IANAL, but if you have their identity couldn't you sue them in small claims court? I'm assuming that they would be unlikely to show up, and you would get a default judgement. Then I think you could get a court order to have the sheriff (?) go and ransack their property to retrieve $XXX worth of stuff. Probably much more satisfying than just getting your $500 back.
No, that is not the solution. That will cause the loss of power steering and braking.
The car will stop. Also, you can shift it in to neutral. Might not be the best for the engine at high RPMs, but it'll do the trick.
Put the car in neutral with the engine on- this will allow you to maintain control of the vehicle while you stop it. Don't worry about the engine RPM's- the limiter should keep it at a safe RPM.
Seriously, I have trouble believing these "My car is stuck going fast and can't stop!" stories are anything other than failure to understand how to operate your vehicle.
Not just the driver- none of the police or dispatchers involved seem to have a clue either.
I think that if the response were not nuclear, it would be out of consideration to the proximity of China, Japan, South Korea, or the North Korean civilian population. But I would be surprised if there was even a single North Korean military target not destroyed within a day or two by conventional weapons, and it would absolutely be the end of North Korea as it is now.
I agree with what you say, but I think the mismatch in skill sets the article references is wider than going from C++ to C, or the normal training one might need at any new job. Don't forget this includes all of STEM- for example, a microbiologist isn't going to retrain and get a job as a civil engineer. STEM contains a huge range of jobs and skills. Even if mismatched skill sets wasn't an issue, there still seems to be more jobs than applicants overall.
The H1B system isn't perfect, and I've heard of other similar abuses too. The program could probably use some reform, suggestions have been mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. It should be used to fill in the gaps where there are no qualified applicants, not to flood the market and depress salaries.
Well yes, ideally, American workers should get jobs before foreign workers. But there is the problem of mismatched skill sets, as mentioned above. So should we forcibly re-train workers to match the available jobs, or should we force companies to create different jobs to match the available candidates?
I think what's happening is that the workers are seeking a job that matches their skills, which may take some time (I think 6 months is average in general, may be different for STEM workers). Location can also be a factor. Remember that the numbers are fluid- it's not the same 300k or 600k every week or month. Some of those people are finding jobs, and others are losing them, it's just the overall number that stays somewhat consistent. And even with all that, there's still many jobs left unfilled.
Agreed that maximizing profits of a multinational should be way down on the priority list.
I'm all for increasing STEM graduates in the USA. But according to this article there were 600,000 unfilled STEM jobs in the USA last year, and 300,000 unemployed STEM workers ("only one unemployed STEM worker for two unfilled STEM jobs throughout the country"- not finding one of those 600k jobs due to mismatched skill sets). This does include skilled blue-collar jobs. Even if a decent STEM education program were implemented now, and enough students entered it, it would be several years before they were ready to enter the workforce. Those jobs are there now. If there were a surplus of STEM workers in the USA, or even close to it, then there's no way we should be importing thousands of foreign STEM workers- but that doesn't seem to be the case.
According to the eminent Wikipedia, that's the LD50 (150 to 200 mg/kg). If you gave an average group of humans 10g of caffeine, half of them would die.
But you wouldn't know which ones for a few hours...
Just to the right of the text of the AP article (last link in summary), they have helpfully placed a link titled "Buy AP Photo Reprints". You may get your wish.
If that doesn't work, you could Skype the victims, posing as the prosecutor, and ask them to repeat the poses 'for evidence'.
So if I steal 1000 candy bars from 1000 drugstores does that mean I should be executed? How about a habitual j-walker? I guess I should be impressed with your humanity that you aren't also advocating torture. Americans in general are such enthusiastic executioners. I'm sure the introduction of death via torture would be even more popular and put smiles on so many faces.
Stealing a candy bar isn't a felony. If you were somehow convicted of stealing 1000 candy bars from 1000 drugstores you would probably get community service x 1000, just as this creepy guy is being charged with 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft- because he (allegedly) did it 15 times. Are you suggesting that after committing a crime once you should get a free pass on all subsequent similar crimes?
I don't think anybody (except maybe the victims families) has suggested he should be executed.
Habitual jaywalkers are more likely to get run over than arrested.
Except for a few things: They have no re-entry capability. They lack guidance is systems capable of hitting the intended target, unless your intended target is "anywhere on the continent (or nearby)". This answers your question. The satellite they launched weighs 1/10th the weight of the average nuclear warhead.
Her bones are that of a 10-year-old, her teeth are 6-years-old, her brain is less than a year old, Walker said.
If her brain age is any indicator, it seems the aging anomaly began earlier than 4 years old and the stroke/coma/tumor is not the cause of the lack of aging. It also seems that aging stopped at different times for different areas, not all at the same time.
They should mint the trillion dollar coin and put Ronald fucking Reagan's picture on it.
Would that be Ronald McDonald? Sounds like a weird fetish thing to me...
My idea for the coins- instead of one $1T coin, have 50 $20B coins, one for each state. On the front, a picture of each state's most senior Rep. or Senator, with the motto "This is partially my fault" and on the back a picture of the largest pork barrel project in each state.
By the way, today on Fox, one of the pundits said "Where are they going to find $1trillion in platinum?"
Wow. Even for Fox, wow. This actually hurts to read.
After the Second World War and the Nurenberg trials, a bunch of international lawyers (many of them Jewish, I'm proud to say) got together and wrote a set of international laws and agreements, including the Geneva conventions, which most countries signed, which would prevent acquisition of territory by force from ever happening again.
Just curious- does it specify any difference if the target of the attack manages to take land from the attacker (as in the case discussed here) vs the attacker taking land from the target? IANAL.
So now it violates international law. And Israel is violating international law.
What Israel's right-wing government is doing also violates basic intelligence. If you want your country to be safe and secure, don't make enemies of everybody in the world.
I think Israel's Arab neighbors disliked it well before Israel claimed this territory, and would continue to do so even if it was returned. Their dislike seems to stem from Israel existing in the first place. Israel seems to have fairly normal relations with the majority of countries in the world. Also, safety and security rarely result from just doing what's needed to be liked.
You saw how well that worked for Germany.
Hardly an apt comparison. Israel did not attack its neighbors in an attempt to take them over, resulting in two world wars. Israel was attacked by its neighbors, repulsed their attack, and took what they felt they needed to be secure. If their goal was acquisition of land it seems they could have taken much more.
Iran has funded and controlled terrorists in Argentina, Israel, India, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. Setting off bombs in another country, firing missiles randomly at another country's civilian population, and attacking military targets could all be considered acts of war, are far more serious attacks than a computer virus, and have been going on for far longer than Stuxnet has been around. If Stuxnet is the only payback Iran receives for what they've done, they're getting off very lightly.
The new high-end cables will come in two variants: a 'base' version using SmB6 costing merely twice as much as the current high end cable, and a 'high end' version using SmB7 to 'capture the extra bass' and 'significantly enhance the audio experience' or somesuch, and will only cost 4x as much as the current high end cable. Both variants will provide exactly the same sound quality as a generic $5 cable (or a $20 cable from Best Buy) to everyone except the person that paid for them.
What I'm waiting for is when Home Depot's competitor has a camera scanning the Home Depot parking lot and sending you a coupon for 15% off their store before you even walk into Home Depot.
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IANAL, but if you have their identity couldn't you sue them in small claims court? I'm assuming that they would be unlikely to show up, and you would get a default judgement. Then I think you could get a court order to have the sheriff (?) go and ransack their property to retrieve $XXX worth of stuff. Probably much more satisfying than just getting your $500 back.
Especially if they didn't also modify the ceiling above the remote pilots.
Turn it to "off" and the engine will lose power.
No, that is not the solution. That will cause the loss of power steering and braking.
The car will stop. Also, you can shift it in to neutral. Might not be the best for the engine at high RPMs, but it'll do the trick.
Put the car in neutral with the engine on- this will allow you to maintain control of the vehicle while you stop it. Don't worry about the engine RPM's- the limiter should keep it at a safe RPM.
Seriously, I have trouble believing these "My car is stuck going fast and can't stop!" stories are anything other than failure to understand how to operate your vehicle.
Not just the driver- none of the police or dispatchers involved seem to have a clue either.
When I see an unbiased third party do the test - like Consumer Reports or Motor Trend - then I'll take what has to be said seriously.
You may have made that comment sarcastically, but in case you didn't (and for those unfamiliar with the other tests):
From CR: Tesla Model S - The electric car that shatters every myth.
From Motor Trends: 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S.
While those two publications aren't perfect, they seem to have way more credibility than Broder.
I think that if the response were not nuclear, it would be out of consideration to the proximity of China, Japan, South Korea, or the North Korean civilian population. But I would be surprised if there was even a single North Korean military target not destroyed within a day or two by conventional weapons, and it would absolutely be the end of North Korea as it is now.
I agree with what you say, but I think the mismatch in skill sets the article references is wider than going from C++ to C, or the normal training one might need at any new job. Don't forget this includes all of STEM- for example, a microbiologist isn't going to retrain and get a job as a civil engineer. STEM contains a huge range of jobs and skills. Even if mismatched skill sets wasn't an issue, there still seems to be more jobs than applicants overall.
The H1B system isn't perfect, and I've heard of other similar abuses too. The program could probably use some reform, suggestions have been mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. It should be used to fill in the gaps where there are no qualified applicants, not to flood the market and depress salaries.
Well yes, ideally, American workers should get jobs before foreign workers. But there is the problem of mismatched skill sets, as mentioned above. So should we forcibly re-train workers to match the available jobs, or should we force companies to create different jobs to match the available candidates?
I think what's happening is that the workers are seeking a job that matches their skills, which may take some time (I think 6 months is average in general, may be different for STEM workers). Location can also be a factor. Remember that the numbers are fluid- it's not the same 300k or 600k every week or month. Some of those people are finding jobs, and others are losing them, it's just the overall number that stays somewhat consistent. And even with all that, there's still many jobs left unfilled.
Agreed that maximizing profits of a multinational should be way down on the priority list.
I'm all for increasing STEM graduates in the USA. But according to this article there were 600,000 unfilled STEM jobs in the USA last year, and 300,000 unemployed STEM workers ("only one unemployed STEM worker for two unfilled STEM jobs throughout the country"- not finding one of those 600k jobs due to mismatched skill sets). This does include skilled blue-collar jobs. Even if a decent STEM education program were implemented now, and enough students entered it, it would be several years before they were ready to enter the workforce. Those jobs are there now. If there were a surplus of STEM workers in the USA, or even close to it, then there's no way we should be importing thousands of foreign STEM workers- but that doesn't seem to be the case.
"This here grammar checks don’t work any." (MS Office says this are correct)
FTFY, MS style.
... in a hundred years it will be more amazing yet.
No, by then we should be done.
Or at least that's what some journalist on Mars will be saying...
According to the eminent Wikipedia, that's the LD50 (150 to 200 mg/kg).
If you gave an average group of humans 10g of caffeine, half of them would die.
But you wouldn't know which ones for a few hours...
Just to the right of the text of the AP article (last link in summary), they have helpfully placed a link titled "Buy AP Photo Reprints". You may get your wish.
If that doesn't work, you could Skype the victims, posing as the prosecutor, and ask them to repeat the poses 'for evidence'.
So if I steal 1000 candy bars from 1000 drugstores does that mean I should be executed? How about a habitual j-walker? I guess I should be impressed with your humanity that you aren't also advocating torture. Americans in general are such enthusiastic executioners. I'm sure the introduction of death via torture would be even more popular and put smiles on so many faces.
Stealing a candy bar isn't a felony. If you were somehow convicted of stealing 1000 candy bars from 1000 drugstores you would probably get community service x 1000, just as this creepy guy is being charged with 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft- because he (allegedly) did it 15 times. Are you suggesting that after committing a crime once you should get a free pass on all subsequent similar crimes?
I don't think anybody (except maybe the victims families) has suggested he should be executed.
Habitual jaywalkers are more likely to get run over than arrested.
Except for a few things:
They have no re-entry capability.
They lack guidance is systems capable of hitting the intended target, unless your intended target is "anywhere on the continent (or nearby)". This answers your question.
The satellite they launched weighs 1/10th the weight of the average nuclear warhead.
See this article for more detailed info.
From TFA:
Her bones are that of a 10-year-old, her teeth are 6-years-old, her brain is less than a year old, Walker said.
If her brain age is any indicator, it seems the aging anomaly began earlier than 4 years old and the stroke/coma/tumor is not the cause of the lack of aging. It also seems that aging stopped at different times for different areas, not all at the same time.
He's not underdeveloped, he just prefers using a diaper.
They should mint the trillion dollar coin and put Ronald fucking Reagan's picture on it.
Would that be Ronald McDonald? Sounds like a weird fetish thing to me...
My idea for the coins- instead of one $1T coin, have 50 $20B coins, one for each state. On the front, a picture of each state's most senior Rep. or Senator, with the motto "This is partially my fault" and on the back a picture of the largest pork barrel project in each state.
By the way, today on Fox, one of the pundits said "Where are they going to find $1trillion in platinum?"
Wow. Even for Fox, wow. This actually hurts to read.
That was then, this is now.
After the Second World War and the Nurenberg trials, a bunch of international lawyers (many of them Jewish, I'm proud to say) got together and wrote a set of international laws and agreements, including the Geneva conventions, which most countries signed, which would prevent acquisition of territory by force from ever happening again.
Just curious- does it specify any difference if the target of the attack manages to take land from the attacker (as in the case discussed here) vs the attacker taking land from the target? IANAL.
So now it violates international law. And Israel is violating international law.
What Israel's right-wing government is doing also violates basic intelligence. If you want your country to be safe and secure, don't make enemies of everybody in the world.
I think Israel's Arab neighbors disliked it well before Israel claimed this territory, and would continue to do so even if it was returned. Their dislike seems to stem from Israel existing in the first place. Israel seems to have fairly normal relations with the majority of countries in the world. Also, safety and security rarely result from just doing what's needed to be liked.
You saw how well that worked for Germany.
Hardly an apt comparison. Israel did not attack its neighbors in an attempt to take them over, resulting in two world wars. Israel was attacked by its neighbors, repulsed their attack, and took what they felt they needed to be secure. If their goal was acquisition of land it seems they could have taken much more.
Iran has funded and controlled terrorists in Argentina, Israel, India, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. Setting off bombs in another country, firing missiles randomly at another country's civilian population, and attacking military targets could all be considered acts of war, are far more serious attacks than a computer virus, and have been going on for far longer than Stuxnet has been around. If Stuxnet is the only payback Iran receives for what they've done, they're getting off very lightly.
This explains why I saw a bunch of Apple maps jokes in the previous story!
It took them that long to generate an acceptable acronym.
They should have beat her with billy clubs? Still seems harsh.
If the police couldn't either de-escalate the situation or take her into custody without violence, then they aren't very good at their job.
The new high-end cables will come in two variants: a 'base' version using SmB6 costing merely twice as much as the current high end cable, and a 'high end' version using SmB7 to 'capture the extra bass' and 'significantly enhance the audio experience' or somesuch, and will only cost 4x as much as the current high end cable. Both variants will provide exactly the same sound quality as a generic $5 cable (or a $20 cable from Best Buy) to everyone except the person that paid for them.
What I'm waiting for is when Home Depot's competitor has a camera scanning the Home Depot parking lot and sending you a coupon for 15% off their store before you even walk into Home Depot.
Han should have shot the console first.