Never buy a safe that you can't bolt to the studs in your home. One yank, one kick, no joy, and the average housebreaker will go back to rifling your underwear drawer.
You're never really dead in cyberspace. As this case shows, your effect on the systems you set up before your body died are still alive, and active. You're still selling, still collecting for sales, still paying for subscriptions, etc. And your/. postings are eternal.
The solution to the problem posed is to put all of your passwords into something like keepass, and give the master password to your executor or your lawyer, or bury it in a mayonnaise jar in your back yard.
In your will, tell your executor where to find the password and where to find your keepass database. Now he/she/bot has full control of your online presence.
As for your will, it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive if your property isn't. Check your state/province/canton/galactic-sector law to see if it allows for "holographic wills", which require no witnesses or lawyers; just a pen and paper, or, in one case, a pocket knife and a fender.
Not sure what precise strawman you're whining about, but, the entertainment industry is all giant corporations, so you'll probably have to take a second look at how the money is getting there.
I've driven in a number of states where the term "Reasonable and Prudent" is still on the books. For a short time, only in Montana, they'd removed the number from the sign, but it wasn't meant to open throttles wide. A cop can always ignore your speed. A judge will have the last word, and they never let anyone get away with speeding. The Wikipedia article you cite states that the Montana Supreme Court eventually threw out a ticket for doing 85, on purely legalistic grounds, and that its effect was to have the numbers put back on the sign.
I'll say it again: Reasonable and Prudent means you don't even get to go the posted limit when things are dicey.
No, only the double-nickel was repealed, changing the federal guideline for interstates.
All of the state DOTs still use federal guidelines for road markings, including speed limits, based on the basic class of the road. Nobody with a clue actually looks at the road and figures out how fast people should be going on it, or looks at the actual traffic and determines it's safe at the speed it's doing. Those experiments were all completed decades ago, when cars and roads were both made in ways that made driving less safe. But GOP tax and spend policies keep government from doing useful things, instead starving them of revenues and directing what little they do get towards helping big business get bigger.
The 85th percentile of what speed people would do if they were left to their own judgement, actually
I don't know anywhere that people are left to their own judgment.
"Reasonable and prudent" states don't actually let you go as fast as you're comfortable with. "Reasonable and prudent" is a limitation based on environmental factors and is in addition to the posted limit. I.e., if the sign says 65 but you're doing 65 in a foggy freezing rain, you're going to get nailed.
Fact is, if you really took the limit off, that 85% mark would be 10 mph above the posted limit in most places, 20 above in some, and 30 in a few.
In America, the tax system is "voluntary". That means you have to volunteer the information necessary to determine your tax, and you have to volunteer the money.*
The IRS can't take anything you don't offer up, unless you're tried and convicted.
So there's no way for them to do something like this.
We also don't like mixing the IRS and any other government agency, if we can help it. It may be less efficient for some things, but it keeps the IRS's information and power from being used by law enforcement or political entities to coerce you into doing things for them. Given that our government changes hands between enemy factions every few years, keeping that information from prying eyes is a good thing.
(* - That doesn't mean that paying what you owe is voluntary, it means they don't have an army of collectors. And it doesn't mean the government doesn't check your submitted information against what it already knows or can find by investigating, it means it's not responsible for getting all of the information itself. If it disagrees with your view of the facts, you can be charged with evasion, and garnished if convicted.)
First of all, what is the freaking speed limit on that road?
The only cars in the green are the ones coming to a stop in frame.
Second, I spotted one car with a green indicator accelerating away from a following car with a yellow indicator. So the thing isn't really discriminating accurately.
If I'm ever popped by this system, that piece of video will be my defense.
The local camera trappers have scads of cases of people getting flashed daily, sometimes multiple times per day, even going at ridiculous speeds (they had one person doing 100-135 mph in a 65 zone in literally dozens of instances.)
P.S. You're not supposed to break the limit when overtaking, either.
Read "acceptable range" as "tolerance of the measuring device". If they set a hard limit at the actual limit, they'd lose in court too often to make a profit.
Oh, of the speed people are going because of where the speed limit is set.
All speed limits are initialized to federal standard guidelines.
Almost never is a speed limit changed, except when the local OCD mommies get a hair up their ass and lower a perfectly good 50 to 35 for a 24/7 school zone, or a 40 to a 25 because their similarly brain-addled kids can't be trusted to stay the fuck out of the street.
Here's a dirty little secret: imaging costs nothing but electricity and time.
There. I've said it.
GE have been scamming the world for decades, pretending their machines are expensive to make. They're not. And worse, they lease the damn things because the price to purchase and depreciation are so high.
But it shouldn't cost any more to roll through a CT or MRI scanner than it does to pull into a parking space in your car (which is a much more complex machine, when you decompose them).
For a few thousand dollars we could all have an MRI built into a doorframe at home (though you might want to switch your remaining CRT-based TVs out for flat-panels before you try this). Use an iPhone app to run it and produce the analysis of any differences since the day before. The whole thing would take seconds.
Think about it. The return of the American Dream:
A man walks through is own front door, which makes a loud hum, followed by a ding. Breadwinner: "Honey, I'm home!" Little Missus: "And you're polyp-free, dear!"
Sure. If in your fantasy world nobody in government had any sort of ethics at all, and the government doesn't pass laws enforcing ethics standards.
But here, in the real world, government workers are generally more ethical than private-sector businesses, and are bound by strict ethics regulations.
So stop buying Fox News propaganda. The dysfunction of American healthcare is due to fractionation and greed in the system. Making it one system, with one set of standards and little opportunity for gouging people who are suffering, will make it far, far better. Not worse.
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Step 3a. We check your accounts to see which ones nobody is likely to miss...
There's a small logical error with putting a failsafe such as that on a machine that is likely to be where you are when the plane hits your house...
Better if it was a web service of some sort, on a server in another country (nukes have a way of congregating within national boundaries).
I grab the small safe (really a lockbox)
You mean the "burglar box"?
Never buy a safe that you can't bolt to the studs in your home. One yank, one kick, no joy, and the average housebreaker will go back to rifling your underwear drawer.
All of my banks have multiple challenge questions. And if they have ever emailed my password in plaintext, I have read them the riot act.
His phone is going to die long before he does. I hope it's provided for him after it's gone.
I've put a tiny little picture of Kim Kardashian's ass in there, so they're preoccupied.
Anyone you give your username and password to has legal access until you decide they don't. And you're dead, so you're not going to complain.
It's people who aren't supposed to have them who you, or your estate, can bar from the account even if they have them.
You're never really dead in cyberspace. As this case shows, your effect on the systems you set up before your body died are still alive, and active. You're still selling, still collecting for sales, still paying for subscriptions, etc. And your /. postings are eternal.
The solution to the problem posed is to put all of your passwords into something like keepass, and give the master password to your executor or your lawyer, or bury it in a mayonnaise jar in your back yard.
In your will, tell your executor where to find the password and where to find your keepass database. Now he/she/bot has full control of your online presence.
As for your will, it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive if your property isn't. Check your state/province/canton/galactic-sector law to see if it allows for "holographic wills", which require no witnesses or lawyers; just a pen and paper, or, in one case, a pocket knife and a fender.
They're a fuckload cheaper than what GE sells them for. The next x-ray or MRI machine you pay $500 to use for two minutes was paid for in 2005.
Yes, I do. People can earn a living fine without businesses lining their pockets with tax money.
Not sure what precise strawman you're whining about, but, the entertainment industry is all giant corporations, so you'll probably have to take a second look at how the money is getting there.
I've driven in a number of states where the term "Reasonable and Prudent" is still on the books. For a short time, only in Montana, they'd removed the number from the sign, but it wasn't meant to open throttles wide. A cop can always ignore your speed. A judge will have the last word, and they never let anyone get away with speeding. The Wikipedia article you cite states that the Montana Supreme Court eventually threw out a ticket for doing 85, on purely legalistic grounds, and that its effect was to have the numbers put back on the sign.
I'll say it again: Reasonable and Prudent means you don't even get to go the posted limit when things are dicey.
No, only the double-nickel was repealed, changing the federal guideline for interstates.
All of the state DOTs still use federal guidelines for road markings, including speed limits, based on the basic class of the road. Nobody with a clue actually looks at the road and figures out how fast people should be going on it, or looks at the actual traffic and determines it's safe at the speed it's doing. Those experiments were all completed decades ago, when cars and roads were both made in ways that made driving less safe. But GOP tax and spend policies keep government from doing useful things, instead starving them of revenues and directing what little they do get towards helping big business get bigger.
The 85th percentile of what speed people would do if they were left to their own judgement, actually
I don't know anywhere that people are left to their own judgment.
"Reasonable and prudent" states don't actually let you go as fast as you're comfortable with. "Reasonable and prudent" is a limitation based on environmental factors and is in addition to the posted limit. I.e., if the sign says 65 but you're doing 65 in a foggy freezing rain, you're going to get nailed.
Fact is, if you really took the limit off, that 85% mark would be 10 mph above the posted limit in most places, 20 above in some, and 30 in a few.
The ticket is $200. The points on your license make your insurance go up $200/6 months.
It wasn't kneeling.
It was Tebowing.
The push-ups are lame.
The walking, however, is totally badass.
But, as with all Boston Dynamics video releases, we have to ask: where is its head?
In America, the tax system is "voluntary". That means you have to volunteer the information necessary to determine your tax, and you have to volunteer the money.*
The IRS can't take anything you don't offer up, unless you're tried and convicted.
So there's no way for them to do something like this.
We also don't like mixing the IRS and any other government agency, if we can help it. It may be less efficient for some things, but it keeps the IRS's information and power from being used by law enforcement or political entities to coerce you into doing things for them. Given that our government changes hands between enemy factions every few years, keeping that information from prying eyes is a good thing.
(* - That doesn't mean that paying what you owe is voluntary, it means they don't have an army of collectors. And it doesn't mean the government doesn't check your submitted information against what it already knows or can find by investigating, it means it's not responsible for getting all of the information itself. If it disagrees with your view of the facts, you can be charged with evasion, and garnished if convicted.)
First of all, what is the freaking speed limit on that road?
The only cars in the green are the ones coming to a stop in frame.
Second, I spotted one car with a green indicator accelerating away from a following car with a yellow indicator. So the thing isn't really discriminating accurately.
If I'm ever popped by this system, that piece of video will be my defense.
Not every one.
The local camera trappers have scads of cases of people getting flashed daily, sometimes multiple times per day, even going at ridiculous speeds (they had one person doing 100-135 mph in a 65 zone in literally dozens of instances.)
P.S. You're not supposed to break the limit when overtaking, either.
Read "acceptable range" as "tolerance of the measuring device". If they set a hard limit at the actual limit, they'd lose in court too often to make a profit.
The 85th percentile of what?
Oh, of the speed people are going because of where the speed limit is set.
All speed limits are initialized to federal standard guidelines.
Almost never is a speed limit changed, except when the local OCD mommies get a hair up their ass and lower a perfectly good 50 to 35 for a 24/7 school zone, or a 40 to a 25 because their similarly brain-addled kids can't be trusted to stay the fuck out of the street.
Here's a dirty little secret: imaging costs nothing but electricity and time.
There. I've said it.
GE have been scamming the world for decades, pretending their machines are expensive to make. They're not. And worse, they lease the damn things because the price to purchase and depreciation are so high.
But it shouldn't cost any more to roll through a CT or MRI scanner than it does to pull into a parking space in your car (which is a much more complex machine, when you decompose them).
For a few thousand dollars we could all have an MRI built into a doorframe at home (though you might want to switch your remaining CRT-based TVs out for flat-panels before you try this). Use an iPhone app to run it and produce the analysis of any differences since the day before. The whole thing would take seconds.
Think about it. The return of the American Dream:
A man walks through is own front door, which makes a loud hum, followed by a ding.
Breadwinner: "Honey, I'm home!"
Little Missus: "And you're polyp-free, dear!"
Sure. If in your fantasy world nobody in government had any sort of ethics at all, and the government doesn't pass laws enforcing ethics standards.
But here, in the real world, government workers are generally more ethical than private-sector businesses, and are bound by strict ethics regulations.
So stop buying Fox News propaganda. The dysfunction of American healthcare is due to fractionation and greed in the system. Making it one system, with one set of standards and little opportunity for gouging people who are suffering, will make it far, far better. Not worse.
Dead people don't pay premiums. People with "cured" conditions pay higher premiums.