Here, cars might as well be driverless as a staggering fraction of the drivers should never be licensed any ways
Don't you see? That's exactly why they're testing it in Nevada. If the autonomous pilot goes rogue and decides to randomly smash up things and mow down pedestrians, the only way you'd possibly know it from a typical human driver is the robot is sure to know how to activate the turn signals.
My economics professor drilled an idea into my head many years ago now: Where you stand depends on where you sit. If you're a shareholder in GOOG or whichever stock, would you not say the executives, as representatives of your ownership, have a moral duty to do as much as they legally can to lessen the company's liabilities (including taxes), therefore making the company more profitable, translating into greater stock value / dividends (doesn't apply to Google) etc?
When every multinational company out there, and a great many wealthy individuals, use tax sheltering loopholes, and employ lawyers to say it's kosher--and make no mistake, if they're big enough, they all do it; well, I'm not sure a moral implication can be made on anything other than the law itself.
If the boneyard Hueys bum you ought, you'd be seriously depressed at the number of perfectly good, airworthy choppers which were pushed off the deck right into the drink during the withdrawal from Vietnam. Hueys, Chinooks, the whole shebang.
Quite the contrary, as you know, physicists are big into experimentation. Vegas would love to have the physicists, except... Well, you know how people sometimes get a little crazy on the Las Vegas booze, hookers and drugs scene, and cause a ruckus; there was one year the Physical Society's meeting happened to overlap with the pharmacist's and psychiatrist's conventions...going on, oh about 50 years ago now.
Now, some people are bound to call me a liar, or say I have a runaway imagination, but buried in a vault somewhere under Washington, there's a classified briefing my grand-pappy told me about--he was a fed you see--and if you go down to the FBI office and ask someone, they're going to deny it and look at you like you're some kind of lunatic. And if you press 'em on it, they're going to call the cops and people with white coats. That's when you know you've got 'em in a lie, it's right in the secret FBI training manual under Chapter 11, Deny, Divert and Attack! You know, so you'd better not. Ask anyone that is.
Anyway, to make a short story long, many of the physicists, pharmacists, and psychiatrists shared the same hotel, and as is always the case in a large enough group of people, some of the pharmacists were into the...recreational side of their business, and the psychiatrists, well, you know how they always want to know what makes people tick.
As a prank, and to get the physicists to loosen up, the pharmacists slipped a bunch of amphetamines and the psychiatry researchers' LSD into the physicists' punch bowl. Nobody knows how they did it, but the hopped-up and wigged-out physicists spent the next five days straight in the conference room where they built at life size, fully functional replica of Big Boy, right there in Sands Hotel.
Now, this was also about the time the Roswell aliens escaped Area 51, the aliens kidnapped the atom bomb and held Las Vegas as ransom for their flying saucer and took Humphrey Bogart hostage...but I digress. That's a whole 'nother story, and if I told you I'd have to kill you. So, in a nutshell, that's why LSD research was banned, because when you mix physicists with amphetamines, LSD, and spiked punch, doomsday almost happens, and aliens fly off with Humphrey fucking Bogart. We just can't take the chance.
Z: "Sir, your presence insults the honor of this fine community, and so I challenge you to a round a fisticuffs.
Z: Challenge accepted? Oh good show! Now you must declare the time and place. Pugulism in the park? At sunset you say? Fine, fine. Now we'll have to get the village council to approve the challenge before three days time...
On a regular landline phone, I cannot tell the difference between my mother's voice (something with which I'm arguably well accustomed) and her sister's voice, except that they have different mannerisms.
Hell, when auntie moved back home and stayed at grandma's, I couldn't tell you the number of times she answered and I said "hi mom!", leaving me to feel like a stupid asshole. On a cellphone, it's all the more difficult, and they don't have really high-pitched female voices which POTS likes to filter out. They're easy to tell apart in real life, however.
The vocal cords don't change? The vocal cords tighten like mad under stress, no less under the effects of adrenaline and noradrenaline which come shortly thereafter. I'm well acquainted with how my body works in that kind of condition--I can barely speak without having to deliberately yell! My mouth and vocal cords dry out almost instantly when the adrenaline kicks in, shortness of breath from the hormones and neural response make it all the worse.
That's one reason they teach soldiers to be LOUD during the stresses of boot camp, people naturally clam up when the shit hits the fan, making it detrimental to yourself and everyone around you. There's a lot of variables to how a person's voice sounds, and I think that's putting it mildly.
Yes, but note that while he's saying go to bed early, he also admits to not getting home and to bed until 3AM and notes that he never sees the sun before noon.
Well, it only follows. It's said that Franklin was involved in setting some of the colony's very first paper mills...which milled hemp fiber. Jefferson and Washington grew hemp, Some might even get the impression that our founding fathers were libruuuls of some sort.
I disagree. The population densities and sprawling suburbs of the USA are more a creation of the rail system, vast amounts of previously un-titled wilderness, and the fact that a team of horses can only tow a coach so long before they need a break; there's a reason small, dying and ghost towns are spaced about six to ten miles apart from one another... hint hint.
Metro-areas basically grow together and make areas which were previously villages and small towns, and later cities, and city-counties into undistinguishable sprawling masses of development.
Most of this sprawling development was set into motion well before the petrol-powered automobile as we know it was a glimmer in its inventor's eyes.
I feel for instance, you can have the -exact- same makeup of the Cosmic Egg (or whatever you want to call the Big Bang) and have the Big Bang go off in identical ways, and yet have completely different results after billions of years. I don't believe reality is that ordered.
Here's the thing about the Adam Eve myth: according to the scripture itself; in both the new testament and the old Hebrew writings, God is an all knowing being, past, future present, his hand is in it all, right?
So, he up and creates the universe one day, gets bored and makes humanity's prototypes. Regardless of what he commands of them, he already knows they're going to fail, because he knows every possible variation in the endless series of contingencies he set into motion. In other words, they've already failed the instant they were created; unless God himself chose to be willfully ignorant of the foreseeable.
One could therefore argue that in fact, he would have created Adam and Eve with not only the potential to disobey, but they were designed with this in mind, and it was never a question of free will.
You really think that an organized military and police force can be stopped by citizens (including grandma) with their.38 S&W?
Back during WWII, the US OSS (Office of Strategic Services) had this really cool idea, which was held as classified until the end of the war: they were going to drop hundreds of thousands of these little, very cheaply made.45 caliber single shot pistols (with a handful of shells and an instruction manual), from airplanes into occupied France. The idea is, in part, that partisans would use them to stick up / kill German troops and borrow better weapons.
Problem is, by the time this idea was about to be implemented, the French Resistance already had accomplished this, using revolvers and other small arms which were hidden from confiscation, and they had worked up to stealing heavy machine guns, Panzerfausts and other types of heavy duty stuff. There were a number of drive-by style machine gun assassinations against German officers, and they were becoming such a thorn to the Germans, that French hostages (women and children of course) were rounded up and executed to dissuade the resistance--several times during the war.
Airdropping these pistols wouldn't accomplish much at that time they were completed, so they didn't fly. The point is this: you shouldn't underestimate the difference a simple, low power weapon can make, at the right place and time.
The 5mw+ IR lasers the military likes to use (we US citizens are limited to something like.07mw in the IR spectrum) almost always create a pretty distinct, easy to observe line straight from your rifle all the way to your target, due to humidity, dust, smoke bugs, etc.
You'd need an obscenely powerful laser during to even begin using this thing during the day, and unless you used something in the ultraviolet frequencies, it would be pretty easy for all but poorly equipped enemies to defeat at night--but only because they have no need for goggles with ultraviolet warnings--yet.
a) new AK and ammo (pisses off hippies and tree huggers) b) survival stuff (i.e. camping) c) killing techniques (i.e. hunting) d) anti-interrogation techniques (no, honey, this is the same AK-47 I've always had)
To me, all of that sounds more like a pretty good weekend than pretense for terrorism.
The public, however, would not be amused by an obstructionist president.
The fuck they wouldn't. A president who would dig his heels in on bullshit laws, and communicate in plain English to the public why he's doing it could very well be regarded as a hero/saint and embarrass the hell out of the congress trying to push BS laws through.
I think a lot of folk recognize by now that when congress is going forward, just about everyone else is going backwards. People may have had it with obstruction for the sake of obstructionism, but frankly that's widely practiced already--is it not? A president actually acting in his constituents' best interest, however? It'd be a breakthrough!
And to some people *any* firearm is an AK-47, and the thing that goes in it is a "clip". AFAIK, the condition you described has been called a "hang fire" in the English world ever since the days of flintlocks, and later percussion cap, when that happened with much more often.
A squib round (at least in US firearm jargon) is one that doesn't even have enough juice to leave the barrel. They only do damage if the operator elects to ignore the obvious warning signs, then chamber the next cartridge and fire. Colliding a bullet with the better part of a kJ into a nigh-immovable piece of lead, inside a pipe.... Not going to make for a good day.
Perhaps you mean an overcharge/double load? Yeah some hand loaders like to use faster powders, which reduces the amount of powder they need to load, usually to make loading a teensy bit cheaper. The consequence is: with some cartridges and powders you can get twice or more of the appropriate powder and things get harry. If you make a mistake in your loading process, you can make a very bad mistake. When the bullet engages the rifling, the pressure spikes and things tend to come apart, still through deflagration.
If you ignited the same cartridge in an unsupported state, it would still most probably push the bullet out, make a loud pop, and spray propellent all about. You can get smokeless powder to detonate, but usually only with a primary explosive, or much higher pressure than normal--e.g a real blasting cap.
Except smokeless powder isn't explosive. It's not even close, otherwise they wouldn't permit ammunition fly in the cargo hold under any circumstance. Yet guns and ammo fly all the time.
People with considerable firearms experience greatly overestimate the physical phenomena involved with these devices; so, it's not surprising that someone completely ignorant of the topic has grandiose visions of hand grenades going off when they imagine terrorists using cartridges to take over a jetliner--but that couldn't be much further from the case.
The worst it could do, even with something as large as a.50 BMG round is this: it'll pop the bullet out at some small velocity, make a loud noise and spray a bunch of unburnt powder all around.
Even if you brought something like a nail and a hammer onto the plane (in order to set off the round), both the hammer and the nail would be considerably more dangerous. I'd be more worried about zip guns to fire a cartridge, but even those are pretty useless in a terrorist scenario.
Good point, because that's not something I personally have to deal with too often; the average relative (diurnal) humidity in my area rarely exceeds 50...even near a lake!
Funny you mention it, I recently saw a plastic-baggie type product designed especially for this purpose: allows full submersion of electronics, and works with capacitive touch screens despite being made of a fairly thick plastic. LokSak
While I suppose the standard zip-loc would work for the purpose, but this looked much more confidence inspiring.
Unlike Best Buy, at any given trade show you're also guaranteed to run across hordes of Chinese men who pick up anything and everything resembling a brochure or catalog, so they can stuff it in the little cart they drag behind them (which is invariably filled with thousands of similar brochures totaling at least 50 lbs) so they can drag said cart over your toes, and otherwise trip you up as they try to simulate their daily, hurried commute through Shanghai right there on the trade show floor.
So, you know, if you get off watching Chinese guys do the 5000 page catalog-pickup, you can always bring along the steel toe boots and antisocial personality. Good times.
What we need is a way to verify their home address and identity with a credible amount of certainty. People are a lot less brave about things like this, when they believe someone might be able track them down and firebomb their house many years down the road.
Romney is a terrible Republican candidate...unless your goal in life as a Republican is to have Pres. Obama continue his term.
Your typical Massachusetts Republican is apparently somewhere left of a typical Democrat from Orange County CA, and as weapons-banning, entitlement granting, tax-raising, big government loving RINO, (who just happens to be a Mormon); how can it be a surprise that many of his own party can not take him seriously?
1) the gun lovers are going to distrust him, and rightfully so. He wants the support of the NRA and in the same breath says he'd sign a new gun ban. 2) the pro-lifers are going to hate him for being pro-choice. 3) conservatives in general are going to look at what taxes he supported, which were many 4) the Southern Christian Right isn't going to favor him for 2) and the bigots amongst them may well rail him on his sect of choice (if indeed they understood how different it was from their own)
Frankly, if Romney gets the nomination, a lot of (R)s will be wondering why they shouldn't just go (D)
The more important question is this: Why should one municipality/city/state have substantially different codes and code enforcement than any other in these areas? The local requirements simply do not vary that much.
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150 kilometers.
Low orbit particle cannon, you say?
Here, cars might as well be driverless as a staggering fraction of the drivers should never be licensed any ways
Don't you see? That's exactly why they're testing it in Nevada. If the autonomous pilot goes rogue and decides to randomly smash up things and mow down pedestrians, the only way you'd possibly know it from a typical human driver is the robot is sure to know how to activate the turn signals.
My economics professor drilled an idea into my head many years ago now: Where you stand depends on where you sit. If you're a shareholder in GOOG or whichever stock, would you not say the executives, as representatives of your ownership, have a moral duty to do as much as they legally can to lessen the company's liabilities (including taxes), therefore making the company more profitable, translating into greater stock value / dividends (doesn't apply to Google) etc?
When every multinational company out there, and a great many wealthy individuals, use tax sheltering loopholes, and employ lawyers to say it's kosher--and make no mistake, if they're big enough, they all do it; well, I'm not sure a moral implication can be made on anything other than the law itself.
If the boneyard Hueys bum you ought, you'd be seriously depressed at the number of perfectly good, airworthy choppers which were pushed off the deck right into the drink during the withdrawal from Vietnam. Hueys, Chinooks, the whole shebang.
Quite the contrary, as you know, physicists are big into experimentation. Vegas would love to have the physicists, except... Well, you know how people sometimes get a little crazy on the Las Vegas booze, hookers and drugs scene, and cause a ruckus; there was one year the Physical Society's meeting happened to overlap with the pharmacist's and psychiatrist's conventions...going on, oh about 50 years ago now.
Now, some people are bound to call me a liar, or say I have a runaway imagination, but buried in a vault somewhere under Washington, there's a classified briefing my grand-pappy told me about--he was a fed you see--and if you go down to the FBI office and ask someone, they're going to deny it and look at you like you're some kind of lunatic. And if you press 'em on it, they're going to call the cops and people with white coats. That's when you know you've got 'em in a lie, it's right in the secret FBI training manual under Chapter 11, Deny, Divert and Attack! You know, so you'd better not. Ask anyone that is.
Anyway, to make a short story long, many of the physicists, pharmacists, and psychiatrists shared the same hotel, and as is always the case in a large enough group of people, some of the pharmacists were into the...recreational side of their business, and the psychiatrists, well, you know how they always want to know what makes people tick.
As a prank, and to get the physicists to loosen up, the pharmacists slipped a bunch of amphetamines and the psychiatry researchers' LSD into the physicists' punch bowl. Nobody knows how they did it, but the hopped-up and wigged-out physicists spent the next five days straight in the conference room where they built at life size, fully functional replica of Big Boy, right there in Sands Hotel.
Now, this was also about the time the Roswell aliens escaped Area 51, the aliens kidnapped the atom bomb and held Las Vegas as ransom for their flying saucer and took Humphrey Bogart hostage...but I digress. That's a whole 'nother story, and if I told you I'd have to kill you. So, in a nutshell, that's why LSD research was banned, because when you mix physicists with amphetamines, LSD, and spiked punch, doomsday almost happens, and aliens fly off with Humphrey fucking Bogart. We just can't take the chance.
I can see it now:
Z: "Sir, your presence insults the honor of this fine community, and so I challenge you to a round a fisticuffs.
Z: Challenge accepted? Oh good show! Now you must declare the time and place. Pugulism in the park? At sunset you say? Fine, fine. Now we'll have to get the village council to approve the challenge before three days time...
On a regular landline phone, I cannot tell the difference between my mother's voice (something with which I'm arguably well accustomed) and her sister's voice, except that they have different mannerisms.
Hell, when auntie moved back home and stayed at grandma's, I couldn't tell you the number of times she answered and I said "hi mom!", leaving me to feel like a stupid asshole.
On a cellphone, it's all the more difficult, and they don't have really high-pitched female voices which POTS likes to filter out. They're easy to tell apart in real life, however.
The vocal cords don't change? The vocal cords tighten like mad under stress, no less under the effects of adrenaline and noradrenaline which come shortly thereafter. I'm well acquainted with how my body works in that kind of condition--I can barely speak without having to deliberately yell! My mouth and vocal cords dry out almost instantly when the adrenaline kicks in, shortness of breath from the hormones and neural response make it all the worse.
That's one reason they teach soldiers to be LOUD during the stresses of boot camp, people naturally clam up when the shit hits the fan, making it detrimental to yourself and everyone around you. There's a lot of variables to how a person's voice sounds, and I think that's putting it mildly.
Yes, but note that while he's saying go to bed early, he also admits to not getting home and to bed until 3AM and notes that he never sees the sun before noon.
Well, it only follows. It's said that Franklin was involved in setting some of the colony's very first paper mills...which milled hemp fiber. Jefferson and Washington grew hemp, Some might even get the impression that our founding fathers were libruuuls of some sort.
I disagree. The population densities and sprawling suburbs of the USA are more a creation of the rail system, vast amounts of previously un-titled wilderness, and the fact that a team of horses can only tow a coach so long before they need a break; there's a reason small, dying and ghost towns are spaced about six to ten miles apart from one another... hint hint.
Metro-areas basically grow together and make areas which were previously villages and small towns, and later cities, and city-counties into undistinguishable sprawling masses of development.
Most of this sprawling development was set into motion well before the petrol-powered automobile as we know it was a glimmer in its inventor's eyes.
I feel for instance, you can have the -exact- same makeup of the Cosmic Egg (or whatever you want to call the Big Bang) and have the Big Bang go off in identical ways, and yet have completely different results after billions of years. I don't believe reality is that ordered.
We all know the dopplegangerverse should be about ten feet off from the original.
Here's the thing about the Adam Eve myth: according to the scripture itself; in both the new testament and the old Hebrew writings, God is an all knowing being, past, future present, his hand is in it all, right?
So, he up and creates the universe one day, gets bored and makes humanity's prototypes. Regardless of what he commands of them, he already knows they're going to fail, because he knows every possible variation in the endless series of contingencies he set into motion. In other words, they've already failed the instant they were created; unless God himself chose to be willfully ignorant of the foreseeable.
One could therefore argue that in fact, he would have created Adam and Eve with not only the potential to disobey, but they were designed with this in mind, and it was never a question of free will.
Or, you know, the whole thing is bullshit anyway.
You really think that an organized military and police force can be stopped by citizens (including grandma) with their .38 S&W?
Back during WWII, the US OSS (Office of Strategic Services) had this really cool idea, which was held as classified until the end of the war: they were going to drop hundreds of thousands of these little, very cheaply made .45 caliber single shot pistols (with a handful of shells and an instruction manual), from airplanes into occupied France. The idea is, in part, that partisans would use them to stick up / kill German troops and borrow better weapons.
Problem is, by the time this idea was about to be implemented, the French Resistance already had accomplished this, using revolvers and other small arms which were hidden from confiscation, and they had worked up to stealing heavy machine guns, Panzerfausts and other types of heavy duty stuff. There were a number of drive-by style machine gun assassinations against German officers, and they were becoming such a thorn to the Germans, that French hostages (women and children of course) were rounded up and executed to dissuade the resistance--several times during the war.
Airdropping these pistols wouldn't accomplish much at that time they were completed, so they didn't fly. The point is this: you shouldn't underestimate the difference a simple, low power weapon can make, at the right place and time.
Here we have Republicans supporting consumers over business and small business over big business, which is the exact opposite of what you said.
It's a Strategic withdrawal. A feigned retreat. Losing the battle but winning the war is just fine by them.
The 5mw+ IR lasers the military likes to use (we US citizens are limited to something like .07mw in the IR spectrum) almost always create a pretty distinct, easy to observe line straight from your rifle all the way to your target, due to humidity, dust, smoke bugs, etc.
You can see an example in this youtube video, unfortunately, he also had his illuminator on, so most of the laser is blown out, but you can get the idea.
You'd need an obscenely powerful laser during to even begin using this thing during the day, and unless you used something in the ultraviolet frequencies, it would be pretty easy for all but poorly equipped enemies to defeat at night--but only because they have no need for goggles with ultraviolet warnings--yet.
a) new AK and ammo (pisses off hippies and tree huggers)
b) survival stuff (i.e. camping)
c) killing techniques (i.e. hunting)
d) anti-interrogation techniques (no, honey, this is the same AK-47 I've always had)
To me, all of that sounds more like a pretty good weekend than pretense for terrorism.
The public, however, would not be amused by an obstructionist president.
The fuck they wouldn't. A president who would dig his heels in on bullshit laws, and communicate in plain English to the public why he's doing it could very well be regarded as a hero/saint and embarrass the hell out of the congress trying to push BS laws through.
I think a lot of folk recognize by now that when congress is going forward, just about everyone else is going backwards. People may have had it with obstruction for the sake of obstructionism, but frankly that's widely practiced already--is it not? A president actually acting in his constituents' best interest, however? It'd be a breakthrough!
And to some people *any* firearm is an AK-47, and the thing that goes in it is a "clip". AFAIK, the condition you described has been called a "hang fire" in the English world ever since the days of flintlocks, and later percussion cap, when that happened with much more often.
A squib round (at least in US firearm jargon) is one that doesn't even have enough juice to leave the barrel. They only do damage if the operator elects to ignore the obvious warning signs, then chamber the next cartridge and fire. Colliding a bullet with the better part of a kJ into a nigh-immovable piece of lead, inside a pipe.... Not going to make for a good day.
Perhaps you mean an overcharge/double load? Yeah some hand loaders like to use faster powders, which reduces the amount of powder they need to load, usually to make loading a teensy bit cheaper. The consequence is: with some cartridges and powders you can get twice or more of the appropriate powder and things get harry. If you make a mistake in your loading process, you can make a very bad mistake. When the bullet engages the rifling, the pressure spikes and things tend to come apart, still through deflagration.
If you ignited the same cartridge in an unsupported state, it would still most probably push the bullet out, make a loud pop, and spray propellent all about. You can get smokeless powder to detonate, but usually only with a primary explosive, or much higher pressure than normal--e.g a real blasting cap.
Except smokeless powder isn't explosive. It's not even close, otherwise they wouldn't permit ammunition fly in the cargo hold under any circumstance. Yet guns and ammo fly all the time.
People with considerable firearms experience greatly overestimate the physical phenomena involved with these devices; so, it's not surprising that someone completely ignorant of the topic has grandiose visions of hand grenades going off when they imagine terrorists using cartridges to take over a jetliner--but that couldn't be much further from the case.
The worst it could do, even with something as large as a .50 BMG round is this: it'll pop the bullet out at some small velocity, make a loud noise and spray a bunch of unburnt powder all around.
Even if you brought something like a nail and a hammer onto the plane (in order to set off the round), both the hammer and the nail would be considerably more dangerous. I'd be more worried about zip guns to fire a cartridge, but even those are pretty useless in a terrorist scenario.
Good point, because that's not something I personally have to deal with too often; the average relative (diurnal) humidity in my area rarely exceeds 50...even near a lake!
Funny you mention it, I recently saw a plastic-baggie type product designed especially for this purpose: allows full submersion of electronics, and works with capacitive touch screens despite being made of a fairly thick plastic. LokSak
While I suppose the standard zip-loc would work for the purpose, but this looked much more confidence inspiring.
Unlike Best Buy, at any given trade show you're also guaranteed to run across hordes of Chinese men who pick up anything and everything resembling a brochure or catalog, so they can stuff it in the little cart they drag behind them (which is invariably filled with thousands of similar brochures totaling at least 50 lbs) so they can drag said cart over your toes, and otherwise trip you up as they try to simulate their daily, hurried commute through Shanghai right there on the trade show floor.
So, you know, if you get off watching Chinese guys do the 5000 page catalog-pickup, you can always bring along the steel toe boots and antisocial personality. Good times.
What we need is a way to verify their home address and identity with a credible amount of certainty. People are a lot less brave about things like this, when they believe someone might be able track them down and firebomb their house many years down the road.
Romney is a terrible Republican candidate...unless your goal in life as a Republican is to have Pres. Obama continue his term.
Your typical Massachusetts Republican is apparently somewhere left of a typical Democrat from Orange County CA, and as weapons-banning, entitlement granting, tax-raising, big government loving RINO, (who just happens to be a Mormon); how can it be a surprise that many of his own party can not take him seriously?
1) the gun lovers are going to distrust him, and rightfully so. He wants the support of the NRA and in the same breath says he'd sign a new gun ban.
2) the pro-lifers are going to hate him for being pro-choice.
3) conservatives in general are going to look at what taxes he supported, which were many
4) the Southern Christian Right isn't going to favor him for 2) and the bigots amongst them may well rail him on his sect of choice (if indeed they understood how different it was from their own)
Frankly, if Romney gets the nomination, a lot of (R)s will be wondering why they shouldn't just go (D)
The more important question is this: Why should one municipality/city/state have substantially different codes and code enforcement than any other in these areas? The local requirements simply do not vary that much.