If you have the guts to condemn someone to die, I think you should also have the guts to execute that penalty.
It takes the capability to use reason and logic to determine if you have enough evidence to be convinced someone violated a law, not courage. Why should the jury be dragged further into it, and not the prosecutor or the judge? There are plenty of other better methods to chose the executioner. How about:
-Someone from the victims family. Probably wouldn't be hard to find one willing to do it, if not eager. Not a good option if the condemned and the victim are related. Would also introduce a revenge factor, for pro or con.
-The condemned persons parents. This would increase the deterrent factor. Use another authority figure from their lives if the parents aren't available.
-Hold a lottery, proceeds to the victims family. For high profile cases or particularly nasty crimes you could probably sell a lot of tickets.
Now there are four examples of methods to choose the executioner that are worse than the system we have now. Using the jury for the job still seems the poorest choice.
By the same logic, California has an illegal restraint of trade against any state that manufactures certain firearms and firearm accessories, and most states would have an illegal restraint of trade against Colorado by not allowing CO pot growers to sell there.
No, you're confusing the product versus the method of sale. Pot is illegal to own in most states, regardless of how it was obtained. Same for certain firearms. Teslas are not illegal to own in Texas (yet). They just want to make sure their local middleman gets a nice payoff when you buy one.
It still may be illegal restraint of trade, but these examples don't demonstrate how.
They will (initially) remove "about half" of the MAC address. I'm guessing they will be removing the first half, which only identifies the manufacturer. Practically this does almost nothing to reduce the ability to uniquely identify cars. If they remove more bytes it would reduce this ability without much reduction to their ability to monitor traffic flow..
Do you have access to MATLAB or a similar analysis tool? Many universities have licenses, and overall it seems like it might be a good choice for you. These programs usually have a lot of build-in functionality that will be difficult to reproduce if you are not an experienced scientific programmer.
I haven't done ANY programming in about 12 years, so it would almost be like starting from scratch.
This is probably a bigger problem than choosing which language to use. If you don't know how to program properly and efficiently, it doesn't matter which language you choose. If you go this route I'd suggest taking a course to refresh or upgrade your skills. Since you're familiar with C that might be a good language to focus on in the course. Another factor is if you have to work with any existing libraries it might limit your choices. I program in C, FORTRAN, and VB and find that for computationally intensive programs C is usually the best fit, sometimes FORTRAN, and never VB.
So logically he wouldn't oppose women past child-bearing age from driving? Or has he spouted some other nuttiness to justify keeping them from driving?
These comparisons are ridiculous- how can we know the amount of water indicated without knowing which gym we're taking it to, or what kind of workout we'll be doing? Is it aerobics? Weightlifting? Spin class? Are we just pretending to work out while ogling attractive people? Treadmill? We would need different amounts of water for each of these! Please provide information in units we can actually use.
Many keyboards have a space between the Esc and F1 keys. I heard somewhere that to allow for adding undetermined capabilities later, they originally wanted to add another key in that space. As it would be for undetermined functionality, and to keep with the naming scheme of the other function keys, this key was to be labelled "FU". While the actual key was never adopted, it's spirit has lived on in every release of Windows.
Are there no signs along this route indicating that driving further is a bad idea? Are there no visual cues that they're not crossing a normal road? While Apple should take some of the blame for this, the primary blame has to go to idiot drivers. "Because my phone told me to" is not an excuse for doing stupid things.
All of which are great if code is to be maintained, which this type of code rarely is.
Not always true, probably not by a long shot. I'm maintaining code written over a span of time beginning in the 1980's (not by me) and last updated yesterday (and again as soon as I'm done here...). Some written very well, some quite the opposite. Not often is scientific code used for just one project, if it's of any significant utility.
I often see police officers typing on their laptops or talking on their cell phones while driving (and not 'driving at a red light'). Surely some enterprising victim wouldn't be too challenged to get pictures of Officer Myers or some of his colleagues doing the same. The law for us is the same law as for them, isn't it? At least theoretically?
I have no problem with people who are actually texting while pretending to drive getting tickets. But giving people sitting at a red light tickets does nothing to improve public safety, it only serves to rack up fines.
I do have to say that compared to a dedicated GPS, cell phones overall suck at the job. I've tried several GPS apps on my phone, and none were anywhere near as good at the job as my Garmin. Even the ones that almost did an acceptable job required more work (amount of tapping, time eyes on the screen instead of the road). But sitting at a red light is the appropriate time to be doing that.
I've thought about setting up a second, sock-puppet account with which to argue with myself, but haven't yet, either due to laziness or a general lack of self-interest...
Or are you afraid that the sock-puppet account will get moderated more favorably than your original account?
If we start filtering that water over by their nukes, we can create a number of batteries that can provide power for mars and the moon.
Except we don't want our first probe to make contact with an alien civilization to be powered by radioactive sea bass. There's just no good explanation for that.
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If you have the guts to condemn someone to die, I think you should also have the guts to execute that penalty.
It takes the capability to use reason and logic to determine if you have enough evidence to be convinced someone violated a law, not courage. Why should the jury be dragged further into it, and not the prosecutor or the judge? There are plenty of other better methods to chose the executioner. How about:
-Someone from the victims family. Probably wouldn't be hard to find one willing to do it, if not eager. Not a good option if the condemned and the victim are related. Would also introduce a revenge factor, for pro or con.
-The condemned persons parents. This would increase the deterrent factor. Use another authority figure from their lives if the parents aren't available.
-Hold a lottery, proceeds to the victims family. For high profile cases or particularly nasty crimes you could probably sell a lot of tickets.
Now there are four examples of methods to choose the executioner that are worse than the system we have now. Using the jury for the job still seems the poorest choice.
We don't have room in the prisons for murderers because they're already filled with non-violent offenders.
For many drivers, this would be most effective if the helmets covered their eyes to the extent that they couldn't see well enough to find their car.
By the same logic, California has an illegal restraint of trade against any state that manufactures certain firearms and firearm accessories, and most states would have an illegal restraint of trade against Colorado by not allowing CO pot growers to sell there.
No, you're confusing the product versus the method of sale. Pot is illegal to own in most states, regardless of how it was obtained. Same for certain firearms. Teslas are not illegal to own in Texas (yet). They just want to make sure their local middleman gets a nice payoff when you buy one.
It still may be illegal restraint of trade, but these examples don't demonstrate how.
Wasn't Saturn a direct-sales manufacturer before the failure and GM buyout?
No. It was just another nameplate like Pontiac or Oldsmobile, but with more independent management or more design freedom- don't recall the details.
How did they sell cars in Texas, or did they?
At regular dealers, like every other GM brand.
They will (initially) remove "about half" of the MAC address. I'm guessing they will be removing the first half, which only identifies the manufacturer. Practically this does almost nothing to reduce the ability to uniquely identify cars. If they remove more bytes it would reduce this ability without much reduction to their ability to monitor traffic flow..
Do you have access to MATLAB or a similar analysis tool? Many universities have licenses, and overall it seems like it might be a good choice for you. These programs usually have a lot of build-in functionality that will be difficult to reproduce if you are not an experienced scientific programmer.
I haven't done ANY programming in about 12 years, so it would almost be like starting from scratch.
This is probably a bigger problem than choosing which language to use. If you don't know how to program properly and efficiently, it doesn't matter which language you choose. If you go this route I'd suggest taking a course to refresh or upgrade your skills. Since you're familiar with C that might be a good language to focus on in the course. Another factor is if you have to work with any existing libraries it might limit your choices. I program in C, FORTRAN, and VB and find that for computationally intensive programs C is usually the best fit, sometimes FORTRAN, and never VB.
So logically he wouldn't oppose women past child-bearing age from driving? Or has he spouted some other nuttiness to justify keeping them from driving?
I generously offer as the first plant to go to Mars a sample of the very hardy crabgrass found in my yard. I'm sure it will do fine there.
water bottles like you'd take to the gym
These comparisons are ridiculous- how can we know the amount of water indicated without knowing which gym we're taking it to, or what kind of workout we'll be doing? Is it aerobics? Weightlifting? Spin class? Are we just pretending to work out while ogling attractive people? Treadmill? We would need different amounts of water for each of these! Please provide information in units we can actually use.
But people who type properly use both shift keys.
Many keyboards have a space between the Esc and F1 keys. I heard somewhere that to allow for adding undetermined capabilities later, they originally wanted to add another key in that space. As it would be for undetermined functionality, and to keep with the naming scheme of the other function keys, this key was to be labelled "FU". While the actual key was never adopted, it's spirit has lived on in every release of Windows.
I'm just glad we didn't have to do something like Ctrl + Alt + Del + F6 + Esc + (number pad) Enter for the same functionality.
Are there no signs along this route indicating that driving further is a bad idea? Are there no visual cues that they're not crossing a normal road? While Apple should take some of the blame for this, the primary blame has to go to idiot drivers. "Because my phone told me to" is not an excuse for doing stupid things.
I wonder how long it will be before armed 'security' teams from DEA and DHHS get in a firefight over medical records.
All of which are great if code is to be maintained, which this type of code rarely is.
Not always true, probably not by a long shot. I'm maintaining code written over a span of time beginning in the 1980's (not by me) and last updated yesterday (and again as soon as I'm done here...). Some written very well, some quite the opposite. Not often is scientific code used for just one project, if it's of any significant utility.
I often see police officers typing on their laptops or talking on their cell phones while driving (and not 'driving at a red light'). Surely some enterprising victim wouldn't be too challenged to get pictures of Officer Myers or some of his colleagues doing the same. The law for us is the same law as for them, isn't it? At least theoretically?
I have no problem with people who are actually texting while pretending to drive getting tickets. But giving people sitting at a red light tickets does nothing to improve public safety, it only serves to rack up fines.
I do have to say that compared to a dedicated GPS, cell phones overall suck at the job. I've tried several GPS apps on my phone, and none were anywhere near as good at the job as my Garmin. Even the ones that almost did an acceptable job required more work (amount of tapping, time eyes on the screen instead of the road). But sitting at a red light is the appropriate time to be doing that.
I've thought about setting up a second, sock-puppet account with which to argue with myself, but haven't yet, either due to laziness or a general lack of self-interest...
Or are you afraid that the sock-puppet account will get moderated more favorably than your original account?
If we start filtering that water over by their nukes, we can create a number of batteries that can provide power for mars and the moon.
Except we don't want our first probe to make contact with an alien civilization to be powered by radioactive sea bass. There's just no good explanation for that.
Reaction to threats is simply "if a shadow rapidly gets larger then fly away towards a bright patch of light."
So that's what I've been doing wrong. Next time I have to swat a fly I'll use a flashlight.
No, but you will soon be seeing many ads for defense attorneys...
Maybe they could just pay a Bitcoin every time they callously trample someone's rights?
And you think they need a lot of computing power now...
They have the technology, but it's limited to write-only drives.
Well, I have two excuses for this 'idiocy':
1) English is not my first language
2) I was writing that text in the middle of the night (local time for me)
Don't forget:
3) I was distracted by the helicopter circling above.
Johnw should have not been so rude in pointing out your mistake, so that you would remember the lesson and not just his poor attitude.
It's made out of the black Pringles can, not the red.
I would start with Ringworld and go where you will from there.