Here's a wrinkle. Assuming it can be made to work reliably, safely, and securely, etc., what if a motorist could voluntarily install this in their car for a significant reduction in their car insurance rates? Obviously someone caught speeding (and thus tampering with it) would be in deep doodoo. But I can see a lot of people adding it just for the savings.
A brief search on google revealed the following (admittedly old) link about spam and email. I'm curious whether the reasoning would apply to the present case.
I'm surprised they said that. Here's what Hormel has to say now about SPAM and UCE.
In summary, they don't mind people using the word, "spam" when talking about UCE,
but not "SPAM" (distinguishing all-caps
as their product name).
They also (fairly, I think) don't like their
product associated with UCE (for example,
slashdot's use of a can of SPAM for the
UCE topic).
Oh, but most Christians already changed the sabbath. And to what? The Sun God's day! Just so they could pick off some of the worshippers of Mithra, Apollo, etc
We didn't change the sabbath, but the day of Christ's Resurrection (the first day of the week, Sunday) surpassed it.
But that's the real reason why this idea won't happen. Everyone who takes Sunday (or Saturday, or Friday), off for religious reasons won't suddenly say, "Okay, now I'll start taking Monday (or Sunday, or Saturday) off." Today right here is Thursday. I can say that 700,000 days ago was also a Thursday. I don't know what year or month it was, offhand, but I know what day of the week it was.
Calendars come and go (I personally use two calendars in my daily life, a civil calendar and a religious calendar), but the day of the week is something that can be relied upon. This crazy idea would throw all that out the window.
So much software is already in place now to handle our calendar in all it's craziness, and if there's something more complicated (like accounting), they can use their own special calendar. I'm just surprised the "human calculator" can't figure out what day of the week the 4th of July falls on in 2008. I could probably figure it out in my head if I wanted to.
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Here's a wrinkle. Assuming it can be made to work reliably, safely, and securely, etc., what if a motorist could voluntarily install this in their car for a significant reduction in their car insurance rates? Obviously someone caught speeding (and thus tampering with it) would be in deep doodoo. But I can see a lot of people adding it just for the savings.
Michael
I'm surprised they said that. Here's what Hormel has to say now about SPAM and UCE.
In summary, they don't mind people using the word, "spam" when talking about UCE, but not "SPAM" (distinguishing all-caps as their product name). They also (fairly, I think) don't like their product associated with UCE (for example, slashdot's use of a can of SPAM for the UCE topic).
MichaelIt could be worse, Bols, you could have read in their article, something like:
(Assuming they can't tell truth from fiction, and don't finish what they're reading, which wouldn't surprise me). MichaelI post your appreciate but:
"Users calculator of generation confusing for responsible?" better maybe is?
"Postfix work useful doing for awesome is!" better maybe is?
I you insult to mean don't. I post your liked!
Michael
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The MSDS link you posted is interesting, as is the Toxicity Info.
But I'm not a bio major. Can you tell me what the numbers translate to? How much caffeine in a cup of coffee? A penguin mint? Thanks.
Michael
We didn't change the sabbath, but the day of Christ's Resurrection (the first day of the week, Sunday) surpassed it.
But that's the real reason why this idea won't happen. Everyone who takes Sunday (or Saturday, or Friday), off for religious reasons won't suddenly say, "Okay, now I'll start taking Monday (or Sunday, or Saturday) off." Today right here is Thursday. I can say that 700,000 days ago was also a Thursday. I don't know what year or month it was, offhand, but I know what day of the week it was. Calendars come and go (I personally use two calendars in my daily life, a civil calendar and a religious calendar), but the day of the week is something that can be relied upon. This crazy idea would throw all that out the window.
So much software is already in place now to handle our calendar in all it's craziness, and if there's something more complicated (like accounting), they can use their own special calendar. I'm just surprised the "human calculator" can't figure out what day of the week the 4th of July falls on in 2008. I could probably figure it out in my head if I wanted to.
Michael