A license defines the narrow scope in which you're allowed to operate motor vehicles. A "regular" license generally says you can operate a passenger vehicle for personal and business use (where business doesn't include the business of transportation).
Because they specifically make licenses for commercial drivers - you know, the kind that require additional certification or training, or come with further restrictions on the type of vehicle you can drive or the number of hours you can operate it without rest - you're violating the "regular" license you have by not getting a commercial one while operating as a commercial driver.
Revocation of your license seems perfect.
Go get the right training. Go take the right tests. Go get the right license.
If people start losing their driver's licenses when they're caught doing commercial driving without being properly insured, I would guess fewer of them will take the risk.
Uber provides a $1M liability policy, so they are properly insured.
Oh, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M
Insurance is quoted for people based on their driving behaviors.
While it all obviously depends on averages (and everyone on the internet is a special snowflake with an anecdote to counter anything), the average personal driver drives fewer miles, with fewer occupants, to known locations, on repeated paths, generally close to where they live and work. Commercial drivers, not so much.
If people start losing their driver's licenses when they're caught doing commercial driving without being properly insured, I would guess fewer of them will take the risk.
You mean impose punishments that are way, way out of proportion compared to the "crime"?
Why is losing your license when specifically operating your motor vehicle in express violation of your license somehow "way, way out of proportion"?
Costco might not take other CREDIT cards, but they POS debit just fine.
Aside, any AMEX will work as a Costco card to activate their gas pumps, for membership gas prices without membership. Any Discover does the same at Sam's gas pumps. [At least until later this year when they phase out Discover.]
I forget, this is the internet, and everyone's a special snowflake.
I was providing my experience, dick. I didn't say it was true for you or anyone else.
That said, TV showed us all that Gage and DeSoto were responding to medical calls on Emergency! in 1972, which was when paramedics started to become part of fire crews around the country. By the 80's they were everywhere in the US -- except for you special snowflakes and your fire departments.
You must be a lot of fun at your own birthday parties, asking "Why didn't you just give me cash" every time you open a present.
I've had all sorts of wonderful experiences doing things that were gifts from others that I wouldn't normally have bought myself.
Yes, it'd be nice to say, oh, I dunno, buy a friggin' house instead of go near space, but it's a terrible attitude overall to just want the full cash value of every prize.
For us non-Tesla electric drivers using the "bad" chargers...
The thing is though, that we're not generally charging the car to full. We don't need superchargers, except at the edges of town and between towns. In the city, we're just topping off a tiny bit as we go about our normal day, extending our range by 20-30 miles a day while we get groceries or watch a movie.
The existing 6v non-Tesla chargers take about 45 minutes to charge to full for us. The "common" chargers take 4-5 hours.
I've seen one discussion after another discussing passwords and button press combinations on soda machines, but have never, ever, seen one work.
I call shenanigans.
Soda machines are mostly electro-mechanical rather than computer controlled. Either the switch is active to allow button presses to dispense soda, or they're not. You don't program them from the outside. You set the DIPs to the vend prices per column (if it's multi-price) and lock it back up.
Whoops, we're out of MS licenses and we bought a load of netbooks - there you go, have LibreOffice. While you're there, tell me what's wrong with it and why we couldn't just use that everywhere. Nobody ever came up with an answer to that, which really makes me question why we pay MS for Office.
It worked for his students, but nobody could think of a single reason why they couldn't use it everwhere. If that's true, they're dumb.
I personally haven't used Microsoft Office in over a decade and never missed it. Does that make me dumb, too?
This is the internet, and everyone's a special snowflake.
LibreOffice is only a substitute for Microsoft Office in a limited number of places. I'm happy that, for you, your needs are served by it.
Whoops, we're out of MS licenses and we bought a load of netbooks - there you go, have LibreOffice. While you're there, tell me what's wrong with it and why we couldn't just use that everywhere. Nobody ever came up with an answer to that, which really makes me question why we pay MS for Office.
Nobody? Are the people at your school dumb? There are plenty of reasons that LibreOffice is inferior to Microsoft Office. The discussion's been had a thousand times. LO might work for you and your students, but don't pretend that it's an apples-for-apples replacement.
My last one was digital signage. The school I work for had Powerpoints exported to MP4, then put onto a USB stick and plugged into an LG TV with looping turned on. Looked horrible but did the job. They knew it was the bare-bones and were looking for an all-in solution.
I put in a Xibo box as a test and asked if that was closer to what they wanted. Overnight, the LG TV become attached to a PC running Xibo Client. We've tested it running over RDP from a VM and even off a Raspberry Pi. It's bridged the gap between "an old TV showing something" and "stupendously expensive site-wide digital signage system" nicely. And in fact will probably be as far as we go. If we end up having ten displays showing more than 3 or 4 different schedules, I'll be amazed and it will indeed be time to move to a more commercially-supported package. But for now? A £100 TV and £25 for a RPi box with appropriate cabling. Seems to do the trick quite nicely.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems they had an simple solution, and you made it complicated. Perhaps you should have simply had them export the PowerPoint to a series of images, since those would have cycled nicely from the LG TV on the stick.
The beauty of open-source stuff is that you can prototype for free, find out whether there is some element that you will NEED to pay for (i.e. better customisability, more scalability, commercial support, etc.) and not worry about the licence interfering at any point. When you throw it all out, or push a working system into wider deployment, the licensing doesn't really affect you. The only point is does affect you is when you try to commercialise it yourself.
My first reaction upon being asked to do something is "Can I find a bit of free/open software that will do that?". If I can, then we can judge our real needs and requirement.
This I agree with, up to here...
If I can't, nothing lost.
Time has value. Your solutions above seem to include a lot of it.
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A license defines the narrow scope in which you're allowed to operate motor vehicles. A "regular" license generally says you can operate a passenger vehicle for personal and business use (where business doesn't include the business of transportation).
Because they specifically make licenses for commercial drivers - you know, the kind that require additional certification or training, or come with further restrictions on the type of vehicle you can drive or the number of hours you can operate it without rest - you're violating the "regular" license you have by not getting a commercial one while operating as a commercial driver.
Revocation of your license seems perfect.
Go get the right training.
Go take the right tests.
Go get the right license.
Black has a higher barrier for the drivers.
Also, a number of "real" drivers use Uber to supplement their otherwise slow days.
If people start losing their driver's licenses when they're caught doing commercial driving without being properly insured, I would guess fewer of them will take the risk.
Uber provides a $1M liability policy, so they are properly insured.
Oh, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M
Insurance is quoted for people based on their driving behaviors.
While it all obviously depends on averages (and everyone on the internet is a special snowflake with an anecdote to counter anything), the average personal driver drives fewer miles, with fewer occupants, to known locations, on repeated paths, generally close to where they live and work. Commercial drivers, not so much.
That's the beef.
Why is losing your license when specifically operating your motor vehicle in express violation of your license somehow "way, way out of proportion"?
It seems exactly in proportion.
Uh oh. We woke up the AR forum guys :)
Costco might not take other CREDIT cards, but they POS debit just fine.
Aside, any AMEX will work as a Costco card to activate their gas pumps, for membership gas prices without membership. Any Discover does the same at Sam's gas pumps. [At least until later this year when they phase out Discover.]
'"bad" chargers' was only to save myself some typing, rehashing the differences between chademo, blah blah.
*sigh*
I forget, this is the internet, and everyone's a special snowflake.
I was providing my experience, dick. I didn't say it was true for you or anyone else.
That said, TV showed us all that Gage and DeSoto were responding to medical calls on Emergency! in 1972, which was when paramedics started to become part of fire crews around the country. By the 80's they were everywhere in the US -- except for you special snowflakes and your fire departments.
Are they still for sale?
I've got a teenager who needs a car he can't wreck :)
I'm pro-gun (or at least anti gun restriction), but it's hardly indisputable disproof.
Guns may be contributing to violent crime; other factors may just be having a greater impact the other way.
It's not my personal belief, but the logic just isn't there for your "indisputable" fact.
I was born in the 60's, and Fire has responded to medical calls for my entire adult life.
Even with Ad-Block, that link is gross.
Slashdot groupthink hates the militarization of our police. Sheriff Gayer (seriously?) isn't going to help that cause.
SWAT teams are a reality. Buying them a surplus MRAP isn't shocking.
Sheriff Gayer making stupid comments, however, won't help anything...
You'd have to have a Tesla pretty low on charge in order for even a lvl2 charger to not fully charge it over the course of a movie.
This is pretty much my point.
You don't need super chargers in any concentration except along highways.
Oh yeah. Totally cut and dry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
You must be a lot of fun at your own birthday parties, asking "Why didn't you just give me cash" every time you open a present.
I've had all sorts of wonderful experiences doing things that were gifts from others that I wouldn't normally have bought myself.
Yes, it'd be nice to say, oh, I dunno, buy a friggin' house instead of go near space, but it's a terrible attitude overall to just want the full cash value of every prize.
Canadians will have to answer a skills test.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
For us non-Tesla electric drivers using the "bad" chargers...
The thing is though, that we're not generally charging the car to full. We don't need superchargers, except at the edges of town and between towns. In the city, we're just topping off a tiny bit as we go about our normal day, extending our range by 20-30 miles a day while we get groceries or watch a movie.
The existing 6v non-Tesla chargers take about 45 minutes to charge to full for us. The "common" chargers take 4-5 hours.
There are more and more free charging locations in my city.
Malls and theaters, especially, seem to offer them, because they get those customers, and and the other mall and theater doesn't.
C'mon. Even the Canadians know to use h0ckey.
I've seen one discussion after another discussing passwords and button press combinations on soda machines, but have never, ever, seen one work.
I call shenanigans.
Soda machines are mostly electro-mechanical rather than computer controlled. Either the switch is active to allow button presses to dispense soda, or they're not. You don't program them from the outside. You set the DIPs to the vend prices per column (if it's multi-price) and lock it back up.
That wasn't his assertion.
He said:
It worked for his students, but nobody could think of a single reason why they couldn't use it everwhere. If that's true, they're dumb.
I personally haven't used Microsoft Office in over a decade and never missed it. Does that make me dumb, too?
This is the internet, and everyone's a special snowflake.
LibreOffice is only a substitute for Microsoft Office in a limited number of places. I'm happy that, for you, your needs are served by it.
Whoops, we're out of MS licenses and we bought a load of netbooks - there you go, have LibreOffice. While you're there, tell me what's wrong with it and why we couldn't just use that everywhere. Nobody ever came up with an answer to that, which really makes me question why we pay MS for Office.
Nobody? Are the people at your school dumb? There are plenty of reasons that LibreOffice is inferior to Microsoft Office. The discussion's been had a thousand times. LO might work for you and your students, but don't pretend that it's an apples-for-apples replacement.
My last one was digital signage. The school I work for had Powerpoints exported to MP4, then put onto a USB stick and plugged into an LG TV with looping turned on. Looked horrible but did the job. They knew it was the bare-bones and were looking for an all-in solution.
I put in a Xibo box as a test and asked if that was closer to what they wanted. Overnight, the LG TV become attached to a PC running Xibo Client. We've tested it running over RDP from a VM and even off a Raspberry Pi. It's bridged the gap between "an old TV showing something" and "stupendously expensive site-wide digital signage system" nicely. And in fact will probably be as far as we go. If we end up having ten displays showing more than 3 or 4 different schedules, I'll be amazed and it will indeed be time to move to a more commercially-supported package. But for now? A £100 TV and £25 for a RPi box with appropriate cabling. Seems to do the trick quite nicely.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems they had an simple solution, and you made it complicated. Perhaps you should have simply had them export the PowerPoint to a series of images, since those would have cycled nicely from the LG TV on the stick.
The beauty of open-source stuff is that you can prototype for free, find out whether there is some element that you will NEED to pay for (i.e. better customisability, more scalability, commercial support, etc.) and not worry about the licence interfering at any point. When you throw it all out, or push a working system into wider deployment, the licensing doesn't really affect you. The only point is does affect you is when you try to commercialise it yourself.
My first reaction upon being asked to do something is "Can I find a bit of free/open software that will do that?". If I can, then we can judge our real needs and requirement.
This I agree with, up to here...
If I can't, nothing lost.
Time has value. Your solutions above seem to include a lot of it.
Any smart AI from fantasy and science fiction, sure.
Is there something superior to your shortcut to the image (versus mine) that I should be aware of?