he told you to sue the brake shop. He didn't say "Oh, well, we'll prosecute the brake shop!" It's still down to you, as the person in control of the vehicle, to ensure its safety systems are in fact functional. If the person you put to the task of maintenance/repair fails to carry it out to a suitable standard (ie the brake engages when you push on the pedal vs it doesn't), you have a claim against him, but the person you hit/injure or the family of the one you kill will have claim against YOU and not the Kwik Fit engineer who "forgot" to reattach your hydraulic line.
Absolving you of guilt in the situation isn't absolving you of wrongdoing, you as controller of the vehicle have still caused injury. What the judge did for you was keep you out of jail by acknowledging that you didn't do it on purpose, that you acted in good faith that your brakes were functional and on the assumption that they were in a safe condition, since you did take it to a qualified mechanic, left the garage based on that assumption and not with malice aforethought that you planned to run somebody over or total a stack of vehicles.
"a "large number" of the drivers either didn't apply the brakes at all (what?!) "
For the simple reason that they were distracted, were not watching the road, simply were not aware of imminent danger like a big fuckoff lump of iron in front of them... BAM! 70+mph right up some poor bastard's arse.
THIS, folks, is why driving without due care and attention should be more severely punished than it is. It does cost lives.
my wife keeps unplugging various "Don't turn that shit off" devices around the house to use the vacuum cleaner. There are sockets on every landing specified for the vacuum cleaner - they have fucking stickers over them that say "Power appliances". THIS WEEK ALONE I've had to deal with the TiVo, the main router, the cabinet cluster, and the CCTV systems all being hot-unplugged by her so she doesn't have to deal with cables trailing across the landings for FIVE MINUTES.
no, because c is a fixed and finite value. It would represent omnipresence and omniscience if c were infinite, but it's not. What it means is that in our frame of reference, where time is a rail which we have absolutely no conscious control over, the further away an event from the observer the longer it takes the light from that event to reach the observer. If the speed of light were infinite, we'd be burned, blind and dying from the sheer pressure of radiation hitting us from all directions.
Which would actually be impossible to attain*. No laboratory has ever managed it, never mind to do it for long enough to count a second. It is far easier to measure the speed of light in a laboratory vacuum (eg take a known gap (1m?) in a vacuum chamber and time how long it takes for a beam of light to jump across it 299792458 times). Easier still to take a mean solar day and divide it by 86,400.
*since we're talking such miniscule energies, even the mere act of measuring the temperature of a system approaching 0K will raise its temperature as it introduces an external radiation.
NOTE: the pre-1997 definition of the second, which was actually ratified by the SI in 1960, coincidentally arrived at the number for caesium by using the following: 1/31,556,925.9747 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time, which just so happened to precisely agree with the atomic clock number thus the SI decided to use caesium as the definition and fix it independent of any new ephemeris rather than something we are all familiar with, changeable though it is: the length of the day. The IAU still uses the solar definition of the second, as do most clockmakers.
the speed of light is codependent on the measurement of time. Is it 299.792458 metres per microsecond? Or is it 17987547.48 km/minute? Or is it 149597870km per 8 minutes 20 seconds? Or is it 1.08 billion kilometres per hour? Or is it 30.857 trillion kilometres per 3.26 years?
(time is a constant: in our reference frame, 1 second is defined by the SI as the amount of time it takes light to travel 299792458m in vacuo. Conversely, 1 metre is the distance light travels in vacuo in 1/299792458 sec (also a defined SI constant). The ONLY SI unit that until recently has relied on a physical thing to define it is the kilogramme. That is now (provisionally) defined by the mass of a perfectly spherical crystal comprised of 100027.9769265325 6.02214179×10^23 atoms of 28Si).
no, c is the top speed of your paceman - in fact, c is the only speed of your paceman. Every other rider can only travel at the same speed or *slower*. Switching pacemen means that your current paceman must drop back (ie slow down) rather than the column speeding up to overtake (thus breaking c). The average speed of the entire column must necessarily be less than c at all times, the guy at the front (doesn't matter who it is) is always the fastest man on the field unless he is dropping back to let the column overtake him - without the column having to speed up.
In cycling, the pace rider may travel at a certain speed (let's call it 40km/h), that may be the designated pace for the event. His replacement may do a short burst at 41km/h to assume the pace position. This breaks the model.
if you can slow the speed of a photon, then you bring the energy required to travel faster than light below infinity. FTL travel thus becomes feasible.
260 cases last year in Pakistan and that because the medical teams are being attacked hence have to be rescued. No information on whether or not all 260 cases a: were vaccinated or b: resulted in fatalities. 21 cases in Afghanistan last year which were attributed to Pakistani refugees, and six isolated cases in Nigeria. Source: NYTimes [not paywalled].
it'a called living right and avoiding the shit. Lots of people do it. You should try, one day, switching your frozen ready meal for a walk in the middle of nowhere, pick some fresh plants and maybe trap a rabbit, and eating them.
You will feel a whole lot better for it, even if at first your feet disagree with you.
You are saying that someone who is vaccinated dies of the disease that's supposed to be what the vaccination's for, you blame someone who isn't vaccinated for absolute proof that the vaccination didn't work??
I've got a WAIS 3 combined cognitive function test score of over 180 (that's all you need to know), and I am against vaccinations where they are not necessary. Influenza mutates every ten days, rendering vaccinations useless before they're even distributed. My wife got a flu shot in October, she had influenza over xmas. I didn't get a flu shot, I'm strong as an ox. I've not even had so much as a cold since the last time I had a seasonal shot back in 1993 which resulted in me developing pneumonia thanks to influenza. Eight months it took me to recover from that.
UK Member of Parliament Harriet Harman started her career as legal secretary for the National Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty), during which time she also represented the Paedophile Information Exchange and the Paedophile Action for Liberation pro-paedophile organisations, where she lobbied Parliament from 1976 until she quit the post to become an elected Member, for the legalisation of sex with children. Her lobbying didn't stop there. As a Cabinet Secretary, she had the Prime minister's ear, and continued to lobby to have the age of consent lowered to just FOUR and for paedophilic images to be decriminalised with the patently ludicrous claim that they were victimless (a minor CANNOT consent nor can a minor engage a contract, how is statutory rape victimless again?). It was her pestering, among others, that resulted in the decriminalisation of sodomy and the lowering of the age of consent to sixteen from 18. She is still an MP (the longest serving current member) and is still attacking not only children through sexual morality, but also family values and in particular men (she is on record as admitting she is a man-hating radical "feminist" notwithstanding the fact that she is married) Source: information in the public domain.
*PIE and PAL are now basically outlawed organisations, their records sealed and compartmentalised for the simple reason that their memberships include/d some of the most powerful people in the country, including members of Thatcher's Cabinet, current serving members of Parliament, and members of the Royal Family. And that said, I am probably on GCHQ's list of possible low-level domestic terrorists. If I wasn't before.
You know, stuff we've had for years, that you can knock up a homemade antenna in about five minutes and have something that can kick a few milliwatts up and over 100km?
I think this is just a solution looking for a problem.
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he told you to sue the brake shop. He didn't say "Oh, well, we'll prosecute the brake shop!" It's still down to you, as the person in control of the vehicle, to ensure its safety systems are in fact functional. If the person you put to the task of maintenance/repair fails to carry it out to a suitable standard (ie the brake engages when you push on the pedal vs it doesn't), you have a claim against him, but the person you hit/injure or the family of the one you kill will have claim against YOU and not the Kwik Fit engineer who "forgot" to reattach your hydraulic line.
Absolving you of guilt in the situation isn't absolving you of wrongdoing, you as controller of the vehicle have still caused injury. What the judge did for you was keep you out of jail by acknowledging that you didn't do it on purpose, that you acted in good faith that your brakes were functional and on the assumption that they were in a safe condition, since you did take it to a qualified mechanic, left the garage based on that assumption and not with malice aforethought that you planned to run somebody over or total a stack of vehicles.
was he looking at the display on his cellphone or satnav rather than what was out in front of his vehicle?
"a "large number" of the drivers either didn't apply the brakes at all (what?!) "
For the simple reason that they were distracted, were not watching the road, simply were not aware of imminent danger like a big fuckoff lump of iron in front of them... BAM! 70+mph right up some poor bastard's arse.
THIS, folks, is why driving without due care and attention should be more severely punished than it is. It does cost lives.
yes, it's the result of either de-excitation of electrons in a matrix or the decay of electrons at the zero ground state.
my wife keeps unplugging various "Don't turn that shit off" devices around the house to use the vacuum cleaner. There are sockets on every landing specified for the vacuum cleaner - they have fucking stickers over them that say "Power appliances". THIS WEEK ALONE I've had to deal with the TiVo, the main router, the cabinet cluster, and the CCTV systems all being hot-unplugged by her so she doesn't have to deal with cables trailing across the landings for FIVE MINUTES.
BTW, according to the leading authority on publc health, the WHO, the number one cause of polio in the world is... the polio vaccine.
no, because c is a fixed and finite value. It would represent omnipresence and omniscience if c were infinite, but it's not. What it means is that in our frame of reference, where time is a rail which we have absolutely no conscious control over, the further away an event from the observer the longer it takes the light from that event to reach the observer. If the speed of light were infinite, we'd be burned, blind and dying from the sheer pressure of radiation hitting us from all directions.
..."at rest, at a temperature of 0K". (SI, 1997)
Which would actually be impossible to attain*. No laboratory has ever managed it, never mind to do it for long enough to count a second. It is far easier to measure the speed of light in a laboratory vacuum (eg take a known gap (1m?) in a vacuum chamber and time how long it takes for a beam of light to jump across it 299792458 times). Easier still to take a mean solar day and divide it by 86,400.
*since we're talking such miniscule energies, even the mere act of measuring the temperature of a system approaching 0K will raise its temperature as it introduces an external radiation.
NOTE: the pre-1997 definition of the second, which was actually ratified by the SI in 1960, coincidentally arrived at the number for caesium by using the following: 1/31,556,925.9747 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time, which just so happened to precisely agree with the atomic clock number thus the SI decided to use caesium as the definition and fix it independent of any new ephemeris rather than something we are all familiar with, changeable though it is: the length of the day. The IAU still uses the solar definition of the second, as do most clockmakers.
(1000 / 27.9769265325) x 6.02214179×10^23 atoms of 28Si, even. Bloody crappy slashdot markup.
the speed of light is codependent on the measurement of time.
Is it 299.792458 metres per microsecond?
Or is it 17987547.48 km/minute?
Or is it 149597870km per 8 minutes 20 seconds?
Or is it 1.08 billion kilometres per hour?
Or is it 30.857 trillion kilometres per 3.26 years?
(time is a constant: in our reference frame, 1 second is defined by the SI as the amount of time it takes light to travel 299792458m in vacuo. Conversely, 1 metre is the distance light travels in vacuo in 1/299792458 sec (also a defined SI constant). The ONLY SI unit that until recently has relied on a physical thing to define it is the kilogramme. That is now (provisionally) defined by the mass of a perfectly spherical crystal comprised of 100027.9769265325 6.02214179×10^23 atoms of 28Si).
you're the only one that got it. You win teh internets.
no, c is the top speed of your paceman - in fact, c is the only speed of your paceman. Every other rider can only travel at the same speed or *slower*. Switching pacemen means that your current paceman must drop back (ie slow down) rather than the column speeding up to overtake (thus breaking c). The average speed of the entire column must necessarily be less than c at all times, the guy at the front (doesn't matter who it is) is always the fastest man on the field unless he is dropping back to let the column overtake him - without the column having to speed up.
In cycling, the pace rider may travel at a certain speed (let's call it 40km/h), that may be the designated pace for the event. His replacement may do a short burst at 41km/h to assume the pace position. This breaks the model.
if you can slow the speed of a photon, then you bring the energy required to travel faster than light below infinity. FTL travel thus becomes feasible.
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sure, fucktard, I'll post my fucking hospital record on fucking slashdot.
260 cases last year in Pakistan and that because the medical teams are being attacked hence have to be rescued. No information on whether or not all 260 cases a: were vaccinated or b: resulted in fatalities. 21 cases in Afghanistan last year which were attributed to Pakistani refugees, and six isolated cases in Nigeria. Source: NYTimes [not paywalled].
so what difference would mandating an IQ test make? Is the point I was making overall.
it'a called living right and avoiding the shit. Lots of people do it. You should try, one day, switching your frozen ready meal for a walk in the middle of nowhere, pick some fresh plants and maybe trap a rabbit, and eating them.
You will feel a whole lot better for it, even if at first your feet disagree with you.
oh you mean those others who are supposedly vaccinated? Then they shouldn't worry since your magic bullet works, doesn't it?
Doesn't it?
Well? Doesn't it?
influenza cause my immune system to storm which caused my pneumonia.
Read up on symptomology before you make a complete fucking tit of yourself.
but if vaccinations actually worked, Darwin would take over and ONLY THOSE WHO REFUSED VACCINATIONS DIE.
Take off those fucking Fox blinkers and think about what you're saying before you make a complete tit of yourself.
let me get this straight.
You are saying that someone who is vaccinated dies of the disease that's supposed to be what the vaccination's for, you blame someone who isn't vaccinated for absolute proof that the vaccination didn't work??
Fuck. Me.
I've got a WAIS 3 combined cognitive function test score of over 180 (that's all you need to know), and I am against vaccinations where they are not necessary. Influenza mutates every ten days, rendering vaccinations useless before they're even distributed. My wife got a flu shot in October, she had influenza over xmas. I didn't get a flu shot, I'm strong as an ox. I've not even had so much as a cold since the last time I had a seasonal shot back in 1993 which resulted in me developing pneumonia thanks to influenza. Eight months it took me to recover from that.
touché.
UK Member of Parliament Harriet Harman started her career as legal secretary for the National Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty), during which time she also represented the Paedophile Information Exchange and the Paedophile Action for Liberation pro-paedophile organisations, where she lobbied Parliament from 1976 until she quit the post to become an elected Member, for the legalisation of sex with children. Her lobbying didn't stop there. As a Cabinet Secretary, she had the Prime minister's ear, and continued to lobby to have the age of consent lowered to just FOUR and for paedophilic images to be decriminalised with the patently ludicrous claim that they were victimless (a minor CANNOT consent nor can a minor engage a contract, how is statutory rape victimless again?). It was her pestering, among others, that resulted in the decriminalisation of sodomy and the lowering of the age of consent to sixteen from 18. She is still an MP (the longest serving current member) and is still attacking not only children through sexual morality, but also family values and in particular men (she is on record as admitting she is a man-hating radical "feminist" notwithstanding the fact that she is married) Source: information in the public domain.
*PIE and PAL are now basically outlawed organisations, their records sealed and compartmentalised for the simple reason that their memberships include/d some of the most powerful people in the country, including members of Thatcher's Cabinet, current serving members of Parliament, and members of the Royal Family. And that said, I am probably on GCHQ's list of possible low-level domestic terrorists. If I wasn't before.
You know, stuff we've had for years, that you can knock up a homemade antenna in about five minutes and have something that can kick a few milliwatts up and over 100km?
I think this is just a solution looking for a problem.