At the point where you have all the parts that are necessary to assemble a working gun, you are deemed to be in a constructive possession of one.
But you are in physical possession of one when you acquire one specific part - the part (such as a rifle's lower receiver) that is required to have the gun's serial number. In as much as that specific part would deem physical possession, it would seems to be superfluous to claim constructive possession.
And my Nexus S before that. But those phones have a flat display behind a molded glass cover (iFixit shows the parts). This phone curves the actual display, not just the glass.
Every digital thermostat I've ever used had 0.5 degree increments for Celsius.
Mine (a Lux WX500, similar to this one: http://tinyurl.com/qcahk9q) does not. In fact, I did not see any in their product line (luxproducts.com) that does. Not surprising, as that would require making room on the display for a decimal point and an additional digit (or double that, if the actual and set temps are both displayed) - neither of which would be used in Fahrenheit mode.
The measurement error on the thermometer has nothing to do with whether or not one can tell the difference of one degree of temperature. BTW, my digital thermometer is stuck on centigrade. And yes, I can tell the difference between 19 and 20 degrees.
I believe you are confusing the Tesla's lithium-ion batteries with lithium cells.
The Tesla battery is a true battery: a collection of thousands of individual cells. (In contrast, a flashlight 'battery' is properly a single cell, not a battery). The holes that they punched would be through the outside casing and would only puncture a handful of cells. The cells are the same lithium-ion cells that are used in laptop batteries, which do NOT contain metallic lithium. It is the metallic lithium which is hyper-sensitive to water. Water is approved for Li-ion fires.
The cells are also packed in a fashion so as to minimize fire risk. In this case, it appears that they succeeded. Even though the battery runs for most of the length of the car, the fire was limited to the nose section - and did not enter the cabin. However, that packaging might well be a deterrent to fire fighting.
Why couldn't you pull over and send text messages from a rest area [...]?
You could, but I get the impression that other areas (park & ride, other unnamed parking lots) are being opened for legal temporary stopping and texting. Also, the signage looks useful - at least you know if a texting area is close: (flickr)
Sure, his visor allowed him to see, so technology bridged the gap (and then some, frankly I couldn't figure out why everyone in the Federation wasn't using them),...
I was only an irregular viewer, but I was under the impression that using the visor caused severe headaches - and that he would take it off when he could.
Last time I visited Hurst Castle (decades ago), non-flash photography was allowed. The gift shop sold high speed film (ASA 2400, IIRC) which gave decent shots in the dim light. A time exposure may have worked, but tripods were not allowed.
...like the famous Sunflowers painting - they have fairly tall ridges and brushwork all over the place.
What you said. I once saw 'Sunflowers' at the Norton-Simon museum. It was mounted on the wall, with a plastic (or glass?) plate covering the entire thing, mounted about half an inch from the surface of the painting. I had the opportunity to eyeball it from only inches away. The brushwork is astounding to see up close, and seeing it like that gives you a different appreciation for the picture over all.
My Win 7 Pro folder is about 30 GB, with over half in the Windows component store directory (winxsx). But according to this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795190, the size is somewhat overstated. Also, the actual space being used can be reduced - I may give that a try.
I believe "War Games" said it best; The only winning move is not to play the game.
Which was wrong. Refusing to play may prevent a loss (or tie), but that does not constitute a win. Does a baseball team score a win for each team if the game is rained out?
And this is the thing. We have seen before that people were sent to jail for bugs in breathalyzers.
It would be interesting to see cites of those cases where the breathalyzer had a bug. In California, Breathalyzers (like radar guns) have to follow a rigorous certification schedule. Breathalyzer evidence can be rejected if the police can't prove that the machine was properly tested, both before and after your own test.
I would have thought that an actual blood test would be mandatory for any case that goes to court before any sentence can be passed. If for no other reason, some cough medicines could get you into trouble this way without actually impairing you in any legal sense.
If the cough medicine can be detected in your blood, it can be detected in your breath or urine as well. All three techniques measure your blood alcohol percentage. If that percentage is too high, it doesn't matter how it got there - you're still legally (and probably, actually) impaired. If you claim that cough medicine will cause a breathalyzer to give false results, please provide cites.
In any case, requiring a blood sample to go to court would obviously require every suspected DUI driver to go through an outright invasive process (poking a hole in the largest organ of your body), as opposed to using naturally expelled waste materials. And blood testing is subject to its own errors - the sample must be properly stored, labeled, tested, etc. There is normally a several day delay before results are known, more opportunity for mixing up records, etc. A Breathalyzer, OTOH, provides immediate results.
In California, drivers can opt for blood, breath, or urine tests. Results from any of the three are accepted as evidence. Declining all is a separate offence which can result in losing your license. (And you can still be convicted of DUI based on the officer's testimony).
Major bugs have little bugs,
which being fixed, can cause'em. And little bugs have tiny bugs,
and on it goes ad nauseam. The bigger bugs themselves can be
pernicious, tangled creatures; So suck it up and ship the code
and we'll just call them "features".
I'll second that. Programmers (including myself) tend to test for what works, not for what breaks. I'll always remember a guy I that I used to work for who'd include the "cat" test when he tested my code: What would happen if a cat wandered across the keyboard? That is, he'd just bang randomly on the keyboard and see what happened.
Here's an internal safety lock (designed to keep the kids safe, not to prevent someone else from using the gun) with versions for autos, revolvers, and long guns: http://www.omegagunlock.com/?page/105201/home. (Full disclosure: my brother assisted in the design).
The "Westworld" gun couldn't tell a bad guy from a good guy. It used infrared sensors to detect whether it was pointing at a human or a robot, and would only fire at the latter. Clever idea, but then along came "Robocop" and "T-2" where the robot could be the good guy.
The 1911 had a grip safety and a manual safety. The Mark IV Series 80 added a firing pin block, which prevented the firing pin from moving if the hammer came down without the trigger also being pulled (guarded against having the gun go off if it was dropped). But never a magazine safety. This meant that you could keep one round in the chamber while you reloaded and still be able to get off a shot if you were attacked during the process.
If you blow.08 into a certified machine, there would be no reason to take the blood at all. If a mouthful of Listerine (mixed with vodka, my favorite) momentarily put you over the limit as measured by a hand held breathalyzer, then the follow-up test is your friend. But by the time you blow into the machine, (or pee in the cup, or give the blood) your BAC reading will be accurate. If you take both (or all three) tests and have differing results, then something is wrong with the machine, the lab, or the evidence handling.
I live in California; suspected drunk drivers have a choice of being tested by breath, blood, or urine. Refusing the test is an offence of its own which can lead to having your license yanked. If you choose blood or urine, your license is confiscated and held till the test results are known.
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At the point where you have all the parts that are necessary to assemble a working gun, you are deemed to be in a constructive possession of one.
But you are in physical possession of one when you acquire one specific part - the part (such as a rifle's lower receiver) that is required to have the gun's serial number. In as much as that specific part would deem physical possession, it would seems to be superfluous to claim constructive possession.
And my Nexus S before that. But those phones have a flat display behind a molded glass cover (iFixit shows the parts). This phone curves the actual display, not just the glass.
Yes, it rocks - in fact, the rocking is used as an input device.
Every digital thermostat I've ever used had 0.5 degree increments for Celsius.
Mine (a Lux WX500, similar to this one: http://tinyurl.com/qcahk9q) does not. In fact, I did not see any in their product line (luxproducts.com) that does. Not surprising, as that would require making room on the display for a decimal point and an additional digit (or double that, if the actual and set temps are both displayed) - neither of which would be used in Fahrenheit mode.
The measurement error on the thermometer has nothing to do with whether or not one can tell the difference of one degree of temperature. BTW, my digital thermometer is stuck on centigrade. And yes, I can tell the difference between 19 and 20 degrees.
I believe you are confusing the Tesla's lithium-ion batteries with lithium cells.
The Tesla battery is a true battery: a collection of thousands of individual cells. (In contrast, a flashlight 'battery' is properly a single cell, not a battery). The holes that they punched would be through the outside casing and would only puncture a handful of cells. The cells are the same lithium-ion cells that are used in laptop batteries, which do NOT contain metallic lithium. It is the metallic lithium which is hyper-sensitive to water. Water is approved for Li-ion fires.
The cells are also packed in a fashion so as to minimize fire risk. In this case, it appears that they succeeded. Even though the battery runs for most of the length of the car, the fire was limited to the nose section - and did not enter the cabin. However, that packaging might well be a deterrent to fire fighting.
Why couldn't you pull over and send text messages from a rest area [...]?
You could, but I get the impression that other areas (park & ride, other unnamed parking lots) are being opened for legal temporary stopping and texting. Also, the signage looks useful - at least you know if a texting area is close: (flickr)
No need, because their current generation essentially does that. Read the article.
So am I the first to link to today's Dilbert?
What, is true romance truly dead? I prefer to think that she would have taken matters in hand.
Sure, his visor allowed him to see, so technology bridged the gap (and then some, frankly I couldn't figure out why everyone in the Federation wasn't using them),...
I was only an irregular viewer, but I was under the impression that using the visor caused severe headaches - and that he would take it off when he could.
Last time I visited Hurst Castle (decades ago), non-flash photography was allowed. The gift shop sold high speed film (ASA 2400, IIRC) which gave decent shots in the dim light. A time exposure may have worked, but tripods were not allowed.
...like the famous Sunflowers painting - they have fairly tall ridges and brushwork all over the place.
What you said. I once saw 'Sunflowers' at the Norton-Simon museum. It was mounted on the wall, with a plastic (or glass?) plate covering the entire thing, mounted about half an inch from the surface of the painting. I had the opportunity to eyeball it from only inches away. The brushwork is astounding to see up close, and seeing it like that gives you a different appreciation for the picture over all.
My Win 7 Pro folder is about 30 GB, with over half in the Windows component store directory (winxsx). But according to this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795190, the size is somewhat overstated. Also, the actual space being used can be reduced - I may give that a try.
I believe "War Games" said it best; The only winning move is not to play the game.
Which was wrong. Refusing to play may prevent a loss (or tie), but that does not constitute a win. Does a baseball team score a win for each team if the game is rained out?
And this is the thing. We have seen before that people were sent to jail for bugs in breathalyzers.
It would be interesting to see cites of those cases where the breathalyzer had a bug. In California, Breathalyzers (like radar guns) have to follow a rigorous certification schedule. Breathalyzer evidence can be rejected if the police can't prove that the machine was properly tested, both before and after your own test.
I would have thought that an actual blood test would be mandatory for any case that goes to court before any sentence can be passed. If for no other reason, some cough medicines could get you into trouble this way without actually impairing you in any legal sense.
If the cough medicine can be detected in your blood, it can be detected in your breath or urine as well. All three techniques measure your blood alcohol percentage. If that percentage is too high, it doesn't matter how it got there - you're still legally (and probably, actually) impaired. If you claim that cough medicine will cause a breathalyzer to give false results, please provide cites.
In any case, requiring a blood sample to go to court would obviously require every suspected DUI driver to go through an outright invasive process (poking a hole in the largest organ of your body), as opposed to using naturally expelled waste materials. And blood testing is subject to its own errors - the sample must be properly stored, labeled, tested, etc. There is normally a several day delay before results are known, more opportunity for mixing up records, etc. A Breathalyzer, OTOH, provides immediate results.
In California, drivers can opt for blood, breath, or urine tests. Results from any of the three are accepted as evidence. Declining all is a separate offence which can result in losing your license. (And you can still be convicted of DUI based on the officer's testimony).
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
"The only winning move is not to play."
An erroneous conclusion. Not playing may be the only sure way to avoid either a loss or a tie, but does not result in a win.
Major bugs have little bugs,
which being fixed, can cause'em.
And little bugs have tiny bugs,
and on it goes ad nauseam.
The bigger bugs themselves can be
pernicious, tangled creatures;
So suck it up and ship the code
and we'll just call them "features".
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I'll second that. Programmers (including myself) tend to test for what works, not for what breaks. I'll always remember a guy I that I used to work for who'd include the "cat" test when he tested my code: What would happen if a cat wandered across the keyboard? That is, he'd just bang randomly on the keyboard and see what happened.
IIRC he has reused his laser watch. And he certainly reused one of his most iconic gadgets: the machine gun equipped Aston Martin.
Here's an internal safety lock (designed to keep the kids safe, not to prevent someone else from using the gun) with versions for autos, revolvers, and long guns: http://www.omegagunlock.com/?page/105201/home. (Full disclosure: my brother assisted in the design).
The "Westworld" gun couldn't tell a bad guy from a good guy. It used infrared sensors to detect whether it was pointing at a human or a robot, and would only fire at the latter. Clever idea, but then along came "Robocop" and "T-2" where the robot could be the good guy.
The 1911 had a grip safety and a manual safety. The Mark IV Series 80 added a firing pin block, which prevented the firing pin from moving if the hammer came down without the trigger also being pulled (guarded against having the gun go off if it was dropped). But never a magazine safety. This meant that you could keep one round in the chamber while you reloaded and still be able to get off a shot if you were attacked during the process.
If you blow .08 into a certified machine, there would be no reason to take the blood at all. If a mouthful of Listerine (mixed with vodka, my favorite) momentarily put you over the limit as measured by a hand held breathalyzer, then the follow-up test is your friend. But by the time you blow into the machine, (or pee in the cup, or give the blood) your BAC reading will be accurate. If you take both (or all three) tests and have differing results, then something is wrong with the machine, the lab, or the evidence handling.
I live in California; suspected drunk drivers have a choice of being tested by breath, blood, or urine. Refusing the test is an offence of its own which can lead to having your license yanked. If you choose blood or urine, your license is confiscated and held till the test results are known.