In your shopping, compare that $40K+ car to the $26K car, with aftermarket parts that add up to the same functionality as the $40K+ car. I would imagine you can get the equivalent functionality for $30-35K, a significant savings for the same beast. It would just cost a little extra time to acquire (in the shop after purchase) -- but the original $40K+ car would likely take at least as long to acquire, if it wasn't on the dealer's lot and needed to be order.
This exactly describes the Obama administration's ridiculous "Cash for Clunkers" program which used tax dollars to purchase "essentially roadworthy cars" and destroy them. Basically, therefore, took tax dollars and burned them.
Yeah, and people whose lips are moving could be talking to other passengers, singing to the radio, or practicing a speech, so visual indicators, even if they were quick and decisive, would still not be accurate. (And the "not being quick and decisive" aspect of it means that the more you scan your surroundings for dangerous drivers, the more you become a dangerous driver yourself.) Me, I tend to follow at a safe distance, signal my turns even with no other traffic visible, and accelerate slowly because my new-to-me car has an average MPG readout that I use like a videogame, continually trying to get a better score. So I drive like a grandma, all of a sudden, and I love it!
I really like the assholecam idea. Please let me know if he productizes it, I would certainly purchase one and help contribute to its database. (I live near Boston; Massholes are rampant here, especially today when it's snowing.)
15 minutes might do for some; I would want a permanent recording, to be attached to one's driving record. Sure, people occasionally do stupid things; this would show just how often occasionally is.
MADD's "alcohol-related fatalities" count accident in which the driver had no impairment from alcohol. MADD is a sick organization. If a passenger was intoxicated, it was alcohol-related. If there's a beer in the car, it was alcohol-related. They are progressively lowering the BAC level to a point where you're not even impaired if you are just over the line. They promote the use of "breath alcohol" machines that are notoriously inexact, which have put innocent people in jail and deprived them of the right to drive. I would trust NHTSA's statistics much more than MADD's.
Measurement would be tough, though. Can't just be "number of As", should be more like "rise in grade from last year". But it would still give teachers incentive to give everyone As, because under either system this would maximize their pay.
I'm thinking along the lines of a 10x salary for the top teacher, so they would necessarily compete strongly for it, and underhanded tactics would need to be watched out for from the beginning. The salary would be on a sliding scale, like the top 9 teachers earn 10x, 9x, etc.
Of course, it would also need to give points for cooperation, we don't want them not talking to each other for fear of giving away their methods. Perhaps pair teaching might work, similar to the agile/XP pair programming concept.
And they definitely shouldn't have quotas; if all the teachers are good, they should not decide some "bottom 10% need to be fired" rule.
Nice, the first sentence from the wiki page reminded me of the game Paranoia, which I played way back in college. (Not sure why it reminded me of it, now that I re-read it a few times, but what the heck.:) )
Another thought: Disney keeps extending copyright. I wonder what possibly offensive works were made from 1923 on, which will never enter the public domain, and which censors in the future will want to change. Guess they'll have to pay the estates of the dead, if they want to publish a different version. Fortunately (for the censors) in this case it's long out of copyright.
A few years ago I was reading Huck Finn on public transportation (on my Palm), and decided to play a game instead because I was concerned that others might glance and see me reading something about "niggers" and get violent. But that was my choice, to avoid an unpleasant situation; I would never remove the book from the public, and agree with the profound-in-two-words sentiment expressed below, "fuck censorship".
Can't say that I have; I just like compression in comedy.:) Checked the site briefly, saw a reference to "tool" but not the "source" -- care to explain or provide some good pointers to background/FAQ?
Yeah, there's a real difference between "they're going to fight anyway, so let's make swords to sell to them", versus "we will initiate false flag attacks to goad them into fighting." Watch Zeitgeist, and Zeitgeist: Addendum.
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Or, as I responded to my Dad back in my incorrigible teenage years, "Those who spout tired, worn-out cliches are doomed to repeat them."
It is useful and interesting to discuss and reason things out.
Exactly! Similarly, our brains are "planning machines". They do not discriminate; they come up with "bad plans" just as much as they come up with "good plans". The "bad plans" help to warn us, especially those of us that can also think far enough to see the consequences of those bad plans.
Which is why I think suicidal thoughts are nothing to be upset by. Or, rather: if you find that your suicidal thoughts are encouraging you, rather than upsetting you, then you should seek counseling.
I relish playing devil's advocate; partly because... well, I'll just keep that to myself.:)
Doc's two-seat aircraft has a flux capacitor system. It also requires the electrical system to be functional. It does not have a normal capacitor available. (Well, it probably has a normal capacitor, but not one that can fill in for triple-digit KPH temporal adjustment.)
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Two posts up you wrote:
Pot, kettle, etc.
In your shopping, compare that $40K+ car to the $26K car, with aftermarket parts that add up to the same functionality as the $40K+ car. I would imagine you can get the equivalent functionality for $30-35K, a significant savings for the same beast. It would just cost a little extra time to acquire (in the shop after purchase) -- but the original $40K+ car would likely take at least as long to acquire, if it wasn't on the dealer's lot and needed to be order.
This exactly describes the Obama administration's ridiculous "Cash for Clunkers" program which used tax dollars to purchase "essentially roadworthy cars" and destroy them. Basically, therefore, took tax dollars and burned them.
Yeah, and people whose lips are moving could be talking to other passengers, singing to the radio, or practicing a speech, so visual indicators, even if they were quick and decisive, would still not be accurate. (And the "not being quick and decisive" aspect of it means that the more you scan your surroundings for dangerous drivers, the more you become a dangerous driver yourself.) Me, I tend to follow at a safe distance, signal my turns even with no other traffic visible, and accelerate slowly because my new-to-me car has an average MPG readout that I use like a videogame, continually trying to get a better score. So I drive like a grandma, all of a sudden, and I love it!
I really like the assholecam idea. Please let me know if he productizes it, I would certainly purchase one and help contribute to its database. (I live near Boston; Massholes are rampant here, especially today when it's snowing.)
As a young male, the rest of society really, really would like evidence that you are behaving appropriately when lives are at risk.
15 minutes might do for some; I would want a permanent recording, to be attached to one's driving record. Sure, people occasionally do stupid things; this would show just how often occasionally is.
LOL, yeah, and now he is distracted by all the blinkenlights on his dash telling him how distracted everyone around him is.
MADD's "alcohol-related fatalities" count accident in which the driver had no impairment from alcohol. MADD is a sick organization. If a passenger was intoxicated, it was alcohol-related. If there's a beer in the car, it was alcohol-related. They are progressively lowering the BAC level to a point where you're not even impaired if you are just over the line. They promote the use of "breath alcohol" machines that are notoriously inexact, which have put innocent people in jail and deprived them of the right to drive. I would trust NHTSA's statistics much more than MADD's.
MADD has not helped society.
Measurement would be tough, though. Can't just be "number of As", should be more like "rise in grade from last year". But it would still give teachers incentive to give everyone As, because under either system this would maximize their pay.
I'm thinking along the lines of a 10x salary for the top teacher, so they would necessarily compete strongly for it, and underhanded tactics would need to be watched out for from the beginning. The salary would be on a sliding scale, like the top 9 teachers earn 10x, 9x, etc.
Of course, it would also need to give points for cooperation, we don't want them not talking to each other for fear of giving away their methods. Perhaps pair teaching might work, similar to the agile/XP pair programming concept.
And they definitely shouldn't have quotas; if all the teachers are good, they should not decide some "bottom 10% need to be fired" rule.
Nice, the first sentence from the wiki page reminded me of the game Paranoia, which I played way back in college. (Not sure why it reminded me of it, now that I re-read it a few times, but what the heck. :) )
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Sounds like The Cure's song, "Killing an Arab".
Another thought: Disney keeps extending copyright. I wonder what possibly offensive works were made from 1923 on, which will never enter the public domain, and which censors in the future will want to change. Guess they'll have to pay the estates of the dead, if they want to publish a different version. Fortunately (for the censors) in this case it's long out of copyright.
A few years ago I was reading Huck Finn on public transportation (on my Palm), and decided to play a game instead because I was concerned that others might glance and see me reading something about "niggers" and get violent. But that was my choice, to avoid an unpleasant situation; I would never remove the book from the public, and agree with the profound-in-two-words sentiment expressed below, "fuck censorship".
Yeah, when my car skidded into the telephone pole, it was because I had hit some African American ice.
Can't say that I have; I just like compression in comedy. :) Checked the site briefly, saw a reference to "tool" but not the "source" -- care to explain or provide some good pointers to background/FAQ?
Broken window fallacy much?
What, something like, "I suck, You suck, We all suck, For Christ sucked"?
Yeah, there's a real difference between "they're going to fight anyway, so let's make swords to sell to them", versus "we will initiate false flag attacks to goad them into fighting." Watch Zeitgeist, and Zeitgeist: Addendum.
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Or, as I responded to my Dad back in my incorrigible teenage years, "Those who spout tired, worn-out cliches are doomed to repeat them."
Exactly! Similarly, our brains are "planning machines". They do not discriminate; they come up with "bad plans" just as much as they come up with "good plans". The "bad plans" help to warn us, especially those of us that can also think far enough to see the consequences of those bad plans.
Which is why I think suicidal thoughts are nothing to be upset by. Or, rather: if you find that your suicidal thoughts are encouraging you, rather than upsetting you, then you should seek counseling.
I relish playing devil's advocate; partly because ... well, I'll just keep that to myself. :)
Lack of adequate counseling?
Doc's two-seat aircraft has a flux capacitor system. It also requires the electrical system to be functional. It does not have a normal capacitor available. (Well, it probably has a normal capacitor, but not one that can fill in for triple-digit KPH temporal adjustment.)
I am a certified tool, you insensitive clod, so youse me!