Home drug tests are MADE to test for things the average teen could get ahold of.
Since when sleeping pills are something that anyone takes for pleasure? Give me a break. Treating benzodiazepines (most common sleeping pill ingredient IIRC) as "drugs" is plenty stupid IMHO.
To say that the kids will have no future is an exaggeration, but the parents here are basically naive and it's a common kind of naivete. I remember a story where the parent thought that their kid making out while under 16 with their friend was something that the child services would best take care of. Result: statutory rape charges and a sexual offender record for the rest of kids' lives.
I think everyone should go to state or even federal prison for a week. It should be akin to compulsory civics lesson. Things would change real quick once that policy was in place. First of all, adults wouldn't be so fucking naive.
It's always those "what if" questions that drive me mad. Look, Anonymous Coward, if a drugged parent went to the store, fell asleep, and killed someone, the kids would be charged with manslaughter. The way things are, none of that happened. Mmkay? Let the punishment fit the crime and all that jazz. You don't punish people for what may be, with narrow exceptions like conspiracy charges.
You'll find people who do community service everywhere. So, that's IMHO a non-argument. You're claiming, essentially, that LDS is significant because they do community service. Well, if they've got millions of members, then each member has to do one hour a year to add it all up to millions of hours per year, so that's hardly worth talking about.
Catholic church's Vatican bank has been slapped with fines for money laundering, more than once, IIRC, never mind the whole sex abuse thing. I'm pretty sure any religion you'd look at, with exception maybe of pastafarians (yum noodly appendages!) would have huge recent skeletons in their closets:(
I call bullshit on that. If it was $45k per year for 2012 tax year, then it couldn't be much more in 2011, and sure as heck I was way away from hitting AMT in 2011, earning way more than $45k.
That it is a good way to store wealth. The germans were recently considering dumping some of their gold reserves (to the tune of hundreds of tons), in case things got really bad and they needed to rescue more private banks.
Well, the European problem was also because people who had no fucking clue about anything were dabbling in shit. Iceland, with their 300k population and no business doing any world-wide finance, was investing in junk left right and center. Germans thought that all of the world is as fiscally prudent as they are and were buying credit default swaps like there was no tomorrow. The Irish idiots were building so many homes that their country's population would need to more than double to actually use all that newly developed real estate. And so on. Central government budgets are much smaller than the private banking sector.
The problem with both Iceland and Ireland was that their central banks decided to bail out non-structural institutions they had no business bailing out. Non-structural as in there'd be no country-wide issues if an investment bank had failed. I mean, come on, IIRC it was the Anglo Irish Bank that had a handful of branches, not even a single ATM, pretty much no private deposits to speak of, yet it was bailed out like if everyone's future depended on it. What sunk Ireland was pretty much the fact that all of Irish real estate development market turned sub-prime in a course of a few weeks. It didn't matter that they didn't have much exposure to US subprime securities, their own private housing sector defaulted all at once. Iceland was pretty much a hedge fund that was buying all the crap nobody else would buy. And the Germans were none the wiser either. Same goes for a lot of other countries that have used national banks to rescue private banks. That's what was the final straw, sometimes the only one, even.
Wait a minute, you have the gall to call US's economics "a fairy land one"? And who the heck was buying all the junk securities, I ask? Well, a lot of it was being bought by Germany, some also by country-hedgefund once called Iceland. I'd say US financiers are very good at exploiting everyone else for US's own benefit. There would be no fairy land housing boom and bust if it weren't for European investors.
I somewhat agree. I don't consider an alcoholic who can't ever drink again to be "cured" in any way, shape or form. A normal, non-addicted person, can simply drink in moderation like everyone else. Yet every "recovered" alcoholic I speak to tells me they must abstain from any alcoholic drinks, forever. The (lack of) logic of such a "cure" is mind boggling to me. A recovered addict, to me, is someone who can enjoy life just like anyone else, simply not having the obsession about alcohol, drugs, or what the heck ever.
The initial part of the alarm going off is reasonable, but why it didn't turn off when the engine was started I wouldn't know -- at that point you're proven to be in possession of the key with the transponder, after all. Weird.
Mercury is nasty? Given what's typically used in rocket propulsion, mercury is nothing to worry about. I still have a few grams of mercury stored for experiments, and still have a mercury thermometer or two. Why wouldn't I want to be around it? It's stored in sealed glass containers, in secure storage.
The "keyless system" is the passive transponder in your key assembly at large. You don't need a battery, or even a functioning remote, for it to do its job. All Volvos made since 2000 (at least) won't start if the transponder is not present -- that's otherwise known as the immobilizer function. I'd have hoped that all 2000 and newer U.S. model year cars were like that, it's such a basic security feature...
The fob's only function is to be a remote radio transmitter. The key proper has an immobilizer transponder, possibly also used for keyless entry. It's not a common design at all for a dead remote battery will cause any problems other than having to use the physical key. I'd rather call it a malfunction.
It's interesting how differently people think, since my first reaction, when I first got a Volvo with an alarm that went off, was to turn the door key back and forth -- and it did turn the alarm off.
Of course it makes sense that if you're inside the car and unlock the door when the alarm is armed, it's supposed to go off. That's the whole point. The car doesn't know if you're inside or outside when locking the door with the remote, duh. For all the alarm knows, there's a burglar curled on the seat, waiting to drive off as soon as the owner walks away.
I suggest reading Hans Camenzind's "Much ado about almost nothing". It pretty much recounts Tesla the way he really was. His only "paramout" work of practical importance was in multi-phase power transmission and generation. He devoted the latter part of his life thoroughly to crackpottery, defrauding his investors along the way.
Let's not compare Tesla to Ramanujan or Newton. The latter two are in a very different achievement class. Tesla eventually turned to crackpottery. Yet clueless fools believe him even today:(
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I was the same, except that back then it was playing with Turbo Pascal 3 on a CP/M machine :)
Home drug tests are MADE to test for things the average teen could get ahold of.
Since when sleeping pills are something that anyone takes for pleasure? Give me a break.
Treating benzodiazepines (most common sleeping pill ingredient IIRC) as "drugs" is plenty stupid
IMHO.
To say that the kids will have no future is an exaggeration, but the parents here are basically naive and it's
a common kind of naivete. I remember a story where the parent thought that their kid making out while under 16
with their friend was something that the child services would best take care of. Result: statutory rape charges
and a sexual offender record for the rest of kids' lives.
I think everyone should go to state or even federal prison for a week. It should be akin to compulsory civics lesson.
Things would change real quick once that policy was in place. First of all, adults wouldn't be so fucking naive.
It's always those "what if" questions that drive me mad.
Look, Anonymous Coward, if a drugged parent went to the store, fell asleep, and killed someone,
the kids would be charged with manslaughter. The way things are, none of that happened. Mmkay?
Let the punishment fit the crime and all that jazz. You don't punish people for what may be, with narrow
exceptions like conspiracy charges.
It's not interesting, it's not funny, it's really not much at all :(
Groggy vs. betrayed. Yeah, tough pick. Like, DUH.
You'll find people who do community service everywhere. So, that's IMHO a non-argument. You're claiming, essentially, that LDS is significant because they do community service. Well, if they've got millions of members, then each member has to do one hour a year to add it all up to millions of hours per year, so that's hardly worth talking about.
Catholic church's Vatican bank has been slapped with fines for money laundering, more than once, IIRC, never mind the whole sex abuse thing. I'm pretty sure any religion you'd look at, with exception maybe of pastafarians (yum noodly appendages!) would have huge recent skeletons in their closets :(
Oh, that's ridiculous, but hey, it figures. Bureaucrats won't exactly design themselves out of a job :(
I call bullshit on that. If it was $45k per year for 2012 tax year, then it couldn't be much more in 2011, and sure as heck I was way away from hitting AMT in 2011, earning way more than $45k.
That it is a good way to store wealth. The germans were recently considering dumping some of their gold reserves (to the tune of hundreds of tons), in case things got really bad and they needed to rescue more private banks.
Well, the European problem was also because people who had no fucking clue about anything were dabbling in shit. Iceland, with their 300k population and no business doing any world-wide finance, was investing in junk left right and center. Germans thought that all of the world is as fiscally prudent as they are and were buying credit default swaps like there was no tomorrow. The Irish idiots were building so many homes that their country's population would need to more than double to actually use all that newly developed real estate. And so on. Central government budgets are much smaller than the private banking sector.
The problem with both Iceland and Ireland was that their central banks decided to bail out non-structural institutions they had no business bailing out. Non-structural as in there'd be no country-wide issues if an investment bank had failed. I mean, come on, IIRC it was the Anglo Irish Bank that had a handful of branches, not even a single ATM, pretty much no private deposits to speak of, yet it was bailed out like if everyone's future depended on it. What sunk Ireland was pretty much the fact that all of Irish real estate development market turned sub-prime in a course of a few weeks. It didn't matter that they didn't have much exposure to US subprime securities, their own private housing sector defaulted all at once. Iceland was pretty much a hedge fund that was buying all the crap nobody else would buy. And the Germans were none the wiser either. Same goes for a lot of other countries that have used national banks to rescue private banks. That's what was the final straw, sometimes the only one, even.
Wait a minute, you have the gall to call US's economics "a fairy land one"? And who the heck was buying all the junk securities, I ask? Well, a lot of it was being bought by Germany, some also by country-hedgefund once called Iceland. I'd say US financiers are very good at exploiting everyone else for US's own benefit. There would be no fairy land housing boom and bust if it weren't for European investors.
I somewhat agree. I don't consider an alcoholic who can't ever drink again to be "cured" in any way, shape or form. A normal, non-addicted person, can simply drink in moderation like everyone else. Yet every "recovered" alcoholic I speak to tells me they must abstain from any alcoholic drinks, forever. The (lack of) logic of such a "cure" is mind boggling to me. A recovered addict, to me, is someone who can enjoy life just like anyone else, simply not having the obsession about alcohol, drugs, or what the heck ever.
You need a rear-facing horn, though, because usually you end up passing the offender and honking at the wrong guy, or even at no one :(
You must not be driving much, huh? There's no point in honking the horn after the fact. Expletives can't undo what has happened either.
The initial part of the alarm going off is reasonable, but why it didn't turn off when the engine was started I wouldn't know -- at that point you're proven to be in possession of the key with the transponder, after all. Weird.
Mercury is nasty? Given what's typically used in rocket propulsion, mercury is nothing to worry about. I still have a few grams of mercury stored for experiments, and still have a mercury thermometer or two. Why wouldn't I want to be around it? It's stored in sealed glass containers, in secure storage.
The "keyless system" is the passive transponder in your key assembly at large. You don't need a battery, or even a functioning remote, for it to do its job. All Volvos made since 2000 (at least) won't start if the transponder is not present -- that's otherwise known as the immobilizer function. I'd have hoped that all 2000 and newer U.S. model year cars were like that, it's such a basic security feature...
The fob's only function is to be a remote radio transmitter. The key proper has an immobilizer transponder, possibly also used for keyless entry. It's not a common design at all for a dead remote battery will cause any problems other than having to use the physical key. I'd rather call it a malfunction.
When was that thing made? 90s?
It's interesting how differently people think, since my first reaction, when I first got a Volvo with an alarm that went off, was to turn the door key back and forth -- and it did turn the alarm off.
Of course it makes sense that if you're inside the car and unlock the door when the alarm is armed, it's supposed to go off. That's the whole point. The car doesn't know if you're inside or outside when locking the door with the remote, duh. For all the alarm knows, there's a burglar curled on the seat, waiting to drive off as soon as the owner walks away.
It may be a bug or even a problem with your car only.
I suggest reading Hans Camenzind's "Much ado about almost nothing". It pretty much recounts Tesla the way he really was. His only "paramout" work of practical importance was in multi-phase power transmission and generation. He devoted the latter part of his life thoroughly to crackpottery, defrauding his investors along the way.
Let's not compare Tesla to Ramanujan or Newton. The latter two are in a very different achievement class. Tesla eventually turned to crackpottery. Yet clueless fools believe him even today :(
Ah, that's nice to hear, then! Thanks! +1 Informative