To legally work on the AC power system in a house your supposed to be licensed and bonded. Even in your own home if you have an addition, re-wiring in the walls, etc most municipalities require a certified electrician to inspect it for the building permit system. People do clandestine re-wiring all the time, and people's houses burn down from it all the time too. Few normal home owners know how to safely run wiring; casings, gauges, groundings, water-free pathways, proper bends / joints, etc. Personally I'm not sure where the "line" is with all that, as to just replacing a wall socket vs. putting in a new breaker box.
Unless you live off by yourself, living in a neighborhood carries with it certain social responsibilities. Not setting your neighbor's house on fire when your "hacked together" gas heater explodes is one of those. I'm all for do-it-yourself stuff, I'm infamous for styrofoaming and colored duct-tapting a convincing looking headlight assemble and wheel well for years on my old van; from a couple of feet away it looked like the original plastic / metal. But just because you CAN do something on the cheap doesn't mean it's a good idea. Immediate savings on faulty natural gas lines is one of them.
" No one should ever be forced to do business with someone they don't want to." You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? That may have been the way it used to be, but even in the US we have several cases of "forced business". The most recent was a flower shop in Portland court ordered under the Equal Protection Act that she had to make flowers for a gay wedding, never mind she claims "Jesus" told her it was bad.
Personally, I'm torn on that. One one hand, in a free country we SHOULD be able to refuse service to whomever we want. Yet that doesn't work out very well because people are racist, bigoted assholes. My rational mind screams that 1. religion is the root of much suffering 2 the whole "man laying with another man" in Leviticus doesn't apply in this situation 2b she's not a member of those people anyway (she's old, but she's not a 3,000-4,000 year old Jew) 3. making money off a group you feel are sub-human should make you happy.
There are several areas Uber has been playing with fire such as background checks, driving record checks, vehicular safety checks...Their going to have to come to some middle ground, and have enough transparency to satisfy level-headed State requirements. Driving your vehicle as a taxi seriously racks up miles and most "normal" people probably won't keep up their vehicles well enough after awhile. There was that Uber rape in India; but unfortunately that seems like an underground past time of our species; crimes like that should only 'ring alarm bells' if it goes over the statistical norm of the local taxi service. And the gray area that the drivers are in for wrecks, medical expenses, etc has kept my girlfriend from doing anything like that. It's very conceivable that if there is an Uberwreck the driver's insurance may refuse to pay out, the passenger might have to end up suing to pay the ridiculous medical bills...there is a big cost difference between normal, corporate, fleet, etc types of insurance policies. Even with some type of Uberinsurance it's still very gray with little to no case law.
They will have to somehow collect taxes from Uber, this isn't some "internet only" business. The private citizen's increased payments on road tax via their gas isn't enough to compensate the wear and tear from this. Perhaps they can get their app approved as a "meter" instead of forcing everyone to buy various meters for each municipality. I expect these seizures to increase worldwide until Uber addresses these issues.
Multiple gigs for a TV episode? Even a ripped HD Blueray is 4-9GB, a 720 HD show might be around 800-1000mb. Most shows I download are around 200-400mb. Even an entire season of normal resolution TV is around 7-10gb. If I was GoGo, update.microsoft.com would be blocked permanently, since it's just stupid for anyone to update critical files while in an airplane. Some updated are up to 500gb in total, especially when its DirectX,.net, etc. But I guess if your streaming full HD, non-compressed video then sure, several gigs.
sounds to me like it's time to say "I never signed that, so let's just let the court decide if that document is binding on me. My lawyer's number is XXX, consider this your verbal trespass warning so be careful when spying into my back yard. Further direct contact will be considered harassment. Have a good day!"
"I hate You", the punk song off Star Trek IV, really does sum it up...Just where is our future, the things we've done and said / let's just push the button we'de be better off dead / The sins of all our father, being dumped on us the sons / the only choice we're given is HOW MANY MEGATONS?
My favorite punk song every, on my mp3 rotation list.
Mars ain't the kind of place you raise your kids. And a return sample mission is far more difficult than I think you grasp. This isn't some comet where we can just swing into the dust trail, and even that almost failed when it landed back here. Just designing and building the return rocket is incredibly difficult and far beyond anything we've ever done. Per Zubrin, it's right at Mars_ve = 5.00 km/s ==> 11185 mph. The escape velocity of Mars is 5017 m/s, Earth's is around 11,000 m/s. So for a return mission we would have to land both a rover AND a rather large rocket to get a sample back. We've landed ONE probe there in a fashion that MIGHT be able to also land a return rocket (the sky crane). Looking over the web real quick I don't see any complete mission designs for a return mission from Mars that have all these calculations. Our current crop of rockets couldn't delivery the needed payloads in one trip, we haven't yet got a system for precision landing (for multiple trips, ie one to land the lander, another to land a return rocket) to guarantee that the multiple landings will actually end up close enough to each other...more than a coup[le of clicks apart and the rover will never make it back to the return rocket as even Spirit only moves a few feet a day.
Basically, we have to wait on SpaceX to perfect the Grasshopper, or something similar. Their getting close, and no one else is even really working on such a system. We'll also need something like the SSL or Falcon 9 Heavy to get it all there, neither of which are actually flying yet. But, at least someone is working on it and actually testing launches now, all the tech is coming together. In the next few years everything should come together for this though.
I'll raise you this quote: "You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?!" yet on the actual arXiv site they do indeed say "Our results suggest that there is a form of entanglement that has a weight." It's actually the third word of the paper. And here, weight IS the correct term, as it is the measurement of the pull of gravity on an object. That's the whole point of the paper...current theory is quantum entanglement doesn't interact with gravity but these guys say in certain instances this might be incorrect. " Our results suggest that there is a form of entanglement that has a weight, since it affects the gravitational field." IANAQP, so here is the PDF so others can read it too and comprehend it better than I.
Well, they do just what the name says. They study space-based biology. You know, all those millions of off-world life forms we've found. Oh, yeah, um...seems like a "future job" that may exist one day but not yet.
"What kind of hallucinatory BS is this?" don't know, but I'll bet that's where the $700M went. LSD isn't $4 a hit these days, even shrooms are at $15-$25 per gram. Hallucination-inducing pharmaceuticals aren't cheap.
Sometimes I think NASA should give up the SSL and Orion to some type of "privatized coalition" once the system is up and running. At this point, there are other entities that have the capacity to run those programs, freeing NASA up to do more science and less engineering. They should still own a large chunk of course. The best way would be to add up how much the SSL cost in total and then have a new non-profit formed; price the shares to the total costs of the programs transferred to it. Buy-in could be by any US Citizen (and perhaps citizens from other countries that NASA works for, such as England, France, India, etc) including corporations. NASA could them quickly monetize any hardware advancements and move back into the exploratory role we all really want them to do.
We really should skip over any more space-based telescopes for awhile after the current crops are up. NASA needs a new x-prize for a small lander system that can land on the "dark side" of the moon and build itself a telescope inside some crater. NASA would also need to launch a couple of data relay sats, and run the infrastructure itself. The more moonDishsats that are deployed, the higher the over-all resolution goes up. This self-replicating system would quickly outstrip any single scope we can put up, repair itself, never fall out of orbit, and lay the foundation for a permanent colony.
Not all repubs are anti-space, Newt had some interesting plans. Our manned space programs started under a Republican, specifically Project Mercury and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower, however, wouldn't even recognize his party today...he was pro Social Security, expanded the government, and even said ": "I have just one purpose... and that is to build up a strong progressive Republican Party in this country." "Atoms for peace" instead of "bomb the Middle East". If the modern Republican Party still held true to his ideals then I would probably call myself a Republican.
that makes you the third person on the planet that can then, after Musk at #1 and Branson at #2. Impressive that you have enough capability to manage your own space program!
THAT is pretty annoying...each of my camera apps all save to different places. Some I can change, some I can't. And I can't seem to access the phone via CLI while it's connected via USB either, so I can't just whip up a script to move all the pics over. Don't know if that's because of Windows 7, the phone itself, a limitation in Android, or what.
The SD card functionality is the phone's design; not all Android devices are like that. I've got an old S3, I can install to my SD card and often do. And having to select a storage partition on every download...I've never had that on any of my droids. All that is the manufacturer's fault not something intrinsic to Android.
Even more important than the two things you listed is "form" of the iphones. They try to keep the external designs to a very precise ideal, one of which is the "sleekness". You can't remove the back cover, and Apple doesn't want any more slots / holes / etc on the outside of the phone. They could make an SD slot with a flip cover over it, but that really would seem tacky on them and would seriously detract from their over-all look and feel.
Or maybe some non-biological entity told Steve Jobs that SD cards are forbidden on one of his LSD trips.
What "science" should be exploring is why we get those feelings of the supernatural. The phenomenon of the transcendental across our entire species manifests itself in myriad forms, and seems quite elusive to being pinned down. Bottom line, are these moments anything more than an echo of an ancient danger sense? It's impossible to de-program ourselves completely on a mass scale...so how do we mitigate the risks?
There is some retarded troll on there named MikeyD who argues with every post...he keeps claiming that "space" is a completely empty void that has nothing but a few empty rocks, repeating that locking yourself in an SUV for six months is simulating a Mars trip and other such trollish nonsense. Even so, the author here is just super-whiney; I guess he's mad that Musk and Branson didn't give him their money and are building out a space infrastructure again. The author also seems quite confused as to the differences between SpaceX and VG claiming their basically the same type of company. I guess he'd rather these guys just be like John McAfee and use their money to create a harem and make customized bath salts.
something tells me that the cops using this don't care. In fact, I'll bet they firmly believe "the perps deserve it", and anyone else in the house is guilty by association. If they get fried, then that's just one less bullet they have to waste. And trying to explain the differences between radiation, wattage, etc would probably just make them confused, then angry, then really sarcastic...eventually drawing you into some perceived conflict that they can escalate to a physical fight so they can arrest you. I wish I was being sarcastic, but I've seen this on COPS so many times across the nation I sometimes think there must be some manual somewhere on just how to manipulate people into fighting you marked "LAW ENFORCEMENT EYES ONLY". Only in the past month or so have I seen any attempts from the police at de-escualtion. My friends ask me why I watch that show...so I can learn how not to get maced?
As more topical to your post, would it also be affected by building materials? I don't know what power / frequency such radar would be running at, but YES I'm sure the FCC would. This is almost a guaranteed violation of whatever agreement his department has with the FCC to be able to use this...although the geek in me thinks it's a cool off-label usage like on Total Recall or Commando (Commando claimed to use X rays though lol) but 1) potentially dangerous 2) against an unconvicted civilian(s) 3) crossing the line of an expectation of privacy since we have little easy protection.
It's not something you can "opt out of". If you don't want to run the risk of having someone use your cell to spy on you, we can choose not to carry one with us. If we don't want people looking through the windows we can close the blinds. I suppose some type of Faraday cage or wall coverings would work, but that's just diving straight into paranoid conspiracy land. Trying to explain to any guests, family, etc why suddenly no EM signal works in your place is almost guaranteed to make everyone think you need some therapy LOL. In my ideal USA, even if this technique was 100% safe it should STILL be illegal.
For a legal precedence, this seems to line up with the police using thermal imaging (cancerous radiation too). How legal / common is it for LE to do night raids after thermaling a house to get the positions of targets? That stuff used to be "military grade" but with the massive federal "one cop, one tank" policy this should be filter out by now.
that might be, but the law in most states will say otherwise. If you rear end someone, even if they suddenly stop on a highway, you'll get the ticket and your insurance will pay for their car.
what country do you live on that any normal person can actually affect speed limits? Most in the US are set by various engineers based on road width, location, number of connections, etc. There is no one to petition, it's all set by various Department of Transportation people. There is no "vote", it's mostly a math formula. Go read this...
In 1966, Congress passed a law that required all traffic control devices on public roadways in the nation be based on sound engineering principles, practices and have a common "basis in fact" determination, appearance and application.
These mandates are found in Title 23 , United States Code, Section 109(d) and Title 23, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 655.601 through 655.603 (Update: Title 23 C.F.R. Part 655 Subpart F- Traffic Control Devices on Frderal Aid and Other Streets).
So sure...try to petition your local Congress critter to sponsor a bill to get all that changed. Good luck with that.
what country do you live on that any normal person can actually affect speed limits? Most in the US are set by various engineers based on road width, location, number of connections, etc. There is no one to petition, it's all set by various Department of Transportation people. There is no "vote", it's mostly a math formula. Go read this...
In 1966, Congress passed a law that required all traffic control devices on public roadways in the nation be based on sound engineering principles, practices and have a common "basis in fact" determination, appearance and application.
These mandates are found in Title 23 , United States Code, Section 109(d) and Title 23, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 655.601 through 655.603 (Update: Title 23 C.F.R. Part 655 Subpart F- Traffic Control Devices on Frderal Aid and Other Streets).
So sure...try to petition your local Congress critter to sponsor a bill to get all that changed. Good luck with that.
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To legally work on the AC power system in a house your supposed to be licensed and bonded. Even in your own home if you have an addition, re-wiring in the walls, etc most municipalities require a certified electrician to inspect it for the building permit system. People do clandestine re-wiring all the time, and people's houses burn down from it all the time too. Few normal home owners know how to safely run wiring; casings, gauges, groundings, water-free pathways, proper bends / joints, etc. Personally I'm not sure where the "line" is with all that, as to just replacing a wall socket vs. putting in a new breaker box.
Unless you live off by yourself, living in a neighborhood carries with it certain social responsibilities. Not setting your neighbor's house on fire when your "hacked together" gas heater explodes is one of those. I'm all for do-it-yourself stuff, I'm infamous for styrofoaming and colored duct-tapting a convincing looking headlight assemble and wheel well for years on my old van; from a couple of feet away it looked like the original plastic / metal. But just because you CAN do something on the cheap doesn't mean it's a good idea. Immediate savings on faulty natural gas lines is one of them.
" No one should ever be forced to do business with someone they don't want to." You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? That may have been the way it used to be, but even in the US we have several cases of "forced business". The most recent was a flower shop in Portland court ordered under the Equal Protection Act that she had to make flowers for a gay wedding, never mind she claims "Jesus" told her it was bad.
Personally, I'm torn on that. One one hand, in a free country we SHOULD be able to refuse service to whomever we want. Yet that doesn't work out very well because people are racist, bigoted assholes. My rational mind screams that 1. religion is the root of much suffering 2 the whole "man laying with another man" in Leviticus doesn't apply in this situation 2b she's not a member of those people anyway (she's old, but she's not a 3,000-4,000 year old Jew) 3. making money off a group you feel are sub-human should make you happy.
There are several areas Uber has been playing with fire such as background checks, driving record checks, vehicular safety checks...Their going to have to come to some middle ground, and have enough transparency to satisfy level-headed State requirements. Driving your vehicle as a taxi seriously racks up miles and most "normal" people probably won't keep up their vehicles well enough after awhile. There was that Uber rape in India; but unfortunately that seems like an underground past time of our species; crimes like that should only 'ring alarm bells' if it goes over the statistical norm of the local taxi service. And the gray area that the drivers are in for wrecks, medical expenses, etc has kept my girlfriend from doing anything like that. It's very conceivable that if there is an Uberwreck the driver's insurance may refuse to pay out, the passenger might have to end up suing to pay the ridiculous medical bills...there is a big cost difference between normal, corporate, fleet, etc types of insurance policies. Even with some type of Uberinsurance it's still very gray with little to no case law.
They will have to somehow collect taxes from Uber, this isn't some "internet only" business. The private citizen's increased payments on road tax via their gas isn't enough to compensate the wear and tear from this. Perhaps they can get their app approved as a "meter" instead of forcing everyone to buy various meters for each municipality. I expect these seizures to increase worldwide until Uber addresses these issues.
Multiple gigs for a TV episode? Even a ripped HD Blueray is 4-9GB, a 720 HD show might be around 800-1000mb. Most shows I download are around 200-400mb. Even an entire season of normal resolution TV is around 7-10gb. If I was GoGo, update.microsoft.com would be blocked permanently, since it's just stupid for anyone to update critical files while in an airplane. Some updated are up to 500gb in total, especially when its DirectX, .net, etc. But I guess if your streaming full HD, non-compressed video then sure, several gigs.
*cough* *cough* fuck off *cough* *cough*
sounds to me like it's time to say "I never signed that, so let's just let the court decide if that document is binding on me. My lawyer's number is XXX, consider this your verbal trespass warning so be careful when spying into my back yard. Further direct contact will be considered harassment. Have a good day!"
"I hate You", the punk song off Star Trek IV, really does sum it up...Just where is our future, the things we've done and said / let's just push the button we'de be better off dead / The sins of all our father, being dumped on us the sons / the only choice we're given is HOW MANY MEGATONS?
My favorite punk song every, on my mp3 rotation list.
Mars ain't the kind of place you raise your kids. And a return sample mission is far more difficult than I think you grasp. This isn't some comet where we can just swing into the dust trail, and even that almost failed when it landed back here. Just designing and building the return rocket is incredibly difficult and far beyond anything we've ever done. Per Zubrin, it's right at Mars_ve = 5.00 km/s ==> 11185 mph. The escape velocity of Mars is 5017 m/s, Earth's is around 11,000 m/s. So for a return mission we would have to land both a rover AND a rather large rocket to get a sample back. We've landed ONE probe there in a fashion that MIGHT be able to also land a return rocket (the sky crane). Looking over the web real quick I don't see any complete mission designs for a return mission from Mars that have all these calculations. Our current crop of rockets couldn't delivery the needed payloads in one trip, we haven't yet got a system for precision landing (for multiple trips, ie one to land the lander, another to land a return rocket) to guarantee that the multiple landings will actually end up close enough to each other...more than a coup[le of clicks apart and the rover will never make it back to the return rocket as even Spirit only moves a few feet a day.
Basically, we have to wait on SpaceX to perfect the Grasshopper, or something similar. Their getting close, and no one else is even really working on such a system. We'll also need something like the SSL or Falcon 9 Heavy to get it all there, neither of which are actually flying yet. But, at least someone is working on it and actually testing launches now, all the tech is coming together. In the next few years everything should come together for this though.
I'll raise you this quote: "You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?!" yet on the actual arXiv site they do indeed say "Our results suggest that there is a form of entanglement that has a weight." It's actually the third word of the paper. And here, weight IS the correct term, as it is the measurement of the pull of gravity on an object. That's the whole point of the paper...current theory is quantum entanglement doesn't interact with gravity but these guys say in certain instances this might be incorrect. " Our results suggest that there is a form of entanglement that has a weight, since it affects the gravitational field." IANAQP, so here is the PDF so others can read it too and comprehend it better than I.
No, at worst is these experiments to prove this cause the Earth to collapse to the size of a pea.
Well, they do just what the name says. They study space-based biology. You know, all those millions of off-world life forms we've found. Oh, yeah, um...seems like a "future job" that may exist one day but not yet.
"What kind of hallucinatory BS is this?" don't know, but I'll bet that's where the $700M went. LSD isn't $4 a hit these days, even shrooms are at $15-$25 per gram. Hallucination-inducing pharmaceuticals aren't cheap.
Sometimes I think NASA should give up the SSL and Orion to some type of "privatized coalition" once the system is up and running. At this point, there are other entities that have the capacity to run those programs, freeing NASA up to do more science and less engineering. They should still own a large chunk of course. The best way would be to add up how much the SSL cost in total and then have a new non-profit formed; price the shares to the total costs of the programs transferred to it. Buy-in could be by any US Citizen (and perhaps citizens from other countries that NASA works for, such as England, France, India, etc) including corporations. NASA could them quickly monetize any hardware advancements and move back into the exploratory role we all really want them to do.
We really should skip over any more space-based telescopes for awhile after the current crops are up. NASA needs a new x-prize for a small lander system that can land on the "dark side" of the moon and build itself a telescope inside some crater. NASA would also need to launch a couple of data relay sats, and run the infrastructure itself. The more moonDishsats that are deployed, the higher the over-all resolution goes up. This self-replicating system would quickly outstrip any single scope we can put up, repair itself, never fall out of orbit, and lay the foundation for a permanent colony.
Not all repubs are anti-space, Newt had some interesting plans. Our manned space programs started under a Republican, specifically Project Mercury and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower, however, wouldn't even recognize his party today...he was pro Social Security, expanded the government, and even said ": "I have just one purpose ... and that is to build up a strong progressive Republican Party in this country." "Atoms for peace" instead of "bomb the Middle East". If the modern Republican Party still held true to his ideals then I would probably call myself a Republican.
that makes you the third person on the planet that can then, after Musk at #1 and Branson at #2. Impressive that you have enough capability to manage your own space program!
THAT is pretty annoying...each of my camera apps all save to different places. Some I can change, some I can't. And I can't seem to access the phone via CLI while it's connected via USB either, so I can't just whip up a script to move all the pics over. Don't know if that's because of Windows 7, the phone itself, a limitation in Android, or what.
The SD card functionality is the phone's design; not all Android devices are like that. I've got an old S3, I can install to my SD card and often do. And having to select a storage partition on every download...I've never had that on any of my droids. All that is the manufacturer's fault not something intrinsic to Android.
Even more important than the two things you listed is "form" of the iphones. They try to keep the external designs to a very precise ideal, one of which is the "sleekness". You can't remove the back cover, and Apple doesn't want any more slots / holes / etc on the outside of the phone. They could make an SD slot with a flip cover over it, but that really would seem tacky on them and would seriously detract from their over-all look and feel.
Or maybe some non-biological entity told Steve Jobs that SD cards are forbidden on one of his LSD trips.
What "science" should be exploring is why we get those feelings of the supernatural. The phenomenon of the transcendental across our entire species manifests itself in myriad forms, and seems quite elusive to being pinned down. Bottom line, are these moments anything more than an echo of an ancient danger sense? It's impossible to de-program ourselves completely on a mass scale...so how do we mitigate the risks?
Well, I told them not to stop there...but I knew the poor bastards would see them soon enough themselves. This is Ebola Bat Country!
I second that request, even if it is a bit of a bother.
There is some retarded troll on there named MikeyD who argues with every post...he keeps claiming that "space" is a completely empty void that has nothing but a few empty rocks, repeating that locking yourself in an SUV for six months is simulating a Mars trip and other such trollish nonsense. Even so, the author here is just super-whiney; I guess he's mad that Musk and Branson didn't give him their money and are building out a space infrastructure again. The author also seems quite confused as to the differences between SpaceX and VG claiming their basically the same type of company. I guess he'd rather these guys just be like John McAfee and use their money to create a harem and make customized bath salts.
something tells me that the cops using this don't care. In fact, I'll bet they firmly believe "the perps deserve it", and anyone else in the house is guilty by association. If they get fried, then that's just one less bullet they have to waste. And trying to explain the differences between radiation, wattage, etc would probably just make them confused, then angry, then really sarcastic...eventually drawing you into some perceived conflict that they can escalate to a physical fight so they can arrest you. I wish I was being sarcastic, but I've seen this on COPS so many times across the nation I sometimes think there must be some manual somewhere on just how to manipulate people into fighting you marked "LAW ENFORCEMENT EYES ONLY". Only in the past month or so have I seen any attempts from the police at de-escualtion. My friends ask me why I watch that show...so I can learn how not to get maced?
As more topical to your post, would it also be affected by building materials? I don't know what power / frequency such radar would be running at, but YES I'm sure the FCC would. This is almost a guaranteed violation of whatever agreement his department has with the FCC to be able to use this...although the geek in me thinks it's a cool off-label usage like on Total Recall or Commando (Commando claimed to use X rays though lol) but 1) potentially dangerous 2) against an unconvicted civilian(s) 3) crossing the line of an expectation of privacy since we have little easy protection.
It's not something you can "opt out of". If you don't want to run the risk of having someone use your cell to spy on you, we can choose not to carry one with us. If we don't want people looking through the windows we can close the blinds. I suppose some type of Faraday cage or wall coverings would work, but that's just diving straight into paranoid conspiracy land. Trying to explain to any guests, family, etc why suddenly no EM signal works in your place is almost guaranteed to make everyone think you need some therapy LOL. In my ideal USA, even if this technique was 100% safe it should STILL be illegal.
For a legal precedence, this seems to line up with the police using thermal imaging (cancerous radiation too). How legal / common is it for LE to do night raids after thermaling a house to get the positions of targets? That stuff used to be "military grade" but with the massive federal "one cop, one tank" policy this should be filter out by now.
what? Red? do you mean rouge?
that might be, but the law in most states will say otherwise. If you rear end someone, even if they suddenly stop on a highway, you'll get the ticket and your insurance will pay for their car.
what country do you live on that any normal person can actually affect speed limits? Most in the US are set by various engineers based on road width, location, number of connections, etc. There is no one to petition, it's all set by various Department of Transportation people. There is no "vote", it's mostly a math formula. Go read this...
In 1966, Congress passed a law that required all traffic control devices on public roadways in the nation be based on sound engineering principles, practices and have a common "basis in fact" determination, appearance and application.
These mandates are found in Title 23 , United States Code, Section 109(d) and Title 23, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 655.601 through 655.603 (Update: Title 23 C.F.R. Part 655 Subpart F- Traffic Control Devices on Frderal Aid and Other Streets).
So sure...try to petition your local Congress critter to sponsor a bill to get all that changed. Good luck with that.
what country do you live on that any normal person can actually affect speed limits? Most in the US are set by various engineers based on road width, location, number of connections, etc. There is no one to petition, it's all set by various Department of Transportation people. There is no "vote", it's mostly a math formula. Go read this...
In 1966, Congress passed a law that required all traffic control devices on public roadways in the nation be based on sound engineering principles, practices and have a common "basis in fact" determination, appearance and application.
These mandates are found in Title 23 , United States Code, Section 109(d) and Title 23, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 655.601 through 655.603 (Update: Title 23 C.F.R. Part 655 Subpart F- Traffic Control Devices on Frderal Aid and Other Streets).
So sure...try to petition your local Congress critter to sponsor a bill to get all that changed. Good luck with that.