So, no signals from satellites in orbit? Radio signals do not use air as the medium of propagation. To the contrary, air interferes - the more rain the worse it gets.
You will need me and other real humans to document your descent from valued individuals who provide useful services to those who suck resources from the economic totality.
Not really. People who are clued in can see it for themselves, and the rest don't give a rat's ass.
We put 15 of them in in various areas across the province. 15 for a population of 8 million isn't TOO bad. They have big warning signs letting you know you might have your picture taken, and there's no "short yellow" problem, because it really IS about reducing accidents and not about raising revenue.
Interestingly, the individual cities can't just set up red light photo cameras - only the provincial ministers of transport and the minister of public security can, because here it requires a modification of the highway safety code, and these guys can be replaced at the next election, so they're not going to draw a big bulls-eye on themselves.
A Chicago judge is dismissing 70 percent of red light camera tickets.
"It took a lot of gumption for the judge to stand up to the city and tell them what's right," said Barnet Fagel of RedLightDoctor.com.
Fagel, who calls himself the Red Light Doctor, said it was a big breakthrough Monday when Administrative Law Judge Robert Sussman told city attorneys that he's been throwing out 70 percent of the red light camera cases before him, and the city should get its act together.
"He got pretty irritated at the city who keep issuing these tickets when the ameras or the traffic signals are not properly engineered or not set up right," Fagel said.
Fagel, using his own technology, convinced the judge to throw out two tickets. In one of the cases, Fagel analyzed video of a red light violation at Diversey and Ashland. He showed the yellow light lasted only 2.629 seconds, which is less than the minimum of three seconds required by law.
So, who am I going to believe - someone on slashdot or a judge's ruling? The judge has been tossing tickets for years because the yellows are too short. If he had been pulling his judgments out of his ass, the city would have appealed (it's all about the money), instead of finally caving in.
Actually, it was ShangahiBill who attempted to move the goalposts. My original response was to his claim that " It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied." It's clear.
That still doesn't address my point - you're not going to orphan an existing code base to switch to another language and waste your time essentially re-inventing your wheel.
But someone still has to buy. When the proles no longer have jobs, they stop buying because they have np money to buy things or for "commissioning some bit of man-made art".
RIVER NORTH — Some of Chicago's yellow lights are too short, according to an administrative law judge who said he's thrown out "60 to 70 percent" of red-light camera tickets he's come across recently because of the discrepancy.
The city uses the state and federal standard of having yellow lights display for a minimum of three seconds at intersections. But an administrative law judge, who hears appeals from motorists ticketed by red-light cameras, said during a hearing this week that he has seen evidence that yellow times are slightly beneath that at some Chicago intersections with red-light cameras.
Over the objections of the city, Fagel was allowed to present his video evidence on two of the red-light tickets that he said showed yellow light times slightly under three seconds.
Judge Robert Sussman dismissed the two red-light camera tickets and then surprised the hearing room by saying the Department of Administrative Hearings was seeing a large volume of red-light camera violations that listed a yellow light time of under three seconds.
"We're having a big problem with these yellow lights," Sussman said. "Sixty to 70 percent are coming up under three seconds."
Sussman said he has routinely thrown out any ticket for which documentation shows the yellow light lasted less than three full seconds. And he said he will continue to do so until the timing is fixed.
The practice of too-quick yellow lights was SOP for red-light cameras for years, because otherwise they would have failed to generate enough revenue to justify themselves.
Perhaps you don't understand the term "change the threshold back."
In this context that means "restoring it to the state it was in prior to being illegally lowered below the Federal minimum." They admitted it.
I work at a funded startup in the Seattle area and we've had several.NET (C#) developer positions open for several months now. We rarely even get applicants and the ones we get rarely pass a basic phone screen.
No way would we discriminate on age. The talent pool from what we've seen is crap.
Could it be that the toolchain you use attracts more than its' share of mediocre talent?
Are you saying that software development languages in their current state are perfect and there is no reason to learn anything new or different? If so, in the not too distant future I predict you'll be walking out of your job with your personal items in a cardboard box.
That's not what I wrote. I wrote that there's no real reason for projects and programmers who are already implementing solutions using other toolchains to make the switch. Why re-code the wheel? If, for example, you coded your project in Java (which has been open-sourced for years and runs on multiple platforms), why would you switch to.NET and obsolete all your current code that's (hopefully) already been written and debugged?
I think you missed my point, so please allow me to elaborate. For someone who wants to go from Windows to other platforms, an open-source.NET makes sense, but only if their code is already in.NET.
For people who are already using toolchains other than.NET that support their products on multiple platforms, there's no reason to switch. It's just "re-implementing the wheel" with another language.
And since the official Java implementation is open source (OpenJDK) and has been for years, why not just stick with it if you're already using it? So really, the majority of people who aren't already using.NET have no real reason to switch.
Henry Ford warned us about this. He was criticized by everyone else for paying his workers more than the competition. "I've got to pay them more so they can buy my cars." He used technology to make that possible.
At some point in the future, even if people are willing to work in almost slavery conditions for peanuts, there simply won't be enough jobs to go around (especially since those "grunt" jobs are in many cases the first to be automated). And people won't have money to buy the products.
A future where everything is free is all nice and good, but "you can't get there from here." At least not without some serious, possibly fatal, pain.
It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied.
To which I replied:
Actually, it's right in the summary:
To which you say:
No. The summary says that they issued tickets in situations where the yellow light duration was below the federal minimum. But it does not say whether those durations were the same for the before-and-after data sets being compared.
(sigh)
before the city agreed to change the threshold back.
Before, the stoplights met the legal requirements. Then they didn't (after installing the cameras) to catch more people who didn't have even the legal minimum time to clear the intersection. After the city got caught, they, as per the article, "agreed to change the threshold back." This has been going on for a few years in various cities.
So, the OP was wrong to say "It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied." It's very clear just from the summary.
They changed the duration of the yellow light to under 3 seconds. Three seconds is the minimum duration as per federal law. So they were catching people going through a red light that should not yet have turned red. When they got caught they had to restore the yellow light to 3 seconds.
I don't know, maybe the owners of every internet server ever might be able to tell you.
Servers cost money. To buy. To run. To maintain. To connect to the net. Somewhere, someone's paying for it, and ultimately the cost gets passed on to the consumers, by either buying product (eg: Amazon) or being product (Facebook, Google) that is bought by someone else.
Another issue is the yellow light duration. Longer yellows leads to fewer accidents, and some cities installing cameras also shorten the yellow light duration to increase revenue. It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied.
Actually, it's right in the summary:
[O]fficials recently admitted to the city inspector general that they had quietly dropped the threshold for what constitutes a red light camera ticket, allowing the tickets even when cameras showed a yellow light time just under the three-second federal minimum standard. That shift earlier this year snared 77,000 more drivers and $7.7 million in ticket revenue before the city agreed to change the threshold back.
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And the medium this packet takes is said air.
So, no signals from satellites in orbit? Radio signals do not use air as the medium of propagation. To the contrary, air interferes - the more rain the worse it gets.
You will need me and other real humans to document your descent from valued individuals who provide useful services to those who suck resources from the economic totality.
Not really. People who are clued in can see it for themselves, and the rest don't give a rat's ass.
We put 15 of them in in various areas across the province. 15 for a population of 8 million isn't TOO bad. They have big warning signs letting you know you might have your picture taken, and there's no "short yellow" problem, because it really IS about reducing accidents and not about raising revenue.
Interestingly, the individual cities can't just set up red light photo cameras - only the provincial ministers of transport and the minister of public security can, because here it requires a modification of the highway safety code, and these guys can be replaced at the next election, so they're not going to draw a big bulls-eye on themselves.
A Chicago judge is dismissing 70 percent of red light camera tickets.
"It took a lot of gumption for the judge to stand up to the city and tell them what's right," said Barnet Fagel of RedLightDoctor.com.
Fagel, who calls himself the Red Light Doctor, said it was a big breakthrough Monday when Administrative Law Judge Robert Sussman told city attorneys that he's been throwing out 70 percent of the red light camera cases before him, and the city should get its act together.
"He got pretty irritated at the city who keep issuing these tickets when the ameras or the traffic signals are not properly engineered or not set up right," Fagel said.
Fagel, using his own technology, convinced the judge to throw out two tickets. In one of the cases, Fagel analyzed video of a red light violation at Diversey and Ashland. He showed the yellow light lasted only 2.629 seconds, which is less than the minimum of three seconds required by law.
So, who am I going to believe - someone on slashdot or a judge's ruling? The judge has been tossing tickets for years because the yellows are too short. If he had been pulling his judgments out of his ass, the city would have appealed (it's all about the money), instead of finally caving in.
The courts have already found that they are one and the same, which is why the tickets were tossed.
Actually, it was ShangahiBill who attempted to move the goalposts. My original response was to his claim that " It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied." It's clear.
We'd all better become Glassholes really quickly.
The real question isn't will it self-destruct. :-)
Slashdotters want to know - WILL IT BEND
That still doesn't address my point - you're not going to orphan an existing code base to switch to another language and waste your time essentially re-inventing your wheel.
But someone still has to buy. When the proles no longer have jobs, they stop buying because they have np money to buy things or for "commissioning some bit of man-made art".
RIVER NORTH — Some of Chicago's yellow lights are too short, according to an administrative law judge who said he's thrown out "60 to 70 percent" of red-light camera tickets he's come across recently because of the discrepancy.
The city uses the state and federal standard of having yellow lights display for a minimum of three seconds at intersections. But an administrative law judge, who hears appeals from motorists ticketed by red-light cameras, said during a hearing this week that he has seen evidence that yellow times are slightly beneath that at some Chicago intersections with red-light cameras.
Over the objections of the city, Fagel was allowed to present his video evidence on two of the red-light tickets that he said showed yellow light times slightly under three seconds.
Judge Robert Sussman dismissed the two red-light camera tickets and then surprised the hearing room by saying the Department of Administrative Hearings was seeing a large volume of red-light camera violations that listed a yellow light time of under three seconds.
"We're having a big problem with these yellow lights," Sussman said. "Sixty to 70 percent are coming up under three seconds."
Sussman said he has routinely thrown out any ticket for which documentation shows the yellow light lasted less than three full seconds. And he said he will continue to do so until the timing is fixed.
The practice of too-quick yellow lights was SOP for red-light cameras for years, because otherwise they would have failed to generate enough revenue to justify themselves.
None of this is new, it's been covered in the main-stream media before, Florida tried to do this state-wide and got caught a year and a half ago. Here's the map identifying the traps.
Perhaps you don't understand the term "change the threshold back." In this context that means "restoring it to the state it was in prior to being illegally lowered below the Federal minimum." They admitted it.
I work at a funded startup in the Seattle area and we've had several .NET (C#) developer positions open for several months now. We rarely even get applicants and the ones we get rarely pass a basic phone screen.
No way would we discriminate on age. The talent pool from what we've seen is crap.
Could it be that the toolchain you use attracts more than its' share of mediocre talent?
Are you saying that software development languages in their current state are perfect and there is no reason to learn anything new or different? If so, in the not too distant future I predict you'll be walking out of your job with your personal items in a cardboard box.
That's not what I wrote. I wrote that there's no real reason for projects and programmers who are already implementing solutions using other toolchains to make the switch. Why re-code the wheel? If, for example, you coded your project in Java (which has been open-sourced for years and runs on multiple platforms), why would you switch to .NET and obsolete all your current code that's (hopefully) already been written and debugged?
I think you missed my point, so please allow me to elaborate. For someone who wants to go from Windows to other platforms, an open-source .NET makes sense, but only if their code is already in .NET.
For people who are already using toolchains other than .NET that support their products on multiple platforms, there's no reason to switch. It's just "re-implementing the wheel" with another language.
And since the official Java implementation is open source (OpenJDK) and has been for years, why not just stick with it if you're already using it? So really, the majority of people who aren't already using .NET have no real reason to switch.
Henry Ford warned us about this. He was criticized by everyone else for paying his workers more than the competition. "I've got to pay them more so they can buy my cars." He used technology to make that possible.
At some point in the future, even if people are willing to work in almost slavery conditions for peanuts, there simply won't be enough jobs to go around (especially since those "grunt" jobs are in many cases the first to be automated). And people won't have money to buy the products.
A future where everything is free is all nice and good, but "you can't get there from here." At least not without some serious, possibly fatal, pain.
The whole fucking point is the every single one of these recordings has been 'liberated' from the vaults at some time in the last 50 years.
And whose fault is that?
If you're already using something that works (and who isn't), what's the motivation to change?
It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied.
To which I replied:
Actually, it's right in the summary:
To which you say:
No. The summary says that they issued tickets in situations where the yellow light duration was below the federal minimum. But it does not say whether those durations were the same for the before-and-after data sets being compared.
(sigh)
before the city agreed to change the threshold back.
Before, the stoplights met the legal requirements. Then they didn't (after installing the cameras) to catch more people who didn't have even the legal minimum time to clear the intersection. After the city got caught, they, as per the article, "agreed to change the threshold back." This has been going on for a few years in various cities.
So, the OP was wrong to say "It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied." It's very clear just from the summary.
They changed the duration of the yellow light to under 3 seconds. Three seconds is the minimum duration as per federal law. So they were catching people going through a red light that should not yet have turned red. When they got caught they had to restore the yellow light to 3 seconds.
If they really wanted to make money, they should have put the Red Light Cameras in the Red Light District.
I don't know, maybe the owners of every internet server ever might be able to tell you.
Servers cost money. To buy. To run. To maintain. To connect to the net. Somewhere, someone's paying for it, and ultimately the cost gets passed on to the consumers, by either buying product (eg: Amazon) or being product (Facebook, Google) that is bought by someone else.
Another issue is the yellow light duration. Longer yellows leads to fewer accidents, and some cities installing cameras also shorten the yellow light duration to increase revenue. It isn't clear if yellow light duration was decreased in the intersections studied.
Actually, it's right in the summary:
[O]fficials recently admitted to the city inspector general that they had quietly dropped the threshold for what constitutes a red light camera ticket, allowing the tickets even when cameras showed a yellow light time just under the three-second federal minimum standard. That shift earlier this year snared 77,000 more drivers and $7.7 million in ticket revenue before the city agreed to change the threshold back.
How much do you pay for the air you are breathing? Now imagine most goods and services are like that. This is where things start "growing on trees".
Ain't gonna happen, and your analogy is false. Nobody has ever paid for air, but they have paid for food.