Despite the fact that the sender has no real way of knowing if the recipient is operating a vehicle unless they are in the vehicle with them, and on top of that, the text is a non-time sensitive communication like a physical letter. The only reason to read it the moment you get it is because you want to, otherwise you just wait until it's convenient, nobody is in any way forcing you to read it now.
As to the morons in NJ, they said "...know, the recipient will view the text while driving". I guess the statement of "I didn't know he/she was stupid enough to text while driving." suddenly becomes a valid defense.
So you think that someone that can't even begin to comprehend the course material should be allowed in just because they want to go there? When there are more qualified applicants than available slots, you need to limit the number you admit to supportable levels. On the other hand, you shouldn't let unqualified people that just don't have the requirements because they can't succeed, and will just be wasting resources, especially when there aren't enough slots for the qualified ones.
In this case, there were no qualified applicants. Do you expect them to repeat grade school & high school math and teach remedial English just so they could admit new 'students'? That's a waste the colleges resources. Colleges and Universities are Advanced or Higher education. If you don't have the lesser ones yet, you can't be taught the next level. It's like trying to build a skyscraper without a foundation. It will fail and topple, wasting a lot of time, effort, and other resources.
So no, I can't agree with your opinion that it's a failure of a university to have an entrance exam. Rather, if it's any ones fault, it's a failure of the prior education system or students that makes an exam necessary.
I want to can some tuna, and no, that's not a code name for anything.;) (Ok, I don't actually can anything, but I've been known to help my mom with the canning since I was a little kid.)
SciFi writers have made many accurate predictions based on extrapolations of technological development. They've also made many errors, but then again, they usually aren't trying to predict what will be, just write stories about what could be. As to getting the dates right, nobody seems to get that past the 3 year mark, unless it's already got marketing pushing for a release date, but that's not really a prediction either.
But changes in funding and laws have changed and allowed a record amount of fuel to accumulate. This was also made worse by the expanding footprint of mankind. We have towns and other installations all over the place, and most people don't want the burns and/or logging/clearing to occur near them. So it's just built up to record levels. Of course, the funding for all this hasn't kept pace, and has even been cut in various ways. (It's seems as though every time they get an increase in funding for this stuff, it gets yanked back pretty soon, with an additional cut to follow, but I don't have an exact list or anything.) Of course, you can't forget that there have been numerous laws and regulations put in place that limit or prevent the removal of fuel by various means in a number of locations. That's a self defeating thing once the first fire sweeps through. In a place where once there were trees that were fire resistant and needed the normal fires to cause their cones to open and disperse their seeds (fir trees are a good example), the fires with this new abundance of fuel are too hot, and actually kill or even destroy the trees along with their seeds.
Managing the forests is a complicated and difficult thing due the previous reasons. Also, just because something was said almost a century ago, or even longer, doesn't make it any less valid.
What if you forgot to take the groceries out of the back before you 'shut it'? Will it do that if someone is in the car? I bet a lot of people would have fun tipping them over when folded up. The smaller size is only when parked, so it won't help you get into a smaller parking space. Those tiny casters aren't going to be used for rolling it around anywhere, so why the heck didn't they use something more durable like a post/leg?
It's funny, but not very practical in my opinion. I wonder how many clowns you can cram into it?
That's a horrible choice. I don't know about the books you have to read, but that miniature screen is too freaking small for several of the textbooks I had to use.
Yes, I know you can enlarge the view, but you can't enlarge the screen, and when you need to see the whole thing at a size large enough to make out the details, a miniature screen is annoying and useless. The mini is a fail for that purpose.
Let's see, on class, anywhere from 10-30 students. Library usually having 1 or 2 of any single book. Possibly multiple classes, especially for common stuff. Homework and study requires you to spend more time with the book than a quick read in the library would allow. Sure, that'll work out real well. Shadowrat is right, you still have to buy the books.
I don't have an apply laptop, but the pc ones I have access to it's stupid simple to remove the hard drive. Only a complete imbecile would think it's necessary to destroy the computer to destroy the data. Then again, destroying the hard drive would only get rid of one copy of something you can be sure there are hundreds if not thousands of copies out there now. It's kind of like burning down the barn because the horse got out of the stall a century ago and now has a massive herd of descendants.
There has been one case of Monsanto successfully suing a farmer that wasn't supposed to be growing that strain. He apparently bought it on the open market as feed, not seed, so he paid a lower price. I know it sounds pretty screwed up, but there's a reason they have laws like that. (Greed comes to mind, but there might be others.)
Did you know that truckers have to buy a different diesel fuel than non-commercial drivers? It's more expensive than the regular diesel, the only real difference other than price is the non-commercial has a dye in it so the tax collectors can identify when a driver cheaps out and buys the wrong fuel. This is just an example of where two otherwise identical products are priced differently and are required to be used for different purposes.
I guess they painted it white and put a muffler on it.:D
Well, if you wanted it quiet, I don't think a muffler would really do it. I suspect you'd have to put in a completely different engine. I'm not giving a large probability to a pure electric for two reasons: . . First, most batteries don't seem to do that well in the really cold environments. You know, like Canada and Alaska, among many others. . . Second, batteries, especially ones designed for really cold places, just wouldn't give it much range, which would be a vital concern for the locations you'd primarily be using a snowmobile.
I don't get it. Sure, it sounds fantastic, but isn't this pretty much the same as a system proposed way back in the 50s? I'm pretty sure I saw that in a reprint of an ancient Popular Mechanic. (Maybe it was Popular Science, but was that one even being printed in the 50s?)
Besides that, he's not putting any money into it, and he doesn't have blueprints or anything, just an idea. Science Fiction writers do that level of work all the time with new ideas.
On a technical note, what about shifting of the ground, especially with earthquakes and the like. It probably only has a fraction of the tolerance to that which railroads have, especially at the speeds he's mentioning.
I'll bet they have far more non-Admin people accessing that info than they ever had of Admin people. Let's fire 90% of them, so you get an ever greater reduction of 'eyes' and bring the user vs IT balance back. That's of course assuming that they had a proper balance in the first place. Having some experience with government operations, they were either extremely understaffed for the workload, or massively overstaffed. Without more info (good luck getting that) there isn't any way to know which way it went. Of course, if you follow the usual train of thought that the guys above IT have, they probably didn't have enough in the first place. Since the bosses usually have no understanding of what IT does, and can't see the results, they assume that IT doesn't really do anything important or already has too many people, so it's often the first place they don't hire sufficient staff for or give personnel cuts to.
Well, look at the bright side. Chances are that within 6 months they'll be collapsing under their own stupidity.:)
Anything can be 'weaponized'. Everything mankind has ever invented has been employed in warfare in one way or another. The list includes: Math, Canned Foods, Prophylactics, Religion, Medicine, Insects, Water, Aircraft, etc. Let's face it, just grab a dictionary and a set of encyclopedias if you want a more comprehensive list.
And yes, the fear of someone employing an orbital kinetic kill weapon would cause havoc for anyone trying to create these kinds of launch systems. For the most part, it seems to me that the railgun/magnetic linear accelerator system is better, except for needing a longer strip of appropriate real estate to site it.
Actually, knowing it exists reduces the required resources by 90% or so. Yeah, that's just a percentage I made up, but it has definitely been shown that as long as someone knows it's possible, because someone else did it, it will be repeated, and often in only a fraction of the time and other resources it took for the first one to achieve it, even if the details are kept top secret.
I suspect the criminals don't want that. They probably want to keep the info under wraps for as long as possible so the manufacturer has little incentive to fix it while they continue to use it for their illicit advantage.
Ok, so it wouldn't be your local thug on the corner, but there are some criminal groups that pride themselves on using the 'slick' methods.
Actually patterns on wet suits to look unappetizing to sharks was done around 20 or 30 years ago. It was also done for surf boards as well. They may not have been these exact designs, but the idea itself isn't new at all.
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I've enjoyed many of his books over the years.
Another master will be greatly missed.
They eventually will, it's cheaper than them providing their own monitoring equipment/bugs.
Despite the fact that the sender has no real way of knowing if the recipient is operating a vehicle unless they are in the vehicle with them, and on top of that, the text is a non-time sensitive communication like a physical letter. The only reason to read it the moment you get it is because you want to, otherwise you just wait until it's convenient, nobody is in any way forcing you to read it now.
As to the morons in NJ, they said "...know, the recipient will view the text while driving". I guess the statement of "I didn't know he/she was stupid enough to text while driving." suddenly becomes a valid defense.
So you think that someone that can't even begin to comprehend the course material should be allowed in just because they want to go there?
When there are more qualified applicants than available slots, you need to limit the number you admit to supportable levels.
On the other hand, you shouldn't let unqualified people that just don't have the requirements because they can't succeed, and will just be wasting resources, especially when there aren't enough slots for the qualified ones.
In this case, there were no qualified applicants. Do you expect them to repeat grade school & high school math and teach remedial English just so they could admit new 'students'? That's a waste the colleges resources. Colleges and Universities are Advanced or Higher education. If you don't have the lesser ones yet, you can't be taught the next level. It's like trying to build a skyscraper without a foundation. It will fail and topple, wasting a lot of time, effort, and other resources.
So no, I can't agree with your opinion that it's a failure of a university to have an entrance exam. Rather, if it's any ones fault, it's a failure of the prior education system or students that makes an exam necessary.
I want to can some tuna, and no, that's not a code name for anything. ;)
(Ok, I don't actually can anything, but I've been known to help my mom with the canning since I was a little kid.)
SciFi writers have made many accurate predictions based on extrapolations of technological development.
They've also made many errors, but then again, they usually aren't trying to predict what will be, just write stories about what could be.
As to getting the dates right, nobody seems to get that past the 3 year mark, unless it's already got marketing pushing for a release date, but that's not really a prediction either.
As opposed to the laws created to intentionally hide criminals and corruption?
But changes in funding and laws have changed and allowed a record amount of fuel to accumulate. This was also made worse by the expanding footprint of mankind. We have towns and other installations all over the place, and most people don't want the burns and/or logging/clearing to occur near them. So it's just built up to record levels. Of course, the funding for all this hasn't kept pace, and has even been cut in various ways. (It's seems as though every time they get an increase in funding for this stuff, it gets yanked back pretty soon, with an additional cut to follow, but I don't have an exact list or anything.)
Of course, you can't forget that there have been numerous laws and regulations put in place that limit or prevent the removal of fuel by various means in a number of locations. That's a self defeating thing once the first fire sweeps through. In a place where once there were trees that were fire resistant and needed the normal fires to cause their cones to open and disperse their seeds (fir trees are a good example), the fires with this new abundance of fuel are too hot, and actually kill or even destroy the trees along with their seeds.
Managing the forests is a complicated and difficult thing due the previous reasons. Also, just because something was said almost a century ago, or even longer, doesn't make it any less valid.
What if you forgot to take the groceries out of the back before you 'shut it'?
Will it do that if someone is in the car?
I bet a lot of people would have fun tipping them over when folded up.
The smaller size is only when parked, so it won't help you get into a smaller parking space.
Those tiny casters aren't going to be used for rolling it around anywhere, so why the heck didn't they use something more durable like a post/leg?
It's funny, but not very practical in my opinion. I wonder how many clowns you can cram into it?
That's a horrible choice. I don't know about the books you have to read, but that miniature screen is too freaking small for several of the textbooks I had to use.
Yes, I know you can enlarge the view, but you can't enlarge the screen, and when you need to see the whole thing at a size large enough to make out the details, a miniature screen is annoying and useless. The mini is a fail for that purpose.
Let's see, on class, anywhere from 10-30 students. Library usually having 1 or 2 of any single book. Possibly multiple classes, especially for common stuff. Homework and study requires you to spend more time with the book than a quick read in the library would allow. Sure, that'll work out real well. Shadowrat is right, you still have to buy the books.
The same thing that always goes wrong, somebody will abuse it because they can.
Though it would be hard to deny the incredible decline in quality of 'journalism' over the last several decades.
I don't have an apply laptop, but the pc ones I have access to it's stupid simple to remove the hard drive. Only a complete imbecile would think it's necessary to destroy the computer to destroy the data. Then again, destroying the hard drive would only get rid of one copy of something you can be sure there are hundreds if not thousands of copies out there now.
It's kind of like burning down the barn because the horse got out of the stall a century ago and now has a massive herd of descendants.
It might earn him a Golden Woody, but then again, he's a big enough dick without getting his ego inflated.
There has been one case of Monsanto successfully suing a farmer that wasn't supposed to be growing that strain. He apparently bought it on the open market as feed, not seed, so he paid a lower price. I know it sounds pretty screwed up, but there's a reason they have laws like that. (Greed comes to mind, but there might be others.)
Did you know that truckers have to buy a different diesel fuel than non-commercial drivers? It's more expensive than the regular diesel, the only real difference other than price is the non-commercial has a dye in it so the tax collectors can identify when a driver cheaps out and buys the wrong fuel. This is just an example of where two otherwise identical products are priced differently and are required to be used for different purposes.
I guess they painted it white and put a muffler on it. :D
Well, if you wanted it quiet, I don't think a muffler would really do it.
I suspect you'd have to put in a completely different engine.
I'm not giving a large probability to a pure electric for two reasons:
. . First, most batteries don't seem to do that well in the really cold environments. You know, like Canada and Alaska, among many others.
. . Second, batteries, especially ones designed for really cold places, just wouldn't give it much range, which would be a vital concern for the locations you'd primarily be using a snowmobile.
I don't get it.
Sure, it sounds fantastic, but isn't this pretty much the same as a system proposed way back in the 50s?
I'm pretty sure I saw that in a reprint of an ancient Popular Mechanic.
(Maybe it was Popular Science, but was that one even being printed in the 50s?)
Besides that, he's not putting any money into it, and he doesn't have blueprints or anything, just an idea. Science Fiction writers do that level of work all the time with new ideas.
On a technical note, what about shifting of the ground, especially with earthquakes and the like. It probably only has a fraction of the tolerance to that which railroads have, especially at the speeds he's mentioning.
I'll bet they have far more non-Admin people accessing that info than they ever had of Admin people.
:)
Let's fire 90% of them, so you get an ever greater reduction of 'eyes' and bring the user vs IT balance back.
That's of course assuming that they had a proper balance in the first place. Having some experience with government operations, they were either extremely understaffed for the workload, or massively overstaffed. Without more info (good luck getting that) there isn't any way to know which way it went.
Of course, if you follow the usual train of thought that the guys above IT have, they probably didn't have enough in the first place.
Since the bosses usually have no understanding of what IT does, and can't see the results, they assume that IT doesn't really do anything important or already has too many people, so it's often the first place they don't hire sufficient staff for or give personnel cuts to.
Well, look at the bright side. Chances are that within 6 months they'll be collapsing under their own stupidity.
Anything can be 'weaponized'.
Everything mankind has ever invented has been employed in warfare in one way or another.
The list includes: Math, Canned Foods, Prophylactics, Religion, Medicine, Insects, Water, Aircraft, etc.
Let's face it, just grab a dictionary and a set of encyclopedias if you want a more comprehensive list.
And yes, the fear of someone employing an orbital kinetic kill weapon would cause havoc for anyone trying to create these kinds of launch systems.
For the most part, it seems to me that the railgun/magnetic linear accelerator system is better, except for needing a longer strip of appropriate real estate to site it.
Soylent Astropudding, just what they need. :(=
Actually, knowing it exists reduces the required resources by 90% or so.
Yeah, that's just a percentage I made up, but it has definitely been shown that as long as someone knows it's possible, because someone else did it, it will be repeated, and often in only a fraction of the time and other resources it took for the first one to achieve it, even if the details are kept top secret.
I suspect the criminals don't want that. They probably want to keep the info under wraps for as long as possible so the manufacturer has little incentive to fix it while they continue to use it for their illicit advantage.
Ok, so it wouldn't be your local thug on the corner, but there are some criminal groups that pride themselves on using the 'slick' methods.
Actually patterns on wet suits to look unappetizing to sharks was done around 20 or 30 years ago. It was also done for surf boards as well.
They may not have been these exact designs, but the idea itself isn't new at all.
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