Our computer systems do NOT have unlimited time to decide. On top of that, it probably won't be able to tell one type of vehicle from another as our recognition software isn't that good to make such a quick analysis. It may be good enough to make a guesstimate of mass, and if you combine that with relative speeds, it could do a quick estimate of impact energies.
From a liability standpoint (ianal) if it 'chooses' which vehicle to collide with, someone is going to get totally screwed by the law suits. On the other hand, if it is programmed to prioritize or choose to avoid the higher impact energy events, it's going to be a bitch for someone to sue them over that choice. At that point, it's no longer being programmed to 'crash into the smaller car', but is instead being programmed to 'avoid the nastier crash scenario'.
It's really sad that you have to twist concepts like that to achieve the same result, especially when discussing the realities involved, but with the way people are lawsuit happy, it's really the only choice.
Why? So he can continue to break the law, disrupt peoples activities, and put their lives at risk?
You don't like people using the phone while driving. Well guess what, there are people in range that aren't driving that the jammer was Fing up. There have been multiple times I've been in a car and had to call in an emergency because of vehicular wrecks, semi-trucks driven by drunks, fires, and a trestle collision. Don't forget about everybody else that's not even in a car, yet still in range to be Fd up by that jammer. People walking along, in their homes, etc. Of course, if it just magically only affected cell phones, it would still be limited effects, but guess what, cell phones don't use a single contiguous band of frequencies. Other things do use those gaps between the cell phones, so you're screwing up even more things! In some cities that would be part of their emergency response systems. I know of a couple of places that have sensors at various places, and guess how they report their information? Yes, via cell phone.
The guy was an inconsiderate asshole that was a greater potential danger to the public than the morons using phones while driving. In my opinion, he's lucky they're only going for the fine instead of also slapping him with a public endangerment charge of some kind. (If he is in one of the areas where it might mess with the ERS, then they could totally screw him.)
If someone is doing something illegal, call the cops. If someone is doing something you don't like, but it isn't illegal, suck it up fat boy! If you choose to break the law and screw with everyone else, possibly putting people at risk instead of the previously mentioned actions, you deserve to have your sanctimonious ass thrown in a deep dark hole.
There have been some things I feel supportive of that 'anonymous' has done. Unfortunately they mostly inspire the desire for them to just go away due to their sheer incompetence. Their 'protests' tend to disproportionately affect the innocent. Some morons may whine it's just unavoidable collateral damage. No, no it isn't. For example, posting information about thousands of credit card users to attack the credit card company. Hey dumbass! You hurt thousands of people to mildly inconvenience a company. In the real world that would be like using chemical warfare to kill off a town so the local morgue would have more 'customers' than they could handle. It's just plain stupid.
There are better ways of handling things, both within and without the law, but your pitchfork and torch wielding mob called 'anonymous' is just a riotous mob causing damage to everything, especially those that are innocent victims, while only inconveniencing those they claim to be targets. I guess they really are without leadership, and it shows.
The costs are built in, that's standard in any utility. I've talked to one of our utility boards and sat in on their meetings. Around here, you pay for the box that measures the electricity going both ways instead of the usual one way box. Other than that, you get paid the normal rate for sending power to the grid, despite some people wanting to scam a premium for renewables. As to the infrastructure, it costs the same whether you are using it or not, the big cost is the power, especially at peak. It's very expensive to import power, and that has to be done a lot. It's also very expensive and difficult to get new power plants built. Having customers supplement the available supply makes things better for the utility company, their customers, and everyone else down the road as well. What you're seeing in Oklahoma is just a greedy money grab by some heartless bean counter that is conveniently ignoring the benefits so they can try to push off some unavoidable expenses on their part onto their innocent customers.
Go to the article source and read the comments. There are a number of them by the locals involved with that school. It looks like this is a not uncommon tactic variation certain higher ups use to punish those they don't like, as well as those peoples supporters. All very questionable and completely unethical. Hopefully this time it backfires in a big way.
Don't forget that science is always trying to figure out what those unexplained things are, but sometimes it is a difficult path that suffers progress by those diligent and extraordinary thinkers that grope blindly into the unknown time and time again until they finally pull back a clue of unique data or conceptualization.
It's kind of like trying to read the mailing address on a parcel when you happen to be sealed inside the aforementioned parcel.
About every decade somebody makes the same basic prediction/declaration. This has been going on for more than a century and a half. (It could be a lot longer, but it's not like I've seen a lot of pointless stupid statements that were quickly proven wrong in most historical documentations.)
So I guess we've already killed the paralyzed polio victim culture, and disfigured by smallpox culture. Does this mean we have to stop curing diseases and physical impairments? Don't be stupid.
By the way, and ass is an ass no matter what 'culture' they claim. I used to ride the bus that went by the deaf school, so there were always deaf people on the bus. A rather attractive deaf lady was visibly upset, but she didn't do anything. So I asked her what was wrong. She kept insisting nothing, but it was pretty obvious what was going on, so I asked her, "Is it the two assholes there that keep insulting everyone because they think nobody else can understand them?". She was shocked that I knew what was going on and turned even more red. I explained that I wasn't fluent, but I knew enough. She then confronted the two idiots and chewed them out thoroughly. I never caught anyone doing that on the bus again.
That just goes to show, that separation breeds contempt. There's no reason that the art and other positive things from 'deaf culture' need to be left behind, just the discrimination and hate that isolation invariably brings.
LAPD are the 'bad guys'. Just look at their track record. Admittedly, there are a lot of good guys in the LAPD, but there are way too many scum. Those that do the illegal actions, and those that stand by and don't stop or otherwise report them for their wrongdoing.
Yes, those that do nothing are bad guys as well since it's their job to stop the illegal activities, especially those of other enforcement officers that are supposed to be stopping crime in a legal fashion rather than performing crimes. (Let the punctuation prefects figure out how to sort that sentence out.)
You ever heard the old statement that "one rotten apple spoils the barrel"? Well, they've got a lot of rotten apples in their barrel. Even their own investigations into themselves have shown that. And it leads all the way to the top as they have consistently done nothing to curb it or punish the wrongdoings that have been identified until it splashes all over the media and they've got politicians breathing down their necks. And even then, they do the bare minimum to mollify the politicians.
There is no easy fix for the LAPD due to the extensive and ingrained corruption from the beat to the big boss in charge. A clean sweep might work, but there actually are some good cops there that would get screwed by that, and more importantly, it would leave the city in a major lurch for far too long to be considered acceptable. On top of that, the cost would be huge and I have no idea if LA could even afford to do something like that, and that's without even taking into account the numerous lawsuits that would inevitably happen from many different sources.
"The provision allowing the bulk collection, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, expires June 1, 2015." Yeah, right. They'll extend it indefinitely, it will never 'expire'. (Just like all the the other things that were supposed to 'expire'.)
Of course, the way the system is rigged, not-an-imbecile #1 doesn't get on the ballot in the first place. It's almost as bad as the old USSR elections, you can elect any member of the communist party that the communist party tells you that you can elect.
Considering the positions of power and influence those fools hold, your statement is pretty much the equivalent of being somewhere lost at sea with a navigator that won't let anyone else navigate despite the fact that he has no idea how to do it, and thinks the compass is some kind of fancy combination lock on a secret stash of fairy dust. The idiots are going to sink the F-N ship and there are NO LIFEBOATS !
It's generally considered unwise to ignore the creep with the gun to your head, no matter how stupid and irrational he is.
You obviously never had to actually deal with serial and parallel connectors and their little screws to hold them in place. USB was a freaking godsend! Of, things can certainly get better, but companies hate jumping into new territory and would rather do it one increment at a time, if they can't avoid changing in the first place.
If they had to treat all biological remains from scientific research as biological waste & biohazards and dispose of properly or face jail time and HUGE fines, that would also kill their whaling industry. You can't sell biohazards or biological wastes.
The market for whale meat has been dying for decades and demand is at an all time low last time I saw the reports on it. Of course, the established industry doesn't care and will keep flaunting the treaty because they can and they still make money at it.
It's known that humans have a unique and specialized digestive system that is adapted for eating cooked foods. You just don't get as much nutrition, not just calories, from raw food. It is true that cooking does 'destroy' some of the nutritional value, but if eaten raw, you still receive far less than if you'd have eaten the cooked food.
If you want to lose weight, sure you could eat raw food and exercise, or you could eat less cooked food and exercise, or just exercise more.
They believe in the money. It doesn't matter how gullible and ignorant the buyer is, the money is still money and works just the same. Unlike homeopathy, which doesn't work at all.
It takes gullibility to work. Well, actually that's required to buy into the scam, but there never has been a shortage of that in ignorant populations.
Why the police of course. You know, the same people that arrest police that violate the laws. It's not like crime by police is almost always completely swept under the rug unless there's a huge public outcry over it. We all know it's great idea to let the fox regulate the hen house, right?
All sarcasm aside, if the database exists, it WILL be abused, and most likely by the police.
I know some who shot a burglar that broke into his bedroom while he was asleep with an arrow to the leg (sorry, not the knee, it was more of a thigh shot). What happened? The police arrested the homeowner and let the burglar press charges.
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Our computer systems do NOT have unlimited time to decide. On top of that, it probably won't be able to tell one type of vehicle from another as our recognition software isn't that good to make such a quick analysis. It may be good enough to make a guesstimate of mass, and if you combine that with relative speeds, it could do a quick estimate of impact energies.
From a liability standpoint (ianal) if it 'chooses' which vehicle to collide with, someone is going to get totally screwed by the law suits.
On the other hand, if it is programmed to prioritize or choose to avoid the higher impact energy events, it's going to be a bitch for someone to sue them over that choice. At that point, it's no longer being programmed to 'crash into the smaller car', but is instead being programmed to 'avoid the nastier crash scenario'.
It's really sad that you have to twist concepts like that to achieve the same result, especially when discussing the realities involved, but with the way people are lawsuit happy, it's really the only choice.
Why? So he can continue to break the law, disrupt peoples activities, and put their lives at risk?
You don't like people using the phone while driving. Well guess what, there are people in range that aren't driving that the jammer was Fing up. There have been multiple times I've been in a car and had to call in an emergency because of vehicular wrecks, semi-trucks driven by drunks, fires, and a trestle collision.
Don't forget about everybody else that's not even in a car, yet still in range to be Fd up by that jammer. People walking along, in their homes, etc.
Of course, if it just magically only affected cell phones, it would still be limited effects, but guess what, cell phones don't use a single contiguous band of frequencies. Other things do use those gaps between the cell phones, so you're screwing up even more things! In some cities that would be part of their emergency response systems. I know of a couple of places that have sensors at various places, and guess how they report their information? Yes, via cell phone.
The guy was an inconsiderate asshole that was a greater potential danger to the public than the morons using phones while driving. In my opinion, he's lucky they're only going for the fine instead of also slapping him with a public endangerment charge of some kind. (If he is in one of the areas where it might mess with the ERS, then they could totally screw him.)
If someone is doing something illegal, call the cops.
If someone is doing something you don't like, but it isn't illegal, suck it up fat boy!
If you choose to break the law and screw with everyone else, possibly putting people at risk instead of the previously mentioned actions, you deserve to have your sanctimonious ass thrown in a deep dark hole.
There have been some things I feel supportive of that 'anonymous' has done. Unfortunately they mostly inspire the desire for them to just go away due to their sheer incompetence. Their 'protests' tend to disproportionately affect the innocent. Some morons may whine it's just unavoidable collateral damage. No, no it isn't. For example, posting information about thousands of credit card users to attack the credit card company. Hey dumbass! You hurt thousands of people to mildly inconvenience a company. In the real world that would be like using chemical warfare to kill off a town so the local morgue would have more 'customers' than they could handle. It's just plain stupid.
There are better ways of handling things, both within and without the law, but your pitchfork and torch wielding mob called 'anonymous' is just a riotous mob causing damage to everything, especially those that are innocent victims, while only inconveniencing those they claim to be targets. I guess they really are without leadership, and it shows.
The costs are built in, that's standard in any utility.
I've talked to one of our utility boards and sat in on their meetings. Around here, you pay for the box that measures the electricity going both ways instead of the usual one way box. Other than that, you get paid the normal rate for sending power to the grid, despite some people wanting to scam a premium for renewables.
As to the infrastructure, it costs the same whether you are using it or not, the big cost is the power, especially at peak. It's very expensive to import power, and that has to be done a lot. It's also very expensive and difficult to get new power plants built. Having customers supplement the available supply makes things better for the utility company, their customers, and everyone else down the road as well.
What you're seeing in Oklahoma is just a greedy money grab by some heartless bean counter that is conveniently ignoring the benefits so they can try to push off some unavoidable expenses on their part onto their innocent customers.
Don't forget all the bird poop.
Go to the article source and read the comments.
There are a number of them by the locals involved with that school.
It looks like this is a not uncommon tactic variation certain higher ups use to punish those they don't like, as well as those peoples supporters.
All very questionable and completely unethical. Hopefully this time it backfires in a big way.
Don't forget that science is always trying to figure out what those unexplained things are, but sometimes it is a difficult path that suffers progress by those diligent and extraordinary thinkers that grope blindly into the unknown time and time again until they finally pull back a clue of unique data or conceptualization.
It's kind of like trying to read the mailing address on a parcel when you happen to be sealed inside the aforementioned parcel.
About every decade somebody makes the same basic prediction/declaration.
This has been going on for more than a century and a half.
(It could be a lot longer, but it's not like I've seen a lot of pointless stupid statements that were quickly proven wrong in most historical documentations.)
So I guess we've already killed the paralyzed polio victim culture, and disfigured by smallpox culture. Does this mean we have to stop curing diseases and physical impairments? Don't be stupid.
By the way, and ass is an ass no matter what 'culture' they claim.
I used to ride the bus that went by the deaf school, so there were always deaf people on the bus.
A rather attractive deaf lady was visibly upset, but she didn't do anything. So I asked her what was wrong. She kept insisting nothing, but it was pretty obvious what was going on, so I asked her, "Is it the two assholes there that keep insulting everyone because they think nobody else can understand them?".
She was shocked that I knew what was going on and turned even more red. I explained that I wasn't fluent, but I knew enough. She then confronted the two idiots and chewed them out thoroughly. I never caught anyone doing that on the bus again.
That just goes to show, that separation breeds contempt.
There's no reason that the art and other positive things from 'deaf culture' need to be left behind, just the discrimination and hate that isolation invariably brings.
LAPD are the 'bad guys'. Just look at their track record. Admittedly, there are a lot of good guys in the LAPD, but there are way too many scum. Those that do the illegal actions, and those that stand by and don't stop or otherwise report them for their wrongdoing.
Yes, those that do nothing are bad guys as well since it's their job to stop the illegal activities, especially those of other enforcement officers that are supposed to be stopping crime in a legal fashion rather than performing crimes. (Let the punctuation prefects figure out how to sort that sentence out.)
You ever heard the old statement that "one rotten apple spoils the barrel"? Well, they've got a lot of rotten apples in their barrel. Even their own investigations into themselves have shown that. And it leads all the way to the top as they have consistently done nothing to curb it or punish the wrongdoings that have been identified until it splashes all over the media and they've got politicians breathing down their necks. And even then, they do the bare minimum to mollify the politicians.
There is no easy fix for the LAPD due to the extensive and ingrained corruption from the beat to the big boss in charge. A clean sweep might work, but there actually are some good cops there that would get screwed by that, and more importantly, it would leave the city in a major lurch for far too long to be considered acceptable. On top of that, the cost would be huge and I have no idea if LA could even afford to do something like that, and that's without even taking into account the numerous lawsuits that would inevitably happen from many different sources.
"The provision allowing the bulk collection, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, expires June 1, 2015."
Yeah, right. They'll extend it indefinitely, it will never 'expire'. (Just like all the the other things that were supposed to 'expire'.)
You don't own your property. Just fail to pay your property tax and see what happens.
Of course, the way the system is rigged, not-an-imbecile #1 doesn't get on the ballot in the first place.
It's almost as bad as the old USSR elections, you can elect any member of the communist party that the communist party tells you that you can elect.
Considering the positions of power and influence those fools hold, your statement is pretty much the equivalent of being somewhere lost at sea with a navigator that won't let anyone else navigate despite the fact that he has no idea how to do it, and thinks the compass is some kind of fancy combination lock on a secret stash of fairy dust. The idiots are going to sink the F-N ship and there are NO LIFEBOATS !
It's generally considered unwise to ignore the creep with the gun to your head, no matter how stupid and irrational he is.
agreed
It's about replacing sideview mirrors with cameras, not throwing away the side view for a rear view.
You obviously never had to actually deal with serial and parallel connectors and their little screws to hold them in place.
USB was a freaking godsend!
Of, things can certainly get better, but companies hate jumping into new territory and would rather do it one increment at a time, if they can't avoid changing in the first place.
If they had to treat all biological remains from scientific research as biological waste & biohazards and dispose of properly or face jail time and HUGE fines, that would also kill their whaling industry. You can't sell biohazards or biological wastes.
The market for whale meat has been dying for decades and demand is at an all time low last time I saw the reports on it. Of course, the established industry doesn't care and will keep flaunting the treaty because they can and they still make money at it.
It is known that certain types of cetaceans do use personal names to refer to specific members.
It's known that humans have a unique and specialized digestive system that is adapted for eating cooked foods.
You just don't get as much nutrition, not just calories, from raw food.
It is true that cooking does 'destroy' some of the nutritional value, but if eaten raw, you still receive far less than if you'd have eaten the cooked food.
If you want to lose weight, sure you could eat raw food and exercise, or you could eat less cooked food and exercise, or just exercise more.
They believe in the money. It doesn't matter how gullible and ignorant the buyer is, the money is still money and works just the same. Unlike homeopathy, which doesn't work at all.
It takes gullibility to work. Well, actually that's required to buy into the scam, but there never has been a shortage of that in ignorant populations.
Why the police of course.
You know, the same people that arrest police that violate the laws.
It's not like crime by police is almost always completely swept under the rug unless there's a huge public outcry over it.
We all know it's great idea to let the fox regulate the hen house, right?
All sarcasm aside, if the database exists, it WILL be abused, and most likely by the police.
I know some who shot a burglar that broke into his bedroom while he was asleep with an arrow to the leg (sorry, not the knee, it was more of a thigh shot).
What happened?
The police arrested the homeowner and let the burglar press charges.