Just because you making getting a license harder doesn't mean fewer will drive. Just because you suspend a license doesn't mean they won't drive.
In my area, people drive around all the time with paper tags so faded you can't read them. Police don't enforce it. Drunks get DUIs and keep driving. The state never (seldom) impounds their cars. That would be step in the right direction. My un-insured coverage is/more/ than my liability insurance!
In the past several years the drunks who've lost their cars get mopeds which don't require any licensing or insurance. Except they are 400cc scooters that go 55mph, not mopeds. So now they crash into people's cars and cause havok. The state has just changed the law to require all mopeds to be licensed, but alas, they probably won't enforce that either.
Maybe they should pass a law which says the police have to enforce the laws???
Man I can't wait for passenger pods to be ejected from an aircraft at 38,000 ft over the middle of the ocean... in the dark.... in a storm. So you'd have to build the pods strong enough to hold the passengers and float with it's own O2 system. The airframe would have to have its own (redundant) structural integrity, and account for the weight of the well built pods (redundant weight) and a parachute system for each pod. Since weight represents fuel for each and every flight for the lifetime of the aircraft, that would be an on going finiancial liability. I think it would be cheaper just to spend a little more time on the ground burning no fuel as the passengers load. Freight is a different thing because you don't need fall survivability built into the containers, they can be really flimsy and light.
A probe on Pluto is ridiculous. A probe on the moon, now that's close enough and plausible. It should have the dimensional ratios of 3:2:1 and appear non-descript.
I imagine they would decode our TV signals and their interest piqued. They would build a rocket ship and begin their journey here. About 50 years into their trip, they'd see honey boo-boo and the K sisters and turn around.
When I was in my late teens / early 20's, I thought it was so evil that people were "trapped" in welfare programs. If they made money, they were instantly off welfare. I thought there should be some sort of transisition sliding scale to allow people to rise out w/o loosing everything on their way into the middle class. Then I realized that some people love being at the bottom and don't want out. And still others want the free money/welfare/food stamps and want some spending cash too.
A few years ago in a Food Lion in Sumter SC I was in line behind a well dressed, tattooed, smart phone wielding young lady with a baby in the cart. She was buying several items and using WIC coupons. The cashier pointed out to her that she could get 4 more gallons of milk, and even though she didn't need them, she wanted them. The bag boy was dispatched to get 4 additional gallons of milk. All the while, she's texting on her smart phone with her pretty long finger nails. I followed her out to her car and while it was not a BWM by any stretch, it was a hell of a lot nicer car than I drove when I was in college. So do we keep helping this type too? The type that/could/ be self sufficient but don't?
Or how about the girl who worked for my sister's pizza restaurant who lived in section 8 housing? Her rent was $300 a month and my sister hired her for min wage at $1200 a month. Her rent went from $300 to $500 because she was making money, afterall. Never mind that it was walking distance... she quit the job because her rent went up! Even though she'd net more money in the end! Shall we help that type too?
I've often thought about a government program which paid women to be sterilized. Think of the very women we don't want to have children... drug users. They are the most likely to want some fast cash and thus would consider $500 or $1000 to not have to worry about getting pregnant with an unwanted child.
You are right on target.... consider this: in the USA we already have a UBI system for our poorest... called Earned Income Credit. Single mom, have kids? The sweet spot is 3 kids, you get $9600 each year, plus other perks such as free medical (medicaid), subsidized health insurance, and a credit card intended for food that can be used at most any merchant who happens to sell food for non-food items. Viva Socialism! Just sit back and wait for the corruption and fraud.
1) where does this "free money" come from? From other more productive people (ie the rich) thru tax confiscation or from government sponsored inflation?
2)There will be those who game the system to have even more money. Want an example? Look no further than your average person receiving food stamps or other welfare and working under the table.
Inflation is caused by inflating the money supply. Like when the federal government sells bonds to the federal reserve and they print more dollars. Cost increase will happen when the price of taxes, materials, labor or other overhead goes up. The cost simply must be passed along. Two very different things, although they result in the same thing... my hamburger costs more.
If they can get the courts to give them the keys and the source code, what good would it do apple to release a new version of IOS with new signing keys? The government would just compel them to release it again... and the 2nd iteration, they'd have a precedent.
the NRA was one of the first groups to help black folks get guns.... so im not so sure...
Wish I had mod points! YES. The NRA fought against the Dixiecrats (southern democrats) to allow black citizens to own guns in teh Jim Crow days. Also, we have the NRA to thank for the background check system presently used by the ATF to screen gun purchasers. The Clinton administration wanted a 30 day waiting period and the NRA suggested that an instant background check system be created.... which is why we have a 3 day waiting period OR the instant background check of today. Now what we need is for the federal government to prosecute the approx 80,000 per year who try to buy a gun and fail the check. In 2012, only 44 were prosecuted.
Hey Buddy, I'd like to buy your software with my bitcoins, but the smallest coin I have is $413USD.... How the hell do you make change with the smallest integer amount of a bit coin is $413.16???? That is the problem with bitcoins... they can't be subdivided and there just aren't enough of them for each person on earth to have even ONE.
This is not a question of the constitutional rights of a dead person, that is oversimplifying the problem. It is a question of precedent. Apple has hacked into older Iphones that didnt contain this type of hardware encryption. If we make them do it for a dead guy, later on the courts and FBI will justify doing to a living person with 4th amendment concerns and the courts will cite apple having done it before and compel them to do it again.
$17,000 for a hospital? A school district in Myrtle Beach SC was hit up for $8,000. For organizations this size, it is a small amount of money. So I have to ask: Is this priced low to scare management into doing what IT has been asking for, or is it simply priced low so they'll just pay up?
I work in a major paper manufacturer. We had a small UNIX box that translated between two machines speaking different protocols for process control. The box was obsolete, so they hired a vendor to replace it. The vendor installed Linux on a modern PC and moved the code over. The corporate IT department's policy was that all boxes on the network must be windows and run A/V. So the vendor installed CYGWIN on top of windows. Several months later, Norton AV did an update and suddenly began a scan at 6am on Wednesday morning consuming all CPU resources. Our process control link failed for approx 5 minutes. After 3 weeks of this, we finally came it early to see what was going on and discovered the problem. I just LOVE IT departments that have inane policies.
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In my area, people drive around all the time with paper tags so faded you can't read them. Police don't enforce it. Drunks get DUIs and keep driving. The state never (seldom) impounds their cars. That would be step in the right direction. My un-insured coverage is /more/ than my liability insurance!
In the past several years the drunks who've lost their cars get mopeds which don't require any licensing or insurance. Except they are 400cc scooters that go 55mph, not mopeds. So now they crash into people's cars and cause havok. The state has just changed the law to require all mopeds to be licensed, but alas, they probably won't enforce that either.
Maybe they should pass a law which says the police have to enforce the laws???
Man I can't wait for passenger pods to be ejected from an aircraft at 38,000 ft over the middle of the ocean... in the dark.... in a storm. So you'd have to build the pods strong enough to hold the passengers and float with it's own O2 system. The airframe would have to have its own (redundant) structural integrity, and account for the weight of the well built pods (redundant weight) and a parachute system for each pod. Since weight represents fuel for each and every flight for the lifetime of the aircraft, that would be an on going finiancial liability. I think it would be cheaper just to spend a little more time on the ground burning no fuel as the passengers load. Freight is a different thing because you don't need fall survivability built into the containers, they can be really flimsy and light.
I recall back in 2007 they proposed an easily installable FO link... https://archive.google.com/tis...
Well this certainly explains the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ! 1500-2000 years , give or take....
A probe on Pluto is ridiculous. A probe on the moon, now that's close enough and plausible. It should have the dimensional ratios of 3:2:1 and appear non-descript.
I imagine they would decode our TV signals and their interest piqued. They would build a rocket ship and begin their journey here. About 50 years into their trip, they'd see honey boo-boo and the K sisters and turn around.
A few years ago in a Food Lion in Sumter SC I was in line behind a well dressed, tattooed, smart phone wielding young lady with a baby in the cart. She was buying several items and using WIC coupons. The cashier pointed out to her that she could get 4 more gallons of milk, and even though she didn't need them, she wanted them. The bag boy was dispatched to get 4 additional gallons of milk. All the while, she's texting on her smart phone with her pretty long finger nails. I followed her out to her car and while it was not a BWM by any stretch, it was a hell of a lot nicer car than I drove when I was in college. So do we keep helping this type too? The type that /could/ be self sufficient but don't?
Or how about the girl who worked for my sister's pizza restaurant who lived in section 8 housing? Her rent was $300 a month and my sister hired her for min wage at $1200 a month. Her rent went from $300 to $500 because she was making money, afterall. Never mind that it was walking distance... she quit the job because her rent went up! Even though she'd net more money in the end! Shall we help that type too?
This whole thing is ridiculous.... the guy could have logged into the waze map editor and down graded the roads. Sheesh.
I've often thought about a government program which paid women to be sterilized. Think of the very women we don't want to have children... drug users. They are the most likely to want some fast cash and thus would consider $500 or $1000 to not have to worry about getting pregnant with an unwanted child.
You are right on target.... consider this: in the USA we already have a UBI system for our poorest... called Earned Income Credit. Single mom, have kids? The sweet spot is 3 kids, you get $9600 each year, plus other perks such as free medical (medicaid), subsidized health insurance, and a credit card intended for food that can be used at most any merchant who happens to sell food for non-food items. Viva Socialism! Just sit back and wait for the corruption and fraud.
2)There will be those who game the system to have even more money. Want an example? Look no further than your average person receiving food stamps or other welfare and working under the table.
Muslims in France have the highest birthrate. Fixed that for ya!
So they'll be driving DIESEL cars?
Why no Officer I do NOT have a cellphone in my possession. (cell phone locked in trunk).
Inflation is caused by inflating the money supply. Like when the federal government sells bonds to the federal reserve and they print more dollars. Cost increase will happen when the price of taxes, materials, labor or other overhead goes up. The cost simply must be passed along. Two very different things, although they result in the same thing... my hamburger costs more.
Wish I had mod points.... wow the media told us about PR going belly up, never mentioned the min wage! Thanks for info!
Thanks for the education... I had no idea bitcoins were divisible by 8 decimal places.
If they can get the courts to give them the keys and the source code, what good would it do apple to release a new version of IOS with new signing keys? The government would just compel them to release it again... and the 2nd iteration, they'd have a precedent.
the NRA was one of the first groups to help black folks get guns.... so im not so sure...
Wish I had mod points! YES. The NRA fought against the Dixiecrats (southern democrats) to allow black citizens to own guns in teh Jim Crow days. Also, we have the NRA to thank for the background check system presently used by the ATF to screen gun purchasers. The Clinton administration wanted a 30 day waiting period and the NRA suggested that an instant background check system be created.... which is why we have a 3 day waiting period OR the instant background check of today. Now what we need is for the federal government to prosecute the approx 80,000 per year who try to buy a gun and fail the check. In 2012, only 44 were prosecuted.
Hey Buddy, I'd like to buy your software with my bitcoins, but the smallest coin I have is $413USD.... How the hell do you make change with the smallest integer amount of a bit coin is $413.16???? That is the problem with bitcoins... they can't be subdivided and there just aren't enough of them for each person on earth to have even ONE.
Oh my goodness... how on earth did we notify the authorities of emergencies in the days before cell phones?
Don't less efficient cars already pay more for fuel because... ya know... they use more fuel?
This is not a question of the constitutional rights of a dead person, that is oversimplifying the problem. It is a question of precedent. Apple has hacked into older Iphones that didnt contain this type of hardware encryption. If we make them do it for a dead guy, later on the courts and FBI will justify doing to a living person with 4th amendment concerns and the courts will cite apple having done it before and compel them to do it again.
My gut tells me this is likely a white hat thing.
I work in a major paper manufacturer. We had a small UNIX box that translated between two machines speaking different protocols for process control. The box was obsolete, so they hired a vendor to replace it. The vendor installed Linux on a modern PC and moved the code over. The corporate IT department's policy was that all boxes on the network must be windows and run A/V. So the vendor installed CYGWIN on top of windows. Several months later, Norton AV did an update and suddenly began a scan at 6am on Wednesday morning consuming all CPU resources. Our process control link failed for approx 5 minutes. After 3 weeks of this, we finally came it early to see what was going on and discovered the problem.
I just LOVE IT departments that have inane policies.