This is uncool at many levels.
Breathalyzers are known to be very inaccurate (take a sip of a drink, wait 5 mins, blow, get an off the charts reading).
Intoxication varies a lot by individual (hence most places use sobriety tests like balance, etc), using only one metric isn't useful. One guy is passing out at.03 (but is legal), but another will be at double that and score above-average on proficiency tests but the law calls him intoxicated? It all depends on where your start point is (granny's driving ability reduced by 75% is different than your ability reduced by 75%), and your body's specifics.
For those of us who actually believe in the 4th amendment, the idea that merely driving through a public access area is enough Probable Cause to be stopped, and refusing an illegal search at that point will result in the police forcibly taking your blood is horrific.
More reason to avoid Florida, America's Wang.
I used to think nothing of Boston College other than "hot chicks" (and occasionally "Jesuit?" are they jesus-freaks?). Now, I also think "whoa, hot-chicks, possible jesus-freaks AND their PD has less than zero understanding of technology".
If it were central Alabama, I'd be less alarmed, but in Boston this is nuts...
Taxcuts for the rich aren't the solution to everything. And I've never seen a taxcut build public infrastructure, which is crumbling all over the country. Of course, GOP would rather sell everything to their buddies at companies like Haliburton so they can then charge tolls and fees in perpetuity-- "taxes" are bad though.
Morons.
Never mind that the GOP-solution-to-everything tax-cuts haven't worked yet and 8 years is plenty of time to demonstrate the GOP's abject fiscal failure...conversely investment by the Feds has worked before. The facts are something fundamentalist neocons aren't ever going to bother with...for a fundie, they are always right no matter what because they are right. Got it? Circular reasoning, the GOP way.
Unlike in economics, in technology, there IS an observable trickle-down effect. Investment in a high-tech ground-breaking company makes a lot more sense than keeping broken-down old GM creeping along.
This kind of energy generation is silly, it discourages people from reducing their waste stream (by creating demand for garbage). Yeah, real smart to vaporize all the re-usable stuff. Hopefully why that's short-sighted is self-apparent to the smarter-than-average folks here.
And how efficient is this (maintaining that plasma can't be energy-cheap)?
Way to spin stupid technology tricks!
too bad it's not the creationists dying out.:) There's no reasoning with them since their views are based on irrationality. How can you reason with somebody who choses irrationality?
Then, once they were gone, we could actually talk about the real topic here (the dying out of an entire class).
Oblivion was amazingly ground-breaking and playable and consumed many of my hours. Be delightful to have a followup that can lean on 4 yrs of tech progress since then.
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This is uncool at many levels. Breathalyzers are known to be very inaccurate (take a sip of a drink, wait 5 mins, blow, get an off the charts reading). Intoxication varies a lot by individual (hence most places use sobriety tests like balance, etc), using only one metric isn't useful. One guy is passing out at .03 (but is legal), but another will be at double that and score above-average on proficiency tests but the law calls him intoxicated? It all depends on where your start point is (granny's driving ability reduced by 75% is different than your ability reduced by 75%), and your body's specifics.
For those of us who actually believe in the 4th amendment, the idea that merely driving through a public access area is enough Probable Cause to be stopped, and refusing an illegal search at that point will result in the police forcibly taking your blood is horrific.
More reason to avoid Florida, America's Wang.
I used to think nothing of Boston College other than "hot chicks" (and occasionally "Jesuit?" are they jesus-freaks?). Now, I also think "whoa, hot-chicks, possible jesus-freaks AND their PD has less than zero understanding of technology". If it were central Alabama, I'd be less alarmed, but in Boston this is nuts...
Taxcuts for the rich aren't the solution to everything. And I've never seen a taxcut build public infrastructure, which is crumbling all over the country. Of course, GOP would rather sell everything to their buddies at companies like Haliburton so they can then charge tolls and fees in perpetuity-- "taxes" are bad though. Morons. Never mind that the GOP-solution-to-everything tax-cuts haven't worked yet and 8 years is plenty of time to demonstrate the GOP's abject fiscal failure...conversely investment by the Feds has worked before. The facts are something fundamentalist neocons aren't ever going to bother with...for a fundie, they are always right no matter what because they are right. Got it? Circular reasoning, the GOP way.
Unlike in economics, in technology, there IS an observable trickle-down effect. Investment in a high-tech ground-breaking company makes a lot more sense than keeping broken-down old GM creeping along.
This kind of energy generation is silly, it discourages people from reducing their waste stream (by creating demand for garbage). Yeah, real smart to vaporize all the re-usable stuff. Hopefully why that's short-sighted is self-apparent to the smarter-than-average folks here. And how efficient is this (maintaining that plasma can't be energy-cheap)? Way to spin stupid technology tricks!
too bad it's not the creationists dying out. :) There's no reasoning with them since their views are based on irrationality. How can you reason with somebody who choses irrationality?
Then, once they were gone, we could actually talk about the real topic here (the dying out of an entire class).
Oblivion was amazingly ground-breaking and playable and consumed many of my hours. Be delightful to have a followup that can lean on 4 yrs of tech progress since then.