Cool... I see the O.P.'s point. Now all we need to do is to pass a law that says homosexuality is against the law and then it'll be cool to keep an oppressive thumb on our kids.
Personally, can't see why drugs are illegal (controlled). If you want to OD and kill yourself, fine, do so at your own peril. We have laws to protect my property from theft, so don't steal my stuff to pay for your "hobby". I know I'm on a tangent here, but we need to spend less effort protecting people from themselves.
This is exactly why I left facebook. I got damned tired of setting my privacy settings only to find they were open again. After the 3rd or 4th time, it was no accident. Heck they don't even tell you they've made a change that you might want to renew, they just do it. I have to laugh as I continue to hear about people's privacy settings being lowered and private information exposed.
Any guesses as to how much the "reseller fee" will be? How many people would buy a used car if the price of the car was artificially increased to within a breath of a new car price? New car goes for $20k, used 2 year old car sells for $10k. GM (or Ford or Toyota) tacks on a reseller fee of $10k, and you'll never sell that old car. Your potential buyers would just as soon buy a new car.
I propose that the state's DoT permit a driver to register two cars for the price of one, or register the 2nd car for a pittance.
A buddy of mine has 3 kids and they often need to shuttle 5 people around. He had to get a SUV to haul the kids around, but he also drives to work a considerable distance. He can't buy an economy car because it doesn't make sense to license and insure a 2nd car to save a little gas. The amount saved on gas would be offset by the cost of licensing. So he has to go with the lowest common denominator... hauling 5 people.
What he needs is a break of licensing the 2nd car. If he could register a primary car and then, if his 2nd car was some econobox, allow him to register it for free, he'd have a small commuter car.
For me, I have a car that is for driving to work and thought about getting a golf cart to take to the store. Alas, the state's law says that I can operate my golf cart within 5 miles of my home, but not after dark, even if it has lights. So I didn't buy a golf cart because it wasn't practical in the winter when the sun is setting just as I get home from work.
In my case the state could modify it's existing NEV law and encourage the use of small neighborhood electrics and golf carts.
The problem here is that the laws provide a disincentive for people to get smaller cars. The government(s) could grease the skids if they wanted to. Face it, we are a long long way away from replacing our present expectation of a cars with electric. Why not offer people an intermediate step until battery tech catches up?
The neatest thing I've seen lately that actually has the range to get me to work is from www.litmotors.com
I thought it was funny a few years ago when they made talking on a cellphone illegal. This encouraged people to text with the phones in the lap, below window level... which in turn required them to take their eyes off the road for longer periods of time.
I got into an argument with my wife's car a few weeks ago. I said "Call Natalie" and it said it didn't understand. I said "dial Natalie" and it said that was an invalid command. I said "help" and it said say category. "phone". It said not valid command. I said "help phone" it read off a long list of things I could say... like dial . So I said "dial Natalie". It said command not valid. So I reached for the nav system screen and leafed thru the contacts and found my wife's number and dialed it. Wow.. what a great experience. Honestly, I "argued" with that car for 6 or 7 minutes and was more distracted than if I'd just picked the phone out of my pocket and dialed the number.
It's not about being careful of who gets elected... it's about who is offered up for election. 'None of the above' isn't an option. Let's see... In the coming US presidential race I can vote for the guy who championed Obamacare or the guy that crafted it. I can vote for the guy who says he'll free up money to build new nuclear plants and then stops issuing permits, OR I can vote for the guy who chooses a fiscally responsible running mate and then says he won't use the running mate's ideas, he will run the show.
So whom should I vote for? Looser A or Looser B? Lizard A or Lizard B. We wouldn't want to elect the wrong lizard would we?
The part I like about Miller vs US case is what the Supreme Court didn't say.... you see, if Miller had shown that a short barrelled had a use in a militia it would have been unconstitutional to tax it. Funny, I read this as saying that any fully auto weapon that has ever been used in war by anyone should not be taxed / restricted. In contrast, the small 10/22 rifle I shoot at home could be taxed / restricted because it has no use in a militia.
Absolutely. The dems and repubs are doing a grand job of making us afraid of the other guy. What the USA needs, but will never get, is a preferential vote system like Australia has.
I keep digging to find out when we went wrong. So far, I'm back to the War of 1812. The American Ideal didn't last long. Reconstruction was particularly horrendous.... very much akin to the mob making you a deal you couldn't refuse.
The TSA is doing a good job of keeping me from flying. Why would I want to subject myself to such searches? Amazingly, people still get things on aircraft. Enough with the TSA already... trust me, the passengers will take care of business if there is a problem. Just like they did with the underwear bomber and the shoe bomber.
Windows is like Star Trek films... every one one sucks and every other-other one is great. Win98... pretty good. Win ME(memory error) sucked, WinXP good, Vista not good, 7 good... 8 likely to suck.
73 ya'll.
Ahh yes, but what if it's the guy's competitor trying to run up his advertising costs? What if facebook has nothing to do with this? If it is really a bot net, then no two clicks come from the same IP address, so FB can't filter them out for billing.
Not that I'm a big facebook fan... this guys angst may be misdirected.
Walmart tracks every purchase by each customer. They know minute by minute when to expect something will sell. Why then, are there only 2 out of 35 registers open when I go to checkout at 6pm on a friday?:-/
I thought all brits had to pay a 200 pound "tax" for the BBC per TV.... so why shouldn't the BBC provide each tax paying TV a filter? Or is my info outdated on the tax?
...maxes out at a watt or two (per channel) and there are hundreds of "channels" multiplexed onto the antenna at your local cell site at any given moment. But me thinks this filter is more concerned with the proximity of the 4g phone in someone's pocket as them sit in front of the telly and watch tv. Compare the max output of your 4g phone's 340mw at 1 meter from your TV with the 100kw tv station transmitter that is 60km away. The 4g phone near in proximity and in frequency could "win" a lot of the time.
Take the frequency of the offending FM radio station add the IF frequency of your airband com/nav radio and I'll bet the sum is the same as the tower frequency. Either that or the front end of your radio was simply overloaded. The other way this works is that an FM receiver inside the aircraft (ie a passenger listening to his tunes) has a local oscillator running at 10.7mhz above the desired frequency. The sum of FM radio station + 10.7mhz is usually in the aircraft nav band (108 - 118). For example, an FM radio tuned to 103.5 will put out a carrier on 114.2. This is the reason the FAA doesn't want passengers operating electronic devices when aircraft are landing. The vauge wording has spilled over into all electronic devices to include cell phones which (AFAIK) do not interfere with any air band comms.
Next thing you know the US postal service will mandate that eveyone send their mail on postcards so it can be read. If you aren't doing anything wrong, why woudn't you mind anyone reading your messages?/sarcasm.
Yes, a very simple technique, but in this case it is not to show who is leaking. In this case, it is used as noise to allow for plausible deniability when the real secrets are found out. They can say with a smile that the real info was contrived to ferret out a leak.
This is just genius... This allows them to pollute their real plans with lots of noise.... and when one of their real plans is discovered, they can say, "no that was noise". Great. Sorta the opposite of what Rush Limbaugh does... he says thousands of things, then goes back later and says he was right all along by cherry picking the instances when he was right.
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Personally, can't see why drugs are illegal (controlled). If you want to OD and kill yourself, fine, do so at your own peril. We have laws to protect my property from theft, so don't steal my stuff to pay for your "hobby". I know I'm on a tangent here, but we need to spend less effort protecting people from themselves.
I just gave up and took my ball home.
Any guesses as to how much the "reseller fee" will be? How many people would buy a used car if the price of the car was artificially increased to within a breath of a new car price? New car goes for $20k, used 2 year old car sells for $10k. GM (or Ford or Toyota) tacks on a reseller fee of $10k, and you'll never sell that old car. Your potential buyers would just as soon buy a new car.
A buddy of mine has 3 kids and they often need to shuttle 5 people around. He had to get a SUV to haul the kids around, but he also drives to work a considerable distance. He can't buy an economy car because it doesn't make sense to license and insure a 2nd car to save a little gas. The amount saved on gas would be offset by the cost of licensing. So he has to go with the lowest common denominator... hauling 5 people.
What he needs is a break of licensing the 2nd car. If he could register a primary car and then, if his 2nd car was some econobox, allow him to register it for free, he'd have a small commuter car.
For me, I have a car that is for driving to work and thought about getting a golf cart to take to the store. Alas, the state's law says that I can operate my golf cart within 5 miles of my home, but not after dark, even if it has lights. So I didn't buy a golf cart because it wasn't practical in the winter when the sun is setting just as I get home from work.
In my case the state could modify it's existing NEV law and encourage the use of small neighborhood electrics and golf carts.
The problem here is that the laws provide a disincentive for people to get smaller cars. The government(s) could grease the skids if they wanted to. Face it, we are a long long way away from replacing our present expectation of a cars with electric. Why not offer people an intermediate step until battery tech catches up?
The neatest thing I've seen lately that actually has the range to get me to work is from www.litmotors.com
I thought it was funny a few years ago when they made talking on a cellphone illegal. This encouraged people to text with the phones in the lap, below window level... which in turn required them to take their eyes off the road for longer periods of time.
I got into an argument with my wife's car a few weeks ago. I said "Call Natalie" and it said it didn't understand. I said "dial Natalie" and it said that was an invalid command. I said "help" and it said say category. "phone". It said not valid command. I said "help phone" it read off a long list of things I could say... like dial . So I said "dial Natalie". It said command not valid. So I reached for the nav system screen and leafed thru the contacts and found my wife's number and dialed it. Wow.. what a great experience. Honestly, I "argued" with that car for 6 or 7 minutes and was more distracted than if I'd just picked the phone out of my pocket and dialed the number.
So changing the channels could be more painful that watching the stupid sitcom?
It would work with dogs or humans or anything else that wasn't a good insulator.
I touch myself??
It's not about being careful of who gets elected... it's about who is offered up for election. 'None of the above' isn't an option. Let's see... In the coming US presidential race I can vote for the guy who championed Obamacare or the guy that crafted it. I can vote for the guy who says he'll free up money to build new nuclear plants and then stops issuing permits, OR I can vote for the guy who chooses a fiscally responsible running mate and then says he won't use the running mate's ideas, he will run the show. So whom should I vote for? Looser A or Looser B? Lizard A or Lizard B. We wouldn't want to elect the wrong lizard would we?
The part I like about Miller vs US case is what the Supreme Court didn't say.... you see, if Miller had shown that a short barrelled had a use in a militia it would have been unconstitutional to tax it. Funny, I read this as saying that any fully auto weapon that has ever been used in war by anyone should not be taxed / restricted. In contrast, the small 10/22 rifle I shoot at home could be taxed / restricted because it has no use in a militia.
Absolutely. The dems and repubs are doing a grand job of making us afraid of the other guy. What the USA needs, but will never get, is a preferential vote system like Australia has.
I keep digging to find out when we went wrong. So far, I'm back to the War of 1812. The American Ideal didn't last long. Reconstruction was particularly horrendous.... very much akin to the mob making you a deal you couldn't refuse.
The TSA is doing a good job of keeping me from flying. Why would I want to subject myself to such searches? Amazingly, people still get things on aircraft. Enough with the TSA already... trust me, the passengers will take care of business if there is a problem. Just like they did with the underwear bomber and the shoe bomber.
Windows is like Star Trek films... every one one sucks and every other-other one is great. Win98... pretty good. Win ME(memory error) sucked, WinXP good, Vista not good, 7 good... 8 likely to suck. 73 ya'll.
Ahh yes, but what if it's the guy's competitor trying to run up his advertising costs? What if facebook has nothing to do with this? If it is really a bot net, then no two clicks come from the same IP address, so FB can't filter them out for billing.
Not that I'm a big facebook fan... this guys angst may be misdirected.
Ever notice how crime seems to follow poverty stricken people around? Coincidence? Wow, I can't believe the schtuff the grandparent here wrote.
Walmart tracks every purchase by each customer. They know minute by minute when to expect something will sell. Why then, are there only 2 out of 35 registers open when I go to checkout at 6pm on a friday? :-/
Sounds to me like /.'s capcha has been compromised.... I've seen several spams for rolex watches and now this one too...
The only place PAL is 6mhz wide is in south america.
I thought all brits had to pay a 200 pound "tax" for the BBC per TV.... so why shouldn't the BBC provide each tax paying TV a filter? Or is my info outdated on the tax?
...maxes out at a watt or two (per channel) and there are hundreds of "channels" multiplexed onto the antenna at your local cell site at any given moment. But me thinks this filter is more concerned with the proximity of the 4g phone in someone's pocket as them sit in front of the telly and watch tv. Compare the max output of your 4g phone's 340mw at 1 meter from your TV with the 100kw tv station transmitter that is 60km away. The 4g phone near in proximity and in frequency could "win" a lot of the time.
Take the frequency of the offending FM radio station add the IF frequency of your airband com/nav radio and I'll bet the sum is the same as the tower frequency. Either that or the front end of your radio was simply overloaded. The other way this works is that an FM receiver inside the aircraft (ie a passenger listening to his tunes) has a local oscillator running at 10.7mhz above the desired frequency. The sum of FM radio station + 10.7mhz is usually in the aircraft nav band (108 - 118). For example, an FM radio tuned to 103.5 will put out a carrier on 114.2. This is the reason the FAA doesn't want passengers operating electronic devices when aircraft are landing. The vauge wording has spilled over into all electronic devices to include cell phones which (AFAIK) do not interfere with any air band comms.
Next thing you know the US postal service will mandate that eveyone send their mail on postcards so it can be read. If you aren't doing anything wrong, why woudn't you mind anyone reading your messages? /sarcasm.
Yes, a very simple technique, but in this case it is not to show who is leaking. In this case, it is used as noise to allow for plausible deniability when the real secrets are found out. They can say with a smile that the real info was contrived to ferret out a leak.
This is just genius... This allows them to pollute their real plans with lots of noise.... and when one of their real plans is discovered, they can say, "no that was noise". Great. Sorta the opposite of what Rush Limbaugh does... he says thousands of things, then goes back later and says he was right all along by cherry picking the instances when he was right.