It was always big from a "mystery" perspective, but the circumstances of his jump have always made it extremely unlikely that he survived -- jumping into -70F windchill air, into a wilderness area, at night, without anything more protective than a suit and raincoat.
The big mysteries seem to be identifying who he was and what happened to the body, parachute and the money. Some decayed packets of money were found, but that seems to lead more credence to the theory that the jump/landing/escape was a failure.
It's pretty damn cold when you sky dive. For all of a minute. In my experience, your adrenaline rushes to the point where you only feel the cold for a few seconds. Granted, I've only jumped during the day, but I warmed up rather quickly and actually feel that the ascent in an uninsulated fuselage is far more uncomfortable (cold) than the actual jump itself.
and in many instances encryption keys for encrypted information simply don't exist
Ahh keyless encryption: for when you really don't care to ever get the data back.
Many keys are ephemeral. Once the information has been received and acknowledged, both parties discard their keys. If you intercept one of these messages, no one will ever have a way of decrypting it. The only way to get the information is to double back and beat it out of one of them.
Sure, you can use TLS for instance and get a new key for each transaction. There is still a key, however and one could intercept a TLS key, for instance, by way of a man in the middle attack.
"Storage space maxed out? No problem. macOS Sierra can help make more room by automatically storing rarely used files in the cloud and keeping them available on demand. It can also help you find and remove old files you no longer use. So there’s always room on your Mac for new files and the ones you’ve used most recently."
Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.
I'd probably have more space if Apple cleaned up after itself! I was looking through my ~/AppData/Roaming/Apple and ~/AppData/Local/Apple folders last night and found apple using over ~40GB of space on my machine for iOS crash dumps (sync'ed automatically via iTunes) (10GB), the last 5 years of iTunes installers (2GB), iPhone OS images (15GB for several different models over 4 or 5 years), iPad OS Images (2GB, I only had two different model iPads in that time), and a bunch of DMG files that I could not determine their purpose.
Switch over to my work MacBook Pro and I had 80GB in ~/Library/Developer of just old simulator images installed with each release of XCode.
Also, just for completeness, if you do have a concealed carry permit, know whether or not local law requires you to inform the officer. In my state (Utah) there is no legal obligation, but odds are he'll know (from running your plate) before he approaches, so it's a good idea to say something like "Officer, as a courtesy I want to inform you that I have Utah Concealed Firearm Permit and I am (or am not, as appropriate) armed." At least in my area, this generally makes the police quite happy with you. Most of them are big fans of lawful citizen carry, and it also means they know that you don't have a criminal record.
I know a retired police officer who teaches safety courses for concealed weapons permits in Florida. He recommends that you only volunteer such info to a police officer if retrieving your license or registration could reveal the firearm. But if they ask, do not lie about whether you have a weapon as lying to the police is illegal in every state (I believe). Obviously that may vary by jurisdiction. He said that they train state officers to immediately call for backup and have you sit there until another officer can help them disarm you prior to handling your stop. But for your own safety it is better to tell the officer that you have a gun than risk them finding that out by observation.
In any event, when I have been pulled over I have typically turned on my dome light, lower the windows on both sides of the car so that they can approach either (or both) sides at their convenience, and keep my hands open, palm down, with my wrists resting on the top of the steering wheel in plain sight. Lowering the windows is especially important if your state allows you to tint all of the side windows.
I can't speak for everyone, but I think almost everyone wears their watch on their non-dominant hand?
I wear mine on my dominant hand but I'm fairly ambidextrous. I actually use my non-dominant hand to do PIN entry as I'm a lefty and most things are positioned for the right handed world. Plus the 10 key is on the right hand of the keyboard, anyway.
There are lots of crimes with no punishments. This is one of them.
This needs to be noted VERY well in this discussion.
Typically, just mishandling classified information (without intentionally handing it off to others) is handled with an administrative slap on the wrist, and maybe losing clearance. There are rarely any criminal proceedings, because the higher-ups never want a subordinate to fear revealing a data spill. Instead, self-policing and self-reporting are praised, and mistakes are often just cleaned up and forgotten.
Well in this case we have someone who the FBI has acknowledged has committed a crime and then tried for years to cover it up. So how is your point relevant to this discussion? In fact, your point suggests that we should indict Clinton to emphasize that it is better to admit you made a mistake than to cover it up
A friend of mine as worked in the social sciences (cue/. laughter, but bear with me) and they were forced by the university to use a closed source statistical package for all their data processing. So anyway, she got some really dubious results and she preferred to do her own maths, so she did, and lo! completely different results. That was the start of a research project which concluded that the closed source package contained a rounding error that basically filtered all minorities out of the data set, which is kind of sad if you're doing research on minorities.
People trust their software too much, are too lazy to do their own maths, don't really want to have got anything to do with data processing even though that's their job, and universities force bad software on their employees. This is an institutional problem that goes way beyond MRI research.
I had a university level Statistics "professor" once tell me that I didn't need to know how my calculator created a box plot, etc etc because I could just use someone else's statistics library instead of writing my own. While in general I agree that there is no point in reinventing the wheel, I felt like I ought to learn how such things work.
the only people who seem to care about this case are trump supporters. his poll numbers are down which is why i'm seeing the memes on my facebook feed from trump supporters
I care about this because I used to be a DoD contractor and know that I would be in Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison already if I did the exact same thing.
If I recall correctly, that was actually due to a software bug in Google's own domain registration service that allowed him to register the google domain. If I recall correctly, the software reverted the registration almost immediately, too.
Not having a single sports molecule in my body, I had no clue what they meant by "Juno is a spinning, robotic probe as wide as a basketball court."
Why can't they use standard terms of measurement like 1U or millifurlongs? Sooner or later they'll crash a probe when a contractor gets the sports rules mixed up and uses American hoop ball measurements instead of International.
Having been on both a basketball court and inside of the LOC, I can tell you that it is approximately 1/10th of a Library of Congress wide
What's that in Big Bens?
Well Big Ben is technically a bell but if you're referring to the clock tower, it's approximately 1/6 of an Elizabeth Clock Tower.
I had an issue with being double-charged for an app from the app store about 5 years ago. Went to Apple's support site, wrote a description of the problem, then was asked if I would like THEM to call ME. Not the other way around. Clicked yes, a calendar popped up in which I selected the time window in (IIRC) 10 minute increments when I wanted them to call me.
Within a couple minutes of the 'start' my phone rang and I was chatting with a nice guy (said his name was Daniel in Texas). He already had my records up and he called to ask me if I wanted a credit on my iTunes account or refund to my card. He then said he'd call me back when it was done. About 10 minutes later he called me back and said the credit was issued.
That is exemplary customer service and one reason their customer satisfaction is always rated so high.
One of my neighbors does call center support for Apple. He isn't an Apple employee, his company is contracted by Apple. But Apple pays to train them specifically to be specialists in Apple products. The guy is really nice and I think I would actually enjoy working with him over the phone.
I will say that Apple support did frustrate me when I had to have a warranty repair. I specifically told them I would be out of town when the product was returned to the Apple store and they told me not to worry about it. Then I got a call telling me I needed to pick my laptop up within 24 hours - a solid 48 hours before I was scheduled to return. Then I got an email saying I needed to call the Apple store. I called the local store number which just transferred me to a call center that could do absolutely nothing for me. Eventually a tier 3 support person called me back just to tell me not to worry about it, that I could pick my laptop up whenever.
Not having a single sports molecule in my body, I had no clue what they meant by "Juno is a spinning, robotic probe as wide as a basketball court."
Why can't they use standard terms of measurement like 1U or millifurlongs? Sooner or later they'll crash a probe when a contractor gets the sports rules mixed up and uses American hoop ball measurements instead of International.
Having been on both a basketball court and inside of the LOC, I can tell you that it is approximately 1/10th of a Library of Congress wide
Probably most cars sold in the US at that time had such lights.
No idea how the cars in the US work right now:D
I've seen quite a few contemporary Dodge and Chevrolet vehicles exhibit this behavior. One of them almost hit me during a storm when it tried to make a lane change with no ability whatsoever to indicate a lane change.
Firstly, this is not about all VW cars, but only those fitted with one specific type of engine (EA189) and then only those sold in one specific country.
Plaintiffsâ(TM) lawyers brush aside the distinction being drawn by Volkswagen. âoeThe issue of whether or not it is a defeat device amounts to very little in a legal sense,â said Bozena Michalowska Howells, a partner at the London law firm Leigh Day.
âoeTheyâ(TM)re going to remove it and fix it, and for regulatory purposes, itâ(TM)s being deemed a defeat device,â she said.
So in fact, this is about a broad range of cars sold in multiple countries, and you have no idea what you are talking about. Why not step aside, and let the adults speak?
I was traveling abroad shortly after this scandal broke. I had gone on a guided tour and had dinner with a German family afterwards. The father liked my camera and was interested in getting my pictures from the trip. We chatted for hours and he gave me his business card. It turned out that he is the head of "Risk Management" for a large car manufacturer. I asked him of what he thought of the situation with VW. He made two claims to me that I (for obvious reasons) cannot verify. He said that he was personal friends with his counterpart at VW and that the company did make the decision to cheat at a high enough level that his counterpart was involved. He also claimed that VW only broke the law in the US despite the fact that it cheated emissions tests in multiple countries. He said that it was only the US that would be able to hold VW accountable as a country. Whether or not these statements are true, I cannot say.
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/conflicting-parking-signs-e1285855592236.jpg is clear enough to me (though complicated):
To the right:
1) No parking, ever.
2) Standing (Loading in the UK I assume) is permitted outside of Mon-Fri rush hours.
To the left:
1) Parking is only permitted on Sundays between the stated hours;
2) Standing permitted as to the right.
Then again, I'm English and our councils invented signage like this!
Of course the signs can be interpreted. But why would they require someone sit there and analyze the sign in detail before deciding to park? And there are plenty of people with reading comprehension skills that would have a very difficult time understanding the logic of the signs. In fact, that makes me think that someone with dyslexia or has some other processing disorder should sue the city of New York in US Federal Court for violating the Americans With Disability Act as those signs could be considered predatory towards people who do not read well.
When there are legitimate reasons that you shouldn't have to pay the ticket, in my experience it requires no more than a simple presentation of those reasons to city hall. where the ticket would be paid, and the penalty is always dropped entirely.
The only time I have ever seen people have to pay for parking tickets is when they actually deserved them and reasonably could have known better, but either forgetfulness or simple laziness led to the situation where they ended up getting one.
I got a parking ticket in West Palm Beach at 9:45pm on a Friday night. The parking meter was literally inside of a bush. I didn't even think to look for one because what small city makes anyone pay for parking on a Friday at that hour downtown? Could I have fought the ticket and won? Probably. But it was a $30 ticket and the cost of going out of my way (I do not live anywhere near West Palm Beach) would have far exceeded the fine. My resolution? Pay the parking ticket and never visit that piece of shit city ever again.
Not to mention the fact that the purpose of the bot is to help determine whether or not the parking ticket is valid. Have you ever parked a car in NYC? You can have three parking signs with different days and hours specified that basically make parking illegal 24/7 in that space. Why don't they just put a sign that says "No Parking at Any Time"? Because that's too straight forward and doesn't enhance parking ticket revenue. Two second on Google found this prime example
Even if that is what they said I am 100% certain that they are lying. And how can I be certain? Because it keeps asking me to send friend requests to two different neighbors that I know by name and by sight but have absolutely no electronic contact with whatsoever. I don't have their phone number, they don't have mine. I don't email them, they don't email me, I don't even have their names in any electronic form. I've never typed their names into the computer - how could I? I only know their first names. But Facebook proudly presents them to me.
Do they know your name? I'm nearly certain that if they searched Facebook for you, it would suggest their names to you. (I'm not saying that they don't also use location data, just that there's another path.)
Unless they have been trying to look me up on the internet, I would say no, they don't know my name. ANd furthermore, my name is so common and generic that my actual friends and acquaintances have a hard time finding me on facebook unless we have a mutual friend.
But the social juggernaut has since backtracked on its statement with new assurances that it is not using anyone's location.
That's not what they said.
They don't state they're not using your location, although they're probably hoping people will read that into it. They merely made the very narrow statement that they're not using your location to suggest people you may know.
Even if that is what they said I am 100% certain that they are lying. And how can I be certain? Because it keeps asking me to send friend requests to two different neighbors that I know by name and by sight but have absolutely no electronic contact with whatsoever. I don't have their phone number, they don't have mine. I don't email them, they don't email me, I don't even have their names in any electronic form. I've never typed their names into the computer - how could I? I only know their first names. But Facebook proudly presents them to me.
Even as a US Citizen it is fucking absurd. I had one flight into Boston that took longer to get through immigration that flight itself - AS A US CITIZEN!
My wife never wants to come back. I don't blame her. It's a straight up humiliating process.
I have immigration problems every time I return to the US. I get put into what I politely refer to as the "terrorist line" where everyone gets extra scrutiny. I've seen people be hauled out of that line at gun point.
Not so under Cheney and his cronies, who actively worked to drive out competent careerists and carefully screened the personal politics of all new hires. Of course the punchline is that the so-called Republican Party now blames Obama for being unable to fix the system they worked so hard to break and keep broken.
Pardoning Snowden? You'd be better off hoping they decided corporations are inhuman monstrosities hiding under the legal fiction of decency.
Did you just fall off the turnip truck? That's been going on in politics for a long, long time. I worked for the California State Attorney General's office once upon a time. They would take careerists and move them down into the mail room at their existing pay and title just to drive them nuts and get them to quit so that they could be replaced with friends of the AG. And that was about 20 years ago. This has been going on at all levels of government for a long long time.
... this condition then what is the purpose of turning on the hazard lights? They won't even flash on car models that use the same bulb for both events.
In the rest of the world hazard lights are the same as the direction indicators (flashlights?), using their own bulbs, having their own clearly distinguished colour (orange instead of red): for a damn reason!
To drive an american car in Germany, that has red flash lights, and even uses the same lighting area as the break, requires an exceptional permit! for a damn reason.
You say that but the only car I ever had which had flashing brake lights for hazard lights was a German car. Granted that car is now over 40 years old. But I think you are correct that only a few American car models still have this behavior in contemporary cars.
Why couldn't you develop in C# from your W7 Bootcamp install?
There's no reason I couldn't have stayed on Windows 7. I figured that I might as well upgrade to Windows 10 since that is what I would use at work if I were helping out on a C# project.
I agree that those are all bad reasons to use hazard lights. However, most truckers (and a lot of other people) use hazard lights on highways to indicate something different: low speed (often below the posted minimum), which would count as a "traffic hazard" in most states.
I think you may be misunderstanding many people's use of hazard lights in bad weather. You should NOT turn on your hazard lights because you're afraid other cars can't see you. (If that's the case, conditions are bad enough that you probably should pull off the road.) But when weather conditions get bad, often it's unsafe to drive above the minimum posted speed on a highway -- in most states, it's acceptable to use hazards to warn other drivers around you that you are traveling slowly. (Truckers do this all the time when ascending hills and going slow.) If you don't warn other drivers who may be traveling at full highway speed -- even though such a speed is totally unsafe for conditions -- they may not realize how slow you are going until they are too close to brake.
So why don't people turn on their hazard lights in rush hour traffic? I mean, you're going below the posted speed limit and someone could rear end you if they've just barely caught up to the blockage. Why is bad weather some special exception to this? I mean, everyone around can see that weather has degraded conditions but it may not be obvious that you're approaching a traffic jam. In fact, the flashing lights can make visibility worse in many types of weather. There are people that turn their high beams on in fog too, thinking they'll be able to see better and they end up making conditions worse for everyone.
Some states explicitly specify that hazard lights are to be used when traveling at unexpected low speeds. And the Uniform Vehicle Code states clearly:
The driver of any vehicle equipped with vehicular hazard warning lights may activate such lights whenever necessary to warn the operators of following vehicles of the presence of a traffic hazard ahead of the signaling vehicle, or to warn the operators of other vehicles that the signaling vehicle may itself constitute a traffic hazard.
Anyhow, the quoted section of the Uniform Vehicle Code could be interpreted in such a way as to allow behavior in the form GP suggested, i.e., to warn others that a vehicle is coming abruptly to a stop. That will frequently constitute a traffic hazard.
I should think your brake lights alone would be enough to warn people that you are coming to an abrupt stop. And if the electronics do make the brake light switch master and the hazard light relay slave in this condition then what is the purpose of turning on the hazard lights? They won't even flash on car models that use the same bulb for both events.
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It was always big from a "mystery" perspective, but the circumstances of his jump have always made it extremely unlikely that he survived -- jumping into -70F windchill air, into a wilderness area, at night, without anything more protective than a suit and raincoat.
The big mysteries seem to be identifying who he was and what happened to the body, parachute and the money. Some decayed packets of money were found, but that seems to lead more credence to the theory that the jump/landing/escape was a failure.
It's pretty damn cold when you sky dive. For all of a minute. In my experience, your adrenaline rushes to the point where you only feel the cold for a few seconds. Granted, I've only jumped during the day, but I warmed up rather quickly and actually feel that the ascent in an uninsulated fuselage is far more uncomfortable (cold) than the actual jump itself.
and in many instances encryption keys for encrypted information simply don't exist
Ahh keyless encryption: for when you really don't care to ever get the data back.
Many keys are ephemeral. Once the information has been received and acknowledged, both parties discard their keys. If you intercept one of these messages, no one will ever have a way of decrypting it. The only way to get the information is to double back and beat it out of one of them.
Sure, you can use TLS for instance and get a new key for each transaction. There is still a key, however and one could intercept a TLS key, for instance, by way of a man in the middle attack.
and in many instances encryption keys for encrypted information simply don't exist
Ahh keyless encryption: for when you really don't care to ever get the data back.
Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.
I'd probably have more space if Apple cleaned up after itself! I was looking through my ~/AppData/Roaming/Apple and ~/AppData/Local/Apple folders last night and found apple using over ~40GB of space on my machine for iOS crash dumps (sync'ed automatically via iTunes) (10GB), the last 5 years of iTunes installers (2GB), iPhone OS images (15GB for several different models over 4 or 5 years), iPad OS Images (2GB, I only had two different model iPads in that time), and a bunch of DMG files that I could not determine their purpose.
Switch over to my work MacBook Pro and I had 80GB in ~/Library/Developer of just old simulator images installed with each release of XCode.
Also, just for completeness, if you do have a concealed carry permit, know whether or not local law requires you to inform the officer. In my state (Utah) there is no legal obligation, but odds are he'll know (from running your plate) before he approaches, so it's a good idea to say something like "Officer, as a courtesy I want to inform you that I have Utah Concealed Firearm Permit and I am (or am not, as appropriate) armed." At least in my area, this generally makes the police quite happy with you. Most of them are big fans of lawful citizen carry, and it also means they know that you don't have a criminal record.
I know a retired police officer who teaches safety courses for concealed weapons permits in Florida. He recommends that you only volunteer such info to a police officer if retrieving your license or registration could reveal the firearm. But if they ask, do not lie about whether you have a weapon as lying to the police is illegal in every state (I believe). Obviously that may vary by jurisdiction. He said that they train state officers to immediately call for backup and have you sit there until another officer can help them disarm you prior to handling your stop. But for your own safety it is better to tell the officer that you have a gun than risk them finding that out by observation.
In any event, when I have been pulled over I have typically turned on my dome light, lower the windows on both sides of the car so that they can approach either (or both) sides at their convenience, and keep my hands open, palm down, with my wrists resting on the top of the steering wheel in plain sight. Lowering the windows is especially important if your state allows you to tint all of the side windows.
I can't speak for everyone, but I think almost everyone wears their watch on their non-dominant hand?
I wear mine on my dominant hand but I'm fairly ambidextrous. I actually use my non-dominant hand to do PIN entry as I'm a lefty and most things are positioned for the right handed world. Plus the 10 key is on the right hand of the keyboard, anyway.
There are lots of crimes with no punishments. This is one of them.
This needs to be noted VERY well in this discussion.
Typically, just mishandling classified information (without intentionally handing it off to others) is handled with an administrative slap on the wrist, and maybe losing clearance. There are rarely any criminal proceedings, because the higher-ups never want a subordinate to fear revealing a data spill. Instead, self-policing and self-reporting are praised, and mistakes are often just cleaned up and forgotten.
Well in this case we have someone who the FBI has acknowledged has committed a crime and then tried for years to cover it up. So how is your point relevant to this discussion? In fact, your point suggests that we should indict Clinton to emphasize that it is better to admit you made a mistake than to cover it up
A friend of mine as worked in the social sciences (cue /. laughter, but bear with me) and they were forced by the university to use a closed source statistical package for all their data processing. So anyway, she got some really dubious results and she preferred to do her own maths, so she did, and lo! completely different results. That was the start of a research project which concluded that the closed source package contained a rounding error that basically filtered all minorities out of the data set, which is kind of sad if you're doing research on minorities.
People trust their software too much, are too lazy to do their own maths, don't really want to have got anything to do with data processing even though that's their job, and universities force bad software on their employees. This is an institutional problem that goes way beyond MRI research.
I had a university level Statistics "professor" once tell me that I didn't need to know how my calculator created a box plot, etc etc because I could just use someone else's statistics library instead of writing my own. While in general I agree that there is no point in reinventing the wheel, I felt like I ought to learn how such things work.
the only people who seem to care about this case are trump supporters. his poll numbers are down which is why i'm seeing the memes on my facebook feed from trump supporters
I care about this because I used to be a DoD contractor and know that I would be in Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison already if I did the exact same thing.
I use TP-LINK network bridges. There are other people in the world besides yourself.
Well maybe you should reconsider since, apparently, the company must not be solvent enough to afford a $10 per year domain registration.
Much like Google couldn't afford $12 last year...
If I recall correctly, that was actually due to a software bug in Google's own domain registration service that allowed him to register the google domain. If I recall correctly, the software reverted the registration almost immediately, too.
I use TP-LINK network bridges. There are other people in the world besides yourself.
Well maybe you should reconsider since, apparently, the company must not be solvent enough to afford a $10 per year domain registration.
Not having a single sports molecule in my body, I had no clue what they meant by "Juno is a spinning, robotic probe as wide as a basketball court." Why can't they use standard terms of measurement like 1U or millifurlongs? Sooner or later they'll crash a probe when a contractor gets the sports rules mixed up and uses American hoop ball measurements instead of International.
Having been on both a basketball court and inside of the LOC, I can tell you that it is approximately 1/10th of a Library of Congress wide
What's that in Big Bens?
Well Big Ben is technically a bell but if you're referring to the clock tower, it's approximately 1/6 of an Elizabeth Clock Tower.
I had an issue with being double-charged for an app from the app store about 5 years ago. Went to Apple's support site, wrote a description of the problem, then was asked if I would like THEM to call ME. Not the other way around. Clicked yes, a calendar popped up in which I selected the time window in (IIRC) 10 minute increments when I wanted them to call me. Within a couple minutes of the 'start' my phone rang and I was chatting with a nice guy (said his name was Daniel in Texas). He already had my records up and he called to ask me if I wanted a credit on my iTunes account or refund to my card. He then said he'd call me back when it was done. About 10 minutes later he called me back and said the credit was issued. That is exemplary customer service and one reason their customer satisfaction is always rated so high.
One of my neighbors does call center support for Apple. He isn't an Apple employee, his company is contracted by Apple. But Apple pays to train them specifically to be specialists in Apple products. The guy is really nice and I think I would actually enjoy working with him over the phone.
I will say that Apple support did frustrate me when I had to have a warranty repair. I specifically told them I would be out of town when the product was returned to the Apple store and they told me not to worry about it. Then I got a call telling me I needed to pick my laptop up within 24 hours - a solid 48 hours before I was scheduled to return. Then I got an email saying I needed to call the Apple store. I called the local store number which just transferred me to a call center that could do absolutely nothing for me. Eventually a tier 3 support person called me back just to tell me not to worry about it, that I could pick my laptop up whenever.
Not having a single sports molecule in my body, I had no clue what they meant by "Juno is a spinning, robotic probe as wide as a basketball court." Why can't they use standard terms of measurement like 1U or millifurlongs? Sooner or later they'll crash a probe when a contractor gets the sports rules mixed up and uses American hoop ball measurements instead of International.
Having been on both a basketball court and inside of the LOC, I can tell you that it is approximately 1/10th of a Library of Congress wide
Probably most cars sold in the US at that time had such lights. No idea how the cars in the US work right now :D
I've seen quite a few contemporary Dodge and Chevrolet vehicles exhibit this behavior. One of them almost hit me during a storm when it tried to make a lane change with no ability whatsoever to indicate a lane change.
Firstly, this is not about all VW cars, but only those fitted with one specific type of engine (EA189) and then only those sold in one specific country.
You are wrong on all points here. There are multiple engines involved, and German authorities say that VW cheated in Europe, too.
So in fact, this is about a broad range of cars sold in multiple countries, and you have no idea what you are talking about. Why not step aside, and let the adults speak?
I was traveling abroad shortly after this scandal broke. I had gone on a guided tour and had dinner with a German family afterwards. The father liked my camera and was interested in getting my pictures from the trip. We chatted for hours and he gave me his business card. It turned out that he is the head of "Risk Management" for a large car manufacturer. I asked him of what he thought of the situation with VW. He made two claims to me that I (for obvious reasons) cannot verify. He said that he was personal friends with his counterpart at VW and that the company did make the decision to cheat at a high enough level that his counterpart was involved. He also claimed that VW only broke the law in the US despite the fact that it cheated emissions tests in multiple countries. He said that it was only the US that would be able to hold VW accountable as a country. Whether or not these statements are true, I cannot say.
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/conflicting-parking-signs-e1285855592236.jpg is clear enough to me (though complicated): To the right: 1) No parking, ever. 2) Standing (Loading in the UK I assume) is permitted outside of Mon-Fri rush hours. To the left: 1) Parking is only permitted on Sundays between the stated hours; 2) Standing permitted as to the right. Then again, I'm English and our councils invented signage like this!
Of course the signs can be interpreted. But why would they require someone sit there and analyze the sign in detail before deciding to park? And there are plenty of people with reading comprehension skills that would have a very difficult time understanding the logic of the signs. In fact, that makes me think that someone with dyslexia or has some other processing disorder should sue the city of New York in US Federal Court for violating the Americans With Disability Act as those signs could be considered predatory towards people who do not read well.
When there are legitimate reasons that you shouldn't have to pay the ticket, in my experience it requires no more than a simple presentation of those reasons to city hall. where the ticket would be paid, and the penalty is always dropped entirely.
The only time I have ever seen people have to pay for parking tickets is when they actually deserved them and reasonably could have known better, but either forgetfulness or simple laziness led to the situation where they ended up getting one.
I got a parking ticket in West Palm Beach at 9:45pm on a Friday night. The parking meter was literally inside of a bush. I didn't even think to look for one because what small city makes anyone pay for parking on a Friday at that hour downtown? Could I have fought the ticket and won? Probably. But it was a $30 ticket and the cost of going out of my way (I do not live anywhere near West Palm Beach) would have far exceeded the fine. My resolution? Pay the parking ticket and never visit that piece of shit city ever again.
Not to mention the fact that the purpose of the bot is to help determine whether or not the parking ticket is valid. Have you ever parked a car in NYC? You can have three parking signs with different days and hours specified that basically make parking illegal 24/7 in that space. Why don't they just put a sign that says "No Parking at Any Time"? Because that's too straight forward and doesn't enhance parking ticket revenue. Two second on Google found this prime example
Do they know your name? I'm nearly certain that if they searched Facebook for you, it would suggest their names to you. (I'm not saying that they don't also use location data, just that there's another path.)
Unless they have been trying to look me up on the internet, I would say no, they don't know my name. ANd furthermore, my name is so common and generic that my actual friends and acquaintances have a hard time finding me on facebook unless we have a mutual friend.
But the social juggernaut has since backtracked on its statement with new assurances that it is not using anyone's location.
That's not what they said.
They don't state they're not using your location, although they're probably hoping people will read that into it. They merely made the very narrow statement that they're not using your location to suggest people you may know.
Even if that is what they said I am 100% certain that they are lying. And how can I be certain? Because it keeps asking me to send friend requests to two different neighbors that I know by name and by sight but have absolutely no electronic contact with whatsoever. I don't have their phone number, they don't have mine. I don't email them, they don't email me, I don't even have their names in any electronic form. I've never typed their names into the computer - how could I? I only know their first names. But Facebook proudly presents them to me.
Modern Day Shakedown.
Even as a US Citizen it is fucking absurd. I had one flight into Boston that took longer to get through immigration that flight itself - AS A US CITIZEN!
My wife never wants to come back. I don't blame her. It's a straight up humiliating process.
I have immigration problems every time I return to the US. I get put into what I politely refer to as the "terrorist line" where everyone gets extra scrutiny. I've seen people be hauled out of that line at gun point.
Not so under Cheney and his cronies, who actively worked to drive out competent careerists and carefully screened the personal politics of all new hires. Of course the punchline is that the so-called Republican Party now blames Obama for being unable to fix the system they worked so hard to break and keep broken.
Pardoning Snowden? You'd be better off hoping they decided corporations are inhuman monstrosities hiding under the legal fiction of decency.
Did you just fall off the turnip truck? That's been going on in politics for a long, long time. I worked for the California State Attorney General's office once upon a time. They would take careerists and move them down into the mail room at their existing pay and title just to drive them nuts and get them to quit so that they could be replaced with friends of the AG. And that was about 20 years ago. This has been going on at all levels of government for a long long time.
To drive an american car in Germany, that has red flash lights, and even uses the same lighting area as the break, requires an exceptional permit! for a damn reason.
You say that but the only car I ever had which had flashing brake lights for hazard lights was a German car. Granted that car is now over 40 years old. But I think you are correct that only a few American car models still have this behavior in contemporary cars.
Why couldn't you develop in C# from your W7 Bootcamp install?
There's no reason I couldn't have stayed on Windows 7. I figured that I might as well upgrade to Windows 10 since that is what I would use at work if I were helping out on a C# project.
I agree that those are all bad reasons to use hazard lights. However, most truckers (and a lot of other people) use hazard lights on highways to indicate something different: low speed (often below the posted minimum), which would count as a "traffic hazard" in most states.
I think you may be misunderstanding many people's use of hazard lights in bad weather. You should NOT turn on your hazard lights because you're afraid other cars can't see you. (If that's the case, conditions are bad enough that you probably should pull off the road.) But when weather conditions get bad, often it's unsafe to drive above the minimum posted speed on a highway -- in most states, it's acceptable to use hazards to warn other drivers around you that you are traveling slowly. (Truckers do this all the time when ascending hills and going slow.) If you don't warn other drivers who may be traveling at full highway speed -- even though such a speed is totally unsafe for conditions -- they may not realize how slow you are going until they are too close to brake.
So why don't people turn on their hazard lights in rush hour traffic? I mean, you're going below the posted speed limit and someone could rear end you if they've just barely caught up to the blockage. Why is bad weather some special exception to this? I mean, everyone around can see that weather has degraded conditions but it may not be obvious that you're approaching a traffic jam. In fact, the flashing lights can make visibility worse in many types of weather. There are people that turn their high beams on in fog too, thinking they'll be able to see better and they end up making conditions worse for everyone.
Some states explicitly specify that hazard lights are to be used when traveling at unexpected low speeds. And the Uniform Vehicle Code states clearly:
Anyhow, the quoted section of the Uniform Vehicle Code could be interpreted in such a way as to allow behavior in the form GP suggested, i.e., to warn others that a vehicle is coming abruptly to a stop. That will frequently constitute a traffic hazard.
I should think your brake lights alone would be enough to warn people that you are coming to an abrupt stop. And if the electronics do make the brake light switch master and the hazard light relay slave in this condition then what is the purpose of turning on the hazard lights? They won't even flash on car models that use the same bulb for both events.