Atlanta is uniquely corrupt -- you can't really say that just because this one government is corrupt that they all are.
If your government is stealing from you, the solution is not smaller government. It's to put your current government behind bars and get a different one.
Doesn't the NNPT stipulate that the facility has to be announced 120 days before fissionables are added? They are allowed to build a secret facility for a while; they just have to announce it in advance of using it.
The USA really is a nice place. Our natural bits are wonderful and our people (in many places) are quite friendly to foreigners. Sadly we probably don't speak your language, unless it's English or Spanish, and you'll have to figure out what "miles" are if you want to use our roads.
We're sorry about our government's temper tantrum for the last eight years. Sadly in a large chunk of our country religious fanaticism passes for local color, and a segment of our political system has gotten pretty good at manipulating that to get votes. We're trying to fix that now but our government has trouble doing anything quickly or efficiently, partly because they're still scared of the fanatics. Hopefully soon we'll get the country fixed back up and in a state to receive visitors -- check back in a few years.
I'm a US citizen who recently went to China for a scientific conference. China has a reputation, no doubt well deserved, as a police state. But in terms of ridiculous airport security and immigration control, it's nowhere *near* as bad as the Americans. The Chinese are bureaucratic as all hell with their regs, but they're at least friendly about it.
When I got my passport checked back in the US, the fellow looks at my passport, notices the Chinese visa, and says "Welcome home" in this smug tone, as if to say "Aren't you glad you're back in the Land O' Freedom?"
Really? Mine has plenty of room on the insideGranted, I'm a little guy (5'8" 140#), but I've had no problem taking it on thousand-mile-a-day road trips.
Ah, I see what you're saying. Granted, you'd have to avoid setting up a system rewarding people from driving crappy cars, so as you say setting up a truck lane would probably be the best use of the extra lane.
Giving people an incentive to drive more efficient cars should be done with either gas taxes or things that affect the sticker price, really -- not by slowing them down on the road, since as you point out it just makes things far worse.
I've seen a hundred-car train towed by an electric vehicle.
In fact, so've you, since they're *all* towed by an electric vehicle -- what do you think diesel/electric locomotives are?
The electric vehicles built now aren't designed for towing. This isn't because it's impossible to do, but because nobody's seen a market for it. If these super-batteries come out, you'll be able to build an electric truck that will out-tow any ICE truck. Hint: torque curves.
I recently bought a Toyota Yaris -- 44 mpg highway @ 75mph without really being careful, according to my test on my first road trip.
This thing gets within a hair of the highway mileage of a Prius. What sort of magical juice about hybrids lets them use the carpool lane that very efficient ICE-only cars don't have?
--a cell phone, with utterly crappy battery life (You've heard about $15 phones with great battery life? This is one of the other $15 phones.) --a digital camera, with a big fat Li-Ion that lasts for well over a thousand shots --a netbook, again with a big fat battery
This is rather absurd. I can understand these devices having custom battery form factors, but the power itself should be reroutable. They're all just Li-Ion batteries producing (close to) some multiple of 3.7V; I should be able to run my phone off of my camera's battery, say, when the phone goes flat... or just carry around a big Li-Ion pack in my pocket and run anything I care to off of it. Batteries are flat and I'm in the middle of nowhere? Plug in a solar panel and charge everything, without having to mess with all this DC -> AC -> DC conversion.
In the early days of electricity, before the centralized power grid, families had large batteries they'd charge off of a generator, and then run various things off of by doing the wiring themselves, ad-hoc. We need something similar, but for portable DC setups.
Then get ten thousand people to show up with masks and cameras. Populist protest *does* still work -- look at the fall of the Berlin Wall, Solidarity in Poland, etc.
But bone conduction is most effective with low frequencies -- this device uses the higher frequencies where entrance through the ears is more important.
1) If the crowd was violent because you lot used excessive force on them first -- well, you shouldn't have done that.
2) If the crowd was violent because police in previous protests used excessive force, and this lot came spoiling for a fight -- well, you're in a tough situation, but your predecessors fucked it up for you.
3) If you were attacked by the crowd en masse when you tried to arrest people who were legitimately committing real crimes, then you're justified in fighting back if the harm you cause (to people's right to protest) is less than the harm you prevent (to property being damaged).
"Real crimes" does not include "trying to be where we don't want you to be", btw, and it doesn't mean "fighting back when we try to remove you from where we don't want you to be".
Was this crowd chunking bricks at anyone? Didn't look like it from the article.
And, I'm sorry, but sometimes the police are going to have to put themselves in danger. Announce "We saw the guy throw the brick at that storefront -- we're coming in to pick him up. Nobody else will be interfered with" over a bullhorn, and walk in.
If it's between a few broken windows and the use of chemical weapons and LRAD's on a crowd (in the process denying the 99% of the crowd that's peacefully protesting their right to do so), then I vote for the few broken windows.
I have very good high-frequency hearing (and am over 21), and those devices are annoying -- I've heard homeowners using them in their front lawns. How are they different from shining laser pointers in people's eyes? (Note that ordinary laser pointers will not cause blindness in people with healthy ocular reflexes.)
Isn't it rather disgusting that police feel the need to use multiple sophisticated weapons against a group of people guilty only of "marching without a permit"?
Dispersing a crowd by force is something that should only be done in extreme circumstances. From TFA it doesn't look like this qualifies.
... to just beating people with batons. Both are nonlethal methods of causing pain (and possibly physiological damage), designed to get people out of an area by force. If just beating the shit out of people isn't justified, use of the LRAD isn't either.
Now, certainly, there are times when it may be justified. But it's a weapon like any other, and the standards for its use shouldn't be lower because it's invisible and acts at long range.
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Atlanta is uniquely corrupt -- you can't really say that just because this one government is corrupt that they all are.
If your government is stealing from you, the solution is not smaller government. It's to put your current government behind bars and get a different one.
The trouble is that defense is funded overgenerously and everybody else gets squeezed.
I ran the text of the DMCA -- yes, all untold pages of it -- through an advanced semantic data compression algorithm.
The output was just the string "CITIZENBENDOVER".
Doesn't the NNPT stipulate that the facility has to be announced 120 days before fissionables are added? They are allowed to build a secret facility for a while; they just have to announce it in advance of using it.
The USA really is a nice place. Our natural bits are wonderful and our people (in many places) are quite friendly to foreigners. Sadly we probably don't speak your language, unless it's English or Spanish, and you'll have to figure out what "miles" are if you want to use our roads.
We're sorry about our government's temper tantrum for the last eight years. Sadly in a large chunk of our country religious fanaticism passes for local color, and a segment of our political system has gotten pretty good at manipulating that to get votes. We're trying to fix that now but our government has trouble doing anything quickly or efficiently, partly because they're still scared of the fanatics. Hopefully soon we'll get the country fixed back up and in a state to receive visitors -- check back in a few years.
Is this by any coincidence in Arizona? The Border Patrol guys around here are pretty nuts.
I'm a US citizen who recently went to China for a scientific conference. China has a reputation, no doubt well deserved, as a police state. But in terms of ridiculous airport security and immigration control, it's nowhere *near* as bad as the Americans. The Chinese are bureaucratic as all hell with their regs, but they're at least friendly about it.
When I got my passport checked back in the US, the fellow looks at my passport, notices the Chinese visa, and says "Welcome home" in this smug tone, as if to say "Aren't you glad you're back in the Land O' Freedom?"
They're also doing well in the sciences. I've met some Brazilian physicists and they're all very good in their fields.
Really? Mine has plenty of room on the insideGranted, I'm a little guy (5'8" 140#), but I've had no problem taking it on thousand-mile-a-day road trips.
Ah, I see what you're saying. Granted, you'd have to avoid setting up a system rewarding people from driving crappy cars, so as you say setting up a truck lane would probably be the best use of the extra lane.
Giving people an incentive to drive more efficient cars should be done with either gas taxes or things that affect the sticker price, really -- not by slowing them down on the road, since as you point out it just makes things far worse.
The hybrids *are* better even at highway speeds -- but not by that much, compared to the better gas cars (like mine).
They utterly demolish them in the city. But that's what I have a bike for.
I've seen a hundred-car train towed by an electric vehicle.
In fact, so've you, since they're *all* towed by an electric vehicle -- what do you think diesel/electric locomotives are?
The electric vehicles built now aren't designed for towing. This isn't because it's impossible to do, but because nobody's seen a market for it. If these super-batteries come out, you'll be able to build an electric truck that will out-tow any ICE truck. Hint: torque curves.
I recently bought a Toyota Yaris -- 44 mpg highway @ 75mph without really being careful, according to my test on my first road trip.
This thing gets within a hair of the highway mileage of a Prius. What sort of magical juice about hybrids lets them use the carpool lane that very efficient ICE-only cars don't have?
I carry with me regularly:
--a cell phone, with utterly crappy battery life (You've heard about $15 phones with great battery life? This is one of the other $15 phones.)
--a digital camera, with a big fat Li-Ion that lasts for well over a thousand shots
--a netbook, again with a big fat battery
This is rather absurd. I can understand these devices having custom battery form factors, but the power itself should be reroutable. They're all just Li-Ion batteries producing (close to) some multiple of 3.7V; I should be able to run my phone off of my camera's battery, say, when the phone goes flat... or just carry around a big Li-Ion pack in my pocket and run anything I care to off of it. Batteries are flat and I'm in the middle of nowhere? Plug in a solar panel and charge everything, without having to mess with all this DC -> AC -> DC conversion.
In the early days of electricity, before the centralized power grid, families had large batteries they'd charge off of a generator, and then run various things off of by doing the wiring themselves, ad-hoc. We need something similar, but for portable DC setups.
30 degree arc, from TFA.
Police killing people tends to be viewed rather badly by the population. See Kent State, and note that we're *still* talking about it.
Then get ten thousand people to show up with masks and cameras. Populist protest *does* still work -- look at the fall of the Berlin Wall, Solidarity in Poland, etc.
The sound level from this thing is not 150dB at working range.
It's 150dB at 1 meter away.
Ear protection *is* effective -- ever been to a shooting range? There's a reason people wear ear protection there.
But bone conduction is most effective with low frequencies -- this device uses the higher frequencies where entrance through the ears is more important.
1) If the crowd was violent because you lot used excessive force on them first -- well, you shouldn't have done that.
2) If the crowd was violent because police in previous protests used excessive force, and this lot came spoiling for a fight -- well, you're in a tough situation, but your predecessors fucked it up for you.
3) If you were attacked by the crowd en masse when you tried to arrest people who were legitimately committing real crimes, then you're justified in fighting back if the harm you cause (to people's right to protest) is less than the harm you prevent (to property being damaged).
"Real crimes" does not include "trying to be where we don't want you to be", btw, and it doesn't mean "fighting back when we try to remove you from where we don't want you to be".
Was this crowd chunking bricks at anyone? Didn't look like it from the article.
And, I'm sorry, but sometimes the police are going to have to put themselves in danger. Announce "We saw the guy throw the brick at that storefront -- we're coming in to pick him up. Nobody else will be interfered with" over a bullhorn, and walk in.
If it's between a few broken windows and the use of chemical weapons and LRAD's on a crowd (in the process denying the 99% of the crowd that's peacefully protesting their right to do so), then I vote for the few broken windows.
Agreed -- it's the same with tasers, tbh.
I have very good high-frequency hearing (and am over 21), and those devices are annoying -- I've heard homeowners using them in their front lawns. How are they different from shining laser pointers in people's eyes? (Note that ordinary laser pointers will not cause blindness in people with healthy ocular reflexes.)
Isn't it rather disgusting that police feel the need to use multiple sophisticated weapons against a group of people guilty only of "marching without a permit"?
Dispersing a crowd by force is something that should only be done in extreme circumstances. From TFA it doesn't look like this qualifies.
... to just beating people with batons. Both are nonlethal methods of causing pain (and possibly physiological damage), designed to get people out of an area by force. If just beating the shit out of people isn't justified, use of the LRAD isn't either.
Now, certainly, there are times when it may be justified. But it's a weapon like any other, and the standards for its use shouldn't be lower because it's invisible and acts at long range.