I inadvertently taught my dog to not crap on the lawn. When he was still house training, I always took him off into the tall weeds to do his business - since then, he goes to great lengths to not crap on the lawn. He'll find tall weeds, go off in the woods or crap over an embankment if at all possible. Last week, he had to go and there was only lawn in site, so he made sure to crap on a large rock rather than the grass... made it easier for me to scoop it up.
In order for this to be feasible on a large scale, you'd need cost effective drones. Cost effective drones would then be available to those same people already going around stealing packages... only now they can do it with a greater degree of access and anonymity. As the technology matures and becomes more acceptable to society at large, we'll probably see mandatory registration of drones that can fly to X height, have Y range or can carry Z payload with registration numbers required to be painted on them in big block letters.
Generators, mostly. The kind of things businesses can invest in, but the majority of homeowners can't (especially if you go back more than ten years). More so once you get into having to properly maintain a generator so that it's ready when you need it.
The the four largest blackouts in the past 10 years: 2003 The Northeast (United States and Canada) blackout affected ~55 million people and most of them were without power for 2 days. Some had no power for up to several weeks. 2005 - Java and Bali had a blackout for ~7 hours, affected ~100 million people 2009 - Brazil - The blackout affected 60 to 87 million people and the longest outage was ~6 hours. 2009 - India - About 620 million people lost power in two separate events on consecutive days. The first one last about 15 hours, and the second one had power mostly restored within 3 days.
Curiously, only the Brazil blackout was caused by wind or rain. Heat seems to do more damage to power infrastructure than blizzards or hurricanes.
To be fair, sometimes "long distance" is just the nearest city. That's how it is where I grew up. Local calls were any exchanges within about 10 miles. Beyond that, it was long distance with a couple exceptions (such as the county seat, 14 miles away and the county hospital about as far). The nearest city, almost 20 miles away, was long distance. In a true emergency, any emergency services in the local calling distance would be quickly overwhelmed and you would need to contact the city to have sufficient resources.
I've lived in Central, Upstate and Western NY. The phone system is usually more reliable than the power grid. To the point where we usually get at least two or three blackouts every winter (and more during the summer), but I can't remember the last time the phone line went down. And with POTS, you don't need to worry about no power for VoIP, or not being able to recharge your cell phone (the network often becomes overloaded during blackouts anyway). With generators becoming cheaper, it's less of an issue but we're not yet to the point in which cell phones or VoIP are more reliable than POTS.
Your expensive assorted bullshit is different in that *people don't expect electronic extras and can't get it from competitors". However, they do have other extras that you might not even realize are extras... they're just not electronic. All you're doing is the elitist consumer version of tacking on extra criminal charges for people that use computers to commit crimes just because it's "electronic".
In the case of the Tesla, people are buying it, in part, for those extras. Sure, they might be able to market a bare bones model of the Tesla but it won't sell well because the price and reliability won't be lowered by enough to make it worthwhile to take the bare bones model over the luxury model.
For every creature you can argue in favor of intelligent design because of some cool, complex and very useful trait, there are a dozen species that make you go "What in the bloody hell? How is that thing still alive?"
The State Board in question is known to contain at least six of the latter creatures.
I 'experimented' with what it means to be disabled by breaking my leg (wheelchair for six weeks, crutches for 12 more) and losing most of my hearing when I was 3, as well as numerous other bumps and bruises along the way. There's two things I've learned from it.
1) A temporary disability is much, much more difficult for an individual to deal with than a permanent disability with the same practical effect (a broken leg vs being born with one leg) because you're not used to it, but you're also waiting it out until you're better rather than accepting that it's now a fact of your life.
2) You eventually learn to get over it. I'm half deaf, it sucks, and I honestly don't care any more. You compensate where you can, give up on doing what you can't, and deal with the assholes who want to make a big deal over it.
Of course, I broke my leg in college so everyone I knew came to my dorm to play around in it.
From what I remember from 6th grade science class: Stars mainly use hydrogen/helium as nuclear fuel. However, once those run out, it begins to collapse as gravity takes over. The compression forces it to begin fusing heavier elements, which gives it a renewed burst of energy, thus causing it to explode outwards. You could argue that the heavier elements are still nuclear fuel, but it's not the primary fuel of the star throughout its life so that's basically just an argument of semantics.
Alternative explanation: Hollywood has taught us that random objects may explode at any moment, even in the absence of combustibles or pressure.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of dehydrated cake. And the Science gets done. And you make a neat space gun. For the astronauts who are still alive.
It's kind of expensive to put them in an empty commercial plane just for training. That's why they usually have a more experienced pilot in charge who can take over if necessary. And the argument of having them fly a plane that's not full goes against the "every life is precious" philosophy that most western countries embrace. Sooner or later, they have to make the leap.
If you read the summary, you'll notice one of the big problems is when that automation fails. It's great when it removes human error, but if automation fails, you still want human error as minimal as possible... and that means teaching pilots to rely less on automation (which is a very different thing from using less automation).
With no heart, spine or brain, there should be plenty of room in them for a GPS tracker, as long as you empty out some of that shit they always seem to be full of.
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I inadvertently taught my dog to not crap on the lawn. When he was still house training, I always took him off into the tall weeds to do his business - since then, he goes to great lengths to not crap on the lawn. He'll find tall weeds, go off in the woods or crap over an embankment if at all possible. Last week, he had to go and there was only lawn in site, so he made sure to crap on a large rock rather than the grass... made it easier for me to scoop it up.
Fucking cats is illegal in most states.
In order for this to be feasible on a large scale, you'd need cost effective drones. Cost effective drones would then be available to those same people already going around stealing packages... only now they can do it with a greater degree of access and anonymity. As the technology matures and becomes more acceptable to society at large, we'll probably see mandatory registration of drones that can fly to X height, have Y range or can carry Z payload with registration numbers required to be painted on them in big block letters.
On behalf of people with hearing loss - no, you really wouldn't love it. However, it would seem you already love being a huge dick.
Generators, mostly. The kind of things businesses can invest in, but the majority of homeowners can't (especially if you go back more than ten years). More so once you get into having to properly maintain a generator so that it's ready when you need it.
The the four largest blackouts in the past 10 years:
2003 The Northeast (United States and Canada) blackout affected ~55 million people and most of them were without power for 2 days. Some had no power for up to several weeks.
2005 - Java and Bali had a blackout for ~7 hours, affected ~100 million people
2009 - Brazil - The blackout affected 60 to 87 million people and the longest outage was ~6 hours.
2009 - India - About 620 million people lost power in two separate events on consecutive days. The first one last about 15 hours, and the second one had power mostly restored within 3 days.
Curiously, only the Brazil blackout was caused by wind or rain. Heat seems to do more damage to power infrastructure than blizzards or hurricanes.
To be fair, sometimes "long distance" is just the nearest city. That's how it is where I grew up. Local calls were any exchanges within about 10 miles. Beyond that, it was long distance with a couple exceptions (such as the county seat, 14 miles away and the county hospital about as far). The nearest city, almost 20 miles away, was long distance. In a true emergency, any emergency services in the local calling distance would be quickly overwhelmed and you would need to contact the city to have sufficient resources.
I've lived in Central, Upstate and Western NY. The phone system is usually more reliable than the power grid. To the point where we usually get at least two or three blackouts every winter (and more during the summer), but I can't remember the last time the phone line went down. And with POTS, you don't need to worry about no power for VoIP, or not being able to recharge your cell phone (the network often becomes overloaded during blackouts anyway). With generators becoming cheaper, it's less of an issue but we're not yet to the point in which cell phones or VoIP are more reliable than POTS.
Your expensive assorted bullshit is different in that *people don't expect electronic extras and can't get it from competitors". However, they do have other extras that you might not even realize are extras... they're just not electronic. All you're doing is the elitist consumer version of tacking on extra criminal charges for people that use computers to commit crimes just because it's "electronic".
In the case of the Tesla, people are buying it, in part, for those extras. Sure, they might be able to market a bare bones model of the Tesla but it won't sell well because the price and reliability won't be lowered by enough to make it worthwhile to take the bare bones model over the luxury model.
And anything that doesn't cause cancer is known to the state of California to cause birth defects.
Only if you can prove you had no intent to use the compartment you didn't know about
It's not illegal if they don't know about it... isn't that what the government has always said?
My dog will eat any dog or cat poo except for his own.
For every creature you can argue in favor of intelligent design because of some cool, complex and very useful trait, there are a dozen species that make you go "What in the bloody hell? How is that thing still alive?"
The State Board in question is known to contain at least six of the latter creatures.
Personally, I think the world has not yet been created. We're all just echos of things that have not yet come to pass.
I 'experimented' with what it means to be disabled by breaking my leg (wheelchair for six weeks, crutches for 12 more) and losing most of my hearing when I was 3, as well as numerous other bumps and bruises along the way. There's two things I've learned from it.
1) A temporary disability is much, much more difficult for an individual to deal with than a permanent disability with the same practical effect (a broken leg vs being born with one leg) because you're not used to it, but you're also waiting it out until you're better rather than accepting that it's now a fact of your life.
2) You eventually learn to get over it. I'm half deaf, it sucks, and I honestly don't care any more. You compensate where you can, give up on doing what you can't, and deal with the assholes who want to make a big deal over it.
Of course, I broke my leg in college so everyone I knew came to my dorm to play around in it.
Raising someone from birth to fill a specific job sounds like the plot to a Kurt Russell movie...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120157/
I'm waiting for them to remake that as Sysadmin.
I want to be Doctor. Or Captain. Or Captain Doctor. Captain Doctor James T. Who.
From what I remember from 6th grade science class:
Stars mainly use hydrogen/helium as nuclear fuel. However, once those run out, it begins to collapse as gravity takes over. The compression forces it to begin fusing heavier elements, which gives it a renewed burst of energy, thus causing it to explode outwards. You could argue that the heavier elements are still nuclear fuel, but it's not the primary fuel of the star throughout its life so that's basically just an argument of semantics.
Alternative explanation: Hollywood has taught us that random objects may explode at any moment, even in the absence of combustibles or pressure.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of dehydrated cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat space gun.
For the astronauts who are still alive.
I just pictured a cannon firing weighted companion cubes. But their picture is cool too.
It's kind of expensive to put them in an empty commercial plane just for training. That's why they usually have a more experienced pilot in charge who can take over if necessary. And the argument of having them fly a plane that's not full goes against the "every life is precious" philosophy that most western countries embrace. Sooner or later, they have to make the leap.
Well yes, but pilots help make sure they can go back up again.
If you read the summary, you'll notice one of the big problems is when that automation fails. It's great when it removes human error, but if automation fails, you still want human error as minimal as possible... and that means teaching pilots to rely less on automation (which is a very different thing from using less automation).
With no heart, spine or brain, there should be plenty of room in them for a GPS tracker, as long as you empty out some of that shit they always seem to be full of.