Car cloning is a *huge* problem with automated cameras, there are thousands of appeals a year against the congestion charge and speeding tickets due to cloned number plates. It does take months to have them rectified, *if you can* and you are *assumed to be guilty until you can prove the vehicle isn't yours* because they have photos.
P.S. You want a scooter mate. You can easily fit a rackmount server on the back, take a lesson from the pizza delivery boys.
In fact it's utterly trivial to beat the cameras, and the criminals do it every day, in their *thousands* in the UK.
We have what can only be described as comprehensive coverage by CCTV and speed cameras here, including automatic numberplate recognition cameras for the congestion charging zone in London.
If you want to get round the cameras, simply copy down the numberplate of a car of similar make, model and colour, have a plate made and put it on yours. Simple.
Thousands of people in the UK are now automatically being issued invalid speeding tickets (and having their licenses removed) from cloned cars and are being charged for driving in London when they were never there. And it's up to you to prove your innocence because they have photos of "your" vehicle.
Static, automatic camera systems are useless, it needs police on the ground manually checking license plates and even that only catches a miniscule fraction of them.
Come back and talk when we are talking megaWatts. I want the equivalent of a *power station* under the bonnet.
Americans might want to try a Triumph instead
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The Rocket III to be specific.
http://www.triumph.co.uk/site/bikes/page.cfm?Bik eI D=83
2.2l engine in a motorcycle, yes, it is insane, but it accelerates faster than a sportsbike. To get the best acceleration out of it you need to be carrying a pillion, though on thinking about it maybe that wouldn't be necessary in the US.
A hysterical line from "Father Ted". You remind me of Dougal.
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There are thousands of them.
jed, joe, ee, emacs, mcedit, nedit, pico, ted, stte, editx, padpaper, led, setedit, and more and more.
Thing is. The *only* editor you are garuanteed to have on any Unix system is vi. While the others might be great, fantastic even, when you've got more than one system and the whizzy editor is not installed on every single one of them, vi is the tool you can rely on. All the others are Just Another Editor.
I did once search far and wide for the one true editor, GUI editors, TUI editors, emacs key bindings, turbovision interfaces, wordstar keybindings etc each time I ended up coming back to vi, so I guess I found it.
VI is everywhere.
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JOE isn't.
So when I learned vi, I could use the knowledge on every Unix system I've ever been on. That alone makes it more useful than JOE.
There's this thing called fiction where you don't have to tell the truth, then there's this thing called science fiction where you can just make anything you like up.
Then there's this thing called real life which just sucks because you can't make any of it up. Though someone should tell that to Tony Blair.
The key feature of a compulsory universal ID card is that it allows information from anywhere to be indexed at a single point. At the moment, that information is spread all over the place and can't be easily collated. ID cards change that.
I don't believe the "nothing to hide" argument keeps coming up.
There were 6.5 million people in Germany in the 1930s who had absolutely nothing to hide but their religion. Hitler came to power and they had their ID cards stamped with the "J-stamp", were herded on to trains and then gassed by the thousand by their government.
Just 10 years ago there were 800,000 people living in Rwanda who had absolutely nothing to hide, they were identified by their ID cards as "Tutsi", rounded up by their government and then butchered with machetes.
ID cards are enablers which allow genocide on an industrial scale. The card itself no longer has to carry the information, it will simply be associated with you in a huge database, indexed by your ID number.
Go ask the Spanish government about the 800,000 illegal immigrants from Morocco living in Spain *without* national ID cards. ID cards are compulsory in Spain.
They *also* don't make a blind bit of difference against terrorist organisations, as Spain also found out to their cost.
It's pure myth that ID cards are effective tools against illegal immigration and terrorism.
Did you know that America has far far more lawyers per 100,000 of the population than any other country in the world with something around 300 per 100,000. That number is increasing.
I think Britain is second with somewhere around 90 per 100,000.
As a motorcyclist, the kit I wear has a shit load of armour in it, shoulders, hips, elbows, back, shins, ankles but even with that the inevitable is broken bones when you slam into some street furniture.
If this stuff goes rigid when there's an impact it might just distribute the impulse over a large enough area to reduce the internal injuries.
It isn't just the soluble sugars that they use when making ethanol, though the fact that sugarcane and similar do produce lots of sugar does make it easier.
You're right about the space though. Ethanol contains less energy than petrol and it's going to take truly *HUGE* amounts of land dedicated to *any* crop (be it sugarcane, sweet sorghum or corn) in order to fill the energy needs purely through ethanol.
This statistic that it takes more energy to produce ethanol than is gained by burning it is bandied about all over the place but it is *only* valid if you are talking about corn, I'm not even sure that it is still valid for corn.
Sugarcane isn't the only crop which is feasable, there are several high biomass crops which thrive under differing conditions; Napier Grass, Leucaena, Eucalyptus, Sweet Sorghum is one of the more promising.
Of course there is some irony in the fact that some of the best areas for growing sugarcane are also some of the poorest.
Because it doesn't provide enough biomass per acre. The more conventional crop to make ethanol out of is sugarcane. It *is* feasable to make ethanol out of high biomass crops like sugarcane.
The reason this corn statistic keeps coming up is because America has a large corn surplus and the government were wondering what to do with it.
Then come back and start telling us about the guarantees that you get. Oh, and have a look at your support contracts as well to see exactly you are guaranteed.
I think you'll find they amount to little more than "we'll do our best to support our l33t software".
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I think you'll find that criminals have no trouble at all having fake plates made.
Car cloning is a *huge* problem with automated cameras, there are thousands of appeals a year against the congestion charge and speeding tickets due to cloned number plates. It does take months to have them rectified, *if you can* and you are *assumed to be guilty until you can prove the vehicle isn't yours* because they have photos.
P.S. You want a scooter mate. You can easily fit a rackmount server on the back, take a lesson from the pizza delivery boys.
In fact it's utterly trivial to beat the cameras, and the criminals do it every day, in their *thousands* in the UK.
We have what can only be described as comprehensive coverage by CCTV and speed cameras here, including automatic numberplate recognition cameras for the congestion charging zone in London.
If you want to get round the cameras, simply copy down the numberplate of a car of similar make, model and colour, have a plate made and put it on yours. Simple.
Thousands of people in the UK are now automatically being issued invalid speeding tickets (and having their licenses removed) from cloned cars and are being charged for driving in London when they were never there. And it's up to you to prove your innocence because they have photos of "your" vehicle.
Static, automatic camera systems are useless, it needs police on the ground manually checking license plates and even that only catches a miniscule fraction of them.
Come back and talk when we are talking megaWatts. I want the equivalent of a *power station* under the bonnet.
The Rocket III to be specific.
k eI D=83
http://www.triumph.co.uk/site/bikes/page.cfm?Bi
2.2l engine in a motorcycle, yes, it is insane, but it accelerates faster than a sportsbike. To get the best acceleration out of it you need to be carrying a pillion, though on thinking about it maybe that wouldn't be necessary in the US.
A hysterical line from "Father Ted". You remind me of Dougal.
There are thousands of them.
jed, joe, ee, emacs, mcedit, nedit, pico, ted, stte, editx, padpaper, led, setedit, and more and more.
Thing is. The *only* editor you are garuanteed to have on any Unix system is vi. While the others might be great, fantastic even, when you've got more than one system and the whizzy editor is not installed on every single one of them, vi is the tool you can rely on. All the others are Just Another Editor.
I did once search far and wide for the one true editor, GUI editors, TUI editors, emacs key bindings, turbovision interfaces, wordstar keybindings etc each time I ended up coming back to vi, so I guess I found it.
JOE isn't.
So when I learned vi, I could use the knowledge on every Unix system I've ever been on. That alone makes it more useful than JOE.
JOE's really JAE.
Shell scripting.
There's this thing called fiction where you don't have to tell the truth, then there's this thing called science fiction where you can just make anything you like up.
Then there's this thing called real life which just sucks because you can't make any of it up. Though someone should tell that to Tony Blair.
Release a completely free high quality Windows emulator. It worked for OS/2.
Good point. You'll be buying a "licence to live".
How the hell do you think the NAZIs identified the Jews?
Or the Hutu identified the Tutsi. Just 10 years ago FFS!
The key feature of a compulsory universal ID card is that it allows information from anywhere to be indexed at a single point. At the moment, that information is spread all over the place and can't be easily collated. ID cards change that.
I don't believe the "nothing to hide" argument keeps coming up.
There were 6.5 million people in Germany in the 1930s who had absolutely nothing to hide but their religion. Hitler came to power and they had their ID cards stamped with the "J-stamp", were herded on to trains and then gassed by the thousand by their government.
Just 10 years ago there were 800,000 people living in Rwanda who had absolutely nothing to hide, they were identified by their ID cards as "Tutsi", rounded up by their government and then butchered with machetes.
ID cards are enablers which allow genocide on an industrial scale. The card itself no longer has to carry the information, it will simply be associated with you in a huge database, indexed by your ID number.
Go ask the Spanish government about the 800,000 illegal immigrants from Morocco living in Spain *without* national ID cards. ID cards are compulsory in Spain.
They *also* don't make a blind bit of difference against terrorist organisations, as Spain also found out to their cost.
It's pure myth that ID cards are effective tools against illegal immigration and terrorism.
Did you know that America has far far more lawyers per 100,000 of the population than any other country in the world with something around 300 per 100,000. That number is increasing.
I think Britain is second with somewhere around 90 per 100,000.
As a motorcyclist, the kit I wear has a shit load of armour in it, shoulders, hips, elbows, back, shins, ankles but even with that the inevitable is broken bones when you slam into some street furniture.
If this stuff goes rigid when there's an impact it might just distribute the impulse over a large enough area to reduce the internal injuries.
I know they are, and it isn't going to be remotely enough, it's a drip in the ocean. Do you have *any* idea how much petrol is used every year?
A good study by the Hawaiian government.
http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/ethanol/
It covers potential crops, production methods etc.
It isn't just the soluble sugars that they use when making ethanol, though the fact that sugarcane and similar do produce lots of sugar does make it easier.
You're right about the space though. Ethanol contains less energy than petrol and it's going to take truly *HUGE* amounts of land dedicated to *any* crop (be it sugarcane, sweet sorghum or corn) in order to fill the energy needs purely through ethanol.
Excellent information. But FFS... Bushels?
No, I'm not.
This statistic that it takes more energy to produce ethanol than is gained by burning it is bandied about all over the place but it is *only* valid if you are talking about corn, I'm not even sure that it is still valid for corn.
Sugarcane isn't the only crop which is feasable, there are several high biomass crops which thrive under differing conditions; Napier Grass, Leucaena, Eucalyptus, Sweet Sorghum is one of the more promising.
Of course there is some irony in the fact that some of the best areas for growing sugarcane are also some of the poorest.
They aren't used up when they react, so you don't need massive volumes of them as a feedstock.
Because it doesn't provide enough biomass per acre. The more conventional crop to make ethanol out of is sugarcane. It *is* feasable to make ethanol out of high biomass crops like sugarcane.
The reason this corn statistic keeps coming up is because America has a large corn surplus and the government were wondering what to do with it.
Then come back and start telling us about the guarantees that you get. Oh, and have a look at your support contracts as well to see exactly you are guaranteed.
I think you'll find they amount to little more than "we'll do our best to support our l33t software".