Law enforcement grade pepper spray ranks from 500,000 to 2,000,000 on the Scoville heat scale, meaning that it's detectable by taste in a solution of 1 part pepper spray to 500,000+ parts water. For comparison, your average Habenaro pepper ranks 100,000-350,000 on the same scale. The spiciest Chili ever grown ranks at about 1,200,000 on the scale.
Being a bit of a spice lover, I cook with Habanero peppers on a pretty regular basis. I can say that 4 hours after cooking a dinner, washing my hands multiple times, and rinsing with a sterile saline solution, the resedue from the Habanero peppers is usually enough to cause severe pain and temporary blindness when I remove my contact lenses (blindness is induced by watering of the eyes, and pain caused by opening them. I can still see light if I keep my eyes open.)
Weak-sauce Tabasco ranks at about 3500-8000 on the scoville scale. So, if you're the kind of person who finds Tabasco to be at all spicy, I want you to imagine having a solution 250 times stronger than the tabasco applied directly to your eyes, nose, and mouth. Then tell me how weak that stuff is.
I was in Switzerland a little while ago, and thirsty. My girlfriend walks up to what looks like a decorative public water fountain and fills up a bottle of water from what's coming out of the tap and drinks it. I look at her like she's crazy and ask a bunch of times to make sure that what we were having was safe to drink. Blown away that good drinking water would be used that way, and really impressed. I come from northern CA where, while we do have a good supply of water, the supply is limited and we do have to conserve.
Here's an example of the kind of fountain I'm talking about:
California's laws are based on the MUTCD, and based on all my research, conform to the recommendations therein. We do have our own supplements to the MUTCD, where things such as the process for performing a traffic survey are discussed in length.
It is a very good resource; very readable for an average bookworm, and not much leagalese.
I once heard an expert level racer describe his strategy for winning as "Brake less, and use the gas more." Yes, the game gets more difficult as you go along.... But how it does so is what's important. If you watch the Extra Credits video, you being to observe that a pretty key part of game design is how the tutorials are incorporated into game-play, and how complexity and difficulty is introduced.
That's assuming that Angry Birds provides no value or negative value to the players life. If we're ignoring the benefits, the same argument may be made about sex or sleep.
Part of the problem is that while California has Prima Face speed limits, it also has maximum speed limits. 22349 sets a maximum limit of 55 on a highway, or 65 on a freeway. Certain exceptions permit the speed limit to be raised above that (E.g. I5) but are rarely applied.
There are lots of places where the prevailing speed is well above the maximum limit, but because the limit in that case is set by the legislature rather than by traffic survey the prevailing speed is often above the posted limit, yeah.
Other issues: Judging by the reaction in the local political cartoon paper, raising the maximum speed limit doesn't seem very popular with the liberal crowd. Also, I've heard that local leaders are hesitant to enforce lane discipline laws, because they don't want to appear to encourage speeding.
Of course, sometimes speed surveys are also doctored, or set with no regard to prevailing speed. The 35 mile per hour speed limit out of Saratoga on Highway 9, heading into boulder creek is a pretty blatant example.
Speed Limits are arbitary limits which do not take into account - Weather - Vehicle type: are you a sports car or a truck - Driver skill / fatigue
I don't know about other states, but in California what you wrote simply isn't true. The speed limit is a Prima Face limit; if the officer feels that you're driving too fast for conditions, he can cite you with CVC 22350 (same VC used to cite speeding above the posted limit.) The only difference is that he'll have to prove your speed was unsafe in court*. Vehicle type also qualifies under this VC, if the officer observes that your vehicle is not under control.
Extreme fatigue would be considered driving while impaired, and enforcement is similar to drunk driving laws.
In addition, all speed limits below the state maximums are supposed to be set based on a traffic survey; an engineer observes how fast people drive, and recommends a speed limit based on a simple formula applied to the observed speed. The law provides very little leeway to adjust from there based on accident reports, housing density, and a couple other factors. If the engineering survey is not valid, the tickets can be easily thrown out. Word gets out and the speed limit becomes completely unenforceable.
* With a normal speed citation based on the prima face limit, the officer only needs to prove that he or she accurately observed your speed.
Competition to the Xeon line isn't going to happen in the workstation; it's going to happen in the data center. As we stand now, the major limiting factor in terms of how much performance you can squeeze into an data center is the ability to power and cool your cores, rather than the number of processors and associated infrastructure that you can physically squeeze into a given space. This has more or less been the limitation since the introduction of the U1 form factor, and has been getting even worse with virtualization and blade servers.
If ARM can do more useful work with less physical space, cooling, and power, it will be a serious contender for Intel.
What they need to make is a thermostat that will smack the hand of anyone who thinks that turning the thermostat up to 95 will heat the house up faster than just setting it to the desired temperature.
If I turn off my engine by turning the key, then I could end up engaging the ignition lock and the steering wheel won't be able to be turned. Also, I lose power steering, which could make keeping control of the car much more difficult. If my car won't respond to the normal ways to turn off cruise control, I think most people who think to use the keys would instinctively turn the car all the way off, not remember to only turn it to accessory. And in accessory, you still lose the power steering.
Most modern automatics won't permit the steering to lock or the key to be removed unless the vehicle is in park, so this is a non issue. I can't comment on manuals, since sadly, I haven't had the opportunity to drive one in a long while.
At speed, most cars steer normally weather or not power steering is present, and as other posters have mentioned, the OP is incorrect, so long as the vehicle is in gear (automatic or manual,) you will not lose power steering or power brakes.
I've done this numerous times in my own cars, and speak from experience.
I agree 100% with the conclusions you make, but could offer a couple of technical thoughts:
And no, you won't lose your brakes, unless your braking system has been poorly maintained. Test this by shutting off your engine in your driveway and seeing how many times you can press the pedal before it suddenly goes hard. That's where you have lost braking assist. Even further: loss of braking assist does not mean you can't stop the car - you just have to press much, much harder.
Even on most automatics, with the ignition shut off, the transmission is still driving the engine. Even though the engine isn't 'running' it's still pulling a vacuum, and driving accessories. So long as you do not put the car in neutral, your vacuum assist power brakes will still function normally. Same is true of the power steering.
Neither power steering nor power brakes should be necessary on most modern cars. As you mentioned, power steering has zero impact once the car is moving, and in fact, steering feel can be improved by disabling it (done on many race cars.) Power brakes are more useful, but it's possible to stop the car by pressing on the brake pedal with both feet, and doing so is much more effective than trying to over-power the engine, especially if you have a rear wheel drive car.
In the case of a rear wheel drive car, your strong brakes are up front, and the engine can easily overpower the weaker rear brakes. This is especially true since most modern RWD cars are either sports cars, or larger trucks. If you attempt to overpower the engine using the brakes, you can induce rear-wheel spin, especially at low speed, which will result in over-steer, and probable loss of control.
Actually, it's my understanding that wiretap laws are being used to model laws against GPS and other tracking devices, and it's totally possible that illegal tracking of people can fall into the realm of wiretap law.
Beyond that, it's not difficult to argue that the facebook bug is being used to intercept and record communication between two parties without concent of both parties. After all, my requests and responses are private communication, and I would not be surprised to find that the facebook bug is being used in situations where encryption is being employed.
Not put off because I don't share your taste in music, but I am put off because you took a cheap jab at mine - I like a lot of the 'crappy' pop/rock/punk/rave music. Also happen to like orchestral music as well. And yeah, I get why you might not want a music background. It's cool.
We can't no longer afford a 'living room' on wheel. The automobile need to return to its minimalist roots and focus on getting us from point A to point B with the less power possible.
A 50cc scooter will get you from point A to point B, making 100MPG. Has all the safety features of a Model T, too.
Good point. Condoms, the pill, etc... are rated for prevention of pregnancy with perfect use, vs typical use. Condoms are about 99% effective with perfect use, vs. 97% effective with typical use. The pill is 99.9% perfect, vs 99% or so typical use.
I think your opinion of Apple products might be a little off. I'm not an apple fanboi by any means, and have yet to own one of their products, but from what I've seen, for the most part, apple products are easy to use and just work. And when they don't work, you take them back to the apple store and they fix em for you. That, and a slick interface is something you can build a brand on.
Car companies know that pretty well... Toyota and Honda built a brand reputation on reliability, the Italians on sexiness, and the Germans on engineering. After selling out in the 80s, Ford figured it out and started rebuilding their brand image... Pretty successfully I might add.
But... Exclusivity is by no means the basis for Apple's success.
My east coast friends always made fun of us California for shutting down our roads and schools for an inch of snow. Guess the shoe is on the other foot now?:p
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. It's pretty clear that Clinton was the only president to break from this norm since then and now we're shocked that our debt crises get worse and worse every term?
To be fair, Bush Sr. tried to address the problem by raising taxes, and his betrayal of his campaign promises ("Read my lips: NO. NEW. TAXES") is a big part of what lost him the election. Clinton cut spending to a big degree by reducing military spending, and generally avoiding costly conflicts. You'll also note that his presidency was one of the few times in recent American history where we weren't involved in major foreign conflicts. Since then, we've had Bush Jr., who was a spend and spend 'conservative' and Obama who has been spending to deal with several wars and a financial Crisis.
While I generally approve of depression barrowing, I strongly believe that the debt incurred needs to be repaid during times of surplus.
Although more efficient braking technology may improve braking distance by 10-20 feet, better awareness of ones surroundings can put a hundred feet of space between a driver and the hazard ahead without any changes in following distance or braking technology.
When we race, it's fairly typical to see following distances of a few feet at speeds in excess of a hundred miles per hour. We do this without brake light. Although rear end collisions do happen, it's actually a fairly atypical incident.
If you can find modern music you like on SACD or DVD-A, it's entirely worth a listen. The clarity of the mix on a modern stario blows everything you've heard before out of the water. Unfortunately, most of the music available on those formats is classic stuff from the 60s, 70s, and 80s; targeting the 40 year old guys who have disposable income to spend on high end audio equipment. I figure in 10-20 years, more of my generation will be hitting midlife, and the stuff I grew up listening to will become available.
A few years ago, I purchased a pretty high end Klipsch/Pioneer setup, and discovered to my dismay that the speakers were far better than most of the music I owned in my library. I found that some music (rap especially) benefited from the noisy distortion friendly environment of the car. Other music, like my old MP3 collection and a number of my CDs sounded fine on a more reasonably priced system, but really didn't take advantage of the Klipsch speakers. I ended up spending a lot of energy finding music I liked on high-fidelity media.
Sadly, some of my favorite music from the 60s and 70s never made it to that format. I was only able to find one DVD of Zep, and that was from a live concert (still sounded great though.)
Some of the better mixed CDs are very listenable. Not everything is mixed like crap, and (perhaps not) surprisingly the stuff targeted more towards DJs seems to have more sane leveling (techno.) Some of the less mainstream modern rock also plays fairly well (tool is one of my favorites; mix is OK, but not great) where others is pure crap (Californication by Red Hot Chilli Peppers comes immediately to mind.)
Bigger speakers are generally going to have more presence because the speaker drivers themselves have better impedance with the air at low frequencies, and the heavier drivers tend to be more efficient at that frequency range. A good 10-12 inch driver should be able to get all the way down to 20hz, which is about the limit of human hearing; (though frequencies below that can still be felt.) With a modern speaker using a smaller 6 inch driver to produce low frequencies, the bottom end of the range will either be lost, or it will have to be normalized to the midrange; doing so tends to induce distortion.
More or less the top-of-the-line in consumer grade speakers is the Klipschhorn, which horn loads the tweeter and midrange, and uses the interior of the cabinet and your wall to horn load the woofer. The horns again deliver better impedance with the air, making it one of the most efficient speakers on the market. It's capable of producing 105db of sound from one watt of input power.
For what it's worth, I'm in my late 20s and grew up listening to a lot of the classics. I love Zep, and a number of others. There's good stuff coming out now too, but if all you do is listen to the radio, you're unlikely to hear it.
The conservative side of the USA places an extremely high value on sex. Remember, virginity is a blessing that should be preserved until marriage. If you're not a virgin when you marry, you shouldn't wear white. It's highly valued here, as a result of our warped morals.
These are the same people crying 'think of the children.'
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Law enforcement grade pepper spray ranks from 500,000 to 2,000,000 on the Scoville heat scale, meaning that it's detectable by taste in a solution of 1 part pepper spray to 500,000+ parts water. For comparison, your average Habenaro pepper ranks 100,000-350,000 on the same scale. The spiciest Chili ever grown ranks at about 1,200,000 on the scale.
Being a bit of a spice lover, I cook with Habanero peppers on a pretty regular basis. I can say that 4 hours after cooking a dinner, washing my hands multiple times, and rinsing with a sterile saline solution, the resedue from the Habanero peppers is usually enough to cause severe pain and temporary blindness when I remove my contact lenses (blindness is induced by watering of the eyes, and pain caused by opening them. I can still see light if I keep my eyes open.)
Weak-sauce Tabasco ranks at about 3500-8000 on the scoville scale. So, if you're the kind of person who finds Tabasco to be at all spicy, I want you to imagine having a solution 250 times stronger than the tabasco applied directly to your eyes, nose, and mouth. Then tell me how weak that stuff is.
Never ever heard the term "loss leader" have we? Frys makes a lot of money selling $100 cables to the guys who buy $500 TVs.
I was in Switzerland a little while ago, and thirsty. My girlfriend walks up to what looks like a decorative public water fountain and fills up a bottle of water from what's coming out of the tap and drinks it. I look at her like she's crazy and ask a bunch of times to make sure that what we were having was safe to drink. Blown away that good drinking water would be used that way, and really impressed. I come from northern CA where, while we do have a good supply of water, the supply is limited and we do have to conserve.
Here's an example of the kind of fountain I'm talking about:
http://www.where2nowmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Swtzrld-Fountain-and-Flowers.png
California's laws are based on the MUTCD, and based on all my research, conform to the recommendations therein. We do have our own supplements to the MUTCD, where things such as the process for performing a traffic survey are discussed in length.
It is a very good resource; very readable for an average bookworm, and not much leagalese.
I once heard an expert level racer describe his strategy for winning as "Brake less, and use the gas more." Yes, the game gets more difficult as you go along.... But how it does so is what's important. If you watch the Extra Credits video, you being to observe that a pretty key part of game design is how the tutorials are incorporated into game-play, and how complexity and difficulty is introduced.
That's assuming that Angry Birds provides no value or negative value to the players life. If we're ignoring the benefits, the same argument may be made about sex or sleep.
Part of the problem is that while California has Prima Face speed limits, it also has maximum speed limits. 22349 sets a maximum limit of 55 on a highway, or 65 on a freeway. Certain exceptions permit the speed limit to be raised above that (E.g. I5) but are rarely applied.
There are lots of places where the prevailing speed is well above the maximum limit, but because the limit in that case is set by the legislature rather than by traffic survey the prevailing speed is often above the posted limit, yeah.
Other issues: Judging by the reaction in the local political cartoon paper, raising the maximum speed limit doesn't seem very popular with the liberal crowd. Also, I've heard that local leaders are hesitant to enforce lane discipline laws, because they don't want to appear to encourage speeding.
Of course, sometimes speed surveys are also doctored, or set with no regard to prevailing speed. The 35 mile per hour speed limit out of Saratoga on Highway 9, heading into boulder creek is a pretty blatant example.
I don't know about other states, but in California what you wrote simply isn't true. The speed limit is a Prima Face limit; if the officer feels that you're driving too fast for conditions, he can cite you with CVC 22350 (same VC used to cite speeding above the posted limit.) The only difference is that he'll have to prove your speed was unsafe in court*. Vehicle type also qualifies under this VC, if the officer observes that your vehicle is not under control.
Extreme fatigue would be considered driving while impaired, and enforcement is similar to drunk driving laws.
In addition, all speed limits below the state maximums are supposed to be set based on a traffic survey; an engineer observes how fast people drive, and recommends a speed limit based on a simple formula applied to the observed speed. The law provides very little leeway to adjust from there based on accident reports, housing density, and a couple other factors. If the engineering survey is not valid, the tickets can be easily thrown out. Word gets out and the speed limit becomes completely unenforceable.
* With a normal speed citation based on the prima face limit, the officer only needs to prove that he or she accurately observed your speed.
Competition to the Xeon line isn't going to happen in the workstation; it's going to happen in the data center. As we stand now, the major limiting factor in terms of how much performance you can squeeze into an data center is the ability to power and cool your cores, rather than the number of processors and associated infrastructure that you can physically squeeze into a given space. This has more or less been the limitation since the introduction of the U1 form factor, and has been getting even worse with virtualization and blade servers.
If ARM can do more useful work with less physical space, cooling, and power, it will be a serious contender for Intel.
What they need to make is a thermostat that will smack the hand of anyone who thinks that turning the thermostat up to 95 will heat the house up faster than just setting it to the desired temperature.
Most modern automatics won't permit the steering to lock or the key to be removed unless the vehicle is in park, so this is a non issue. I can't comment on manuals, since sadly, I haven't had the opportunity to drive one in a long while.
At speed, most cars steer normally weather or not power steering is present, and as other posters have mentioned, the OP is incorrect, so long as the vehicle is in gear (automatic or manual,) you will not lose power steering or power brakes.
I've done this numerous times in my own cars, and speak from experience.
I agree 100% with the conclusions you make, but could offer a couple of technical thoughts:
Even on most automatics, with the ignition shut off, the transmission is still driving the engine. Even though the engine isn't 'running' it's still pulling a vacuum, and driving accessories. So long as you do not put the car in neutral, your vacuum assist power brakes will still function normally. Same is true of the power steering.
Neither power steering nor power brakes should be necessary on most modern cars. As you mentioned, power steering has zero impact once the car is moving, and in fact, steering feel can be improved by disabling it (done on many race cars.) Power brakes are more useful, but it's possible to stop the car by pressing on the brake pedal with both feet, and doing so is much more effective than trying to over-power the engine, especially if you have a rear wheel drive car.
In the case of a rear wheel drive car, your strong brakes are up front, and the engine can easily overpower the weaker rear brakes. This is especially true since most modern RWD cars are either sports cars, or larger trucks. If you attempt to overpower the engine using the brakes, you can induce rear-wheel spin, especially at low speed, which will result in over-steer, and probable loss of control.
Actually, it's my understanding that wiretap laws are being used to model laws against GPS and other tracking devices, and it's totally possible that illegal tracking of people can fall into the realm of wiretap law.
Beyond that, it's not difficult to argue that the facebook bug is being used to intercept and record communication between two parties without concent of both parties. After all, my requests and responses are private communication, and I would not be surprised to find that the facebook bug is being used in situations where encryption is being employed.
Not put off because I don't share your taste in music, but I am put off because you took a cheap jab at mine - I like a lot of the 'crappy' pop/rock/punk/rave music. Also happen to like orchestral music as well. And yeah, I get why you might not want a music background. It's cool.
They must. That's clearly where they are plagiarizing all their content from.
A 50cc scooter will get you from point A to point B, making 100MPG. Has all the safety features of a Model T, too.
Good point. Condoms, the pill, etc... are rated for prevention of pregnancy with perfect use, vs typical use. Condoms are about 99% effective with perfect use, vs. 97% effective with typical use. The pill is 99.9% perfect, vs 99% or so typical use.
Curious how abstinence ranks with typical use. :)
I think your opinion of Apple products might be a little off. I'm not an apple fanboi by any means, and have yet to own one of their products, but from what I've seen, for the most part, apple products are easy to use and just work. And when they don't work, you take them back to the apple store and they fix em for you. That, and a slick interface is something you can build a brand on.
Car companies know that pretty well... Toyota and Honda built a brand reputation on reliability, the Italians on sexiness, and the Germans on engineering. After selling out in the 80s, Ford figured it out and started rebuilding their brand image... Pretty successfully I might add.
But... Exclusivity is by no means the basis for Apple's success.
It's worth pointing out that mandatory colonoscopy for all air travellers would probably result in more saved lives than the current system.
My east coast friends always made fun of us California for shutting down our roads and schools for an inch of snow. Guess the shoe is on the other foot now? :p
To be fair, Bush Sr. tried to address the problem by raising taxes, and his betrayal of his campaign promises ("Read my lips: NO. NEW. TAXES") is a big part of what lost him the election. Clinton cut spending to a big degree by reducing military spending, and generally avoiding costly conflicts. You'll also note that his presidency was one of the few times in recent American history where we weren't involved in major foreign conflicts. Since then, we've had Bush Jr., who was a spend and spend 'conservative' and Obama who has been spending to deal with several wars and a financial Crisis.
While I generally approve of depression barrowing, I strongly believe that the debt incurred needs to be repaid during times of surplus.
Although more efficient braking technology may improve braking distance by 10-20 feet, better awareness of ones surroundings can put a hundred feet of space between a driver and the hazard ahead without any changes in following distance or braking technology.
When we race, it's fairly typical to see following distances of a few feet at speeds in excess of a hundred miles per hour. We do this without brake light. Although rear end collisions do happen, it's actually a fairly atypical incident.
I understand completely where you're coming from.
If you can find modern music you like on SACD or DVD-A, it's entirely worth a listen. The clarity of the mix on a modern stario blows everything you've heard before out of the water. Unfortunately, most of the music available on those formats is classic stuff from the 60s, 70s, and 80s; targeting the 40 year old guys who have disposable income to spend on high end audio equipment. I figure in 10-20 years, more of my generation will be hitting midlife, and the stuff I grew up listening to will become available.
A few years ago, I purchased a pretty high end Klipsch/Pioneer setup, and discovered to my dismay that the speakers were far better than most of the music I owned in my library. I found that some music (rap especially) benefited from the noisy distortion friendly environment of the car. Other music, like my old MP3 collection and a number of my CDs sounded fine on a more reasonably priced system, but really didn't take advantage of the Klipsch speakers. I ended up spending a lot of energy finding music I liked on high-fidelity media.
Sadly, some of my favorite music from the 60s and 70s never made it to that format. I was only able to find one DVD of Zep, and that was from a live concert (still sounded great though.)
Some of the better mixed CDs are very listenable. Not everything is mixed like crap, and (perhaps not) surprisingly the stuff targeted more towards DJs seems to have more sane leveling (techno.) Some of the less mainstream modern rock also plays fairly well (tool is one of my favorites; mix is OK, but not great) where others is pure crap (Californication by Red Hot Chilli Peppers comes immediately to mind.)
Bigger speakers are generally going to have more presence because the speaker drivers themselves have better impedance with the air at low frequencies, and the heavier drivers tend to be more efficient at that frequency range. A good 10-12 inch driver should be able to get all the way down to 20hz, which is about the limit of human hearing; (though frequencies below that can still be felt.) With a modern speaker using a smaller 6 inch driver to produce low frequencies, the bottom end of the range will either be lost, or it will have to be normalized to the midrange; doing so tends to induce distortion.
More or less the top-of-the-line in consumer grade speakers is the Klipschhorn, which horn loads the tweeter and midrange, and uses the interior of the cabinet and your wall to horn load the woofer. The horns again deliver better impedance with the air, making it one of the most efficient speakers on the market. It's capable of producing 105db of sound from one watt of input power.
For what it's worth, I'm in my late 20s and grew up listening to a lot of the classics. I love Zep, and a number of others. There's good stuff coming out now too, but if all you do is listen to the radio, you're unlikely to hear it.
Huh?
The conservative side of the USA places an extremely high value on sex. Remember, virginity is a blessing that should be preserved until marriage. If you're not a virgin when you marry, you shouldn't wear white. It's highly valued here, as a result of our warped morals.
These are the same people crying 'think of the children.'
The USA would seem to confirm the GP's point.