It's illegal where I live (New York) even though I've seen people obviously texting while they're driving.
But it's only a secondary offense. You can't be pulled over for texting while driving. If you're driving w/o a seatbelt, or speeding, have an expired registration, etc. and you're texting when the officer sees you to pull you over for those other offenses, you can be ticketed for both.
But texting alone isn't a stop-worthy offense. Holding a phone to your ear & having a conversation, OTOH, is.
I have a photo-capable all-in-one and have never been happy with the photo output, even on photo paper, especially with OS X. The photos always come out too dark or washed out, and the colors totally wrong. For the frequency I print photos, it's not worth the effort of fixing it.
So I switched to use CVS's service. There's one right on my way to/from work. Upload my photos, make sure they're cropped right, and I'm done. I got 50 free 4x6s when I signed up and I'm still working through those, so it's costing me nothing right now.
Maybe they'll even declare you dead while you're just unconscious, because they nor the machines can feel your pulse.
That'd be pretty sloppy work. Unconscious or not, you'd still be breathing. The ABCs of CPR are: Airway Breathing Circulation So they should pick up on your breathing before finding that you don't have a pulse. And if you're breathing, blood is flowing.
Let's see - you go to a store, have no intention of buying and tehn complain about the sales staff? I understand wanting to see something before you buy; but how can you expect a store to have good staff if there's no money in it?
Had he not proven to me how dumb he was with those statements, I would have considered buying there and paying a little extra for the convenience of getting the system on the spot and walking out the door.
But why should I reward them for gross incompetence/ignorance like that?
I somehow let myself fall into this @ Circuit City
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I was shopping for a new laptop for my wife a year or two ago and browsing Circuit City (no intentions of buying there, I just like to get my hands on the products before I buy them online). One of the "salesmen" asked me if I needed help and I decided to play along. I told him I was just checking out a few models for an upcoming purchase for my wife.
Him: Will you need a Microsoft to go with it? Me: A Microsoft what? It comes with Windows Vista, doesn't it? Microsoft makes a lot of software. Him: Will she need any office software? Me: Yeah, but I've got a copy of Office XP (maybe it's 2003, I don't recall) I don't use anymore since I bought a Mac, so she'll just use that. Him: Oh, no, you can't do that. Office XP won't work on this computer Me: Huh? It should work fine, it's recent enough, Vista works with just about anything. Him: Nope, Office XP/2003 doesn't work on Vista at all, you need Office 2007. Me: Are you sure that it's not just that Office 2007 works better than the older versions on Vista? Him: No, it's not going to work at all.
And then people wonder why sales dropped through the floor when they laid off their best staff.
Imagine if we spent $600B PER YEAR on finding alternative energy
We've already found lots of alternative energy. It's capturing that energy, then overhauling our entire infrastructure to best use it, that we haven't managed to do well yet.
My local Toyota place: $26 including tax for an oil change. Includes a car wash
My Subaru dealer does it for $15 plus tax, and will give me a free loaner for the day (yes, just for an oil change) because I'm in the 100,000 mile club.
I'm more than capable of changing the oil myself, but I can't buy the oil & filter myself for that price, and I'm still left with storing & disposing of the old oil. Plus it gets the car up on the lift where they can give it a once-over that I can't do with the car on the ground in the driveway in January.
None are saying they get too much, but how many are getting their budgets cut year after year because administrations simply don't consider the work they do "important"?
It took only 9 years from nearly zero to putting men on the moon. This amount of time (which is extraordinarily excessive) is just a symptom of how bureaucratic NASA has become.
NASA also had much, much more then than they do today, and a real drive to get it done on a very fixed timeline. Today, deadlines are just those things that go "whoosh" as they fly by.
It was also driven very heavily by Cold War-era propaganda, which we don't have now. We aren't exactly challenging "tha terrists" in a race for the moon today.
In the summer, I saw her less than I did during the school year because I was outside doing stuff all day - out on a bike ride, at the neighborhood pool, etc.
Only to a point. Then you have to worry about the snow melting, then immediately freezing (ambient temperature too low), turning that parking lot into an ice rink.
And in the summer, instead of that parking lot being a heatsink, it'll be a giant heat sponge, and it'll heat your equipment, instead of cooling it.
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But it's only a secondary offense. You can't be pulled over for texting while driving. If you're driving w/o a seatbelt, or speeding, have an expired registration, etc. and you're texting when the officer sees you to pull you over for those other offenses, you can be ticketed for both.
But texting alone isn't a stop-worthy offense. Holding a phone to your ear & having a conversation, OTOH, is.
CVS too.
I have a photo-capable all-in-one and have never been happy with the photo output, even on photo paper, especially with OS X. The photos always come out too dark or washed out, and the colors totally wrong. For the frequency I print photos, it's not worth the effort of fixing it.
So I switched to use CVS's service. There's one right on my way to/from work. Upload my photos, make sure they're cropped right, and I'm done. I got 50 free 4x6s when I signed up and I'm still working through those, so it's costing me nothing right now.
http://www.imodium.com/page.jhtml?id=imodium/include/3_5.inc
But it's Flash, so it won't work on an iPhone.
That'd be pretty sloppy work. Unconscious or not, you'd still be breathing. The ABCs of CPR are:
Airway
Breathing
Circulation
So they should pick up on your breathing before finding that you don't have a pulse. And if you're breathing, blood is flowing.
Had he not proven to me how dumb he was with those statements, I would have considered buying there and paying a little extra for the convenience of getting the system on the spot and walking out the door.
But why should I reward them for gross incompetence/ignorance like that?
I was shopping for a new laptop for my wife a year or two ago and browsing Circuit City (no intentions of buying there, I just like to get my hands on the products before I buy them online). One of the "salesmen" asked me if I needed help and I decided to play along. I told him I was just checking out a few models for an upcoming purchase for my wife.
Him: Will you need a Microsoft to go with it?
Me: A Microsoft what? It comes with Windows Vista, doesn't it? Microsoft makes a lot of software.
Him: Will she need any office software?
Me: Yeah, but I've got a copy of Office XP (maybe it's 2003, I don't recall) I don't use anymore since I bought a Mac, so she'll just use that.
Him: Oh, no, you can't do that. Office XP won't work on this computer
Me: Huh? It should work fine, it's recent enough, Vista works with just about anything.
Him: Nope, Office XP/2003 doesn't work on Vista at all, you need Office 2007.
Me: Are you sure that it's not just that Office 2007 works better than the older versions on Vista?
Him: No, it's not going to work at all.
And then people wonder why sales dropped through the floor when they laid off their best staff.
It really does suck. Try being half-Jewish and getting your birthday lost amongst Hanukkah & Christmas,
My housecats do fine waking me up.
At least both Honda Insights have been hybrid cars.
We've already found lots of alternative energy. It's capturing that energy, then overhauling our entire infrastructure to best use it, that we haven't managed to do well yet.
But the connectors are all standardized on your home theater equipment. HDMI is HDMI. S-Video is S-Video.
My Subaru dealer does it for $15 plus tax, and will give me a free loaner for the day (yes, just for an oil change) because I'm in the 100,000 mile club.
I'm more than capable of changing the oil myself, but I can't buy the oil & filter myself for that price, and I'm still left with storing & disposing of the old oil. Plus it gets the car up on the lift where they can give it a once-over that I can't do with the car on the ground in the driveway in January.
Well, night launches are more spectacular to watch.
The revised EPA mileage numbers & testing process are much more realistic than they used to be.
But the Post-It didn't disable the camera. It merely temporarily obstructed the view.
None are saying they get too much, but how many are getting their budgets cut year after year because administrations simply don't consider the work they do "important"?
You mean just like all of the apologies and reparations for slavery in the US?
Here's one difference: unlike most agencies, they don't get a large enough budget to do what they should be doing.
That's "much more funding than they do today"
NASA also had much, much more then than they do today, and a real drive to get it done on a very fixed timeline. Today, deadlines are just those things that go "whoosh" as they fly by.
It was also driven very heavily by Cold War-era propaganda, which we don't have now. We aren't exactly challenging "tha terrists" in a race for the moon today.
USA & New Zealand are the only 2 "first world" countries that allow such advertising.
The US changed a law back in the late 90s which opened the floodgates for this crap.
The guard may have been in on it as well.
I think that was an IBM ad.
My mother was a stay at home mom.
In the summer, I saw her less than I did during the school year because I was outside doing stuff all day - out on a bike ride, at the neighborhood pool, etc.
I seem to have turned out OK.
Only to a point. Then you have to worry about the snow melting, then immediately freezing (ambient temperature too low), turning that parking lot into an ice rink.
And in the summer, instead of that parking lot being a heatsink, it'll be a giant heat sponge, and it'll heat your equipment, instead of cooling it.