Except we have a much wider definition of violent crime than the USA, from what I understand.
Or, as some in Britain have commented:
"Professor Ken Pease, former acting head of the Home Office's police research group, and Professor Gary Farrell of Loughborough University, estimated in 2007 that the survey was underreporting crime by about 3 million incidents per year due to its practice of arbitrarily capping the number of crimes one can be victimised by in a given year at five.[5] If true the error means that violent crime might actually stand at 4.4 million incidents per year, an 82% increase over the 2.4 million previously thought. Since the five crimes per person cap has been consistent since the BCS began this might not affect the long-term trends, however it takes little account of crimes such as domestic violence, figures for which would allegedly be 140% higher without the cap.[6] Police figures are also thought to seriously undercount repeat victimisation.
Lord de Mauley has said the BCS omits rape, assault, drug offences, fraud, forgery, crime against businesses and murder, while accepting that it "is accepted as a gold standard by most British academics and internationally".[7]"
Why is it seemingly so hard to accept that all is not wine, roses, and unicorns in Ol' Blighty? You have your problems, we have ours.
In the UK, handguns are banned for civilians. And most police don't carry firearms either. So in your mind, everyone is helpless. Result? A homicide rate a quarter of the USA.
That said - Every night, you park your car somewhere in the vicinity of conveniently available grid power. In exchange for five seconds of plugging it in every night, you never need to stop at a gas station in the cold rain and then need to go inside to see the clerk when the stupid damned machine can't read your credit card or the ticket printer breaks.
I get that. I'd really like an all-elec. However, until the infrastructure is built out, many, many people who could and would use it are out of luck.
Basically, you need a single family home with a garage. To house the car and the plug-in. Live in an apartment/condo? Only if you have your own spot, and the building owner has installed the necessary stuff. Rent a house? Not likely. Or maybe your forward looking employer has a few parking spots with charging spots. Again, not likely.
With gas cars, we are long past the point where you really have to try to run out of gas. We're not even close to that with electric.
As one already pointed out, the big flaw in the calculation is there is no hardware cost. That's fine for right now, but run this analysis out for 5 years and you're probably going to have to replace or upgrade some hardware. Those costs are builtin to the VPS costs, with your home server they are not.
This is his son's hobby server. Likely in 5 years he will either be in college, or moved on to some other hobby.
Gun ownership shouldn't be a right but a privilege, just as some people shouldn't have kids until they're mature enough to be able to take care of oneself before taking care of another living thing. That's what annoys me about the 2nd amendment...it guarantees the individual to own a gun, even if such individual is a complete moron and doesn't even know the rest of the Bill of Rights.
One of the (many) problems with your proposal is...who gets to define the rules as to who is allowed to exercise this 'privilege'. Remember...any power you give to an administration you like, you also grant to the next administration which you may not like.
Nothing ruins a movie night faster than overcooked or burnt food. Give me a way to have a reminder to check the pizza I'm baking pop up on my TV screen, laptop, phone, etc, for example. I can't hear the timer alarm from my home theater, let alone while I've got a movie playing at normal volume.
Dollar store. $2, 60 minute kitchen timer. Rotate to 18 minutes. Set it next to your theater chair. Done.
I'd like the refrigerator to send me a notification when it's not maintaining a cold enough temperature.
A fridge failure is, at most, a once a decade event. Updating the fridge notification settings with your new/next device address and protocol is far too much a PITA.
I'd like remote notifications (smartphone?) when the oven timer is about to go off (T-5minutes?).
"Hey, I'll be done in 5 minutes", vs the already included dumb ding "Hey, I'm done" I'll go with the mostly foolproof dumb ding.
I'd like remote notifications when the dishwasher, washer and dryer cycles complete.
I know when the machines will be done. About 45-60 minutes from start, depending on which one. Adding complexity to refine that to the actual minute is simply adding marketing BS.
Just do fullname@domain.tld. I really is that easy. In case of conflict you can simply add middle name or initial. It also fits names that are outside the typical western naming convention.
That will cause conflicts even with different first and last names. Pete Rhaney collides with Peter Haney. Google is bad with this.
I'm responsible for the actions of something under my control, be it a car or an internet connection. The key question is am I LIABLE for those same actions.
You're probably not liable, be it car or bits. But it may take quite a lot of your personal time and money to prove it. Even though you're "innocent until proven guilty", you still have to show up in court to have your say.
The 'one feature' or 'two feature' generally does nothing to alter the functionality of the weapon. It is purely cosmetic. Different stock, different grip, different barrel. I used to own an AR-7. Small.22lr survival rifle. It could be changed from a now illegal (in NY) assault rifle to a legal hunting rifle in about 30 seconds, by simply changing the stock. It would still fire exactly the same.
Perhaps Americans should consider improving their own woeful environmental standards before throwing stones at other countries, as good as it may make them feel.
Aaaannndddd there it is.
I propose a new 'law', similar to Godwin and others.
Any discussion pointing out a countries problems will include, within the first 20 comments, a reference to how the USA is worse with regard to that particular problem. We could call it the 'Dumbfuck Law'.
how exactly did you want them to respond to a petition that by their own rules forces them to respond if given enough votes?
When their own 'rules' gives them an absolute out, forcing them to respond means little. See the Chris Dodd bribery petition.
Terms of Participation from https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/how-why/terms-participation "To avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition."
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Except we have a much wider definition of violent crime than the USA, from what I understand.
Or, as some in Britain have commented:
"Professor Ken Pease, former acting head of the Home Office's police research group, and Professor Gary Farrell of Loughborough University, estimated in 2007 that the survey was underreporting crime by about 3 million incidents per year due to its practice of arbitrarily capping the number of crimes one can be victimised by in a given year at five.[5] If true the error means that violent crime might actually stand at 4.4 million incidents per year, an 82% increase over the 2.4 million previously thought. Since the five crimes per person cap has been consistent since the BCS began this might not affect the long-term trends, however it takes little account of crimes such as domestic violence, figures for which would allegedly be 140% higher without the cap.[6] Police figures are also thought to seriously undercount repeat victimisation.
Lord de Mauley has said the BCS omits rape, assault, drug offences, fraud, forgery, crime against businesses and murder, while accepting that it "is accepted as a gold standard by most British academics and internationally".[7]"
Why is it seemingly so hard to accept that all is not wine, roses, and unicorns in Ol' Blighty? You have your problems, we have ours.
In the UK, handguns are banned for civilians. And most police don't carry firearms either. So in your mind, everyone is helpless. Result? A homicide rate a quarter of the USA.
Homicide rate? Lower. Violent crime rate? Higher.
So yes, they may be more helpless to protect themselves.
Well, since I'm pretty sure I've yet to hear anybody talking about deploying these drones for cargo purposes,
There's this pilotless helicopter
And this patented concept
And this article from PopSci
So yeah...no one is considering that type of use.
That said - Every night, you park your car somewhere in the vicinity of conveniently available grid power. In exchange for five seconds of plugging it in every night, you never need to stop at a gas station in the cold rain and then need to go inside to see the clerk when the stupid damned machine can't read your credit card or the ticket printer breaks.
I get that. I'd really like an all-elec.
However, until the infrastructure is built out, many, many people who could and would use it are out of luck.
Basically, you need a single family home with a garage. To house the car and the plug-in. Live in an apartment/condo? Only if you have your own spot, and the building owner has installed the necessary stuff.
Rent a house? Not likely.
Or maybe your forward looking employer has a few parking spots with charging spots. Again, not likely.
With gas cars, we are long past the point where you really have to try to run out of gas. We're not even close to that with electric.
A more obvious one: do you want a car that you have to remember to fill up with gas?
The difference is, with a gas car, once a week. With an all electric, every day.
As one already pointed out, the big flaw in the calculation is there is no hardware cost. That's fine for right now, but run this analysis out for 5 years and you're probably going to have to replace or upgrade some hardware. Those costs are builtin to the VPS costs, with your home server they are not.
This is his son's hobby server. Likely in 5 years he will either be in college, or moved on to some other hobby.
Gun ownership shouldn't be a right but a privilege, just as some people shouldn't have kids until they're mature enough to be able to take care of oneself before taking care of another living thing. That's what annoys me about the 2nd amendment...it guarantees the individual to own a gun, even if such individual is a complete moron and doesn't even know the rest of the Bill of Rights.
One of the (many) problems with your proposal is...who gets to define the rules as to who is allowed to exercise this 'privilege'. Remember...any power you give to an administration you like, you also grant to the next administration which you may not like.
I get it. But as you say, it could have been worded a bit better.
...57 patches for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, and even 10 are scheduled.
and
No word on whether IE 10 will be included as part of the 57 updates.
Did you even read what you wrote?
Amazon has many. Just put in Windows 7 as one of the filters.
Nothing ruins a movie night faster than overcooked or burnt food. Give me a way to have a reminder to check the pizza I'm baking pop up on my TV screen, laptop, phone, etc, for example. I can't hear the timer alarm from my home theater, let alone while I've got a movie playing at normal volume.
Dollar store. $2, 60 minute kitchen timer. Rotate to 18 minutes. Set it next to your theater chair. Done.
I'd like the refrigerator to send me a notification when it's not maintaining a cold enough temperature.
A fridge failure is, at most, a once a decade event. Updating the fridge notification settings with your new/next device address and protocol is far too much a PITA.
I'd like remote notifications (smartphone?) when the oven timer is about to go off (T-5minutes?).
"Hey, I'll be done in 5 minutes", vs the already included dumb ding "Hey, I'm done"
I'll go with the mostly foolproof dumb ding.
I'd like remote notifications when the dishwasher, washer and dryer cycles complete.
I know when the machines will be done. About 45-60 minutes from start, depending on which one. Adding complexity to refine that to the actual minute is simply adding marketing BS.
Just do fullname@domain.tld. I really is that easy. In case of conflict you can simply add middle name or initial. It also fits names that are outside the typical western naming convention.
That will cause conflicts even with different first and last names.
Pete Rhaney collides with Peter Haney. Google is bad with this.
Here in VA, vanity plate central:
MOE RON
BIGAZZVAN
FAT GAL (Tbird)
&BEYOND (on the back of an Infiniti)
What is disgusting is that the leaders of the communist party in N. Korea wanted this depravity to exist. What were and/or why were they thinking?
"As long as I get to be boss, fuck it."
(or something like that)
I'm responsible for the actions of something under my control, be it a car or an internet connection. The key question is am I LIABLE for those same actions.
You're probably not liable, be it car or bits. But it may take quite a lot of your personal time and money to prove it.
Even though you're "innocent until proven guilty", you still have to show up in court to have your say.
Used for network testing in many small to medium size businesses.
And Friday afternoon stress relief.
And if you want to continue:
GeoWorks
'nuff said
On Twitter I can actually interact with celebrities directly...
Ok, why?
No. It will bomb Twitter. Those of us who don't use twitter will never see or worry about these 6 second clips.
The 'one feature' or 'two feature' generally does nothing to alter the functionality of the weapon. It is purely cosmetic. Different stock, different grip, different barrel. I used to own an AR-7. Small .22lr survival rifle. It could be changed from a now illegal (in NY) assault rifle to a legal hunting rifle in about 30 seconds, by simply changing the stock. It would still fire exactly the same.
Perhaps Americans should consider improving their own woeful environmental standards before throwing stones at other countries, as good as it may make them feel.
Aaaannndddd there it is.
I propose a new 'law', similar to Godwin and others.
Any discussion pointing out a countries problems will include, within the first 20 comments, a reference to how the USA is worse with regard to that particular problem.
We could call it the 'Dumbfuck Law'.
how exactly did you want them to respond to a petition that by their own rules forces them to respond if given enough votes?
When their own 'rules' gives them an absolute out, forcing them to respond means little. See the Chris Dodd bribery petition.
Terms of Participation from https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/how-why/terms-participation
"To avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition."
Verizon is obligated, by law, to act in the best interest of their shareholders--how long do you think shareholders will put up with lost revenue?
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