The officers should be charged with theft and assault. They should also be fired.
How often are the police held accountable for anything they do? In LA during the Rampart scandal out of the dozens named none were fired or charged except the whistle blower. He was fired and threatened. I saw video tape of a cop in LA slamming an unconscious kid against the hood of a car. He was beaten unconscious before the camera was turned on then woke up when he was slammed against the car. No charges were filed but they did arrest the guy filming it. There have been numerous cases of unarmed people shot to death by the police for misdemeanors. I can name dozes of cases personally but trying to think of one where a police officer was held accountable for his actions is difficult.
Large numbers of defective fetuses is what keeps human cloning from being a reality. Cloning also has the issue global warming has, the name is misleading. Instead of clone they should be called a genetic twin. Most assume the clone will look like you and have all the same characteristics. I'm sure some even think they'd have the same memories. A clone can be taller or shorter and It may look almost exactly the same but even identical twin have slight differences so family and friends can pick them out. The only hope of human cloning having a future is to get away from this carbon copy idea and explain to people how they will be unique and not a perfect copy.
I know this is sorta trollish, I just thought it was interesting too
There's no copyright for DNA. Someone could take a skin-swab from you, and clone you, without your permission. If they did, would you feel your rights had been violated?
As tens of thousands of geeks had the same thought at that very moment, "how do I get some Natalie Portman DNA?"
Both sides like to cherry pick but I can tell you what 51 years of personal observations have taught me. I've never seen weather like we've been having in my entire life and I mean the last decade plus. The arctic is melting and the Native Americans there have an oral history going back thousands of years and they've never seen anything like the melt they are seeing. Remember the search for the northwest passage? We now call that summer in the arctic. Once in a 100 year storms seem to happen every three years now. Denial is easy because it doesn't require you to change anything. The great myth is humans have always lived the way we do now and will keep living this way for tens of thousands of years. A hundred years ago most people didn't have electricity, indoor plumbing or a telephone. Radio was also years off and TV was decades away. Few people owned cars and a long trip was 20 miles, most people traveled less than a mile a day. Fast forward a hundred years and people whine that 200 or 300 miles is too short a range for cars and can't imagine living without a cell phone even though they were rare just 20 years ago. If in a hundred years we can go from horses and out houses and getting our water out of a well with a bucket what will happen in the next hundred years? Do we get flying cars or do we go back to the horse with an out house and water from a well with a bucket? I think that's the decision we are facing and not mending our ways doesn't mean flying cars it means going back to dying in our 30s and 40s and worrying where our next meal is coming from since we can't all go back to farming. The only sure thing is the world a 100 years from now won't resemble the one today!
Tesla has not paid off their loan five years early. All they have done is announce that they INTEND to pay off their loan five years early, four years from now. So, before we jump up and down and talk about how this vindicates the loan program, let's wait and see if it actually happens. That does not mean that this is not good news, but only time will tell if it actually works out.
Okay bad headline but can we at least throw the company a bone and give them credit for doing better than expected and it looks likely they will pay off the loan soon when most claimed they'd default?
If I win the Powerball Saturday, I may buy one. If I can afford it...
Let's be realistic, Tesla has never released an economy car for good reasons so the same comments could be made of any higher end car. Tesla has focused on range and top end performance. They can't win this argument because if they release an economy car it will still be fairly pricey and people will complain about range and performance. It's an early adopter company and we will all benefit in the end as costs drop. They want to make money and at this point Elon Musk needs to make money because he invested most of his cash in these high end risky ventures so they would make an economy car if they could. Most of the talk I hear is it's less convenient so it should be cheaper. That's unlikely to ever happen and it ignores the other advantages. You might as well say I won't buy a gasoline car unless I can refuel it at home and gas cost less than a $1 a gallon, just to be fair. Most electric car owners love the fact they can refuel at home and electricity is cheaper not because it's a better fuel source but internal combustion engines are really inefficient when they don't run at a constant speed. It's why hybrids running an undersized gas or diesel engine to charge batteries has been my favorite. The truth is all the Tesla cars have been on par or better with the performance you'd expect for the price range. That is impressive. If you are holding out for a 15K Model S then you might as well hold out for a 15K Mercedes Sedan!
It's the main reason even on my Macs I use Microsoft or Logitech keyboards. Mac keyboards are like typing on a desktop. They actually keep getting worse over the years. I love the old feel of an IBM keyboard and miss the rock solid metal feel. I wear out a keyboard in about three months these days while the old IBMs would last years if not decades. I do agree with the I'll believe it when I feel it crowd but it does sound promising. For text typing there's nothing that beats a good ole stiff keyboard. My biggest complain over feel is the the cheapie printed keys. After three months the "A" is completely gone and several others are fading. After six months a third of the keys are hard to read. My touch typing skills are basic and they don't apply when you are doing graphics since I don't hold my hands in a typing position.
I'm almost not joking when I say we could be staring at a "Mouse That Roared" real world scenario. They are dead broke and can't feed their people. Their infrastructure is collapsing as are many of their newer buildings that were cheaply constructed. There is no chance of them financially turning the country around within a generation and they are facing a complete collapse within a generation or less no matter what. They could be staring at the 60 billion we just blew rebuidling Iraq and we have only started there. It may be worth loosing a few hundred thousand lives for a 60+ billion dollar payday. If they loose a city or two we'll rebuild them and since around 20 billion went missing in Iraq between the war and the rebuild there will be lots of money to steal. Say they launch a nuke that blows up half way across the Pacific and we retaliate wiping out a city. They surrender conditionally, their leaders get some protections essentially, and they plead dire hardship due to the "war". We start shipping in food and building materials and Little Kim Jr retires to EuroDisney with a few billion in his pocket and is forced to live in exile. The remaining leaders line their pockets and we update all their factories and bring the rest of the country into the 20th century. Guarantees of not bringing Little Kim Jr to trial is the iffy potential deal breaker but the rest of the scenario sounds a lot like what happened in Iraq although Iraq was already a wealthy country. Kim could just hop the border to China who would likely set him up in a palace with what money he could steal and he could cut a deal with the remaining crooks to send him a cut of what they steal in exchange for arranging exits to China if the need arose.
That's about as much commonsense as they've used to date. Can we at least agree little old ladies and infants represent a small enough threat that we don't have to give them pat downs or full body scans? People don't realize it but the TSA haven't found a single potential terrorist, not one. So far billions spent and we get a goose egg for all the inconvenient and money.
Apparently Kin Jong Un was inconsolable as he read the story in his pirate outfit. Then some one explained to him Pirate Bay wasn't an actual bay with pirates.
I can't believe that a company in 2013 would have the audacity to think it can still get away with bundling its own browser with its OS! You'd never see this sort of behavior out of more responsible corporations like Apple.
Getting away with it makes you arrogant. You're forgetting over a decade ago in the US there was talk of breaking up Microsoft and they got a stiff fine. In the end the court largely threw in the towel. They had a stranglehold on PCs and personal computers in general. Microsoft crumbled from within not due to any court action and Apple finally started gaining a share of the personal computer market.
Time to open up OSX and allow it to be installed on any computer.
A tired response to a tired post. Apple is a hardware maker not an OS maker. They only make OSs to support their hardware. This explains the price difference between Mac upgrades and Windows upgrades. They make their profits off the hardware. They could potentially offer a version of the OS at a higher price that could be installed on PCs but people like you would complain about the price difference. They can't win this argument so why play the game? You want open there's Linux. You want Mac OS then there's Macs. You want everything your way, life sucks and get used to it! Christ when I was in my teens computers ran off Cassette drives! Be happy. 20 years ago Macs cost the same as a car. Cars got more expensive and Macs got cheaper and you're still complaining! Your average smart phone has a 100X the power of my first computer. My iPad would have probably been a super computer when I was a kid. If you were thrown back in time to the 70s or 80s you'd think you were in hell. Just imagine the 60s, as in pre calculator days when computers ran off punch cards. You're living in a time of miracles and you're whining about running OSX on hardware it was never designed to run on! My expartner bought a Mac clone off some one that claimed it worked faster than a Mac Pro. The damned thing was slower than a Mac Mini and crashed constantly. I made him take it back to the idiot that sold it to him. Is that what you want? A slower than hell OSX that crashes constantly? I'm sure you'd just blame Apple for not supporting PC hardware better!
Why the assumption there is no life? There are strong signs on Mars that date bad to the Viking missions. Odds are any current life is subterranian but the conditions for life definitely existed in the early days of Mars. Europa has possible conditions now so long as there's an energy source it seems to have liquid water. Several other moons also have the potential so don't write off life so quick. Why is this important? If it happened twice in this same system then the odds of life outside of this system go through the roof and I'd hazard to say they are a 100%. It proves if life can happen it will happen so intelligent life also gets a massive boast. Maybe SETI would get real funding and a starship proposal would get taken seriously. A second source of life changes everything so the potential can't be overstated.
Just spread the rumor that Europan whales make the best sushi in the Universe and the Japanese will launch a mission to Europa within the year. As an added bonus Iceland would start a space program.
The hit could be on stock value since it questioned the reliability of the car and the stock has fallen inspite of the cars selling out. I knew Clarkson was trying to make the Tesla look bad when I saw the episode but I was outraged when I found out the breakdowns were scripted ahead of time. The episode was irresponsible at best and more likely malicious intending to harm Telsa because Clarkson has a hatred of electrical vehicles which he often mentions. I used to love the show and was a Clarkson fan but I did stop watching the show after the story came out so it did more damage to the reputation of Top Gear than it did Tesla to me personally.
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Finally a solution for people without any backbone.
Now if they can perfect brain transplants we can finally fix Congress.
The officers should be charged with theft and assault. They should also be fired.
How often are the police held accountable for anything they do? In LA during the Rampart scandal out of the dozens named none were fired or charged except the whistle blower. He was fired and threatened. I saw video tape of a cop in LA slamming an unconscious kid against the hood of a car. He was beaten unconscious before the camera was turned on then woke up when he was slammed against the car. No charges were filed but they did arrest the guy filming it. There have been numerous cases of unarmed people shot to death by the police for misdemeanors. I can name dozes of cases personally but trying to think of one where a police officer was held accountable for his actions is difficult.
Turns out all those missing bees were at Starbucks drive ups demanding triple lattes with extra sugar.
Large numbers of defective fetuses is what keeps human cloning from being a reality. Cloning also has the issue global warming has, the name is misleading. Instead of clone they should be called a genetic twin. Most assume the clone will look like you and have all the same characteristics. I'm sure some even think they'd have the same memories. A clone can be taller or shorter and It may look almost exactly the same but even identical twin have slight differences so family and friends can pick them out. The only hope of human cloning having a future is to get away from this carbon copy idea and explain to people how they will be unique and not a perfect copy.
I know this is sorta trollish, I just thought it was interesting too There's no copyright for DNA. Someone could take a skin-swab from you, and clone you, without your permission. If they did, would you feel your rights had been violated?
As tens of thousands of geeks had the same thought at that very moment, "how do I get some Natalie Portman DNA?"
Both sides like to cherry pick but I can tell you what 51 years of personal observations have taught me. I've never seen weather like we've been having in my entire life and I mean the last decade plus. The arctic is melting and the Native Americans there have an oral history going back thousands of years and they've never seen anything like the melt they are seeing. Remember the search for the northwest passage? We now call that summer in the arctic. Once in a 100 year storms seem to happen every three years now. Denial is easy because it doesn't require you to change anything. The great myth is humans have always lived the way we do now and will keep living this way for tens of thousands of years. A hundred years ago most people didn't have electricity, indoor plumbing or a telephone. Radio was also years off and TV was decades away. Few people owned cars and a long trip was 20 miles, most people traveled less than a mile a day. Fast forward a hundred years and people whine that 200 or 300 miles is too short a range for cars and can't imagine living without a cell phone even though they were rare just 20 years ago. If in a hundred years we can go from horses and out houses and getting our water out of a well with a bucket what will happen in the next hundred years? Do we get flying cars or do we go back to the horse with an out house and water from a well with a bucket? I think that's the decision we are facing and not mending our ways doesn't mean flying cars it means going back to dying in our 30s and 40s and worrying where our next meal is coming from since we can't all go back to farming. The only sure thing is the world a 100 years from now won't resemble the one today!
As a Canadian I completely support the global warming movement and am always glad to see reports like this showing its' progress.
GO WARMING GO WARMING IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY, GO WARMING!!
So beer really does cause brain damage? That's more disturbing than global warming.
If only we could figure out how the cave men managed to make the earth cool off for the last ten millenia...
Not sure how they cooled the Earth but the discovery of beans and the resulting release of methane ended the last ice age.
Tesla has not paid off their loan five years early. All they have done is announce that they INTEND to pay off their loan five years early, four years from now. So, before we jump up and down and talk about how this vindicates the loan program, let's wait and see if it actually happens. That does not mean that this is not good news, but only time will tell if it actually works out.
Okay bad headline but can we at least throw the company a bone and give them credit for doing better than expected and it looks likely they will pay off the loan soon when most claimed they'd default?
If I win the Powerball Saturday, I may buy one. If I can afford it...
Let's be realistic, Tesla has never released an economy car for good reasons so the same comments could be made of any higher end car. Tesla has focused on range and top end performance. They can't win this argument because if they release an economy car it will still be fairly pricey and people will complain about range and performance. It's an early adopter company and we will all benefit in the end as costs drop. They want to make money and at this point Elon Musk needs to make money because he invested most of his cash in these high end risky ventures so they would make an economy car if they could. Most of the talk I hear is it's less convenient so it should be cheaper. That's unlikely to ever happen and it ignores the other advantages. You might as well say I won't buy a gasoline car unless I can refuel it at home and gas cost less than a $1 a gallon, just to be fair. Most electric car owners love the fact they can refuel at home and electricity is cheaper not because it's a better fuel source but internal combustion engines are really inefficient when they don't run at a constant speed. It's why hybrids running an undersized gas or diesel engine to charge batteries has been my favorite. The truth is all the Tesla cars have been on par or better with the performance you'd expect for the price range. That is impressive. If you are holding out for a 15K Model S then you might as well hold out for a 15K Mercedes Sedan!
The next three installments will be sponsored by Slim Fast after negoiations with Jenny Craig fell through.
It's believed the new bacteria could have unknown affects on the human body.
It's the main reason even on my Macs I use Microsoft or Logitech keyboards. Mac keyboards are like typing on a desktop. They actually keep getting worse over the years. I love the old feel of an IBM keyboard and miss the rock solid metal feel. I wear out a keyboard in about three months these days while the old IBMs would last years if not decades. I do agree with the I'll believe it when I feel it crowd but it does sound promising. For text typing there's nothing that beats a good ole stiff keyboard. My biggest complain over feel is the the cheapie printed keys. After three months the "A" is completely gone and several others are fading. After six months a third of the keys are hard to read. My touch typing skills are basic and they don't apply when you are doing graphics since I don't hold my hands in a typing position.
Xena reruns only go so far.
I'm almost not joking when I say we could be staring at a "Mouse That Roared" real world scenario. They are dead broke and can't feed their people. Their infrastructure is collapsing as are many of their newer buildings that were cheaply constructed. There is no chance of them financially turning the country around within a generation and they are facing a complete collapse within a generation or less no matter what. They could be staring at the 60 billion we just blew rebuidling Iraq and we have only started there. It may be worth loosing a few hundred thousand lives for a 60+ billion dollar payday. If they loose a city or two we'll rebuild them and since around 20 billion went missing in Iraq between the war and the rebuild there will be lots of money to steal. Say they launch a nuke that blows up half way across the Pacific and we retaliate wiping out a city. They surrender conditionally, their leaders get some protections essentially, and they plead dire hardship due to the "war". We start shipping in food and building materials and Little Kim Jr retires to EuroDisney with a few billion in his pocket and is forced to live in exile. The remaining leaders line their pockets and we update all their factories and bring the rest of the country into the 20th century. Guarantees of not bringing Little Kim Jr to trial is the iffy potential deal breaker but the rest of the scenario sounds a lot like what happened in Iraq although Iraq was already a wealthy country. Kim could just hop the border to China who would likely set him up in a palace with what money he could steal and he could cut a deal with the remaining crooks to send him a cut of what they steal in exchange for arranging exits to China if the need arose.
"Defending" yourself by striking first whenever you fabricate arbitrary threats is not defense, that is offense.
how ironic that NK has adopted the Bush Doctrine.
No wonder they're broke
That's about as much commonsense as they've used to date. Can we at least agree little old ladies and infants represent a small enough threat that we don't have to give them pat downs or full body scans? People don't realize it but the TSA haven't found a single potential terrorist, not one. So far billions spent and we get a goose egg for all the inconvenient and money.
Apparently Kin Jong Un was inconsolable as he read the story in his pirate outfit. Then some one explained to him Pirate Bay wasn't an actual bay with pirates.
I can't believe that a company in 2013 would have the audacity to think it can still get away with bundling its own browser with its OS! You'd never see this sort of behavior out of more responsible corporations like Apple.
Getting away with it makes you arrogant. You're forgetting over a decade ago in the US there was talk of breaking up Microsoft and they got a stiff fine. In the end the court largely threw in the towel. They had a stranglehold on PCs and personal computers in general. Microsoft crumbled from within not due to any court action and Apple finally started gaining a share of the personal computer market.
Time to open up OSX and allow it to be installed on any computer.
A tired response to a tired post. Apple is a hardware maker not an OS maker. They only make OSs to support their hardware. This explains the price difference between Mac upgrades and Windows upgrades. They make their profits off the hardware. They could potentially offer a version of the OS at a higher price that could be installed on PCs but people like you would complain about the price difference. They can't win this argument so why play the game? You want open there's Linux. You want Mac OS then there's Macs. You want everything your way, life sucks and get used to it! Christ when I was in my teens computers ran off Cassette drives! Be happy. 20 years ago Macs cost the same as a car. Cars got more expensive and Macs got cheaper and you're still complaining! Your average smart phone has a 100X the power of my first computer. My iPad would have probably been a super computer when I was a kid. If you were thrown back in time to the 70s or 80s you'd think you were in hell. Just imagine the 60s, as in pre calculator days when computers ran off punch cards. You're living in a time of miracles and you're whining about running OSX on hardware it was never designed to run on! My expartner bought a Mac clone off some one that claimed it worked faster than a Mac Pro. The damned thing was slower than a Mac Mini and crashed constantly. I made him take it back to the idiot that sold it to him. Is that what you want? A slower than hell OSX that crashes constantly? I'm sure you'd just blame Apple for not supporting PC hardware better!
Why the assumption there is no life? There are strong signs on Mars that date bad to the Viking missions. Odds are any current life is subterranian but the conditions for life definitely existed in the early days of Mars. Europa has possible conditions now so long as there's an energy source it seems to have liquid water. Several other moons also have the potential so don't write off life so quick. Why is this important? If it happened twice in this same system then the odds of life outside of this system go through the roof and I'd hazard to say they are a 100%. It proves if life can happen it will happen so intelligent life also gets a massive boast. Maybe SETI would get real funding and a starship proposal would get taken seriously. A second source of life changes everything so the potential can't be overstated.
Just spread the rumor that Europan whales make the best sushi in the Universe and the Japanese will launch a mission to Europa within the year. As an added bonus Iceland would start a space program.
So Revelations is when a bad update crashes the system? The four programmers of the apocalypse?
The hit could be on stock value since it questioned the reliability of the car and the stock has fallen inspite of the cars selling out. I knew Clarkson was trying to make the Tesla look bad when I saw the episode but I was outraged when I found out the breakdowns were scripted ahead of time. The episode was irresponsible at best and more likely malicious intending to harm Telsa because Clarkson has a hatred of electrical vehicles which he often mentions. I used to love the show and was a Clarkson fan but I did stop watching the show after the story came out so it did more damage to the reputation of Top Gear than it did Tesla to me personally.
Kim Jong Un has made Talk Like A Pirate Day a national holiday!