So... you're saying... it... is... very much.... like... TOS? Damn it, GreatDrok, I'm a doctor not an acting coach. I canna give you more than 100% out of the dilithium, GreatDrok, she'll not take it. Fascinating.
He admits to that himself, right from the outset:
"Let me start by saying that I am a bit of a nut"
No, "nut" and "idiot" are two very different things. Monk (TV character) was OCD and a nut. Dan Tynan is an idiot. Reverend Jim was a nut. Dan Tynan is an idiot. Keith Olbermann is a nut. Dan Tynan is an idiot. Jar Jar Binks is a nut AND and idiot.
He didn't use the account for five months AT ALL and he's complaining because they could have deleted his day-to-day work files, or his medical records, or tax records. He gave his data to someone else and he's surprised they actually did something with it. That's after positioning himself as a security and privacy expert. That's what makes him an idiot and not just a nut.
so it should never be allowed to fire employees who are critical of it.
When his insults extended to the wives and children of the politicians, he went from "criticizing the government" to "unacceptable behaviour for a political appointee". And if he was leaking insider information about diplomatic negotiations, then he deserves to lose his security clearance, and with that loss goes his cushy job.
A distance based tax hits PRECISELY the issue. It taxes those who use and wear out the roads more than
those who don't.
Cool. I'll go out and buy a used WWII tank. I'll only drive it down to the corner McDonalds for dinner. My taxes should be very low because I drive very short distances and obviously that causes extremely low damage to the streets.
Distance is not the cause of road deterioration. It's weight and number of wheels. The latter is why a gas tax is a reasonable proxy, since heavier and wheelier vehicles tend to use more gas than lighter ones per mile. Thus a light vehicle going many miles pays about the same as a heavy truck doing short haul, because the amount of damage is the same.
Oh, c'mon, you are arguing for the sake of arguing. From the message you partially quoted:
I said this as an argument *against* putting an additional device in your car.
Yes, the suggestion that car repair shops can record and report the odometer readings is a good argument against putting a device in the car, but it is an argument for recording and reporting odometer readings by repair shops. That's what I replied to.
In other words, I was pointing out that the assertion that we needed an additional device in order to track our mileage is blatantly false.
Yep, we know it is false. And pushing the requirement to report mileage onto the repair shops is ridiculous.
Not everyone is trying to steal your precious bodily fluids.
Are you trying to discuss this issue or... no, I know the answer. Bye.
I'm perfectly calm. The moment someone has to resort to that kind of patronizing insult, you know they've lost any argument.
I don't want anything of the kind.
If you aren't suggesting exactly what I said, why is it important whether the car shops record the odometer reading when they do service? It would be irrelevant unless they were expected to do something with it.
Just pointing out that the odometer information is freely available.
You are wrong. The car shop keeps that information so they can send reminders for maintenance. The state doesn't get a copy. It is not "freely available", and it isn't public information.
Most states already manage to charge "Use Tax" on out of state purchases -
Use taxes are applied only to things that you buy out of state that you then bring into the state. That's on the theory that you've gotten the tax exemption from the other state for buying something in their state but not living there. Most people simply pay the local state tax and then don't bother reporting the use tax, unless the thing is really costly and they'd save money.
You don't bring "miles driven in Idaho" back into Oregon, so Oregon has no legal justification for charging Oregon tax on that. And you don't want Oregon charging Oregon residents taxes on things they do out of state because YOUR state will be the next one to charge YOU taxes on things you do out of state. "Citizen, did you enjoy that hot dog you bought at the airport in San Francisco? That will be 4 cents tax, please..."
I agree. It's not without precident -- your odo is checked every time your car is serviced, for instance.
So you would add a mandate that every vehicle service facility report automobile milage to the state every time someone comes in for any work? Do you include Pep Boys and Napa so you can catch people who do their own auto maintenance? Create a whole black market for auto parts, and a large number of people who refuse to take their cars in for regular service because it comes with a tax bill?
In fact, in Oregon, DEQ doesn't even sniff the exhaust in modern cars, they just plug into the computer.
I live in Oregon and DEQ has neither "sniffed" my exhaust nor plugged into my computer in all the time I owned it.
In either case, Oregon is a state with a very area farming industry, and land use laws that prohibit people from doing things with their farm land other than... farm. You can't tax people for driving on their own farms, and if you won't let them do anything but farm you better not try. Just recording the odometer doesn't differentiate between taxable and nontaxable uses.
Huh? I see nothing about registering anyone. I see the statement, referring to a "healthcare website":
It's not broken in my state, or Oregon either.
Free will involves choices and adaptation - obviously, since people are enrolling, they are passing the Turing Test
I said nothing about free will, I spoke only to your claim that the website isn't broken. They aren't enrolling using that website, the website was supposed to allow enrollment, so it is broken. Very simple. No Turing Test necessary.
Well, you could always go *over* the vehicle on the sidewalk, you know...
I'd say "go around", but that's probably just me. The important question is how many pedestrians did the electric vehicles go over to get to the charging manholes on the sidewalk?
As of thirty seconds ago, CoverOregon.com was still saying "Enroll -- coming soon." Since enrolling is the ultimate goal of using the website, the fact that it will not allow you to do that is what most people would consider "broken".
You may call "deliberately choosing not to allow a required action" something else, but "broken" covers it pretty well.
1. Itâ(TM)s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?
A: now if I only had some money to put in it. Please give me money.
2. You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?
A: I'm a butterfly, you insensitive clod!
3. You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
A: "Mom! There's a wasp on my arm! Come downstairs and kill it for me!
4. Youâ(TM)re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, Tony,
A: my tortoise's name is Filbert.
5. Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
A: she brings my dinner down into the basement, does my laundry once a month whether I need it or not, and kills wasps that crawl on my arms. Those are all single words, aren't they?
Since when does a simulation need to take longer than reality?
It doesn't. WOPR taught us that. It ran through thousands of nuclear engagement simulations and scenarios in just a few minutes, and any real engagement would last for at least an hour.
I'm not sure whether my thermostat has free will or not. I have been asking it repeatedly "are you a decider?", and I can't decide if it lacks enough decision making ability to answer or knows I'm testing it and is refusing to answer on the grounds it may incriminate itself.
What does promoting general welfare mean? I would say Obamacare certainly promotes general welfare...
You do understand that "general welfare" doesn't mean "handouts of free stuff to everyone in general", don't you? And that the phrase you use is in the introduction to the document, not the part where actual duties and responsibilities are listed?
Would it make you happy if I changed it to "potentially benefits", or can you work your way past some miniscule ambiguity of colloquial English?
Claiming that all benefit from a socialist education is not a miniscule ambiguity, it is a patent absurdity. I've chosen to debate the issue, you're the one who is trying to claim that simple words don't mean what he said. Yes, my preference is clear. So is yours. I'd be happy if you used the words you wanted to use the first time and didn't try ducking the problem by asking me if I'd be happier if you wrote something else.
but do you really think Obama's race isn't a factor? If so, why are we hearing so much vitriol about him being "different", "secretly Muslim", "Kenyan", etc.?
This is the wonderful "because some people hate black people, every disagreement with someone who happens to be black is racism" argument.
And if the Tea Party is more concerned with freedom than race, why is it attacking voting rights for minorities?
Reverse polarity protection always involves a component which is destroyed to protect the rest of the device.
Not always.
You can protect a valuable circuit by installing a diode across the DC power input so that it conducts when reverse voltage is applied. This will, at worst, blow the fuse you have prior to that. It is not a warranty issue when a fuse is blown, it is a customer replaceable item.
Or you can install a diode in series so it only conducts when the proper polarity is applied. If your diode blows when reverse voltage is applied, you used the wrong diode. This is your fault.
With a series diode, you have the issue of the voltage drop across the diode, and that may be a consideration. If your circuit can live with about 0.6V less on the input voltage, it's a reasonable solution.
I would hope that the wireless charging manhole covers would not be on the sidewalks, otherwise a large number of pedestrians will be peeved, not just the tinfoil hat crowd.
Using SSNs for certain things is illegal, and selling them probably is too - otherwise what did the other guy do wrong?
Using anything for certain things is illegal. Is it thus illegal to sell anything?
Using pseudoephedrine to make meth is illegal. Should it be illegal to sell pseudoephedrine? (Correct answer: no. Shortcut governmental answer to try to prevent meth labs: of course.). Oblig. auto analogy: cars can be used to run people down (illegal). Should selling cars be a crime?
If you've got an airport nearby that can be difficult. Or less safe at a minimum. Above 3000 AGL and then dive into the pattern at 1000 AGL? Look out below! Or you're making a cross-country flight and you don't know the stadium is there.
Assuming you are not into Controlled Airspace, I would consider buzzing around under 3,000 to be somewhat dangerous over urban areas anyway unless it is a really short trip.
Flying at 2000 AGL is not "buzzing" in anyone's dictionary, except those who 1) aren't pilots or 2) are the kind of person who buys a house next to an airport and then complains about all the noise from those nasty airplane things. You mention your "flight instructor", and I'm guessing you mean "Clippy" and you're using MS flight simulator for your training. If your real-life real instructor is telling you that it is buzzing to be less than 3000 AGL over a congested area, you need a better CFI.
That extra altitude could save your life should a problem develop.
Then let's make the minimum over any congested area be 10,000 AGL. Much safer. There are certainly limitations to existing aircraft that makes doing that a bit difficult, but when we all start flying our anti-grav cars it will be peachy.
So you always land on the longest runway the wind allows,
And then comes the day when you have your first real emergency and the only airport you can reach has a 1500' runway. You've never practiced on anything shorter than the 10,000' runway at your home airport. Wrong time to learn short field landings, I'd say.
and prefer higher altitudes when possible.
If you fly the pattern at 10,000 AGL, don't come around my airport.
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Sadly, the acting is poor at best.
So ... you're saying ... it ... is ... very much .... like ... TOS? Damn it, GreatDrok, I'm a doctor not an acting coach. I canna give you more than 100% out of the dilithium, GreatDrok, she'll not take it. Fascinating.
He admits to that himself, right from the outset: "Let me start by saying that I am a bit of a nut"
No, "nut" and "idiot" are two very different things. Monk (TV character) was OCD and a nut. Dan Tynan is an idiot. Reverend Jim was a nut. Dan Tynan is an idiot. Keith Olbermann is a nut. Dan Tynan is an idiot. Jar Jar Binks is a nut AND and idiot.
He didn't use the account for five months AT ALL and he's complaining because they could have deleted his day-to-day work files, or his medical records, or tax records. He gave his data to someone else and he's surprised they actually did something with it. That's after positioning himself as a security and privacy expert. That's what makes him an idiot and not just a nut.
so it should never be allowed to fire employees who are critical of it.
When his insults extended to the wives and children of the politicians, he went from "criticizing the government" to "unacceptable behaviour for a political appointee". And if he was leaking insider information about diplomatic negotiations, then he deserves to lose his security clearance, and with that loss goes his cushy job.
The government is not a monopoly employer.
Personal property tax. You have to pay it on vehicles already.
Another tax that isn't a tax in Oregon.
A distance based tax hits PRECISELY the issue. It taxes those who use and wear out the roads more than those who don't.
Cool. I'll go out and buy a used WWII tank. I'll only drive it down to the corner McDonalds for dinner. My taxes should be very low because I drive very short distances and obviously that causes extremely low damage to the streets.
Distance is not the cause of road deterioration. It's weight and number of wheels. The latter is why a gas tax is a reasonable proxy, since heavier and wheelier vehicles tend to use more gas than lighter ones per mile. Thus a light vehicle going many miles pays about the same as a heavy truck doing short haul, because the amount of damage is the same.
Oh, c'mon, you are arguing for the sake of arguing. From the message you partially quoted:
I said this as an argument *against* putting an additional device in your car.
Yes, the suggestion that car repair shops can record and report the odometer readings is a good argument against putting a device in the car, but it is an argument for recording and reporting odometer readings by repair shops. That's what I replied to.
In other words, I was pointing out that the assertion that we needed an additional device in order to track our mileage is blatantly false.
Yep, we know it is false. And pushing the requirement to report mileage onto the repair shops is ridiculous.
Not everyone is trying to steal your precious bodily fluids.
Are you trying to discuss this issue or ... no, I know the answer. Bye.
Geeze, calm down.
I'm perfectly calm. The moment someone has to resort to that kind of patronizing insult, you know they've lost any argument.
I don't want anything of the kind.
If you aren't suggesting exactly what I said, why is it important whether the car shops record the odometer reading when they do service? It would be irrelevant unless they were expected to do something with it.
Just pointing out that the odometer information is freely available.
You are wrong. The car shop keeps that information so they can send reminders for maintenance. The state doesn't get a copy. It is not "freely available", and it isn't public information.
Ok ok ok you live in a rural area.
Hardly.
Most states already manage to charge "Use Tax" on out of state purchases -
Use taxes are applied only to things that you buy out of state that you then bring into the state. That's on the theory that you've gotten the tax exemption from the other state for buying something in their state but not living there. Most people simply pay the local state tax and then don't bother reporting the use tax, unless the thing is really costly and they'd save money.
You don't bring "miles driven in Idaho" back into Oregon, so Oregon has no legal justification for charging Oregon tax on that. And you don't want Oregon charging Oregon residents taxes on things they do out of state because YOUR state will be the next one to charge YOU taxes on things you do out of state. "Citizen, did you enjoy that hot dog you bought at the airport in San Francisco? That will be 4 cents tax, please..."
I agree. It's not without precident -- your odo is checked every time your car is serviced, for instance.
So you would add a mandate that every vehicle service facility report automobile milage to the state every time someone comes in for any work? Do you include Pep Boys and Napa so you can catch people who do their own auto maintenance? Create a whole black market for auto parts, and a large number of people who refuse to take their cars in for regular service because it comes with a tax bill?
In fact, in Oregon, DEQ doesn't even sniff the exhaust in modern cars, they just plug into the computer.
I live in Oregon and DEQ has neither "sniffed" my exhaust nor plugged into my computer in all the time I owned it.
In either case, Oregon is a state with a very area farming industry, and land use laws that prohibit people from doing things with their farm land other than ... farm. You can't tax people for driving on their own farms, and if you won't let them do anything but farm you better not try. Just recording the odometer doesn't differentiate between taxable and nontaxable uses.
Another Portlander who doesn't realize there is a whole big state outside the city limits.
As I said, we already registered a lot of people.
Huh? I see nothing about registering anyone. I see the statement, referring to a "healthcare website":
It's not broken in my state, or Oregon either.
Free will involves choices and adaptation - obviously, since people are enrolling, they are passing the Turing Test
I said nothing about free will, I spoke only to your claim that the website isn't broken. They aren't enrolling using that website, the website was supposed to allow enrollment, so it is broken. Very simple. No Turing Test necessary.
Well, you could always go *over* the vehicle on the sidewalk, you know...
I'd say "go around", but that's probably just me. The important question is how many pedestrians did the electric vehicles go over to get to the charging manholes on the sidewalk?
It's not broken in my state, or Oregon either.
As of thirty seconds ago, CoverOregon.com was still saying "Enroll -- coming soon." Since enrolling is the ultimate goal of using the website, the fact that it will not allow you to do that is what most people would consider "broken".
You may call "deliberately choosing not to allow a required action" something else, but "broken" covers it pretty well.
1. Itâ(TM)s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?
A: now if I only had some money to put in it. Please give me money.
2. You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do?
A: I'm a butterfly, you insensitive clod!
3. You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
A: "Mom! There's a wasp on my arm! Come downstairs and kill it for me!
4. Youâ(TM)re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, Tony,
A: my tortoise's name is Filbert.
5. Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
A: she brings my dinner down into the basement, does my laundry once a month whether I need it or not, and kills wasps that crawl on my arms. Those are all single words, aren't they?
An iPhone runs your life because Apple programmed it that way.
An iPhone runs your life because you chose to let it. The question remains, did you have free will in that decision? Let's ask Siri for her opinion.
Since when does a simulation need to take longer than reality?
It doesn't. WOPR taught us that. It ran through thousands of nuclear engagement simulations and scenarios in just a few minutes, and any real engagement would last for at least an hour.
I'm not sure whether my thermostat has free will or not. I have been asking it repeatedly "are you a decider?", and I can't decide if it lacks enough decision making ability to answer or knows I'm testing it and is refusing to answer on the grounds it may incriminate itself.
What does promoting general welfare mean? I would say Obamacare certainly promotes general welfare...
You do understand that "general welfare" doesn't mean "handouts of free stuff to everyone in general", don't you? And that the phrase you use is in the introduction to the document, not the part where actual duties and responsibilities are listed?
Would it make you happy if I changed it to "potentially benefits", or can you work your way past some miniscule ambiguity of colloquial English?
Claiming that all benefit from a socialist education is not a miniscule ambiguity, it is a patent absurdity. I've chosen to debate the issue, you're the one who is trying to claim that simple words don't mean what he said. Yes, my preference is clear. So is yours. I'd be happy if you used the words you wanted to use the first time and didn't try ducking the problem by asking me if I'd be happier if you wrote something else.
but do you really think Obama's race isn't a factor? If so, why are we hearing so much vitriol about him being "different", "secretly Muslim", "Kenyan", etc.?
This is the wonderful "because some people hate black people, every disagreement with someone who happens to be black is racism" argument.
And if the Tea Party is more concerned with freedom than race, why is it attacking voting rights for minorities?
It isn't. Next question?
Reverse polarity protection always involves a component which is destroyed to protect the rest of the device.
Not always.
You can protect a valuable circuit by installing a diode across the DC power input so that it conducts when reverse voltage is applied. This will, at worst, blow the fuse you have prior to that. It is not a warranty issue when a fuse is blown, it is a customer replaceable item.
Or you can install a diode in series so it only conducts when the proper polarity is applied. If your diode blows when reverse voltage is applied, you used the wrong diode. This is your fault.
With a series diode, you have the issue of the voltage drop across the diode, and that may be a consideration. If your circuit can live with about 0.6V less on the input voltage, it's a reasonable solution.
Side effects include laughing, loving, and lasciviousness
And anal seepage. You can't have a drug without that as a side effect.
Oh, wait, that was Olestra, a food additive and not a drug.
I would hope that the wireless charging manhole covers would not be on the sidewalks, otherwise a large number of pedestrians will be peeved, not just the tinfoil hat crowd.
Using SSNs for certain things is illegal, and selling them probably is too - otherwise what did the other guy do wrong?
Using anything for certain things is illegal. Is it thus illegal to sell anything?
Using pseudoephedrine to make meth is illegal. Should it be illegal to sell pseudoephedrine? (Correct answer: no. Shortcut governmental answer to try to prevent meth labs: of course.). Oblig. auto analogy: cars can be used to run people down (illegal). Should selling cars be a crime?
Just stay above 3,000 AGL and you are golden.
If you've got an airport nearby that can be difficult. Or less safe at a minimum. Above 3000 AGL and then dive into the pattern at 1000 AGL? Look out below! Or you're making a cross-country flight and you don't know the stadium is there.
Assuming you are not into Controlled Airspace, I would consider buzzing around under 3,000 to be somewhat dangerous over urban areas anyway unless it is a really short trip.
Flying at 2000 AGL is not "buzzing" in anyone's dictionary, except those who 1) aren't pilots or 2) are the kind of person who buys a house next to an airport and then complains about all the noise from those nasty airplane things. You mention your "flight instructor", and I'm guessing you mean "Clippy" and you're using MS flight simulator for your training. If your real-life real instructor is telling you that it is buzzing to be less than 3000 AGL over a congested area, you need a better CFI.
That extra altitude could save your life should a problem develop.
Then let's make the minimum over any congested area be 10,000 AGL. Much safer. There are certainly limitations to existing aircraft that makes doing that a bit difficult, but when we all start flying our anti-grav cars it will be peachy.
So you always land on the longest runway the wind allows,
And then comes the day when you have your first real emergency and the only airport you can reach has a 1500' runway. You've never practiced on anything shorter than the 10,000' runway at your home airport. Wrong time to learn short field landings, I'd say.
and prefer higher altitudes when possible.
If you fly the pattern at 10,000 AGL, don't come around my airport.
Japanese has only like two irregular verbs ...
I found where Facebook's missing 'like' went to.