It's the wrong device for you, then. I have a Kindle and will never look back. Weighs less than a moderately hefty paperback, holds a ton of books. If you want something that shares every positive characteristic of paper AND every positive characteristic of electronics, well, happy waiting.
BTW, what's with the bath thing? Are you all female? And natural disaster? Let me tell you, if my house is burning down, then I'm sorry - but the books are toast.
I rather like what Newegg does now - if there is a complaint, and it is resolved, they leave up the bad review but attach the manufacturer's response (usually "send it back, we'll replace it and pay both ways shipping").
Well, you're impaired at 0.07, too; my point was that at 0.09 you're picking up a lot of people who are - yes - not at peak form, but aren't really drunk. I can't find that graph online; wish I could.
As for the 70s, I think that Jonathan Livingston Seagull alone was proof that everyone was high as a kite.
I think that if you carried a breathalyzer with you one weekend, you'd be surprised how little 0.08 is. Two hotel-bar drinks would do it for a lot of people. If you go back and look at the data, there's a very slow upward trend in risk of wreck with increasing BAC until about 0.15, at which it turns significantly upward. That was the standard adopted in the late 70s, when DUI first really began to be enforced.
I think you're wrong about hijacking with a knife, but the really distinct thing about 11 September 2001 was that they hijacked the planes for use as weapons rather than bargaining chips.
They copied his name, his image, and the title of his blog. Nowhere does it say it's satire.
Create your own Twitter account if you want to lampoon him, call it blaneysblather, and photoshop an ass's head onto his. Then you'll be doing satire, even if it's not very funny. This is just impersonating someone else.
... and at which point they can tell Twitter that they have a valid injunction against the user in question, so there's something more than just his say-so.
Actually, they're caused by statuary that sucks. (See: Ashe on Monument. I went to U of R when the whole fuss happened, and thought the proper solution was to toss the statue in the James and commission a decent one.)
No, I just stated the simple fact that they're not. Positive, not normative. There are essentially no penalties to the individual officer for not knowing the law properly. (If it is being used for e.g. racial or sexist discrimination, then a civil rights complaint can be made, but on a one-off case like that, good luck proving it.)
It is a tenet of the US legal system that you are entitled to a day in court. If you are falsely accused (as in this case), it's your job to go to court and prove him wrong. The fact that he gets paid time off to do this while you have to travel far from home... well, nothing says they have to make it easy for you.
if they violate the rules they will likely lose their jobs/privileges
Hah. Right. You ever read about guys getting fired for driving like crap? Or, say, drag racing up a city street while a buddy's running radar? (My wife actually witnessed the latter.) Or trying to beat the helicopter to a destination 5 mi from them but 10 mi from the helipad? (Heard that one firsthand.)
Emergency vehicles already have extraordinary accident rates, actually. It's not surprising when you consider that they have really quite minimal extra training in driving (as a requirement; some guys, obviously race cars on the weekend) and yet can travel more or less as fast as they want (no worries about tickets) and blow through red lights. I don't know about cops specifically - though I'd imagine it's a lot easier to maneuver a police cruiser than an ambulance - but they're not superhuman. You can't look at two things at once - so it's the road, or the screen.
As for your ticket in VA, remember that the law is different in every state, and that police are not required to know it. It's up to you to recognize when they've ticketed you in error and get it dismissed in court.
Just deer season, though, right? I did spend a year at a college where, on opening day of deer season, a lot of people missed 8 and 9 o'clock classes and showed up for the 10's in their camos, having gone out hunting through the dawn and then come back.
Well, they're already doing suboptimal timing. Here in Mississippi, the maximum daily temps are achieved in mid-June through early September; you would logically have school run from Labor Day to Flag Day or so. Instead, school starts in the second week of August and runs through the third week of May or so. Why? I have no idea. Just seems to be what schools have changed to do.
Having said that, it's worth noting that it is much more expensive to heat buildings in cold climates than to cool them in hot ones; the cheapest solution for Buffalo or Minneapolis would be to shut down from December to late February or March.
Nobody who just wants "a bike" walks into a bike store. (They go to Wal-Mart and get one for $125.) The people in bike stores know what they want. So do the shoppers at (e.g.) Newegg.
Entitled? Who cares? This isn't football, it's international politics. There's no such thing as fair. The regime in Tehran is inimical to the US. Therefore the US is opposed to their having nukes. End of story. Your country's calculation may be different, but unless your country is Russia, it's probably opposed to Iran having nukes.
Or, to put it bluntly, one huge difference between my Lexus ES 350 and the Toyota Camry parked next to it is that mine was built in Miyawaka, Japan, and the other was built in Georgetown, Kentucky.
You do realize that if your birthday is close to Christmas, they buy you one present that's maybe 10% better than the Christmas or birthday present you would have gotten and tell you it's the gift for both, right?
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It's the wrong device for you, then. I have a Kindle and will never look back. Weighs less than a moderately hefty paperback, holds a ton of books. If you want something that shares every positive characteristic of paper AND every positive characteristic of electronics, well, happy waiting.
BTW, what's with the bath thing? Are you all female? And natural disaster? Let me tell you, if my house is burning down, then I'm sorry - but the books are toast.
I rather like what Newegg does now - if there is a complaint, and it is resolved, they leave up the bad review but attach the manufacturer's response (usually "send it back, we'll replace it and pay both ways shipping").
Which shop?
Well, you're impaired at 0.07, too; my point was that at 0.09 you're picking up a lot of people who are - yes - not at peak form, but aren't really drunk. I can't find that graph online; wish I could.
As for the 70s, I think that Jonathan Livingston Seagull alone was proof that everyone was high as a kite.
I think that if you carried a breathalyzer with you one weekend, you'd be surprised how little 0.08 is. Two hotel-bar drinks would do it for a lot of people. If you go back and look at the data, there's a very slow upward trend in risk of wreck with increasing BAC until about 0.15, at which it turns significantly upward. That was the standard adopted in the late 70s, when DUI first really began to be enforced.
Well, since we've moved it down from 0.15 to 0.08 percent, we've picked up quite a few people who aren't actually drunk.
I think you're wrong about hijacking with a knife, but the really distinct thing about 11 September 2001 was that they hijacked the planes for use as weapons rather than bargaining chips.
Now THAT is a seriously long drive. You ought to give I-40 a try some time.
They copied his name, his image, and the title of his blog. Nowhere does it say it's satire.
Create your own Twitter account if you want to lampoon him, call it blaneysblather, and photoshop an ass's head onto his. Then you'll be doing satire, even if it's not very funny. This is just impersonating someone else.
... and at which point they can tell Twitter that they have a valid injunction against the user in question, so there's something more than just his say-so.
Please mod this man up to heaven. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I can use FB again.
Actually, they're caused by statuary that sucks. (See: Ashe on Monument. I went to U of R when the whole fuss happened, and thought the proper solution was to toss the statue in the James and commission a decent one.)
No, I just stated the simple fact that they're not. Positive, not normative. There are essentially no penalties to the individual officer for not knowing the law properly. (If it is being used for e.g. racial or sexist discrimination, then a civil rights complaint can be made, but on a one-off case like that, good luck proving it.)
It is a tenet of the US legal system that you are entitled to a day in court. If you are falsely accused (as in this case), it's your job to go to court and prove him wrong. The fact that he gets paid time off to do this while you have to travel far from home... well, nothing says they have to make it easy for you.
if they violate the rules they will likely lose their jobs/privileges
Hah. Right. You ever read about guys getting fired for driving like crap? Or, say, drag racing up a city street while a buddy's running radar? (My wife actually witnessed the latter.) Or trying to beat the helicopter to a destination 5 mi from them but 10 mi from the helipad? (Heard that one firsthand.)
Yeah. Right.
Emergency vehicles already have extraordinary accident rates, actually. It's not surprising when you consider that they have really quite minimal extra training in driving (as a requirement; some guys, obviously race cars on the weekend) and yet can travel more or less as fast as they want (no worries about tickets) and blow through red lights. I don't know about cops specifically - though I'd imagine it's a lot easier to maneuver a police cruiser than an ambulance - but they're not superhuman. You can't look at two things at once - so it's the road, or the screen.
As for your ticket in VA, remember that the law is different in every state, and that police are not required to know it. It's up to you to recognize when they've ticketed you in error and get it dismissed in court.
Just deer season, though, right? I did spend a year at a college where, on opening day of deer season, a lot of people missed 8 and 9 o'clock classes and showed up for the 10's in their camos, having gone out hunting through the dawn and then come back.
Well, they're already doing suboptimal timing. Here in Mississippi, the maximum daily temps are achieved in mid-June through early September; you would logically have school run from Labor Day to Flag Day or so. Instead, school starts in the second week of August and runs through the third week of May or so. Why? I have no idea. Just seems to be what schools have changed to do.
Having said that, it's worth noting that it is much more expensive to heat buildings in cold climates than to cool them in hot ones; the cheapest solution for Buffalo or Minneapolis would be to shut down from December to late February or March.
Nobody who just wants "a bike" walks into a bike store. (They go to Wal-Mart and get one for $125.) The people in bike stores know what they want. So do the shoppers at (e.g.) Newegg.
Entitled? Who cares? This isn't football, it's international politics. There's no such thing as fair. The regime in Tehran is inimical to the US. Therefore the US is opposed to their having nukes. End of story. Your country's calculation may be different, but unless your country is Russia, it's probably opposed to Iran having nukes.
Or, to put it bluntly, one huge difference between my Lexus ES 350 and the Toyota Camry parked next to it is that mine was built in Miyawaka, Japan, and the other was built in Georgetown, Kentucky.
You do realize that if your birthday is close to Christmas, they buy you one present that's maybe 10% better than the Christmas or birthday present you would have gotten and tell you it's the gift for both, right?
Loser. I was born last Sunday and had a 5.45 GPA while getting my Ph.D.Phil. in Rocket Surgery.
My prom was late April, and I graduated before the end of May. School schedules vary.
Don't forget: it's not the getting laid that distinguishes dumb and smart women, it's the getting pregnant and having a baby.
Different in different places. School year cutoff was Sept 1 where I grew up.
They used CDC data - that's the USA's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They're all Americans.