differentiate between Bitcoins and "real money" says all that needs to be said.
Will Assange's people put the money where his mouth is and release the key to the insurance file?
Does anyone else find it ironic that Wikileaks has a secret insurance file? Shouldn't someone be wikileaking the Wikileaks insurance file?
I find rubbing my lucky rabbit foot to be much more effective - and pleasant.
I don't think that's a foot.
but this is a violation of due process if not, and as far as i'm concerned places Amazon out of what could be reasonably considered a common carrier on their EC2 platform
Doesn't due process only apply to governments? It's Amazon's service, and, generally speaking, management reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. Not to mention that hosting what are essentially stolen documents is probably against their TOS.
You Americans are so cute with your fear of terrorists. You're quite happy for thousands of people to die on the roads, but one itty bitty terrorist attack and you go cower indoors.
Home of the brave my ass - you should try living somewhere with a real history of terrorism and you'd see we pretty much just get on with our lives. Some idiots blow up the tubes yesterday? Ah well, as long as mine is still running, I'll use it today with no changes to security. The IRA blow up another pub? Well, this one is still standing, so I'll have a pint. ETA blowing up shit all over the place? Can't let the fuckers win, so we'll get on with our lives.
But no. America has ONE attack on their own soil and they go mental.
Maybe, but what was the reaction of the British population after the first IRA bomb went off? Or after the first multi-pronged attack that killed 3000 people and destroyed two iconic skyscrapers in your "prestige" city? Oh, I guess that second one has happened yet. Lucky you.
Not many, but they leave a lot of them on a nice cleavage.
But AMD didn't make graphics chips until the merger. So really, three companies (ATI, NVIDIA, and Intel) became three (AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel). Do you need charts to illustrate that?
If that were the case, wouldn't the city have to maintain my driveway and sidewalk to my house? Since they don't, it is private property. That and the fact that the technical term for what you are describing is an easement, which would have to be declared when the house was sold. So again, I don't think you'd get much traction arguing that my driveway is an extension of the public street, and by extension public property.
You seem to be missing an important point. Bags of cement and boxes of ceral aren't advertised and sold as "up to" 50 pounds (for cement) or 18 oz (for cereal). They are sold as that weight, which is why they normally weigh pretty darn close to that weight. Your comparison/complaint would only be valid if the ISPs were offering "8 Mbps", not "up to 8 Mbps".
Clearly there is an Intelligent Designer, and his name is "evolution".
Sure, that's what we think Net Neutrality means, but does Congress think that's what it means? Who knows what the "Net Neutrality" bill will actually say or dictate - it's ripe for bait and switch.
Yes. Yes, you are such a crackpot now.
I know, it's so terrible. Now, do you need a Kleenex to wipe your eyes?
That's what you call win-win.