I'm rather good at reading a map and building a spacial map in my head. But when I'm driving with a route already planned, all I really need to know at any given instance is the location of the next turn, and doing so with a POV map is slightly less of a distraction.
If I have time to more than glance at the display, it's trivial to note the direction in which the north arrow is pointing and rotate the view in my head. Honestly, someone like you who only uses maps with north arbitrarily "up" have limited spacial awareness and are also a danger to others.
Have you seen Bar Karma? The dialog and pacing has been a little sketchy in some episodes, but I like the overall concept. The show is crafted (i.e. plot created) by the social media fanbase.
Nothing in the Constitution says that each and every person must participate in their government. It merely prohibits the government from taking that right away from anyone (without due process). For every 50 people in 1789 writing a document to govern the land, there were thousands who just wanted to take care of their family and live the best life they can. That hasn't changed in the slightest.
There are many personality types. Some of them would never be able to participate in the way you claim everyone who "belongs in a democratic society" must.
Not necessarily. A public domain work can be taken, possibly edited in slight ways, formatted and reprinted, and the new publisher can put a copyright on it. Now maybe their changes aren't enough for the copyright notice to be enforceable, but in some cases I suspect they would be.
In this case, the model code, as written by the SmartCode Association (or some other group), is privately owned. However, as implemented some parts of the code are modified, it's reformatted, and the name is changed. The new version published as law should/must be public domain. (When this is not the case, courts should force it open.) However, the original version, which differs slightly from the law version (including a different name - SmartCode 1.0 instead of The Laws of the City of Fairfax, for example) can retain its copyright.
Of course, if some other city wants to implement the same code, they don't have to go back to the private source. They can look at the law of the city that already bought it, and copy their public-domain law. The private source should have no right of recourse in this case (and if they do, the courts should correct this.)
I suspect if their only goal was the get a copy of these standards and release them on wikileaks or bittorrent, they could have found an illegitimate copy to pass on, and they wouldn't have talked publicly about it.
I think instead that they want to host and distribute copies of these laws to anyone who asks, with the expectation that they could grow their portfolio until all laws in the country are free. If they fold into bankruptcy immediately, then the new company would have to start by buying the same specs again, and hosting them the same way again, which would lead them to be folded immediately again.
That sort of "volume business" strategy works for snake oil salesmen. It doesn't work for people losing money each time.
Money is taxed each time it changes hands. I pay income tax on money I acquire. If I then hire someone to work for me, they pay income tax on the money they acquire from me.
Under your logic all taxation would be impossible because any given money (except maybe that being spent directly by the government) has already been taxed at least once.
So if I pay taxes on money I acquire, then later I die and my children acquire the money, they pay taxes on it. This is consistent with the way the government works. But the government even gives some pretty big breaks away, what with large exclusions from the estate tax at the time of death, and of course the option to give the money away to people over the years prior to death.
2) Most of these regulations are for checking that something is made correctly and won't kill or injure people. If you are a citizen (not a business), why do you need the regulations and standards on how to build something?
Are we so far along the corporation = business curve that we forget the role of craftsmen? Any given one of us - me, you - can choose to build and sell something. For some things we may not have the capital to do so, but for something like a bicycle helmet mentioned in other posts, I think I could afford the start-up costs to make and sell them in small quantities. However, the law says that selling them is illegal unless they meet a list of specifications. Except the law won't tell me the list of specifications. I would be forced to give money to one specific group - possibly to join that group - in order to comply with the law.
The idea that industry and manufacturing should only be run by guilds or cartels that can afford to buy into government-mandated private law clubs is absurd. And as soon as some private group gets software coding standards referenced into law, I suspect you'll agree with me.*
* assuming you are a software developer, as most of slashdot tends to be.
Democrats don't want women to be forced by their government to consent to rape with a foreign object before they are allowed to have a legal medical procedure.
My city measures the speed of all drivers on a given road over a two-week period, then takes the top speed of the lower 80% as the new recommended speed limit (which the council will review and vote on).
They claim this is an unbiased review, but come one...if 80% of people obey the existing speed limit, then this so-called "study" will never establish that the rate is too low. It has nothing at all to do with an "informed estimation of the maximum safe rate of travel". The only time a limit is raised is when one of the council members drives on the road, and he thinks "it's too darn slow!" This only happens on roads they use, but not ones in their neighborhood where their kids are playing.
Also, around here there are freeways and tollways. Both types have "frontage roads" which are free roads that run alongside, with business and cross street access. Next to freeways (whose speed varies, but let's use 65 MPH as a typical), the frontage road speed limit is 55 MPH. Next to the same road where it's a tollway (with a speed limit of 70 MPH), the frontage road speed limit is 45 MPH. The tollway profits go to private investors, not the state. That has NOTHING to do with "informed estimation" and everything to do with "backroom dealing to make sure the rich investors get their return".
This is a serious problem for companies under SEC regulation. Everything said by a company representative (including associates like independent advisors) has to be pre-approved and logged. They even have to scan social media sites for people who mention the company name to see if they are giving advice or implying a recommendation for a product or service.
My understanding is that LinkedIn and similar (Facebook) have varying degrees of support to clamp down on such fraud, ranging from annoying (USPS-mailed official letter on company letterhead by an executive, notarized, to the social media site) to nonexistent (no ability to remove the fraudulent profile).
When did you use it? Just curious. The company that wrote it was bought out several years back, and I'm wondering if your bad experience was with the older or newer versions.
When your car is parked, especially in traffic, it's not that hard to verify that you do not, in fact, have any blind spots. In both cars I have continuous coverage on the passenger side from the rear view mirror to the side mirror, to the main body of the car visible out the passenger window and rear window simultaneously. To look in that side mirror I have to turn my head to the side, so I can easily see a car next to me.
In my Miata, which has no rear windows at all, turning my head to the side and back with the top up just gives me a nice view of the interior fabric. I had to become accustomed to using the mirrors to cover any possible blind spots. Even with them all covered, I also found that I could move my own head side to side a little bit and overlap the side mirror coverage even further, completely ensuring that there's nothing beside my rear quarter panels, just in case.
It doesn't seem like you have to have a camera for this, though. My car (2005 BMW) has front/rear proximity sensors. I don't see a picture of what's behind me, but I get a pretty damn loud beep and the nav display shows the area where the obstruction is located (either across the whole back end if I'm getting close to a car or a wall, or a smaller indication if it's a pole or a person).
I have gotten used to them, especially as the car is much bigger than my other/older Miata, which has a much lower rear deck.
Any press publication with a two-bit lawyer will laugh at a judge who issues an injunction to prevent publication of a factual story.
They'll go back through the story with a fine-toothed comb and make sure everything is 100% based on reliable sources, but they'll publish nonetheless and have the full backing of the Constitution as their defense.
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I'm rather good at reading a map and building a spacial map in my head. But when I'm driving with a route already planned, all I really need to know at any given instance is the location of the next turn, and doing so with a POV map is slightly less of a distraction.
If I have time to more than glance at the display, it's trivial to note the direction in which the north arrow is pointing and rotate the view in my head. Honestly, someone like you who only uses maps with north arbitrarily "up" have limited spacial awareness and are also a danger to others.
In anticipation of Puerto Rico's upcoming vote, I think we've already slid Canada down to 52nd..
Have you seen Bar Karma? The dialog and pacing has been a little sketchy in some episodes, but I like the overall concept. The show is crafted (i.e. plot created) by the social media fanbase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Karma
When I saw the headline "New Doctor Who Companion" my first thought was "Wow! Who is replacing Matt Smith as Karen's companion?"
The royalties from their vibrating tattoo patent will keep them afloat...
Nothing in the Constitution says that each and every person must participate in their government. It merely prohibits the government from taking that right away from anyone (without due process). For every 50 people in 1789 writing a document to govern the land, there were thousands who just wanted to take care of their family and live the best life they can. That hasn't changed in the slightest.
There are many personality types. Some of them would never be able to participate in the way you claim everyone who "belongs in a democratic society" must.
Not necessarily. A public domain work can be taken, possibly edited in slight ways, formatted and reprinted, and the new publisher can put a copyright on it. Now maybe their changes aren't enough for the copyright notice to be enforceable, but in some cases I suspect they would be.
In this case, the model code, as written by the SmartCode Association (or some other group), is privately owned. However, as implemented some parts of the code are modified, it's reformatted, and the name is changed. The new version published as law should/must be public domain. (When this is not the case, courts should force it open.) However, the original version, which differs slightly from the law version (including a different name - SmartCode 1.0 instead of The Laws of the City of Fairfax, for example) can retain its copyright.
Of course, if some other city wants to implement the same code, they don't have to go back to the private source. They can look at the law of the city that already bought it, and copy their public-domain law. The private source should have no right of recourse in this case (and if they do, the courts should correct this.)
I suspect if their only goal was the get a copy of these standards and release them on wikileaks or bittorrent, they could have found an illegitimate copy to pass on, and they wouldn't have talked publicly about it.
I think instead that they want to host and distribute copies of these laws to anyone who asks, with the expectation that they could grow their portfolio until all laws in the country are free. If they fold into bankruptcy immediately, then the new company would have to start by buying the same specs again, and hosting them the same way again, which would lead them to be folded immediately again.
That sort of "volume business" strategy works for snake oil salesmen. It doesn't work for people losing money each time.
No no, if it's the law of the land it must be public domain. Nothing is more clearly public domain than the law.
Money is taxed each time it changes hands. I pay income tax on money I acquire. If I then hire someone to work for me, they pay income tax on the money they acquire from me.
Under your logic all taxation would be impossible because any given money (except maybe that being spent directly by the government) has already been taxed at least once.
So if I pay taxes on money I acquire, then later I die and my children acquire the money, they pay taxes on it. This is consistent with the way the government works. But the government even gives some pretty big breaks away, what with large exclusions from the estate tax at the time of death, and of course the option to give the money away to people over the years prior to death.
2) Most of these regulations are for checking that something is made correctly and won't kill or injure people. If you are a citizen (not a business), why do you need the regulations and standards on how to build something?
Are we so far along the corporation = business curve that we forget the role of craftsmen? Any given one of us - me, you - can choose to build and sell something. For some things we may not have the capital to do so, but for something like a bicycle helmet mentioned in other posts, I think I could afford the start-up costs to make and sell them in small quantities. However, the law says that selling them is illegal unless they meet a list of specifications. Except the law won't tell me the list of specifications. I would be forced to give money to one specific group - possibly to join that group - in order to comply with the law.
The idea that industry and manufacturing should only be run by guilds or cartels that can afford to buy into government-mandated private law clubs is absurd. And as soon as some private group gets software coding standards referenced into law, I suspect you'll agree with me.*
* assuming you are a software developer, as most of slashdot tends to be.
I have to look to my immediate left and right to check my side mirrors. Those locations are already covered.
Also, I think only a little Shriner car could possibly "hover" right next to my Miata and not be a looming mass casting its shadow on me.
Democrats don't want women to be forced by their government to consent to rape with a foreign object before they are allowed to have a legal medical procedure.
My city measures the speed of all drivers on a given road over a two-week period, then takes the top speed of the lower 80% as the new recommended speed limit (which the council will review and vote on).
They claim this is an unbiased review, but come one...if 80% of people obey the existing speed limit, then this so-called "study" will never establish that the rate is too low. It has nothing at all to do with an "informed estimation of the maximum safe rate of travel". The only time a limit is raised is when one of the council members drives on the road, and he thinks "it's too darn slow!" This only happens on roads they use, but not ones in their neighborhood where their kids are playing.
Also, around here there are freeways and tollways. Both types have "frontage roads" which are free roads that run alongside, with business and cross street access. Next to freeways (whose speed varies, but let's use 65 MPH as a typical), the frontage road speed limit is 55 MPH. Next to the same road where it's a tollway (with a speed limit of 70 MPH), the frontage road speed limit is 45 MPH. The tollway profits go to private investors, not the state. That has NOTHING to do with "informed estimation" and everything to do with "backroom dealing to make sure the rich investors get their return".
We don't have debtors prison. People can escape monetary debts via bankruptcy.
This is a serious problem for companies under SEC regulation. Everything said by a company representative (including associates like independent advisors) has to be pre-approved and logged. They even have to scan social media sites for people who mention the company name to see if they are giving advice or implying a recommendation for a product or service.
My understanding is that LinkedIn and similar (Facebook) have varying degrees of support to clamp down on such fraud, ranging from annoying (USPS-mailed official letter on company letterhead by an executive, notarized, to the social media site) to nonexistent (no ability to remove the fraudulent profile).
And the DHS has what business of doing that, exactly?
Would you prefer the DHHS set up its own redundant monitoring network?
Really? Because that's not what their policy indicates.
When did you use it? Just curious. The company that wrote it was bought out several years back, and I'm wondering if your bad experience was with the older or newer versions.
When your car is parked, especially in traffic, it's not that hard to verify that you do not, in fact, have any blind spots. In both cars I have continuous coverage on the passenger side from the rear view mirror to the side mirror, to the main body of the car visible out the passenger window and rear window simultaneously. To look in that side mirror I have to turn my head to the side, so I can easily see a car next to me.
In my Miata, which has no rear windows at all, turning my head to the side and back with the top up just gives me a nice view of the interior fabric. I had to become accustomed to using the mirrors to cover any possible blind spots. Even with them all covered, I also found that I could move my own head side to side a little bit and overlap the side mirror coverage even further, completely ensuring that there's nothing beside my rear quarter panels, just in case.
It doesn't seem like you have to have a camera for this, though. My car (2005 BMW) has front/rear proximity sensors. I don't see a picture of what's behind me, but I get a pretty damn loud beep and the nav display shows the area where the obstruction is located (either across the whole back end if I'm getting close to a car or a wall, or a smaller indication if it's a pole or a person).
I have gotten used to them, especially as the car is much bigger than my other/older Miata, which has a much lower rear deck.
Will you like them better when Romney performs them?
Any press publication with a two-bit lawyer will laugh at a judge who issues an injunction to prevent publication of a factual story.
They'll go back through the story with a fine-toothed comb and make sure everything is 100% based on reliable sources, but they'll publish nonetheless and have the full backing of the Constitution as their defense.
Adapting likely means a few hundred million Chinese landing on our shore to find land they can farm.
Fraud is deception, when done intentionally and for profit. That's its definition.