Again people, this is OREGON, not California, there are NO YEARLY INSPECTIONS. You don't even get inspected when you renew your registration.
Sure, you could spend a fortune to institute them, but the DMV can't keep up with their current workload as it is. Go there for one simple thing when the open, and wait there for hours. If you're lucky, you get out in time for lunch. (Ok, it's not always that bad, but it's still pretty much on target.)
I've got a (ex)wife that won't fail to answer/reply to a text, even when driving. (Unless it's me, of course.) I've yelled at her many times for texting while driving, and she's gotten 3 very expensive traffic tickets for that so far. (Unless there're more I didn't find out about.)
Some people won't stop, it's as though it's wired into their brains and everything else is second if not third.
Of course you are ignoring the simple fact that if you don't get the discount, even a disingenuous one, you are paying a higher price.
Now you could say "just go to a different store". True, but that's limited. There are only so many stores in any area, and certain products are not carried by all of them.
On top of that the time and fuel spend running from store to store has to be considered. Are you really going to spend 15 minutes, and around $0.20 - $0.80 in fuel to save $0.13 on something?
I don't like being 'profiled' by machines, but as long as someone is going to do it anyway, I might as well use it to my advantage. If you want to pay the higher non-discounted prices, or expend vast quantities of time and fuel to avoid those systems, more power to you. I'd rather just stick it to the creep that instituted the annoyance in the first place.
People forget (or conveniently ignore) that we have always lived in a radioactive world. By the way, the radiation goes up during the day, the sun itself is radioactive. It all needs to be taken in context rather than just setting off alarms every time you detect radiation of any kind. Heck, YOU are radioactive. Get a geiger counter and press it too your chest, you will see an increase in the readings.
Marcansoft, that's pretty cool that you have readings from all over. Even cooler that you aren't one of the paranoid zero tolerance ignorant scaremongers. Thanks again for the info.:)
Since they are legally selling devices to let you send your media to any tv or other appropriate device on a small scale (your household), it seems to definitely be fair use and basically the same thing, just on a larger scale. For that matter, their other functions seem to be the same as a DVR. Seems to me they are getting the broadcasters rather limited 'broadcast' to a lot more people in a more convenient method, and they as well as their customers are shouldering the costs for it instead of the "broadcasters". Who knows what the courts will eventually decide.
Sorry, but I thought I'd mention this as well. On campus one day between classes, I walked past a bikerack that was loaded with bikes. (I was delivering something to one of the departments.) When I came back by less than 15 minutes later, the entire rack was gone, bikes and all. Like I said, we have a very active and persistent community of bike thieves here.
It's a good start, but it's far short of optimal. It sounds kind of like a VIN that cars have, but more accessible to the average person to check on and not as extensive.
Hate to say it, but where I live is the bike theft capital of the world. It wouldn't do much good, unless it was on each part of the bike. They steal everything they can, even if it's only a seat or a tire, or even the handlebars. When they have enough parts, they assemble a bike. The chains careful people use can often outweigh the bike.:( Seeing people carrying their seats or occasionally a wheel is not uncommon, and those aren't the thieves either.
So it's a good start, but there needs to be more to really make an impact, and it's going to have to include the industry as well. Good luck.
Sorry to be picky, but bosons were 'discovered' and named a LONG time ago, maybe even before those guys were born. The title should not say 'boson', is should specify 'HIGGS boson'. (I don't care about the capitalization.)
Just imagine if there was a title like "The theory of Gravity has been proven invalid", when you really meant "The theory of Modified Gravity has been proven invalid". See, that one word makes a big difference, STOP SCREWING UP A SIMPLE TITLE ! By the way, as far as I know, that theory hasn't been proven, or disproven, but it still isn't popular with physicists.
Fortunately most of the/. readers are smart enough about science to figure it out without reading the article, but there have been a growing number of others of late...
Not to mention that in hot war zones, very little of actual law is enforced by anyone so long as the soldiers are following their orders. War is a horrible thing, and some people take advantage of the situation, and get away with it. The games I've played rarely let you do anything other than kill the enemy, one of the main points of war. In fact, when they do have civilians, they are either invulnerable, or quickly respawn. Both of which are unrealistic, but then again, it's supposed to be unrealistic, it's a game.
I sure hope you mean 'secret', but as you used that particular spelling twice, I wonder if you know that 'secrete' means to generate or expel a separate substance. Such as "You secrete sweat when you are overheated" or "Lavender flowers secrete a sweet fragrance".
Later in your sentences, you use the word 'secret', so I'm just guessing here.
As to impeaching the president for revealing top secret information, (I have no idea what information you are referring to), it's not possible as he is authorized to declassify and reveal such information. It would be like firing your secretary for transcribing your dictation you asked for, except a whole lot messier.
Criticizing government policies and regulations, especially for or from a country that has 'freedom of speech' and 'freedom of the press' is NOT working against the interests of the country. It can easily be argued that it is working FOR the betterment of that country. Only fools and fascist sycophants would blindly accept that everything any government does is perfect. And a standard rule of improvement, if you can't recognize the problems, you'll never make things better.
I could give you a bunch of quotes and other references to back this up, but first of all, you wouldn't knowingly bother reading anything that conflicts with your views. As to the subsequent reasons, you've probably already stopped reading this.:p
I hate both political parties, too damn many politicians. Obama has done a number of things I can't stand. Most of his attempts at things I do support were blocked by rabid republicans that would do anything to get rid of Obama.
Yes, I hate both parties and pretty much all politicians, but the head of the republican party deserve a special kind of hell. (Even a bunch of their own party see their leaders a rabid psychotics intent on destroying this country in their vain and pointless attempt to eliminate or marginalize the president. Too bad so many people are so easily fooled by their antics, or so forgetful they can't remember what those nutjobs did/said last week. Heck, maybe they're getting hypnotized by rush, I don't know, but it's not good.)
All in all, I'm sick of the politics, the politicians, and the stupid sycophants that repeat the political spin as if it were gospel instead of the poorly wrought scam it is. I just with everyone would shut up about this and start trying to act like rational caring adults. (Fat chance, but I can still dream.)
There have been actual cyborgs before, and as to W or M, they don't qualify. To be a cyborg you must have implanted into your body a device that replicates, or enhances a function that the body already has, or endows new ones, and that capability must be something that cannot function properly if outside the body.
I don't see anything that Mann has actually implanted, so he fails. Warwick fails for the same reason. The only thing he implanted was an id chip. It would have worked just as well in his pocket as under his skin.
On the other hand, we've had people with lens implants in the eyes, joint implants in the hips, heart implants, even an electrode array that gave the blind the ability to see, even if it was a very primitive array. (If I recall properly, the first blind person to 'see' via cybernetics only saw an 8x8 matrix of dots.) So if you want passive cybernetics, they're there. If you prefer active, that also has been around for a LONG time. Heck, even the artificial heart the "Jarvik-7" was implanted into someone way back in 1982. That's over THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Somebody needs to give 'captain cyborg' self-promotion whore a reality check. And probably a wet mackerel to the face. Along those lines, the media needs to stop talking about that fake.
Running a blackmail scam is NOT a symptom of autism. I sure hope he likes a having a tiny living area and orange jumpsuits. I agree, too many people are using pretty weak excuses for antisocial and illegal activities.
Most, virtually all, of the book reviews you find on the back of the books are fake and paid for, the only difference is the person who is named is the one who recieved the money. I hear that kind of stuff happens with lots of the 'reviews' out there. Never trust a reviewer you don't know. This is nothing new, not even if you slap 'on the internet' onto it.
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They would have to import the hemp, you can't grow it in the USA. (At least not legally.)
As does virtually every other professional in any field regarding their profession.
And all of those are thrown out the window when dealing with politicians or those with a political agenda.
Again people, this is OREGON, not California, there are NO YEARLY INSPECTIONS. You don't even get inspected when you renew your registration.
Sure, you could spend a fortune to institute them, but the DMV can't keep up with their current workload as it is. Go there for one simple thing when the open, and wait there for hours. If you're lucky, you get out in time for lunch. (Ok, it's not always that bad, but it's still pretty much on target.)
No annual inspections, nor inspections when renewing registration.
I suspect you're thinking of California.
I've got a (ex)wife that won't fail to answer/reply to a text, even when driving. (Unless it's me, of course.) I've yelled at her many times for texting while driving, and she's gotten 3 very expensive traffic tickets for that so far. (Unless there're more I didn't find out about.)
Some people won't stop, it's as though it's wired into their brains and everything else is second if not third.
Of course you are ignoring the simple fact that if you don't get the discount, even a disingenuous one, you are paying a higher price.
Now you could say "just go to a different store". True, but that's limited. There are only so many stores in any area, and certain products are not carried by all of them.
On top of that the time and fuel spend running from store to store has to be considered. Are you really going to spend 15 minutes, and around $0.20 - $0.80 in fuel to save $0.13 on something?
I don't like being 'profiled' by machines, but as long as someone is going to do it anyway, I might as well use it to my advantage. If you want to pay the higher non-discounted prices, or expend vast quantities of time and fuel to avoid those systems, more power to you. I'd rather just stick it to the creep that instituted the annoyance in the first place.
Especially once we figure out how to 'convince' it to give us the best discount on everything.
Humans are lousy at reading humans, machines programmed by humans and used on the cheap will be relatively easy to fool.
People forget (or conveniently ignore) that we have always lived in a radioactive world.
:)
By the way, the radiation goes up during the day, the sun itself is radioactive.
It all needs to be taken in context rather than just setting off alarms every time you detect radiation of any kind.
Heck, YOU are radioactive. Get a geiger counter and press it too your chest, you will see an increase in the readings.
Marcansoft, that's pretty cool that you have readings from all over. Even cooler that you aren't one of the paranoid zero tolerance ignorant scaremongers. Thanks again for the info.
Are you implying that the Fukushima event was actually an RSVP for Godzilla to attend the 2020 Olympics? :D
Since they are legally selling devices to let you send your media to any tv or other appropriate device on a small scale (your household), it seems to definitely be fair use and basically the same thing, just on a larger scale. For that matter, their other functions seem to be the same as a DVR. Seems to me they are getting the broadcasters rather limited 'broadcast' to a lot more people in a more convenient method, and they as well as their customers are shouldering the costs for it instead of the "broadcasters".
Who knows what the courts will eventually decide.
Sorry, but I thought I'd mention this as well.
On campus one day between classes, I walked past a bikerack that was loaded with bikes. (I was delivering something to one of the departments.) When I came back by less than 15 minutes later, the entire rack was gone, bikes and all. Like I said, we have a very active and persistent community of bike thieves here.
It's a good start, but it's far short of optimal.
:(
It sounds kind of like a VIN that cars have, but more accessible to the average person to check on and not as extensive.
Hate to say it, but where I live is the bike theft capital of the world.
It wouldn't do much good, unless it was on each part of the bike.
They steal everything they can, even if it's only a seat or a tire, or even the handlebars. When they have enough parts, they assemble a bike.
The chains careful people use can often outweigh the bike.
Seeing people carrying their seats or occasionally a wheel is not uncommon, and those aren't the thieves either.
So it's a good start, but there needs to be more to really make an impact, and it's going to have to include the industry as well.
Good luck.
Uh oh, looks likes Job's Reality Distortion Field is collapsing. :p
If this keeps up, Macs may start turning into fruit or something.
Sorry to be picky, but bosons were 'discovered' and named a LONG time ago, maybe even before those guys were born.
/. readers are smart enough about science to figure it out without reading the article, but there have been a growing number of others of late...
The title should not say 'boson', is should specify 'HIGGS boson'. (I don't care about the capitalization.)
Just imagine if there was a title like "The theory of Gravity has been proven invalid", when you really meant "The theory of Modified Gravity has been proven invalid".
See, that one word makes a big difference, STOP SCREWING UP A SIMPLE TITLE !
By the way, as far as I know, that theory hasn't been proven, or disproven, but it still isn't popular with physicists.
Fortunately most of the
Not to mention that in hot war zones, very little of actual law is enforced by anyone so long as the soldiers are following their orders.
War is a horrible thing, and some people take advantage of the situation, and get away with it. The games I've played rarely let you do anything other than kill the enemy, one of the main points of war. In fact, when they do have civilians, they are either invulnerable, or quickly respawn. Both of which are unrealistic, but then again, it's supposed to be unrealistic, it's a game.
secrete ?!?!?
I sure hope you mean 'secret', but as you used that particular spelling twice, I wonder if you know that 'secrete' means to generate or expel a separate substance. Such as "You secrete sweat when you are overheated" or "Lavender flowers secrete a sweet fragrance".
Later in your sentences, you use the word 'secret', so I'm just guessing here.
As to impeaching the president for revealing top secret information, (I have no idea what information you are referring to), it's not possible as he is authorized to declassify and reveal such information. It would be like firing your secretary for transcribing your dictation you asked for, except a whole lot messier.
Heh, I'll choose history. Preferably a grubby footnote that is mostly treated by students as an example of what not to do. :)
Criticizing government policies and regulations, especially for or from a country that has 'freedom of speech' and 'freedom of the press' is NOT working against the interests of the country. It can easily be argued that it is working FOR the betterment of that country. Only fools and fascist sycophants would blindly accept that everything any government does is perfect. And a standard rule of improvement, if you can't recognize the problems, you'll never make things better.
:p
I could give you a bunch of quotes and other references to back this up, but first of all, you wouldn't knowingly bother reading anything that conflicts with your views. As to the subsequent reasons, you've probably already stopped reading this.
I hate both political parties, too damn many politicians.
Obama has done a number of things I can't stand.
Most of his attempts at things I do support were blocked by rabid republicans that would do anything to get rid of Obama.
Yes, I hate both parties and pretty much all politicians, but the head of the republican party deserve a special kind of hell. (Even a bunch of their own party see their leaders a rabid psychotics intent on destroying this country in their vain and pointless attempt to eliminate or marginalize the president. Too bad so many people are so easily fooled by their antics, or so forgetful they can't remember what those nutjobs did/said last week. Heck, maybe they're getting hypnotized by rush, I don't know, but it's not good.)
All in all, I'm sick of the politics, the politicians, and the stupid sycophants that repeat the political spin as if it were gospel instead of the poorly wrought scam it is. I just with everyone would shut up about this and start trying to act like rational caring adults. (Fat chance, but I can still dream.)
There have been actual cyborgs before, and as to W or M, they don't qualify. To be a cyborg you must have implanted into your body a device that replicates, or enhances a function that the body already has, or endows new ones, and that capability must be something that cannot function properly if outside the body.
I don't see anything that Mann has actually implanted, so he fails.
Warwick fails for the same reason. The only thing he implanted was an id chip. It would have worked just as well in his pocket as under his skin.
On the other hand, we've had people with lens implants in the eyes, joint implants in the hips, heart implants, even an electrode array that gave the blind the ability to see, even if it was a very primitive array. (If I recall properly, the first blind person to 'see' via cybernetics only saw an 8x8 matrix of dots.)
So if you want passive cybernetics, they're there. If you prefer active, that also has been around for a LONG time. Heck, even the artificial heart the "Jarvik-7" was implanted into someone way back in 1982. That's over THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Somebody needs to give 'captain cyborg' self-promotion whore a reality check.
And probably a wet mackerel to the face.
Along those lines, the media needs to stop talking about that fake.
Data collection system developed and mandated by NSA and kept under the publics radar by gag orders.
(I don't actually know, but it wouldn't surprise me at this point.)
Running a blackmail scam is NOT a symptom of autism.
I sure hope he likes a having a tiny living area and orange jumpsuits.
I agree, too many people are using pretty weak excuses for antisocial and illegal activities.
Most, virtually all, of the book reviews you find on the back of the books are fake and paid for, the only difference is the person who is named is the one who recieved the money. I hear that kind of stuff happens with lots of the 'reviews' out there. Never trust a reviewer you don't know. This is nothing new, not even if you slap 'on the internet' onto it.
Does this make Linux qualify for Steampunk? :)