if you ever go to court, you'll find that all police claim to be "trained in visual speed observation", and will back up the radar evidence with their professional judgement of how fast you were going. And the judge will accept their estimate because they have the training to show that they can make accurate estimates.
At least Pennsylvania and Nebraska courts require more than just a visual speed estimate. A quick search hasn't turned up a comprehensive list.
Clear cut case of speeding and the guy even collected his own evidence.
Not sure about the breakdown for most states, but in several states, timing a vehicle from point A to point B is NOT legally admissible evidence. This necessitates a number of workaround, like speed enforcement aircraft needing to establish their relative ground-speed, and then using that as a basis to ticket cars going faster than they are, rather than just directly measuring the ground-speed of cars between two landmarks.
If that was allowed, every truck driver on the planet would be arrested, as they are required to keep log-books which can be used to demonstrate speeding and working more than the maximum allowable daily hours.
Safety comes by going with the flow of traffic, and this driver must have been blowing past the majority of other cars during most of his trip. It's amazing that he made it there in one piece.
You'd feel differently if you'd ever driven through the South Western US at 2AM.
Of course that's not remotely the only locale with so little traffic that you can break the needle off your speedometer safely. Montana didn't have speed-limits on its roads for decades until the Fed stepped in, and still don't put much effort into enforcing them. Plenty of places throughout the midwest are NOT used as major thoroughfares and have almost no cars on them after 10pm.
To be fair, Republicans fully support small-business owners
Even with your list of exceptions... still no.
Republicans give lip service to supporting small business owners, because the fascist things they want to do to funnel money to big businesses, can be disguised as possibly helping a few small businesses slightly, while big businesses get billions out of it. It's just a cover, and they have no intention of helping them out, at all.
inittab is an integral part of SysV, AFAIK. I hope they'll both continue to exist.
$ cat/etc/inittab # inittab is only used by upstart for the default runlevel. # ADDING OTHER CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM. id:5:initdefault: $ cat/etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.4 (Final) $
As a matter of fact, Windows is more unstable and requires many more reboots than Linux. I don't think Debian should strive to resemble Windows NT more closely.
I didn't suggesting copying Windows NT wholesale, I'm merely pointing out that SysV was obsolete at least two DECADES ago. And this inferior system you're so quick to dismiss, has some extremely useful features, completely lacking in Linux, BSD, and it's all the fault of SysV.
I recall MySQL having a wrapper that used to take care of this
Did they name it "daemontools"?
There is a "respawn" option, which one can use in inittab.
You would never use inittab to start services, and inittab doesn't even exist anymore.
For other critical services, one can choose among wrappers, cron jobs, monitoring via syslog or SNMP, inter-process communication, and more. Do you argue we should stop using such techniques and go for a one-size-fits-all, infallible system?
Writing a second cron-job to respawn your service is a laborious mess, with unnecessary overhead. SNMP or other monitoring is what we've been reduced to, but who the hell wants to pay for around-the-clock employees, or get paged in the middle of the night, just because a few services might need to be restarted? And let's not forget, CROND CRASHES, TOO. What's monitoring cron and keeping it running?
Do you argue we should stop using such techniques and go for a one-size-fits-all, infallible system?
Yes, we should stop using such *hacks*, and get an init replacement that will start services properly, and keep them running. It's not a complex concept. Windows NT has been doing that since inception, and Linux is seriously missing out. It won't eliminate the utility of SNMP, cron, etc., but they will see less abuse.
If you'd like to start hacking on init... more power to you. Get it to monitor and respawn services in a sane way, and yours can be a competitor right up there with upstart and systemd.
things can get tight when it comes to distributing power to individual neighborhoods
But now you're just backpedaling as quickly as you can... Until now, you weren't talking about distribution. You specifically said "electrical car power demand would drive a need for more power plants." You were wrong and trying desperately not to admit it, while you spin and try to discredit the PART of your own source that doesn't support your point, and emphasize the PART that shows SOMETHING, ANYTHING bad or challenging about EVs.
I don't know why you're so desperate to try and discredit EVs, and I don't care.
"Plugging in an electric vehicle is, in some cases, the equivalent of adding three houses to the grid. That has utilities in CaliforniaÃ"where the largest number of electric vehicles are soldÃ"scrambling to upgrade the grid to avoid power outages."
That's a decent source, you're just quoting it out of context. It actually completely disagrees with almost everything you've been claiming... To wit:
"researchers at the U.S. Department of Energyâ(TM)s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have calculated that the grid has enough excess capacity to support over 150 million battery-powered cars, or about 75 percent of the cars, pickups, and SUVs on the road in the United States."
You argue that EVs will be charged after 8pm; and then point to solar power installations as a development to meet such an increased demand...
Solar power installations are happening in CA, but it has NOTHING specifically to do with EVs. That's your own imagination, and/or reading comprehension failure. And YOUR OWN SOURCE SAYS SO.
No overlap at all between the times people are at home using AC and charging the electrical car.
Nope... EV chargers have built-in timer, and instructions direct owners to set it for 8pm or so. If a good number of people don't voluntarily do so, then power companies will just have to expand peak/off-peak billing. Should be easy enough to make the change with all the "smart" meters they're installing, everywhere.
Yes, electrical car power demand would drive a need for more power plants - where are those in the pipeline? Where is that infrastructure being built to handle the future demand?
Electrical demand is currently FALLING. More-efficient appliances, cheaper prices on new, efficient devices thanks to China, automation, etc. And new technology like improved CFLs, and now LEDs that use half as much power still for lighting.
Never-the-less, more power plants are being built all over the country, all the time. Wind turbines are being installed at break-neck speed all over the place. And California at least is expanding their solar power installations (PV and thermal) as fast as they reasonably can.
EVs will NOT be a sudden spike in demand, anyhow. They will be a small, gradual increase in demand on the grid, that will not need to be addressed for years, and will be handled in the same manner as increasing demand for any other reasons.
You said it's minimal - provide a ballpark number to demonstrate how minimal it ought to be.
Fixing the services which crash would seem to be a better option than busting SysV.
ALL services crash, eventually, on long-running servers. Name the most stable service you can think of, and I guarantee many people have seen it crash.
Besides that, fixing a service isn't always an option. It might be closed-source, or the bug can be intermittent and hugely complex to find and fix.
Re-spawning crashed services is of critical importance on servers, and SysV is so poorly designed that it can't be made to do it.
Why the hell do we have a news story about website design? The GOP are making a big political issue out of it, but I don't see that being much of a problem to anybody. Plenty of people have signed-up, and those that haven't probably weren't stopped by site problems, but just chose not to.
What will make or break Obamacare is the PRICE of the insurance plans, and nothing says Kentucky's prices are any lower than if they'd just let the Fed do, or any of the several other states with their own ACA website.
Personally, I was happy with my high deductible "catastrophic" plan for $70/month. Now ACA says nobody over 30 is allowed to chose that option, and even if you were, it has doubled in price. Now the lowest-priced health insurance plan I can get is 3X what I was paying, and is only slightly better than what I had before.
That is what will make or break Obamacare... Will healthy, middle-class folks pay hundreds of dollars per month for health insurance they are unlikely to use (on top of already paying out 1/3rd of their income in state/federal taxes), to subsidize the insurance prices for unhealthy and lower-income people?
And will the working poor, who are just barely able to make it paycheck-to-paycheck, find a way to muster up another $100/month to pay for their health insurance? Or will the tax penalty at the end of the year eat up their refund and really make their precarious situations completely untenable?
Failing to take one step further and making it a simple, automatic, single-payer system, supported out of income taxes, really is a mistake we'll be paying for, for a long time to come.
Daemontools is simple... Too simple, and quite end-user unfriendly. It can only replace part of SysV, so here we are with one starting the other, and half your services running from here, and half from over there...
I'd like simple as much as anybody, but we need a bit more feature and complexity to fill the roles of both. That upstart and systemd went overboard is unfortunate, but they are long overdue.
Tell me I'm not the only one still clinging to sysvinit? [...] I dno't want to hear about a few seconds faster boot time.
Boot times aren't the point. SysV needs to be replaced because it's too simple to be able to respawn crashed services.
Running some services out of daemontools, and others out of SysV, cranks up the complexity more than replacing SysV with something smarter.
That said... If the popular replacement turns out anything PulseAudio, I'll be quitting my job, moving into a cave and start chiseling out stone tablets.
Up to 2011, they found Republicans to be lying 119 times to 13 for Democrats.
"Lying" isn't anywhere on their scale, so I don't know what you're talking about. And even if there's some truth to your numbers, there's no reason to assume those figures prove a bias. It's quite possible that Republicans were making many more inaccurate statements to large audiences than Dems during a given time-frame.
Usually Politifact engages in strawman attacks where they dismiss the actual language the speaker used and instead substitute their own language
I've never seen that happen, and you've provided not a single example.
Taking a quick look at their site, they mostly link to incredibly partisan opinion pieces that are easy to tear apart, and make many accusations that don't hold up to scrutiny, and look like the rantings of someone with poor reading comprehension that is easily confused. In reality, I have no doubt it's entirely willful ignorance.
If you think changing the book is to squeeze money out of you, and not... you know, because you've finished learning from it and need something else to learn, then you're in trouble. Using the same book year after year is probably one of the reasons the learning outcomes are so terrible
Back in college, I enrolled in the intro to C++ course in the summer semester, bought the book, and attended the first few classes, but had to drop it when I realized my course load was too heavy. I re-enrolled in the fall, no problem, only to find the C++ book had been updated to a new edition, which was almost exactly the same, but had changed the layout just enough that page numbers were completely out-of-whack, chapter numbers didn't quite match either, and there were a few small wording changes in some of the assignments that significantly changed them.
I wasn't too interested in buying another $60+ book, that I was previously told would be good for all three semesters of C++. As a result, those handful of us with the old books spent half the class tracking down what examples everyone else was looking at, and hours figuring out where to find the assignments we needed to complete, which were sometimes slightly different. Of course the teacher wasn't interested in the changes and just didn't want to be bothered. In the end, about half the people with the old books ended up buying new ones halfway through the class. And those of us who kept the old couldn't manage anything more than a C in that class.
It's many years of incidents like that which left me with very little respect for textbook publishers, college education, and teachers in general. Anything which undermines that horrible system, while actually providing a reasonable education, is aces in my book.
Consider, fellow Americans, what goes if Germany goes. That's NATO and the EU. That's all our happy European client states cheerily playing along when Washington wants to force the President of Bolivia's plane down and search it. That's an economy bigger than ours, a continent whose population is much bigger than ours, suddenly not playing ball with us any more and pushing back hard on everything. That's a profoundly different world for American geopolitical power that will have material consequences for every American.
20th century history is certainly NOT about Europe helping out the US... In fact it's been the polar opposite. NATO was certainly not about Germany, France, and the UK protecting the US. When European countries took it upon themselves to go into Libya, they didn't have the air power to pull it off without the US jumping in to save the mission. History is replete with examples such as this, and there's no question the US provides the military might to police and stabilize the entire western world. The EU going it alone is going to have a painful time of it, as they find they need to dedicate far more spending to their military than they have since the end of WWII.
The EU is a slightly larger economy than the US, but they needed 160% of the population size to manage that. There were grumblings of the world switching off of the USD as their reserve currency when the US was being hit hard by the looming recession, slightly before the rest of the world. But it was a terrible idea back then, and the Eurozone crises made that undeniably apparent to everyone.
I'm not saying the US should go back to isolationism. I'm simply pointing out that, despite numerous grumblings over the years, Europe needs the US far too much to really do anything significant, particularly over a simply embarrassing incident that only harms some egos. And your comment is just a lot of irrational and baseless FUD.
All products have a small profit margin when there's lots of competition. With no competition, you can set the price astronomically high, and people will pay it.
I'm in favor of the death penalty in theory. I just don't trust our government enough to administer it properly in practice
If that's the case, an innocent man locked-up for his entire life really isn't much better than the death penalty. If the lack of the death penalty allows you to sleep soundly with an inequitable justice system, than keeping the death penalty is the better option to generate public support to get the real problems fixed.
Or criminal justice system isn't about actually determining guilty or innocence, it's about railroading people so some DA can pad his resume on the way to becoming a judge or a governor.
In fact the US has a much lower conviction rate than most comparable countries. Our system seems to err way over on the side of acquitting guilty men, instead of allowing "some DA [to] pad his resume" by convicting an innocent one.
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At least Pennsylvania and Nebraska courts require more than just a visual speed estimate. A quick search hasn't turned up a comprehensive list.
Not sure about the breakdown for most states, but in several states, timing a vehicle from point A to point B is NOT legally admissible evidence. This necessitates a number of workaround, like speed enforcement aircraft needing to establish their relative ground-speed, and then using that as a basis to ticket cars going faster than they are, rather than just directly measuring the ground-speed of cars between two landmarks.
If that was allowed, every truck driver on the planet would be arrested, as they are required to keep log-books which can be used to demonstrate speeding and working more than the maximum allowable daily hours.
You'd feel differently if you'd ever driven through the South Western US at 2AM.
Of course that's not remotely the only locale with so little traffic that you can break the needle off your speedometer safely. Montana didn't have speed-limits on its roads for decades until the Fed stepped in, and still don't put much effort into enforcing them. Plenty of places throughout the midwest are NOT used as major thoroughfares and have almost no cars on them after 10pm.
Even with your list of exceptions... still no.
Republicans give lip service to supporting small business owners, because the fascist things they want to do to funnel money to big businesses, can be disguised as possibly helping a few small businesses slightly, while big businesses get billions out of it. It's just a cover, and they have no intention of helping them out, at all.
$ cat /etc/inittab /etc/redhat-release
# inittab is only used by upstart for the default runlevel.
# ADDING OTHER CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM.
id:5:initdefault:
$ cat
CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
$
I didn't suggesting copying Windows NT wholesale, I'm merely pointing out that SysV was obsolete at least two DECADES ago. And this inferior system you're so quick to dismiss, has some extremely useful features, completely lacking in Linux, BSD, and it's all the fault of SysV.
Did they name it "daemontools"?
You would never use inittab to start services, and inittab doesn't even exist anymore.
Writing a second cron-job to respawn your service is a laborious mess, with unnecessary overhead. SNMP or other monitoring is what we've been reduced to, but who the hell wants to pay for around-the-clock employees, or get paged in the middle of the night, just because a few services might need to be restarted? And let's not forget, CROND CRASHES, TOO. What's monitoring cron and keeping it running?
Yes, we should stop using such *hacks*, and get an init replacement that will start services properly, and keep them running. It's not a complex concept. Windows NT has been doing that since inception, and Linux is seriously missing out. It won't eliminate the utility of SNMP, cron, etc., but they will see less abuse.
If you'd like to start hacking on init... more power to you. Get it to monitor and respawn services in a sane way, and yours can be a competitor right up there with upstart and systemd.
But now you're just backpedaling as quickly as you can... Until now, you weren't talking about distribution. You specifically said "electrical car power demand would drive a need for more power plants." You were wrong and trying desperately not to admit it, while you spin and try to discredit the PART of your own source that doesn't support your point, and emphasize the PART that shows SOMETHING, ANYTHING bad or challenging about EVs.
I don't know why you're so desperate to try and discredit EVs, and I don't care.
That's a decent source, you're just quoting it out of context. It actually completely disagrees with almost everything you've been claiming... To wit:
"researchers at the U.S. Department of Energyâ(TM)s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have calculated that the grid has enough excess capacity to support over 150 million battery-powered cars, or about 75 percent of the cars, pickups, and SUVs on the road in the United States."
Solar power installations are happening in CA, but it has NOTHING specifically to do with EVs. That's your own imagination, and/or reading comprehension failure. And YOUR OWN SOURCE SAYS SO.
Nope... EV chargers have built-in timer, and instructions direct owners to set it for 8pm or so. If a good number of people don't voluntarily do so, then power companies will just have to expand peak/off-peak billing. Should be easy enough to make the change with all the "smart" meters they're installing, everywhere.
Electrical demand is currently FALLING. More-efficient appliances, cheaper prices on new, efficient devices thanks to China, automation, etc. And new technology like improved CFLs, and now LEDs that use half as much power still for lighting.
Never-the-less, more power plants are being built all over the country, all the time. Wind turbines are being installed at break-neck speed all over the place. And California at least is expanding their solar power installations (PV and thermal) as fast as they reasonably can.
EVs will NOT be a sudden spike in demand, anyhow. They will be a small, gradual increase in demand on the grid, that will not need to be addressed for years, and will be handled in the same manner as increasing demand for any other reasons.
Do your own damn research...
ALL services crash, eventually, on long-running servers. Name the most stable service you can think of, and I guarantee many people have seen it crash.
Besides that, fixing a service isn't always an option. It might be closed-source, or the bug can be intermittent and hugely complex to find and fix.
Re-spawning crashed services is of critical importance on servers, and SysV is so poorly designed that it can't be made to do it.
" The working poor get it free via expanded Medicaid."
No. Unfortunately they do not.
"The middle class generally qualify for subsidies."
Also no. Lower-middle class with lots of kids might get a little, but 50k is the cutoff for subsudies.
"The ACA seems also to be slowing the overall growth of health care cost inflation."
Actually that's thanks to the stagnant economy.
Both are issues, but caddies could be a big part of the solution.
Now imagine you could make one duplicate, and it would NEVER get scratched, NEVER get dirty, NEVER deteriorate from being left out in the sun, etc.
Making extra copies to compensate is only treating one symptom, while the disease continues merrily along.
Why the hell do we have a news story about website design? The GOP are making a big political issue out of it, but I don't see that being much of a problem to anybody. Plenty of people have signed-up, and those that haven't probably weren't stopped by site problems, but just chose not to.
What will make or break Obamacare is the PRICE of the insurance plans, and nothing says Kentucky's prices are any lower than if they'd just let the Fed do, or any of the several other states with their own ACA website.
Personally, I was happy with my high deductible "catastrophic" plan for $70/month. Now ACA says nobody over 30 is allowed to chose that option, and even if you were, it has doubled in price. Now the lowest-priced health insurance plan I can get is 3X what I was paying, and is only slightly better than what I had before.
That is what will make or break Obamacare... Will healthy, middle-class folks pay hundreds of dollars per month for health insurance they are unlikely to use (on top of already paying out 1/3rd of their income in state/federal taxes), to subsidize the insurance prices for unhealthy and lower-income people?
And will the working poor, who are just barely able to make it paycheck-to-paycheck, find a way to muster up another $100/month to pay for their health insurance? Or will the tax penalty at the end of the year eat up their refund and really make their precarious situations completely untenable?
Failing to take one step further and making it a simple, automatic, single-payer system, supported out of income taxes, really is a mistake we'll be paying for, for a long time to come.
Daemontools is simple... Too simple, and quite end-user unfriendly. It can only replace part of SysV, so here we are with one starting the other, and half your services running from here, and half from over there...
I'd like simple as much as anybody, but we need a bit more feature and complexity to fill the roles of both. That upstart and systemd went overboard is unfortunate, but they are long overdue.
It's a shame disc caddies never took-off... Optical media is immensely easier to handle when you never have to remove it from its protective case.
Too tempting...
http://youtu.be/acg4b3H3t-8
Because, daemontools.
Boot times aren't the point. SysV needs to be replaced because it's too simple to be able to respawn crashed services.
Running some services out of daemontools, and others out of SysV, cranks up the complexity more than replacing SysV with something smarter.
That said... If the popular replacement turns out anything PulseAudio, I'll be quitting my job, moving into a cave and start chiseling out stone tablets.
"Lying" isn't anywhere on their scale, so I don't know what you're talking about. And even if there's some truth to your numbers, there's no reason to assume those figures prove a bias. It's quite possible that Republicans were making many more inaccurate statements to large audiences than Dems during a given time-frame.
I've never seen that happen, and you've provided not a single example.
Taking a quick look at their site, they mostly link to incredibly partisan opinion pieces that are easy to tear apart, and make many accusations that don't hold up to scrutiny, and look like the rantings of someone with poor reading comprehension that is easily confused. In reality, I have no doubt it's entirely willful ignorance.
Back in college, I enrolled in the intro to C++ course in the summer semester, bought the book, and attended the first few classes, but had to drop it when I realized my course load was too heavy. I re-enrolled in the fall, no problem, only to find the C++ book had been updated to a new edition, which was almost exactly the same, but had changed the layout just enough that page numbers were completely out-of-whack, chapter numbers didn't quite match either, and there were a few small wording changes in some of the assignments that significantly changed them.
I wasn't too interested in buying another $60+ book, that I was previously told would be good for all three semesters of C++. As a result, those handful of us with the old books spent half the class tracking down what examples everyone else was looking at, and hours figuring out where to find the assignments we needed to complete, which were sometimes slightly different. Of course the teacher wasn't interested in the changes and just didn't want to be bothered. In the end, about half the people with the old books ended up buying new ones halfway through the class. And those of us who kept the old couldn't manage anything more than a C in that class.
It's many years of incidents like that which left me with very little respect for textbook publishers, college education, and teachers in general. Anything which undermines that horrible system, while actually providing a reasonable education, is aces in my book.
Oh, well if an AC on the internet says the president is a liar, it must be true. I've got chain-emails that say so...
How about actually getting a fair and reasonably comprehensive assessment from an unbiased source? Crazy, right?
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/barack-obama/
20th century history is certainly NOT about Europe helping out the US... In fact it's been the polar opposite. NATO was certainly not about Germany, France, and the UK protecting the US. When European countries took it upon themselves to go into Libya, they didn't have the air power to pull it off without the US jumping in to save the mission. History is replete with examples such as this, and there's no question the US provides the military might to police and stabilize the entire western world. The EU going it alone is going to have a painful time of it, as they find they need to dedicate far more spending to their military than they have since the end of WWII.
The EU is a slightly larger economy than the US, but they needed 160% of the population size to manage that. There were grumblings of the world switching off of the USD as their reserve currency when the US was being hit hard by the looming recession, slightly before the rest of the world. But it was a terrible idea back then, and the Eurozone crises made that undeniably apparent to everyone.
I'm not saying the US should go back to isolationism. I'm simply pointing out that, despite numerous grumblings over the years, Europe needs the US far too much to really do anything significant, particularly over a simply embarrassing incident that only harms some egos. And your comment is just a lot of irrational and baseless FUD.
All products have a small profit margin when there's lots of competition. With no competition, you can set the price astronomically high, and people will pay it.
With conjoined twins... How do you decide which one gets to murder the other?
If that's the case, an innocent man locked-up for his entire life really isn't much better than the death penalty. If the lack of the death penalty allows you to sleep soundly with an inequitable justice system, than keeping the death penalty is the better option to generate public support to get the real problems fixed.
In fact the US has a much lower conviction rate than most comparable countries. Our system seems to err way over on the side of acquitting guilty men, instead of allowing "some DA [to] pad his resume" by convicting an innocent one.