The utility has one final method of keeping its grid power connected and been paid for. Government. A house is not considered ready for humans until its grid connected.
Precisely this. There are places in the US where your house will be condemned and you will be arrested for trespassing if you don't attach it to the electrical grid.
If I was impacted by such laws, my response would likely be to purchase more solar panels to make the utility pay me for overproduction.
When I went to court, the officer who cited me didn't even show up and nether did anyone from the towing company. The judge just called my name and when I stepped up, he issued his ruling.
I'll say it here since they can't have this scrubbed like they did my negative Yelp review.
McGann and Chester is the company that towed and impounded my car. The company, McGann and Chester, is a bunch of scam artists. McGann and Chester colludes with the Pittsburgh Police Department to extort money from innocent motorists. I'll never call McGann and Chester for roadside assistance. If AAA sends McGann and Chester, I'll demand a different company. No one should ever call McGann and Chester for any reason, ever.
Lawyers say to not bother fighting tickets, and if you (or at least I) show up with evidence, it will be cursory looked at and ignored.
I have experienced this. I was towed for allegedly parking too close to a fire hydrant. I showed up in court with photographs of the area to show how I couldn't possibly have done what they accused me of doing but the judge just didn't care. He reduced my fine by $20 and sent me on my way. He stated the charge, asked me if I was pleading not guilty and without hearing any evidence started to declare his ruling. I interrupted him by saying that I had photographs of the area and an explanation as to how it wasn't possible. He looked at my pictures for approximately 4 seconds before continuing with the finding as if I hadn't even been there.
The only way it could have possibly been more obvious that it was only about money would have been if the judge had said so explicitly.
This is no different than a certain car maker's vehicles knowing when they were being tested and responding accordingly or how a certain graphics card manufacturer built drivers that would know when they were being benchmarked and adjust the behavior of the card.
Free speech does not extend the the encouragement, endorsement, or threat of acts of violence.
Sure it does. For example, if someone were giving a speech to a political rally and said "I think that all of the #minority# should be rounded up and shot." that would be protected free speech.
If the same person at the same rally were to say "Hey, see that guy over there! He's a #minority# go grab him and shoot him in the head!", that would not be protected free speech. That would be an act of criminal solicitation or perhaps even inducement.
That's the purpose of the pension. It was intended to be golden handcuffs, to keep experienced and knowledgeable employees with you. I have a co-worker who has been here for 40 years and this guy knows where all of the bodies are buried.
Unfortunately, it also means that there are employees who will do just enough to keep from getting fired until they can cash in.
I would suspect that it has something to do with the fact that there are numbers that are accurately expressed as fractions that can only be approximated as decimals.
1/3 is an example of what I mean by that.
I also happen to think that for some calculations, it's easier to get a mental picture of a fraction than a decimal number. 70% is more intuitive to me than 7/10.
When fractions make sense to me, I use fractions. When decimals make sense to me, I use decimals.
Amazon might have pursued this patent to keep Best Buy and Staples from using the tech.
Amazon is where people go to compare prices. I have stood in a Best Buy or Barnes and Noble and checked the cost of something on Amazon. If the difference is great enough, I'll buy from Amazon instead.
Big retailers know that a lot of people do this or just go showrooming to physically see a product that they have always intended to buy online from Amazon.
They think there's David-and-Goliath battle between the plucky e-cig industry and the nasty old tobacco industry that wants to shut them down because their "safer option" is a threat.
That battle is between e-cigarette makers and state taxing authorities. States make so much money from tobacco taxes that they'll have budget shortfalls if people stop buying tobacco.
Tobacco makes their money either way, they grow the tobacco that's used to extract the nicotine for e-liquid.
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I only entered this story to comment about The Happening.
LK
Ground facing cameras and points of reference would be enough to get a drone to follow a simple route and deliver its package.
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Drone flights can be automated so that once released, they fly the predetermined route and drop the payload.
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Seat Belt? That's for First Class only.
I'm thinking a length of twine.
The utility has one final method of keeping its grid power connected and been paid for.
Government.
A house is not considered ready for humans until its grid connected.
Precisely this. There are places in the US where your house will be condemned and you will be arrested for trespassing if you don't attach it to the electrical grid.
If I was impacted by such laws, my response would likely be to purchase more solar panels to make the utility pay me for overproduction.
LK
Perhaps not but if the malware caused a delay in taking the photograph, the car that's captured might not be the one that exceeded the speed limit.
Have they done their due diligence to show that this isn't happening?
LK
When I went to court, the officer who cited me didn't even show up and nether did anyone from the towing company. The judge just called my name and when I stepped up, he issued his ruling.
I'll say it here since they can't have this scrubbed like they did my negative Yelp review.
McGann and Chester is the company that towed and impounded my car.
The company, McGann and Chester, is a bunch of scam artists.
McGann and Chester colludes with the Pittsburgh Police Department to extort money from innocent motorists.
I'll never call McGann and Chester for roadside assistance.
If AAA sends McGann and Chester, I'll demand a different company.
No one should ever call McGann and Chester for any reason, ever.
LK
Lawyers say to not bother fighting tickets, and if you (or at least I) show up with evidence, it will be cursory looked at and ignored.
I have experienced this. I was towed for allegedly parking too close to a fire hydrant. I showed up in court with photographs of the area to show how I couldn't possibly have done what they accused me of doing but the judge just didn't care. He reduced my fine by $20 and sent me on my way. He stated the charge, asked me if I was pleading not guilty and without hearing any evidence started to declare his ruling. I interrupted him by saying that I had photographs of the area and an explanation as to how it wasn't possible. He looked at my pictures for approximately 4 seconds before continuing with the finding as if I hadn't even been there.
The only way it could have possibly been more obvious that it was only about money would have been if the judge had said so explicitly.
LK
The malware could have an effect on the internal clock.
LK
I only came here to see if anyone else made this observation.
Kudos.
LK
This is no different than a certain car maker's vehicles knowing when they were being tested and responding accordingly or how a certain graphics card manufacturer built drivers that would know when they were being benchmarked and adjust the behavior of the card.
LK
Free speech does not extend the the encouragement, endorsement, or threat of acts of violence.
Sure it does. For example, if someone were giving a speech to a political rally and said "I think that all of the #minority# should be rounded up and shot." that would be protected free speech.
If the same person at the same rally were to say "Hey, see that guy over there! He's a #minority# go grab him and shoot him in the head!", that would not be protected free speech. That would be an act of criminal solicitation or perhaps even inducement.
LK
They might sound the same but remember,
Horse manure != Whore's manure
"Hate Speech" doesn't exist.
It's all Free Speech.
That's the purpose of the pension. It was intended to be golden handcuffs, to keep experienced and knowledgeable employees with you. I have a co-worker who has been here for 40 years and this guy knows where all of the bodies are buried.
Unfortunately, it also means that there are employees who will do just enough to keep from getting fired until they can cash in.
LK
I would like this rule extended to the entire government, as we are sitting on a liability time bomb
I would like this rule extended to private corporations.
This is why private (and public) corporations have been phasing out pensions and going to 401k.
LK
I think that most of that is about pension liability.
If postal workers had regular a retirement account, like a 401k, the postal service wouldn't be in the red.
LK
I would suspect that it has something to do with the fact that there are numbers that are accurately expressed as fractions that can only be approximated as decimals.
1/3 is an example of what I mean by that.
I also happen to think that for some calculations, it's easier to get a mental picture of a fraction than a decimal number. 70% is more intuitive to me than 7/10.
When fractions make sense to me, I use fractions. When decimals make sense to me, I use decimals.
LK
Amazon might have pursued this patent to keep Best Buy and Staples from using the tech.
Amazon is where people go to compare prices. I have stood in a Best Buy or Barnes and Noble and checked the cost of something on Amazon. If the difference is great enough, I'll buy from Amazon instead.
Big retailers know that a lot of people do this or just go showrooming to physically see a product that they have always intended to buy online from Amazon.
LK
It has always been done for the acquisition of money or power. This just makes it more accessible.
Instead of it being the exclusive domain of 7-8 large, international companies or nation-states, the game is open to 6 figure level players.
LK
This has been going on for a very long time. I first became aware of it back in the 1990s.
I only noticed because I was not in the "mainstream" of political thought and I noticed how news coverage was shaping public perception.
I can respect that these people are wrestling this power from the hands of media conglomerates and making it a commercial service.
LK
I think you responded to the wrong comment.
That is certainly news to me.
What is the source? As I understand it, lab synthesized nicotine is still much more expensive than tobacco sourced nicotine.
LK
And asparagus.
Burning ANY organic matter will produce aromatic hydrocarbons.
LK
They think there's David-and-Goliath battle between the plucky e-cig industry and the nasty old tobacco industry that wants to shut them down because their "safer option" is a threat.
That battle is between e-cigarette makers and state taxing authorities. States make so much money from tobacco taxes that they'll have budget shortfalls if people stop buying tobacco.
Tobacco makes their money either way, they grow the tobacco that's used to extract the nicotine for e-liquid.
LK