Not that being religious is relevant, but an understanding of the history and symbolism of religions is essential to deciphering the meaning of things being excavated.
2. he wasn't passing the collected money up to a king in a city-state with a trillion dollar endowment
3. he wasn't promoting a political viewpoint while he had everyone's attention
4. he was Jesus, not a pedophile hypocrite in a uniform
5. it was about his ideas, not his haircut, the size of his stadium, the height of his stained-glass windows, or how well he fit the audience's idea of a "good christian"
6. he didn't have to talk around the absurd surrealities in the bible
Comcast will still own the last mile for 100 million Americans but now their costs will be lower so they can claim higher bandwidth and charge more and then throttle any non-premium customer who uses more than a GB per month!
The lemon laws generally state that the vehicle has to be in the shop N times for M days over X months.
The buyer here was being unreasonable. Electromechanical parts have nonzero failure rates, and the probability of failure is a bathtub curve. The first real-world stresses on a new part and aging are obviously going to be the major causes of faliures.
One part breaking, identified and repaired quickly, covered by warranty, is not a reason to return a vehicle, and certainly not to involve the law. The dealer was totally right not to take it back.
The buyer no doubt lost several thousand dollars in one day by trading it in; while the guy who ended up with a car with 10 miles on it, plus a shakedown, inspection, and rework over and above the factory quality process, at a used-car price, got a screaming deal.
Newt Gingrich made a "Contract with America". 10 bullet points that he kept on a card on a string around his neck (for the two minutes it took to show it to the cameras that one day).
He totally failed to live up to it, too. But what got him thrown out of office was a scam involving "selling" copies of his book in bulk to people who really just wanted to donate more than the legally allowed amount of money to his campaign.
So contracts and politicians are immiscible. Better to saddle them up daily and ride them with the pointy spurs on until they go where you tell them to.
See? You're abrogating your responsibility (and the privilege) of being the ultimate power in America with your "we don't have a democracy" attitude.
Your voice alters what your representatives see as being in their best self-interest. If the lobbyist's money is talking, you need to talk louder.
binding contract based on their platform promises with clearly defined sanctions for not following them. Sanctions up to and including personal liability.
Already exists. It's called "having to get elected next time". The trick is to make sure you find out what their real agenda is so that they have to campaign on that, instead of letting them carpet-bomb your district with litmus-test issues and fear-mongering.
I was a Republican and I drove an Audi. Then I was a Democrat and I drove a Chrysler-built Jeep. Then I became an Independent and drove a Lexus. Now I drive a Prius.
Look at the current news and you'll find there's an effort right now to pass a bill requiring ID for prepaid cell phones. A drug dealer may have several fake or stolen IDs, but in short order he's going to have to start recycling them. Someone who buys $4k worth of prepaids every month instead of getting a $500 smartphone and a $150 unlimited plan is leaving a pile of steaming evidence for the first investigator who scores a warrant to check the telco's records based on a tip from a pissed-off crack whore.
why turn off the microphone just because you aren't making a call? Just continuously record
99.9% wasted channel capacity is why not.
It's still a telecom system, and the systems engineers are still building it for sparse nominal capacity requirements, not for 100% open channels for 100% of users 100% of the time.
You are no doubt considered "compensated" for this as it falls in the aggregate of give and take negotiated when you shit yourself to get that new multitouch-enabled smartphone on day 0.
They don't need GPS data to know that they're fucking me over on coverage. I call them constantly to tell them where it's happening. They do nothing more than lie to me about how they're "improving" it. It's a game we play, and then I move to another carrier and the previous one doesn't get my money until he comes around on the carousel again.
The telephone company always knows your true location, down to the range of the cell towers covering you (and if they get data from two or more, they can place you in the overlapping region).
The telephone companies are using that data at the least, and can make a map of your movements that has just about all the resolution needed to create a database for sale to broadcast advertising salesemen covering those towns.
It won't likely be able to tell one bar owner that you visit his store more often than the one next door, but it will tell him if his radio ads for specials featuring your preferred brand of corn-liquor diluted tequila will get him more payback.
It's trivial to turn off the "location" service on your phone. Ditto the GPS info. Then your phone won't report it to whoever's installed an app on your phone that wants the data. Spoofing another location seems a bit self-defeating, because now you'll be spammed from a place you aren't even in.
But you'll never be able to lie about what cell you're in to the cell-tower operator. Your phone is sending your phone's ID to that tower to manage your calls. That's being logged and reported on the telephone network's routing system. That will never go away unless you turn your phone off entirely, because knowing the identity of your phone is essential to finding you in order to deliver an incoming call to the right tower and then to your phone.
If you want real privacy and mobile communications, you're out of luck.
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Yeah, but if you don't need the cows to clear the mines, you can eat them or sell them or breed more cows.
If you don't need an iRobot to clear the mines, you've got a toy the kids will get bored with in a couple of hours.
You aren't going to find many farmers who want to give up what is arguably the most valuable thing they own.
Do you mean their cow, or their iRobot ammunition?
The three laws would never be applied to this device.
Tautology.
Just to make things clear: the three laws will never be applied to any device intended to be used to win a war.
Well, Asimov was a writer of (among many things) speculative fiction, not a megalomaniacal warmonger.
The latter would not hesitate to deploy robots with no concept of humans other than as targets or debris.
Congress has a longer memory than you think. Especially when you hand them cash.
Archaeology.
Not that being religious is relevant, but an understanding of the history and symbolism of religions is essential to deciphering the meaning of things being excavated.
No. There is nothing unscientific about debunking religion.
1. he didn't pass a collection plate
2. he wasn't passing the collected money up to a king in a city-state with a trillion dollar endowment
3. he wasn't promoting a political viewpoint while he had everyone's attention
4. he was Jesus, not a pedophile hypocrite in a uniform
5. it was about his ideas, not his haircut, the size of his stadium, the height of his stained-glass windows, or how well he fit the audience's idea of a "good christian"
6. he didn't have to talk around the absurd surrealities in the bible
Anyone who has "religious views" gets an F in science.
That is all.
Comcast will still own the last mile for 100 million Americans but now their costs will be lower so they can claim higher bandwidth and charge more and then throttle any non-premium customer who uses more than a GB per month!
No, I am not being funny. Nor is Comcast.
Except that what you said never existed, while what the others said is satirically presented but 100% true.
The lemon laws generally state that the vehicle has to be in the shop N times for M days over X months.
The buyer here was being unreasonable. Electromechanical parts have nonzero failure rates, and the probability of failure is a bathtub curve. The first real-world stresses on a new part and aging are obviously going to be the major causes of faliures.
One part breaking, identified and repaired quickly, covered by warranty, is not a reason to return a vehicle, and certainly not to involve the law. The dealer was totally right not to take it back.
The buyer no doubt lost several thousand dollars in one day by trading it in; while the guy who ended up with a car with 10 miles on it, plus a shakedown, inspection, and rework over and above the factory quality process, at a used-car price, got a screaming deal.
Smart crooks will avoid leaving traces of their research.
But - and this is a big but - most crooks are dumb as a bag of crowbars.
Which still isn't as dumb as the paranoid nutjob who dreamed up this law.
Okay, unfair enough.
I'll concede it is virtually impossible for me to prove "always".
So let's do this: you find me just one counterexample in which a burglary was declared not to be premeditated.
Here's the part that amuses me: I know what premeditation is, and it's a lot less of a planning stage than you probably think it is.
Recalibrate your chimes. They're blowing in the wind.
how the hell they intend to prove that someone used an online map
1. Catch burglar.
2. Search burglar's home.
3. Seize burglar's computer.
4. Read browser history.
5. ???
6. Profit!
Er, burglary is always premeditated.
There's no way to accidentally burgle someone's house, or do it in a fit of passion, or in self-defense.
This law is no more or less a stupid abuse of legislative power than the classic example of passing a law saying that Pi is 3.0 instead of 3.14159...
it's a clear demonstration that plural voting is no way to prove validity.
Newt Gingrich made a "Contract with America". 10 bullet points that he kept on a card on a string around his neck (for the two minutes it took to show it to the cameras that one day).
He totally failed to live up to it, too. But what got him thrown out of office was a scam involving "selling" copies of his book in bulk to people who really just wanted to donate more than the legally allowed amount of money to his campaign.
So contracts and politicians are immiscible. Better to saddle them up daily and ride them with the pointy spurs on until they go where you tell them to.
See? You're abrogating your responsibility (and the privilege) of being the ultimate power in America with your "we don't have a democracy" attitude.
Your voice alters what your representatives see as being in their best self-interest. If the lobbyist's money is talking, you need to talk louder.
binding contract based on their platform promises with clearly defined sanctions for not following them. Sanctions up to and including personal liability.
Already exists. It's called "having to get elected next time". The trick is to make sure you find out what their real agenda is so that they have to campaign on that, instead of letting them carpet-bomb your district with litmus-test issues and fear-mongering.
I was a Republican and I drove an Audi. Then I was a Democrat and I drove a Chrysler-built Jeep. Then I became an Independent and drove a Lexus. Now I drive a Prius.
Showed him.
Look at the current news and you'll find there's an effort right now to pass a bill requiring ID for prepaid cell phones. A drug dealer may have several fake or stolen IDs, but in short order he's going to have to start recycling them. Someone who buys $4k worth of prepaids every month instead of getting a $500 smartphone and a $150 unlimited plan is leaving a pile of steaming evidence for the first investigator who scores a warrant to check the telco's records based on a tip from a pissed-off crack whore.
why turn off the microphone just because you aren't making a call? Just continuously record
99.9% wasted channel capacity is why not.
It's still a telecom system, and the systems engineers are still building it for sparse nominal capacity requirements, not for 100% open channels for 100% of users 100% of the time.
You are no doubt considered "compensated" for this as it falls in the aggregate of give and take negotiated when you shit yourself to get that new multitouch-enabled smartphone on day 0.
Check your agreement.
They don't need GPS data to know that they're fucking me over on coverage. I call them constantly to tell them where it's happening. They do nothing more than lie to me about how they're "improving" it. It's a game we play, and then I move to another carrier and the previous one doesn't get my money until he comes around on the carousel again.
You missed the point of the article.
The telephone company always knows your true location, down to the range of the cell towers covering you (and if they get data from two or more, they can place you in the overlapping region).
The telephone companies are using that data at the least, and can make a map of your movements that has just about all the resolution needed to create a database for sale to broadcast advertising salesemen covering those towns.
It won't likely be able to tell one bar owner that you visit his store more often than the one next door, but it will tell him if his radio ads for specials featuring your preferred brand of corn-liquor diluted tequila will get him more payback.
It's trivial to turn off the "location" service on your phone. Ditto the GPS info. Then your phone won't report it to whoever's installed an app on your phone that wants the data. Spoofing another location seems a bit self-defeating, because now you'll be spammed from a place you aren't even in.
But you'll never be able to lie about what cell you're in to the cell-tower operator. Your phone is sending your phone's ID to that tower to manage your calls. That's being logged and reported on the telephone network's routing system. That will never go away unless you turn your phone off entirely, because knowing the identity of your phone is essential to finding you in order to deliver an incoming call to the right tower and then to your phone.
If you want real privacy and mobile communications, you're out of luck.