Barring a medical emergency there is no Interstate or 4 Lane highway in Georgia that warrants blowing by at 85 MPH. Nor is there a two lane road that's safe for travel at 75 MPH. Speed trapping is illegal in Georgia, and I've had more than a few "officer's of the law" charge me with speeding and then they receive official reprimands on their record and my ticket dismissed for hiding in the dark with their lights off (Two different OCGA violations: Officers must be *visible* for a minimum of 500 feet and at least 500 feet past a speed control sign (the white ones), AND Officers performing night-time speed check operations MUST have their headlights shining across the roadways.) If it's DPS that catches the officers performing these acts, the Municipality will lose their right to operate Speed Detection Devices of any type for a period of 6 months to 1 year.
Again, my Disclaimer: I am NOT a Lawyer, however I have been an advocate for several of my friends in Georgia traffic court.
There's a few bits of data error that you have in your understanding of the article. For one, you have this:
Now that makes me think that if his average speed between the two points is estimated at 35mph and the areas speed limit is 50mph, with a similar grace that is one giant error in the system.
In actuality he was not personally involved in any of these tickets, these are all separate drivers that work for the company he owns who each got separate tickets for his company on this stretch of road. Here he's using laws of probability to say that he can believe a few of his drivers may have been doing the requisite 12mph above 35mph [47mph is the upper limit of grace] but not all 40 of the accused drivers, which is what prompted his investigation into the photos in the first place. Given this fact, any error in photogrammetry (heh, spell check doesn't like that word, but doesn't know any proper replacements) that you perceived is not as far off as you initially thought. His driver was actually accused of travelling 50mph (22.352m/s) giving that between the two photos it should have shown 8.11m distance between the two instances instead of the 5.67 that the Business owner calculated.
I'm not sure how it is in the rest of the States here but I've lived in two where local municipalities were forced to allow for a 10mph leeway, not for RADAR calibration errors, but for speedometer calibration errors. No two speedo's will read the same. You've got variables such as stretched cables on older vehicles, oversize or undersized tires without recalibration of the transmission, faulty OBD-II computer, hell, even having tires 10lbs over or under inflated can cause speedos to be off by several mph. Also I know for a fact that in Georgia, as laid out by the O.C.G.A., they don't trust the municipality RADARs to be calibrated accurately to within 15 MPH. This is also shown in the fine table as it's not until offenses of greater than 15MPH is there any money allowed to be gathered in fines and costs that would be worthwhile for the municipality to charge that would be able to compensate for the Arresting Officer's time in writing the ticket, let alone the operations of the court. Only Georgia Department of Public Safety Officials (aka State Trooper) are allowed to issue cites for anything 1mph over the limit or higher; County and City Governments have to have a 15MPH margin minimum or else they could face revocation of their RADAR Operations License for 6 months to a year (time when speeding ticket revenue would be nil)*.
Now...on to this point:
The odd thing is the manufacturer of the camera says:
"Optotraffic representatives said the photos are not intended to capture the actual act of speeding, and are taken nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors as a way to prove the vehicle was on the road.
“No one has come to us with a proven error,” company spokesman Mickey Shepherd said Tuesday. “Their speed is not measured by the photos. The speed is measured before the photos are taken.”"
I would have thought that would be enough to get his style of defense thrown out of court.
Here is my contention, and apparently the Judges'(plural) as well (Remember, three different judges have dismissed based on this gentleman's rebuttal.) The photos may not be INTENDED on capturing the act, however, by design they have recorded the speed of the vehicle photographically. In the state of Virginia, this is called VASCAR and is used as a legal method to determine speed from the air without the use of RADAR or LADAR (LAzer Distancing and Ranging). Regardless of intent, the fact remains that there are two images of two points in time with a measurable timestamp that can be used to calculate speed. Granted the mechanics of the timestamp is argued to death elsewhere in this thread but it is simply enough to "cast reasonable doubt" on the accuracy of the entire system. Given all this, the statement "Their speed i
Admittedly they should have simply time stamped it to the minute and nothing more, and/or provided only one image.
The photo w[as] to prove presence, NOT speed.
Speed was captured by radar 50 feet from the camera.
This might be the case of what they should have done to ensure that the cameras are cash cows with no legal recourse , however three separate Judges just made precedence that showed the cameras are faulty and that there is reasonable doubt to the accuracy of the system. It doesn't matter what the company does now to "fix" the radar system, this precedence will always be a fallback for future judges to dismiss future cases on the premise that the cameras could still be as faulty as they were before.
Don't know about Nationally, but it's not in my local Wal-Mart. It's not heavily advertised here. It MIGHT be in one of the 3 local comic book shops, all of which I only stumbled across by looking in various shopping centers to see what kind of stores are around. So the only reliable venue to get it is online. Unfortunately board games are just not ever the first thing I think of looking up on Amazon. I have more friends that are the same way. The only way for any of the "Settlers..." games to catch on is for the companies to start getting the name out there in more than just specialty shops. They need the games set up next to the Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley drivel.
Ummm...you might want to clear up which "Avatar" you mean. While the glitz and 3-D couldn't save "Avatar: The Last Airbender" from utter abysmal failure (IMO), the "Avatar" with the big blue bipedal cats and complete CGI environment around them did make for some stunning visuals to go along with a relatively ho-hum storyline and writing. (Isn't the word 'Unobtanium' one of those that the tech guys are supposed to replace with one of the super rare elements from the actual Periodic table...or actually use creativity in coining a proper element name that isn't so obviously a cop-out? Oh wait, they blew the budget on the CG so there were no tech-writers on staff to speak of. My bad.)
The problem with Big Blue Cat Avatar now is that they probably can't do it again without bringing some damn good writing on board. Since everyone's already been wowed by the glitz that Cameron's team is capable of, it's now a "been there done that, bought all the marketing shinies and even 'Avatar'd' my profile pic on facebook" type of experience for the movie goers.
I wish I had mod points because you deserve to be pushed up to +5 Insightful!
You have absolutely hit the nail on the head in that real violence is so much worse than fictional violence. I don't care what gets shown on the screen, I know that I can look away at any point if it becomes "too intense" and I will make it through the situation alive physically, though if I'm playing a game my avatar may wind up getting headshot and eaten by that demon over in the corner. If it were a real life situation, I wouldn't have the option of looking away, or else that horror I'm witnessing would happen to me. If I'm covertly hiding under the bed in a gestapo situation, I know that if I wince, close my eyes or even breathe too loud, whatever I'm watching WILL happen to me, so I have to keep as calm as I possibly can so I can either wait for the proper time to strike, or wait for the proper time to run like hell.... then deal with the PTSD of what it was I witnessed later.
The only way you can turn off reality completely is to either mentally snap or shoot yourself in the head. Either way it turns into fair game as to what happens next to those you care about when you're done with your escape.
Considering that TMNT Tournament was a multi-system simultaneous release(NES, SNES, Genesis, and possibly others that I don't know about), it doesn't really count. You also can't compare the NES version to the SNES version. There just wasn't enough room for highly detailed sprites, and you only had two action buttons to work with as opposed to the 6 that the SNES had. At least with the SNES they were able to make (near)True to Arcade ports of some of the big names like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat (this is where the "nearly" comes in).
Ok...I get what he's trying to do now. Xanadu is essentially taking a book like The Second World War: A Complete History, just as an example, and go through it pulling out all the books referred to in its bibliography and opening those books to the referenced pages, then as you read the first book, as you reach footnotes you go to the referenced book to read the excerpt in its original context. It's a way to extrapolate bias, especially on something with controversial viewpoints. It's not a bad system in actuality. Research papers can consist of more sources, if properly set up it can be a way to track documentation of corporate memos... but there's also a greater chance for larger more complex projects to become unruly and nearly non-manageable.
...you might use one of those sugar pourers. There is no way to measure when you just pour it in like that.
Ok, I used to go to a small coffee shop with my dad on occasion, and this particular coffee shop only had the pourable canisters for sugar. I've watched how most of the customers poured their sugar in their coffee, and I use the same technique myself, now. I never put more than 3 tsp in when I use the canisters. Those that I've watched in that coffee shop I can tell you with absolute certainty have used 3 to 5 tsp, depending on personal taste, with nothing more than a slight variance in the heap. How do I know this? Because all of us use the teaspoon that gets used for mixing as a measuring buffer. Hold the canister over the cup, hold the spoon in the stream, pour sugar, fill-tilt, fill-tilt, fill-tilt, stop and stir. Not purely accurate, I'll give., but better than judging based on a second count.
And a teaspoon not being a teaspoon? I've never had a problem knowing the difference between a tsp and a Tblsp in look. Yeah, pure accurate measurements are probably not going to be achieved, but who cares about a half tsp or less of variance? I'm OCD and even I don't care that much. Maybe my autistic son might in the future, but right now he's too much into taking apart his toys trying to figure out how they work to care.
How about this site as an example of dynamic content with a static menu using php with no JavaScript save for the StatCounter and embedded chat client? This is essentially what you are talking about with a two column page, the left column used for links that are a fixed amount of data that remain on the page without scrolling off, regardless of how much data must be scrolled through in column 2. It's all done through CSS.
While I can't say that the information on the site is worthwhile per se ( I agree that many personal sites, including this one referenced, tend to have a lot of drivel on it), I post it here only as an example of what is achievable with properly used CSS.
Why wait? I can and do boycott multiple companies at the same time... I'm actually sorry to say that Acer has made it to that list as well. I like my quad core laptop and all, but when asking acer for parts to add a second HDD to it, I just get told that they don't offer replacement parts and expect users to buy a new complete laptop every time something breaks down, and in doing further research, it's near impossible to get them to honor their warranties. I wondered why the thing had such good specs for such a low price, even after working with the thing and doing blender renders on it, I'm still impressed with the price:performance ratio. I just know that when this thing dies, I'm gonna be hard pressed to get any kind of service repair on it.
Here's the thing: There used to be a tax on many of the roadways. A fair tax, except for the long waits that could be caused. New Jersey still has it. Parts of Florida too. They're called Toll Roads.
If you need to raise money for usage, place a booth array on the roads, and designate the revenue strictly for those stretches of roads. If it's done right and automated you can eliminate two birds with one stone as well. First bird: you take a ticket at the entrance to the toll road that would list the price for possible destinations on a table on the ticket. Then once you reach the exit, you pay the automated booth. This could incorporate modern technology even by utilizing a card swipe reader or a Toll Booth ID Tag, eliminating the need for "exact change," though having coin bins would also be available to those who want to use the (in this case, false) anonymity of cash.
The second bird in all this? When you take the ticket at the first booth, it's digitally stamped in computer readable ink with the date, time, and your license plate information that was conveniently photographed when you pulled up to the booth. Then you deposit this ticket into a slot at the destination booth. The booth will print the ending time on the card which will be picked up later and processed by computer to make sure that the time and distance are in line with the posted speed limit...thus allowing for evidence against speeders to be mailed to the speeder's home with a bill attached... and make sure that the associated money from speeding revenue is not placed into law enforcement, but back into road maintenance. If done properly, the Department of Transportation will be operating at a surplus within just a few months.
One thing about the speed enforcement through the toll system that is something I would personally like to see: If it is only the automated system that determines a driver went through the booth system at excessive speed, while a REASONABLE fine can be imposed (imo $25 for every 10MPH bracket over the posted limit is reasonable) points against the license would NOT be accrued. The only way points can be accrued against a person is if an officer makes a physical arrest with RADAR, LADAR, or LAZER evidence (toll booth timing card would NOT be admissible in court), hands the person a physical ticket with a summons to court, AND the person is convicted of the offense.
You also seem to not realize that there are other prepaid cellular services than Tracfone and GoPhone. Amp'd, Boost, Virgin, and Verizon Prepaid to name a few. Those are all on CDMA, so they aren't subject to AT&T's grapple hold on the nation's GSM network.
Amp'd Mobile= Dead. They filed for Chapter 11 in 2007 and ceased service that same year.
Boost Mobile AND Virgin Mobile USA = Sprint/ NeXTEL (Virgin Mobile USA is a different company from Virgin Mobile owned by the British company, Virgin Group).
The only other independent Cellphone Carrier is LeapWireless who offer Cricket Communications.
Personal Experience with the Four Companies available( AT&T, Sprint/NeXTEL, Verison, and Leap) as I've had them all at one time or another:
AT&T had the worst customer security of all of them, AND they allowed my mother access to my personal cellphone account when she wasn't even an authorized user on the account. When they permitted her to change my plan to a cheaper one (bless the woman's heart, she thought she was protecting me when I wound up unknowingly running up a $400 overage bill for using the minutes I thought I still had). Because they facilitated what amounts to fraud and identity theft with no social engineering skill used, whatsoever. She just identified herself as herself to the rep, and got all the power as if I were the one making the changes. I was 21 at the time and in no way tied to my mother's household. I refuse to ever use them again for anything.
Sprint, while I've never had to deal with Identity theft, leaves much to be desired with their customer service; especially in relation to their billing. I've also had similar issue with Virgin Mobile USA, so it's across the company.
Verizon is Fair with their Customer Service, I haven't dealt with their prepaid, but their service is a bit overpriced for what the customer really gets.
Cricket I've had the best experience with so far. They're straight on the billing (I've never had a phantom charge on a bill to date) Unlimited has been truly unlimited. And, although initial customer service is outsourced, the peons don't usually wait too long to step things up to Tier 1 support, where there's usually a native English speaker that understands the network. The only problem I've had is the coverage isn't where I need it to be, yet.
If you did this to a live outlet in your house (I'm assuming so as you're getting the 120 VAC between the Neutral and Live wires), you have a grounding fault in your house. A properly grounded house will read 120 VAC between the Live wire and Protective Ground and 0 VAC between Neutral and Protective Ground. Connections to ground limit the build-up of static electricity when handling flammable products or when repairing electronic devices If your not getting the voltage between the Live and PG slots, then you need to have an electrician put a copper rod or pipe into the ground (Between 5 and 15 feet deep, leaving about 5-10 inches of rod/pipe exposed, depending on local building codes) and tie it in to the Meter Box with a copper cable (8 gauge or larger).
A non grounded house is at risk for taking damage in a lightning storm, catching fire seemingly randomly from a buildup of static charge in a flammable electrical device (Furnace, Space Heater, stove, etc), or possibly having electronics cease to function ever again from turning them on during a very dry day.
Granted I have lived in an old farmhouse that had nothing but turn of the century wiring, and haven't had any trouble... but I also made sure that the outlets that the computers were on each had its own grounding wire going down to the earth directly underneath. I also ran them off of UPS's. I've lost a couple of UPS's to static charge in that house, but I've not lost a computer. Thankfully it wasn't very long that I was stuck in that situation.
#2: I said nothing of working with live electronics.
The capacitors in a power supply will always hold a charge from the first time it is powered up. You want the power supply grounded on a powered down machine to make sure that any discharge that might occur goes out the grounded outlet. (there are special cables made just for this purpose that do not have the neutral and powered wires within them, just the ground) Then you want to strap yourself to the case to make sure that any static charge that you would be carrying goes out the same path before you touch any of the components. Granted, I do not always follow this procedure and I've yet to burn out a single one of my procs or components by not following it, but when I'm getting paid to service other people's equipment you can bet the farm I'm going to follow proper procedure, lest I become responsible for replacing equipment that could easily be blamed on improper tech procedure.
This whole paragraph is taken from basic A+ certification course material.
If you pushed on the tombstones or Armos knights from above, you wouldn't get damaged. Touch them from underneath and Link's in for a hurtin. Learned that from simple trial and error.
Not exactly "His" congress, but a congress cut of much the same cloth. One can still hope that he will use his Veto power when that bill hits his desk. Then we will see exactly where Obama stands in relation to the security outlined in the Constitution regarding this issue. However, don't forget that congress can still overrule the Veto if there's a strong enough backing. Our current congress: A testament to the Sheeple of the United States. I voted. My candidates lost. And even if they won, I'm of very small faith that any of them would have done anything better for this country than who's in office now.
Can I vote for a new office to clean up this sad state of affairs? Say...Emperor?
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Barring a medical emergency there is no Interstate or 4 Lane highway in Georgia that warrants blowing by at 85 MPH. Nor is there a two lane road that's safe for travel at 75 MPH. Speed trapping is illegal in Georgia, and I've had more than a few "officer's of the law" charge me with speeding and then they receive official reprimands on their record and my ticket dismissed for hiding in the dark with their lights off (Two different OCGA violations: Officers must be *visible* for a minimum of 500 feet and at least 500 feet past a speed control sign (the white ones), AND Officers performing night-time speed check operations MUST have their headlights shining across the roadways.) If it's DPS that catches the officers performing these acts, the Municipality will lose their right to operate Speed Detection Devices of any type for a period of 6 months to 1 year.
Again, my Disclaimer: I am NOT a Lawyer, however I have been an advocate for several of my friends in Georgia traffic court.
There's a few bits of data error that you have in your understanding of the article. For one, you have this:
Now that makes me think that if his average speed between the two points is estimated at 35mph and the areas speed limit is 50mph, with a similar grace that is one giant error in the system.
In actuality he was not personally involved in any of these tickets, these are all separate drivers that work for the company he owns who each got separate tickets for his company on this stretch of road. Here he's using laws of probability to say that he can believe a few of his drivers may have been doing the requisite 12mph above 35mph [47mph is the upper limit of grace] but not all 40 of the accused drivers, which is what prompted his investigation into the photos in the first place. Given this fact, any error in photogrammetry (heh, spell check doesn't like that word, but doesn't know any proper replacements) that you perceived is not as far off as you initially thought. His driver was actually accused of travelling 50mph (22.352m/s) giving that between the two photos it should have shown 8.11m distance between the two instances instead of the 5.67 that the Business owner calculated.
I'm not sure how it is in the rest of the States here but I've lived in two where local municipalities were forced to allow for a 10mph leeway, not for RADAR calibration errors, but for speedometer calibration errors. No two speedo's will read the same. You've got variables such as stretched cables on older vehicles, oversize or undersized tires without recalibration of the transmission, faulty OBD-II computer, hell, even having tires 10lbs over or under inflated can cause speedos to be off by several mph. Also I know for a fact that in Georgia, as laid out by the O.C.G.A., they don't trust the municipality RADARs to be calibrated accurately to within 15 MPH. This is also shown in the fine table as it's not until offenses of greater than 15MPH is there any money allowed to be gathered in fines and costs that would be worthwhile for the municipality to charge that would be able to compensate for the Arresting Officer's time in writing the ticket, let alone the operations of the court. Only Georgia Department of Public Safety Officials (aka State Trooper) are allowed to issue cites for anything 1mph over the limit or higher; County and City Governments have to have a 15MPH margin minimum or else they could face revocation of their RADAR Operations License for 6 months to a year (time when speeding ticket revenue would be nil)*.
Now...on to this point:
The odd thing is the manufacturer of the camera says:
"Optotraffic representatives said the photos are not intended to capture the actual act of speeding, and are taken nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors as a way to prove the vehicle was on the road.
“No one has come to us with a proven error,” company spokesman Mickey Shepherd said Tuesday. “Their speed is not measured by the photos. The speed is measured before the photos are taken.”"
I would have thought that would be enough to get his style of defense thrown out of court.
Here is my contention, and apparently the Judges'(plural) as well (Remember, three different judges have dismissed based on this gentleman's rebuttal.) The photos may not be INTENDED on capturing the act, however, by design they have recorded the speed of the vehicle photographically. In the state of Virginia, this is called VASCAR and is used as a legal method to determine speed from the air without the use of RADAR or LADAR (LAzer Distancing and Ranging). Regardless of intent, the fact remains that there are two images of two points in time with a measurable timestamp that can be used to calculate speed. Granted the mechanics of the timestamp is argued to death elsewhere in this thread but it is simply enough to "cast reasonable doubt" on the accuracy of the entire system. Given all this, the statement "Their speed i
Admittedly they should have simply time stamped it to the minute and nothing more, and/or provided only one image. The photo w[as] to prove presence, NOT speed. Speed was captured by radar 50 feet from the camera.
This might be the case of what they should have done to ensure that the cameras are cash cows with no legal recourse , however three separate Judges just made precedence that showed the cameras are faulty and that there is reasonable doubt to the accuracy of the system. It doesn't matter what the company does now to "fix" the radar system, this precedence will always be a fallback for future judges to dismiss future cases on the premise that the cameras could still be as faulty as they were before.
Don't know about Nationally, but it's not in my local Wal-Mart. It's not heavily advertised here. It MIGHT be in one of the 3 local comic book shops, all of which I only stumbled across by looking in various shopping centers to see what kind of stores are around. So the only reliable venue to get it is online. Unfortunately board games are just not ever the first thing I think of looking up on Amazon. I have more friends that are the same way. The only way for any of the "Settlers..." games to catch on is for the companies to start getting the name out there in more than just specialty shops. They need the games set up next to the Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley drivel.
Ummm...you might want to clear up which "Avatar" you mean. While the glitz and 3-D couldn't save "Avatar: The Last Airbender" from utter abysmal failure (IMO), the "Avatar" with the big blue bipedal cats and complete CGI environment around them did make for some stunning visuals to go along with a relatively ho-hum storyline and writing. (Isn't the word 'Unobtanium' one of those that the tech guys are supposed to replace with one of the super rare elements from the actual Periodic table...or actually use creativity in coining a proper element name that isn't so obviously a cop-out? Oh wait, they blew the budget on the CG so there were no tech-writers on staff to speak of. My bad.)
The problem with Big Blue Cat Avatar now is that they probably can't do it again without bringing some damn good writing on board. Since everyone's already been wowed by the glitz that Cameron's team is capable of, it's now a "been there done that, bought all the marketing shinies and even 'Avatar'd' my profile pic on facebook" type of experience for the movie goers.
Like the Volkswagon Beetle.
There is a simple explanation for why the good things are not mentioned. Hitler lost World War II for Germany.
I wish I had mod points because you deserve to be pushed up to +5 Insightful!
You have absolutely hit the nail on the head in that real violence is so much worse than fictional violence. I don't care what gets shown on the screen, I know that I can look away at any point if it becomes "too intense" and I will make it through the situation alive physically, though if I'm playing a game my avatar may wind up getting headshot and eaten by that demon over in the corner. If it were a real life situation, I wouldn't have the option of looking away, or else that horror I'm witnessing would happen to me. If I'm covertly hiding under the bed in a gestapo situation, I know that if I wince, close my eyes or even breathe too loud, whatever I'm watching WILL happen to me, so I have to keep as calm as I possibly can so I can either wait for the proper time to strike, or wait for the proper time to run like hell.... then deal with the PTSD of what it was I witnessed later.
The only way you can turn off reality completely is to either mentally snap or shoot yourself in the head. Either way it turns into fair game as to what happens next to those you care about when you're done with your escape.
Considering that TMNT Tournament was a multi-system simultaneous release(NES, SNES, Genesis, and possibly others that I don't know about), it doesn't really count. You also can't compare the NES version to the SNES version. There just wasn't enough room for highly detailed sprites, and you only had two action buttons to work with as opposed to the 6 that the SNES had. At least with the SNES they were able to make (near)True to Arcade ports of some of the big names like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat (this is where the "nearly" comes in).
Ok...I get what he's trying to do now. Xanadu is essentially taking a book like The Second World War: A Complete History, just as an example, and go through it pulling out all the books referred to in its bibliography and opening those books to the referenced pages, then as you read the first book, as you reach footnotes you go to the referenced book to read the excerpt in its original context. It's a way to extrapolate bias, especially on something with controversial viewpoints. It's not a bad system in actuality. Research papers can consist of more sources, if properly set up it can be a way to track documentation of corporate memos... but there's also a greater chance for larger more complex projects to become unruly and nearly non-manageable.
Funny, when I was 4 I did:
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just to make a little man pop up in random places on the TV screen with an electronic buzz.
...you might use one of those sugar pourers. There is no way to measure when you just pour it in like that.
Ok, I used to go to a small coffee shop with my dad on occasion, and this particular coffee shop only had the pourable canisters for sugar. I've watched how most of the customers poured their sugar in their coffee, and I use the same technique myself, now. I never put more than 3 tsp in when I use the canisters. Those that I've watched in that coffee shop I can tell you with absolute certainty have used 3 to 5 tsp, depending on personal taste, with nothing more than a slight variance in the heap. How do I know this? Because all of us use the teaspoon that gets used for mixing as a measuring buffer. Hold the canister over the cup, hold the spoon in the stream, pour sugar, fill-tilt, fill-tilt, fill-tilt, stop and stir. Not purely accurate, I'll give., but better than judging based on a second count.
And a teaspoon not being a teaspoon? I've never had a problem knowing the difference between a tsp and a Tblsp in look. Yeah, pure accurate measurements are probably not going to be achieved, but who cares about a half tsp or less of variance? I'm OCD and even I don't care that much. Maybe my autistic son might in the future, but right now he's too much into taking apart his toys trying to figure out how they work to care.
How about this site as an example of dynamic content with a static menu using php with no JavaScript save for the StatCounter and embedded chat client? This is essentially what you are talking about with a two column page, the left column used for links that are a fixed amount of data that remain on the page without scrolling off, regardless of how much data must be scrolled through in column 2. It's all done through CSS.
While I can't say that the information on the site is worthwhile per se ( I agree that many personal sites, including this one referenced, tend to have a lot of drivel on it), I post it here only as an example of what is achievable with properly used CSS.
Why wait? I can and do boycott multiple companies at the same time... I'm actually sorry to say that Acer has made it to that list as well. I like my quad core laptop and all, but when asking acer for parts to add a second HDD to it, I just get told that they don't offer replacement parts and expect users to buy a new complete laptop every time something breaks down, and in doing further research, it's near impossible to get them to honor their warranties. I wondered why the thing had such good specs for such a low price, even after working with the thing and doing blender renders on it, I'm still impressed with the price:performance ratio. I just know that when this thing dies, I'm gonna be hard pressed to get any kind of service repair on it.
Here's the thing: There used to be a tax on many of the roadways. A fair tax, except for the long waits that could be caused. New Jersey still has it. Parts of Florida too. They're called Toll Roads.
If you need to raise money for usage, place a booth array on the roads, and designate the revenue strictly for those stretches of roads. If it's done right and automated you can eliminate two birds with one stone as well. First bird: you take a ticket at the entrance to the toll road that would list the price for possible destinations on a table on the ticket. Then once you reach the exit, you pay the automated booth. This could incorporate modern technology even by utilizing a card swipe reader or a Toll Booth ID Tag, eliminating the need for "exact change," though having coin bins would also be available to those who want to use the (in this case, false) anonymity of cash.
The second bird in all this? When you take the ticket at the first booth, it's digitally stamped in computer readable ink with the date, time, and your license plate information that was conveniently photographed when you pulled up to the booth. Then you deposit this ticket into a slot at the destination booth. The booth will print the ending time on the card which will be picked up later and processed by computer to make sure that the time and distance are in line with the posted speed limit...thus allowing for evidence against speeders to be mailed to the speeder's home with a bill attached... and make sure that the associated money from speeding revenue is not placed into law enforcement, but back into road maintenance. If done properly, the Department of Transportation will be operating at a surplus within just a few months.
One thing about the speed enforcement through the toll system that is something I would personally like to see: If it is only the automated system that determines a driver went through the booth system at excessive speed, while a REASONABLE fine can be imposed (imo $25 for every 10MPH bracket over the posted limit is reasonable) points against the license would NOT be accrued. The only way points can be accrued against a person is if an officer makes a physical arrest with RADAR, LADAR, or LAZER evidence (toll booth timing card would NOT be admissible in court), hands the person a physical ticket with a summons to court, AND the person is convicted of the offense.
Is it any more apparent now that the RIAA's ultimate goal is to bankrupt the world?
You also seem to not realize that there are other prepaid cellular services than Tracfone and GoPhone. Amp'd, Boost, Virgin, and Verizon Prepaid to name a few. Those are all on CDMA, so they aren't subject to AT&T's grapple hold on the nation's GSM network.
Amp'd Mobile= Dead. They filed for Chapter 11 in 2007 and ceased service that same year.
Boost Mobile AND Virgin Mobile USA = Sprint/ NeXTEL (Virgin Mobile USA is a different company from Virgin Mobile owned by the British company, Virgin Group).
You do have Verizon Wireless Prepaid right.
The only other independent Cellphone Carrier is LeapWireless who offer Cricket Communications.
Personal Experience with the Four Companies available( AT&T, Sprint/NeXTEL, Verison, and Leap) as I've had them all at one time or another:
AT&T had the worst customer security of all of them, AND they allowed my mother access to my personal cellphone account when she wasn't even an authorized user on the account. When they permitted her to change my plan to a cheaper one (bless the woman's heart, she thought she was protecting me when I wound up unknowingly running up a $400 overage bill for using the minutes I thought I still had). Because they facilitated what amounts to fraud and identity theft with no social engineering skill used, whatsoever. She just identified herself as herself to the rep, and got all the power as if I were the one making the changes. I was 21 at the time and in no way tied to my mother's household. I refuse to ever use them again for anything.
Sprint, while I've never had to deal with Identity theft, leaves much to be desired with their customer service; especially in relation to their billing. I've also had similar issue with Virgin Mobile USA, so it's across the company.
Verizon is Fair with their Customer Service, I haven't dealt with their prepaid, but their service is a bit overpriced for what the customer really gets.
Cricket I've had the best experience with so far. They're straight on the billing (I've never had a phantom charge on a bill to date) Unlimited has been truly unlimited. And, although initial customer service is outsourced, the peons don't usually wait too long to step things up to Tier 1 support, where there's usually a native English speaker that understands the network. The only problem I've had is the coverage isn't where I need it to be, yet.
If you did this to a live outlet in your house (I'm assuming so as you're getting the 120 VAC between the Neutral and Live wires), you have a grounding fault in your house. A properly grounded house will read 120 VAC between the Live wire and Protective Ground and 0 VAC between Neutral and Protective Ground. Connections to ground limit the build-up of static electricity when handling flammable products or when repairing electronic devices If your not getting the voltage between the Live and PG slots, then you need to have an electrician put a copper rod or pipe into the ground (Between 5 and 15 feet deep, leaving about 5-10 inches of rod/pipe exposed, depending on local building codes) and tie it in to the Meter Box with a copper cable (8 gauge or larger).
A non grounded house is at risk for taking damage in a lightning storm, catching fire seemingly randomly from a buildup of static charge in a flammable electrical device (Furnace, Space Heater, stove, etc), or possibly having electronics cease to function ever again from turning them on during a very dry day.
Granted I have lived in an old farmhouse that had nothing but turn of the century wiring, and haven't had any trouble... but I also made sure that the outlets that the computers were on each had its own grounding wire going down to the earth directly underneath. I also ran them off of UPS's. I've lost a couple of UPS's to static charge in that house, but I've not lost a computer. Thankfully it wasn't very long that I was stuck in that situation.
ok...Two things:
#1: WOOOOOOOOSH!
#2: I said nothing of working with live electronics.
The capacitors in a power supply will always hold a charge from the first time it is powered up. You want the power supply grounded on a powered down machine to make sure that any discharge that might occur goes out the grounded outlet. (there are special cables made just for this purpose that do not have the neutral and powered wires within them, just the ground) Then you want to strap yourself to the case to make sure that any static charge that you would be carrying goes out the same path before you touch any of the components. Granted, I do not always follow this procedure and I've yet to burn out a single one of my procs or components by not following it, but when I'm getting paid to service other people's equipment you can bet the farm I'm going to follow proper procedure, lest I become responsible for replacing equipment that could easily be blamed on improper tech procedure.
This whole paragraph is taken from basic A+ certification course material.
Next time Ground yourself AND the power supply before you touch things inside your PC.... And use a grounding strap for the love of God!
I think the AC actually meant to have a comma in there...as if to say:
"What data, Officer?"
implying the "play stupid, stupid" maneuver.
If you pushed on the tombstones or Armos knights from above, you wouldn't get damaged. Touch them from underneath and Link's in for a hurtin. Learned that from simple trial and error.
While I understand the importance of the internet today...I would still have a hard time defining it as an essential liberty?!?!
It is an aid...a luxury, and make communication easier, but so did the telephone in its day, yet, I don't regard that as an essential liberty either.
Maybe it should be...then everyone can get internet to their homes as a government subsidy. Just sayin. :P
Not exactly "His" congress, but a congress cut of much the same cloth. One can still hope that he will use his Veto power when that bill hits his desk. Then we will see exactly where Obama stands in relation to the security outlined in the Constitution regarding this issue. However, don't forget that congress can still overrule the Veto if there's a strong enough backing. Our current congress: A testament to the Sheeple of the United States. I voted. My candidates lost. And even if they won, I'm of very small faith that any of them would have done anything better for this country than who's in office now.
Can I vote for a new office to clean up this sad state of affairs? Say...Emperor?
John Lennon. Imagine.
...for the Router, maybe.