Inevitably the cause of unsafe conditions in a high speed chase is the run-away driver/suspect. Unless you start training the general population on high-speed driving techniques (and I'm not saying that is a bad idea) these bullets don't increase safety.
"because there's no market for it." at the current rates, there will be over a million 4k TVs in homes buy the end of next year.
First: where's your citation. You shouldn't just make up numbers to support your argument.
If I understand you: they started selling 4K sets earlier this year. By the end of next year (1.5 years at least) they will have sold 1 million 4K TVs and you call that a market? Nielsen estimates there are about 115 million TVs in the US alone, NationMaster estimates over 1.5 billion TVs worldwide.
one million 4K sets is less than 1% of all US TVs and.07% of the worldwide TVs. In what fantasy world is that a viable market? Sure maybe the TVs themselves would be profitable for the manufacturer, but how does 1% or less market penetration drive content providers to support 4K? Unless and until you get high quality porn on a 4K set (or sports), that market segment is going to remain a joke.
Now lets compare that with some known success stories: Apple's iPhone 5s: sold 9 million units in 3 days and probably 500 million iOS devices in total sold. xBox 360: 77 million sold by April 2013 (reported by Gamespot), PS2: 157M, Wii 100M (all from some quick Googles).
Those are numbers for a product or technology that consumers want and 3rd parties can make money selling to. Sure a small market can be profitable when a perceived value is achieve for the premium price (Bently, Rolls Royce, Aston Martin), etc. and the product does not depend on 3rd party products for popularity.
"You can't legally make yourself guilty through silence, but you can certainly make yourself a suspect." The police don't tend to waste their time talking to non-involved people; they talk to those they suspect are witnesses or perpetrators; hence they only talk to suspects. If a police officer is questioning you then you are very definitely a suspect in some sense.
Since it depends upon the willingness of the woman to take the drug I don't consider that a technological solution. And I don't think I consider pregnancy a social problem. A personal problem if anything.
You could argue that pregnancy in under-educated, poverty stricken or unfit parent situations is a social problem, but if those were solved by pregnancy control drugs then why are the problems still around?
You can never solve a social problem with technological solutions. Social problems need social controls.
Hack your iPad: 1 week detention. Second time: 1 week suspension. Do it again: expulsion.
There is no way to keep kids from writing on the walls (prohibit markers?), drawing profanity on white boards (lock them behind glass?) or any sort of vandalism. Pass the rules, publicize the first few detentions, suspensions or expulsions and the problem will all but go away in two weeks. Sure there will be sporadic incidents but not district-wide bypasses as the article speaks to,
I was playing flight sims on my Quadra 900 in the late 80s/early 90s with 4 displays. The resolutions and detail may be higher today, but I never had any issues or failures of the system. FA/18 Hornet was my favorite.
A 7 year old was arrested for terroristic actions after tossing an airplane across the classroom and it hit the wall, knocking a "teacher of the year" plaque slightly askew. The stunt reportedly tossed the airplane without any reaction from classmates. When one of the students relayed the story to her parents they decided to call the police to warn of the anti-social behavior. When asked, Police Chief Marny Logan said "We had to take it seriously, you never when he'll switch from paper airplanes to real ones. We can't teach kids that it is okay to fly aircraft in to buildings."
In other news: using chalk to draw in the street is found to increase the risk of future graffiti crime by 43%. Children who stick objects in their nose will one day use a straw and accidentally snort cocaine.
Well, we still have three arms of government. But yes, the framers of the Constitution would have little to no recognition of their work in examining todays US Federal government. It has been the case for at least 60 years now.
Sorry but I disagree. For proper balance of powers the Constitution made the president Commander in Chief, but Congress decides when the President can invade other countries.
Until the Congressional authorization of use of force the President handle the military in any way authorized by law. When the President wants to deploy in to sovereign soil for hostile reasons the People must allow for such action via "their voice" of Congress.
If the US were being attacked, that would be a different story. But sorry, the President is not a king and unilateral actions are not what the Constitution describes.
As for your comment about impeaching: I don't think you know what that means. To impeach a sitting President is simply for the House to send the President to trial in the Senate for violating a law specifically "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" as written in the Constitution. If, as you state, the President does not need any authorization to invade other nations then there is no cause for impeachment. Once impeached the Congress MAY vote to eject the person in office from the seat of President or take some other censure. Impeachment and removal from office are not synonymous.
If you don't like the NRA, why don't you join it(along with about 5 million of your anti-NRA friends) and continually vote to disband the origination or change it's policies??
Any basic research will show that there is a >90% relapse rate for AA and NA participants. The relapse rate is about the same for self-recovery and almost any non-medical program. The only ones who talk about the "success" of AA are those who have financial reasons or religious reasons to promote it.
If the NCAA endorsed and has a licensing deal with EA then all the NCAA has to do is change the contract with the players: You agree that EA may use you likeness and personal statistics for the purposes of creating video game characters.
Boom: you want to play NCAA basketball, you have to agree to this. Don't agree? don't play.
Chevette is probably pushing things, as the argument wasn't about new vs antiquated, but different options of new and modern. So go ahead and put a Toyota V6 in the Ferrari. Most drivers wont notice the difference. In day to day use I doubt even Ferarri owners stomp on the pedal and do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds very much. I regularly see people driving exotic cars: Bentley, Aston Martin, Ferrari, etc. And they drive them just the same as every other car on the road just plugging along with traffic.
So yes... 98% of the time I bet, if you could mimic the V12's sound, the Ferarri owner would not notice the downgrade to a smaller engine.
All fine points except for the "someone lurking right by the door to attack you." Familiarity breeds complacency. If you were to come home and walk around to your door and the security lights didn't come on, what would you do: 1. Call 911 while removing your self from the area? 2. Ready a weapon and flashlight then security sweep your entire property? 3. Continue along in the dark and open your door anyway?
I'd bet most people would do #3 figuring the light had simply malfunctioned and not even consider that an attacker may have disabled it to gain surprise.
You should inform your landlord that motion sensor lights, and lights in general, do little to deter crime. When you provide lighting it means the criminal doesn't have to use a suspicious flashlight and draw attention to themselves.
To take it to the extreme: if lighting prevented crime then NYC and Paris would be the least crime ridden cities in the world.
Low voltage, perhaps solar/battery powered, lighting in the areas you need it would be best. Point lights, such as spots and floods, are annoying and wasteful as they need to send light from the single point outward across a distance with enough intensity for it to reflect back to your eyes which are dilated to accommodate the very bright light in the foreground which blinds you. Lower wattage lighting distributed around the area you wish to illuminate provides a much more usable light at lower intensity and dispersion levels. You'd be VERY surprised what a few strings of LED solar yard lights will to to light up your yard completely, but not annoy your neighbors.
"...the rules automatically change." You need to cite the law that says they change. Until and unless there is a sign or a law that ends the "residents only" parking area the area continues. You blindly assuming the opposite and ranting about it does not make your assumption correct.
Find the law/ordinance that states your case then show it to the parking enforcement agent and their manager/supervisor.
I see a slander suit in his future. Someone puts me on a list of "dangerous guns or owners" and I'll sue. Neither my gun nor I are any more dangerous than any other object or person. In fact, you are infinitely more likely to be run over by a dangerous car or driver while you geotag my residence.
A will be sued for the data about who made the geotag and he will be sued as a co-conspiritor to spread slander. This app has a very short life. All simply due to the wording chosen to describe the functionality.
It isn't the "progressives" that mandated e-verify, that was all conservatives trying to keep the brown people from working and voting. And if the progressives had their way and there with universal health care (instead of the republican RomneyCare plan) then the hiring and firing employees would be that much simpler; a whole category of paperwork and costs... gone.
Stop doing things that seem illegal or immoral to your employees. Stop lying. Stop cheating. Stop cowering behind secret courts.
As people say about the data collected by the NSA: if you haven't done anything wrong then you have nothing to hide. The NSA was hiding this program because they knew it was wrong.
No. It. Is. Not. You NEVER store as much energy in a battery as you took to charge it. Batteries and their chargers dissipate heat and sound as they charge. You NEVER get 100% retention in a battery, they always self discharge. You NEVER get 100% of the energy stored in a battery back out. There is, again, heat loss, electromagnetic fields generated, etc.
Entropy is a bitch and a greedy one at that.
Fossil fuel engines could probably be 30% more efficient today if we would apply to them the same incentives to research and development as we do to electrics. Why are there few to no diesel electric hybrids on the road, or even in manufacture. It is simply the most efficient road-safe system we have today; used in trains and ships and cranes and all manner of large machinery.
Time to "refuel" an all electric vehicle: an hour at best. Range: 200 miles Time to refuel most cars: 3 minutes. Range: 700 miles (in my Golf TDI at least)
None of the efficiency you think you get, you actually have with an electric.
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Merchants collect sales taxes, the government charges the taxes.
And the tax is really on the buyer in most states; that way the tax isn't a cost of doing business.
Inevitably the cause of unsafe conditions in a high speed chase is the run-away driver/suspect. Unless you start training the general population on high-speed driving techniques (and I'm not saying that is a bad idea) these bullets don't increase safety.
"because there's no market for it."
at the current rates, there will be over a million 4k TVs in homes buy the end of next year.
First: where's your citation. You shouldn't just make up numbers to support your argument.
If I understand you: they started selling 4K sets earlier this year. By the end of next year (1.5 years at least) they will have sold 1 million 4K TVs and you call that a market? Nielsen estimates there are about 115 million TVs in the US alone, NationMaster estimates over 1.5 billion TVs worldwide.
one million 4K sets is less than 1% of all US TVs and .07% of the worldwide TVs. In what fantasy world is that a viable market? Sure maybe the TVs themselves would be profitable for the manufacturer, but how does 1% or less market penetration drive content providers to support 4K? Unless and until you get high quality porn on a 4K set (or sports), that market segment is going to remain a joke.
Now lets compare that with some known success stories: Apple's iPhone 5s: sold 9 million units in 3 days and probably 500 million iOS devices in total sold.
xBox 360: 77 million sold by April 2013 (reported by Gamespot), PS2: 157M, Wii 100M (all from some quick Googles).
Those are numbers for a product or technology that consumers want and 3rd parties can make money selling to. Sure a small market can be profitable when a perceived value is achieve for the premium price (Bently, Rolls Royce, Aston Martin), etc. and the product does not depend on 3rd party products for popularity.
"You can't legally make yourself guilty through silence, but you can certainly make yourself a suspect."
The police don't tend to waste their time talking to non-involved people; they talk to those they suspect are witnesses or perpetrators; hence they only talk to suspects. If a police officer is questioning you then you are very definitely a suspect in some sense.
Since it depends upon the willingness of the woman to take the drug I don't consider that a technological solution. And I don't think I consider pregnancy a social problem. A personal problem if anything.
You could argue that pregnancy in under-educated, poverty stricken or unfit parent situations is a social problem, but if those were solved by pregnancy control drugs then why are the problems still around?
You can never solve a social problem with technological solutions. Social problems need social controls.
Hack your iPad: 1 week detention. Second time: 1 week suspension. Do it again: expulsion.
There is no way to keep kids from writing on the walls (prohibit markers?), drawing profanity on white boards (lock them behind glass?) or any sort of vandalism. Pass the rules, publicize the first few detentions, suspensions or expulsions and the problem will all but go away in two weeks. Sure there will be sporadic incidents but not district-wide bypasses as the article speaks to,
I was playing flight sims on my Quadra 900 in the late 80s/early 90s with 4 displays. The resolutions and detail may be higher today, but I never had any issues or failures of the system. FA/18 Hornet was my favorite.
And the iPhone's weren't logging GPS data, they were caching the locations of cell towers and wifi stations in the immediate area.
A 7 year old was arrested for terroristic actions after tossing an airplane across the classroom and it hit the wall, knocking a "teacher of the year" plaque slightly askew. The stunt reportedly tossed the airplane without any reaction from classmates. When one of the students relayed the story to her parents they decided to call the police to warn of the anti-social behavior. When asked, Police Chief Marny Logan said "We had to take it seriously, you never when he'll switch from paper airplanes to real ones. We can't teach kids that it is okay to fly aircraft in to buildings."
In other news: using chalk to draw in the street is found to increase the risk of future graffiti crime by 43%. Children who stick objects in their nose will one day use a straw and accidentally snort cocaine.
Well, we still have three arms of government. But yes, the framers of the Constitution would have little to no recognition of their work in examining todays US Federal government. It has been the case for at least 60 years now.
Sorry but I disagree.
For proper balance of powers the Constitution made the president Commander in Chief, but Congress decides when the President can invade other countries.
Until the Congressional authorization of use of force the President handle the military in any way authorized by law. When the President wants to deploy in to sovereign soil for hostile reasons the People must allow for such action via "their voice" of Congress.
If the US were being attacked, that would be a different story. But sorry, the President is not a king and unilateral actions are not what the Constitution describes.
As for your comment about impeaching: I don't think you know what that means. To impeach a sitting President is simply for the House to send the President to trial in the Senate for violating a law specifically "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" as written in the Constitution. If, as you state, the President does not need any authorization to invade other nations then there is no cause for impeachment.
Once impeached the Congress MAY vote to eject the person in office from the seat of President or take some other censure. Impeachment and removal from office are not synonymous.
US troops going in to another sovereign nation without a declaration of war by the Congress.
Remind me again why we even claim to have a constitution.
If you don't like the NRA, why don't you join it(along with about 5 million of your anti-NRA friends) and continually vote to disband the origination or change it's policies??
Any basic research will show that there is a >90% relapse rate for AA and NA participants. The relapse rate is about the same for self-recovery and almost any non-medical program.
The only ones who talk about the "success" of AA are those who have financial reasons or religious reasons to promote it.
If the NCAA endorsed and has a licensing deal with EA then all the NCAA has to do is change the contract with the players: You agree that EA may use you likeness and personal statistics for the purposes of creating video game characters.
Boom: you want to play NCAA basketball, you have to agree to this. Don't agree? don't play.
Chevette is probably pushing things, as the argument wasn't about new vs antiquated, but different options of new and modern. So go ahead and put a Toyota V6 in the Ferrari. Most drivers wont notice the difference. In day to day use I doubt even Ferarri owners stomp on the pedal and do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds very much. I regularly see people driving exotic cars: Bentley, Aston Martin, Ferrari, etc. And they drive them just the same as every other car on the road just plugging along with traffic.
So yes... 98% of the time I bet, if you could mimic the V12's sound, the Ferarri owner would not notice the downgrade to a smaller engine.
All fine points except for the "someone lurking right by the door to attack you."
Familiarity breeds complacency. If you were to come home and walk around to your door and the security lights didn't come on, what would you do:
1. Call 911 while removing your self from the area?
2. Ready a weapon and flashlight then security sweep your entire property?
3. Continue along in the dark and open your door anyway?
I'd bet most people would do #3 figuring the light had simply malfunctioned and not even consider that an attacker may have disabled it to gain surprise.
You should inform your landlord that motion sensor lights, and lights in general, do little to deter crime. When you provide lighting it means the criminal doesn't have to use a suspicious flashlight and draw attention to themselves.
To take it to the extreme: if lighting prevented crime then NYC and Paris would be the least crime ridden cities in the world.
Low voltage, perhaps solar/battery powered, lighting in the areas you need it would be best. Point lights, such as spots and floods, are annoying and wasteful as they need to send light from the single point outward across a distance with enough intensity for it to reflect back to your eyes which are dilated to accommodate the very bright light in the foreground which blinds you. Lower wattage lighting distributed around the area you wish to illuminate provides a much more usable light at lower intensity and dispersion levels.
You'd be VERY surprised what a few strings of LED solar yard lights will to to light up your yard completely, but not annoy your neighbors.
Certainly not Rock and Roll
"...the rules automatically change."
You need to cite the law that says they change. Until and unless there is a sign or a law that ends the "residents only" parking area the area continues. You blindly assuming the opposite and ranting about it does not make your assumption correct.
Find the law/ordinance that states your case then show it to the parking enforcement agent and their manager/supervisor.
I see a slander suit in his future. Someone puts me on a list of "dangerous guns or owners" and I'll sue. Neither my gun nor I are any more dangerous than any other object or person.
In fact, you are infinitely more likely to be run over by a dangerous car or driver while you geotag my residence.
A will be sued for the data about who made the geotag and he will be sued as a co-conspiritor to spread slander. This app has a very short life. All simply due to the wording chosen to describe the functionality.
I now understand... you are making shit up and have no idea what you're talking about.
Ok, I'll leave now.
It isn't the "progressives" that mandated e-verify, that was all conservatives trying to keep the brown people from working and voting.
And if the progressives had their way and there with universal health care (instead of the republican RomneyCare plan) then the hiring and firing employees would be that much simpler; a whole category of paperwork and costs... gone.
Stop doing things that seem illegal or immoral to your employees. Stop lying. Stop cheating. Stop cowering behind secret courts.
As people say about the data collected by the NSA: if you haven't done anything wrong then you have nothing to hide. The NSA was hiding this program because they knew it was wrong.
No. It. Is. Not.
You NEVER store as much energy in a battery as you took to charge it. Batteries and their chargers dissipate heat and sound as they charge.
You NEVER get 100% retention in a battery, they always self discharge.
You NEVER get 100% of the energy stored in a battery back out. There is, again, heat loss, electromagnetic fields generated, etc.
Entropy is a bitch and a greedy one at that.
Fossil fuel engines could probably be 30% more efficient today if we would apply to them the same incentives to research and development as we do to electrics.
Why are there few to no diesel electric hybrids on the road, or even in manufacture. It is simply the most efficient road-safe system we have today; used in trains and ships and cranes and all manner of large machinery.
Time to "refuel" an all electric vehicle: an hour at best. Range: 200 miles
Time to refuel most cars: 3 minutes. Range: 700 miles (in my Golf TDI at least)
None of the efficiency you think you get, you actually have with an electric.