...I'm wondering what in fact they are charging these people with?
Usually soliciting a minor, but as you point out the person wan't a minor; and as a number of these people have pointed out they were reasonably sure the person wasn't a minor before they met them and certain of it after meeting them, no matter what the person said.
People "play pretend." It gets them off.
What happens in practice, because even the accusation of a sex crime is so damaging, let alone bearing going through a public trial for same, where you're grilled about your sex life for days on end, is that the accused cops a plea to avoid the mess, even though they know they commited no actual crime.
OK, so these are individual people who happen to work for the Government . ..
In law enforcement. For law enforcement purposes.
I was watching MSNBC's "to catch a predator", the sting operation where they lure pedophiles to a house thinking there's a 13 year old waiting, and then bust them.
These busts have always been of extremely dubious validity. As one guy who got busted said (my paraphrase) , "I didn't think there was a 13 year old waiting for me. I went to find out who the person really was and the woman who presented herself to me was obviously about 30 pretending to be younger. People lie. I know that."
When you start busting people for thought crimes you start busting them for what you think they think and statutory rape is a crime of fact, i.e. it doesn't matter what they think, it matters what they did.
Playing naughty cheerleader and coach isn't a crime if the "naughty cheerleader" isn't 13.
As far as the NSA. ..
They don't arrest people. Law enforcement does. Law enforcement is supposed to have checks and bounds on their surviellence activities.
They already have it.
Yeah, they bought it a few years ago.
Blah, reactionary clap-trap "arrr we hate bush arrr".
Well, if he's doing illegal surviellence, yeah. I react to that sort of thing.
His post refers to the resolution of the eye itself . ..Which may not answer the original question. ..
"Per unit area." I believe, although he didn't express it quite right, that what he's interested in is how many dots per inch at a given viewing distance on the print before the human eye cannot tell the difference.
He wants to know how much camera is actually overkill when all he wants is a picture of his girlfriend for his desk.
The answer, of course, is "it depends." I haven't seen his girlfriend so I don't know what the appropriate resolution would be.
Lots of electric cars have used lead acid batteries. I, literally, designed mine around them (they were incased in a central spine chassis, like a Tatra or a 'Vette, in a slide out tray so they could be changed like an R/C car stick pack). Nearly all prototypes start out that way.
That doesn't mean that they don't suck, it just means they're comparitively inexpensive and readily available just about anywhere.
Well, on further digging around it appears that while in the grocery section they only sell gourmet rice, in the gourmet section they sell 50 lb sacks of commodity rice. Go figure.
Fifty bucks, four fifty shipping. Not bad, but not great; and I like poking around the Korean market.
On the other hand when traveling in a car your risk is lowest as you turn it on, whereas the shuttle is at it's lowest risk "out on the highway" where it travels really, really fast. It's biased toward looking good in fatalities per mile.
Fatalities per turn of the key isn't a bad metric for the shuttle. Its the one I'd be most interested in if offered a ride.
If this group was in charge of the appolo missions we'd still be doing near earth orbital testing.
I take it you are unaware that Von Braun was under constant pressure for being too slow, too much a perfectionist and too insistant that everything be as close to just right as we could make it before he would agree to light the fuse?
In fact he drove the "let's just plug ahead and get this baby done" folks nuts with his attitude that we should "just plug ahead and get this baby done right".
Understand that at that point in time he had seen, and even been personally responsible for, more launch failures than any man alive
Dude, if they're touching my peanut butter there is a bigger problem than their failure to wash their hands first.
Nevermind that the behavior of the cashier is essentially for show. If you want to know how "sanitary" your food from Safeway is go at 3 in the morning and watch the shelf stockers.
And of course other customers never touch your food before you buy it, no siree Bob! You might want to start considering your sanitation concerns being, by their very nature, your problem to look after. If you're afraid of catching something from your peanut butter jar wear gloves when you shop and wipe everything down with Vodka before you take them off.
So you should be concerned over milage in a vehicle that cost you $30,000? What if it had a "sitting in the garage" usage (as many electric cars do), would you be concerned about that?
What logical connection do you see between the cost of acquisition and the cost of operation of an console? Would it make a difference to you if the console only cost $10? Why? A cost is a cost. It's all money out of your pocket and that $20 is a couple of pizzas you didn't get to eat.
Now add up the costs of all the other devices in your house that operate similarly. Your VCR. Your Cable box. Other computuing devices. At minimun wage you might end up working a week to have your stuff doing nothing. A week is a lot of time to invest in nothing.
Which brings us to the real point of interest in the figure, which isn't actually direct financial expense. Add up all the households in the country. You should be interested in the total fuel use of the nation to power devices doing nothing?
That battery pack weighs 150, the standard Prius pack ~80; that doesn't seem like it would take that much space
The Prius is not an electric car. It is a hybrid. With a hybrid you may only need a small number of batteries, because the battery is actually a sort of cache/voltage regulator. The electricity flows through the battery, but you do not depend on it for the electricity. That comes largely from the gas engine (plus your initial cache). EDrive says 100 mpg for the first 50 miles, which would be as close to "almost all electric power" as it ever gets.
With an electric you have your batteries and that's it.
I could build you a hybrid cyclecar with just one standard deep cycle battery and a weedwhacker motor. The equivelent in an electric would take . ..ohhhhhhhh, eight batteries if you really wanted to get somewhere. ..and back again, without a recharge.
. ..the fuel pump. ..
Now we touch on issues of why I love electric cars. They are engineering elegance. Too many damned parts that wear out on a gas engine and too many support systems to fail. And they're all expensive.
But lead-acid automotive batteries, used for high-drain cold-start conditions last years and cost $100.
Workable for hybrids, but unsuitable for electric cars. Reliance on these is one of the reasons the average electric of the 70s sucked so badly. I pay $170-$200 for a deep cycle. 40-50 lbs apiece. You'll want a dozen or so for a low performance commuter, I believe the RAV4 used two dozen, which is about right for "car like" performance. The RAV4 batteries were so expensive because they were NiMH.
Is a cost-effective battery really that far beyond modern manufacturing?
Yes, it really is; and I'm afraid it may be beyond physics. A good battery is simply very energy intensive to make and the energy must be paid for. Every breakthrough in batteries over the past 30 years has given us better, but more expensive batteries. The stuff they are made of is more expensive and the manufacturing techniques used are inherently more expensive as well. The EDrive battery isn't expensive because it's a "boutique" item, it's expensive because it's a big ass Lithium ion battery. It's just the nature of the beastie.
By the way, Lithium ion batteries have a shelf life. The EDrive battery will end up dead in five years even if you don't use it.
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Building the body out of light weight materials definitely cuts down on fuel usage, but is it impact resistant in a crash?
Ever see film of an F1/Indy car hitting a wall at 200 mph and the driver walking away?
As it happens the light stuff is also the strong, safe stuff. Doesn't rust either.
Steel is used for economy of manufacturing ( it can be stamped to shape and robotically welded), not because it's the best material for the job.
KFG
Can't dowse for shit with one of those.
KFG
Sexual "fantasy" eventually moves from thought to action. . .
Cool! I've always fancied being Lori Singer's cello. What time can I expect her?
KFG
...I'm wondering what in fact they are charging these people with?
Usually soliciting a minor, but as you point out the person wan't a minor; and as a number of these people have pointed out they were reasonably sure the person wasn't a minor before they met them and certain of it after meeting them, no matter what the person said.
People "play pretend." It gets them off.
What happens in practice, because even the accusation of a sex crime is so damaging, let alone bearing going through a public trial for same, where you're grilled about your sex life for days on end, is that the accused cops a plea to avoid the mess, even though they know they commited no actual crime.
KFG
If you believe that, then walk into a bank wearing a ski mask.
.I didn't rob the bank.
Been there, done that, while carrying a violin case.
Didn't get busted or nothin', 'cause. .
Of course I'm not sure I'd want to try that carrying a viola case. They might think I might have viola in it.
KFG
OK, so these are individual people who happen to work for the Government . . .
.
In law enforcement. For law enforcement purposes.
I was watching MSNBC's "to catch a predator", the sting operation where they lure pedophiles to a house thinking there's a 13 year old waiting, and then bust them.
These busts have always been of extremely dubious validity. As one guy who got busted said (my paraphrase) , "I didn't think there was a 13 year old waiting for me. I went to find out who the person really was and the woman who presented herself to me was obviously about 30 pretending to be younger. People lie. I know that."
When you start busting people for thought crimes you start busting them for what you think they think and statutory rape is a crime of fact, i.e. it doesn't matter what they think, it matters what they did.
Playing naughty cheerleader and coach isn't a crime if the "naughty cheerleader" isn't 13.
As far as the NSA. .
They don't arrest people. Law enforcement does. Law enforcement is supposed to have checks and bounds on their surviellence activities.
They already have it.
Yeah, they bought it a few years ago.
Blah, reactionary clap-trap "arrr we hate bush arrr".
Well, if he's doing illegal surviellence, yeah. I react to that sort of thing.
KFG
His post refers to the resolution of the eye itself . . .Which may not answer the original question. . .
"Per unit area." I believe, although he didn't express it quite right, that what he's interested in is how many dots per inch at a given viewing distance on the print before the human eye cannot tell the difference.
He wants to know how much camera is actually overkill when all he wants is a picture of his girlfriend for his desk.
The answer, of course, is "it depends." I haven't seen his girlfriend so I don't know what the appropriate resolution would be.
KFG
If I were James Bond I think I would want someone else to do my key turning for me.
.but I repeat myself.
I just drive in Manhatten, Boston and the occasional disaster area . .
KFG
Just exactly how long have you been sitting around just waiting for a chance to use that one?
KFG
Lots of electric cars have used lead acid batteries. I, literally, designed mine around them (they were incased in a central spine chassis, like a Tatra or a 'Vette, in a slide out tray so they could be changed like an R/C car stick pack). Nearly all prototypes start out that way.
That doesn't mean that they don't suck, it just means they're comparitively inexpensive and readily available just about anywhere.
KFG
Well, on further digging around it appears that while in the grocery section they only sell gourmet rice, in the gourmet section they sell 50 lb sacks of commodity rice. Go figure.
Fifty bucks, four fifty shipping. Not bad, but not great; and I like poking around the Korean market.
KFG
On the other hand when traveling in a car your risk is lowest as you turn it on, whereas the shuttle is at it's lowest risk "out on the highway" where it travels really, really fast. It's biased toward looking good in fatalities per mile.
Fatalities per turn of the key isn't a bad metric for the shuttle. Its the one I'd be most interested in if offered a ride.
KFG
But if I live in a sterile environment what do I need an immune system for?
KFG
If this group was in charge of the appolo missions we'd still be doing near earth orbital testing.
I take it you are unaware that Von Braun was under constant pressure for being too slow, too much a perfectionist and too insistant that everything be as close to just right as we could make it before he would agree to light the fuse?
In fact he drove the "let's just plug ahead and get this baby done" folks nuts with his attitude that we should "just plug ahead and get this baby done right".
Understand that at that point in time he had seen, and even been personally responsible for, more launch failures than any man alive
KFG
Most of the items are being sold in bulk sizes and quantities.
Yes, but at a profit margin of only a few cents a pound. Grocers only make money because they move a lot of goods.
Will UPS haul this shit for a penny a pound?
KFG
FYI, if you browse through the store, you'll notice that almost all the items they sell are economy sized or are packaged in multi-packs.
This is not my issue with them at the moment. I buy "economy sized" food packages, but I also buy economy food.
I do not eat Cocoa Krispies. I do not eat "just add water" precooked and processed Thai rice whatevers.
I eat rice.
I do not eat plastic jar packed ultrapremium brand $4.00/lb rice.
The standard economy sized "pack" of rice is the "20 pound sack," at about $.50/lb. Looks like I'll still be going to the Korean market.
KFG
Dude, if they're touching my peanut butter there is a bigger problem than their failure to wash their hands first.
Nevermind that the behavior of the cashier is essentially for show. If you want to know how "sanitary" your food from Safeway is go at 3 in the morning and watch the shelf stockers.
And of course other customers never touch your food before you buy it, no siree Bob! You might want to start considering your sanitation concerns being, by their very nature, your problem to look after. If you're afraid of catching something from your peanut butter jar wear gloves when you shop and wipe everything down with Vodka before you take them off.
KFG
I'm just a human being. I make mistakes. I have "moods."
I don't worry about it overmuch. A foolish consistency and all that.
KFG
So you should be concerned over milage in a vehicle that cost you $30,000? What if it had a "sitting in the garage" usage (as many electric cars do), would you be concerned about that?
What logical connection do you see between the cost of acquisition and the cost of operation of an console? Would it make a difference to you if the console only cost $10? Why? A cost is a cost. It's all money out of your pocket and that $20 is a couple of pizzas you didn't get to eat.
Now add up the costs of all the other devices in your house that operate similarly. Your VCR. Your Cable box. Other computuing devices. At minimun wage you might end up working a week to have your stuff doing nothing. A week is a lot of time to invest in nothing.
Which brings us to the real point of interest in the figure, which isn't actually direct financial expense. Add up all the households in the country. You should be interested in the total fuel use of the nation to power devices doing nothing?
I think you should. At any right I am, but YMMV.
KFG
That battery pack weighs 150, the standard Prius pack ~80; that doesn't seem like it would take that much space
.ohhhhhhhh, eight batteries if you really wanted to get somewhere. . .and back again, without a recharge.
.the fuel pump. . .
The Prius is not an electric car. It is a hybrid. With a hybrid you may only need a small number of batteries, because the battery is actually a sort of cache/voltage regulator. The electricity flows through the battery, but you do not depend on it for the electricity. That comes largely from the gas engine (plus your initial cache). EDrive says 100 mpg for the first 50 miles, which would be as close to "almost all electric power" as it ever gets.
With an electric you have your batteries and that's it.
I could build you a hybrid cyclecar with just one standard deep cycle battery and a weedwhacker motor. The equivelent in an electric would take . .
. .
Now we touch on issues of why I love electric cars. They are engineering elegance. Too many damned parts that wear out on a gas engine and too many support systems to fail. And they're all expensive.
But lead-acid automotive batteries, used for high-drain cold-start conditions last years and cost $100.
Workable for hybrids, but unsuitable for electric cars. Reliance on these is one of the reasons the average electric of the 70s sucked so badly. I pay $170-$200 for a deep cycle. 40-50 lbs apiece. You'll want a dozen or so for a low performance commuter, I believe the RAV4 used two dozen, which is about right for "car like" performance. The RAV4 batteries were so expensive because they were NiMH.
Is a cost-effective battery really that far beyond modern manufacturing?
Yes, it really is; and I'm afraid it may be beyond physics. A good battery is simply very energy intensive to make and the energy must be paid for. Every breakthrough in batteries over the past 30 years has given us better, but more expensive batteries. The stuff they are made of is more expensive and the manufacturing techniques used are inherently more expensive as well. The EDrive battery isn't expensive because it's a "boutique" item, it's expensive because it's a big ass Lithium ion battery. It's just the nature of the beastie.
By the way, Lithium ion batteries have a shelf life. The EDrive battery will end up dead in five years even if you don't use it.
But at least they're much lighter than lead acid.
KFG
I find it hard to believe they can pass a law requiring people to put copy restrictions on their own creations.
I did not speak of the creations. I spoke of the hardware.
KFG
Don't be a dickus.
KFG
I have been sitting here for hours dreading the moment that someone said, "Oh. Heeeeeeeeeey!"
Fortunately I like Iceland, although I wish the odds of summer falling on a weekend were a bit better.
KFG
http://www.theosfiles.com/os_linux/ospg_Linux_Cald era.htm
KFG
. . .the pressrelease claims the lawsuit is nearing the end and they probably know they will lose.
I particularly like this following bit:
"SCO is eager to be the only future provider of Linux Systems for the enterprise market."
I'll just bet they are.
I really like their disclaimer where they, if they so choose, say it's all the communitys fault if they fail with their "new" endeavour.
Ah, well, but then that's a responsibilty I'm willing to shoulder:
"It's all your fault."
"Why, thank you."
KFG