I'm guessing, because our cars don't have it, that it's a service, delivered via OnStar (or similar) that lets you contact someone to make dinner or entertainment reservations from your car. Now that I think about it, my son had it on a BMW he had (briefly).
My wife usually does it on her cell while I drive. So I guess I do have it:-)
Maybe we could say during the late 60's when the populace finally turned against the Vietnam War,
I think Vietnam, the Watergate affair and the revelations about the FBI spying, and worse, on the anti-war and civil rights movements. For me, at least, that was when I realized that "The Government" didn't know what was best for us, and was basically a bunch of normal people, given tremendous power. Some used it well, and some didn't. Government is a huge monster which feels that it's the only barrier between safety and anarchy, and as such, will do anything to maintain its power. Anyone in the way gets run over.
I don't think it's education that's lacking, but there's too much trust in what people are told (which is made worse by the sharp decline of journalistic standards in the media) and not enough questioning.
The only real way to fight this type of mass hysteria (be it communists or muslim terrorists under our beds), is to have and encourage a well-educated and critically-thinking public. Unfortunately, these abilities don't seem to be in vogue at this time. (Perhaps because they run counter to the interests of various religious and political groups).
An uneducated, docile public is easily led, while an educated, questioning public will loudly proclaim "bullshit" when presented with such.
"If the Government were required to provide full notice of its reasons for placing an individual on the No Fly List and to turn over all evidence (both incriminating and exculpatory) supporting the No Fly determination, the No Fly redress process would place highly sensitive national security information directly in the hands of terrorist organizations and other adversaries"
So are US citizens regarded as a terrorist organization or just "Other Adversaries" now? Silly me, I thought we were the bosses of the government. Been reading that Constitution too much. It'll warp your brain.
No, the information *would not* be placed directly into the hands of terrorists. The information need only be provided only to the defendant's lawyer, an officer of the court, who could be cleared to receive it, and promise, under threat of prosecution, not to divulge it to the defendant.
This is crap, just like the no-fly list, and the TSA searches. I'm sure there are people too dangerous to fly. But there can't be many of them. And if you're a regular American citizen, who hasn't been convicted of a crime, the Government should have to explain to you why they're restricting your ability to travel by air. If they can't explain it to you, you should be allowed to fly. To do otherwise comes awfully close to violating your rights under the fourth amendment tothe Constitution.
And our elected representatives are a bunch of pussies for not standing up and saying that.
Insurance companies should see this as an opportunity to subsidise late night taxi rides for those who have been drinking. It would cost them far less than paying out on a death or inury claim due to a drunk driver.
This is true with older books, from my experience with Amazon. Even when shipping is included, a used book can be had for under $10, while the Kindle version is often $10 or more...
Why limit ourselves to only one color? Make a bicolored ball, slightly heavier on the black side. There you go, efficient at blocking heat during the day but also efficient at allowing the water to radiate it away at night.
And then, if we can develop a mechanism to control areas of balls, using an XY grid of wires over the reservoir, we could selectively turn groups of balls (call them "pixels") white or black. Use this feature to spell out advertising messages to incoming airliners, and use the advertising revenue to pay for the scheme.
I started reading the article, because I usually know how these bored housewife stories on the internet go. Imagine my shock when I got to the end and it was still talking business. Even the man with the porn stache called Adam Osborne didn't lead to anything.
Man could ROCK a velour jacket, though:-)
Yeah, good on them for not knowing that starting their own business was something only guys could do.
I'll stick with my regular headlights, thanks just the same, Ford. I can only speculate as to how many additional things could go wrong with "automatic traffic sign recognition". All I currently need to worry about is making sure the bulb isn;t burned out.
So you probably don't even have a sensor to turn on the yard light you use to keep those damnable teenagers out of your lawn! Well played, codger.
Have you considered carbon arc lamps?
No sensor for the yard lamps, correct. Damn deer are more trouble than the kids could ever be.
But seriously, the possibilities for failure (and by failure, I mean not having light where I need it to be) are almost endless. If the smart headlights' computer guesses wrong, doesn't illuminate a bike rider on the side of the road, and I hit them because I couldn't see them, whose fault is it?
I'll stick with my regular headlights, thanks just the same, Ford. I can only speculate as to how many additional things could go wrong with "automatic traffic sign recognition". All I currently need to worry about is making sure the bulb isn;t burned out.
"I'm pretty sure that the corporations in question don't control the borders."
Yeah, but they sure seem to have a lot of pull with the congresscritters who introduce a bill, every year, to increase the number of H1-B visas.
It's a scam. And everyone with half a brain knows it. There has never been a shortage of good tech people in the US. There may be a shortage of tech people willing to work for low wages.
You want to really give those cars a test? Boston. Or New York City, if you must. But Boston would be better. Lanes that disappear without warning, roads that are blocked, randomly, by "repairs", signs warning you of work zones (and double fines) which then turn out to be devoid of any workers (indeed, any sign whatsoever of work, except for a few orange plastic barrels), lack of any signs when you need them most...I could go on -- but I bet Google's cars couldn't!
It shouldn't take long for some of the inhabitants to consider this to be the tip of the Obama Administration spear to take over Texas so they can remove their guns, impose environmental regulations, force money to be spent on education. And this right after the Jade Helm 15 exercises. They are probably Islamic driverless cars.
Google? They're right on time: gathering intelligence for the upcoming JADE HELM 15 invasion.
...only 6 more days until Obama and the UN OWN Texas!
The only reason it's an issue at all, is that the religious right lobbied to get anti-gay marriage laws passed. Just like in the South, where there were anti-mixed-race marriage laws.
There was no legal justification for those discriminatory laws, then, or now. So the Supremes had to step in and make it clear - if you're going to make marriage a legal thing, it needs to be for every couple, not just straight couples, not just white couples, every couple. Just like the Constitution says in the 14th ammendment.
I think it's only the pilots of big planes at major carriers that make the giant salaries. I knew a guy flying for one of the turboprop "puddlejumper" affiliates of a major carrier who was making like $19k a year.
$19k? Recently? I'm pretty sure that's below the poverty line. And $35k isn't much above it. That's not very much for all the responsibility and training required.
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I'm guessing, because our cars don't have it, that it's a service, delivered via OnStar (or similar) that lets you contact someone to make dinner or entertainment reservations from your car. Now that I think about it, my son had it on a BMW he had (briefly).
My wife usually does it on her cell while I drive. So I guess I do have it :-)
Russia and Ukraine, engaging in financial and environmental fraud? That's unpossible.
I expect my car mechanic to be fully versed in all areas of philosophy.
Why not? Dilbert's garbage man is :-)
Maybe we could say during the late 60's when the populace finally turned against the Vietnam War,
I think Vietnam, the Watergate affair and the revelations about the FBI spying, and worse, on the anti-war and civil rights movements. For me, at least, that was when I realized that "The Government" didn't know what was best for us, and was basically a bunch of normal people, given tremendous power. Some used it well, and some didn't. Government is a huge monster which feels that it's the only barrier between safety and anarchy, and as such, will do anything to maintain its power. Anyone in the way gets run over.
I don't think it's education that's lacking, but there's too much trust in what people are told (which is made worse by the sharp decline of journalistic standards in the media) and not enough questioning.
The only real way to fight this type of mass hysteria (be it communists or muslim terrorists under our beds), is to have and encourage a well-educated and critically-thinking public. Unfortunately, these abilities don't seem to be in vogue at this time. (Perhaps because they run counter to the interests of various religious and political groups).
An uneducated, docile public is easily led, while an educated, questioning public will loudly proclaim "bullshit" when presented with such.
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So are US citizens regarded as a terrorist organization or just "Other Adversaries" now? Silly me, I thought we were the bosses of the government. Been reading that Constitution too much. It'll warp your brain.
No, the information *would not* be placed directly into the hands of terrorists. The information need only be provided only to the defendant's lawyer, an officer of the court, who could be cleared to receive it, and promise, under threat of prosecution, not to divulge it to the defendant.
This is crap, just like the no-fly list, and the TSA searches. I'm sure there are people too dangerous to fly. But there can't be many of them. And if you're a regular American citizen, who hasn't been convicted of a crime, the Government should have to explain to you why they're restricting your ability to travel by air. If they can't explain it to you, you should be allowed to fly. To do otherwise comes awfully close to violating your rights under the fourth amendment tothe Constitution.
And our elected representatives are a bunch of pussies for not standing up and saying that.
Yeah, but it's no big deal that the secretary of state was using her own private email server to store top secret and confidential information.
Ironically, given the recent OPM and IRS breaches, Clinton's server was perhaps more secure than the State Department's... :-)
Insurance companies should see this as an opportunity to subsidise late night taxi rides for those who have been drinking. It would cost them far less than paying out on a death or inury claim due to a drunk driver.
This is true with older books, from my experience with Amazon. Even when shipping is included, a used book can be had for under $10, while the Kindle version is often $10 or more...
Why limit ourselves to only one color? Make a bicolored ball, slightly heavier on the black side. There you go, efficient at blocking heat during the day but also efficient at allowing the water to radiate it away at night.
And then, if we can develop a mechanism to control areas of balls, using an XY grid of wires over the reservoir, we could selectively turn groups of balls (call them "pixels") white or black. Use this feature to spell out advertising messages to incoming airliners, and use the advertising revenue to pay for the scheme.
Brilliant! :-)
To the extent the point was to keep heat away from the water, I wonder why they didn't go for something with a high albedo instead of black.
My thought as well. I suspect it has to do with black plastic being more resistant to UV degradation.
I started reading the article, because I usually know how these bored housewife stories on the internet go. Imagine my shock when I got to the end and it was still talking business. Even the man with the porn stache called Adam Osborne didn't lead to anything.
Man could ROCK a velour jacket, though :-)
Yeah, good on them for not knowing that starting their own business was something only guys could do.
I'll stick with my regular headlights, thanks just the same, Ford. I can only speculate as to how many additional things could go wrong with "automatic traffic sign recognition". All I currently need to worry about is making sure the bulb isn;t burned out.
So you probably don't even have a sensor to turn on the yard light you use to keep those damnable teenagers out of your lawn! Well played, codger.
Have you considered carbon arc lamps?
No sensor for the yard lamps, correct. Damn deer are more trouble than the kids could ever be.
But seriously, the possibilities for failure (and by failure, I mean not having light where I need it to be) are almost endless. If the smart headlights' computer guesses wrong, doesn't illuminate a bike rider on the side of the road, and I hit them because I couldn't see them, whose fault is it?
I'll stick with my regular headlights, thanks just the same, Ford. I can only speculate as to how many additional things could go wrong with "automatic traffic sign recognition". All I currently need to worry about is making sure the bulb isn;t burned out.
"I'm pretty sure that the corporations in question don't control the borders."
Yeah, but they sure seem to have a lot of pull with the congresscritters who introduce a bill, every year, to increase the number of H1-B visas.
It's a scam. And everyone with half a brain knows it. There has never been a shortage of good tech people in the US. There may be a shortage of tech people willing to work for low wages.
You want to really give those cars a test? Boston. Or New York City, if you must. But Boston would be better. Lanes that disappear without warning, roads that are blocked, randomly, by "repairs", signs warning you of work zones (and double fines) which then turn out to be devoid of any workers (indeed, any sign whatsoever of work, except for a few orange plastic barrels), lack of any signs when you need them most...I could go on -- but I bet Google's cars couldn't!
And then, Boston drivers...
It shouldn't take long for some of the inhabitants to consider this to be the tip of the Obama Administration spear to take over Texas so they can remove their guns, impose environmental regulations, force money to be spent on education. And this right after the Jade Helm 15 exercises. They are probably Islamic driverless cars.
Google? They're right on time: gathering intelligence for the upcoming JADE HELM 15 invasion.
"a right out of thin air"?
The only reason it's an issue at all, is that the religious right lobbied to get anti-gay marriage laws passed. Just like in the South, where there were anti-mixed-race marriage laws.
There was no legal justification for those discriminatory laws, then, or now. So the Supremes had to step in and make it clear - if you're going to make marriage a legal thing, it needs to be for every couple, not just straight couples, not just white couples, every couple. Just like the Constitution says in the 14th ammendment.
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Consider it as if nothing had happened...until the fuss dies down, and they're all quietly shown the door.
I think it's only the pilots of big planes at major carriers that make the giant salaries. I knew a guy flying for one of the turboprop "puddlejumper" affiliates of a major carrier who was making like $19k a year.
$19k? Recently? I'm pretty sure that's below the poverty line. And $35k isn't much above it. That's not very much for all the responsibility and training required.
No pilots for the drones means Obama's JADE HELM 15 invasion of Texas is postponed?
Is this supposed to be intelligible, or is it just the ramblings of a purposeless bot?
Reason #1: they're unregulated
Reason #2: They have a demonstrated history of exploiting reason #1 (see www.paypalsucks.com for more information)
It just doesn't make sense to allow an organization like this to have any amount of access and/or control over your money.