You overestimate the roll-over danger of an SUV. Most accidents don't result in a roll-over. And roll-overs usually only end in fatalities if the people inside the vehicles aren't belted in. I know of one SUV that drifted off a freeway at 70+, caught a wheel in a hole or something and flipped end-over end. The entire family walked away with only scratches. I like those odds.
Also that "Soccer mom" is preserving and extending her genetic line. The mere fact that her family does not fit in a subcompact is proof that she is winning when it comes to Darwin. The poor guy in the subcompact may have also done so, or he may be one of those selfish elitists who think not having a family is somehow winning at the game of Darwin.
Let's be honest, the only reason he's in that embassy and not buried in an unmarked grave in outer Elbonia is because the parties have been playing fair and by the rules. The US has not asked for him, at all. The Swedes have issued a warrant on a serious crime. England held a hearing, let Assange defend himself but still decided he needed to go face those criminal charges. And he ran to the Embassy.
For all the great evils the CIA, Mossad and MI6 supposedly do on a daily basis, what is he doing still breathing? Oh that's right, the Nations in question are playing fair and they following the rules. Which historically is pretty unusual for a non-state actor who has so much highly sensitive data pass through his hands.
That's why I bought Nook rather than a Kindle. The epub format is an open format. It can be locked down by DRM if you obtain your books from sources that lock the books. But I also have thousands of other e-books consisting of PDF's, epubs and.txt files that are not locked and are free to share. And there are many sources for unlocked epub books. Baen books for one.
Your argument is only partially valid even with the most locked in reader which is the Kindle. But even it can read.pdf's and.txt files. And there are many non-DRM sources even available for it's proprietary format.mobi.
The problems e-readers tend to have with.pdf's is formatting and there are converters available that will not only convert the text to a readable text format but will allow you to then edit the text to adjust it even more. And of course e-ink is NOT good with pictures of any form. But I'm not getting picture books to read.
The question is, have you used an e-ink reader for extensive reading? Most who do, that I've talked to, dislike reading on an LCD. You give good examples of how tablets can be used but until you have used both, you really can't speak authoritatively on which is better.
I have an SD card full of PDF's and epubs on my nook, there are some minor page formatting issues with PDF's in the nook, but they still read fine. And my Nook weighs a lot less than your 10" tablet and gets nearly a month between charges. Can your tablet do that. Will you tablet let you read through a 18 hour flight? My Nook will.
Because a laptop has a battery life of maybe 6 hours if the OS install is clean and the batteries are fresh. A Tablet can give you about the same. And eReader can go weeks between charges. You still want a laptop as that is where you will manage your library, but for readability, portability and battery life an eReader wins by a landslide.
I have a Nook, a laptop and a tablet, I can read my ebooks on all of them. Yet I find myself only really reading them on the Nook, because the laptop and tablet have to many other things on them capable of distracting from the reading. When I upgrade my 1st gen Nook, it will be to another e-ink based reader, because I want a reader NOT a tablet form computer.
It's funny you claim statistics when the lone opinion piece you cite gives none. It only talks about the low number of people being convicted. With the secret ballot method we use, it's incredibly difficult to prove fraud but lack of convictions does not correlate with the causation of a supposed lack of fraud.
Thus requiring a government issued ID to vote is somehow discriminatory when it's actually one of the most effective ways of preventing to most commonly used forms of vote fraud. Individuals voting outside their legal voting district, voting in the name of other individuals and so on.
Vote fraud is real, it has a long and historically verified life in this country, and voter ID will block many of the easiest forms to commit, which are also the hardest forms to prove without requiring a photo ID.
Another tip on the home defense shotty given to me by a couple LEO friends, is put a couple of those large rubber coated hooks up inside your master closet and hang the shotgun there. In the tube or in the chamber, you can't see it if you don't twist your head up to look, your younger kids won't have any idea it's even there and they can't reach it. Meanwhile you or your spouse can have it out and ready to go in a second. By the time the kids are old enough to reach it, they are more than old enough to know better.
Except that these boxes are designed and supposed to be bolted down. In fact when they open the first one you can see the holes drilled for the bolts in the back of the box. If the box is bolted down, the child can't lift and drop it. So if used as designed that container is fully capable of doing it's job.
The preponderance of concealed carry permits begs your conclusion. Crime rates are lowest in areas with the most liberal concealed carry laws. As states have relaxed their permitting process crime has dropped every time a state has relaxed the requirements to carry and thus allowed a lot more honest citizens to carry.
I live in a very low crime area and I carry, I really have no expectation (or desire) of every needing to use my weapon, but this last April my state (UT) saw a prime example of why carrying is a good thing. A dude went into a grocery store and bought a large kitchen knife, he walked outside the store, unwrapped the knife and started stabbing random people. He'd stabbed two people when a citizen walking by saw what was happening and drew down on the stabber, stopping the attacks and holding the attacker until the cops arrived five minutes later. The first stabbing victim was in critical condition and they reported had help been delayed even a couple minutes more, he might not have survived. Had concealed carry laws been more restrictive how many more might have been stabbed, possibly fatally, because an armed citizen wasn't around to stop the crime and when seconds counted the police were five minutes away? The area where this occurred is not considered a high crime area.
And amazingly to the gun grabbers who claim liberal carry laws will result in streets running with blood, not a shot was fired, the only blood on the street was from a knife.
Yep, and don't let your kids buy six inch brass strips at the hardware store. While this weakness is of mild concern, mostly it just shows that a little additional care must be placed in the location of these containers. The Stack-ons should be bolted, the others are more bedside containers in which you only put the weapon when you are going to be sleeping next to it. Thus if the kids are in the room while you are not, the weapon is being carried by you or is properly stored in a real security container, such as a bolted down stack-on container.
Worked? Yes if you consider a long and lengthy history of voter fraud where individuals vote multiple times and the dead are able to enter votes. "Vote early and vote often" isn't just a joke, it's a trademark of machine politics.
You need a verifiable form of identification usually specified to be some form of government issued ID. But it's not a license to Vote, it's verifiable ID. In this day and age it is be very simple for every citizen or legal resident alien of this country to obtain one or more forms of such ID, regardless of race or gender. So how is the requirement discriminatory? It only discriminates against those who should not be allowed to vote, specifically those in this county illegally or on a short visa.
There are plastic lowers on the market, and they do quite well, Google Plum Crazy Lowers. All the compressions actions take place in the upper, where the chamber and barrel are located.
Not everybody out there is a fan of these lowers but they aren't as fragile as you think.
Maybe Samsung should try an apple shaped tablet, sans any bite of course, just an outline of an apple. Apple inc. of course has trademarked the apple with the bite, but any other apple outline is fair game.
Actually, strangely enough, in the 80 mph sections most traffic goes 80 to 85, similar to what it travels in the 75 mph sections. Sure you get the occasional speed freak who bumps up to 90 or more. But the Utah Highway Patrol rarely gives more than a mph allowance in the 80 sections. So those who push over 85 are more likely to get pulled over than those going 85 in a 75 mph section.
Human nature is the cause of most speeding. The "I wanna get there as fast as I can," the "This is fun zipping through traffic" or the "Why won't this guy move over and let me pass" thought processes as well as tendencies to try to keep up with or ahead of other drivers is what leads most people to speed either intentionally or by unintentionally going just a little bit faster and faster until they notice they are flying 85 mph in a 65 zone.
But with Autonomous cars you take the human nature out of it. Only if I left late will I really want the car to go faster and faster. If I can truly just let the car drive, I don't care how fast it's going, I'm too busy reading my book or surfing the web or engaging in a phone call or text conversation. If I can trust the car to get me there safely, with it able to read and even communicate with the other cars on the road to deal with traffic, road hazards, and other obstacle, I won't be paying attention to what the other cars will be doing.
Plus once we get the majority of cars on the road so equipped, and they do prove to be safe (substantially reducing the frequency and severity of accidents) I can easily see the speed limits being boosted to match what the cars are capable of.
Speed itself is rarely the cause of accidents, it's people who are speeding trying to weave through slower traffic, taking curves and corners too fast and encountering unexpected weather conditions (wet or icy roads) while speeding. Autonomous cars, talking to the traffic system and to other cars should be able to more quickly and safely maneuver through traffic, allow for differing speed limits for different lanes of traffic, merge onto and off of freeways more smoothly and safely due to planning and communication with other vehicles to allow merging, no more jumping 5 lanes at the last second because the driver wasn't paying attention and nearly missed his exit.
Truly autonomous cars should actually be able to travel much faster, far more safely than today. But even if they don't, if the car is driving, not the emotional meatbag behind the wheel, the NEED TO SPEED will greatly drop.
That's pure BS, people understand file structures and use of explorer just fine. In fact I find more people surprised that they can use the open file dialog rather than just double click on the file they want to use in Explorer, than the way you explain it.
Computers still have hard drives. It's not completely out of the question for the government to require consumers to report how much hard drive space is utilized for media storage, and charge a $/GB tax.
Oh yes it is completely out of the question. In the US at least it's called the 4th amendment. The government has no right or need to know what I have on my computer. Further how should the delineate between my own personal videos shot with my camera and movie files. Or the music I create, the music I buy and download, the music I buy and platform shift, and the music I pirate.
Not quite true, Romney was a Republican governor over a very democratic state and he participated in the discussion and design of a similar, State Level (where it belongs) plan. But had he sat back and done nothing such a plan would have still been passed by the legislature, even if he'd tried to veto it, it would have been passed over his veto. So rather than being just shoved aside, he participated in the design and was able to moderate the plan to a degree.
The errors came from the same original source data not from OSM. Waze intends and does monetize their maps, and if they just used OSM maps they couldn't do so. Similarities in the maps is due to the original public resource base data, not between the two products.
The Waze maps were never forked from OSM, Waze started in Israel and had no basemap, it was created entirely by users, and in country after country this has occurred, people find out about the app and start driving with it running, this quickly creates a rough base map in major population areas on main routes. For additional roads Waze goes to the original government created map sources to create a basemap for countries it intends to support. This is where the similarities come in.
Brazil just barely went through this with their basemap going live on Waze this last weekend.
But back to your original closing question, they didn't fork it, and they chose to not utilize OSM because they can't, at least not an make money how they are doing so. If they used the OSM maps their map data would have to be similarly free.
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You overestimate the roll-over danger of an SUV. Most accidents don't result in a roll-over. And roll-overs usually only end in fatalities if the people inside the vehicles aren't belted in. I know of one SUV that drifted off a freeway at 70+, caught a wheel in a hole or something and flipped end-over end. The entire family walked away with only scratches. I like those odds.
Also that "Soccer mom" is preserving and extending her genetic line. The mere fact that her family does not fit in a subcompact is proof that she is winning when it comes to Darwin. The poor guy in the subcompact may have also done so, or he may be one of those selfish elitists who think not having a family is somehow winning at the game of Darwin.
Let's be honest, the only reason he's in that embassy and not buried in an unmarked grave in outer Elbonia is because the parties have been playing fair and by the rules. The US has not asked for him, at all. The Swedes have issued a warrant on a serious crime. England held a hearing, let Assange defend himself but still decided he needed to go face those criminal charges. And he ran to the Embassy.
For all the great evils the CIA, Mossad and MI6 supposedly do on a daily basis, what is he doing still breathing? Oh that's right, the Nations in question are playing fair and they following the rules. Which historically is pretty unusual for a non-state actor who has so much highly sensitive data pass through his hands.
That's why I bought Nook rather than a Kindle. The epub format is an open format. It can be locked down by DRM if you obtain your books from sources that lock the books. But I also have thousands of other e-books consisting of PDF's, epubs and .txt files that are not locked and are free to share. And there are many sources for unlocked epub books. Baen books for one.
.pdf's and .txt files. And there are many non-DRM sources even available for it's proprietary format .mobi.
.pdf's is formatting and there are converters available that will not only convert the text to a readable text format but will allow you to then edit the text to adjust it even more. And of course e-ink is NOT good with pictures of any form. But I'm not getting picture books to read.
Your argument is only partially valid even with the most locked in reader which is the Kindle. But even it can read
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The question is, have you used an e-ink reader for extensive reading? Most who do, that I've talked to, dislike reading on an LCD. You give good examples of how tablets can be used but until you have used both, you really can't speak authoritatively on which is better.
I have an SD card full of PDF's and epubs on my nook, there are some minor page formatting issues with PDF's in the nook, but they still read fine. And my Nook weighs a lot less than your 10" tablet and gets nearly a month between charges. Can your tablet do that. Will you tablet let you read through a 18 hour flight? My Nook will.
Because a laptop has a battery life of maybe 6 hours if the OS install is clean and the batteries are fresh. A Tablet can give you about the same. And eReader can go weeks between charges. You still want a laptop as that is where you will manage your library, but for readability, portability and battery life an eReader wins by a landslide.
I have a Nook, a laptop and a tablet, I can read my ebooks on all of them. Yet I find myself only really reading them on the Nook, because the laptop and tablet have to many other things on them capable of distracting from the reading. When I upgrade my 1st gen Nook, it will be to another e-ink based reader, because I want a reader NOT a tablet form computer.
The athletes don't get medals for setting new records, they get the medals for winning their event, regardless of whether or not they set a record.
Well to be honest this thread still makes sense, as the prior post was about all the amendments. Whereas this one is about it dying.
It's funny you claim statistics when the lone opinion piece you cite gives none. It only talks about the low number of people being convicted. With the secret ballot method we use, it's incredibly difficult to prove fraud but lack of convictions does not correlate with the causation of a supposed lack of fraud.
Here are just a few results of my quick Google on the history of Vote fraud in the US. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/297461/reality-voter-fraud-john-fund http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-voter-fraud-a-real-problem/voter-fraud-is-a-proven-election-manipulation-tactic http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/voter_fraud_for_the_complete_idiot.html http://mises.org/daily/554 The historical facts stand, all major parties (the current two are not the only two who have qualified as major dominant parties) are guilty of large scale systematic fraud during the history of this country, yet the current claim of it not being that big a deal is continually put forward by left leaning organizations such as the ACLU and definitively left leaning media sources. But history proves them wrong.
Thus requiring a government issued ID to vote is somehow discriminatory when it's actually one of the most effective ways of preventing to most commonly used forms of vote fraud. Individuals voting outside their legal voting district, voting in the name of other individuals and so on. Vote fraud is real, it has a long and historically verified life in this country, and voter ID will block many of the easiest forms to commit, which are also the hardest forms to prove without requiring a photo ID.
Another tip on the home defense shotty given to me by a couple LEO friends, is put a couple of those large rubber coated hooks up inside your master closet and hang the shotgun there. In the tube or in the chamber, you can't see it if you don't twist your head up to look, your younger kids won't have any idea it's even there and they can't reach it. Meanwhile you or your spouse can have it out and ready to go in a second. By the time the kids are old enough to reach it, they are more than old enough to know better.
Except that these boxes are designed and supposed to be bolted down. In fact when they open the first one you can see the holes drilled for the bolts in the back of the box. If the box is bolted down, the child can't lift and drop it. So if used as designed that container is fully capable of doing it's job.
The preponderance of concealed carry permits begs your conclusion. Crime rates are lowest in areas with the most liberal concealed carry laws. As states have relaxed their permitting process crime has dropped every time a state has relaxed the requirements to carry and thus allowed a lot more honest citizens to carry.
I live in a very low crime area and I carry, I really have no expectation (or desire) of every needing to use my weapon, but this last April my state (UT) saw a prime example of why carrying is a good thing. A dude went into a grocery store and bought a large kitchen knife, he walked outside the store, unwrapped the knife and started stabbing random people. He'd stabbed two people when a citizen walking by saw what was happening and drew down on the stabber, stopping the attacks and holding the attacker until the cops arrived five minutes later. The first stabbing victim was in critical condition and they reported had help been delayed even a couple minutes more, he might not have survived. Had concealed carry laws been more restrictive how many more might have been stabbed, possibly fatally, because an armed citizen wasn't around to stop the crime and when seconds counted the police were five minutes away? The area where this occurred is not considered a high crime area.
And amazingly to the gun grabbers who claim liberal carry laws will result in streets running with blood, not a shot was fired, the only blood on the street was from a knife.
Yep, and don't let your kids buy six inch brass strips at the hardware store. While this weakness is of mild concern, mostly it just shows that a little additional care must be placed in the location of these containers. The Stack-ons should be bolted, the others are more bedside containers in which you only put the weapon when you are going to be sleeping next to it. Thus if the kids are in the room while you are not, the weapon is being carried by you or is properly stored in a real security container, such as a bolted down stack-on container.
Worked? Yes if you consider a long and lengthy history of voter fraud where individuals vote multiple times and the dead are able to enter votes. "Vote early and vote often" isn't just a joke, it's a trademark of machine politics.
Don't forget the Plumb Crazy line of PLASTIC Lower receivers.
You need a verifiable form of identification usually specified to be some form of government issued ID. But it's not a license to Vote, it's verifiable ID. In this day and age it is be very simple for every citizen or legal resident alien of this country to obtain one or more forms of such ID, regardless of race or gender. So how is the requirement discriminatory? It only discriminates against those who should not be allowed to vote, specifically those in this county illegally or on a short visa.
And we have a SCOTUS ruling affirming your point about the separation of the two clauses.
There are plastic lowers on the market, and they do quite well, Google Plum Crazy Lowers. All the compressions actions take place in the upper, where the chamber and barrel are located. Not everybody out there is a fan of these lowers but they aren't as fragile as you think.
Maybe Samsung should try an apple shaped tablet, sans any bite of course, just an outline of an apple. Apple inc. of course has trademarked the apple with the bite, but any other apple outline is fair game.
Actually, strangely enough, in the 80 mph sections most traffic goes 80 to 85, similar to what it travels in the 75 mph sections. Sure you get the occasional speed freak who bumps up to 90 or more. But the Utah Highway Patrol rarely gives more than a mph allowance in the 80 sections. So those who push over 85 are more likely to get pulled over than those going 85 in a 75 mph section.
Human nature is the cause of most speeding. The "I wanna get there as fast as I can," the "This is fun zipping through traffic" or the "Why won't this guy move over and let me pass" thought processes as well as tendencies to try to keep up with or ahead of other drivers is what leads most people to speed either intentionally or by unintentionally going just a little bit faster and faster until they notice they are flying 85 mph in a 65 zone.
But with Autonomous cars you take the human nature out of it. Only if I left late will I really want the car to go faster and faster. If I can truly just let the car drive, I don't care how fast it's going, I'm too busy reading my book or surfing the web or engaging in a phone call or text conversation. If I can trust the car to get me there safely, with it able to read and even communicate with the other cars on the road to deal with traffic, road hazards, and other obstacle, I won't be paying attention to what the other cars will be doing.
Plus once we get the majority of cars on the road so equipped, and they do prove to be safe (substantially reducing the frequency and severity of accidents) I can easily see the speed limits being boosted to match what the cars are capable of.
Speed itself is rarely the cause of accidents, it's people who are speeding trying to weave through slower traffic, taking curves and corners too fast and encountering unexpected weather conditions (wet or icy roads) while speeding. Autonomous cars, talking to the traffic system and to other cars should be able to more quickly and safely maneuver through traffic, allow for differing speed limits for different lanes of traffic, merge onto and off of freeways more smoothly and safely due to planning and communication with other vehicles to allow merging, no more jumping 5 lanes at the last second because the driver wasn't paying attention and nearly missed his exit.
Truly autonomous cars should actually be able to travel much faster, far more safely than today. But even if they don't, if the car is driving, not the emotional meatbag behind the wheel, the NEED TO SPEED will greatly drop.
That's pure BS, people understand file structures and use of explorer just fine. In fact I find more people surprised that they can use the open file dialog rather than just double click on the file they want to use in Explorer, than the way you explain it.
Computers still have hard drives. It's not completely out of the question for the government to require consumers to report how much hard drive space is utilized for media storage, and charge a $/GB tax.
Oh yes it is completely out of the question. In the US at least it's called the 4th amendment. The government has no right or need to know what I have on my computer. Further how should the delineate between my own personal videos shot with my camera and movie files. Or the music I create, the music I buy and download, the music I buy and platform shift, and the music I pirate.
Not quite true, Romney was a Republican governor over a very democratic state and he participated in the discussion and design of a similar, State Level (where it belongs) plan. But had he sat back and done nothing such a plan would have still been passed by the legislature, even if he'd tried to veto it, it would have been passed over his veto. So rather than being just shoved aside, he participated in the design and was able to moderate the plan to a degree.
The errors came from the same original source data not from OSM. Waze intends and does monetize their maps, and if they just used OSM maps they couldn't do so. Similarities in the maps is due to the original public resource base data, not between the two products.
The Waze maps were never forked from OSM, Waze started in Israel and had no basemap, it was created entirely by users, and in country after country this has occurred, people find out about the app and start driving with it running, this quickly creates a rough base map in major population areas on main routes. For additional roads Waze goes to the original government created map sources to create a basemap for countries it intends to support. This is where the similarities come in.
Brazil just barely went through this with their basemap going live on Waze this last weekend.
But back to your original closing question, they didn't fork it, and they chose to not utilize OSM because they can't, at least not an make money how they are doing so. If they used the OSM maps their map data would have to be similarly free.