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The point is that they're using aircraft aluminum (or aluminium, if you're British), instead of, say, carbon-fiber composites, like many modern aircraft (see also: Cirrus Designs' SR20 and SR22, Airbus Industrie's (yes, that's spelled right, just trust me) latest designs, and others), or fiberglass (see also: Schweizer 2-32, which has fiberglass components in the fuselage, among others). They're not highlighting their use if aircraft aluminum, they're highlighting their use of aircraft aluminum.
Believe it or not, you can do something about cops (and others) who speed. If you have a second person in the car (or know somebody in another nearby car--you just need another witness), you can have a ticket issued to the offender. Note the time and place, then you and your witness go to the police station and report the offense. As you have a second (or more) witness, the offender can be issued a ticket, and it will stick if you have to go to court (assuming your other witness comes to testify). When I'm with another person, I make it a point to watch for police abuses. I feel that if they're going to be in charge of enforcing the law, they had damned sure better be following it themselves. You'd be surprised how easy it is to file the complaint when you have an additional witness.
When I was in high school, my Calculus teacher mentioned a similar situation concerning the Mean Value Theorem. The Mean Value Theorem (a generalization of Rolle's Theorem) states, in effect, that if a function is differentiable, then the derivative must, at some point, be equal to the average value; for more information, see this page. A jurisdiction which escapes me instituted a program of placing timestamps on toll tickets, then ticketing persons whose average speeds were in excess of the speed limit. Seems obvious that if your average is in excess of x, then you must, at some point, have been travelling faster than x, but somebody challenged it in court. The jurisdiction (again, I don't recall who it was) brought in a mathematician, who explained Rolle's Theorem and the Mean Value Theorem on the witness stand. The gist of the jurisdiction's argument was that "we may not know where you broke the speed limit, but we can prove that you did." The court upheld the ticket, and the program.
Anyhow, as far as this thread goes, they can still issue tickets based on time. If people stop using the toll transponder, all they have to do is include times on the toll ticket (assuming they use toll tickets; Oklahoma's toll roads don't--you pay your three bucks at entry, regardless of how far you're going), and they can issue all the tickets they want, regardless of whether the defendant used the transponder or not.
Side note...I started thinking about Rolle's theorem a few days ago, and for no reason. ESP or something. Kinda scary...Mr. Young, you've polluted my brain...
OK, so it runs. Does it require you to run it as root? Quicken on 2000 must be run as Administrator*; try to run it as a non-privileged user and it fails. I'm a sysadmin, and had to install Quicken for the department (bitch-)secretary(-from-hell), and it flat-out refused to run as anything less than a local admin. I called Intuit (not made easier by the fact that they hide their phone number, encouraging you to use their useless website instead), and finally found a tech with a clue (about the fourth person to whom I spoke). He confirmed for me that you do, in fact, have to run it as admin, and that there's no way around it.* I had to give the secretary (also an incredible dolt, and very protective of "her" machine) local admin, which she has used to install unauthorized software, disjoin herself from the domain (woo-hoo! I only support our domain--she's fucked, particularly for backups), etc. That one poorly-designed program has opened me up to all sorts of trouble. In any case, I swore that day that I'd never use an Intuit product for any purpose, and I'd make sure others are aware of their boneheaded design. Use it at your own risk.
*I'm told there's another method to get it running as a non-privileged user, that being to specifically grant write-access to all the directories that the program uses, but I haven't been able to try it, because of the aforementioned secretary's protective attitude (don't touch my computer!), and since she has disjoined, I don't care anymore anyway.
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The point is that they're using aircraft aluminum (or aluminium, if you're British), instead of, say, carbon-fiber composites, like many modern aircraft (see also: Cirrus Designs' SR20 and SR22, Airbus Industrie's (yes, that's spelled right, just trust me) latest designs, and others), or fiberglass (see also: Schweizer 2-32, which has fiberglass components in the fuselage, among others). They're not highlighting their use if aircraft aluminum, they're highlighting their use of aircraft aluminum.
Believe it or not, you can do something about cops (and others) who speed. If you have a second person in the car (or know somebody in another nearby car--you just need another witness), you can have a ticket issued to the offender. Note the time and place, then you and your witness go to the police station and report the offense. As you have a second (or more) witness, the offender can be issued a ticket, and it will stick if you have to go to court (assuming your other witness comes to testify). When I'm with another person, I make it a point to watch for police abuses. I feel that if they're going to be in charge of enforcing the law, they had damned sure better be following it themselves. You'd be surprised how easy it is to file the complaint when you have an additional witness.
When I was in high school, my Calculus teacher mentioned a similar situation concerning the Mean Value Theorem. The Mean Value Theorem (a generalization of Rolle's Theorem) states, in effect, that if a function is differentiable, then the derivative must, at some point, be equal to the average value; for more information, see this page. A jurisdiction which escapes me instituted a program of placing timestamps on toll tickets, then ticketing persons whose average speeds were in excess of the speed limit. Seems obvious that if your average is in excess of x, then you must, at some point, have been travelling faster than x, but somebody challenged it in court. The jurisdiction (again, I don't recall who it was) brought in a mathematician, who explained Rolle's Theorem and the Mean Value Theorem on the witness stand. The gist of the jurisdiction's argument was that "we may not know where you broke the speed limit, but we can prove that you did." The court upheld the ticket, and the program.
Anyhow, as far as this thread goes, they can still issue tickets based on time. If people stop using the toll transponder, all they have to do is include times on the toll ticket (assuming they use toll tickets; Oklahoma's toll roads don't--you pay your three bucks at entry, regardless of how far you're going), and they can issue all the tickets they want, regardless of whether the defendant used the transponder or not.
Side note...I started thinking about Rolle's theorem a few days ago, and for no reason. ESP or something. Kinda scary...Mr. Young, you've polluted my brain...
OK, so it runs. Does it require you to run it as root? Quicken on 2000 must be run as Administrator*; try to run it as a non-privileged user and it fails. I'm a sysadmin, and had to install Quicken for the department (bitch-)secretary(-from-hell), and it flat-out refused to run as anything less than a local admin. I called Intuit (not made easier by the fact that they hide their phone number, encouraging you to use their useless website instead), and finally found a tech with a clue (about the fourth person to whom I spoke). He confirmed for me that you do, in fact, have to run it as admin, and that there's no way around it.* I had to give the secretary (also an incredible dolt, and very protective of "her" machine) local admin, which she has used to install unauthorized software, disjoin herself from the domain (woo-hoo! I only support our domain--she's fucked, particularly for backups), etc. That one poorly-designed program has opened me up to all sorts of trouble. In any case, I swore that day that I'd never use an Intuit product for any purpose, and I'd make sure others are aware of their boneheaded design. Use it at your own risk.
*I'm told there's another method to get it running as a non-privileged user, that being to specifically grant write-access to all the directories that the program uses, but I haven't been able to try it, because of the aforementioned secretary's protective attitude (don't touch my computer!), and since she has disjoined, I don't care anymore anyway.