Lazy? Do you know how much time and effort it takes to learn how to do donuts in a vehicle so equipped? If I forget to turn off the TCS I have to work to get my rear wheel drive truck to do quality donuts.
I don't NEED books period, hard or soft copy, I don't NEED newspapers or magazines. However, I do like to read, I read a lot, in addition sometimes I travel overseas, and carrying enough books for 18 hours of flight, two weeks in a non-English speaking country (No English Bookstores) and 18 hours of flight back is burdensome. Just such a trip is what sold me on finally getting a Nook. Now I rarely have less than a hundred books with me at any time, in a very convenient form factor.
We don't NEED most modern conveniences, so NEED is not a criteria.
I rarely buy DRM'd stuff, there are multiple sources of quality non-DRM'd books, Baen Books, The Gutenberg Project and others. But I do occasionally buy new releases from B&N. I also like that when shopping at B&N in person, I can read any ebook they carry for free while in the store, and if I decide I want it, it's a couple taps on the touch screen and the book is mine. If I need to I can strip the DRM from those books but so far I haven't had the need.
No it's not. They mention five in Death Valley, we get a couple a year trying to cross uncrossable sections of Utah, most have been saved, but a few have not. And we see more of em every year. Each case costs a bit in search and rescue funds, which we can sometimes recove if we find them in time. If we don't find them in time, we can't recoup the money from corpses.
Running out of gas is a common issue with these cases. They are not exclusive to Death Valley, they are rather common in Utah as well, when the GPS tells them to take this dirt road that turns into a goat trail. The road does sometimes go all the way through and could be passable, but not without a full tank of gas and possibly even extra fuel cans. So gas/fuel is a legitimate issue. Yes water would help, but if you run out of gas 80 miles from pavement, nobody local knows your passing through, and you aren't used to traveling in the desert, water ain't going to help much. Being able to keep pushing on or being able to turn around and drive back out are often more critical.
I'm not trying to downplay the importance of water, but if you never have to get out of the vehicle you don't need the water. Personally I think the GPS companies need to rework their algorithms to not try and follow any road possible, but (especially for long distance trips) to stick to main state and US highways. Especially for GPS's in rental vehicles.
So very true, my youngest brother and sister were subject to that teaching method and always struggled to enjoy reading, compared to we older siblings who learned to read and spell phonetically. If properly taught, phonetics teaches the student not only the sounds but the various combinations and rules for making those combinations.
Does a pure phonetic speller make mistakes due to the various ways of producing the phonetic sounds used in the English language? Yes, but a phonetic speller can spell new words more accurately, and can sound out new words as well.
Being able to sound out the words also gives the phonetic reader the ability to derive the various root words and sounds that often give hint to the meaning or definition of the new words.
Phonetics works, it works well, and while not perfect it works far better than the alternatives.
In the US system UNCLASSIFIED is equal to not classified. We use UNCLASSIFIED when working in and around classified materials, to ensure there is no question as to the classification of the information. But UNCLASSIFIED and not classified are the same.
There is the designation of FOUO which is unclassified but still sensitive (contains SSN's for example) but no marking at all and UNCLASSIFIED are the same.
Shouldn't it be that the New World residents discovered Europe, Africa and Asia and invited those societies to come and join them in their new global society of love and bunnies?
Where am I going with this? Simple, the blind, when at a cross walk, listen for the chirping walk signal from the direction they are wishing to travel. That tells them it is legally safe to proceed, then then use their ears to listen for approaching vehicles to determine if it is really safe to do so. The legally safe does not mean it really is safe, just more likely to be, and they still rely on their hearing to determine if it is really safe.
The Blind community is big part of the push for noise makers on these cars because when running entirely on batteries at low speeds they are totally silent, and thus a great risk to those who rely on their hearing.
The deaf can use their eyes like the rest of us. The blind do not have that luxury, they have to rely on a less capable sense, one that is easily washed out by city noise, and silent cars do not help them one bit.
What about drivers making legal right or left turns?
Simply blocking the roads doesn't work. Making the offending vehicles slightly noisier makes far more sense than installing, maintaining and repairing expensive and complex hydraulic systems buried in the middle of busy roads, and then dealing with the lawsuits for the accidents caused by the bollards rising.
As long as the drivers obey the crosswalk laws. Cause nobody ever turns at intersections, or runs red lights. The those who can see, can see the car that's about to hit them. What do the deaf do?
Where I live, every spring and fall we have multiple car versus pedestrian accidents in the mornings and evenings, when light conditions are marginal. Both parties almost always say they never saw the other. Most of these seem to occur in well marked cross walks. Silent cars just increase the danger to all pedestrians.
Little Cottonwood Canyon just south and east of SLC, it's cut into a nearly solid block of granite. Nearly solid because as they got near the back of the area they wanted to cut out they cam across a small fissure with water running through it. This now supplies the vault staff with incredibly pure spring water to help them and the millions of rolls of microfiche survive the coming nuclear war.
This vault was inspired decades ago when one of the larger repositories of such records burned to the ground in the UK. The church decided they wanted a more secure storage location.
There is now a second set of vaults cut into the same mountain of granite, that is used as a commercial offsite sensitive storage facility.
Wikileaks didn't point out any of those wrong doings, which is what a Whistle-blower site is supposedly supposed to be doing. pointing out wrongs that need to be corrected. Instead they just dumped the cables on the internet and real journalists dug through them to find a (very) few incidents of questionable activity.
If Wikileaks had just published those cables showing the wrong doing, then they would have some credibility in this but they didn't. They just said "Hey look at all this 'Classified' information we were given, it must be bad."
Wiki-leaks is NOT THE PRESS! They don't operate within the ethical guidelines or standards of the press. Blanket revelations of mass quantities of classified information is not journalism. It's not free speech. It's an attack on our country.
You have zero need to have this information. Revealing this information hinders our ability to conduct international diplomacy, which prevents wars. When nations have no secrets to negotiate with they have little recourse but war.
And where in the constitution does it say all information obtained or created by the government belongs to the people. This is a popular meme on the internet but there is no historical precedence for it.
Since when do the ideals and concepts of the American Constitution require anyone or any business to do business with an entity at war with our country. Wikileaks has declared war on the US government. They are not pointing out specific wrong doings but are indiscriminately exposing our operational secrets, the ones that every country has and operates with.
Please note that the nations of the world are not ticked at the US for the contents of the leaked cables, but at Wikileaks for leaking the cables, and the embarrassing information contained in them.
I for one applaud Amazon and Paypal for not being part of this continuing attack on our nation. If they were revealing specific wrong doings that would be another thing, but they are not.
And the fact that Comcast is claiming that most areas have or soon will be upgraded to 40 mbps speeds. Oh and they offer and advertise their own streaming movie services.
Me thinks they protest too much and L3 has a very legitimate claim of bad faith by Comcast. Comcast wants to block or charge a fee for Netflix access simply because it's competing with Comcasts own streaming video services.
It's better than trying to lob a dumb grenade at just the right angle to get it over the wall: "oops too far, try again; oops still to far, try again; that one was too short, try again; there, that got the bastard shooting at us from behind the wall, oh and the other rounds got everyone else in the Kalat as well.
As opposed to: Lasing, target is behind the wall 465 meters away, press the offset button to add a meter and fire, got him on the first try. And the family down in the Kalat is unarmed or at least only wounded as there was only the one round which detonated right beside the Taliban.
Take your pick, this is a big advancement in reducing collateral damage, as is anytime weapons get smarter allowing for more precise aiming. Will it eliminate collateral deaths, not hardly but it will greatly reduce the risk of such deaths.
Just one correction, Manning should indeed face the harshest sentence possible but it's not prison. The harshest sentence possible, and the one that he should most certainly face is Death. For that is the penalty for Treason in time of war.
But this isn't about politics, it's about international diplomacy, which requires them to be two faced. You cannot negotiate effectively if you just lay all your cards out on the table for everybody to see. You build a knowledge of your diplomatic opponents, as they are building one of you. Then you both sit down and based on your knowledge you gradually share more info in return for their equal sharing in return. Quid Pro Quo, not here is everything we have, want and need; pretty please agree to something slightly beneficial to us in return.
Our leaders can't respond appropriately to international issues if they don't know the background, opinions and likely responses of their global counterparts. As the GP said this isn't about unearthing a wrong doing, it's about trying to castrate the US in international relations.
And as the GGGP by Shining Celebi said. This isn't what whistle blowing is for, revealing wrongs. It's about Assange's vendetta against the US's international policies, and his inappropriate attacks on the ability of the US to operate in the international realm.
Tape a map and instructions on how to go outside and play on the screen and recycle the internal components. The kid will be much better off for it. Let him learn an internet addiction when he's a little older.
My 4 year old, has one game we've introduced him to that he can play on occasions. Otherwise he isn't on the computer and certainly not alone. He can watch TV or better play outside or with his younger brothers.
"The right to travel is a part of the liberty of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the 5th Amendment." Kent v. Dulles, 357 US 116, 125.
The Right To Travel
As the Supreme Court notes in Saenz v Roe, 98-97 (1999), the Constitution does not contain the word "travel" in any context, let alone an explicit right to travel (except for members of Congress, who are guaranteed the right to travel to and from Congress). The presumed right to travel, however, is firmly established in U.S. law and precedent. In U.S. v Guest, 383 U.S. 745 (1966), the Court noted, "It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized." In fact, in Shapiro v Thompson, 394 U.S. 618 (1969), Justice Stewart noted in a concurring opinion that "it is a right broadly assertable against private interference as well as governmental action. Like the right of association,... it is a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all." It is interesting to note that the Articles of Confederation had an explicit right to travel; it is now thought that the right is so fundamental that the Framers may have thought it unnecessary to include it in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
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Lazy? Do you know how much time and effort it takes to learn how to do donuts in a vehicle so equipped? If I forget to turn off the TCS I have to work to get my rear wheel drive truck to do quality donuts.
I don't NEED books period, hard or soft copy, I don't NEED newspapers or magazines. However, I do like to read, I read a lot, in addition sometimes I travel overseas, and carrying enough books for 18 hours of flight, two weeks in a non-English speaking country (No English Bookstores) and 18 hours of flight back is burdensome. Just such a trip is what sold me on finally getting a Nook. Now I rarely have less than a hundred books with me at any time, in a very convenient form factor.
We don't NEED most modern conveniences, so NEED is not a criteria.
I rarely buy DRM'd stuff, there are multiple sources of quality non-DRM'd books, Baen Books, The Gutenberg Project and others. But I do occasionally buy new releases from B&N. I also like that when shopping at B&N in person, I can read any ebook they carry for free while in the store, and if I decide I want it, it's a couple taps on the touch screen and the book is mine. If I need to I can strip the DRM from those books but so far I haven't had the need.
No it's not. They mention five in Death Valley, we get a couple a year trying to cross uncrossable sections of Utah, most have been saved, but a few have not. And we see more of em every year. Each case costs a bit in search and rescue funds, which we can sometimes recove if we find them in time. If we don't find them in time, we can't recoup the money from corpses.
Because of the money it costs to search for them and extract them and their vehicles from where they get stuck when we do find them in time.
Running out of gas is a common issue with these cases. They are not exclusive to Death Valley, they are rather common in Utah as well, when the GPS tells them to take this dirt road that turns into a goat trail. The road does sometimes go all the way through and could be passable, but not without a full tank of gas and possibly even extra fuel cans. So gas/fuel is a legitimate issue. Yes water would help, but if you run out of gas 80 miles from pavement, nobody local knows your passing through, and you aren't used to traveling in the desert, water ain't going to help much. Being able to keep pushing on or being able to turn around and drive back out are often more critical.
I'm not trying to downplay the importance of water, but if you never have to get out of the vehicle you don't need the water. Personally I think the GPS companies need to rework their algorithms to not try and follow any road possible, but (especially for long distance trips) to stick to main state and US highways. Especially for GPS's in rental vehicles.
The original print was ruined when he put the gloves on during the trial.
So very true, my youngest brother and sister were subject to that teaching method and always struggled to enjoy reading, compared to we older siblings who learned to read and spell phonetically. If properly taught, phonetics teaches the student not only the sounds but the various combinations and rules for making those combinations.
Does a pure phonetic speller make mistakes due to the various ways of producing the phonetic sounds used in the English language? Yes, but a phonetic speller can spell new words more accurately, and can sound out new words as well.
Being able to sound out the words also gives the phonetic reader the ability to derive the various root words and sounds that often give hint to the meaning or definition of the new words.
Phonetics works, it works well, and while not perfect it works far better than the alternatives.
In the US system UNCLASSIFIED is equal to not classified. We use UNCLASSIFIED when working in and around classified materials, to ensure there is no question as to the classification of the information. But UNCLASSIFIED and not classified are the same. There is the designation of FOUO which is unclassified but still sensitive (contains SSN's for example) but no marking at all and UNCLASSIFIED are the same.
Shouldn't it be that the New World residents discovered Europe, Africa and Asia and invited those societies to come and join them in their new global society of love and bunnies?
Where am I going with this? Simple, the blind, when at a cross walk, listen for the chirping walk signal from the direction they are wishing to travel. That tells them it is legally safe to proceed, then then use their ears to listen for approaching vehicles to determine if it is really safe to do so. The legally safe does not mean it really is safe, just more likely to be, and they still rely on their hearing to determine if it is really safe.
The Blind community is big part of the push for noise makers on these cars because when running entirely on batteries at low speeds they are totally silent, and thus a great risk to those who rely on their hearing.
The deaf can use their eyes like the rest of us. The blind do not have that luxury, they have to rely on a less capable sense, one that is easily washed out by city noise, and silent cars do not help them one bit.
What about drivers making legal right or left turns?
Simply blocking the roads doesn't work. Making the offending vehicles slightly noisier makes far more sense than installing, maintaining and repairing expensive and complex hydraulic systems buried in the middle of busy roads, and then dealing with the lawsuits for the accidents caused by the bollards rising.
As long as the drivers obey the crosswalk laws. Cause nobody ever turns at intersections, or runs red lights. The those who can see, can see the car that's about to hit them. What do the deaf do?
Where I live, every spring and fall we have multiple car versus pedestrian accidents in the mornings and evenings, when light conditions are marginal. Both parties almost always say they never saw the other. Most of these seem to occur in well marked cross walks. Silent cars just increase the danger to all pedestrians.
I guess the blind are thus by your definition, unreasonable and irresponsible?
The blind community is a big part of the group pushing for this.
Little Cottonwood Canyon just south and east of SLC, it's cut into a nearly solid block of granite. Nearly solid because as they got near the back of the area they wanted to cut out they cam across a small fissure with water running through it. This now supplies the vault staff with incredibly pure spring water to help them and the millions of rolls of microfiche survive the coming nuclear war.
This vault was inspired decades ago when one of the larger repositories of such records burned to the ground in the UK. The church decided they wanted a more secure storage location.
There is now a second set of vaults cut into the same mountain of granite, that is used as a commercial offsite sensitive storage facility.
Wikileaks didn't point out any of those wrong doings, which is what a Whistle-blower site is supposedly supposed to be doing. pointing out wrongs that need to be corrected. Instead they just dumped the cables on the internet and real journalists dug through them to find a (very) few incidents of questionable activity.
If Wikileaks had just published those cables showing the wrong doing, then they would have some credibility in this but they didn't. They just said "Hey look at all this 'Classified' information we were given, it must be bad."
Wiki-leaks is NOT THE PRESS! They don't operate within the ethical guidelines or standards of the press. Blanket revelations of mass quantities of classified information is not journalism. It's not free speech. It's an attack on our country.
You have zero need to have this information. Revealing this information hinders our ability to conduct international diplomacy, which prevents wars. When nations have no secrets to negotiate with they have little recourse but war.
And where in the constitution does it say all information obtained or created by the government belongs to the people. This is a popular meme on the internet but there is no historical precedence for it.
Since when do the ideals and concepts of the American Constitution require anyone or any business to do business with an entity at war with our country. Wikileaks has declared war on the US government. They are not pointing out specific wrong doings but are indiscriminately exposing our operational secrets, the ones that every country has and operates with.
Please note that the nations of the world are not ticked at the US for the contents of the leaked cables, but at Wikileaks for leaking the cables, and the embarrassing information contained in them.
I for one applaud Amazon and Paypal for not being part of this continuing attack on our nation. If they were revealing specific wrong doings that would be another thing, but they are not.
And the fact that Comcast is claiming that most areas have or soon will be upgraded to 40 mbps speeds. Oh and they offer and advertise their own streaming movie services.
Me thinks they protest too much and L3 has a very legitimate claim of bad faith by Comcast. Comcast wants to block or charge a fee for Netflix access simply because it's competing with Comcasts own streaming video services.
It's better than trying to lob a dumb grenade at just the right angle to get it over the wall: "oops too far, try again; oops still to far, try again; that one was too short, try again; there, that got the bastard shooting at us from behind the wall, oh and the other rounds got everyone else in the Kalat as well. As opposed to: Lasing, target is behind the wall 465 meters away, press the offset button to add a meter and fire, got him on the first try. And the family down in the Kalat is unarmed or at least only wounded as there was only the one round which detonated right beside the Taliban. Take your pick, this is a big advancement in reducing collateral damage, as is anytime weapons get smarter allowing for more precise aiming. Will it eliminate collateral deaths, not hardly but it will greatly reduce the risk of such deaths.
Just one correction, Manning should indeed face the harshest sentence possible but it's not prison. The harshest sentence possible, and the one that he should most certainly face is Death. For that is the penalty for Treason in time of war.
But this isn't about politics, it's about international diplomacy, which requires them to be two faced. You cannot negotiate effectively if you just lay all your cards out on the table for everybody to see. You build a knowledge of your diplomatic opponents, as they are building one of you. Then you both sit down and based on your knowledge you gradually share more info in return for their equal sharing in return. Quid Pro Quo, not here is everything we have, want and need; pretty please agree to something slightly beneficial to us in return.
Our leaders can't respond appropriately to international issues if they don't know the background, opinions and likely responses of their global counterparts. As the GP said this isn't about unearthing a wrong doing, it's about trying to castrate the US in international relations.
And as the GGGP by Shining Celebi said. This isn't what whistle blowing is for, revealing wrongs. It's about Assange's vendetta against the US's international policies, and his inappropriate attacks on the ability of the US to operate in the international realm.
Tape a map and instructions on how to go outside and play on the screen and recycle the internal components. The kid will be much better off for it. Let him learn an internet addiction when he's a little older. My 4 year old, has one game we've introduced him to that he can play on occasions. Otherwise he isn't on the computer and certainly not alone. He can watch TV or better play outside or with his younger brothers.
"The right to travel is a part of the liberty of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the 5th Amendment." Kent v. Dulles, 357 US 116, 125.
from http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html#travel,
The Right To Travel As the Supreme Court notes in Saenz v Roe, 98-97 (1999), the Constitution does not contain the word "travel" in any context, let alone an explicit right to travel (except for members of Congress, who are guaranteed the right to travel to and from Congress). The presumed right to travel, however, is firmly established in U.S. law and precedent. In U.S. v Guest, 383 U.S. 745 (1966), the Court noted, "It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized." In fact, in Shapiro v Thompson, 394 U.S. 618 (1969), Justice Stewart noted in a concurring opinion that "it is a right broadly assertable against private interference as well as governmental action. Like the right of association, ... it is a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all." It is interesting to note that the Articles of Confederation had an explicit right to travel; it is now thought that the right is so fundamental that the Framers may have thought it unnecessary to include it in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
See also http://supreme.justia.com/constitution/amendment-14/96-right-to-travel.html
Thats not what experts at Johns Hopkins Hospital are saying about the health risks.