I have been rear ended twice while stationary at a junction. I also had not just stopped either. In the second case I had been stationary over a minute waiting for a gap in the traffic.
However even if I had slammed on the brakes the person behind is TOTAL to blame for failing to follow the golden rule of motoring; namely being able to stop in the distance you can see to be clear ahead. If I decide to brake to avoid a red light and you go into the back of me, then you where too close behind me and also not paying attention to the lights either.
If you really want to cheaply reduce the accident rate then just ban black and similarly dark coloured cars. A black car is 47% more likely to be involved in an accident during the hours of darkness than a white one, and white is probably not the safest colour either.
I remember clearly an incident many years ago where a club was broken into late on Christmas Eve, aka before the chance to bank the takings. They took a sledgehammer and came in through the wall.
The moral of the story is if they want to get in they will, and as a modern day equivalent I would point you to the Hatton Garden safety deposit raid in April this year. They drilled through the 50 cm thick concrete vault walls with a Hilti DD 350 diamond coring drill.
The best you can do is make your property less attractive that the one next door or down the street.
There are plenty of places in the U.K. where you can go wind surfing on FRESH WATER. It quite clearly states in all the materials for all the waterproof Z series that it *EXCLUDES* salt water. For some you can dung it in chlorinated water, but that comes with a warning to rinse thoroughly in fresh water, and that the seals may become corroded over time if you do it a lot.
Note that the as time has progressed the Z series phones have become more waterproof than before. So the upcoming Z5 is a lot more waterproof than my Z1 compact.
British chickens and turkeys have been routinely vaccinated against salmonella for many years now. So much so that almost all salmonella cases in the U.K. can now be traced to meat and eggs that originated outside the U.K.
My personal view (and I am personally committed to the E.U.) is that George Eustice MP, should get of his lazy backside march over to Brussels and demand the introduction of E.U. wide salmonella vaccination of chickens and turkeys otherwise he is going to ban all imports of non vaccinated products into the U.K. on public safety grounds.
Add to this that Microsoft are probably not making any money or at the very least any significant amount of money on H.264 royalties then royalty free video and audio all of a sudden becomes a very attractive proposition.
I would however note at this particular point in time that there is very little time left on the MP3 patents (if any at all depending where you are could be as little as 14 days at this point or as much as 27 months), and that bandwidth and storage for even high bitrate MP3's are essentially negligible. A go to free audio codec with near universal support if you ask me.
Really, I thought the piracy bit stemmed from the unlicensed radio broadcasts from ships anchored in international waters off the coast of the U.K. There is a much close link to the original use of the term pirate. They where ships on the high seas for starters engaged in "illegal" activity.
Yeah and motorcycle helmets are only rated for up to 30mph, so clearly wearing those is a total waste of time as well. The anti helmet brigade are guilty of the Perfect solution fallacy, they would claim that seat belts are a waste of time because people are still going to die in vehicle accidents.
Do they work, well this person would almost certainly have lived had see been wearing a helmet. It was a low speed collision with a pedestrian, just the type a cycle helmet is rated to protect against.
Regardless of whether you think they work, in the U.K. at least they are believed to work by the law. That is should you be involved in an accident and be due a compensation as a result of a brain injury the amount of your award is likely to be reduced due to "contributory negligence" typically around 20% if you where not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident. Consequently not wearing a helmet and cycling in the U.K. is an act of wanton stupidity.
Actually nobody has made any measurement that cannot be accounted for by General Relativity. There is as such no direct evidence that it is wrong.
We assume that it is not the whole picture because we don't know how to marry it to the Standard Model and do calculations on the quantum scale. That could simply be because we are not clever enough to work out how to use it at quantum scales.
This is different from Newton's gravitational laws, which before General Relativity came along where unable to explain observations being made, aka we knew for certain it was wrong. The most notable being the precession of the perihelion of the orbits of the planets, especially of Mercury.
On the first issue of voting that needs to be seen a wider context. Most of the British population where unable to vote during Ada Lovelace's lifetime (she died in 1852). Specifically until the Representation of the People Act 1867, only around 15% of the adult males in the United Kingdom could vote. Even with the Representation of the People Act 1884 around 40% of adult males in the United Kingdom could still not vote.
On the issue of property you are flat out wrong. Women where also allowed to own property for the entirety of Ada's lifetime. The one restriction was that when they married their property became that of their husbands to do as they saw fit under the doctrine of Coverture. That did not start changing until the Married Women's Property Act 1870 and was not completed until the Married Women's Property Act 1893.
It was not uncommon for wealthy women to not marry for this very reason.
The situation in Scotland was different, because Coveture was a Norman thing introduced by Henry II. There where separate married womens property acts that covered Scotland.
That looks more like a laser range finder than LIDAR. That is there is no scanning mechanism to build up a 3D map of the environment. You could add one, but as it stands there isn't one so calling it LIDAR is really rather dishonest.
Assuming they have laid single mode fibre, then the deprecation can be over such a long time period that it is basically negligible. If you ran single mode fibre 20 years ago you could still use it tomorrow for 100Gbps with off the shelf components. It will be part of the upcoming 400Gbps Ethernet standard, and there are systems that will let you get 1Tbps over the very same fibre though these are specialist systems at the moment.
You could probably reasonably deprecate the fibre which is the main capital component over a 100 year period.
The other get out for hitting a driver in front is if said driver pulled into your safe braking distance.
So if some idiot pulls out of a junction without looking and you go into the back of them as a result it is not your fault. Another one would be someone overtaking pulling in and then slamming the brakes on (the last one is often done as part of an insurance fraud).
There are a whole bunch of others as well, though they can be hard to prove if you don't have a dashboard camera.
Its more like the doctor at your bed side looking at all your scans and other results and notes on a tablet with a "retina" display and pulling them off the server somewhere in the bowels of the hospital.
No you can't. If you have a single core of single mode fibre between any two points I can right now today go and buy everything from 100Mbps, to 10Gbps Ethernet SFP's that I can stick on either end for any distance up to 80km. That is a really tough call for wireless to match. You are looking at specialist systems for starters. Not something I can order up with a few mouse clicks and a credit card.
However if I have two cores of single mode fibre (and random single mode fibre layed a decade ago will do) I can right now today go and buy anything up to 100Gbps ethernet optics that again will do any distance up to at least 80km. I am not sure there is any wireless gear that does 100Gbps that you can buy for production today.
However it gets worse because you can get 1Tbps systems operating over single mode fibre that will run over existing single mode fibre for like 1700km, though this is specialist telecoms stuff it is available today for production use provided you have sufficient cash to flash.
Back in the more off the shelf market the 400Gbps ethernet standard is being worked on right now and will again run over that bog standard single mode fibre you already have in the ground and on the poles. I would expect this to be purchasable off the shelf within the next five years again with at least 10km and more likely 40km or 80km options.
An interesting point is that at least here in the UK the 4G network unlike the 2G and 3G is all being back-hauled with fibre. If you know what you are looking for you can see all the roadworks for the ducting to carry the fibre going into the masts. That 4G is being back- hauled with fibre should tell you everything you need to know about the limits of wireless.
I am not really sure that biology counts as a hard science either. I know of eminent biologists in the life science field that consider the idea that "if it ain't reproducible it ain't real" to be nonsense.
In my view anyone who does not consider that to be the cornerstone of experimental study is *NOT* a scientist.
Don't know about where you live but failure to stop for a Police man/woman is an offence in the U.K. That is if an officer of the law indicates you should pull over you better dam well pull over otherwise you are facing a 5000GBP fine and a discretionary ban. Why on earth anyone thinks that a self driving car should be any different to a human driven car is really beyond me.
Really, highest load is during the heat of the day??? What heat is that??? Where I live the highest load is sometime in the evening during winter when there is exactly *ZERO* solar power available.
Not everyone lives in sunny warm locations you know. That said solar should be a big part of the energy generation equation in most parts of the world, even if it means shipping it in on power lines.
Really, with a copy of get_iplayer a bit of patience you can grab Furchester Hotel, the new clangers, Dinopaws, Charlie and Lola, Shawn the Sheep, Timmy Time, Chuggington, In the Night Garden, Alphablocks (my 3 year old nephew is teaching himself to read with that one), Numtums and a whole bunch more. Head over to YouTube and there is a bunch of English language Masha and the Bear as well that youtube-dl will grab for you. Load onto tablet and/or install Plex. That's for the under 5 year market, and it's hundreds of hours of content.
Don't know which version of WordPerfect for Linux you had, but the versions I had did *NOT* use WineLib, they came from the Unix version of WordPerfect. That was 20 years ago mind you. It all rather sucked and I went back to using LaTeX for everything.
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Rational and sensible policies out of the SNP, please pull the other one. This time last year they where telling everyone just vote for independence and we will all be swimming in oil money. Then they wanted full fiscal independence, then when that had a £7 billion hole in it, it was going to be phased in over a period of years. Funny because this time last year when they where saying vote for independence they had set a date of May 2016.
Why would I believe a bunch of racist (the anyone but England mentality is racist plan and simple), tax dodging (yep if you don't like the tax the SNP thinks that it is perfectly fine not to pay it - aka the Poll Tax) closet Tories, yeah the I am all right Jack now we have oil money we don't want to share with the rest of the UK, despite hundreds of years of the rest of the UK sharing with Scotland much to Scotland's benefit, especial through trade with essentially English colonies. Socialist my ass.
Even their Socialist policies like free University tuition for Scottish students in Scotland simply means *FEWER* Scottish students go to University (loads of EU students out competing them for those free places), especially those from poorer backgrounds. Way to go.
Or could because women live longer on average (turns out fighting wars and dangerous work place environments are not good for a long life), so you are more likely to have an elderly grandma than an elderly granddad.
There is an easier and very safe way to dissolve a body. All you need is a week or so, and a tub full of water at around 40 Celsius and a good dose of biological washing powder/liquid. The enzymes will breakdown the tissues of the body leaving just the bones and teeth. You could always dispose of the bones in the good old fashioned way of a bonfire (its a corruption of bone fire).
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I have been rear ended twice while stationary at a junction. I also had not just stopped either. In the second case I had been stationary over a minute waiting for a gap in the traffic.
However even if I had slammed on the brakes the person behind is TOTAL to blame for failing to follow the golden rule of motoring; namely being able to stop in the distance you can see to be clear ahead. If I decide to brake to avoid a red light and you go into the back of me, then you where too close behind me and also not paying attention to the lights either.
If you really want to cheaply reduce the accident rate then just ban black and similarly dark coloured cars. A black car is 47% more likely to be involved in an accident during the hours of darkness than a white one, and white is probably not the safest colour either.
I remember clearly an incident many years ago where a club was broken into late on Christmas Eve, aka before the chance to bank the takings. They took a sledgehammer and came in through the wall.
The moral of the story is if they want to get in they will, and as a modern day equivalent I would point you to the Hatton Garden safety deposit raid in April this year. They drilled through the 50 cm thick concrete vault walls with a Hilti DD 350 diamond coring drill.
The best you can do is make your property less attractive that the one next door or down the street.
There are plenty of places in the U.K. where you can go wind surfing on FRESH WATER. It quite clearly states in all the materials for all the waterproof Z series that it *EXCLUDES* salt water. For some you can dung it in chlorinated water, but that comes with a warning to rinse thoroughly in fresh water, and that the seals may become corroded over time if you do it a lot.
Note that the as time has progressed the Z series phones have become more waterproof than before. So the upcoming Z5 is a lot more waterproof than my Z1 compact.
British chickens and turkeys have been routinely vaccinated against salmonella for many years now. So much so that almost all salmonella cases in the U.K. can now be traced to meat and eggs that originated outside the U.K.
My personal view (and I am personally committed to the E.U.) is that George Eustice MP, should get of his lazy backside march over to Brussels and demand the introduction of E.U. wide salmonella vaccination of chickens and turkeys otherwise he is going to ban all imports of non vaccinated products into the U.K. on public safety grounds.
Some years ago I got a box of assorted random colour cable ties. Had like 20 each of about 10 different colours. Good luck matching those.
Add to this that Microsoft are probably not making any money or at the very least any significant amount of money on H.264 royalties then royalty free video and audio all of a sudden becomes a very attractive proposition.
I would however note at this particular point in time that there is very little time left on the MP3 patents (if any at all depending where you are could be as little as 14 days at this point or as much as 27 months), and that bandwidth and storage for even high bitrate MP3's are essentially negligible. A go to free audio codec with near universal support if you ask me.
Really, I thought the piracy bit stemmed from the unlicensed radio broadcasts from ships anchored in international waters off the coast of the U.K. There is a much close link to the original use of the term pirate. They where ships on the high seas for starters engaged in "illegal" activity.
Black vehicles are by far the most likely to be involved in an accident. White is probably the safest, though yellow and orange are also very safe.
Yeah and motorcycle helmets are only rated for up to 30mph, so clearly wearing those is a total waste of time as well. The anti helmet brigade are guilty of the Perfect solution fallacy, they would claim that seat belts are a waste of time because people are still going to die in vehicle accidents.
Do they work, well this person would almost certainly have lived had see been wearing a helmet. It was a low speed collision with a pedestrian, just the type a cycle helmet is rated to protect against.
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Regardless of whether you think they work, in the U.K. at least they are believed to work by the law. That is should you be involved in an accident and be due a compensation as a result of a brain injury the amount of your award is likely to be reduced due to "contributory negligence" typically around 20% if you where not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident. Consequently not wearing a helmet and cycling in the U.K. is an act of wanton stupidity.
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Tragically I am personally connected with people in both web links.
Want to remind me last time Apple paid a dividend? I would argue that making a profit and paying no dividend makes the profit largely meaningless.
Actually nobody has made any measurement that cannot be accounted for by General Relativity. There is as such no direct evidence that it is wrong.
We assume that it is not the whole picture because we don't know how to marry it to the Standard Model and do calculations on the quantum scale. That could simply be because we are not clever enough to work out how to use it at quantum scales.
This is different from Newton's gravitational laws, which before General Relativity came along where unable to explain observations being made, aka we knew for certain it was wrong. The most notable being the precession of the perihelion of the orbits of the planets, especially of Mercury.
On the first issue of voting that needs to be seen a wider context. Most of the British population where unable to vote during Ada Lovelace's lifetime (she died in 1852). Specifically until the Representation of the People Act 1867, only around 15% of the adult males in the United Kingdom could vote. Even with the Representation of the People Act 1884 around 40% of adult males in the United Kingdom could still not vote.
On the issue of property you are flat out wrong. Women where also allowed to own property for the entirety of Ada's lifetime. The one restriction was that when they married their property became that of their husbands to do as they saw fit under the doctrine of Coverture. That did not start changing until the Married Women's Property Act 1870 and was not completed until the Married Women's Property Act 1893.
It was not uncommon for wealthy women to not marry for this very reason.
The situation in Scotland was different, because Coveture was a Norman thing introduced by Henry II. There where separate married womens property acts that covered Scotland.
That looks more like a laser range finder than LIDAR. That is there is no scanning mechanism to build up a 3D map of the environment. You could add one, but as it stands there isn't one so calling it LIDAR is really rather dishonest.
Assuming they have laid single mode fibre, then the deprecation can be over such a long time period that it is basically negligible. If you ran single mode fibre 20 years ago you could still use it tomorrow for 100Gbps with off the shelf components. It will be part of the upcoming 400Gbps Ethernet standard, and there are systems that will let you get 1Tbps over the very same fibre though these are specialist systems at the moment.
You could probably reasonably deprecate the fibre which is the main capital component over a 100 year period.
The other get out for hitting a driver in front is if said driver pulled into your safe braking distance.
So if some idiot pulls out of a junction without looking and you go into the back of them as a result it is not your fault. Another one would be someone overtaking pulling in and then slamming the brakes on (the last one is often done as part of an insurance fraud).
There are a whole bunch of others as well, though they can be hard to prove if you don't have a dashboard camera.
Its more like the doctor at your bed side looking at all your scans and other results and notes on a tablet with a "retina" display and pulling them off the server somewhere in the bowels of the hospital.
No you can't. If you have a single core of single mode fibre between any two points I can right now today go and buy everything from 100Mbps, to 10Gbps Ethernet SFP's that I can stick on either end for any distance up to 80km. That is a really tough call for wireless to match. You are looking at specialist systems for starters. Not something I can order up with a few mouse clicks and a credit card.
However if I have two cores of single mode fibre (and random single mode fibre layed a decade ago will do) I can right now today go and buy anything up to 100Gbps ethernet optics that again will do any distance up to at least 80km. I am not sure there is any wireless gear that does 100Gbps that you can buy for production today.
However it gets worse because you can get 1Tbps systems operating over single mode fibre that will run over existing single mode fibre for like 1700km, though this is specialist telecoms stuff it is available today for production use provided you have sufficient cash to flash.
Back in the more off the shelf market the 400Gbps ethernet standard is being worked on right now and will again run over that bog standard single mode fibre you already have in the ground and on the poles. I would expect this to be purchasable off the shelf within the next five years again with at least 10km and more likely 40km or 80km options.
An interesting point is that at least here in the UK the 4G network unlike the 2G and 3G is all being back-hauled with fibre. If you know what you are looking for you can see all the roadworks for the ducting to carry the fibre going into the masts. That 4G is being back- hauled with fibre should tell you everything you need to know about the limits of wireless.
I am not really sure that biology counts as a hard science either. I know of eminent biologists in the life science field that consider the idea that "if it ain't reproducible it ain't real" to be nonsense.
In my view anyone who does not consider that to be the cornerstone of experimental study is *NOT* a scientist.
Don't know about where you live but failure to stop for a Police man/woman is an offence in the U.K. That is if an officer of the law indicates you should pull over you better dam well pull over otherwise you are facing a 5000GBP fine and a discretionary ban. Why on earth anyone thinks that a self driving car should be any different to a human driven car is really beyond me.
Really, highest load is during the heat of the day??? What heat is that??? Where I live the highest load is sometime in the evening during winter when there is exactly *ZERO* solar power available.
Not everyone lives in sunny warm locations you know. That said solar should be a big part of the energy generation equation in most parts of the world, even if it means shipping it in on power lines.
Really, with a copy of get_iplayer a bit of patience you can grab Furchester Hotel, the new clangers, Dinopaws, Charlie and Lola, Shawn the Sheep, Timmy Time, Chuggington, In the Night Garden, Alphablocks (my 3 year old nephew is teaching himself to read with that one), Numtums and a whole bunch more. Head over to YouTube and there is a bunch of English language Masha and the Bear as well that youtube-dl will grab for you. Load onto tablet and/or install Plex. That's for the under 5 year market, and it's hundreds of hours of content.
Don't know which version of WordPerfect for Linux you had, but the versions I had did *NOT* use WineLib, they came from the Unix version of WordPerfect. That was 20 years ago mind you. It all rather sucked and I went back to using LaTeX for everything.
Rational and sensible policies out of the SNP, please pull the other one. This time last year they where telling everyone just vote for independence and we will all be swimming in oil money. Then they wanted full fiscal independence, then when that had a £7 billion hole in it, it was going to be phased in over a period of years. Funny because this time last year when they where saying vote for independence they had set a date of May 2016.
Why would I believe a bunch of racist (the anyone but England mentality is racist plan and simple), tax dodging (yep if you don't like the tax the SNP thinks that it is perfectly fine not to pay it - aka the Poll Tax) closet Tories, yeah the I am all right Jack now we have oil money we don't want to share with the rest of the UK, despite hundreds of years of the rest of the UK sharing with Scotland much to Scotland's benefit, especial through trade with essentially English colonies. Socialist my ass.
Even their Socialist policies like free University tuition for Scottish students in Scotland simply means *FEWER* Scottish students go to University (loads of EU students out competing them for those free places), especially those from poorer backgrounds. Way to go.
Or could because women live longer on average (turns out fighting wars and dangerous work place environments are not good for a long life), so you are more likely to have an elderly grandma than an elderly granddad.
There is an easier and very safe way to dissolve a body. All you need is a week or so, and a tub full of water at around 40 Celsius and a good dose of biological washing powder/liquid. The enzymes will breakdown the tissues of the body leaving just the bones and teeth. You could always dispose of the bones in the good old fashioned way of a bonfire (its a corruption of bone fire).