we need to moderate our attitudes and behavior toward the police
They get to arrest people and throw them in jail for any reason, or no reason at all ("resisting arrest" is a remarkably stretchy statute). Burden's on them.
Look, I'll accept that cops have to deal with scummy people, and that from time to time it is actually necessary to beat people up. If it's justified, however, you need to be able to back up your decision. That cell phone video may not show the whole context, but that's just a good reason for the cops to make their own videos that do come with context. And if the dash cam video goes "missing", well, members of the public are going to get suspicious about that.
This St. John's Hospital? Yeah, that's structurally intact, but most of the windows are gone and I imagine a lot of the stuff inside isn't much better. Theoretically, you could have building codes that require people to build their homes with foot-thick pillars of concrete and rebar, but you're going to get a lot of pushback about the cost and the ugliness, and the tornadoes are still going to trash them.
It's not the wind, it's the water. Cf. Katrina in Mississippi; the storm winds weren't that bad, but they had been blowing for a long time and piled water up so that there was a 30-foot storm surge.
Katrina was ridiculously big; what it was not was especially powerful in New Orleans. Check out what Katrina did in Mississippi for an idea of how much power the storm packed - the area from Waveland to Long Beach experienced storm surges of approximately 30 feet of water.
The US is a federal system. Sales taxes are levied by states, not by the federal government. If I live in Virginia and order an item from a store in California, it is my duty to pay the "use tax" (equivalent to the sales tax) on the purchase to the Commonwealth of Virginia. However, there's nothing that Virginia can do to make the California company collect that tax for them (in the way that brick-and-mortar retailers in Virginia have to collect the state's sales tax for it).
While I am sympathetic to your anti-DRM rant, just how big of a market is there for Kindle books among people who don't own a Kindle, iOS device, Android device, WP7 device, Blackberry, PC, or Mac?
It's worth noting, too, that the "dubious and possibly illegal software" is entirely written in Python and is remarkably easy to use.
The cost to do it will have to be removed, either by it being a global/governmental initiative, or money, as er know it, will already be gone, people preferring to work for the greater good.
You cannot remove the cost; you can only increase the number of people paying it.
In business, it is a pretty safe bet that if a profitable niche exists, it will be exploited. And if it's not profitable to get minerals from asteroids, that means it's cheaper to get them here on earth. Building a rocket to expend extraordinary energy achieving the same speed as an asteroid, and then to bring it gently down to earth orbit, and then to mine and refine it in orbit before gently deorbiting the tons of metals obtained thereby isn't done by corporations because in the current energy regime it's practically impossible and wildly unprofitable. Once energy is cheap enough, and metals expensive enough, we'll go get them.
TiVo has room to room sharing too, but with the modern digital cable systems that have the ability to flag something as uncopyable it is basically useless. We need real, streaming-only transfer to get back what we had.
If a species has managed to conquer interstellar travel in reasonable time spans, I'm pretty sure they have developed energy sources that are powerful enough to wipe us out before we even know what hit us. A gentle nudge on a few asteroids, and BOOM. No more life above microscopic size.
Never had anything beyond a 3030 (well, 3120 once I was done with it) but I thought that the system transferred shows - it wasn't actually streaming. Guess I was wrong.
Can I have an HD version of my old ReplayTV? Fantastic interface, incredibly easy to use. Just add room-to-room streaming to make up for the loss of transferring every recording. (And I didn't even have the one that did automatic commercial skipping.)
They're anagrams, so you could play whichever was possible based on the letters that you had and the ones on the board. "Cautioned" and "auctioned" differ only in the first three letters, but if there's a double or triple letter score multiplier around that part of the board that can make a difference in the score
Nonsense. If I pull you over three times a day and hassle you about where you've been and where you're going, maybe pull you out of the car and frisk you, dump your wallet contents on the back of your car, and when it's over tell you to be careful (but don't bother to apologize for wasting your time, or help you put your wallet back together, or put any of the stuff back in your car), you're going to hate my guts in fairly short order no matter what I do to the criminals.
The tax receipts are at historic lows because we're in a recession. It happens when your country depends on individual income tax for its income.
Oddly enough, though, police are hired by cities, not the federal government. In my state, cities make their money off property taxes, car licensing, and a cut of the state's sales tax. Yours may vary.
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If you recorded any audio of the officer, yes.
Laws like this are why surveillance cameras in stores are video-only.
we need to moderate our attitudes and behavior toward the police
They get to arrest people and throw them in jail for any reason, or no reason at all ("resisting arrest" is a remarkably stretchy statute). Burden's on them.
Look, I'll accept that cops have to deal with scummy people, and that from time to time it is actually necessary to beat people up. If it's justified, however, you need to be able to back up your decision. That cell phone video may not show the whole context, but that's just a good reason for the cops to make their own videos that do come with context. And if the dash cam video goes "missing", well, members of the public are going to get suspicious about that.
Meigs Field doesn't look so great in that first link...
This St. John's Hospital? Yeah, that's structurally intact, but most of the windows are gone and I imagine a lot of the stuff inside isn't much better. Theoretically, you could have building codes that require people to build their homes with foot-thick pillars of concrete and rebar, but you're going to get a lot of pushback about the cost and the ugliness, and the tornadoes are still going to trash them.
There was plenty of money to maintain it. It's just that Louisiana isn't exactly known for having low corruption levels in government.
It's not the wind, it's the water. Cf. Katrina in Mississippi; the storm winds weren't that bad, but they had been blowing for a long time and piled water up so that there was a 30-foot storm surge.
Katrina was ridiculously big; what it was not was especially powerful in New Orleans. Check out what Katrina did in Mississippi for an idea of how much power the storm packed - the area from Waveland to Long Beach experienced storm surges of approximately 30 feet of water.
Flying on a plane is boring. Flying a plane is somewhat less so.
the duration of my fuel reserve
Your fuel reserve? As in, you're posting to /. while flying a plane?
subdue them with the Rubber Band Man
So much rhythm, grace and debonair from one man?
Maybe you meant to write that to someone else. I think you're dead right - they are a waste of your time.
The US is a federal system. Sales taxes are levied by states, not by the federal government. If I live in Virginia and order an item from a store in California, it is my duty to pay the "use tax" (equivalent to the sales tax) on the purchase to the Commonwealth of Virginia. However, there's nothing that Virginia can do to make the California company collect that tax for them (in the way that brick-and-mortar retailers in Virginia have to collect the state's sales tax for it).
Or perhaps these people aren't actually customers, in which case -- why the hell do you give a crap what they say?
He doesn't, which is why they're always complaining.
While I am sympathetic to your anti-DRM rant, just how big of a market is there for Kindle books among people who don't own a Kindle, iOS device, Android device, WP7 device, Blackberry, PC, or Mac?
It's worth noting, too, that the "dubious and possibly illegal software" is entirely written in Python and is remarkably easy to use.
The cost to do it will have to be removed, either by it being a global/governmental initiative, or money, as er know it, will already be gone, people preferring to work for the greater good.
You cannot remove the cost; you can only increase the number of people paying it.
In business, it is a pretty safe bet that if a profitable niche exists, it will be exploited. And if it's not profitable to get minerals from asteroids, that means it's cheaper to get them here on earth. Building a rocket to expend extraordinary energy achieving the same speed as an asteroid, and then to bring it gently down to earth orbit, and then to mine and refine it in orbit before gently deorbiting the tons of metals obtained thereby isn't done by corporations because in the current energy regime it's practically impossible and wildly unprofitable. Once energy is cheap enough, and metals expensive enough, we'll go get them.
TiVo has room to room sharing too, but with the modern digital cable systems that have the ability to flag something as uncopyable it is basically useless. We need real, streaming-only transfer to get back what we had.
If a species has managed to conquer interstellar travel in reasonable time spans, I'm pretty sure they have developed energy sources that are powerful enough to wipe us out before we even know what hit us. A gentle nudge on a few asteroids, and BOOM. No more life above microscopic size.
Never had anything beyond a 3030 (well, 3120 once I was done with it) but I thought that the system transferred shows - it wasn't actually streaming. Guess I was wrong.
Secure voting is relatively easy. Secure voting that preserves the secret ballot is more challenging.
Can I have an HD version of my old ReplayTV? Fantastic interface, incredibly easy to use. Just add room-to-room streaming to make up for the loss of transferring every recording. (And I didn't even have the one that did automatic commercial skipping.)
No, that means that they're better at distinguishing white criminals from white non-criminals.
They're anagrams, so you could play whichever was possible based on the letters that you had and the ones on the board. "Cautioned" and "auctioned" differ only in the first three letters, but if there's a double or triple letter score multiplier around that part of the board that can make a difference in the score
Nonsense. If I pull you over three times a day and hassle you about where you've been and where you're going, maybe pull you out of the car and frisk you, dump your wallet contents on the back of your car, and when it's over tell you to be careful (but don't bother to apologize for wasting your time, or help you put your wallet back together, or put any of the stuff back in your car), you're going to hate my guts in fairly short order no matter what I do to the criminals.
The tax receipts are at historic lows because we're in a recession. It happens when your country depends on individual income tax for its income.
Oddly enough, though, police are hired by cities, not the federal government. In my state, cities make their money off property taxes, car licensing, and a cut of the state's sales tax. Yours may vary.
If I hit a pothole at 75 mph I'd be in trouble no matter what.