Anti-Lock brakes, Electronic Stability Control and automatic headlights are all existing examples of taking control away from the driver.
I don't always want ABS or automatic headlights. I would much rather control those things myself. An ABS is only as good as the data that's been programmed into it. It can't possibly forsee every situation. Have you ever had ABS engage while travelling downhill? I have, and it's not good.
If that many people are really driving drunk, good.
If that many people are really driving drunk, then the issue is overblown. If millions of people drive drunk and less than 80 per day are involved in accidents, then apparently we should be going after other things.
For example, the right to privacy? Parents can snoop on and barge in on their kids as long as they want very legally.
It's not because they have no right to privacy, it's because a property owner can search his or her property without anyone else's permission. "Your" room is in "your parents'" house.
There's a huge legal battle over whether teen girls have the right to obtain abortions without parental consent or parental notification.
He should be after the retail stores since they are the ones responsible for selling 'M' and 'AO' games to children.
JT is an asshat regardless. It's because of jerks like him that I have to show my driver's licence to buy certain games at video game stores. I'm 31 and I look like I'm 31 and sometimes the clerk at Game Stop wants to see my ID. It's a fucking video game, not a case of beer.
I can just imagine all the crazy projects various government agencies and third party companies have going on that result in UFO sightings.
For just about anything in the past 45 or so years, it very well could be a secret aircraft being tested. There have been reports of flying objects for as long as people have been able to write or draw.
In medieval Japan, someone saw a "Flying Earthenware Vessel" in the sky. In the Bible, Ezekiel's wheel sounds an awful lot like modern UFOs.
LK
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Have you ever gone fishing?
Do you think that the fish that we catch and then release can prove to the other fish what happened?
Have you ever watched a documentary about prison life? In a place were you can die for being uncivil, people are surprisingly civil. The rules of etiquette are radically different there, but the point is that the threat of violence makes people obey them.
Bullies pick on the targets that they percieve to be the weakest, and if you let it be known that you are not weak, jerks will leave you alone.
How many people who don't like these kinds of broad-band searches think that targeting/profiling is more acceptable?
I don't like either. But it does raise an interesting dilemma. If the authorities are not supposed to do some basic searches into everyone's background, what are they supposed to do when the public cries out for security? Are they supposed to place brown skinned people under extra scrutiny? What happens when the threat lies with fair skinned people? Do the people who support racial profiling only support it because they know that it's not them that will be profiled?
Wait until 30 years from now when the US is a much browner country. When white people are the minority, let's see how they feel about racial profiling.
I'm from Pittsburgh. I have heard secondhand stories about Kecksburg from my grandfather. He was a steelworker and some of his coworkers lived in Kecksburg.
SOMETHING definately crashlanded there, but I suspect that it may have been Soviet.
I agree with the final decision; crashing a plane in this method is indeed accidental and stupid, but also commonplace, generally involving people not named John F. Kennedy Jr.
How many of those other people were attempting to make an instrument landing at night, during foggy conditions while not certified to do so?
Some jackass flying an airplane in conditions that he had not been certified for and kills himself, his wife and his sister-in-law and they call it a "lapse of judgement" not worthy of a Darwin award.
And me as well. What I saw was in the early 1980s, so I'll concede that it could have been some type of black project. But it damn sure wasn't swamp gas, weather balloons or venus.
I *do* resent how they enforce ridicule on people over the subject though, it can hurt people quite a bit.
People have been seeing things in the sky for far too long for them to not be real.
NASA is finally winning over the last few people who believe that the original moon landings were faked and now as they prepare to go back they put out a call for tons of fake lunar soil. I'd suspect that they do some of these things to intentionally draw the charges.
Have you heard anything about what Dodge will be adding to the SRT lineup in the next few years? Which engine do you think they are going with. Do you think they will combine forces with the off shore group that supplies the racing engines?
Have you seen the new 5th Gen Camaros? Those babies look SWEET. 400 HP of independant rear suspension American made goodness!
Do you have any scuttlebutt on the Dish networks recent changes to satellites for the spot beams that deliver the local stations? On that, do you think they will keep Charleston WV in the Pittsburgh market or move them back to where they were before. They recently freed up some room on Echostar East(19), I wonder why.
I think you mean 119, not 19.
They started switching local channels over to spotbeams 4+ years ago. Charlestown locals are not available in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh market has CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC and CW affiliates plus an indy or two in the local area so there was never a need to bring in out of market channels. Or, are you saying that people in Charlestown can receive Pittsburgh locals?
A big problem is for people who want to get their local stations from an RV. If they're spotbeaming your local channels, let's stick with Pittsburgh for this example, and you drive to Orlando, you can't receive the signal. It obviously doesn't matter if your receiver is authorized for them.
Another group of people that are at the edge of a spotbeam. For a while Echostar was giving these people bigger dishes to pick up the weaker signal at the fringes.
Lastly, there are the people who lied about their physical so that they could skirt SHVIA regulations about local channels.
We won't even get into the nightmares caused by moving some locals to 61.5 and 145 locations.
Yeah, I went there. RESPECT MY GANGSTA...I MEAN GEEKSTA!
There's a huge difference between a credit card and a debit card. A debit card transaction affects the balance of your bank (or paypal) account. If there's a fraudulent charge, that money is gone while it's investigated. Eventually you'll get it back, but what if the fraud causes your rent or mortgage check to bounce?
This happened to me once, it unleashed a cascade of bounced check fees. I got it all straightened out eventually, but I would much rather had taken 5 minutes to get a one time card number instead of the several hours it took to fix the mess that was made of my accounts.
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Anti-Lock brakes, Electronic Stability Control and automatic headlights are all existing examples of taking control away from the driver.
I don't always want ABS or automatic headlights. I would much rather control those things myself. An ABS is only as good as the data that's been programmed into it. It can't possibly forsee every situation. Have you ever had ABS engage while travelling downhill? I have, and it's not good.
LK
If that many people are really driving drunk, good.
If that many people are really driving drunk, then the issue is overblown. If millions of people drive drunk and less than 80 per day are involved in accidents, then apparently we should be going after other things.
LK
For example, the right to privacy? Parents can snoop on and barge in on their kids as long as they want very legally.
It's not because they have no right to privacy, it's because a property owner can search his or her property without anyone else's permission. "Your" room is in "your parents'" house.
There's a huge legal battle over whether teen girls have the right to obtain abortions without parental consent or parental notification.
LK
He should be after the retail stores since they are the ones responsible for selling 'M' and 'AO' games to children.
JT is an asshat regardless. It's because of jerks like him that I have to show my driver's licence to buy certain games at video game stores. I'm 31 and I look like I'm 31 and sometimes the clerk at Game Stop wants to see my ID. It's a fucking video game, not a case of beer.
LK
I can just imagine all the crazy projects various government agencies and third party companies have going on that result in UFO sightings.
For just about anything in the past 45 or so years, it very well could be a secret aircraft being tested. There have been reports of flying objects for as long as people have been able to write or draw.
In medieval Japan, someone saw a "Flying Earthenware Vessel" in the sky. In the Bible, Ezekiel's wheel sounds an awful lot like modern UFOs.
LK
Have you ever gone fishing?
Do you think that the fish that we catch and then release can prove to the other fish what happened?
LK
The threat of violence makes for polite people.
Have you ever watched a documentary about prison life? In a place were you can die for being uncivil, people are surprisingly civil. The rules of etiquette are radically different there, but the point is that the threat of violence makes people obey them.
Bullies pick on the targets that they percieve to be the weakest, and if you let it be known that you are not weak, jerks will leave you alone.
LK
Someone is making sweet love to the bandwidth. I'm downloading at less than 6KBps.
How many people who don't like these kinds of broad-band searches think that targeting/profiling is more acceptable?
I don't like either. But it does raise an interesting dilemma. If the authorities are not supposed to do some basic searches into everyone's background, what are they supposed to do when the public cries out for security? Are they supposed to place brown skinned people under extra scrutiny? What happens when the threat lies with fair skinned people? Do the people who support racial profiling only support it because they know that it's not them that will be profiled?
Wait until 30 years from now when the US is a much browner country. When white people are the minority, let's see how they feel about racial profiling.
LK
Lee Harvey Oswald did it ;)
Yeah, but now we'll find out who made his Magic Bullet!
LK
I'm from Pittsburgh. I have heard secondhand stories about Kecksburg from my grandfather. He was a steelworker and some of his coworkers lived in Kecksburg.
SOMETHING definately crashlanded there, but I suspect that it may have been Soviet.
Either way, I'd like to find out for sure.
LK
Nobody would have heard or cared much about it, except locally, if he'd been Jim Smith.
Jim Smith didn't rate an opening spot on the nightly news.
LK
I agree with the final decision; crashing a plane in this method is indeed accidental and stupid, but also commonplace, generally involving people not named John F. Kennedy Jr.
How many of those other people were attempting to make an instrument landing at night, during foggy conditions while not certified to do so?
He wasn't included because of who his family is.
LK
I lost all respect for the Darwin Awards when they refused to give one to JFK Jr.
Some jackass flying an airplane in conditions that he had not been certified for and kills himself, his wife and his sister-in-law and they call it a "lapse of judgement" not worthy of a Darwin award.
LK
So I'll take my Egg McMuffin with the Florescent Green Canadian Bacon. Hmmm. I think not.
Try it. Try it. Sam I am.
LK
Count me in that group.
And me as well. What I saw was in the early 1980s, so I'll concede that it could have been some type of black project. But it damn sure wasn't swamp gas, weather balloons or venus.
I *do* resent how they enforce ridicule on people over the subject though, it can hurt people quite a bit.
People have been seeing things in the sky for far too long for them to not be real.
LK
NASA is finally winning over the last few people who believe that the original moon landings were faked and now as they prepare to go back they put out a call for tons of fake lunar soil. I'd suspect that they do some of these things to intentionally draw the charges.
LK
Have you heard anything about what Dodge will be adding to the SRT lineup in the next few years? Which engine do you think they are going with. Do you think they will combine forces with the off shore group that supplies the racing engines?
Have you seen the new 5th Gen Camaros? Those babies look SWEET. 400 HP of independant rear suspension American made goodness!
Do you have any scuttlebutt on the Dish networks recent changes to satellites for the spot beams that deliver the local stations? On that, do you think they will keep Charleston WV in the Pittsburgh market or move them back to where they were before. They recently freed up some room on Echostar East(19), I wonder why.
I think you mean 119, not 19.
They started switching local channels over to spotbeams 4+ years ago. Charlestown locals are not available in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh market has CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC and CW affiliates plus an indy or two in the local area so there was never a need to bring in out of market channels. Or, are you saying that people in Charlestown can receive Pittsburgh locals?
A big problem is for people who want to get their local stations from an RV. If they're spotbeaming your local channels, let's stick with Pittsburgh for this example, and you drive to Orlando, you can't receive the signal. It obviously doesn't matter if your receiver is authorized for them.
Another group of people that are at the edge of a spotbeam. For a while Echostar was giving these people bigger dishes to pick up the weaker signal at the fringes.
Lastly, there are the people who lied about their physical so that they could skirt SHVIA regulations about local channels.
We won't even get into the nightmares caused by moving some locals to 61.5 and 145 locations.
Yeah, I went there. RESPECT MY GANGSTA...I MEAN GEEKSTA!
LK
Or you can pay $5,000 to exempt your calls from the iTunes directory.
LK
Apple will remain a top subject of internet speculation.
LK
PS: Anybody know a good inexpensive source for lubricated latex sleeves?
Sounds like you need a fleshlight.
LK
What does this say about the American public?
It says that the people don't trust out government to tell us the truth.
It says that millions of Americans have witnessed arial phenomena that they simply don't believe were swamp gas, weather balloons or the planet venus.
Think for a moment of some of the real matters in the country that might merit investigation.
How dare people find different things important than you, right?
LK
Yes. Why do you flatter yourself to think he would fuck you for free?
Being that I'm a guy, that question is N/A.
LK
Those porn actors should not complain about loss of sales, they get busy each and every day for hours! Who are they to complain! :-D
Would you want to fuck Ron Jeremy for free?
LK
There's a huge difference between a credit card and a debit card. A debit card transaction affects the balance of your bank (or paypal) account. If there's a fraudulent charge, that money is gone while it's investigated. Eventually you'll get it back, but what if the fraud causes your rent or mortgage check to bounce?
This happened to me once, it unleashed a cascade of bounced check fees. I got it all straightened out eventually, but I would much rather had taken 5 minutes to get a one time card number instead of the several hours it took to fix the mess that was made of my accounts.
LK