Think about is and honestly answer this : how many jocks did you see smoke ? That was a lot in my school. How many nerd did you see smoke ? I can't recall of any. Anecdotal as yours, but I am pretty sure this could be quantifiable by looking at the number of smoker in say, philosophy, amth, science course, versus the number of smoker in say, marketing, business, and similar, versus those which never studied or never made the grade.
"But one shouldn't believe the hype. We went through this a generation ago
with the Audi 5000 and other autos accused of sudden acceleration, and,
again, mysterious unknowable car components were supposedly at fault.
In a North Carolina case I worked on, the plaintiff's expert theorized that
electromagnetic transmissions from submarines might have set off the
throttle via the cruise control, though, unsurprisingly, he was not able to
duplicate the effect while driving around electrical towers with much
greater electromagnetic interference.
Back then, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spent
millions studying the issue. They found that sudden acceleration was
several times more likely among elderly drivers than young drivers, and much
more frequent among the very short or someone who had just gotten into a
vehicle.
Electromagnetic rays don't discriminate by age and height, which suggests
very much that human factors were at play: in other words, pedal
misapplication. A driver would step on the wrong pedal, panic when the car
did not perform as expected, continue to mistake the accelerator for the
brake, and press down on the accelerator even harder.
This had disastrous consequences in a 1992 Washington Square Park incident
that killed five and a 2003 Santa Monica Farmers' Market incident that
killed ten the New York driver, Stella Maycheck, was 74 (and quite short);
the California driver, George Russell Weller, 86.
We're seeing the same pattern again today. Initial reports of a problem,
followed by dozens of new reports coming to light as people seek to blame
their earlier accidents on sudden acceleration."
There was a consumer report issue on this (I think it was consumer report), they put all segment of age in a car , then induced circumstance where the brake had to be used. And overwhelmly , older people mistook the brake and accelerator much much more than younger people ! I can't find the report anymore because now google is FLOODED with toyota accelerator "problem", so it makes search for anything older difficult. And my own ancecdotal evidence, a lot of the accident you see in the news, people plowing into farmer market or into other kids, are old people either not having their sense, or mistaking accelerator and brake ! It is a KNOWN problem, and chief among why some of us would like to see people over 55 do a driving test on regular basis... Locally, that don't happen, and people have to do a test only when they were in accident, are known to have mental problem, or were fined above a ertain number of points. In other word, too late.
I have only seen the screenshot but to me the "static" one is definitively beyond the valley and "human". Now , how it looks like in film is the next question.
The number of book I have by now must be not far away from the thousand. I count my book by the meter (all of them read, they aren't here for decoration). Lately I packed them in box, as I don't have any bookshelves. I buy a lot of paper back, I will never buy an ebook for 10$ (or 9.99 that trick don't work on me). And not even for 15$. Except early adopter (which will buy anything) I don't see anybody ofg the general public buying at those prices.
But are you the average ebook reader? 'cause you might actually be in the demographic of early adopter which would pay a high price without a blink. I don't think this is the whole ebook user population. Therefore a certain part of the population will drop off for those ebook price. Whether this will be compensated by those buying at those price, I dunno.
It certainly *WILL* stop any increased mainstream adoption in its track. Which might be the objective, who knows.
"as much impact on our daily lives as Einstein's Theory of Relativity does " You need relativity correction for guidance system like GPS. So chance is, even relativity has an impact on the GP live.
If my lock at my door is poor, I may have problem getting money back from the insurance, but for the law, you entering my home it by using a replacement key wills till be considered "breaking and infringing upon my property". It isn't different here.
Hard-liners in the middle east don't give half a shit about what India does. The Pakistanis do sure, but they already are nuclear. The hard-lines in the middle east want to go nuclear because of Israel. I will fix that to you : The hard-lines in the middle east want to go nuclear because of the country they perceive as a threat, and which already have a nuclear arsenal : be it Israel or the US.
They can't sale part of the moon like they can't sale part of any territory on any planet or moon which they don't possess, or have access to. They think they have found a loophole in some old treaty from the cold war to allow to sale parcell for colonisation, but as soon as they will try to enforce it against any governement , I will tell you what will happen : they will be LAUGHED out of court. At best this can only be considered a JOKE gift.
Here around : 2 euro initial fare, then 1.3 euro day (1.7 night I think) inital kilometer, then 1.1 (1.5) after 10 kilometer up to 30 or 50 kilometer. You have to tell if you want to go much more than 50 kilometer. Night and day tarif are CLEARLY indicated. Why make such a complex thigns as zone, or urbain/suburbain tarif is beyond me unless it was set from the start to confuse people.
While coding, or typing , or chatting MOST of the time your finger are occupied and your brain is in active mode. While watching TV, usually the finger are doing NOTHING and the brain is IMHO in a more "sleepy" mode. The fact that the finger do nothing, for some people finger have always to be doing something, and so the grasping of the snake will be happening much more often than while you type.
pffft. I saw that done on on a category of locks with a screwdriver, a hammer and some fine metal rigid bands. That did not even took 10 seconds. You know what I did for my last 5 flats when i lost my keys ? In my first flat it was easy I used my library card. The next one were a bit more harder I had to either use an Xray picture (got it from my neighbor) or a bicycle brake cable. I ahd to fiddle for 35-40 seconds TOP. Ask a locksmith , one of those 24/7 service. They very often open such doors with very basic instruments relatively quickly. Secure lock are very rare for flats. Now normal "house" it might be a bit different.
If an information news is accused by everybody to be partial for the other guy, then it almost certainly means they are REALLY striving to be impartial.
I read the web site, and I saw nothing which was remotely even scratching the depth of perversity. Maybe I am "hardened" by years of browsing and stumbling onto distrubing stuff.
You want disturbing ? Try google sepuku Google Sepuku
MPG only show you in a very abstract way HOW to save money. Going from 70 MPG to 80 MPG very obviously tell me for the same quantity of fuel I am getting further away. But if you have a fixed distance you travel in average per week (commuter) does it tell you how much you will spare with a simple glance ? No it does not. You either calculate your distance per week you travel and divide by the MPG to get the number of gallon, or you have to do exactly what the GP did or what we have in the EU for along time, you get the consumption for a FIX DISTANCE. Knowing that I am going from 16 liter per 100 to 4 liter per 100 km immediately shows me that NO MATTER the average distance I have per week, I will space 75% fuel. Knowing my fuel budget is then a simple matter to calculate how much I spare, without EVER knowing how many kilometers I *really* do.
In otehr word if my Fuel Budget is X euro(or dollar), and my new vehicule consumption for a FIX distance is -z% , then my fuel budget in the month will get -z% in average. On the other hand MPG figure are actually a tad misleading because of the inverse ratio as shown, the biggest number will tend to be grouped together. So going from 25 to 50 MPG (25 difference) is actually much MUCH better than going from 200 to 240 MPG (40 MPG difference). So for the consumer it is MUCH MUCH better toknow how many gallon per 100 miles (how many liter per 100 km) they will consume , rather than how many miles 1 gallon bring them.
The money they gain by stopping second hand game sale, is not overwhelmed by the money lost in first hand game sale. They definitively lost my money first hand second hand or even under-handed. I tried to put up with "calling home at starT" and got fed up with even THAT (mass effect 2), so forget permanent connection. All those game are now a no-go for me. And I am an avid gamer with lot of euro. How many like me ? Who knows. Maybe a few. maybe a lot. But if it is a lot, they will have to back pedal.
Hopefully, at the very least, the fact that parliament has realised this fact will mean that copyright laws will get a little more sane."
No it will mean even residential user will be forcwed to log everything in their system, and if they do not they will be found breaking the "private logging law" (soon to come). Seeing the power trip the UK is on, you have to be +5 insane or +5 funny to think otherwise.
"Totalitarian control?" Yes it is the goal. First you get the people to be habituated to get scanned at airport. Then at the next occasion, you get them habits of being scanned at official government building, sometimes this is already in place. Then you get them to be scanned at major public transportation hub. Then you add camera everywhere, you make deep inspection of their packet compulsory, and sharing of their bank detail. The final step is to declare war on eurasia. And there you are winston Smith !
And you know the worst ? I am seeing it happening right now, and nobody is even reacting
I mean, just look at steorn.com ! Those guy preetnd to have 3 time OU. They are also pretending to demonstrate since 1/2 december. You think they would have a comprehensive evidence by now ? Think again. And look at the freaking FOLLOWING like a cult they got. Remmember Dennis lee ? Remmember the other scammer like Lutec ? Scam there are a dozen out there. Start by the billion dollard homeopathy industry (motto: selling sugar pills to the gullible since 1886).
rock salts can go down to -12 or something If I recall correctly, whereas afterward you have to use other type of salt (potassium or calcium chlorid?) which go down to -22C.
Permanently seed a bitttorent for whatever linux distribution. Somebody cut you out. Show you were seeding Linux BT. ball in their hand now to prove you were doing something else.
That is 24 km.h-1. I am going at 20 on normal time without breaking a sweat, and up to 30/35 when in a hurry and don't mind getting sweaty. 15.m.h-1/24km.h-1 seems unreasonably low as a limit.
You can't stop your own EM radiation to go out for only a SPECIFIC purpose (radio) and forbid all other purpose. It is freely give if your radio receptor only gets a few microwatt from the antenna or at least low enough not to be a disturbance. But as soon as you get the power for another purpose not forseen, and this is a huge drain, then you break the system if it is allowed, and nobody would really have any radio antenna. Therefor the law forbid it. As far as I can tell , same problem if you put Neon tube udner high voltage cable.
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Think about is and honestly answer this : how many jocks did you see smoke ? That was a lot in my school. How many nerd did you see smoke ? I can't recall of any. Anecdotal as yours, but I am pretty sure this could be quantifiable by looking at the number of smoker in say, philosophy, amth, science course, versus the number of smoker in say, marketing, business, and similar, versus those which never studied or never made the grade.
"But one shouldn't believe the hype. We went through this a generation ago with the Audi 5000 and other autos accused of sudden acceleration, and, again, mysterious unknowable car components were supposedly at fault. In a North Carolina case I worked on, the plaintiff's expert theorized that electromagnetic transmissions from submarines might have set off the throttle via the cruise control, though, unsurprisingly, he was not able to duplicate the effect while driving around electrical towers with much greater electromagnetic interference. Back then, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spent millions studying the issue. They found that sudden acceleration was several times more likely among elderly drivers than young drivers, and much more frequent among the very short or someone who had just gotten into a vehicle. Electromagnetic rays don't discriminate by age and height, which suggests very much that human factors were at play: in other words, pedal misapplication. A driver would step on the wrong pedal, panic when the car did not perform as expected, continue to mistake the accelerator for the brake, and press down on the accelerator even harder. This had disastrous consequences in a 1992 Washington Square Park incident that killed five and a 2003 Santa Monica Farmers' Market incident that killed ten the New York driver, Stella Maycheck, was 74 (and quite short); the California driver, George Russell Weller, 86. We're seeing the same pattern again today. Initial reports of a problem, followed by dozens of new reports coming to light as people seek to blame their earlier accidents on sudden acceleration."
There was a consumer report issue on this (I think it was consumer report), they put all segment of age in a car , then induced circumstance where the brake had to be used. And overwhelmly , older people mistook the brake and accelerator much much more than younger people ! I can't find the report anymore because now google is FLOODED with toyota accelerator "problem", so it makes search for anything older difficult. And my own ancecdotal evidence, a lot of the accident you see in the news, people plowing into farmer market or into other kids, are old people either not having their sense, or mistaking accelerator and brake ! It is a KNOWN problem, and chief among why some of us would like to see people over 55 do a driving test on regular basis... Locally, that don't happen, and people have to do a test only when they were in accident, are known to have mental problem, or were fined above a ertain number of points. In other word, too late.
I have only seen the screenshot but to me the "static" one is definitively beyond the valley and "human". Now , how it looks like in film is the next question.
The number of book I have by now must be not far away from the thousand. I count my book by the meter (all of them read, they aren't here for decoration). Lately I packed them in box, as I don't have any bookshelves. I buy a lot of paper back, I will never buy an ebook for 10$ (or 9.99 that trick don't work on me). And not even for 15$. Except early adopter (which will buy anything) I don't see anybody ofg the general public buying at those prices.
But are you the average ebook reader? 'cause you might actually be in the demographic of early adopter which would pay a high price without a blink. I don't think this is the whole ebook user population. Therefore a certain part of the population will drop off for those ebook price. Whether this will be compensated by those buying at those price, I dunno.
It certainly *WILL* stop any increased mainstream adoption in its track. Which might be the objective, who knows.
Then i saw "this game need an active internet communication to be played". I avoided it like plague. I see that I was correct in my choice.
"as much impact on our daily lives as Einstein's Theory of Relativity does " You need relativity correction for guidance system like GPS. So chance is, even relativity has an impact on the GP live.
If my lock at my door is poor, I may have problem getting money back from the insurance, but for the law, you entering my home it by using a replacement key wills till be considered "breaking and infringing upon my property". It isn't different here.
Hard-liners in the middle east don't give half a shit about what India does. The Pakistanis do sure, but they already are nuclear. The hard-lines in the middle east want to go nuclear because of Israel. I will fix that to you : The hard-lines in the middle east want to go nuclear because of the country they perceive as a threat, and which already have a nuclear arsenal : be it Israel or the US.
They can't sale part of the moon like they can't sale part of any territory on any planet or moon which they don't possess, or have access to. They think they have found a loophole in some old treaty from the cold war to allow to sale parcell for colonisation, but as soon as they will try to enforce it against any governement , I will tell you what will happen : they will be LAUGHED out of court. At best this can only be considered a JOKE gift.
Here around : 2 euro initial fare, then 1.3 euro day (1.7 night I think) inital kilometer, then 1.1 (1.5) after 10 kilometer up to 30 or 50 kilometer. You have to tell if you want to go much more than 50 kilometer. Night and day tarif are CLEARLY indicated. Why make such a complex thigns as zone, or urbain/suburbain tarif is beyond me unless it was set from the start to confuse people.
While coding, or typing , or chatting MOST of the time your finger are occupied and your brain is in active mode. While watching TV, usually the finger are doing NOTHING and the brain is IMHO in a more "sleepy" mode. The fact that the finger do nothing, for some people finger have always to be doing something, and so the grasping of the snake will be happening much more often than while you type.
pffft. I saw that done on on a category of locks with a screwdriver, a hammer and some fine metal rigid bands. That did not even took 10 seconds. You know what I did for my last 5 flats when i lost my keys ? In my first flat it was easy I used my library card. The next one were a bit more harder I had to either use an Xray picture (got it from my neighbor) or a bicycle brake cable. I ahd to fiddle for 35-40 seconds TOP. Ask a locksmith , one of those 24/7 service. They very often open such doors with very basic instruments relatively quickly. Secure lock are very rare for flats. Now normal "house" it might be a bit different.
If an information news is accused by everybody to be partial for the other guy, then it almost certainly means they are REALLY striving to be impartial.
I read the web site, and I saw nothing which was remotely even scratching the depth of perversity. Maybe I am "hardened" by years of browsing and stumbling onto distrubing stuff.
You want disturbing ? Try google sepuku Google Sepuku
MPG only show you in a very abstract way HOW to save money. Going from 70 MPG to 80 MPG very obviously tell me for the same quantity of fuel I am getting further away. But if you have a fixed distance you travel in average per week (commuter) does it tell you how much you will spare with a simple glance ? No it does not. You either calculate your distance per week you travel and divide by the MPG to get the number of gallon, or you have to do exactly what the GP did or what we have in the EU for along time, you get the consumption for a FIX DISTANCE. Knowing that I am going from 16 liter per 100 to 4 liter per 100 km immediately shows me that NO MATTER the average distance I have per week, I will space 75% fuel. Knowing my fuel budget is then a simple matter to calculate how much I spare, without EVER knowing how many kilometers I *really* do.
In otehr word if my Fuel Budget is X euro(or dollar), and my new vehicule consumption for a FIX distance is -z% , then my fuel budget in the month will get -z% in average. On the other hand MPG figure are actually a tad misleading because of the inverse ratio as shown, the biggest number will tend to be grouped together. So going from 25 to 50 MPG (25 difference) is actually much MUCH better than going from 200 to 240 MPG (40 MPG difference). So for the consumer it is MUCH MUCH better toknow how many gallon per 100 miles (how many liter per 100 km) they will consume , rather than how many miles 1 gallon bring them.
The money they gain by stopping second hand game sale, is not overwhelmed by the money lost in first hand game sale. They definitively lost my money first hand second hand or even under-handed. I tried to put up with "calling home at starT" and got fed up with even THAT (mass effect 2), so forget permanent connection. All those game are now a no-go for me. And I am an avid gamer with lot of euro. How many like me ? Who knows. Maybe a few. maybe a lot. But if it is a lot, they will have to back pedal.
Hopefully, at the very least, the fact that parliament has realised this fact will mean that copyright laws will get a little more sane."
No it will mean even residential user will be forcwed to log everything in their system, and if they do not they will be found breaking the "private logging law" (soon to come). Seeing the power trip the UK is on, you have to be +5 insane or +5 funny to think otherwise.
"Totalitarian control?" Yes it is the goal. First you get the people to be habituated to get scanned at airport. Then at the next occasion, you get them habits of being scanned at official government building, sometimes this is already in place. Then you get them to be scanned at major public transportation hub. Then you add camera everywhere, you make deep inspection of their packet compulsory, and sharing of their bank detail. The final step is to declare war on eurasia. And there you are winston Smith !
And you know the worst ? I am seeing it happening right now, and nobody is even reacting
I mean, just look at steorn.com ! Those guy preetnd to have 3 time OU. They are also pretending to demonstrate since 1/2 december. You think they would have a comprehensive evidence by now ? Think again. And look at the freaking FOLLOWING like a cult they got. Remmember Dennis lee ? Remmember the other scammer like Lutec ? Scam there are a dozen out there. Start by the billion dollard homeopathy industry (motto: selling sugar pills to the gullible since 1886).
rock salts can go down to -12 or something If I recall correctly, whereas afterward you have to use other type of salt (potassium or calcium chlorid?) which go down to -22C.
Permanently seed a bitttorent for whatever linux distribution. Somebody cut you out. Show you were seeding Linux BT. ball in their hand now to prove you were doing something else.
That is 24 km.h-1. I am going at 20 on normal time without breaking a sweat, and up to 30/35 when in a hurry and don't mind getting sweaty. 15.m.h-1/24km.h-1 seems unreasonably low as a limit.
You can't stop your own EM radiation to go out for only a SPECIFIC purpose (radio) and forbid all other purpose. It is freely give if your radio receptor only gets a few microwatt from the antenna or at least low enough not to be a disturbance. But as soon as you get the power for another purpose not forseen, and this is a huge drain, then you break the system if it is allowed, and nobody would really have any radio antenna. Therefor the law forbid it. As far as I can tell , same problem if you put Neon tube udner high voltage cable.