This. I always laugh when people talk about how high European tax rates are compared to the US. If we count all of our taxes, and not just the federal rate, and we cat get competitive on high rates quickly.
I think you meant that we will pay more during peak hours and the same during off hours. There is no way the utilities will use this to lower their revenues.
are you kidding ? the free market has already solved this one. It is just unfortunate that the solution involves kidnapping and ransoms. The market has set a price and balance between insurance premiums, the amount of ransom to be paid, and the costs imposed on the goods being transported. The invisible hand has even assisted the Somali fishermen in their wish to feed their families.
The free market has no morals or emotional ties, so it doesnt see the inconveniences. If you really want to stop piracy, put the owners of the shipping companies and the insurance agencies on the boats that are getting taken. When they have a different view of the situation than just the dollars involved then they will begin to alter their markets in ways that dont allow the current situation to remain.
a real nerd would calculate the speed of the top book in the stack relative to the bodies it would pass on the way, given that the stack is in a static location on earth.
It seems a lot of Packt reviews mention the facts that you mention... the information is often available already, and is just reformatting and pretending that there is new information being published. I was just being cynical because the usual gaps weren't mentioned and the rating was just too high for me to believe.
yup, the splash ad to start, then the giant scroll down ad... both of which I clicked close before I saw who was being advertised. Then , select the print link to place all the content in one place. Done. You dont need to click through 7 or 8 times, but 3 if you know what to expect is still a bit much.
I think the enormous record breaking profits being seen is due more to the absurd amount of gas being purchased. The oil companies only need to make a few pennies a gallon for these numbers to occur. If you are just going to try to punish the giant profits, then they will just break into many shell companies that are still making the same gross, just assigning the numbers to different accounts.
Yes, but to date it is not worth worrying about. The fraction of vehicles that fit that mold are miniscule.
I am kind of glad that this is getting consideration before it becomes mandatory. It is refreshing that government is trying to solve a future problem, instead of having it sneak up on them, and then there are years of impact due to lack of planning and foresight.
Now, I do think this is totally ass-backwards. I propose getting people to drive less by making better public transit, restricting number of parking spaces, and letting the roads fall apart.
yes, vindictive drivers like me, who prefer that other drivers a) maintain their lane, and b) not drive while drunk and on so many pills that they forget to pay attention to the line in the middle of the road. This guy was basically committing suicide at someone else's hands, and nearly killed many someones in the process.
A 60 mph head on crash is never going to come out pretty , but she did have the advantage of size, weight, and height, and reducing her speed only gave her more chance of the car being brought to a stop or moved backwards... your energy comparison is correct, but the soft blob of brain floating around inside a soft blob of person prefers to not have huge instantaneous changes in direction... Continuing forward and then dealing with the next smaller crash would be best in the circumstances of who actually screwed up to cause the situation, and the given size differences in play. No one ever will be able to tell if this guy was killing himself on purpose and targeted the largest thing on the road, or if he was just so high he blanked out and had no ability to control the car he was in, which at the very worst makes him a criminal with no regard for others lives.
Does this make me vindictive, yes it does... watch... I am glad that fucker is dead. You think I am advocating head on collisions, which I am not , I am advocating the survival of people not responsible for causing the situation .
leather... i have kids, who spill stuff... an leather wipes clean easily,as opposed to cloth which smells like fermenting yogurt for months heated seats... because they are leather, and I only heat them when they are cold. Once they are warm, i use the handy "off" feature sound... mine is an amplified Bose system, not great, but good enough. Some cars come with horribly altered radio housings that can fit aftermarket heads Air conditioning.. well, i live in Atlanta, there are very few people who think AC is optional here. power locks... interesting you find that a necessity, having "power" in the description doesnt make them stronger. just push down the manual ones and the door stays locked .
I would only agree with you that features are a personal choice. You have your requests, I have mine. The car companies figure out a status quo and build to sell the most cars. I would like to have the high end features, internal amenities and large suspension components with a smaller engine. unfortunately there are not enough people like me that want fuel efficiency, comfort, and safety in the same car. when you upgrade one, you upgrade them all. Now, if i were willing to pay an enormous premium then I am sure that someone would build me the car I want. I would never make up the cost difference by using less fuel however.
This brings up an interesting point. My sister was in a wreck where someone drove head on into her. She knew that she had no place to swerve off of the road to do the design of the road. She was thankfully in a much larger vehicle, and one of her worst injuries was a broken heel from hitting the brakes so hard ( go go adrenalin ). I told her that her best option would have been hitting the gas, that creating more inertia would have been the safest option for her ( the other drivers car folded like an accordian anyhow, there was no way he was going to survive this wreck ).
Now to my point... any corporation that is responsible for the safest type of response algorithm here is going to get sued into oblivion. If the car takes the choice that is most likely to kill me ( driving into the ditch) instead of one that will possibly seriously injure, or in this case kill, the other driver, then I dont want it. If the car is going to make the correct choice for me, then the manufacturers are out of business.
The first act by this intelligent car network will be to eradicate all forms of life that may interfere with the efficient operation of the roads. Who knew skynet really only started as a means to get to work on time?
totally agree. My first thought was the warranty will never be honored, which is quickly followed by "why should I burn my money on their shitty stuff?"
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This. I always laugh when people talk about how high European tax rates are compared to the US. If we count all of our taxes, and not just the federal rate, and we cat get competitive on high rates quickly.
I guess they wouldnt like it if you explained that you preferred for a woman to hold your penis . I would opt out of the xray for a handjob too!
That is a lot of beer
TEN dollars at the DOLLAR store??? what a rip off
actually, the Disney capability of running trademarks and copyrights forever, and purchasing laws to enable this is standard slashdot fare.
hell, they didnt even walk me to the door!
I think you meant that we will pay more during peak hours and the same during off hours. There is no way the utilities will use this to lower their revenues.
are you kidding ? the free market has already solved this one. It is just unfortunate that the solution involves kidnapping and ransoms. The market has set a price and balance between insurance premiums, the amount of ransom to be paid, and the costs imposed on the goods being transported. The invisible hand has even assisted the Somali fishermen in their wish to feed their families.
The free market has no morals or emotional ties, so it doesnt see the inconveniences. If you really want to stop piracy, put the owners of the shipping companies and the insurance agencies on the boats that are getting taken. When they have a different view of the situation than just the dollars involved then they will begin to alter their markets in ways that dont allow the current situation to remain.
good, almost half way done then
a real nerd would calculate the speed of the top book in the stack relative to the bodies it would pass on the way, given that the stack is in a static location on earth.
we can just place copies of flatland or war and peace in the stack to cover the variations.
It seems a lot of Packt reviews mention the facts that you mention ... the information is often available already, and is just reformatting and pretending that there is new information being published. I was just being cynical because the usual gaps weren't mentioned and the rating was just too high for me to believe.
The review was probably written and edited by the morons at Packt, therefore most useful information is overlooked.
yup, the splash ad to start, then the giant scroll down ad... both of which I clicked close before I saw who was being advertised. Then , select the print link to place all the content in one place. Done. You dont need to click through 7 or 8 times, but 3 if you know what to expect is still a bit much.
this cant be possible, the mountains are still standing in pakistan and afghanistan.
I think the enormous record breaking profits being seen is due more to the absurd amount of gas being purchased. The oil companies only need to make a few pennies a gallon for these numbers to occur. If you are just going to try to punish the giant profits, then they will just break into many shell companies that are still making the same gross, just assigning the numbers to different accounts.
Yes, but to date it is not worth worrying about. The fraction of vehicles that fit that mold are miniscule.
I am kind of glad that this is getting consideration before it becomes mandatory. It is refreshing that government is trying to solve a future problem, instead of having it sneak up on them, and then there are years of impact due to lack of planning and foresight.
Now, I do think this is totally ass-backwards. I propose getting people to drive less by making better public transit, restricting number of parking spaces, and letting the roads fall apart.
I always hide information in a file called README. No one ever looks in there.
no, it would look more like this ...
innocent lythe airs her versed rhyme to theatre and slay shun, right?
yes, vindictive drivers like me, who prefer that other drivers a) maintain their lane, and b) not drive while drunk and on so many pills that they forget to pay attention to the line in the middle of the road. This guy was basically committing suicide at someone else's hands, and nearly killed many someones in the process.
A 60 mph head on crash is never going to come out pretty , but she did have the advantage of size, weight, and height, and reducing her speed only gave her more chance of the car being brought to a stop or moved backwards... your energy comparison is correct, but the soft blob of brain floating around inside a soft blob of person prefers to not have huge instantaneous changes in direction... Continuing forward and then dealing with the next smaller crash would be best in the circumstances of who actually screwed up to cause the situation, and the given size differences in play. No one ever will be able to tell if this guy was killing himself on purpose and targeted the largest thing on the road, or if he was just so high he blanked out and had no ability to control the car he was in, which at the very worst makes him a criminal with no regard for others lives.
Does this make me vindictive, yes it does ... watch ... I am glad that fucker is dead.
You think I am advocating head on collisions, which I am not , I am advocating the survival of people not responsible for causing the situation .
Well, New Hampshire's motto is live free or die. There are a lot more dead people than are currently living free in NH.
leather ... i have kids, who spill stuff... an leather wipes clean easily ,as opposed to cloth which smells like fermenting yogurt for months ... mine is an amplified Bose system, not great, but good enough. Some cars come with horribly altered radio housings that can fit aftermarket heads .. well, i live in Atlanta, there are very few people who think AC is optional here. ... interesting you find that a necessity, having "power" in the description doesnt make them stronger. just push down the manual ones and the door stays locked .
heated seats... because they are leather, and I only heat them when they are cold. Once they are warm, i use the handy "off" feature
sound
Air conditioning
power locks
I would only agree with you that features are a personal choice. You have your requests, I have mine. The car companies figure out a status quo and build to sell the most cars. I would like to have the high end features, internal amenities and large suspension components with a smaller engine. unfortunately there are not enough people like me that want fuel efficiency, comfort, and safety in the same car. when you upgrade one, you upgrade them all. Now, if i were willing to pay an enormous premium then I am sure that someone would build me the car I want. I would never make up the cost difference by using less fuel however.
This brings up an interesting point. My sister was in a wreck where someone drove head on into her. She knew that she had no place to swerve off of the road to do the design of the road. She was thankfully in a much larger vehicle, and one of her worst injuries was a broken heel from hitting the brakes so hard ( go go adrenalin ). I told her that her best option would have been hitting the gas, that creating more inertia would have been the safest option for her ( the other drivers car folded like an accordian anyhow, there was no way he was going to survive this wreck ).
Now to my point... any corporation that is responsible for the safest type of response algorithm here is going to get sued into oblivion. If the car takes the choice that is most likely to kill me ( driving into the ditch) instead of one that will possibly seriously injure, or in this case kill, the other driver, then I dont want it. If the car is going to make the correct choice for me, then the manufacturers are out of business.
The first act by this intelligent car network will be to eradicate all forms of life that may interfere with the efficient operation of the roads. Who knew skynet really only started as a means to get to work on time?
totally agree. My first thought was the warranty will never be honored, which is quickly followed by "why should I burn my money on their shitty stuff?"