Making everyone drive at a consistent speed does not cause tailbacks. Inconsistent speeds do. Which is why when you reach a lower speed you do get a tailback, but once everyone is traveling on that section it goes away.
Incidentally, you may notice that when driving at night, drivers will often brake briefly when entering a long stretch of straight road, due to all the tail lights they see. This can often have the effect of drastically slowing the traffic as it enters that final bend.
They have had this on French Autoroutes for at least twenty five years, although not using cams. In their case they measured between toll booths. It was common to see cars pulled up at the last rest stop before set of toll booths.
Should be really easy to study - are aircrew more likely to suffer the ill effects of ionizing radiation, whatever those are.
It would be the sort of thing that an established Airline and staff (or air force) would probably already have noticed, particularly any that fly through and around the intense storms in the tropics. The fact that they haven't leads me to think that this may be a non-story.
And just how do you know it was the 7-11 dude that stole your credit card DETAILS. Not your card mind you, just the information on it. And used it a month later?
Having worked for the largest card processors in the world I can tell you that buying petrol was the number 1 vector for stolen credit card details. The owners would never know because their transactions would go through just fine. All the attendants had to do was copy the details and invest in a card read/writer to put the new cards details on an existing mag stripe.
OP is right, if you are are paranoid about giving your credit card to a stranger you are not going to get much use out of it.
That depends how you define readily accessible savings though. I don't have a savings account as such, because I put all my available cash on my mortgage, paying off debt or at least offsetting interest. I can transfer any amount I need in an instant. I also have a shitload in shares, which I can capitalise in 3 days. On paper I am in debt. If I sold everything I own I would be sitting on a fairly large pile. It all depends how you look at things.
And why would you keep in it a bank when the IMF think it is okay to ask your country to steal it from you from there?
Anyway, I think the statistic says more about the inequality of the USA than anything else.
So the catholic church gets a new Head Pedo?
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Can't see how it falls into either the "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"
Occams razor says that it is in here just so we can post jokes.
True. It occurred to me many moons ago that the easiest way to achieve the desired outcome would be to pay people who upload data to the internet, and charge those who download.
The difference between the upload and download rates would be the ISPs margin.
In your car analogy if a car scrapes across mine when it is parked in the road, should I have the right to demand the licencing authority give me the name and address of the registered owner? No, I have to hand it to the police, who will do fuck all about it.
You might like to read Robert Tressell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthropists) to get a feel for where that will take you...
The brutal suppression of the unions was probably more influential than the individualist culture. But then if you grew up with the US education system you wouldn't know about that redacted part of your history.
Oh, and to throw one back at ya, why do you need an airbase in every state of the US? Apart from pork-barreling that is. After all, it is not as if China is going to invade, say, Colorado without going through somewhere, and yet there are no fewer than five bases there.
Not to mention six in England. You afraid the English might want to start War of Independence, part 2?
Where there is a market, someone will invent a mechanism.
Before copyright there were patrons of the arts for the high end stuff, and people throwing coins at traveling musicians and story tellers at the low end. The former can quite easily be replicated today, with governments and crowdsourced funding also playing a role. The latter still exists today, with bands doing gigs, book readings by the author etc.
And do not underestimate the power of user generated content. YouTube has grown very fat and happy on it.
It strikes me that if you just let this man run the country for the remainder of his term without obstruction America could be the country that most people in the world have been told it is. And the whole world would be a better place.
Alternatively you can obstruct him at every turn and show that you are hypocrites that talk democracy and freedom, but are nothing more than corporate shrills doing the bidding of lobbyists, none of which are working for the American people, let alone the world.
And if you won't, for fuck sake let him run another country. Australia would love to have Obama as the leader. People of his mien come once a generation FFS.
proven fact? methinks you (and the people that mod-ed you up) don't understand the scientific method.
You postulate a theory based on observation (or pure thought). You make an experiment to test your postulation. If it produces data that supports your postulations you have a confirmed theory. You then publish so that everyone else can have a go at breaking the theory. Once enough people have tried and failed, you have a near consensus. But it is NEVER proven, and never fact. At least not in the same way you can say that the earth is a near spheroid.
My take on the teaching of religion in schools is that it is treats a 'faith' along accepted truths. More than happy for my children to learn comparative religion, but if a school wanted to teach my child about the sky fairy I would be sure to set them right and arm them with ammo for the next class. Luckily in Australia religion is not compulsory, and only about 10% of students in my child's school attend.
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Making everyone drive at a consistent speed does not cause tailbacks. Inconsistent speeds do. Which is why when you reach a lower speed you do get a tailback, but once everyone is traveling on that section it goes away.
Incidentally, you may notice that when driving at night, drivers will often brake briefly when entering a long stretch of straight road, due to all the tail lights they see. This can often have the effect of drastically slowing the traffic as it enters that final bend.
They have had this on French Autoroutes for at least twenty five years, although not using cams. In their case they measured between toll booths. It was common to see cars pulled up at the last rest stop before set of toll booths.
Actually I think you will find that football fields are a unit of area. Just like Olympic swimming pools are a unit of volume.
Should be really easy to study - are aircrew more likely to suffer the ill effects of ionizing radiation, whatever those are.
It would be the sort of thing that an established Airline and staff (or air force) would probably already have noticed, particularly any that fly through and around the intense storms in the tropics. The fact that they haven't leads me to think that this may be a non-story.
And just how do you know it was the 7-11 dude that stole your credit card DETAILS. Not your card mind you, just the information on it. And used it a month later?
Having worked for the largest card processors in the world I can tell you that buying petrol was the number 1 vector for stolen credit card details. The owners would never know because their transactions would go through just fine. All the attendants had to do was copy the details and invest in a card read/writer to put the new cards details on an existing mag stripe.
OP is right, if you are are paranoid about giving your credit card to a stranger you are not going to get much use out of it.
That depends how you define readily accessible savings though. I don't have a savings account as such, because I put all my available cash on my mortgage, paying off debt or at least offsetting interest. I can transfer any amount I need in an instant. I also have a shitload in shares, which I can capitalise in 3 days. On paper I am in debt. If I sold everything I own I would be sitting on a fairly large pile. It all depends how you look at things.
And why would you keep in it a bank when the IMF think it is okay to ask your country to steal it from you from there?
Anyway, I think the statistic says more about the inequality of the USA than anything else.
Can't see how it falls into either the "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"
Occams razor says that it is in here just so we can post jokes.
True. It occurred to me many moons ago that the easiest way to achieve the desired outcome would be to pay people who upload data to the internet, and charge those who download.
The difference between the upload and download rates would be the ISPs margin.
A book? Some exercise?
Well you are half right.
I see no reason why both can't apply.
Hmmm. Windows 8. Brought to you by Apple agents imbedded in MS.
I can see no other reasonable explanation. So occam's razor wins.
Especially if he puts the phone in his shirt pocket.
In your car analogy if a car scrapes across mine when it is parked in the road, should I have the right to demand the licencing authority give me the name and address of the registered owner? No, I have to hand it to the police, who will do fuck all about it.
You might like to read Robert Tressell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthropists) to get a feel for where that will take you...
The brutal suppression of the unions was probably more influential than the individualist culture. But then if you grew up with the US education system you wouldn't know about that redacted part of your history.
Oh, and to throw one back at ya, why do you need an airbase in every state of the US? Apart from pork-barreling that is. After all, it is not as if China is going to invade, say, Colorado without going through somewhere, and yet there are no fewer than five bases there.
Not to mention six in England. You afraid the English might want to start War of Independence, part 2?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Air_Force_Facilities.jpg
You could start with taking all your troops back home. Here is a list of navy bases to get you started. Why? Because you don't own the fucking world.
Bahrain
Naval Support Activity Bahrain
British Indian Ocean Territory
Diego Garcia
Brazil
São Paulo, Naval Support Detachment
Cuba
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Djibouti
Camp Lemonnier
Greece
Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Souda Bay, Crete
Guam
Naval Base Guam
Israel
The Port of Haifa maintains facilities for the United States Sixth Fleet.
Italy
Naval Air Station Sigonella
Naval Support Activity Gaeta
Naval Support Activity Naples
NCTS Naples
Japan
Naval Air Facility Atsugi
Naval Forces Japan, Okinawa
United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka
United States Fleet Activities Sasebo
Kuwait
Kuwait Naval Base
South Korea
Commander Fleet Activities Chinhae
Spain
Rota Naval Station
United Arab Emirates
Fujairah Naval Base
Port of Jebel Ali
There are times when you would like mod points to go beyond +5
He still murders plenty of people with drone strikes though. Hardly compatible with 'peace'.
But hey, once they gave it to Kissinger it was pretty much open slather...
Where there is a market, someone will invent a mechanism.
Before copyright there were patrons of the arts for the high end stuff, and people throwing coins at traveling musicians and story tellers at the low end. The former can quite easily be replicated today, with governments and crowdsourced funding also playing a role. The latter still exists today, with bands doing gigs, book readings by the author etc.
And do not underestimate the power of user generated content. YouTube has grown very fat and happy on it.
It strikes me that if you just let this man run the country for the remainder of his term without obstruction America could be the country that most people in the world have been told it is. And the whole world would be a better place.
Alternatively you can obstruct him at every turn and show that you are hypocrites that talk democracy and freedom, but are nothing more than corporate shrills doing the bidding of lobbyists, none of which are working for the American people, let alone the world.
And if you won't, for fuck sake let him run another country. Australia would love to have Obama as the leader. People of his mien come once a generation FFS.
proven fact? methinks you (and the people that mod-ed you up) don't understand the scientific method.
You postulate a theory based on observation (or pure thought). You make an experiment to test your postulation. If it produces data that supports your postulations you have a confirmed theory. You then publish so that everyone else can have a go at breaking the theory. Once enough people have tried and failed, you have a near consensus. But it is NEVER proven, and never fact. At least not in the same way you can say that the earth is a near spheroid.
My take on the teaching of religion in schools is that it is treats a 'faith' along accepted truths. More than happy for my children to learn comparative religion, but if a school wanted to teach my child about the sky fairy I would be sure to set them right and arm them with ammo for the next class. Luckily in Australia religion is not compulsory, and only about 10% of students in my child's school attend.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
That is all.