The problem here is that self defense is legal in context of preventing harm to yourself - typically this means your body. You're not allowed to attack somebody for busting up your car with a hammer, for example.
Except for their lagging behind, as far as I'm concerned any retaliatory measures should be done by the police, or if the attack originates in a country that doesn't cooperate with your police, the military.
IE You're in the USA: hack comes from within the USA - FBI, ie federal police. If if comes from next door, local police Hack comes from, say, Australia - The FBI contacts their counterparts there and the investigation continues From a country without formal legal agreements - Interpol assists From a hostile country, such as North Korea? Military, maybe.
No, but it takes more than a degree to make even a % change in the volume of gasoline. A quick search on the internet is.95% increase for a 10C change. So you're looking at needing an 18F change to get 1%.
With a 5k gallon tank with a certain amount of insulation, you're probably looking more at 1F/day
1500 hours is 3/4 of a work year. Its is in no way 'a lot' of flight time. Get back to me when you hit 10k hours. The captain of 1549 that went down in the hudson is approaching 30k if I recall correctly.
That assumes the pilot is in the air, and I mean in the air the equivalent of a 9 to 5 workday with 2 weeks of vacation a year. What about ground safety checks? What about paperwork preparing for the flight? Boarding, preflights, taxying, etc...? Heck, what about the excessive transit times just to get through airport security?
It's a bit like saying that 1500 hours of surgery shouldn't be a big deal. 2k hours is a work year. But surgeons have even more non-surgery tasks than the pilots.
Your standard computer sim tends to make the task of landing rather easier than reality. As stated elsewhere, the main difficulty they had was not knowing the controls - which with a computer sim you can find out via the tutorial/quick reference guide. What I'm surprised about is that neither Adam or Jamie had any flight experience.
Your standard keyboard has 101-105 keys, the mouse has ~4, etc... There's several hundred controls in a 747 cockpit. Landing a Cessna with like 20 is easy, though I'd have never guessed where the flap controls are located before I started training on one.
Okay, my family is a bunch of luddites, I'm the only one with a cell phone. Brother would have one, but he's unemployed and had to give it up. Thus, all of my calls are to landlines, thus charged minutes. I do get the standard 'free weekends', and even with my small plan I always have excess minutes.
Unlike AC, I could see somebody 'trading down' plans if they're virtually always within range of wifi good enough for their voice. A number of the points close to me(such as the food court or bowling alley) are usually super-saturated to the point it's quicker and easier for me to use my cellular data than theirs.
While I remember the old memory game(vaguely), I wonder if the suit being brought in Germany was somewhat 'court shopping'? After all, the IOS market is global, not just German, and depending on the laws, 'Memory' might be too vague in many countries to be a valid trademark on it's own.
I mean, what about a game called 'The Memories of Lars Fibbonachi'? Would that be in violation? 'In Memory of X?', etc...
One thing I've noticed is that imperial measurements tend to work much better than metric for cooking. I can double or halve a recipe with relative ease with imperial, metric is a pain in the butt.
I remember a case where a bicyclist got 3 tickets simultaneously for running red lights - the cop saw him run all three. The standard is to treat them all as first offense tickets(punishment not being effective if it hasn't happened yet), but somehow they ended up doing it as strike 1, 2,3 - Something like $200 first, $600 second, $1k third. So what should of been $600 ballooned into $1.8k.
Note: I think the guy SHOULD get tickets for running the red lights, but the cop should of pulled him over for the first and not let him continue for the 2nd, 3rd. Basically 1 red light ticket unless he was doing it crazy stupid AND the cop couldn't catch him quick enough.
It's possible that the 'weapons' were non-conforming knives, but that could have been part of the plea - drop the weapons charges, he pleads guilty to the piracy.
10k discs, if we figure $3/pop*, that's $30k worth of pirated materials, or enough for 'grand theft auto' of a new vehicle. And that was his active stock. Most stores turn that over in, what, about a month? Of course, that would be approximately 60 discs/hour if he was running a retail store, so I figure he was producing/distributing the stuff to street venders who'd actually sell to the public(and rat him out when they're busted for selling forged discs). Figure $1/profit a disc for him - that's $120k of income a year.
Hardly a 'few thousand', I'd say.
*Going rate over in the desert for 'bootleg' stuff is ~$3/disc.
While I agree that three strike laws shouldn't be, I don't think it runs afoul of double jeopardy and think that it, at most, would violate 'cruel and unusual'. Of course, unusual would be covered by it being state law 'impartially' applied, and 'cruel' is up to the justices of the supreme courts, state and federal.
You see, double jeopardy is that you can't be tried twice for the [i]same[/i] crime, it doesn't mean that your past crimes can't be used to establish a pattern of behavior when sentencing for a new crime that you have duly been convicted of.
Even without 3 strike laws, it has been traditionally been a judge's option to increase sentence for a repeat offender. 3 strikes, depending on the state, varies between allowing a judge to increase sentence even more to mandating high minimum sentences. The former is good when you get somebody who's obviously 'criminal scum' that's best kept behind bars even if the individual things he's been caught on are minimal. The latter is a tragedy when you get somebody dumb who does something like stealing a loaf of bread for the 3rd offense, or is still a drug/gambling addict*.
*Medical condition in my view. It's certainly a more effective way to treat the problem.
Gerrymandering keeps minority districts safe for minorities. What the fuck sort of person are you who doesn't understand this?
Gerrymandering is more often used to protect incumbent politicians and the existing political structure. How is it representative if you gerrymander the districts to the point that you know there's a 90% chance that the democrat(or republican) is going to win?
I say this as an Alaskan: Our minorities are the native population. Problem: Said native populations are busily moving into the cities, and not only are they moving into the cities, they're not moving into segregated parts of the city; they're all over. The district board's solution, in order to meet your 'minority districts safe', was putting parts of the cities into the native population districts in order to meet the total population requirements.
End result: Lots of 'minorities' not living where they're 'supposed to', thus they're disenfranchised by the gerrymandering because they don't live in a native district, while lots of non-natives are disenfranchised because they were written into the district to meet minimum population measures.
If districts were not drawn to ensure representation of historically underrespresnted minorities, then what would happen? Riots. Courthouses on fire. Be quite careful about these Republican talking points you're parroting. These ideas are dangerous and lead to violence.
Perhaps we'd get an actual proportional election system like what many other countries have? That's what I see as the solution to the above.
We dont have transformers for every house, but only for bigger areas transformers owned by power company and therefore by default its 3-phase transformer (230V travels better distances).
Okay, as RabidReindeer pointed out, we DON'T have a transformer at every house, and for the most part all the transformers are owned by the power company as well. Only exceptions are for people doing very unusual things. Maybe if they're welding or something.
It's like 1 transformer per block, and even then the tranformer is more for 'adjustment' to control voltage drop than really step stuff down. Most homes are supplied with 1 phase 240V. We then utilize a 'split phase' system that has 2 'hots' - H+H = 240V, H+N = 120V. Basically half the house is run in serial with the other half, excluding things like the water heater, oven, and dryer, moderated by the ground rod.
A single phase transformer is extremely simple and relatively inexpensive. Most of our power cables are unburied because it was cheaper back in the day, a lot of which was the lower average density.
I think the bigger question is: why do 47% pay no federal taxes?
EITC. Earned Income Tax Credit. Take college students without jobs, stay at home parents, and working americans with a low enough income and enough kids and other deductions and you have quite a lot of people who don't pay taxes.
Of course, that's because of how we've structured our income tax system, less as a source of a revenue and more of a system of incentives. It's the same for companies - do something the government likes, get a tax credit.
Only if you think computers think and don't understand how they work.
Operate != think. What I was referring to is that the methods of problem solving differs depending on whether you're using a computer to the solve, or a group of humans. You're much more likely to go with a gesalt type solve with a bunch of humans, while you might end up going with a brute force approach with computers.
Mind you, a lot of programmer's heads come 'pre-twisted' in ways that better enable them to work programming logic. I'm not particularly convinced that drugs will generally actually improve performance, but it's the first theory that popped into my head.
In this case, probably non-conventional logic; computers don't operate the way human brains do, it takes a twisted head to program well. Especially if you're attempting to optimize a system using low level programming languages.
Of course, I've said before: Drug tests are mostly to attempt to filter out incompetent low level employees, trending a bit upwards when they're operating dangerous equipment. By the time you're a serious professional, I figure the general attitude is that they don't want to know, but secretly expect you to be able to handle your recreational drug use. IE the difference between a lawyer and a burger flipper is the Lawyer is expected to know how to handle his cocaine habit. IE as long as his performance doesn't degrade unacceptably, he's good.
I'd dispute the US 'readily' twisting other country's arms over mere copyright infringement. It's rampant overseas, far more widespread than child porn.
The Ukranians will eventually bust the child porn servers. They'd laugh at any efforts to shut down equivalents to megadownload and piratebay.
If you want to get really, really technical, there's going to be oil in the transmission gearbox, even if it's a single speed. $200 for changing that oil wouldn't be too bad, because it'd be like 500k mile maintenance.
Now they charge you a line rental even if you use a different ISP (as if they could rent that specific piece of wire to anyone else).
This part I don't actually object to - they're still on the hook for fixing the wire if it breaks, which could cost them hundreds, even thousands. Plus there's provisioning of electricity for boosters and such.
Of course, with the talk of 100mbit and up services I can't help but wonder if at that point whether the switches themselves would be the bigger chokepoint.
Let's see: 1. Maps on rails. In DK3D, you often had to search around for where you needed to go. There were secrets all over the place. Forever? In comparison the maps are a straight line. You never really wonder where to go. 2. Limited weapon selection - I think they increased it to 4, but I'd since moved on. Also lacks the shear variety of weapons present in the original. 3. Regenerating Health, IE 'Ego'. This is stolen from Halo mechanics.
You know, upon reading the title of the thread I was thinking 'Wouldn't a guild like structure be better'? And a guild is pretty much a professional association.
A union structure doesn't work as well when a member can work solo or even be a owner of a company in addition to being an employee.
Let's see - you mention facilities to make & assemble 'small parts'. Then a foundry and something for hoses.
Can you see why I simply boiled it down to 'lots of equipment'? Then you consider the skills it would take to operate all of said equipment in order to produce the parts necessary and you're looking at hundreds, perhaps thousands of different skills depending on how far out you abstract your design.
Environmentally limited(wouldn't last well in Alaska) Actually pretty resource expensive for what you get - They eat a LOT. Not all that great at the tasks a bulldozer is really good for, such as the moving and spreading of large amounts of dirt.
Considering that bulldozers are relatively ancient technology, I'd tend to say that there's plenty of designs that are older than their patents, thus fully duplicable without having to pay any licensing cost.
The trick is that it takes lots of equipment and skill to make a high quality bulldozer, especially from 'scratch'.
Not that I'd object to a more complete set of 'civilization' specifications, maybe something like designs for a good quality engines in a range from 1/4 hp all the way up to 400 hp.
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The problem here is that self defense is legal in context of preventing harm to yourself - typically this means your body. You're not allowed to attack somebody for busting up your car with a hammer, for example.
Except for their lagging behind, as far as I'm concerned any retaliatory measures should be done by the police, or if the attack originates in a country that doesn't cooperate with your police, the military.
IE You're in the USA:
hack comes from within the USA - FBI, ie federal police. If if comes from next door, local police
Hack comes from, say, Australia - The FBI contacts their counterparts there and the investigation continues
From a country without formal legal agreements - Interpol assists
From a hostile country, such as North Korea? Military, maybe.
The standards and measurements people would like to have a word with them about that...
The rules are that either you sell uncorrected, or if you sell corrected, it has to be for the whole range.
No, but it takes more than a degree to make even a % change in the volume of gasoline. A quick search on the internet is .95% increase for a 10C change. So you're looking at needing an 18F change to get 1%.
With a 5k gallon tank with a certain amount of insulation, you're probably looking more at 1F/day
1500 hours is 3/4 of a work year. Its is in no way 'a lot' of flight time. Get back to me when you hit 10k hours. The captain of 1549 that went down in the hudson is approaching 30k if I recall correctly.
That assumes the pilot is in the air, and I mean in the air the equivalent of a 9 to 5 workday with 2 weeks of vacation a year. What about ground safety checks? What about paperwork preparing for the flight? Boarding, preflights, taxying, etc...? Heck, what about the excessive transit times just to get through airport security?
It's a bit like saying that 1500 hours of surgery shouldn't be a big deal. 2k hours is a work year. But surgeons have even more non-surgery tasks than the pilots.
Your standard computer sim tends to make the task of landing rather easier than reality. As stated elsewhere, the main difficulty they had was not knowing the controls - which with a computer sim you can find out via the tutorial/quick reference guide. What I'm surprised about is that neither Adam or Jamie had any flight experience.
Your standard keyboard has 101-105 keys, the mouse has ~4, etc... There's several hundred controls in a 747 cockpit. Landing a Cessna with like 20 is easy, though I'd have never guessed where the flap controls are located before I started training on one.
Okay, my family is a bunch of luddites, I'm the only one with a cell phone. Brother would have one, but he's unemployed and had to give it up. Thus, all of my calls are to landlines, thus charged minutes. I do get the standard 'free weekends', and even with my small plan I always have excess minutes.
Unlike AC, I could see somebody 'trading down' plans if they're virtually always within range of wifi good enough for their voice. A number of the points close to me(such as the food court or bowling alley) are usually super-saturated to the point it's quicker and easier for me to use my cellular data than theirs.
While I remember the old memory game(vaguely), I wonder if the suit being brought in Germany was somewhat 'court shopping'? After all, the IOS market is global, not just German, and depending on the laws, 'Memory' might be too vague in many countries to be a valid trademark on it's own.
I mean, what about a game called 'The Memories of Lars Fibbonachi'? Would that be in violation? 'In Memory of X?', etc...
One thing I've noticed is that imperial measurements tend to work much better than metric for cooking. I can double or halve a recipe with relative ease with imperial, metric is a pain in the butt.
I remember a case where a bicyclist got 3 tickets simultaneously for running red lights - the cop saw him run all three. The standard is to treat them all as first offense tickets(punishment not being effective if it hasn't happened yet), but somehow they ended up doing it as strike 1, 2,3 - Something like $200 first, $600 second, $1k third. So what should of been $600 ballooned into $1.8k.
Note: I think the guy SHOULD get tickets for running the red lights, but the cop should of pulled him over for the first and not let him continue for the 2nd, 3rd. Basically 1 red light ticket unless he was doing it crazy stupid AND the cop couldn't catch him quick enough.
It's possible that the 'weapons' were non-conforming knives, but that could have been part of the plea - drop the weapons charges, he pleads guilty to the piracy.
a couple thousand dollars?
10k discs, if we figure $3/pop*, that's $30k worth of pirated materials, or enough for 'grand theft auto' of a new vehicle. And that was his active stock. Most stores turn that over in, what, about a month? Of course, that would be approximately 60 discs/hour if he was running a retail store, so I figure he was producing/distributing the stuff to street venders who'd actually sell to the public(and rat him out when they're busted for selling forged discs). Figure $1/profit a disc for him - that's $120k of income a year.
Hardly a 'few thousand', I'd say.
*Going rate over in the desert for 'bootleg' stuff is ~$3/disc.
While I agree that three strike laws shouldn't be, I don't think it runs afoul of double jeopardy and think that it, at most, would violate 'cruel and unusual'. Of course, unusual would be covered by it being state law 'impartially' applied, and 'cruel' is up to the justices of the supreme courts, state and federal.
You see, double jeopardy is that you can't be tried twice for the [i]same[/i] crime, it doesn't mean that your past crimes can't be used to establish a pattern of behavior when sentencing for a new crime that you have duly been convicted of.
Even without 3 strike laws, it has been traditionally been a judge's option to increase sentence for a repeat offender. 3 strikes, depending on the state, varies between allowing a judge to increase sentence even more to mandating high minimum sentences. The former is good when you get somebody who's obviously 'criminal scum' that's best kept behind bars even if the individual things he's been caught on are minimal. The latter is a tragedy when you get somebody dumb who does something like stealing a loaf of bread for the 3rd offense, or is still a drug/gambling addict*.
*Medical condition in my view. It's certainly a more effective way to treat the problem.
Gerrymandering keeps minority districts safe for minorities. What the fuck sort of person are you who doesn't understand this?
Gerrymandering is more often used to protect incumbent politicians and the existing political structure. How is it representative if you gerrymander the districts to the point that you know there's a 90% chance that the democrat(or republican) is going to win?
I say this as an Alaskan: Our minorities are the native population. Problem: Said native populations are busily moving into the cities, and not only are they moving into the cities, they're not moving into segregated parts of the city; they're all over. The district board's solution, in order to meet your 'minority districts safe', was putting parts of the cities into the native population districts in order to meet the total population requirements.
End result: Lots of 'minorities' not living where they're 'supposed to', thus they're disenfranchised by the gerrymandering because they don't live in a native district, while lots of non-natives are disenfranchised because they were written into the district to meet minimum population measures.
If districts were not drawn to ensure representation of historically underrespresnted minorities, then what would happen? Riots. Courthouses on fire. Be quite careful about these Republican talking points you're parroting. These ideas are dangerous and lead to violence.
Perhaps we'd get an actual proportional election system like what many other countries have? That's what I see as the solution to the above.
We dont have transformers for every house, but only for bigger areas transformers owned by power company and therefore by default its 3-phase transformer (230V travels better distances).
Okay, as RabidReindeer pointed out, we DON'T have a transformer at every house, and for the most part all the transformers are owned by the power company as well. Only exceptions are for people doing very unusual things. Maybe if they're welding or something.
It's like 1 transformer per block, and even then the tranformer is more for 'adjustment' to control voltage drop than really step stuff down. Most homes are supplied with 1 phase 240V. We then utilize a 'split phase' system that has 2 'hots' - H+H = 240V, H+N = 120V. Basically half the house is run in serial with the other half, excluding things like the water heater, oven, and dryer, moderated by the ground rod.
A single phase transformer is extremely simple and relatively inexpensive. Most of our power cables are unburied because it was cheaper back in the day, a lot of which was the lower average density.
I think the bigger question is: why do 47% pay no federal taxes?
EITC. Earned Income Tax Credit. Take college students without jobs, stay at home parents, and working americans with a low enough income and enough kids and other deductions and you have quite a lot of people who don't pay taxes.
Of course, that's because of how we've structured our income tax system, less as a source of a revenue and more of a system of incentives. It's the same for companies - do something the government likes, get a tax credit.
Only if you think computers think and don't understand how they work.
Operate != think. What I was referring to is that the methods of problem solving differs depending on whether you're using a computer to the solve, or a group of humans. You're much more likely to go with a gesalt type solve with a bunch of humans, while you might end up going with a brute force approach with computers.
Mind you, a lot of programmer's heads come 'pre-twisted' in ways that better enable them to work programming logic. I'm not particularly convinced that drugs will generally actually improve performance, but it's the first theory that popped into my head.
In this case, probably non-conventional logic; computers don't operate the way human brains do, it takes a twisted head to program well. Especially if you're attempting to optimize a system using low level programming languages.
Of course, I've said before: Drug tests are mostly to attempt to filter out incompetent low level employees, trending a bit upwards when they're operating dangerous equipment. By the time you're a serious professional, I figure the general attitude is that they don't want to know, but secretly expect you to be able to handle your recreational drug use. IE the difference between a lawyer and a burger flipper is the Lawyer is expected to know how to handle his cocaine habit. IE as long as his performance doesn't degrade unacceptably, he's good.
I'd dispute the US 'readily' twisting other country's arms over mere copyright infringement. It's rampant overseas, far more widespread than child porn.
The Ukranians will eventually bust the child porn servers. They'd laugh at any efforts to shut down equivalents to megadownload and piratebay.
Electric cars don't have oil to change.
If you want to get really, really technical, there's going to be oil in the transmission gearbox, even if it's a single speed. $200 for changing that oil wouldn't be too bad, because it'd be like 500k mile maintenance.
Now they charge you a line rental even if you use a different ISP (as if they could rent that specific piece of wire to anyone else).
This part I don't actually object to - they're still on the hook for fixing the wire if it breaks, which could cost them hundreds, even thousands. Plus there's provisioning of electricity for boosters and such.
Of course, with the talk of 100mbit and up services I can't help but wonder if at that point whether the switches themselves would be the bigger chokepoint.
Let's see:
1. Maps on rails. In DK3D, you often had to search around for where you needed to go. There were secrets all over the place. Forever? In comparison the maps are a straight line. You never really wonder where to go.
2. Limited weapon selection - I think they increased it to 4, but I'd since moved on. Also lacks the shear variety of weapons present in the original.
3. Regenerating Health, IE 'Ego'. This is stolen from Halo mechanics.
Professional association is the answer.
You know, upon reading the title of the thread I was thinking 'Wouldn't a guild like structure be better'? And a guild is pretty much a professional association.
A union structure doesn't work as well when a member can work solo or even be a owner of a company in addition to being an employee.
Note: Some guilds are 'misnamed' as unions today.
Let's see - you mention facilities to make & assemble 'small parts'. Then a foundry and something for hoses.
Can you see why I simply boiled it down to 'lots of equipment'? Then you consider the skills it would take to operate all of said equipment in order to produce the parts necessary and you're looking at hundreds, perhaps thousands of different skills depending on how far out you abstract your design.
Environmentally limited(wouldn't last well in Alaska)
Actually pretty resource expensive for what you get - They eat a LOT.
Not all that great at the tasks a bulldozer is really good for, such as the moving and spreading of large amounts of dirt.
Considering that bulldozers are relatively ancient technology, I'd tend to say that there's plenty of designs that are older than their patents, thus fully duplicable without having to pay any licensing cost.
The trick is that it takes lots of equipment and skill to make a high quality bulldozer, especially from 'scratch'.
Not that I'd object to a more complete set of 'civilization' specifications, maybe something like designs for a good quality engines in a range from 1/4 hp all the way up to 400 hp.