I hope there's good privacy controls on the data as I'm sure your insurance company would like to have that data too. "We're sorry sir, but we we're canceling your policy because you are pre-diabetic and you drink too much"
I'm sure the police would love to have the blood-alcohol data streamed to them also....
I wish the Catholic church of the time had never invented the crusades. I wonder if we would have half the problems we have now.
If not for the Crusades, the knowledge accumulated in the Muslim world might never have percolated to Europe.
It should also be noted that the downfall of that educated, scientifically oriented Muslim world was NOT European Crusaders, but a Muslim conqueror - Tamerlane (more properly, Timur the Lame).
You ought to remember him - he's the guy who destroyed Persia, killed everyone there who could read or write, that sort of thing.
The purchasing power of the average american was about 20% higher than it is today, particularly for males. Decline of the middle class isn't a myth, it's a fact.
Hmm, don't remember being able to buy a 50" HDTV for $900 back in '70. Or a desktop computer for $400 or so. Or a cellphone at all....
Seems to me that for all the wailing about the decline of purchasing power, etc., etc., etc., that we're still managing a much higher standard of living....
1. One password, one service. Do not re-use passwords.
2. Prefer long to complex passwords.
Using a sentence that is important to you and modfy it per service.
Better yet, get PasswordSafe, come up with one good password (for your password safe), let PasswordSafe generate all the rest of your passwords for you.
They also need to be demilitarized, treating someone in a house that has a search warrant as the enemy and charging in with assault weapons drawn has caused many cop deaths and homeowners being unfairly charged with murder.
Cops don't use "assault weapons", they use "assault rifles".
Difference being that the latter are selective fire, not semi-auto only.
I call bullshit. If the drones cost MORE, overall, then we wouldn't be seeing them used routinely. People would just hire a helicopter pilot!
Do consider that if the LAPD asks the military for drones to look for Dorner, the cost of the drones comes out of the US Military budget, whereas if the LAPD uses its helicopters (yes, it has some), then the cost comes out of the LAPD budget.
Plus, of course, drones are very fashionable. And if they catch this guy using drones, then their request for piles of extra money next year to get their own drones gets looked at more favourably.
Frankly, considering that Dorner has had at least three days to get away, he could be anywhere in North America by now, so looking for him near where he dumped his truck looks pretty pointless.\
The argument likely aims at the fact that storming of Bastille was the event that launched chain that resulted in creation of modern democracy, modern Western power structures and Napoleon Code.
14 July 1789 was the event that launched the chainn that resulted in creation of modern democracy?
Seems to me that 4 July 1776 was a bit earlier, and perhaps even helped to inspire the French.
Or we could step back a year to 19 April 1775, when the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought...a battle in the US that kicked off a revolution perhaps being a better parallel with a battle in France that kicked off a revolution....
I'm sure that would make your neighbors feel safe to know that the person next door is ready to start shooting other people as soon as he feels slighted.. I'm glad I live in a place where I know people would try to help each other instead
Oddly enough, all the places I've lived where "people would try to help each other" were places where almost everyone owned guns.
On the other hand, the places where "you don't even know your neighbors, much less want to help them" seemed to be places where almost noone owned a gun....
No, the Cong had to face B-52s, F-105s, F-4s, etc.
The only thing interesting about drones is that the pilots aren't sitting in a seat onboard. Contrary to popular rumour, they are NOT more lethal than, say, an F-105 with six tons of ordnance plus cannon. Or an F-4 with nine tons of ordnance (no cannon, though).
I'm glad people don't walk around naked, because I want nudity to be special.
I am also glad people don't walk around naked.
Because, frankly, the overwhelming majority of people look awful enough wearing clothes, much less naked.
Being able to ogle the one percent who would look pretty nice naked wouldn't make up for the 99 percent who would blast your retinae and convince your brain to shutdown rather than remember what you just saw....
I'm tired of the trash of society perverting technology. We invent Bitcoins, so drug addicts misappropriate it for drugs.
So, you're saying that bitcoins were NOT invented to be a form of currency? Because here I always thought that using currency to buy things was the "normal" use, as opposed to an example of "misappropriation"...
Or are you just trying to say that anyone who does something you disagree with is evil?
Dr. Hugh Ross theorizes that we humans are at the earliest possible time intelligent life can exist in the Universe.
So, how many mass extinctions has Earth suffered?
I can think of three off the top of my head. We'll ignore the first one, since it paved the way for the lifeforms that were mostly exterminated in the other two events.
In any case, there's not really a good reason to believe that intelligence couldn't have evolved much sooner sans the Permian extinction, or somewhat sooner (20-50 million years, say) sans the C-T extinction....
In other words, Dr. Hugh Ross sounds like he's whistling in the dark there....
If only there were some article of the Constitution that could be used as an argument to convince conservatives that the Post Office is a vital national service and that it is okay to pay for it in much the same way as it is okay to pay for a navy.
Yes, the Postal Service (and associated Post Roads, which, among other things, justify the Interstate Highways) is Constitutionally mandated.
Alas, there is no specific Connstitutional mandate for daily delivery of mail, nor is there a requirement for Saturday delivery.
Which was probably a good thing, since in its original form, daily delivery was essentially impossible - hard to do daily deliveries when one postman's route might cover 200 miles...afoot.
Note, by the way, that I'd have little issue with the Postal Service vanishing into history - I get my bills online, I pay them online, I send and receive personal letters online, etc. And most of my packages come UPS or FedEx.
About all I really get via the Postal Service would qualify as spam if it hit my email inbox. And gets treated that way when it hits my mailbox.
the states with larger slave populations wanted slaves to be counted as whole persons in the census and vice versa for states with smaller slave populations. This is because the original Constitution required taxes to be apportioned (paid out based on a state's population).
No, this was more about the apportionment of Representatives, which was based on the census.
The Free States didn't think that slaves should count for purposes of representation in Congress, the Slave States disagreed.
As is true in most of politics, a compromise was reached that satisfied noone, but didn't annoy anyone enough to toss the Constitution out over the issue....
Two people died in an illegal, unregulated hotel last year?!!?
Oh the horror of it all!!
Note that if my home, which is NOT an illegal, unregulated hotel were to catch fire, as many as THREE people might die...
I fail to see the tragedy of two deaths in "an illegal, unregistered hotel", though I can certainly see the loss of tax revenue from same as being of more pressing concern to some....
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I'm sure the police would love to have the blood-alcohol data streamed to them also....
If not for the Crusades, the knowledge accumulated in the Muslim world might never have percolated to Europe.
It should also be noted that the downfall of that educated, scientifically oriented Muslim world was NOT European Crusaders, but a Muslim conqueror - Tamerlane (more properly, Timur the Lame).
You ought to remember him - he's the guy who destroyed Persia, killed everyone there who could read or write, that sort of thing.
Bob Heinlein once described the two types of politicians as "business politicians" and "reform politicians".
A "business politician" is one that stays bought.
A "reform politician" is one that changes his positions if someone can convince him that his change is "for the good of the People".
Not really sure which Obama is - most days he comes across as a business politician, some days he comes across as a reform politician.
Well, no.
"From the start", flight was useful for covering distances measured in hundreds of yards, at speeds comparable to a horse.
The Wrights flew at Kittyhawk at the end of 1903. It wasn't till 1905 that a plane managed to go 24 miles (at 38 mph)....
Hmm, don't remember being able to buy a 50" HDTV for $900 back in '70. Or a desktop computer for $400 or so. Or a cellphone at all....
Seems to me that for all the wailing about the decline of purchasing power, etc., etc., etc., that we're still managing a much higher standard of living....
Better yet, get PasswordSafe, come up with one good password (for your password safe), let PasswordSafe generate all the rest of your passwords for you.
Cops don't use "assault weapons", they use "assault rifles".
Difference being that the latter are selective fire, not semi-auto only.
Do consider that if the LAPD asks the military for drones to look for Dorner, the cost of the drones comes out of the US Military budget, whereas if the LAPD uses its helicopters (yes, it has some), then the cost comes out of the LAPD budget.
Plus, of course, drones are very fashionable. And if they catch this guy using drones, then their request for piles of extra money next year to get their own drones gets looked at more favourably.
Frankly, considering that Dorner has had at least three days to get away, he could be anywhere in North America by now, so looking for him near where he dumped his truck looks pretty pointless.\
Hate to break it to you, but the "teabillies", as you put it, are totally uninterested in the Papacy, being Protestants....
Umm, no.
He's not even the first Pope to resign. Just the first in "nearly 600 years"....
Shrewdly played, sir! I will concede the point....
14 July 1789 was the event that launched the chainn that resulted in creation of modern democracy?
Seems to me that 4 July 1776 was a bit earlier, and perhaps even helped to inspire the French.
Or we could step back a year to 19 April 1775, when the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought...a battle in the US that kicked off a revolution perhaps being a better parallel with a battle in France that kicked off a revolution....
Then maybe you should do what we do down here - Mardi Gras ftw!
Which is day after tomorrow, so tomorrow and Tuesday will be a nearly nonstop party....
Oddly enough, all the places I've lived where "people would try to help each other" were places where almost everyone owned guns.
On the other hand, the places where "you don't even know your neighbors, much less want to help them" seemed to be places where almost noone owned a gun....
There isn't a stadium in the world big enough for that, even if you had a way to "round up all the NRA members" when they're the ones with guns....
My sister-in-law weighs about 300 pounds. If I were to see her naked, I'd have to kill myself to remove the memory.
No, I don't think that's the result of media conditioning.
No, the Cong had to face B-52s, F-105s, F-4s, etc.
The only thing interesting about drones is that the pilots aren't sitting in a seat onboard. Contrary to popular rumour, they are NOT more lethal than, say, an F-105 with six tons of ordnance plus cannon. Or an F-4 with nine tons of ordnance (no cannon, though).
I am also glad people don't walk around naked.
Because, frankly, the overwhelming majority of people look awful enough wearing clothes, much less naked.
Being able to ogle the one percent who would look pretty nice naked wouldn't make up for the 99 percent who would blast your retinae and convince your brain to shutdown rather than remember what you just saw....
So, you're saying that bitcoins were NOT invented to be a form of currency? Because here I always thought that using currency to buy things was the "normal" use, as opposed to an example of "misappropriation"...
Or are you just trying to say that anyone who does something you disagree with is evil?
thomas.loc.gov.
or just google thomas.gov, if you can't remember the "loc" (Library of Congress, in this case).
So, how many mass extinctions has Earth suffered?
I can think of three off the top of my head. We'll ignore the first one, since it paved the way for the lifeforms that were mostly exterminated in the other two events.
In any case, there's not really a good reason to believe that intelligence couldn't have evolved much sooner sans the Permian extinction, or somewhat sooner (20-50 million years, say) sans the C-T extinction....
In other words, Dr. Hugh Ross sounds like he's whistling in the dark there....
But they CAN handle the money well enough to pay enough people to deal with it.
Problem is that "enough people to deal with it" is rather lower than the number of people they're paying to deal with it.
Yes, the Postal Service (and associated Post Roads, which, among other things, justify the Interstate Highways) is Constitutionally mandated.
Alas, there is no specific Connstitutional mandate for daily delivery of mail, nor is there a requirement for Saturday delivery.
Which was probably a good thing, since in its original form, daily delivery was essentially impossible - hard to do daily deliveries when one postman's route might cover 200 miles...afoot.
Note, by the way, that I'd have little issue with the Postal Service vanishing into history - I get my bills online, I pay them online, I send and receive personal letters online, etc. And most of my packages come UPS or FedEx.
About all I really get via the Postal Service would qualify as spam if it hit my email inbox. And gets treated that way when it hits my mailbox.
No, this was more about the apportionment of Representatives, which was based on the census.
The Free States didn't think that slaves should count for purposes of representation in Congress, the Slave States disagreed.
As is true in most of politics, a compromise was reached that satisfied noone, but didn't annoy anyone enough to toss the Constitution out over the issue....
Two people died in an illegal, unregulated hotel last year?!!?
Oh the horror of it all!!
Note that if my home, which is NOT an illegal, unregulated hotel were to catch fire, as many as THREE people might die...
I fail to see the tragedy of two deaths in "an illegal, unregistered hotel", though I can certainly see the loss of tax revenue from same as being of more pressing concern to some....