Arguably, a two-thousand pound car with skinny tires probably has the least effect on roads and road repair.
What does vehicle weight have to do with whether or not it's a hybrid? Wouldn't a hybrid weigh more than the identical car in a non-hybrid form due to the battery and other extra equipment?
Besides, is most road repair really related to the cars driving on it anyway? I mean, sure, the commercial equipment is going to cause most of the vehicular damage, but their registration is already higher. The main expense due to cars is based on volume of traffic, really (have to expand the roadways, add traffic lights, etc). Then there's natural wear and tear, which probably occurs for the biggest problem, and which everyone should pay for equally (probably based on usage for fairness).
The difference between the Honda Insight's 11.6 and my current Honda Civic's 9.3 doesn't seem like it would be that much, and the 9.3 is quite enough to get in front of the 90% of people who don't gun it at the green light. For those remaining 10% it's quite easy to just move in behind them, and you usually don't have to worry about them going slow in front of you anyway.
Slow isn't such a problem. As long as I can keep up with traffic at traffic lights and can do 85 or so when I want to I don't really care about the details in between.
How does the alarm system in home x tell the monitoring station in city y that the house is on fire, and then how do you think the monitoring station in city y alerts the fire department in city x that house x is on fire?
The alarm system tells the monitoring station through an alarm circuit (essentially a telephone line), and the monitoring station then contacts dispatch through a telephone line, and dispatch then alerts the fire department through radio communications. That's how it works where I live, any.
Actually, on NPR the day before Sept 11, some guy was going on about how terrorists were going to use our own tools, equipment and *aircraft* against us.
Well, a day wasn't enough time to upgrade all the doors, now was it?
Yeah, yeah, there were surely some people who advocated impermeable doors, but I wouldn't call it obvious. Obvious after the fact, sure...
Anyway, that particular question would have probably been decided in a courtroom if the government didn't go and bail out the airlines by coercing family members to relinquish their right to sue the airlines for negligence.
DANTE: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
RANDAL: Like when?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
DANTE: Whose house was it?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Dominick Bambino's.
RANDAL: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
DANTE: Based on personal politics.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
RANDAL: No way!
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.
Life is more complicated than that. Sure, you can't blame the inventor of the hammer for killing poor innocent puppies, but if a known mob boss asks you to design a new bullet which pierces bullet-proof vests, I'd say you're quite responsible for the death you cause.
Still is it a bad thing that people are trying to develop technology even if the only purpose is war?
Perhaps not, but this is a decision which people should be able to make without well-paid government contracts giving them incentives. Ultimately the problem lies with congress, who is authorizing far too much in military spending. It doesn't matter if robots that can be used on a battlefield can also be used by a fire department, because no fire department is going to have the budget to buy one anyway.
The funny thing about this is that, if the essay is graded by computer, the best way to write the essay would be to have the COMPUTER write it. The same criteria that the program would use to grade the essay could very easily be turned around and used to generate an essay that the computer will love.
Not necessarily. It could be like multiplying two primes vs. factoring thhe product of two primes. In other words, easy in one direction, but NP-hard in the other direction.
What's stopping RoadRunner [roadrunner.com] from classifying all other TV/Broadcast/Cable web sites that are not affiliated with Warner Bros [wb.com] as a virus, and therefore block those web sites as well?
Can't sendmail be set up to check the Message-ID and make sure that it is an ID which was actually sent? Alternatively, just block "Message Undeliverable" messages.
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Taping over your VIN is not a violation of federal law.
Arguably, a two-thousand pound car with skinny tires probably has the least effect on roads and road repair.
What does vehicle weight have to do with whether or not it's a hybrid? Wouldn't a hybrid weigh more than the identical car in a non-hybrid form due to the battery and other extra equipment?
Besides, is most road repair really related to the cars driving on it anyway? I mean, sure, the commercial equipment is going to cause most of the vehicular damage, but their registration is already higher. The main expense due to cars is based on volume of traffic, really (have to expand the roadways, add traffic lights, etc). Then there's natural wear and tear, which probably occurs for the biggest problem, and which everyone should pay for equally (probably based on usage for fairness).
So take the extra revenue from the taxes and buy them a new car.
Doing my part to NOT FUND OIL WARS
Yeah, it's amazing how much the price of oil has plummeted since before we got involved in that war.
So, yes, these hybrids are indeed slow.
The difference between the Honda Insight's 11.6 and my current Honda Civic's 9.3 doesn't seem like it would be that much, and the 9.3 is quite enough to get in front of the 90% of people who don't gun it at the green light. For those remaining 10% it's quite easy to just move in behind them, and you usually don't have to worry about them going slow in front of you anyway.
Slow isn't such a problem. As long as I can keep up with traffic at traffic lights and can do 85 or so when I want to I don't really care about the details in between.
Even if the price of gasoline jumps to $3.00 a gallon, it still requires a minimum of 176,947 miles to equalize.
Actually it's even worse than that, because within those 176,947 miles you'll need a new (and quite expensive) battery.
I was joking.
There wasn't, was there?
How does the alarm system in home x tell the monitoring station in city y that the house is on fire, and then how do you think the monitoring station in city y alerts the fire department in city x that house x is on fire?
The alarm system tells the monitoring station through an alarm circuit (essentially a telephone line), and the monitoring station then contacts dispatch through a telephone line, and dispatch then alerts the fire department through radio communications. That's how it works where I live, any.
What's the internet got to do with monitoring for fires?
Actually, on NPR the day before Sept 11, some guy was going on about how terrorists were going to use our own tools, equipment and *aircraft* against us.
Well, a day wasn't enough time to upgrade all the doors, now was it?
Yeah, yeah, there were surely some people who advocated impermeable doors, but I wouldn't call it obvious. Obvious after the fact, sure...
Anyway, that particular question would have probably been decided in a courtroom if the government didn't go and bail out the airlines by coercing family members to relinquish their right to sue the airlines for negligence.
That's not paid for by the government, it's paid for by the private alarm companies (and their customers).
DANTE: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
RANDAL: Like when?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
DANTE: Whose house was it?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Dominick Bambino's.
RANDAL: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
DANTE: Based on personal politics.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
RANDAL: No way!
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.
Life is more complicated than that. Sure, you can't blame the inventor of the hammer for killing poor innocent puppies, but if a known mob boss asks you to design a new bullet which pierces bullet-proof vests, I'd say you're quite responsible for the death you cause.
Still is it a bad thing that people are trying to develop technology even if the only purpose is war?
Perhaps not, but this is a decision which people should be able to make without well-paid government contracts giving them incentives. Ultimately the problem lies with congress, who is authorizing far too much in military spending. It doesn't matter if robots that can be used on a battlefield can also be used by a fire department, because no fire department is going to have the budget to buy one anyway.
Why didn't airplanes have impermeable doors before 9-11?
Why weren't you out there advocating it?
Because no one ever though a bunch of terrorists were going to take over a plane with razor blades and crash it into the world trade center.
Common sense and basic security? Give me a break.
Yeah, I know what the question was.
The funny thing about this is that, if the essay is graded by computer, the best way to write the essay would be to have the COMPUTER write it. The same criteria that the program would use to grade the essay could very easily be turned around and used to generate an essay that the computer will love.
Not necessarily. It could be like multiplying two primes vs. factoring thhe product of two primes. In other words, easy in one direction, but NP-hard in the other direction.
They should do whatever makes the most money for their shareholders. Probably blocking ports, but IANACFO.
The argument that GTA2, or any media, is to blame for one's actions is absurd.
About as absurd as blaming public schools.
Maybe we could avoid a few of these cases if we included LOGIC somewhere in our public school's curriculum.
Maybe we could avoid even more if we included LOGIC somewhere in GTA2.
so they can do whatever they want.
C'mon, mod this down as a troll, just so you can prove my point.
What's stopping RoadRunner [roadrunner.com] from classifying all other TV/Broadcast/Cable web sites that are not affiliated with Warner Bros [wb.com] as a virus, and therefore block those web sites as well?
That would be the Federal Trade Commission.
If you need a reliable communications method, email ain't it.
That's why I said to check the Message-ID in the bounce to make sure it was a message which was sent.
You need to know when you misaddress a message, don't you?
No. I don't. I block bounces.
Can't sendmail be set up to check the Message-ID and make sure that it is an ID which was actually sent? Alternatively, just block "Message Undeliverable" messages.