They don't even have to prove that you were driving to be ticketed, just the owner is ticketed... So there goes old fashion habeas corpus out the door. There is no reasonable means of redress if there is any issue, since it is just an administrational issue, not a criminal one. They also claimed that it was for "safety", except that they put them on the intersections with the most traffic, not the most accidents per intersection, or accidents per unit of traffic.
If you could contest it like any other ticket in court, then it might stop being an illegal attack of a government on it's citizens.
In Larry Niven's collection of short stories "Flatlander", human longevity was extended by periodic "part replacements". Once the voting populace learned criminals were a ready source of spare parts, the death penalty was extended to other crimes; dangerous ones such as tax evasion and "operating a flying car in manual within city limits".
I'm glad we are turning science fiction into fact all the time.
Now , FTW, do you think that Chinese law enforcement has an officer that can smoke a cigarette with a telekinetic phantom limb?
The ass-load is slightly bigger than the butt-ton, but smaller that the really big metric fuck ton. Also depends if you consider if you're using long or short tons.
Does anyone know what the Curie temperature of the magnetic coating happens to be? I would think that a potter's kiln or a blacksmith's forge would be effective.
So, cut off from family, no outside entertainment, and living in a tin can breathing each other's farts for 100+ days at a time?
Add a sadistic, drill-happy Command Master Chief (no, not the cool one)and you'd have exactly what thousands of US submariners do every year.... For the last few decades.
Raise your hand if you have ever experienced "boat funk".
What broke me from being interested to moving to hardcore was finishing off 14 of Asimov's foundation series with the help of a well stocked library and summer vacation after 7th grade.
Mr. Wizard was the highest (I'll never forget the cage full of mousetraps and ping pong balls -- first primer to supercritical chain reactions.
"This Old House" and "New Yankee Workshop" was possibly the best practical application of engineering.
I'm still enthralled when I get to see James Burke's "Connections" or "Beyond 2000."
A little over topic: The 14yr perv in me loved the late night showings of Desomond Morris's "The Human Animal". Those taught me more than ol' Mom's little "talks" or any magazine could.
Life is cyclical. Is it life imitating art or vice versa?
My favorite quote from Mr. Lewis Black:
"... These are the word we use to express frustration, rage, anger.... In order we don't pick up a tire iron and beat the Shit out of some one." In a civil society, I would rather say "Godddamnn! I want to beat the F'in shit out of you," than actually do so.
If you wanted some rapid advances not just the technology, but how it's implemented, then we need to start racing then next gen cars. Set up an off-shoot of NASCAR or Formula One...
Race officials give teams a pre-charged battery pack and an anemic amount of fuel. Not only do you have to finish the race, you have to win. Putting honor and egos on the line have a strong effect on getting things accomplished.
It's amazing what technology has made the transition from the track to the street over the decades. The KERS tech is one that shows a lot of promise. Heck, bring back the days in the US racing where car had to come off the production line
TMI-2 was the quintessential example of lessons to learn. If you walk away from the process, you've learned nothing from it.
There are so many oil spills at sea on an annual basis, but even after Exxon-Valdez, most people are still driving with gas shipped by tanker. Almost five months after the TVA coal ash spill, nearby coal plants are still burning. A couple of years after TMI, WR Grace was sued for trichloroethylene found in the drinking water; TCE is still used as an industrial solvent.
If you make the laws such that it is prohibitive to F-it up, even the bean counters will find it cheaper to do it right.
Lessons learned from TMI-2: make the UI easy to get the useful information; Procedural compliance-- shutting off feedwater valves broke rules that were there for a reason (Chernobyl popped it's lid like tupperware in the microwave because they were breaking Ohhhhh so many proceedures.); Train your operators - cross check readings that don't make sense; Design the plant such that it is passively safe; Last of all, put a single person on the hook if anything goes wrong--the persistent threat of jail time spelled out ahead of time to a CEO will get their attention.
The Navy took these lessons to heart and incorporated it into their Propulsion Program. Late hours as RO and SRO theorizing "what would happen if" for all possible scenarios (you think of some interesting ones at 2 AM), made me confident that I would wake up safe every time I hit the rack.
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TFS notes that the politicians seem more annoyed that they are being cut out of the money, not how it affects the citizens.
They tried this in Springfield MO (sorry pay access to the local paper I read daily) http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/news_leader/access/1691011761.html?FMT=ABS&date=Jan+13,+2009
They don't even have to prove that you were driving to be ticketed, just the owner is ticketed... So there goes old fashion habeas corpus out the door. There is no reasonable means of redress if there is any issue, since it is just an administrational issue, not a criminal one. They also claimed that it was for "safety", except that they put them on the intersections with the most traffic, not the most accidents per intersection, or accidents per unit of traffic.
If you could contest it like any other ticket in court, then it might stop being an illegal attack of a government on it's citizens.
Ctrl-Alt-Plus to turn on turbo, and Ctrl-Alt-Minus to turn it off?
In Larry Niven's collection of short stories "Flatlander", human longevity was extended by periodic "part replacements". Once the voting populace learned criminals were a ready source of spare parts, the death penalty was extended to other crimes; dangerous ones such as tax evasion and "operating a flying car in manual within city limits".
I'm glad we are turning science fiction into fact all the time.
Now , FTW, do you think that Chinese law enforcement has an officer that can smoke a cigarette with a telekinetic phantom limb?
An there an app for this. Later scientists are looking to scale it up to the Shuffle and the Touch.
"Metric ass-load of batteries"
The ass-load is slightly bigger than the butt-ton, but smaller that the really big metric fuck ton.
Also depends if you consider if you're using long or short tons.
Does anyone know what the Curie temperature of the magnetic coating happens to be? I would think that a potter's kiln or a blacksmith's forge would be effective.
I for one welcome our new gene modified fovea overlords.
or
"All in favor say "Aye""
Maybe the rebranding might help you forget your experiences of buying stuff at twice the price for half the quality.
Honestly, these guys should have been out of business FAR before Circuit City.
This reminds me of a movie I was watching as heard about this:
"Mongo, is so much a who as a what", "Yeah, what he said"
I hadn't even visited /b/ in a while. Then I did.
I was like LoL, then I threw up a little, then I was like LoL.
*Cough* *Cough*
"C'here PIGGY!!!"
So, cut off from family, no outside entertainment, and living in a tin can breathing each other's farts for 100+ days at a time?
Add a sadistic, drill-happy Command Master Chief (no, not the cool one)and you'd have exactly what thousands of US submariners do every year.... For the last few decades.
Raise your hand if you have ever experienced "boat funk".
What broke me from being interested to moving to hardcore was finishing off 14 of Asimov's foundation series with the help of a well stocked library and summer vacation after 7th grade.
Mr. Wizard was the highest (I'll never forget the cage full of mousetraps and ping pong balls -- first primer to supercritical chain reactions.
"This Old House" and "New Yankee Workshop" was possibly the best practical application of engineering.
I'm still enthralled when I get to see James Burke's "Connections" or "Beyond 2000."
A little over topic: The 14yr perv in me loved the late night showings of Desomond Morris's "The Human Animal". Those taught me more than ol' Mom's little "talks" or any magazine could.
Life is cyclical. Is it life imitating art or vice versa?
My favorite quote from Mr. Lewis Black:
"... These are the word we use to express frustration, rage, anger.... In order we don't pick up a tire iron and beat the Shit out of some one."
In a civil society, I would rather say "Godddamnn! I want to beat the F'in shit out of you," than actually do so.
If you wanted some rapid advances not just the technology, but how it's implemented, then we need to start racing then next gen cars. Set up an off-shoot of NASCAR or Formula One...
Race officials give teams a pre-charged battery pack and an anemic amount of fuel. Not only do you have to finish the race, you have to win. Putting honor and egos on the line have a strong effect on getting things accomplished.
It's amazing what technology has made the transition from the track to the street over the decades. The KERS tech is one that shows a lot of promise. Heck, bring back the days in the US racing where car had to come off the production line
TMI-2 was the quintessential example of lessons to learn. If you walk away from the process, you've learned nothing from it.
There are so many oil spills at sea on an annual basis, but even after Exxon-Valdez, most people are still driving with gas shipped by tanker. Almost five months after the TVA coal ash spill, nearby coal plants are still burning. A couple of years after TMI, WR Grace was sued for trichloroethylene found in the drinking water; TCE is still used as an industrial solvent.
If you make the laws such that it is prohibitive to F-it up, even the bean counters will find it cheaper to do it right.
Lessons learned from TMI-2: make the UI easy to get the useful information; Procedural compliance-- shutting off feedwater valves broke rules that were there for a reason (Chernobyl popped it's lid like tupperware in the microwave because they were breaking Ohhhhh so many proceedures.); Train your operators - cross check readings that don't make sense; Design the plant such that it is passively safe; Last of all, put a single person on the hook if anything goes wrong--the persistent threat of jail time spelled out ahead of time to a CEO will get their attention.
The Navy took these lessons to heart and incorporated it into their Propulsion Program. Late hours as RO and SRO theorizing "what would happen if" for all possible scenarios (you think of some interesting ones at 2 AM), made me confident that I would wake up safe every time I hit the rack.