Yeah, and the Safari "update". If I wanted yet *another* browser, I'd have installed it myself. Don't include it as a quicktime update. WTF? Seriously apple, WTF?
Yes indeed; further, it seems the trick is to first identify what is to be powered by this project since some whole-system project is off the table. If not a cell phone, then what? Without answering that first this seems like a search for a solution in search of a problem. I think, by reading the original post, that the poster would like to leverage renewable energy to power his home. Or at least supplement the power provided to him by his local power company. I'm very interested in doing the same but in my investigation, it's going to cost upwards of $30,000 to do any serious power generation. In the summertime, I get ~$450 power bills which I'd love to offset using solar power since I've got tons of exposure at my house. The problem is, the costs before installation are prohibitive. Let's assume I can completely power my home with solar energy at a cost of $30,000, it'd take like 6-10 years for me to make back the costs of rolling it out unless I move, at which point I think I'd get the $30,000 back in the sale price of my home. ( Somehow home prices in my neighborhood seem to be insulated from the housing dip )
Anyways, I have nothing to offer the poster but I'm sure interested to see if anyone else does.
They make ATMs on wheels, too. Ever been to a convenience store?
Ever try to lift one of those deals? The portable ATM machines that we have in our stores weigh about 1000lbs. So...
Do you think the number of speeding tickets issued is affected by the potential income through fines? Do you think the propensity for police to confiscate property is affected by the ability to then auction off that property? 1. Speeding tickets, yes. However, it's like like they're making new speeding laws. People speed. It's not safe. Ticket them. Win-Win.
2. No, I don't think the propensity for police to confiscate property is affected by the ability to then auction off that property. A police department does not directly receive income from said auctioned off property.
3. Let's not forget that *we* are the government. The "profit" directly or indirectly benefits the population. Let's not forget to separate individual bad behavoir from actual government policy.
It's obvious that a company running a prison system would benefit financially from having more prisoners. If you're claiming otherwise, I'd like to see the contracts that don't allow the company more profit from doing more work. Perhaps. I'd like to point out though that it'd be a whole lot easier to just go for the already incarcerated population as a target for your company rather than trying to get more incarcerated. Last time I checked, there's plenty of overcrowding already in the prison systems.
Do you think the lawmaker will say, "No I cannot accept your campaign contribution, because your positions are detrimental to my constituents"? Do you really think that? Nope. I don't. Nor do I expect them to do so. In fact, not only do I expect them to accept contributions, but I also expect said lawmakers to give company X preferential treatment when it comes to rolling out no-bid contracts, or renewing shady deals. I don't, however, think that will provide said lawmakers enough incentive to incarcerate more people. They've already got *plenty* of people in non-privitized jails to work on.
I am really starting to DESPISE those who claim to represent our country...It's gotten to where I cannot even read the news anymore without getting sick to my stomach. Well, there's always Canada. Of course, you can vote, organize a protest, write your congressman...but then, ah it's just easier to bitch about it and go back to sleep.
This sounds like quite an onerous burden on businesses, and I imagine it will be struck down by the courts soon enough unless it's much narrower and specific a regulation than the story makes it appear. Private parties should not be expected to do the job of law enforcement. It depends on how easy it is to do. I think for the most part, businesses that will be affected by this will probably want to insure that they are not helping criminals. I know I can speak for our business.
Plus, this thing kinda reminds me of the Payment card industry standard which, among other things, requires business that accept credit and bank cards to adhear to a strict policy of security when dealing with these cards. Every year, even on the smallest level, companies should be filling out a "self test" which requires you answer questions about your card security. Among the questions is a whole bunch of requirements you'd expect of a data center but not, say, a restaurant. Glass walls, biometric access, camera systems, etc. Fines start at $100,000 and you risk losing your ability to take credit cards. The published standard is here.
I'm sure that 99% of small businesses that accept Visa/MC/AMEX etc have *no idea* about this standard and even if they did, they have no resources to adhear to it. That's why this "Red Flag" deal reminds me of it.
It should be abundantly clear at this point to all concerned that unchecked capitalism (whether libertarian or conservative) is harmful to life on Earth. I mean, we've privatized prisons in this country, providing still more incentive to incarcerate people (as if we didn't already have various financial incentives along those lines.) I'm not sure if you're kidding or not but I'll assume you're not. Are you trying to say that because there are privitized prisons, that a jury will be more likely to send a person to jail? Or that a prosecuter will think "Hrm...If I can get this guy to plead guilty, I'll be able to give "company X" another inmate and they might give me their Knicks tickets again."
Really? Or that lawmakers will say "If I make this law, more people will go to jail, which means more money for my buddy's company which means, he'll have another one of those bitchin parties again this year" ? Do you really think that?
Not trying to disagree with your unchecked captialism point but your proof stinks.
So the banks are more impportant than the ballots here. But it's what one would expect in a plutocracy. --And--
I'm not sure this is a valid conclusion. The same people aren't making decisions in each case. And while we like to think we place a high value on the integrity of our voting system, it's hard to put a dollar figure on that, which is what the people running the budget need. Not only that, but I think it's important to point out that there are not a whole lot of people using pickup trucks to smash through the front doors of polling stations trying to steal voting machines. I know everybody thinks that Bush stole the election but it wasn't because the election machine didn't weigh 10,000 lbs. So yeah, I think that maybe you can't compare the cost of an ATM machine to a voting machine. After all, the cost of making paper ballots were never compared to to cost of making a dollar bill.
the TSA goon who threatens you with "well I say it's a knife, now hand it over or I'll have you arrested for interfering with the safety of this airport, which is a federal facility" in response to "sir, that item with the bristles is not a knife, it's a toothbrush" is the uncontrolled experiment scaled down. No, I'd say that that's the misguided bad behavior of a minimum wage troll.
Yes, it is. We're primates. Killing other primates not of our tribe is what we're good at. Every free nation has the capacity within itself to screw up. All we need is an excuse. Most Germans (even the Jews) of the Weimar Republic would have said the same thing in the 30s; "sure, it might get bad, but it'll never get that bad!" Ah...Godwin's law, at last.
That is the problem I have with governments getting sway over corporations we entrust our information too, whether we do so directly or indirectly. The government has no right to go on a fishing expedition, especially when its most likely at some egotistical power abusive official. Um. Yes they do. You might think they shouldn't. But they do. So vote. Organize a protest, write your congressman, give a shit beyond bitching on Slashdot.
If you had RTFA, you would see that the government didn't get warrants for any of these "suspects" and freely admitted that there wasn't enough evidence to do so. What??? What article are you reading? Please quote said passage in the article.
Given that goggle have been using picture analysis to help catch paedophiles for a long time, and that catching pedos inst evil by anybody's standards, id say that they draw the line at paedophiles. I think it's funny that the same people who would argue against the "slippery slope" stance when it's used in situations like video game violence or television censors, have no problem standing on the slippery slope soapbox when it comes to internet privacy. Why is it so hard for people to believe that yeah, there can be a line. If a law is being broken in full view of the public on the internet and Google can help the authorities find out who is doing it, then yeah, give it up. What's the difference between that and somebody watching a pedo grope a 5 year old in a store? If a person knows who broke a law, then they should report that person.
I believe the question at hand is "For how much longer?" before a fascist police state is in full force. Do you *really* think it's possible for the US to become a "fascist police state"??? Really?
The patriot act That is not an example of someone being prosecuted for speaking out against the government. A shifty deal that needs to go away? Yeah. Completely misused by the authorities? Yeah. But still...it's not an example someone being prosecuted for speaking out against the government.
I suspect that's a war that's already lost. But count me in, we've had 8 years of oppression in the UK and the US Spoken from a true douche who doesn't know real oppression. Cite one example where you personally have been oppressed please and I will retract the "douche".
Apart from "Find the Sausage" jokes... It's "Hide the Sausage". Sheesh...What fun would "Find the Sausage" be? Unless it was "Hide->Find->Hide->Find->Hide->Find" etc.
His teachers were the morons, not him. I once failed a paper in high school because the teacher thought I made up the word hierarchy Wait now. I'm confused. Did your teacher think you made up the "word hierarchy" or the word hierarchy?
The important thing is that you were *wrong* about the leaky airplane. Plus, you were smarmy. *Plus*, you went on a rant about apostrophes with poor sentence structure. So like, three strikes. Go away now.
I see no cited sources But dude, he sighted his aunt's friend. He was a *trooper* man. *And* a vet. What more do you want?
Third hand knowledge. My aunt had a friend who was a state trooper on Long Island. He was a Vietnam vet, and stated it her that it was a missile. Best quote EVER.
Um...I think it's an undisputed fact that the center tank had about 300 pounds of fuel in it. Even by the conspiracy theorists. In fact, the pilot who flew the Athens->New York flight prior to the New York->Atlantic Ocean flight said he (as is normal) pumped all that fuel into the other tanks during flight and it would be refilled in Paris.
On a side note, why do you people want to think that there's funny business with this? If a government can't cover up a president getting a blowjob, or a governor getting a hooker, then I have serious doubts in them being able to cover up shooting down an airliner.
To put it more clearly...
n physics, ram pressure is a pressure exerted on a body which is moving through a fluid medium. It causes a strong drag force to be exerted on the body.
For example, a meteor traveling through the Earth's atmosphere produces a shock wave generated by the extremely rapid compression of air in front of the meteoroid. It is primarily this ram pressure (rather than friction) which heats the air which in turn heats the meteoroid as it flows around it.
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Yeah, and the Safari "update". If I wanted yet *another* browser, I'd have installed it myself. Don't include it as a quicktime update. WTF? Seriously apple, WTF?
Anyways, I have nothing to offer the poster but I'm sure interested to see if anyone else does.
2. No, I don't think the propensity for police to confiscate property is affected by the ability to then auction off that property. A police department does not directly receive income from said auctioned off property.
3. Let's not forget that *we* are the government. The "profit" directly or indirectly benefits the population. Let's not forget to separate individual bad behavoir from actual government policy.
Plus, this thing kinda reminds me of the Payment card industry standard which, among other things, requires business that accept credit and bank cards to adhear to a strict policy of security when dealing with these cards. Every year, even on the smallest level, companies should be filling out a "self test" which requires you answer questions about your card security. Among the questions is a whole bunch of requirements you'd expect of a data center but not, say, a restaurant. Glass walls, biometric access, camera systems, etc. Fines start at $100,000 and you risk losing your ability to take credit cards. The published standard is here.
I'm sure that 99% of small businesses that accept Visa/MC/AMEX etc have *no idea* about this standard and even if they did, they have no resources to adhear to it. That's why this "Red Flag" deal reminds me of it.
Really? Or that lawmakers will say "If I make this law, more people will go to jail, which means more money for my buddy's company which means, he'll have another one of those bitchin parties again this year" ? Do you really think that?
Not trying to disagree with your unchecked captialism point but your proof stinks.
The important thing is that you were *wrong* about the leaky airplane. Plus, you were smarmy. *Plus*, you went on a rant about apostrophes with poor sentence structure. So like, three strikes. Go away now.
Um...I think it's an undisputed fact that the center tank had about 300 pounds of fuel in it. Even by the conspiracy theorists. In fact, the pilot who flew the Athens->New York flight prior to the New York->Atlantic Ocean flight said he (as is normal) pumped all that fuel into the other tanks during flight and it would be refilled in Paris.
On a side note, why do you people want to think that there's funny business with this? If a government can't cover up a president getting a blowjob, or a governor getting a hooker, then I have serious doubts in them being able to cover up shooting down an airliner.