I really like this idea.... charge the cars (or at least don't run down the batteries) while driving. It'd only have to be on the main roads. When you drive away from the road that has the inductive loop, the car runs on batteries. So on the main road, use power from the road, on the side streets, drive on battery power. Love it.
Now how do we make sure that a car owner is billed for the power used? How to stop cars that don't pay from getting power?
It's not that fitting a square plug into a square hole is a problem.... its' that my wife doesn't want to get grime, dirt and salt on her hands to plug the car in. She wants to grab her purse and walk in the house. Convienance is the driving (pun??) factor here.
With all the hype about cell phone radiation, what do you think it would be for a car charger? Of course the idea of having a loop on my garage floor that begins to charge when I park the car is very interesting. It'll probably have to have some interlock to make sure no people are nearby.
Something that's always bothered me about evolution.... if an animal mutates and ends up with an extra chromosome, what are the odds it'll find a similarly mutated mate? I can certainly see evolutionary changes within a species.... for example bear's fur color making white bears more likely to live long enough to mate in a snowy environment.... but not across species.
Intelligent design on the other hand supposes that an external force (a God, an alien, etc) created each species, which in turn has gone on to mutate and evolve.
I like your take... Obama isn't the cause of our problems. So many I hear want to vilify him for all the woes of the country. There are things he's to blame for, certainly... but by and large he's just doing what his predecessors have done - on steroids.
Democracy starts to unravel when people with no skin in the game can vote. I know this sounds odd, but a person earning welfare from the public dole will always vote for more welfare. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb discussing what's for dinner. Also, democracy only works when you have an educated (or interested??) populace.
Oh stop fooling yourself. Other countries don't hate you because you're rich or even wasteful. They hate you because Your Government Interferes With Their Country. Period.
I wish I had mod points to give you.... you've nailed it!
Barring that, there are still some options to reduce costs. Carefully evaluate the cost / benefit ratios of expensive therapies (bye bye dialysis). Basically freeze drug research (it's not like they have come up with any great new therapies) and essentially force generics. Get rid of Big Pharma's advertising budget (bigger than their research budget). Get rid of insurance companies and simplify the byzantine American medical system (one time savings, but a big one, basically kicks the can down the road). Limit reimbursement. Shoot the lawyers. Ration. Ration. Ration.
Or we could perform a DNA sequence on each and every newborn. Find out which ones have a predisposition for chronic illness and expensive treatments. Then we sterilize them. Heck, we won't even charge the parents for *that* procedure - unless they are rich and jewish. In 20 years, we vill have prewented zem frum breeding and in 100 years ve vill have wiped out all chronic illness! Everyone will be blonde, beautiful and muscular. It vill be utopia für ze nächste 1000 jahren.
Naaaa.... that won't work... I think there's prior art on that idea *somewhere*.
for example say you have an unfavorable opinion of the government. perhaps that unfavorable opinion has been discovered and lets say the G20 or G8 is coming to your neighborhood. You've printed off a few dozen peaceful protest signs and plan to head to the streets, when Mr Doe and Mr Cardholder show up at your door with a few questions and you're 'detained' for them. I guess we missed the protest now, didnt we? now what if all your friends enjoyed the same fate?
This has already happened at a few school board meetings. In one case a guy was asking questions at the end of the meeting and the school board had him arrested. He was charged with assaulting a police officer. A few days later, they dropped the charges and cut him lose. But he had missed the opportunity to address the school board. man arrested
I too am a Christian who thinks there is a place for both creationism and evolution alongside one another. I think through time, some facts which were once known have been lost or blended/dumbed down over time. Maybe it was intentional (We have the Catholic church to thank for the dark ages for example), maybe it was primitive man's lack of vernacular to describe accurately what they saw. I do think that religion (man's interpretation of God's word) gets in the way of the truth. History is rife with people who have used religion as a tool to influence behaviors just as our politicians do today.
Despite all the tongue in cheek stuff here on/., I have to wonder aloud how could evolution work at all?
Let's say that in order to make the evolutional move from one species to another, we have to cross a chromosome boundary. Some animals have 22, we have 23, right? So if an animal with 22 mutated and was accidentally born with 23, it could not breed with it's brethren. Unless another animal was similarly mutated to have 23 chromosomes. What is the likelihood that two mutated animals would even live in close enough proximity to one another to successfully mate?
I tend to think that an intelligent being whom we know as God created successive and improved series of creatures. Sure there can be evolution by natural selection within a species, but not across the chromosome boundary. Of course I also tend to think that God is much more tangible than spiritual.
Of course we then have to wonder how God came into existence.
....and this would work because no one would ever get in between the smart card and the phone/pc and falsely inject an ACK? Weren't the el-cheap-o encrypted USB drives venerable to this sort of attack? If I recall correctly they all used AES encryption, but all used the same key and the PC's glue program determined if the key could be used or not.
"more crap and more complicated UI with lots of "value-added" bloatware"
bingo! My mother in law got a new HDTV with a gyroscopic remote and all sorts of useless apps. I much prefer my laptop on my lap or the HDTV with a WDTV box attached.
Alex, I'll take A for $100.... kill a handful of my own people with the knowledge that the big bully will come finish the fight for me. Sometimes you have to lose the battle to win the war.
In my state of South Carolina, uninsured drivers are a huge problem. But the insurance companies already notify the state, and the state takes NO action. They wait until someone goes to re-register their car and charges a penalty. They do nothing to stop the driver until he tries to go legit. What they need to do is send the state police out with screwdrivers and remove the tags... or impound the cars. Talk about easy picking.... I saw 2 on my way to work today with expired tags. Sure, the police can't tell at a glance who does and doesn't have insurance, but they sure can tell when a tag is expired.... and do nothing about it.
So let me recap for you.... Police can see the stickers on a existing tag and don't pull people over, the state is informed when insurance policies are terminated and do nothing. What makes you think that an electronic tag that says STOLEN or NO INSURANCE will cause the state to take action?
I was married to a public school teacher. They have the tools, what they lack is the raw materials. Kids who can't be bothered to show up for school. An administration which avoids discipline for small matters because of the zero tolerance policy of three referrals results in a mandatory suspension; three suspensions results in mandatory expulsion. Parents who can't be reached when a teacher calls from home in the evening to ask for support at home are magically at school the day their kid is suspended to lobby for him to be let back into school.
My ex's mother was a kindergarten teacher for 35 years when she retired. She told stories of kindergarten kids getting themselves up and on the bus. Kids who would rather be in school than be at home when their mom wakes up.
Yes these are a minority of students, but they take a majority of resources. Teachers spend time reeling from the distractions of the students who don't want to be there and have no business there. You tell me where the problem lies.... with a middle aged mature (cool headed) adult with certification in Gifted and Talented, teaches IB level classes and has a Masters plus 30 hours, or with a low income kid who can't be bothered to go to bed at a decent hour who was caught smoking a joint in the bathroom last week?
What I find funny is that the educrats always say if they had more money, they could get better teachers. If that ain't beating the dog for what the cat did! My step daughter attends a local private school where the teachers make about 50 to 70% the salary of the public school teachers. These teachers are excellent. You see, not everyone is motivated by money. The really good teachers don't necessarily want money. If the administration would get it's head out of it's behind, they would see that they need to clear a path for the good teachers. The principals of the schools need to clear the decks of the bad kids and let the teachers do what they love to do... teach.
The problem is that the schools are effectively a monopoly. The cost to "escape" public schools is $6000/yr. You'd be amazed what most people would tolerate to not have to pay $6k. So the schools don't have to cater to the good or moderate kids. The bad kids are at risk for dropping out and if they did, the school wouldn't be paid for their attendance. It is worth $11,800 a year to the school for a kid to sit in a desk. Do you wonder why several school districts have switched to RFID badges for attendance? They cook the books and the automated system keeps the/school/ honest. Also, it is not in the school's fiscal interest to suspend kids... that's why they invented in school suspension. Contrast this with the private school where tuition is paid at the beginning of the year and if a child is expelled, there is no refund.
Isn't it amazing that a private school can produce a better student for 1/2 the cost while paying the teachers 2/3rds of what their peers make in the public system? Could it be that the private school has 1)parental support and 2) the will to get rid of bad apples.
....except the example with Bob being allergic to peanut butter because Bob is allergic to peanut butter every day. How about you make it illegal for me to bring a peanut butter sandwich on days that Bob wears a white tie? How am I to know Bob will be wearing a white tie today when I pack my lunch? Bob needs to stay away from my peanut butter sandwich if he doesn't want a stain on his white tie. Just as in TFA, how am I to know Bob is driving his car when I press send? Seems the onus is on Bob to not dick around with his phone when it's not safe. Seems to me that it's safer to send someone a text which they can answer at their leisure than to call them and make them be distracted while talking to me. Sheesh.... yet another impossible to enforce law. Soon, we'll have enough laws everyone will be a criminal.
Ohh you mean like the Spanish American war?
Surely you don't think the US would use it's military might to orchestrate a coup and force other countries into agreements like the 99 year lease of the Panama canal zone?
Nothing new here, unfortunately.
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I really like this idea.... charge the cars (or at least don't run down the batteries) while driving. It'd only have to be on the main roads. When you drive away from the road that has the inductive loop, the car runs on batteries. So on the main road, use power from the road, on the side streets, drive on battery power. Love it. Now how do we make sure that a car owner is billed for the power used? How to stop cars that don't pay from getting power?
It's not that fitting a square plug into a square hole is a problem.... its' that my wife doesn't want to get grime, dirt and salt on her hands to plug the car in. She wants to grab her purse and walk in the house. Convienance is the driving (pun??) factor here.
With all the hype about cell phone radiation, what do you think it would be for a car charger? Of course the idea of having a loop on my garage floor that begins to charge when I park the car is very interesting. It'll probably have to have some interlock to make sure no people are nearby.
Something that's always bothered me about evolution.... if an animal mutates and ends up with an extra chromosome, what are the odds it'll find a similarly mutated mate? I can certainly see evolutionary changes within a species.... for example bear's fur color making white bears more likely to live long enough to mate in a snowy environment.... but not across species. Intelligent design on the other hand supposes that an external force (a God, an alien, etc) created each species, which in turn has gone on to mutate and evolve.
....is why is my SSN worth so much? My SSN should only have one purpose and that's pretty irrelevant to ID thieves.
I like your take... Obama isn't the cause of our problems. So many I hear want to vilify him for all the woes of the country. There are things he's to blame for, certainly... but by and large he's just doing what his predecessors have done - on steroids.
Democracy starts to unravel when people with no skin in the game can vote. I know this sounds odd, but a person earning welfare from the public dole will always vote for more welfare. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb discussing what's for dinner. Also, democracy only works when you have an educated (or interested??) populace.
You've nailed it.... I love America (my country).... my feelings for the current government in America is not the same.
WW2 was going on, but didn't involve America until FDR drew us into it. WW2 didn't matter to the US either. WW1 was about the same way.
Oh stop fooling yourself. Other countries don't hate you because you're rich or even wasteful. They hate you because Your Government Interferes With Their Country. Period.
I wish I had mod points to give you.... you've nailed it!
Barring that, there are still some options to reduce costs. Carefully evaluate the cost / benefit ratios of expensive therapies (bye bye dialysis). Basically freeze drug research (it's not like they have come up with any great new therapies) and essentially force generics. Get rid of Big Pharma's advertising budget (bigger than their research budget). Get rid of insurance companies and simplify the byzantine American medical system (one time savings, but a big one, basically kicks the can down the road). Limit reimbursement. Shoot the lawyers. Ration. Ration. Ration.
Or we could perform a DNA sequence on each and every newborn. Find out which ones have a predisposition for chronic illness and expensive treatments. Then we sterilize them. Heck, we won't even charge the parents for *that* procedure - unless they are rich and jewish. In 20 years, we vill have prewented zem frum breeding and in 100 years ve vill have wiped out all chronic illness! Everyone will be blonde, beautiful and muscular. It vill be utopia für ze nächste 1000 jahren.
Naaaa.... that won't work... I think there's prior art on that idea *somewhere*.
One of the inelastic squeezes doctors have is malpractice insurance. Why not throw in a dose of tort reform with the ACA?
for example say you have an unfavorable opinion of the government. perhaps that unfavorable opinion has been discovered and lets say the G20 or G8 is coming to your neighborhood. You've printed off a few dozen peaceful protest signs and plan to head to the streets, when Mr Doe and Mr Cardholder show up at your door with a few questions and you're 'detained' for them. I guess we missed the protest now, didnt we? now what if all your friends enjoyed the same fate?
This has already happened at a few school board meetings. In one case a guy was asking questions at the end of the meeting and the school board had him arrested. He was charged with assaulting a police officer. A few days later, they dropped the charges and cut him lose. But he had missed the opportunity to address the school board. man arrested
I too am a Christian who thinks there is a place for both creationism and evolution alongside one another. I think through time, some facts which were once known have been lost or blended/dumbed down over time. Maybe it was intentional (We have the Catholic church to thank for the dark ages for example), maybe it was primitive man's lack of vernacular to describe accurately what they saw. I do think that religion (man's interpretation of God's word) gets in the way of the truth. History is rife with people who have used religion as a tool to influence behaviors just as our politicians do today.
Despite all the tongue in cheek stuff here on /., I have to wonder aloud how could evolution work at all?
Let's say that in order to make the evolutional move from one species to another, we have to cross a chromosome boundary. Some animals have 22, we have 23, right? So if an animal with 22 mutated and was accidentally born with 23, it could not breed with it's brethren. Unless another animal was similarly mutated to have 23 chromosomes. What is the likelihood that two mutated animals would even live in close enough proximity to one another to successfully mate?
I tend to think that an intelligent being whom we know as God created successive and improved series of creatures. Sure there can be evolution by natural selection within a species, but not across the chromosome boundary. Of course I also tend to think that God is much more tangible than spiritual.
Of course we then have to wonder how God came into existence.
....and this would work because no one would ever get in between the smart card and the phone/pc and falsely inject an ACK? Weren't the el-cheap-o encrypted USB drives venerable to this sort of attack? If I recall correctly they all used AES encryption, but all used the same key and the PC's glue program determined if the key could be used or not.
bingo! My mother in law got a new HDTV with a gyroscopic remote and all sorts of useless apps. I much prefer my laptop on my lap or the HDTV with a WDTV box attached.
Now if there were only anything good to watch on TV.
Ok, go with 3... Assad turns over *his* chemical weapons. How do you get the rebels to turn over the ones the stole last year?
Alex, I'll take A for $100.... kill a handful of my own people with the knowledge that the big bully will come finish the fight for me. Sometimes you have to lose the battle to win the war.
Maybe they just need one of those cell phone antenna booster stickers?
So let me recap for you.... Police can see the stickers on a existing tag and don't pull people over, the state is informed when insurance policies are terminated and do nothing. What makes you think that an electronic tag that says STOLEN or NO INSURANCE will cause the state to take action?
My ex's mother was a kindergarten teacher for 35 years when she retired. She told stories of kindergarten kids getting themselves up and on the bus. Kids who would rather be in school than be at home when their mom wakes up.
Yes these are a minority of students, but they take a majority of resources. Teachers spend time reeling from the distractions of the students who don't want to be there and have no business there. You tell me where the problem lies.... with a middle aged mature (cool headed) adult with certification in Gifted and Talented, teaches IB level classes and has a Masters plus 30 hours, or with a low income kid who can't be bothered to go to bed at a decent hour who was caught smoking a joint in the bathroom last week?
What I find funny is that the educrats always say if they had more money, they could get better teachers. If that ain't beating the dog for what the cat did! My step daughter attends a local private school where the teachers make about 50 to 70% the salary of the public school teachers. These teachers are excellent. You see, not everyone is motivated by money. The really good teachers don't necessarily want money. If the administration would get it's head out of it's behind, they would see that they need to clear a path for the good teachers. The principals of the schools need to clear the decks of the bad kids and let the teachers do what they love to do... teach.
The problem is that the schools are effectively a monopoly. The cost to "escape" public schools is $6000/yr. You'd be amazed what most people would tolerate to not have to pay $6k. So the schools don't have to cater to the good or moderate kids. The bad kids are at risk for dropping out and if they did, the school wouldn't be paid for their attendance. It is worth $11,800 a year to the school for a kid to sit in a desk. Do you wonder why several school districts have switched to RFID badges for attendance? They cook the books and the automated system keeps the /school/ honest. Also, it is not in the school's fiscal interest to suspend kids... that's why they invented in school suspension. Contrast this with the private school where tuition is paid at the beginning of the year and if a child is expelled, there is no refund.
Isn't it amazing that a private school can produce a better student for 1/2 the cost while paying the teachers 2/3rds of what their peers make in the public system? Could it be that the private school has 1)parental support and 2) the will to get rid of bad apples.
....except the example with Bob being allergic to peanut butter because Bob is allergic to peanut butter every day. How about you make it illegal for me to bring a peanut butter sandwich on days that Bob wears a white tie? How am I to know Bob will be wearing a white tie today when I pack my lunch? Bob needs to stay away from my peanut butter sandwich if he doesn't want a stain on his white tie. Just as in TFA, how am I to know Bob is driving his car when I press send? Seems the onus is on Bob to not dick around with his phone when it's not safe. Seems to me that it's safer to send someone a text which they can answer at their leisure than to call them and make them be distracted while talking to me. Sheesh.... yet another impossible to enforce law. Soon, we'll have enough laws everyone will be a criminal.
Ohh you mean like the Spanish American war? Surely you don't think the US would use it's military might to orchestrate a coup and force other countries into agreements like the 99 year lease of the Panama canal zone? Nothing new here, unfortunately.