Wrong! The first transatlantic television transmission was via a satellite named ECHO. ECHO was nothing more than a reflective bag of gas that reflected the TV microwaves back to Earth.
The first public transmission from Europe to the US "featured" Conrad Adenauer making a short, forgettable speech.
I think he meant to say 'obscure early recordings of Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions', or maybe 'the Warlocks'.
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I keep wondering how much longer it will take for somebody out there to realize that the author of the copyright clause in the US Constitution was also the guy that created the first free book lending library.
Those who are interested can look in the archives about two years ago for an article here in Slashdot linking to the customs declaration that Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins signed bringing some of those rocks into the country. I have a copy knocking around here somewhere...
In the San Gabriel Valley (Southern California), in the mid-1980's there was a strange sort of earthquake. I was on my back on a concrete floor (alone, dammit), and felt it fairly well. It was big enough to be reported on the news, but there was no report of an earthquake from Caltech. Curious!
So the next day I went there and talked with one of the scientists. She said that this was definitely a curious thing, but it was not a seismic event. And would not comment further.
Your drivers license IS you national I.D. card. Think about it a moment.
It absolutely and uniquely identifies you. It's accepted in every court in the civilized world. It ties you in (thru the social security account, required for issue) to every financial transaction you ever made in the last twenty years. It indexes your actions into every medical, professional, legal, and political database on the planet.
And Slashdot readers are debating whether they should call it a national i.d., or what?
The question asks for "beauty" in physics, and no one approached it closer than Feynman.
But our similar postings only rate a "1", and I believe it is for the same reason that Slashdot readers tend to program in C++, Java, and Perl; They don't understand simplicity, or elegance.
And I'm positive it's for the same reason that they fail to appreciate Forth.
The most elegant, beautiful experiment was Feynman's Apollo o-ring-in-the-icewater experiment. He solved the question quickly, economically, and decisively.
Why don't they convert this crap into energy, instead of wasting New Scientist's and Slashdot reader's time?
There is nothing newsworthy here at all. Same old hydrogen into energy by a secret process they won't tell you about which works in the lab, maybe. B-F-D!
Good stuff! Thanks. I don't mind being called a crackpot, as long as it's done constructively as you have.
I could have worded my question better. Let's assume a scenario where someone, like hardheaded me, is traveling down the streets and sidewalks of your town on my Segway. A police officer notices and stops me to investigate. It's an amicable confrontation and I am left holding a notice to appear for no license and no registration.
In court, I confront my accuser, the officer. I question him on his understanding of the term "vehicle" and he replies " You ride on it, it was built to ride on from place to place, so it's a vehicle. It's driven by a motor, so it's a motor vehicle." I ask him to point to that section in the vehicle code. He says it's probably in there somewhere.
On the basis of that "evidence" I am instructed to go to the cashier's window and cleanse my guilty pockets. The officer thinks it's a vehicle, and he has been on the force for over fifteen years, so he must know what is right.
Most people would pay the money, and never ride their Segway again. And fly their flag on Sunday and feel lucky to live in a free country. This offends my sense of justice.
Some points:
It is a privilege to drive a motor vehicle. Everyone loves this statement, so I am including it, even though I assert that my Segway does not fit the legal definition of "vehicle".
"[W]hether government has the right to regulate any and all modes of transportation on public paths and roads,..was solved...a long time ago." I'd like the cites supporting your statement.
Careless operation of a Segway (or anything else, licensed or not) is a public hazard. If someone is injured, the guilty party has none of my sympathy.
In California, a warrantless arrest, such as the above, under the vehicle code must be made under CVC 40300. Your state probably has a similar code.
Your statement "the right to use public easement for private travel was never free from restrictions on the mode of transportation, in particular ones against established custom and introducing an additional hazard" is correct, as long as you understand that the supporting cases are based on the extra burden of *commercial* use of the public roads. (It is possible to be private and commercial simultaneously.)
The burden of proof *should* fall upon the moving party. Far too often it does not. In the case above the prosecution was allowed a free slam-dunk against all the rules this society celebrates. This creates disrespect for the law, and it also creates screwballs like me.
I think that a municipal code such as "no bicycles, skateboards, Segways, (etc) are allowed to be used on sidewalks, (etc.)..." would be the proper way to regulate the use of Segways, *Not* the improper extension of the state vehicle codes.
Subject or personam jurisdiction. Either one would be fine.
We know how traffic court gets its jurisdiction, via the drivers license contract, and the stipulation the licensee makes at the very bottom, just above he signature line.
But I am asking how will the traffic court obtain jurisdiction if there is no license in evidence? I'd really, really like to know!
You are mostly right. Too bad you were modded down. We agree that driving a motor vehicle is a privilege.
Everybody get that? We agree that driving a motor vehicle is a privilege.
But, my point is that I do not claim that my Segway is a "motor vehicle". I assert that it is "personal property".
Now. How does the state prove otherwise? I have no license. The Segway is not registered as a "vehicle". By what theory of law am I sent to the "pay the man" window?
Assume that the Segway owner is resonably bright, and demands that you prove your case, Mr. Prosecutor. The burden of proof is supposed to be upon the accuser.
You claimed that the Segway is a "vehicle" and a "motor vehicle". I say it isn't. You have no license or registration to show the court. Now prove your case.
You made slanderous statements that I recklessly endangered other travelers. You called me a public hazard. We are assuming a warrantless arrest was made (California vehicle code 40300 or your state's equivalent), and that the Segway was being peacefully used for personal travel. I demand to confront my accuser. Produce the injured party.
The judge is honest, and will not accept the "everybody knows" statutes in her court. Now establish jurisdiction.
Too bad this discussion is slipping over the Slashdot horizon. I would really like an answer better than "because we say so".
But a vehicle is driven by privilege! It's in the California vehicle code, at least.
But, what if the owner is not engaged in commerce, and does not claim it to be a vehicle, but merely private property, used for private travel,over the public easement. Then, by what theory of law, does the state regulate use of the Segways?
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The air conditioner was actually invented by three Jewish gentlemen. Their names are on the front of every air conditioner manufactured.
Norm, Hi, and Max.
The last time I watched TV, the Lakers were beating some other team at basketball. Good game!
Haven't found any reason to watch it since. Hope that doesn't spoil anybody's plans.
Wrong! The first transatlantic television transmission was via a satellite named ECHO. ECHO was nothing more than a reflective bag of gas that reflected the TV microwaves back to Earth.
The first public transmission from Europe to the US "featured" Conrad Adenauer making a short, forgettable speech.
Tore up my credit cards about fifteen years ago. Closed my bank and checking accounts too.
"How do you live like that?" people ask me.
Very well, thank you. And I don't have to pay extra for everthing!
What next? Eat lots of crappy fast food and get fat? Pig out on sugar and become diabetic? Watch too much TV and get stoopid?
The government should do something to stop this!
Does anybody remember Ross Perot's "chicken technology" chart? Maybe Arkansas will be the new center for world technolgy!
...and Ginsu knives!
I think he meant to say 'obscure early recordings of Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions', or maybe 'the Warlocks'.
I keep wondering how much longer it will take for somebody out there to realize that the author of the copyright clause in the US Constitution was also the guy that created the first free book lending library.
Oh shit! How we gonna mod this one down?
So, how do those radiometers I see at the fair work, Mr Wizard?
Those who are interested can look in the archives about two years ago for an article here in Slashdot linking to the customs declaration that Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins signed bringing some of those rocks into the country. I have a copy knocking around here somewhere...
Fifty years from now I expect all wars to be fought by giant robots controlled by teenagers.
Which is a lot better than having our teenagers fighting in person !!!
Please, please tell me it was a CD by Sting.
In the San Gabriel Valley (Southern California), in the mid-1980's there was a strange sort of earthquake. I was on my back on a concrete floor (alone, dammit), and felt it fairly well. It was big enough to be reported on the news, but there was no report of an earthquake from Caltech. Curious!
So the next day I went there and talked with one of the scientists. She said that this was definitely a curious thing, but it was not a seismic event. And would not comment further.
Your drivers license IS you national I.D. card. Think about it a moment.
It absolutely and uniquely identifies you. It's accepted in every court in the civilized world. It ties you in (thru the social security account, required for issue) to every financial transaction you ever made in the last twenty years. It indexes your actions into every medical, professional, legal, and political database on the planet.
And Slashdot readers are debating whether they should call it a national i.d., or what?
Oooo! He's a mean sucker. Mod him down!
I completely agree.
The question asks for "beauty" in physics, and no one approached it closer than Feynman.
But our similar postings only rate a "1", and I believe it is for the same reason that Slashdot readers tend to program in C++, Java, and Perl; They don't understand simplicity, or elegance.
And I'm positive it's for the same reason that they fail to appreciate Forth.
Oooo! He's a mean sucker. Mod him down!
You're right!
The most elegant, beautiful experiment was Feynman's Apollo o-ring-in-the-icewater experiment. He solved the question quickly, economically, and decisively.
Why don't they convert this crap into energy, instead of wasting New Scientist's and Slashdot reader's time?
There is nothing newsworthy here at all. Same old hydrogen into energy by a secret process they won't tell you about which works in the lab, maybe. B-F-D!
Actually, the antenna to the north would be perfect for the Los Angeles market. I'd like to have a piece of that franchise!
Good stuff! Thanks. I don't mind being called a crackpot, as long as it's done constructively as you have.
I could have worded my question better. Let's assume a scenario where someone, like hardheaded me, is traveling down the streets and sidewalks of your town on my Segway. A police officer notices and stops me to investigate. It's an amicable confrontation and I am left holding a notice to appear for no license and no registration.
In court, I confront my accuser, the officer. I question him on his understanding of the term "vehicle" and he replies " You ride on it, it was built to ride on from place to place, so it's a vehicle. It's driven by a motor, so it's a motor vehicle." I ask him to point to that section in the vehicle code. He says it's probably in there somewhere.
On the basis of that "evidence" I am instructed to go to the cashier's window and cleanse my guilty pockets. The officer thinks it's a vehicle, and he has been on the force for over fifteen years, so he must know what is right.
Most people would pay the money, and never ride their Segway again. And fly their flag on Sunday and feel lucky to live in a free country. This offends my sense of justice.
Some points:
It is a privilege to drive a motor vehicle. Everyone loves this statement, so I am including it, even though I assert that my Segway does not fit the legal definition of "vehicle".
"[W]hether government has the right to regulate any and all modes of transportation on public paths and roads,..was solved...a long time ago." I'd like the cites supporting your statement.
Careless operation of a Segway (or anything else, licensed or not) is a public hazard. If someone is injured, the guilty party has none of my sympathy.
In California, a warrantless arrest, such as the above, under the vehicle code must be made under CVC 40300. Your state probably has a similar code.
Your statement "the right to use public easement for private travel was never free from restrictions on the mode of transportation, in particular ones against established custom and introducing an additional hazard" is correct, as long as you understand that the supporting cases are based on the extra burden of *commercial* use of the public roads. (It is possible to be private and commercial simultaneously.)
The burden of proof *should* fall upon the moving party. Far too often it does not. In the case above the prosecution was allowed a free slam-dunk against all the rules this society celebrates. This creates disrespect for the law, and it also creates screwballs like me.
I think that a municipal code such as "no bicycles, skateboards, Segways, (etc) are allowed to be used on sidewalks, (etc.)..." would be the proper way to regulate the use of Segways, *Not* the improper extension of the state vehicle codes.
Subject or personam jurisdiction. Either one would be fine.
We know how traffic court gets its jurisdiction, via the drivers license contract, and the stipulation the licensee makes at the very bottom, just above he signature line.
But I am asking how will the traffic court obtain jurisdiction if there is no license in evidence? I'd really, really like to know!
You are mostly right. Too bad you were modded down. We agree that driving a motor vehicle is a privilege.
Everybody get that? We agree that driving a motor vehicle is a privilege.
But, my point is that I do not claim that my Segway is a "motor vehicle". I assert that it is "personal property".
Now. How does the state prove otherwise? I have no license. The Segway is not registered as a "vehicle". By what theory of law am I sent to the "pay the man" window?
Assume that the Segway owner is resonably bright, and demands that you prove your case, Mr. Prosecutor. The burden of proof is supposed to be upon the accuser.
You claimed that the Segway is a "vehicle" and a "motor vehicle". I say it isn't. You have no license or registration to show the court. Now prove your case.
You made slanderous statements that I recklessly endangered other travelers. You called me a public hazard. We are assuming a warrantless arrest was made (California vehicle code 40300 or your state's equivalent), and that the Segway was being peacefully used for personal travel. I demand to confront my accuser. Produce the injured party.
The judge is honest, and will not accept the "everybody knows" statutes in her court. Now establish jurisdiction.
Too bad this discussion is slipping over the Slashdot horizon. I would really like an answer better than "because we say so".
But a vehicle is driven by privilege! It's in the California vehicle code, at least.
But, what if the owner is not engaged in commerce, and does not claim it to be a vehicle, but merely private property, used for private travel,over the public easement. Then, by what theory of law, does the state regulate use of the Segways?