Yeah, Illinois... also one of the last strict no carry states. I'd heard other states had the same thing but until recently there wasn't much you could do but risk getting pinched.
We have those around here too. They mostly work, except that motorcycles sometimes don't trip the loop. It's not uncommon for us to sit at a light waiting for it to change... and then just blowing through the red and hoping nobody is watching from a parking lot nearby.
Recently they passed a law where motorcycles are actually allowed to blow a red light, provided they've waited a reasonable amount of time and there are no other vehicles in sight. It was a rare example of applied common sense.
Indeed. I'm pretty sure this poorly-informed rabbit hole of condemnation and retort is already a lost cause.
Nobody here knows this guy. They have no useful context. They don't know his kids, they don't know what his custody situation is and for all they know he's been a model parent with straight-A students heading off to college, who have earned a bit independence anyway.
Instead, let's just assume he's a terrible parent with felons for children, and that he meant he'll take no further interest whatsoever in their lives. That'll make for a productive conversation.:p
We have that now, it's called a robot. Are robots feasible? Yes. Can I have $7,000,000 now?
I'm going to guess they'll have a long list of problematic questions requiring well-researched answers that goes well beyond your intuitional response of, "yea someone could do it".
Because if the answer were simply "yes", there's lots more follow-on money a-comin' for development, and nobody wants to spend that on a doomed project.
I do know people who will tip 20% even for obviously bad service. It's just ingrained in them.
I do this. My grandmother was a single mother of two surviving on tips as a waitress, so I can't help it. When service is mediocre, I assume they've just had a bad day and try to be extra nice. It might be counter-productive, even stupid, but I'll leave it for someone else to figure out. They work harder than most of my coworkers for less money, and I couldn't sleep at night knowing I decreased someones paycheck.
What I do like is that restaurants will typically put the tip in on large bills as a mandatory line item to make sure nobody gets screwed on lots of work. This solves the problem of foreigners and local cheapskates screwing over the staff.
That sales tax thing isn't actually an American thing, it's a state & city thing. Two towns in the same county will often have different tax rates. It gets even weirder though, as it sometimes depends on what you're buying too.
Some things I buy, I'll actually cross the street and buy at a different place because the rates are significantly different. It's a pain, but I'm not sure what the alternative is.
As it turns out, there's a current push to change this situation. It sounds like the illegal bit is soliciting investments in return for equity "from unaccredited investorsâ"defined as investors with less than $1 million in assetsâ"who are not friends or family."
I'm not disagreeing, just curious... why is it illegal? VC firms, individuals and existing companies invest in start-ups well before they ever go public (for those that ever do) all the time. Why does doing it through a Kickstarter-like service make it illegal?
Every train station I've seen, including simple platforms, has most of the equipment for this anyway. In this case you've just got music playing the whole time and some kind of ducker to quash the music when the announcements play.
They may not know for sure if it's working yet, but this seems like one of the least complicated or expensive options to try out. It certainly beats hiring more security, the presence of which only makes things seem worse.
I wonder if they could take the cash windfall and pump it into infrastructure, call those infrastructure investments, "cost of doing business" and keep the rates high by amortizing those costs. Triple win for them. Better network, significantly lower recurring costs, keep the rates high.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. The article said:
A secondary motion in the falcon doors' action allows them to open in a way that keeps them very close to the side of the vehicle - requiring no additional garage or parking width.
But the photos just after it sure looked like you'd really need more vertical clearance.
I think they use hydrazine (nasty stuff I guess) in APU/EPSU's on aircraft too. I'd think a less awful alternative would be a good thing to have for more than just NASA.
I suppose that would be the difference between you doing something illegal and ReDigi (or another service) operating an illegal service.
Presumably what mattered here is that ReDigi did their due diligence in the process of transferring an mp3 from one person to another, destroying the provided original. If you copied it before that, then you did something illegal, not them. They'd have done what they could to avoid facilitating such a scam.
I makes me wonder how this would apply to other digital media we buy.
* I'd think, say with DLC, the producer of the material wouldn't be obligated to assist in a content transfer so DRM keeps them safe for now. But are we now otherwise allowed to transfer that material to someone else? If so, do anti-circumvention exemptions now apply to the new owner?
US forces do use pack mules in Afghanistan. Not sure about horses. I guess this could fill some part of that role, without the stubbornness. Though I'd imagine the robot is harder to keep alive over long distances.
At that point all they have to do is wave an all-knowing tricorder over the wounded and occasionally inject you with the appropriate magic hypospray, so qualifications don't much seem to matter.
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Yeah, Illinois... also one of the last strict no carry states. I'd heard other states had the same thing but until recently there wasn't much you could do but risk getting pinched.
I use excel for stuff all the time. Little jobs... quick, repetative, formulaic stuff. That and popping open csv's.
The one I often saw abused was access. Horrible things happen when a shitty Access side-project ends up getting passed around an office.
We have those around here too. They mostly work, except that motorcycles sometimes don't trip the loop. It's not uncommon for us to sit at a light waiting for it to change... and then just blowing through the red and hoping nobody is watching from a parking lot nearby.
Recently they passed a law where motorcycles are actually allowed to blow a red light, provided they've waited a reasonable amount of time and there are no other vehicles in sight. It was a rare example of applied common sense.
Indeed. I'm pretty sure this poorly-informed rabbit hole of condemnation and retort is already a lost cause.
Nobody here knows this guy. They have no useful context. They don't know his kids, they don't know what his custody situation is and for all they know he's been a model parent with straight-A students heading off to college, who have earned a bit independence anyway.
Instead, let's just assume he's a terrible parent with felons for children, and that he meant he'll take no further interest whatsoever in their lives. That'll make for a productive conversation. :p
We have that now, it's called a robot. Are robots feasible? Yes. Can I have $7,000,000 now?
I'm going to guess they'll have a long list of problematic questions requiring well-researched answers that goes well beyond your intuitional response of, "yea someone could do it".
Because if the answer were simply "yes", there's lots more follow-on money a-comin' for development, and nobody wants to spend that on a doomed project.
I do know people who will tip 20% even for obviously bad service. It's just ingrained in them.
I do this. My grandmother was a single mother of two surviving on tips as a waitress, so I can't help it. When service is mediocre, I assume they've just had a bad day and try to be extra nice. It might be counter-productive, even stupid, but I'll leave it for someone else to figure out. They work harder than most of my coworkers for less money, and I couldn't sleep at night knowing I decreased someones paycheck.
What I do like is that restaurants will typically put the tip in on large bills as a mandatory line item to make sure nobody gets screwed on lots of work. This solves the problem of foreigners and local cheapskates screwing over the staff.
That sales tax thing isn't actually an American thing, it's a state & city thing. Two towns in the same county will often have different tax rates. It gets even weirder though, as it sometimes depends on what you're buying too.
Some things I buy, I'll actually cross the street and buy at a different place because the rates are significantly different. It's a pain, but I'm not sure what the alternative is.
As it turns out, there's a current push to change this situation. It sounds like the illegal bit is soliciting investments in return for equity "from unaccredited investorsâ"defined as investors with less than $1 million in assetsâ"who are not friends or family."
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120111/SMALLBIZ/120119980#
It sounds like a great idea to me.
I'm not disagreeing, just curious... why is it illegal? VC firms, individuals and existing companies invest in start-ups well before they ever go public (for those that ever do) all the time. Why does doing it through a Kickstarter-like service make it illegal?
Every train station I've seen, including simple platforms, has most of the equipment for this anyway. In this case you've just got music playing the whole time and some kind of ducker to quash the music when the announcements play.
They may not know for sure if it's working yet, but this seems like one of the least complicated or expensive options to try out. It certainly beats hiring more security, the presence of which only makes things seem worse.
I wonder if they could take the cash windfall and pump it into infrastructure, call those infrastructure investments, "cost of doing business" and keep the rates high by amortizing those costs. Triple win for them. Better network, significantly lower recurring costs, keep the rates high.
A secondary motion in the falcon doors' action allows them to open in a way that keeps them very close to the side of the vehicle - requiring no additional garage or parking width.
But the photos just after it sure looked like you'd really need more vertical clearance.
I think they use hydrazine (nasty stuff I guess) in APU/EPSU's on aircraft too. I'd think a less awful alternative would be a good thing to have for more than just NASA.
And I'm sure someone made boobies with punch cards and lights, but I thought it was funny none-the-less.
Your ascii comment just reminded me of some of the embarrassingly bad ANSI art nudes you'd see logging into local BBS's though.
It appears to be opt-in for an added discount.
I assumed as much. I just saw a tv commercial for Progressive pimping their new opt-in datalogger. Same deal, the idea is to profile your driving habits to see if you qualify for a discount on your insurance. Theirs goes on the OBD port I guess. Just found this... http://jalopnik.com/138557/more-on-progressives-elective-black-boxes-for-usage+based-insurance
So long as we don't get involved in a land war in Asia, I think we're gtg.
I'm sure it's crossed someone's mind. Though it's not like these are the first tablet computers our military has purchased.
Also, I'd expect there's a serious auditing process for anything that deals with sensitive information.
I suppose that would be the difference between you doing something illegal and ReDigi (or another service) operating an illegal service.
Presumably what mattered here is that ReDigi did their due diligence in the process of transferring an mp3 from one person to another, destroying the provided original. If you copied it before that, then you did something illegal, not them. They'd have done what they could to avoid facilitating such a scam.
not a lawyer.
I makes me wonder how this would apply to other digital media we buy.
* I'd think, say with DLC, the producer of the material wouldn't be obligated to assist in a content transfer so DRM keeps them safe for now. But are we now otherwise allowed to transfer that material to someone else? If so, do anti-circumvention exemptions now apply to the new owner?
* [requisite ianal, etc]
[Compuserve] introduced the GIF format in 1987, and digital porn was born two minutes later.
I hope you don't mind, I'll be shamelessly repeating this quote for years to come.
I'm no expert in international trade agreements, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that's not exactly how it reads.
I've been wrong plenty of times before though, and don't mind admitting it... so feel free to cite.
That's not even close to what he said.
US forces do use pack mules in Afghanistan. Not sure about horses. I guess this could fill some part of that role, without the stubbornness. Though I'd imagine the robot is harder to keep alive over long distances.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-donkeys7-2009jul07,0,3448109.story
"It's a very primitive way to carry very modern weapons," said Sgt. Joe Neal, one of the instructors. "But it works."
At that point all they have to do is wave an all-knowing tricorder over the wounded and occasionally inject you with the appropriate magic hypospray, so qualifications don't much seem to matter.
Yeah with a Cisco product called iphone, I think.
I get the feeling Apple does whatever they like best and counts on the legal team to sort out the issues later.