I have to think that the "owing to my naive reasonableness, I was duped" argument can't fly very well in a situation where Oregon had an attorney involved in making the contract. Perhaps, in the future, Oregon can use the "we have naive attorneys" advertisement as bait in a sting operation.
That was only legalized recently. It's being a state with no state income tax next to a state funded only by state income tax, which has been the ongoing situation for many years. More of the people with brains enough for a high paying job left in Oregon don't care so much about money. Among the smart people left who do care about money, there's doubtless a higher percentage of financial predators feeding on the higher percentage of financial gullibility in the surrounding population. This reinforces the "money people are evil" stereotype and the "tax 'em" response to it, maintaining the situation.
I have to disagree. Those take two hands, and the current crop of young drivers will want to operate the media/communications device also. Why not use one of these, give it a 9 volt battery, a bluetooth connection, and a piece of Velcro on the bottom. Then you could just put cup holders everywhere, and the driver could stick it to the one that's most convenient.
Isn't appearing intelligent and interested in learning the truth and having it prevail often a good way to spend ones entire jury duty time in a pool of prospective jurors not getting picked?
like, RTS, for example. I suspect that THC is helpful for situations where one needs to focus in, but the opposite of helpful for situations where one needs to multitask. However, that which seems like multiple tasks to one mind may well be perceived as a single (multidimensional but easily subject to simultaneous apprehension) task to another. If people play video games for job interviews as was discussed this past January,...
I think a lot, if not most, of driving citations result, not from people being unable to drive in a legal manner, but from people prioritizing other things over driving in a legal manner. Assuming that Google's algorithm prioritizes safety over legality if there's a conflict, their record does make a good example for the people arguing that conflicts involving risks to human life are unlikely to occur in an all driverless future, but what the rate of current traffic citations says about the human preference for having other priorities suggests that an all driverless future is, itself, an unlikely occurrence. Personally, I guess that most people who prefer driverless will be happier with trains.
They could be trying to show to the public the NSA doing something the public will like. I imagine that showing documented evidence of who in China ordered the foot soldiers to do their job would involve revelation of capability that they don't want to reveal. Whereas, the current business shows a favorable result of spying on international connections to domestic businesses, demonstrating why the NSA wants the access they have to the domestic network.
My Dad was working for Comsat Etam when AT&T bought it, and worked there for another 9 1/2 years until he retired. He said that the bureaucracy that came in with AT&T was mind boggling. AT&T Broadband was fairly newly created before Comcast arrived. Did it manage to escape the traditional AT&T management structure, or did they just operate it better?
A little over 10 years ago, Comcast merged with AT&T Broadband, which was the USA's largest cable television operator at that time. Now it comes down to one AT&T operation versus another. If divestiture hadn't happened, they might still be a utility, which is probably why we had divestiture.
If HDCP is going to stop you from watching a video you rented on your TV, how is it not going to stop you from streaming that same video to your phone via DRM-free Firefox?
Or install a different OS on the phone or watch the video on a TV or run the video through analog & back before attempting to stream it, or... But, unless one was surprised by a sneaky automatic update, one probably knew the score before considering to spend money on renting a video. One could pocket the money & visit slashdot instead.
Just out of curiosity, what would you think of net neutrality, except for instances where more than 250 Meg in one hour come from ip's registered to the same legal entity to ip's registered/assigned to the same other legal entity. (trying to think of a formal way to confine non-neutrality to bandwidth hogging video entertainment)
Population-wise, most of the USA is in cities. Bring up the county-by-county election results in Google Politics and see how city folks consistently succeed in making decisions about your future.
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Taylor Swift - Fearless + Speak Now - Red = pi ?
I have to think that the "owing to my naive reasonableness, I was duped" argument can't fly very well in a situation where Oregon had an attorney involved in making the contract. Perhaps, in the future, Oregon can use the "we have naive attorneys" advertisement as bait in a sting operation.
That was only legalized recently. It's being a state with no state income tax next to a state funded only by state income tax, which has been the ongoing situation for many years. More of the people with brains enough for a high paying job left in Oregon don't care so much about money. Among the smart people left who do care about money, there's doubtless a higher percentage of financial predators feeding on the higher percentage of financial gullibility in the surrounding population. This reinforces the "money people are evil" stereotype and the "tax 'em" response to it, maintaining the situation.
they also want to dump money into a lawsuit? I don't think they'll recover more from Oracle than they spend suing them.
I have to disagree. Those take two hands, and the current crop of young drivers will want to operate the media/communications device also. Why not use one of these, give it a 9 volt battery, a bluetooth connection, and a piece of Velcro on the bottom. Then you could just put cup holders everywhere, and the driver could stick it to the one that's most convenient.
I used to hear that you could use them in self-driving mode to get you home if you'd had too much to drink, but not anymore.
Isn't appearing intelligent and interested in learning the truth and having it prevail often a good way to spend ones entire jury duty time in a pool of prospective jurors not getting picked?
like, RTS, for example. I suspect that THC is helpful for situations where one needs to focus in, but the opposite of helpful for situations where one needs to multitask. However, that which seems like multiple tasks to one mind may well be perceived as a single (multidimensional but easily subject to simultaneous apprehension) task to another. If people play video games for job interviews as was discussed this past January, ...
I have to agree. If "pressure" from the White House could make a difference, it would make a difference in more legislation than this, but it hasn't.
I think a lot, if not most, of driving citations result, not from people being unable to drive in a legal manner, but from people prioritizing other things over driving in a legal manner. Assuming that Google's algorithm prioritizes safety over legality if there's a conflict, their record does make a good example for the people arguing that conflicts involving risks to human life are unlikely to occur in an all driverless future, but what the rate of current traffic citations says about the human preference for having other priorities suggests that an all driverless future is, itself, an unlikely occurrence. Personally, I guess that most people who prefer driverless will be happier with trains.
Ask the owner of any bar about people wanting money for "public performance" of copyrighted entertainment.
I have to imagine that they capitulated in the short term and eliminated the dependance on one individual in the long run.
They could be trying to show to the public the NSA doing something the public will like. I imagine that showing documented evidence of who in China ordered the foot soldiers to do their job would involve revelation of capability that they don't want to reveal. Whereas, the current business shows a favorable result of spying on international connections to domestic businesses, demonstrating why the NSA wants the access they have to the domestic network.
My Dad was working for Comsat Etam when AT&T bought it, and worked there for another 9 1/2 years until he retired. He said that the bureaucracy that came in with AT&T was mind boggling. AT&T Broadband was fairly newly created before Comcast arrived. Did it manage to escape the traditional AT&T management structure, or did they just operate it better?
A little over 10 years ago, Comcast merged with AT&T Broadband, which was the USA's largest cable television operator at that time. Now it comes down to one AT&T operation versus another. If divestiture hadn't happened, they might still be a utility, which is probably why we had divestiture.
If HDCP is going to stop you from watching a video you rented on your TV, how is it not going to stop you from streaming that same video to your phone via DRM-free Firefox?
Or install a different OS on the phone or watch the video on a TV or run the video through analog & back before attempting to stream it, or ... But, unless one was surprised by a sneaky automatic update, one probably knew the score before considering to spend money on renting a video. One could pocket the money & visit slashdot instead.
I just don't know why they haven't put a diesel in the Volt.
Apparently it's because the diesel engines are more expensive, and they figure the hybrid drive train already make the car too expensive.
We used to have laws that kept Safeway from selling liquor, also. They were changed via ballot initiative.
Just out of curiosity, what would you think of net neutrality, except for instances where more than 250 Meg in one hour come from ip's registered to the same legal entity to ip's registered/assigned to the same other legal entity. (trying to think of a formal way to confine non-neutrality to bandwidth hogging video entertainment)
Perhaps a municipal broadband ballot initiative is in order.
Satellite? They'd probably make your local provider look like a bargain, though.
Someone told me (in 1986, I think) "It's amazing. You just write this documentation, and it runs!"
And I'll patent taking a photo in morning fog while sunlight is reflecting off the bottom of clouds.
Population-wise, most of the USA is in cities. Bring up the county-by-county election results in Google Politics and see how city folks consistently succeed in making decisions about your future.