Actually, if I could get access to mine, please? My wife has very selective memory. If I'm going to be in the doghouse, I'd like that transcript to PROVE HER WRONG first...
Just kidding, she does have the common female power to actually alter reality just to prove a man wrong.
Switzerland's direct democracy. France's THREE high courts, especially as they are empowered to deal preemptively with unconstitutional laws, before some is condemned and wastes everyone's time on appeals. Most of Europe's many-parties congresses, as long as they are not strictly proportional (see Israel for how true proportional representation encourage extreme behaviors)...
"IBM promised to challenge the U.S national security via court procedures if ordered to provide information and data from an enterprise client through a gag order which prohibits them from discussing the order with the client."
Sure, I've got THOUSANDS of lawsuits already in secret court against the big bad abusive government! Nope, can't give you details. It's secret, you know. Just trust me...
Yep, it buys you two years, until the next inspection. You can't sell your car without providing the buyer with a safety inspection certificate under three months old, so you'd better schedule your car change carefully, or pay one more time.
Scooters and small motorcycles have been moving to 4-strokes for while now. There used to be pre-mix stations for 2-stroke mopeds when I was a kid, i can't say I have seen one in the last two decades. People don't like having to mix their oil, the remaining two-strokes are a dying breed.
Ask someone parking in a US metropolis what they think of an 11 Euros fine, and they'll point at the nearest car park, which asks for more than that, sometimes twice, for the first half hour... They've got room to raise the tickets, the Provinciaux will be amused at the outrage.
The old cars are weeded out by the other "safety" inspection points: Broken light? fail! Shoddy suspension? fail! Leak on any fluid? fail! You can fix it, until you realize that your old car is costing you two grand every other year, just to pass obscure inspection points. So you get a newer less polluting one, or take the Metro. The cars and parts makers love it, except that people now only buy if they have to.
I don't understand how the US hasn't caught up with this yet. When you see the deathtraps on US roads, it would be easy to line up car maker pockets with "safety" maintenance requirements. To "protect the children" of course...
There's a 100+ points inspection every two years for all cars older than 4 years, including smog. It's not free. Then again, if you can somehow afford to park a second car inside Paris (or any major euro/asia town) just for the rare day when pollution is an issue, you probably don't care about the cost of owning said car...
I have video proof that a runaway queen can freeze her whole country and create a giant ice castle in less time than a pop song. My kids strongly believe it's really cool, therefore global warming science is wrong.
> It is absolutely essential we kill the ACA dead. If we don't, people will start to rely on it, and then, much like Social Security, we'll never be rid of it.
ACA needs time to fail, so that the inevitability of single-payer takes root. Single-payer, that atrocious idea shared by almost all advanced countries, including these evil aging Germans with their balanced budget...
Dude, people are lining up to pay $150k for five minutes in "space" on Virgin Galactic...
New idea: Get rich idiots to pay Nasa $150k for one hour of "driving" Opportunity, complete with "I drove on Mars last week-end" NASA-certified bumper sticker.
Write your own OS and browser, run it on an eval board for some mil-spec chip.
Every common architecture, OS, and browser has known (and undisclosed) attack vectors. The only truly safe approach is to not use them. Then you can browse the web in full knowledge that your machine is safe, and only every single one of your actions will be tracked.
Funny that in a civilization where it's all about having more and more stuff, more and more people have no issues about having their stuff ephemeral or dematerialized.
I'm gonna go build myself a real stone castle and fill it with antique furniture. When you won't be able to get your pictures off Facebook because your bandwidth is capped at 20Mb except for ComcastView and GooglePlusPlus, I'll have my local storage out of reach of marketers and spooks, and they won't remotely disable my books.
The problem is that by paying for the cop, they tell the city "there'd better be a cop right here".
Which is not how efficient policing works.
Imagine, to oversimplify, that the cop responds to a burglary 6 blocks away. At the same time, someone on/near the FB campus gets victimized. Will FB blame to city for the cop not being there? Will he have to turn around because the 911 from FB is more important? Is that rule written, or is it just a strong hint given to the dispatcher? What about presence in bad areas, which is a more effective practice than protecting one campus? Cant the cops go patrol a 20-block radius, or do they need to make sure that someone is always near FB? What happens to giving deserved tickets to FB employees, when their boss pays Bob?
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True, but while a hawk would survey more data at a time, they couldn't find a room with a high enough ceiling.
Actually, if I could get access to mine, please?
My wife has very selective memory. If I'm going to be in the doghouse, I'd like that transcript to PROVE HER WRONG first...
Just kidding, she does have the common female power to actually alter reality just to prove a man wrong.
Switzerland's direct democracy. ...
France's THREE high courts, especially as they are empowered to deal preemptively with unconstitutional laws, before some is condemned and wastes everyone's time on appeals.
Most of Europe's many-parties congresses, as long as they are not strictly proportional (see Israel for how true proportional representation encourage extreme behaviors)
"IBM promised to challenge the U.S national security via court procedures if ordered to provide information and data from an enterprise client through a gag order which prohibits them from discussing the order with the client."
Sure, I've got THOUSANDS of lawsuits already in secret court against the big bad abusive government!
Nope, can't give you details. It's secret, you know.
Just trust me...
I take a lot of pictures with my imager safely hidden behind a solid object called a "lens"
> We do safety inspections here.
How do you like being in the minority?
You need to get out more, there are lots of death traps still out there to amaze you.
The problem is to add 6 words to this sentence, as of today's count
Yep, it buys you two years, until the next inspection.
You can't sell your car without providing the buyer with a safety inspection certificate under three months old, so you'd better schedule your car change carefully, or pay one more time.
Even when I lived in Illinois, they checked my VIN. Which state has smog inspections where they only check the plates?
Why would I want two identical cars just so that one of them can freely fail the smog check?
See my comment far above about the cost of keeping an old car legal...
Scooters and small motorcycles have been moving to 4-strokes for while now. There used to be pre-mix stations for 2-stroke mopeds when I was a kid, i can't say I have seen one in the last two decades.
People don't like having to mix their oil, the remaining two-strokes are a dying breed.
Ask someone parking in a US metropolis what they think of an 11 Euros fine, and they'll point at the nearest car park, which asks for more than that, sometimes twice, for the first half hour...
They've got room to raise the tickets, the Provinciaux will be amused at the outrage.
The standards keep getting better fast.
The old cars are weeded out by the other "safety" inspection points:
Broken light? fail!
Shoddy suspension? fail!
Leak on any fluid? fail!
You can fix it, until you realize that your old car is costing you two grand every other year, just to pass obscure inspection points. So you get a newer less polluting one, or take the Metro.
The cars and parts makers love it, except that people now only buy if they have to.
I don't understand how the US hasn't caught up with this yet. When you see the deathtraps on US roads, it would be easy to line up car maker pockets with "safety" maintenance requirements. To "protect the children" of course...
you can hear the symphony of horns a lot better with the pesky idling ICEs...
There's a 100+ points inspection every two years for all cars older than 4 years, including smog. It's not free.
Then again, if you can somehow afford to park a second car inside Paris (or any major euro/asia town) just for the rare day when pollution is an issue, you probably don't care about the cost of owning said car...
I have video proof that a runaway queen can freeze her whole country and create a giant ice castle in less time than a pop song.
My kids strongly believe it's really cool, therefore global warming science is wrong.
> It is absolutely essential we kill the ACA dead. If we don't, people will start to rely on it, and then, much like Social Security, we'll never be rid of it.
ACA needs time to fail, so that the inevitability of single-payer takes root.
Single-payer, that atrocious idea shared by almost all advanced countries, including these evil aging Germans with their balanced budget...
Unless someone is planning to pull a Kennedy on him, he's got 34 months to go...
As long as the amounts were in Millions of US dollars, they can get away with it, if they can get a trial in the US.
Nope, wet thing flock to geologists. They know how to carefully explore all the layers.
Dude, people are lining up to pay $150k for five minutes in "space" on Virgin Galactic...
New idea: Get rich idiots to pay Nasa $150k for one hour of "driving" Opportunity, complete with "I drove on Mars last week-end" NASA-certified bumper sticker.
Write your own OS and browser, run it on an eval board for some mil-spec chip.
Every common architecture, OS, and browser has known (and undisclosed) attack vectors. The only truly safe approach is to not use them.
Then you can browse the web in full knowledge that your machine is safe, and only every single one of your actions will be tracked.
11. Useless because I can't use it to do heart surgery or Si lithography
12. Will be destroyed by a patent from Big Optics
13. How many bitcoins?
Funny that in a civilization where it's all about having more and more stuff, more and more people have no issues about having their stuff ephemeral or dematerialized.
I'm gonna go build myself a real stone castle and fill it with antique furniture. When you won't be able to get your pictures off Facebook because your bandwidth is capped at 20Mb except for ComcastView and GooglePlusPlus, I'll have my local storage out of reach of marketers and spooks, and they won't remotely disable my books.
The problem is that by paying for the cop, they tell the city "there'd better be a cop right here".
Which is not how efficient policing works.
Imagine, to oversimplify, that the cop responds to a burglary 6 blocks away. At the same time, someone on/near the FB campus gets victimized. Will FB blame to city for the cop not being there? Will he have to turn around because the 911 from FB is more important? Is that rule written, or is it just a strong hint given to the dispatcher?
What about presence in bad areas, which is a more effective practice than protecting one campus? Cant the cops go patrol a 20-block radius, or do they need to make sure that someone is always near FB?
What happens to giving deserved tickets to FB employees, when their boss pays Bob?