Part of the problem is that most headlamps aren't aimed any more, but more of it has to do with the ridiculously large SUVs people are driving, that put the headlights higher and higher off the ground. Not to mention the modified lifted pickups that put the headlights even higher, and often lift the bumper well above legal limits so in a collision it will ride right over the hood or trunk of whatever they hit. I'm convinced that equipment rules need to be revisited and actually enforced, for public safety.
Also, many of those oversized SUVs ought to have stricter licensing requirements, but that is another rant.
I have only had the USPS lose one package that I can recall. Tracking showed that it made it to Houston, but never left the sorting center. Amazon refunded my money. At least with USPS deliveries, I can expect a specific time each day when they might come in. Fed-Ex delivered a box just last friday, after 10pm.
And yet those last few miles are still profitable to the subcontractors. Sounds like a management/organizational issue more than a "can't make it work" issue.
It looks like in this case "our whole security system was the weakest link."
Or maybe "Our whole security system was their security system, which was the weakest link."
The question usually is more like "is this compatible with the microsoft products we have already, and that everyone else is using?"
Governments should require that whatever software they use make use of open-standard file formats. Specifying a proprietary file format is just giving away another monopoly, and tacitly accepting one is barely a notch less evil.
If you are rotating batteries, you might even want to write down the date you last charged it. Some batteries self-discharge pretty fast, so a technician might find that information real handy.
The courts have disagreed with your assertion and effectively neutered the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments when it comes to air travel.
Look up "implied consent."
And apparently, "border checkpoints in depth", which means roadside scanners anywhere within 100 miles of a sea or land border (essentially covers most of US population,) which is the subject of this article. And regarding the airport scanners: those don't meet medical safety standards, either, and you are prohibited from getting information - being informed is a key component of consent. Implied consent can't be uninformed consent.
Our only hope is that the agents who do this and don't blow the whistle/refuse on moral grounds are the first to get cancer. When I have seen these vans, the ICE agents are usually standing nearby directing cars through the checkpoint - although they all seem to be wearing vests, and not all of it looks like body armor.
This company seems pretty proud to brag about all its DHS users. I've gone by one of these vans a few times. This whole situation is insulting. Some company profits, citizens exposed to unspecified risk by their own government, government claims it is doing us a favor by funneling our money to the company and irradiating us. Experimenting on unconsenting people with untested technology violates all sorts of ethics rules - and in the past, would have been quite criminal.
The 911 commission recommended creation of a unified department for security, but did it recommend these actions that have come to represent the DHS? I wonder if a "9/11/11" commission is needed, to check on our implementation/interpretation of the original findings, and see just how far off base (and how useless) the DHS has gone.
Why not talk about the elephant in the room? I expect noise and fume pollution from cars and lorries to be an order of magnitude (or two) more significant to subjective air quality generally than any nuclear reactor.
Electric cars will solve both of those issues, and at least give country-like air and a strange, wonderful relative silence to busy cities. That'll be a time worth living for.
Until the advocates for blind/iPad-distracted pedestrians require all cars to have noisemakers simulating normal engine noises. Then your noise pollution will just keep going up. And the light pollution - we will need bigger and brighter street lights, for no apparent reason.
Guess what the largest nuclear reactor in the solar system is. I'll give you a hint: it emits more radiation than your microwave*, to every square meter of half the planet, all day long.
*assuming you own a consumer-grade, 1400 watt microwave
So you are saying that if there are no more windows, it isn't really Windows any more? I think they've long since moved Windows from being a descriptor to being a meaningless trademark. Kind of like how KFC no longer stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken - the official legal name of the company is 3 letters.
The government is probably going to argue that since they aren't using evidence obtained illegally for actual criminal prosecutions, they don't need a warrant. Sad, that anybody thinks anybody should buy that argument.
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100 is old news. LEDs that get 160 Lumens per watt are already available. LED efficiency improves all the time.
Or aimed properly. At the road, rather than at other driver's eye level.
Part of the problem is that most headlamps aren't aimed any more, but more of it has to do with the ridiculously large SUVs people are driving, that put the headlights higher and higher off the ground. Not to mention the modified lifted pickups that put the headlights even higher, and often lift the bumper well above legal limits so in a collision it will ride right over the hood or trunk of whatever they hit. I'm convinced that equipment rules need to be revisited and actually enforced, for public safety.
Also, many of those oversized SUVs ought to have stricter licensing requirements, but that is another rant.
So, less work than installing aftermarket headlamps that are too bright, aimed wrong, and miscolored, the way people do currently?
I have only had the USPS lose one package that I can recall. Tracking showed that it made it to Houston, but never left the sorting center. Amazon refunded my money. At least with USPS deliveries, I can expect a specific time each day when they might come in. Fed-Ex delivered a box just last friday, after 10pm.
And yet those last few miles are still profitable to the subcontractors. Sounds like a management/organizational issue more than a "can't make it work" issue.
It looks like in this case "our whole security system was the weakest link."
Or maybe "Our whole security system was their security system, which was the weakest link."
The question usually is more like "is this compatible with the microsoft products we have already, and that everyone else is using?"
Governments should require that whatever software they use make use of open-standard file formats. Specifying a proprietary file format is just giving away another monopoly, and tacitly accepting one is barely a notch less evil.
Firing a tanks main gun is not generally conducive to stealth.
It is the abnormal geometry that would probably be the worst part.
If you are rotating batteries, you might even want to write down the date you last charged it. Some batteries self-discharge pretty fast, so a technician might find that information real handy.
"but they were all bad."
The courts have disagreed with your assertion and effectively neutered the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments when it comes to air travel.
Look up "implied consent."
And apparently, "border checkpoints in depth", which means roadside scanners anywhere within 100 miles of a sea or land border (essentially covers most of US population,) which is the subject of this article. And regarding the airport scanners: those don't meet medical safety standards, either, and you are prohibited from getting information - being informed is a key component of consent. Implied consent can't be uninformed consent.
"We guarantee to try to make sure it probably won't be terrorism that kills you!"
Oh, wait. That's how they're selling it to us here already.
Our only hope is that the agents who do this and don't blow the whistle/refuse on moral grounds are the first to get cancer. When I have seen these vans, the ICE agents are usually standing nearby directing cars through the checkpoint - although they all seem to be wearing vests, and not all of it looks like body armor.
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This company seems pretty proud to brag about all its DHS users. I've gone by one of these vans a few times. This whole situation is insulting. Some company profits, citizens exposed to unspecified risk by their own government, government claims it is doing us a favor by funneling our money to the company and irradiating us. Experimenting on unconsenting people with untested technology violates all sorts of ethics rules - and in the past, would have been quite criminal.
The 911 commission recommended creation of a unified department for security, but did it recommend these actions that have come to represent the DHS? I wonder if a "9/11/11" commission is needed, to check on our implementation/interpretation of the original findings, and see just how far off base (and how useless) the DHS has gone.
We irradiate meat to make it safer, so why not people?
We irradiate medical implements to make them more sterile. We irradiate meat to make it more sterile.
Why not talk about the elephant in the room? I expect noise and fume pollution from cars and lorries to be an order of magnitude (or two) more significant to subjective air quality generally than any nuclear reactor.
Electric cars will solve both of those issues, and at least give country-like air and a strange, wonderful relative silence to busy cities. That'll be a time worth living for.
Until the advocates for blind/iPad-distracted pedestrians require all cars to have noisemakers simulating normal engine noises. Then your noise pollution will just keep going up. And the light pollution - we will need bigger and brighter street lights, for no apparent reason.
Guess what the largest nuclear reactor in the solar system is. I'll give you a hint: it emits more radiation than your microwave*, to every square meter of half the planet, all day long.
*assuming you own a consumer-grade, 1400 watt microwave
So you are saying that if there are no more windows, it isn't really Windows any more? I think they've long since moved Windows from being a descriptor to being a meaningless trademark. Kind of like how KFC no longer stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken - the official legal name of the company is 3 letters.
I can predict lunar cycles and sunrise/sunset times with ridiculous accuracy. Does that make me retarded?
Nouns get verbed all the time.
And to really blow your mind: verb is a noun.
The government is probably going to argue that since they aren't using evidence obtained illegally for actual criminal prosecutions, they don't need a warrant. Sad, that anybody thinks anybody should buy that argument.
Since slavery is prohibited, does that mean corporations can't be traded? Or that they can't really be owned?