Be careful of internet sources... I was really asking where is failure to wear an arrestable offense, not something they tack on with everything else when they arrest you for something major:
For example, your source: 1. Cassie Ann Ramey was primarily arrested for Drunk Driving(and reckless, etc...) 2. another DUI 3. DUI 4. Driving on DUI suspended license, speeding 15+ 5. DUI 6. Winner - drinking under 21, open container, reckless, etc... 7. DUI 8. DUI 9. DUI and burglary 10. DUI
Funny, I get 12 hours 20 minutes. I figured on 65 due to traffic, construction and whatnot. The assumption of higher speed saves you over an hour right there. Your NORMAL drive takes 10 hours, but you can rush it in 8. Living in the USA, the maximum speed limit I can count on is 75mph, no autobahn for us.:(
Other than that, I was being 'mean' with the Model S, never taking it below 25% charge, and rounding stops up to an hour. In reality you only need 67 charging minutes to make it(with some reserve), but note that only 43 minutes of charging are effective per stop. So you could reduce your breakfast/lunch to just over 1/2 hour each, be willing to eat/relax at odd times. For example, deciding to go 250 miles per run and only stop for 35 minutes each time is a valid solution(depending on conditions).
Roughly speaking, you only need to add 20 minutes to your NORMAL drive, though an EV isn't yet capable of your speed drive. But it's not actually good to drive non-stop like that. They already recommend rest stops every 2-3 hours when driving.
That's using a current EV, of course. If every promise of this lithium-sulfur battery were true and it ended costing the same per pound, that's 1,060 miles of range per charge, so you could easily ironman the drive even if fast driving saps the pack quicker than rated mileage. If they cut the pack in half to save money, with 530 miles of range your current 45 minute dinner stop would easily top it off enough to make it the rest of the way.
but after a few arrests, that attitude didn't really last.
Where did they make not wearing your seatbelt an arrestable offense?
Personally, I figure the 'few wags' stopped because it's a pain in the butt to buckle a seatbelt if you're not in it, and it's more comfortable across your body than under it - IE it's more of a pain in the butt.
Given that my laptop bag is sufficiently heavy to trigger the seatbelt warning if I simply put it on the passenger seat, I have the feeling that would be rather easy to bypass...
Well, you also want them to be efficient - lithium's ~90% charge efficiency vs lead-acid's 75% can justify quite a bit of additional expense, especially when combined with things like better deep cycle performance. It's just that LiIon type batteries have a relatively long way to go to compete with lead's shear cheapness.
But yeah, cost per kwh of storage is the primary concern.
Currently, they are out of reach for a one-day-trip on an all-electric car, I would have to stay overnight and recharge the car to get there.
Okay, your brother is 660 miles away. That's about how far my parents were away from me before I moved to Alaska and they moved to Florida(previously Colorado/North Dakota and Nebraska, I move a lot). 660 miles in a day is a long, hard drive, at least for me.
Still, most EV's are capable of charging much faster than 'overnight' at specialized charging stations, such as Tesla's "Superchargers". They're advertised as being about to provide 3 hours of driving with 20 minutes of charging@120kW
Let's say you have a Tesla Model S with the 85kwh battery. 265 miles of range,.32 kwh per mile. You average 65 mph, and start at 4 am.
Right off the bat, you have 4 hours of battery life. To be safe, you stop at 7am for a spot of breakfast after hooking up to a local supercharger, 200 miles in. At 120kW, it should be able to fill a completely empty battery in 43 minutes, and you're not at empty. Last 10% can take a bit more, but you have plenty of time. You're back on the road at 8 am, go for another 200 miles and stop for lunch sometime around 11. 400 miles in, you eat at a sit down place(you need to take regular breaks when driving long distances), again hooking up to a charger. By 12 you're on the road again, drive until 3 pm when you take a 20 minute break(600 miles), charging your vehicle up 125 miles, going from 65 miles left to 190 just for safety, as you don't want to be rolling into your brother's with the battery warning you it's going dry. You're still to his place in time for dinner.
Due to various factors I ended up with a motorola atrix. I kill the thing regularly in under 4 hours(I'm a heavy user, I'll fully admit), and I don't even get to enjoy 'thin' because I'm tough on the things so I have it in an otterbox. It's over half an inch thick overall.
I'd rather trade some of the armor for a thicker, larger base battery along with integrating some amount of the armor directly into the phone.
There's plenty of people out there, it's just that even though I do a lot of research, I always seem to get ambused by something. When I bought my truck, for example, it was TPMS. I normally run two sets of rims - winter and summer tires. Rims aren't that much if you're buying cheap ones, and when the tire shop wants $50 to change out the tires...
FTFY, assuming cost/pound stayed the same of course.
Of course, that assumption was in my first paragraph in the first post: "Assuming this battery is identical to LiIon in cost per pound".
And start opening up the low end as well if you stuck with current ranges at 1/4 the cost
It should be a bit less than 1/4 the cost to maintain current ranges with this theoretical new battery - dropping 3/4 of the battery weight will tend to increase efficiency, resulting in a touch more range. Of course, this would be more noticeable the longer ranged the original vehicle is, in the sense that more battery weight cut = easier to notice efficiency gain. A 60 mile leaf will notice the lost weight less than a 240 mile model S; battery being already proportionally less in the leaf.
On volume - while it matters, I think it matters far less than weight. You can gain a LOT of volume by expanding the 'engine' area. Heck, make the vehicle a touch higher, with a 'platform' of batteries on the bottom. You could make the vehicle very hard to flip that way.
On road costs - you're right about gasoline taxes, but I think you'd probably end up doing one of the mileage schemes(preferably odometer based, not spy-capable GPS), or charging a set fee up front when the vehicle is purchased. A F-350 type truck is going to do less damage to the roads if the owner only hauls it out every other weekend(or so) to go camping or for some emergency than somebody that uses most of an 85 kwh Model S's charge every day.
Your mentioning the size DID make me think of a few different potential issues though - relative power capacity(how FAST can these batteries discharge their energy?), charge capacity(how fast can you charge them?), and charge efficiency(what percentage is lost in the charging cycle?). LiIon is relatively extremely good at all three - you can charge and discharge them quite quickly for their size, and they're over 90% efficient. If, along with half the voltage they also have half the amp capacity for their size, you might only see them in long range EV's - with early hybrids a lot of research went into increasing current capacity, which isn't necessary for EV's and 'strong hybrids' that can go significant distances on battery power alone, but is an issue when you're only using the battery as an evener.
If you can't pull enough power for decent performance with a low range battery, you'll have to increase the size to get it, along with increasing the range.
Indeed. I think I've been saying for around a decade "There's nothing wrong with EV's that a battery that lasts twice as long for half the price wouldn't fix'. Assuming this battery is identical to LiIon in cost per pound, the 4X energy density would mean that you could get 'extended range' Model S range at less than the price of a baseline one.
As is, the extended range batteries add so much weight to the vehicle that it adversely affects kwh per 100 miles - the 60 kwh battery is 35 kWh/100m, the 85 drops that to 38.
If an additional 25 kwh of battery currently does that, what happens if you 'only' double the total capacity, cutting the size/weight by half?
I really, really hope this becomes reality. Because I'd like to get an EV or a hybrid without breaking the bank, and it's my opinion that this is the last push needed.
I'm pro-patent, though I'm not sure how 'pro' I'd need to be to qualify as 'rabid' by your scale.
Still, I'd restrict patents some more. "Obvious" needs to be a stronger standard. Pre-existing genes shouldn't be patentable. "Business Methods". "X traditional system, but ON A COMPUTER!", or it's newest counterpart "X traditional computer task, NOW ON A SMARTPHONE!!!". Etc...
Uh... No? I believe they're greedy as all hell. The trick is, they're actually no more greedy than any other corporation, or even most individuals when it comes down to it.
The problem is that regulatory compliance is such a high hurdle that there's not enough competition to keep their greed from screwing things up, and there's so much money involved they can buy MORE regulations that help them.
Oh, and one interesting thing that I read is that mouse trials are killing us. Now, a mouse is 'pretty close' to human, and there's lots of interesting things we can learn, but I remember hearing a discussion on the radio about it and subsequently read some stuff on the internet. They were attempting to trial new Tuberculosis drugs in mice - when that particular disease acts far different in Mice than they do humans. Roughly speaking, the problem is that they were finding plenty of drugs that work great in mice for XYZ conditions; but none passed human trials. Who knows how many drugs that WOULD have worked on humans were killed because mice had a worse reaction than expected?
We need some sort of human model for testing. We just up and tested on humans in the old days. It caused some issues, but we found stuff that worked.
Say what? Apologetic? Yeah right. I'm a big one on saying that corporate personhood is a legal fiction, but even I'll fully admit that a corporation is effectively a real thing. Same deal with police departments. The NYPD, for example, has over a 200 year history, with a distinctive culture, history, organizational structure, etc...
I'm not trying to say police departments are people. They're organizations made of people. But said structures have real effects, large and small.
It also helps explain why there's so many good cops(I know, you don't believe they exist), when there's also so many bad ones, without the bad ones being turned in. The answer is simple: Bad cops don't generally move in the same circles as good ones. Kind of like how I, a computer guy, don't know if the vehicle maintenance guys are screwing up. Because I go there maybe once in a blue moon. Even within a single precinct, the vice cops might not know what the homicide cops are doing. Beat cops are isolated from both, etc...
The isolation isn't complete, of course, and I used 'department' in a generic sense - it could be the whole organization, a single precinct, even a single team within the organization. The important part is whether the organization as a whole has working methods to find and remove bad cops. Many departments actually do - but we don't hear about them on the news.
There are only bad cops.
Never said there weren't. It's just that I don't think the emphasis needs to be on bad officers. It needs to be on bad departments. The officers will follow.
Just saying 'There are only bad cops' doesn't help solve the problem.
Any cop who covers for bad cops is a bad cop. Done and done.
Did you read my post beyond the first sentence? Bad cops cover for bad cops, making for whole bad departments. Good cops don't, quickly weeding out bad cops, and ensuring 'middling' cops are corrected whenever they stray even a little, keeping them on the straight and narrow.
You have a bad department it's a royal pain to clean up. You have to fire huge gobs of corrupt/bad officers, retrain the ones you can salvage, etc...
The bad department theory helps explain why some departments have so many more problems than others, why so many cops don't see problems - because there aren't problems in their view. The bad cops all run together, and often know 'which' cops they can and cannot act up around.
Who knows, it might actually already be a business, but the states/feds are keeping quiet about it in the hope it doesn't spread?
I figure that it's too much like work. The whole idea with paying for sex is that it's quick and easy. It's a pain in the arse to set up a 'proper' porn company, especially if you're not actually selling videos to make up for the expense.
As for selling online for a low price - I'd say it's difficult to do even on the cheap - the market is saturated by superior quality stuff. Sex that looks good on camera isn't anywhere near as fun as doing it for the sex itself.
Ergo, you'd be lucky to make enough money to cover the hosting expenses. But then, you can always be 'forever hopeful' and point out that something like 80% of new businesses fail within 3 years.
Finally, 99% of hooker/john arrests are for the stupid poor ones as is. IE street walkers and the ones who pick them up. Proper 'call-girl' services are hardly ever touched; they're discrete enough to not generate complaints, and are a pain in the butt to investigate.
I wasn't found guilty. I pleaded something similar to "no contest" because the plea bargain offer had no jail time.
Guess what, you have that on the record because "no contest" is effectively the same as pleading guilty. As a result, you may find moving to another country incredibly difficult. Heck, even Canada will demand thousands in fees and professional document creation(IE lawyers filling out forms) before they'll let you in.
Of course, I hate how our current system allows police and prosecutors to effectively punish people without ever finding them guilty of anything. Legal fees alone can ruin people.
Except for limited sections of 1 state, prostitution is illegal in the USA. IE you cannot legally pay or receive money for sex.
However, producing pornography IS legal.
Set up a shell business where you pay to have sex ON TAPE, then never release the footage (Amateur/not good enough/whatever), and you're still good to go.
Just remember to keep the videos, logs, maybe even spend some money on occasion 'editing' said footage. Keep logs of EVERYTHING.
Oh, and consult a lawyer in your local are beforehand, I'm not a lawyer, and laws vary. It shouldn't need to be said, but while I object to anti-prostitution laws as they are now, if you're going to use a 'we're making legal porn' excuse, you'd better be able to convince a jury that you ARE in the business, even if you aren't particularly successful.
I've come to believe that you don't so much have good or bad police officers. What you have is good or bad police DEPARTMENTS. The difference in local police culture can be tremendous.
I'll try to boil it down a bit: Basically, take a brand new cop. They run the range of idealistic and great to power tripping and corrupt. Good and Bad, but most are in the middle. Then they get to their first department. A good department will show the bad eggs the door rather quickly, provide good role models to the middle run recruits, making them good officers. A bad department will often do much the opposite - driving the idealistic good officers away(remember the intelligence test where you wouldn't be hired if you scored too high?), providing shelter(often at great expense in lawsuits!) to the bad ones, and showing the middle ground recruits bad habits and procedures that they pick up, becoming worse than when they were recruited.
This is why you can have comparable districts with OOMs worth of difference in lawsuits, corruption trials, etc... But there's a huge difference between a department with half a dozen lawsuits a year, most of which end up dropped, and a department that's paying millions of taxpayer dollars in a dozen settled wrongful death lawsuits every year. Oh, and has a case in the supreme court for possibly unconstitutional discriminatory practices.
I've seen the difference in the military with how the supervisors are.
Remember, wired for sound as well. It's not going to look good if it's 'knocked off' in the car. Plus, well, I imaging that arranging for it to be knocked off in a physical confrontation in a convincing manner, while ensuring that it DOESN'T 'happen' to land facing said confrontation, would be difficult. Especially if they make it so it has a camera facing back as well.
Well, unless you think 'THEY'RE COMING RIGHT AT US!!!' would actually convince people.
As a counterpoint, I've seen quite a few cases where somebody ends up being charged with 'assaulting an officer' more or less for arguing with him.
I've seen videos of it. Sure, the person is normally being a douche while running his mouth a mile a minute and is sometimes failing to take action to officer directions that require active movement like 'Turn around', 'get on your knees', etc... But does failing to produce ID count as assaulting a police officer? Threatening a lawsuit? Complaining that the stop is illegal?
These charges normally end up dropped, but my point would be that if officers think they can get away with charges like this when the interaction is being caught on their car's camera, what are they doing when they don't think they're being video taped?
Maybe, knowing that they're being recorded, the officers are actually practicing their de-escalation techniques and they're working.
Well, odds are he's already working for a telephone company that also offers DSL, Fiber, etc...
If he learns the (relatively) new technology, he should spin it as '30+ years of tech support experience, including DSL, Fiber, ISDN, T1, etc...'
While there are substantial differences between the technologies, they still have much in common that he should be able to leverage. Not to mention the 30 years experience calming down irate business customers.
and whether building standards for homes and other places where people spend a lot of time (such as schools) ought to include a tornado shelter.
Municipal buildings, especially Schools, have traditionally done double duty as shelters. Elementary schools are particularly good for this - you don't want the youngest kids getting hurt, and they're traditionally the most dispersed/closest to most people.
So you do some things - build it to commercial+ standards. Stronger walls, windows, and doors. Higher fire protection. On high ground so it doesn't flood, etc...
Well, looks like that's not Nnaemeka's problem, given that it's an old dude making it, not some young guy. Still, I have some concerns. In no particular order
1. Many homeless people in the USA are homeless because of mental problems. Treating said problems is necessary because otherwise they can't take care of themselves, fancy rolling shelter or not. Many will DESTROY said shelter in days, if not hours. 2. Stove inside is just asking for fire. 3. Is water shortage really a problem for homeless people? 4. While it's technically mobile, it's far too heavy. I'm familiar with those castors, the system is far heavier than a shopping cart & a tent, sleeping bag, or even just a bunch of blankets.
Still, I'd like to see a mild hybrid version of my truck - because even a 20hp boost at 0 mph would be so very useful when towing. Plus, well, by preference arrange it so that the system can turn the generator with the clutch disconnected so it can act as a local generator at a job/camp site, or even at home during a power outage, would also be very helpful.
I have sandbags in the back of my truck anyways, so put the batteries under the bed so I have more traction in the winter, and we're good to go.
First, Hybrid trains are, to my knowledge, still in the prototype phase. You're probably thinking of Diesel-Electric trains, where the power from the generators goes directly to the wheel motors. There's resistor 'nets' on the locomotives to scrub off regenerated power right now rather than store the energy in batteries. Work is in progress to change this.
Okay - why are hybrid cars mostly parallel as opposed to series?
It's mostly because of the transmission. To put it simply, electric motors and generators scale up better than transmissions. A transmission with a sufficient range to handle the slow starts of a train yet get it up to ~50-80 mph would be huge, and the stresses involved are so high that their durability would be low. It's actually more efficient to use generator/controller/motor systems - a 95%(ish) generator combined with a 95% controller, and finally a 95% efficient motor gives an end efficiency of 85%, and theis is better(and cheaper) than the theoretical mechanical transmission.
In a car, well, motor/generators are heavy, and because they're smaller, you're looking at closer to 90% efficiency, not 95%. With a parallel system while you need a transmission, you also eliminate the need to have a seperate generator, and a larger generator/motor is more efficient than 2 smaller ones. Well 1 smaller one - one actually has to be larger because it has to be able to handle all accelleration needs of the car, not just the 'battery boost' of whatever level. Trains don't really worry about weight - most actually have added weight in the form of plates/sand just so they have sufficient traction, and they're actually saving weight/expense by not having the huge tranny.
I saw a comparison somewhere in a document about proper ballot creation. It turned out that bubble sheets, which any student is likely intimately familiar with, is the most accurate, over even 'complete the arrow for the candidate you want to vote for'.
Plus, well, equipment is more available.
That document was fascinating - It's not that creating a good ballot is actually all that complex, but I'd still probably end up spending a few days doing it because there's a lot of little 'gotchas' out there.
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Be careful of internet sources... I was really asking where is failure to wear an arrestable offense, not something they tack on with everything else when they arrest you for something major:
For example, your source:
1. Cassie Ann Ramey was primarily arrested for Drunk Driving(and reckless, etc...)
2. another DUI
3. DUI
4. Driving on DUI suspended license, speeding 15+
5. DUI
6. Winner - drinking under 21, open container, reckless, etc...
7. DUI
8. DUI
9. DUI and burglary
10. DUI
Your plan will take at least 13 hrs.
Funny, I get 12 hours 20 minutes. I figured on 65 due to traffic, construction and whatnot. The assumption of higher speed saves you over an hour right there. Your NORMAL drive takes 10 hours, but you can rush it in 8. Living in the USA, the maximum speed limit I can count on is 75mph, no autobahn for us. :(
Other than that, I was being 'mean' with the Model S, never taking it below 25% charge, and rounding stops up to an hour. In reality you only need 67 charging minutes to make it(with some reserve), but note that only 43 minutes of charging are effective per stop. So you could reduce your breakfast/lunch to just over 1/2 hour each, be willing to eat/relax at odd times. For example, deciding to go 250 miles per run and only stop for 35 minutes each time is a valid solution(depending on conditions).
Roughly speaking, you only need to add 20 minutes to your NORMAL drive, though an EV isn't yet capable of your speed drive. But it's not actually good to drive non-stop like that. They already recommend rest stops every 2-3 hours when driving.
That's using a current EV, of course. If every promise of this lithium-sulfur battery were true and it ended costing the same per pound, that's 1,060 miles of range per charge, so you could easily ironman the drive even if fast driving saps the pack quicker than rated mileage. If they cut the pack in half to save money, with 530 miles of range your current 45 minute dinner stop would easily top it off enough to make it the rest of the way.
but after a few arrests, that attitude didn't really last.
Where did they make not wearing your seatbelt an arrestable offense?
Personally, I figure the 'few wags' stopped because it's a pain in the butt to buckle a seatbelt if you're not in it, and it's more comfortable across your body than under it - IE it's more of a pain in the butt.
Given that my laptop bag is sufficiently heavy to trigger the seatbelt warning if I simply put it on the passenger seat, I have the feeling that would be rather easy to bypass...
Well, you also want them to be efficient - lithium's ~90% charge efficiency vs lead-acid's 75% can justify quite a bit of additional expense, especially when combined with things like better deep cycle performance. It's just that LiIon type batteries have a relatively long way to go to compete with lead's shear cheapness.
But yeah, cost per kwh of storage is the primary concern.
Currently, they are out of reach for a one-day-trip on an all-electric car, I would have to stay overnight and recharge the car to get there.
Okay, your brother is 660 miles away. That's about how far my parents were away from me before I moved to Alaska and they moved to Florida(previously Colorado/North Dakota and Nebraska, I move a lot). 660 miles in a day is a long, hard drive, at least for me.
Still, most EV's are capable of charging much faster than 'overnight' at specialized charging stations, such as Tesla's "Superchargers". They're advertised as being about to provide 3 hours of driving with 20 minutes of charging@120kW
Let's say you have a Tesla Model S with the 85kwh battery. 265 miles of range, .32 kwh per mile. You average 65 mph, and start at 4 am.
Right off the bat, you have 4 hours of battery life. To be safe, you stop at 7am for a spot of breakfast after hooking up to a local supercharger, 200 miles in. At 120kW, it should be able to fill a completely empty battery in 43 minutes, and you're not at empty. Last 10% can take a bit more, but you have plenty of time. You're back on the road at 8 am, go for another 200 miles and stop for lunch sometime around 11. 400 miles in, you eat at a sit down place(you need to take regular breaks when driving long distances), again hooking up to a charger. By 12 you're on the road again, drive until 3 pm when you take a 20 minute break(600 miles), charging your vehicle up 125 miles, going from 65 miles left to 190 just for safety, as you don't want to be rolling into your brother's with the battery warning you it's going dry. You're still to his place in time for dinner.
Due to various factors I ended up with a motorola atrix. I kill the thing regularly in under 4 hours(I'm a heavy user, I'll fully admit), and I don't even get to enjoy 'thin' because I'm tough on the things so I have it in an otterbox. It's over half an inch thick overall.
I'd rather trade some of the armor for a thicker, larger base battery along with integrating some amount of the armor directly into the phone.
There's plenty of people out there, it's just that even though I do a lot of research, I always seem to get ambused by something. When I bought my truck, for example, it was TPMS. I normally run two sets of rims - winter and summer tires. Rims aren't that much if you're buying cheap ones, and when the tire shop wants $50 to change out the tires...
FTFY, assuming cost/pound stayed the same of course.
Of course, that assumption was in my first paragraph in the first post: "Assuming this battery is identical to LiIon in cost per pound".
And start opening up the low end as well if you stuck with current ranges at 1/4 the cost
It should be a bit less than 1/4 the cost to maintain current ranges with this theoretical new battery - dropping 3/4 of the battery weight will tend to increase efficiency, resulting in a touch more range. Of course, this would be more noticeable the longer ranged the original vehicle is, in the sense that more battery weight cut = easier to notice efficiency gain. A 60 mile leaf will notice the lost weight less than a 240 mile model S; battery being already proportionally less in the leaf.
On volume - while it matters, I think it matters far less than weight. You can gain a LOT of volume by expanding the 'engine' area. Heck, make the vehicle a touch higher, with a 'platform' of batteries on the bottom. You could make the vehicle very hard to flip that way.
On road costs - you're right about gasoline taxes, but I think you'd probably end up doing one of the mileage schemes(preferably odometer based, not spy-capable GPS), or charging a set fee up front when the vehicle is purchased. A F-350 type truck is going to do less damage to the roads if the owner only hauls it out every other weekend(or so) to go camping or for some emergency than somebody that uses most of an 85 kwh Model S's charge every day.
Your mentioning the size DID make me think of a few different potential issues though - relative power capacity(how FAST can these batteries discharge their energy?), charge capacity(how fast can you charge them?), and charge efficiency(what percentage is lost in the charging cycle?). LiIon is relatively extremely good at all three - you can charge and discharge them quite quickly for their size, and they're over 90% efficient. If, along with half the voltage they also have half the amp capacity for their size, you might only see them in long range EV's - with early hybrids a lot of research went into increasing current capacity, which isn't necessary for EV's and 'strong hybrids' that can go significant distances on battery power alone, but is an issue when you're only using the battery as an evener.
If you can't pull enough power for decent performance with a low range battery, you'll have to increase the size to get it, along with increasing the range.
Indeed. I think I've been saying for around a decade "There's nothing wrong with EV's that a battery that lasts twice as long for half the price wouldn't fix'. Assuming this battery is identical to LiIon in cost per pound, the 4X energy density would mean that you could get 'extended range' Model S range at less than the price of a baseline one.
As is, the extended range batteries add so much weight to the vehicle that it adversely affects kwh per 100 miles - the 60 kwh battery is 35 kWh/100m, the 85 drops that to 38.
If an additional 25 kwh of battery currently does that, what happens if you 'only' double the total capacity, cutting the size/weight by half?
I really, really hope this becomes reality. Because I'd like to get an EV or a hybrid without breaking the bank, and it's my opinion that this is the last push needed.
I'm pro-patent, though I'm not sure how 'pro' I'd need to be to qualify as 'rabid' by your scale.
Still, I'd restrict patents some more. "Obvious" needs to be a stronger standard. Pre-existing genes shouldn't be patentable. "Business Methods". "X traditional system, but ON A COMPUTER!", or it's newest counterpart "X traditional computer task, NOW ON A SMARTPHONE!!!". Etc...
Copyright is where I'd really go to town though.
Uh... No? I believe they're greedy as all hell. The trick is, they're actually no more greedy than any other corporation, or even most individuals when it comes down to it.
The problem is that regulatory compliance is such a high hurdle that there's not enough competition to keep their greed from screwing things up, and there's so much money involved they can buy MORE regulations that help them.
Oh, and one interesting thing that I read is that mouse trials are killing us. Now, a mouse is 'pretty close' to human, and there's lots of interesting things we can learn, but I remember hearing a discussion on the radio about it and subsequently read some stuff on the internet. They were attempting to trial new Tuberculosis drugs in mice - when that particular disease acts far different in Mice than they do humans. Roughly speaking, the problem is that they were finding plenty of drugs that work great in mice for XYZ conditions; but none passed human trials. Who knows how many drugs that WOULD have worked on humans were killed because mice had a worse reaction than expected?
We need some sort of human model for testing. We just up and tested on humans in the old days. It caused some issues, but we found stuff that worked.
because a department is a legal fiction.
Say what? Apologetic? Yeah right. I'm a big one on saying that corporate personhood is a legal fiction, but even I'll fully admit that a corporation is effectively a real thing. Same deal with police departments. The NYPD, for example, has over a 200 year history, with a distinctive culture, history, organizational structure, etc...
I'm not trying to say police departments are people. They're organizations made of people. But said structures have real effects, large and small.
It also helps explain why there's so many good cops(I know, you don't believe they exist), when there's also so many bad ones, without the bad ones being turned in. The answer is simple: Bad cops don't generally move in the same circles as good ones. Kind of like how I, a computer guy, don't know if the vehicle maintenance guys are screwing up. Because I go there maybe once in a blue moon. Even within a single precinct, the vice cops might not know what the homicide cops are doing. Beat cops are isolated from both, etc...
The isolation isn't complete, of course, and I used 'department' in a generic sense - it could be the whole organization, a single precinct, even a single team within the organization. The important part is whether the organization as a whole has working methods to find and remove bad cops. Many departments actually do - but we don't hear about them on the news.
There are only bad cops.
Never said there weren't. It's just that I don't think the emphasis needs to be on bad officers. It needs to be on bad departments. The officers will follow.
Just saying 'There are only bad cops' doesn't help solve the problem.
Any cop who covers for bad cops is a bad cop. Done and done.
Did you read my post beyond the first sentence? Bad cops cover for bad cops, making for whole bad departments. Good cops don't, quickly weeding out bad cops, and ensuring 'middling' cops are corrected whenever they stray even a little, keeping them on the straight and narrow.
You have a bad department it's a royal pain to clean up. You have to fire huge gobs of corrupt/bad officers, retrain the ones you can salvage, etc...
The bad department theory helps explain why some departments have so many more problems than others, why so many cops don't see problems - because there aren't problems in their view. The bad cops all run together, and often know 'which' cops they can and cannot act up around.
Who knows, it might actually already be a business, but the states/feds are keeping quiet about it in the hope it doesn't spread?
I figure that it's too much like work. The whole idea with paying for sex is that it's quick and easy. It's a pain in the arse to set up a 'proper' porn company, especially if you're not actually selling videos to make up for the expense.
As for selling online for a low price - I'd say it's difficult to do even on the cheap - the market is saturated by superior quality stuff. Sex that looks good on camera isn't anywhere near as fun as doing it for the sex itself.
Ergo, you'd be lucky to make enough money to cover the hosting expenses. But then, you can always be 'forever hopeful' and point out that something like 80% of new businesses fail within 3 years.
Finally, 99% of hooker/john arrests are for the stupid poor ones as is. IE street walkers and the ones who pick them up. Proper 'call-girl' services are hardly ever touched; they're discrete enough to not generate complaints, and are a pain in the butt to investigate.
I wasn't found guilty. I pleaded something similar to "no contest" because the plea bargain offer had no jail time.
Guess what, you have that on the record because "no contest" is effectively the same as pleading guilty. As a result, you may find moving to another country incredibly difficult. Heck, even Canada will demand thousands in fees and professional document creation(IE lawyers filling out forms) before they'll let you in.
Of course, I hate how our current system allows police and prosecutors to effectively punish people without ever finding them guilty of anything. Legal fees alone can ruin people.
Your post reminded me of something funny.
Except for limited sections of 1 state, prostitution is illegal in the USA. IE you cannot legally pay or receive money for sex.
However, producing pornography IS legal.
Set up a shell business where you pay to have sex ON TAPE, then never release the footage (Amateur/not good enough/whatever), and you're still good to go.
Just remember to keep the videos, logs, maybe even spend some money on occasion 'editing' said footage. Keep logs of EVERYTHING.
Oh, and consult a lawyer in your local are beforehand, I'm not a lawyer, and laws vary. It shouldn't need to be said, but while I object to anti-prostitution laws as they are now, if you're going to use a 'we're making legal porn' excuse, you'd better be able to convince a jury that you ARE in the business, even if you aren't particularly successful.
I've come to believe that you don't so much have good or bad police officers. What you have is good or bad police DEPARTMENTS. The difference in local police culture can be tremendous.
I'll try to boil it down a bit: Basically, take a brand new cop. They run the range of idealistic and great to power tripping and corrupt. Good and Bad, but most are in the middle. Then they get to their first department. A good department will show the bad eggs the door rather quickly, provide good role models to the middle run recruits, making them good officers. A bad department will often do much the opposite - driving the idealistic good officers away(remember the intelligence test where you wouldn't be hired if you scored too high?), providing shelter(often at great expense in lawsuits!) to the bad ones, and showing the middle ground recruits bad habits and procedures that they pick up, becoming worse than when they were recruited.
This is why you can have comparable districts with OOMs worth of difference in lawsuits, corruption trials, etc... But there's a huge difference between a department with half a dozen lawsuits a year, most of which end up dropped, and a department that's paying millions of taxpayer dollars in a dozen settled wrongful death lawsuits every year. Oh, and has a case in the supreme court for possibly unconstitutional discriminatory practices.
I've seen the difference in the military with how the supervisors are.
Remember, wired for sound as well. It's not going to look good if it's 'knocked off' in the car. Plus, well, I imaging that arranging for it to be knocked off in a physical confrontation in a convincing manner, while ensuring that it DOESN'T 'happen' to land facing said confrontation, would be difficult. Especially if they make it so it has a camera facing back as well.
Well, unless you think 'THEY'RE COMING RIGHT AT US!!!' would actually convince people.
As a counterpoint, I've seen quite a few cases where somebody ends up being charged with 'assaulting an officer' more or less for arguing with him.
I've seen videos of it. Sure, the person is normally being a douche while running his mouth a mile a minute and is sometimes failing to take action to officer directions that require active movement like 'Turn around', 'get on your knees', etc... But does failing to produce ID count as assaulting a police officer? Threatening a lawsuit? Complaining that the stop is illegal?
These charges normally end up dropped, but my point would be that if officers think they can get away with charges like this when the interaction is being caught on their car's camera, what are they doing when they don't think they're being video taped?
Maybe, knowing that they're being recorded, the officers are actually practicing their de-escalation techniques and they're working.
Well, odds are he's already working for a telephone company that also offers DSL, Fiber, etc...
If he learns the (relatively) new technology, he should spin it as '30+ years of tech support experience, including DSL, Fiber, ISDN, T1, etc...'
While there are substantial differences between the technologies, they still have much in common that he should be able to leverage. Not to mention the 30 years experience calming down irate business customers.
and whether building standards for homes and other places where people spend a lot of time (such as schools) ought to include a tornado shelter.
Municipal buildings, especially Schools, have traditionally done double duty as shelters. Elementary schools are particularly good for this - you don't want the youngest kids getting hurt, and they're traditionally the most dispersed/closest to most people.
So you do some things - build it to commercial+ standards. Stronger walls, windows, and doors. Higher fire protection. On high ground so it doesn't flood, etc...
Hmmm....
Well, looks like that's not Nnaemeka's problem, given that it's an old dude making it, not some young guy. Still, I have some concerns. In no particular order
1. Many homeless people in the USA are homeless because of mental problems. Treating said problems is necessary because otherwise they can't take care of themselves, fancy rolling shelter or not. Many will DESTROY said shelter in days, if not hours.
2. Stove inside is just asking for fire.
3. Is water shortage really a problem for homeless people?
4. While it's technically mobile, it's far too heavy. I'm familiar with those castors, the system is far heavier than a shopping cart & a tent, sleeping bag, or even just a bunch of blankets.
21 MPG? My TRUCK gets that. :(
Still, I'd like to see a mild hybrid version of my truck - because even a 20hp boost at 0 mph would be so very useful when towing. Plus, well, by preference arrange it so that the system can turn the generator with the clutch disconnected so it can act as a local generator at a job/camp site, or even at home during a power outage, would also be very helpful.
I have sandbags in the back of my truck anyways, so put the batteries under the bed so I have more traction in the winter, and we're good to go.
First, Hybrid trains are, to my knowledge, still in the prototype phase. You're probably thinking of Diesel-Electric trains, where the power from the generators goes directly to the wheel motors. There's resistor 'nets' on the locomotives to scrub off regenerated power right now rather than store the energy in batteries. Work is in progress to change this.
Okay - why are hybrid cars mostly parallel as opposed to series?
It's mostly because of the transmission. To put it simply, electric motors and generators scale up better than transmissions. A transmission with a sufficient range to handle the slow starts of a train yet get it up to ~50-80 mph would be huge, and the stresses involved are so high that their durability would be low. It's actually more efficient to use generator/controller/motor systems - a 95%(ish) generator combined with a 95% controller, and finally a 95% efficient motor gives an end efficiency of 85%, and theis is better(and cheaper) than the theoretical mechanical transmission.
In a car, well, motor/generators are heavy, and because they're smaller, you're looking at closer to 90% efficiency, not 95%. With a parallel system while you need a transmission, you also eliminate the need to have a seperate generator, and a larger generator/motor is more efficient than 2 smaller ones. Well 1 smaller one - one actually has to be larger because it has to be able to handle all accelleration needs of the car, not just the 'battery boost' of whatever level. Trains don't really worry about weight - most actually have added weight in the form of plates/sand just so they have sufficient traction, and they're actually saving weight/expense by not having the huge tranny.
I saw a comparison somewhere in a document about proper ballot creation. It turned out that bubble sheets, which any student is likely intimately familiar with, is the most accurate, over even 'complete the arrow for the candidate you want to vote for'.
Plus, well, equipment is more available.
That document was fascinating - It's not that creating a good ballot is actually all that complex, but I'd still probably end up spending a few days doing it because there's a lot of little 'gotchas' out there.