I believe there's a CA law that says if you are holding up 3 or more cars, you must pull over at the earliest safe turn-out and let them pass. However, I cannot find the text of that law at the moment.
That's CVC 21656, but it's 5 or more vehicles, and it's only applicable on 2-lane highways.
What would it take to convince you that anthropogenic global glimate change is real?
What it would take to convince me that it is not real is a contiguous 14 year period (2 full El Nino cycles) of increasing CO2 without increasing global average temperatures.
Atmospheric CO2 has never jumped as fast as it has in the past 50 years, so we're likely to see a mass extinction before things stabilize. So I think you're correct: life will flourish, eventually. "Life finds a way."
it is impossible to write laws that are technologically timeless, and this has been shown time and again, whether it's determining how high into the air your property rights extend after the first airplanes begin flying x-country...
If you can write such a law that doesn't violate the zero-one-infinity rule, I think you'll get pretty close to timeless.
In congested central cities, it's imperative to balance the number and availability of taxis with the congestion they produce.
And since congestion isn't homogenous across a city, it's imperative to do the above on a street-by-street basis. Can you think of a better way than by limiting the number of taxi stands on each street?
Except here we aren't talking about anything that's truly novel. We're talking about R/C aircraft (drones), taxis (Uber), and beds & breakfast (AirBnb), each of which has been around for decades or longer. These are simply being used in new ways from which the established industry failed to protect themselves, and from which they now want the government to protect them once again.
The vehicle code is a mutual agreement among all road users. This makes it wrong, both legally and morally, for someone to drive their car on the sidewalk.
Is it morally wrong for Amazon to pay, including benefits or lack thereof, nothing more than what they and the contractor/employee have mutually agreed upon?
the result of so much testing is that a large amount of classroom time is directed towards the test.
That's only a problem when the test doesn't adequately measure what it needs to. And if you think there are some things that can't be tested, then try to name something that can be taught but cannot be tested. Good luck!
The tickets for LA->SF are going to be over $100, and likely closer to $200. So it will be both slower and more expensive than flying.
Are you sure? Even today, the average cost of a flight between LA and SF is $145.58 according to GoFox.com. When the HSR line opens, you can be sure that airfares will be even higher.
Also, if you had read the business plan, you would know that they're planning to set ticket prices at 83% of airfares.
So for not just one but two reasons, you're wrong about it being more expensive than flying.
As for it being slower than flying, do you really think you can get from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in less than 2 hours 45 minutes? The time in the air alone is over an hour, plus there's the taxi rides, getting through security, getting on and off the plane, and retrieving your luggage at the end of your flight. On a good day, if you're in a rush, and you don't miss your flight by being late to the airport, just maybe flying will be faster.
And if you aren't using that excess capacity, it shouldn't *not* be generated, instead it should power desalination plants and other things that can run on an as-demand basis.
Unless the desalination plant operator isn't willing to pay what it costs to generate that electricity. Then it's cheaper to shut down a power plant or two. Saving your customers money is a good thing, right?
Ideally, power demand would be flat and constant...the same amount, all the time.
If you raise the price of something, demand goes down, and if you lower the price, demand goes up. So it seems possible to flatten power demand by varying the price, just as eBay does in order to prevent too many people from winning the same auction.
This gives the poor a way to economize by taking advantage of lower-than-average electricity prices during times of high electricity production and low demand--an opportunity that doesn't exist with flat rates because the average price is the only price.
I get that you could leave the capacity restricted, and then let rich people price poor people out of the market by bidding the cost up considerably, but why?
Because it would give the poor a way to save money that doesn't exist today, by doing their electricity-intensive chores when electricity is cheaper than average. With flat rate pricing, they always have to pay the average rate.
If you'll read the summary, a molten salt tower continues to generate power after the sun goes down. With demand-responsive pricing, the plant can satisfy 100% of demand until it runs out of heat, 10 hours after the sun goes down.
Why do you need to smooth pricing? By allowing prices to rise and fall throughout the day in response to supply and demand, you don't need to add supply between the time the sun goes down and the time people go to bed at night.
In other words, you can treat it as an economics problem and save your customers a lot of money on power plants and fuel. This is why the world is switching from flat rate pricing to time-of-use pricing.
As long as people continue to believe this stuff should be ran as profit centers, this is what will happen.
Unless, of course, prisons were motivated to rehabilitate prisoners rather than keep them locked up. When prisons start doing all they can to rehabilitate prisoners in order to make their profits, they might realize that charging for phone calls is counterproductive to their bottom line, and so the profit motive will make this kind of thing actually stop.
So the profit motive isn't the problem. It's the incentives. As any economist will tell you, "incentives matter."
They already use the timing specifications of the original machine in order to make their current line of accelerators work on existing machines. So now their new motherboards must use the same timings again in order to work with their accelerators.
They've dug themselves into a hole of compatibility, and that's good for everyone.
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Not really. Still, they are probably well worth the price.
That's CVC 21656, but it's 5 or more vehicles, and it's only applicable on 2-lane highways.
Related laws are CVC 22400 and CVC 21654.
And on freeway onramps where 2 vehicles are permitted for each green light.
What would it take to convince you that anthropogenic global glimate change is real?
What it would take to convince me that it is not real is a contiguous 14 year period (2 full El Nino cycles) of increasing CO2 without increasing global average temperatures.
False.
The rest of your arguments are irrelevant. Your choice to post as AC was a wise one.
Atmospheric CO2 has never jumped as fast as it has in the past 50 years, so we're likely to see a mass extinction before things stabilize. So I think you're correct: life will flourish, eventually. "Life finds a way."
So you think the USA should be a follower and not a leader?
If you can write such a law that doesn't violate the zero-one-infinity rule, I think you'll get pretty close to timeless.
And since congestion isn't homogenous across a city, it's imperative to do the above on a street-by-street basis. Can you think of a better way than by limiting the number of taxi stands on each street?
Except here we aren't talking about anything that's truly novel. We're talking about R/C aircraft (drones), taxis (Uber), and beds & breakfast (AirBnb), each of which has been around for decades or longer. These are simply being used in new ways from which the established industry failed to protect themselves, and from which they now want the government to protect them once again.
They managed to fit a barcode scanner into a smartphone. Do you think they can do the same with a ZIP and 5-1/4" slot?
Do you think the technology to read barcodes (an imaging device and software) will be called "archaic" 100 years from now?
The vehicle code is a mutual agreement among all road users. This makes it wrong, both legally and morally, for someone to drive their car on the sidewalk.
Is it morally wrong for Amazon to pay, including benefits or lack thereof, nothing more than what they and the contractor/employee have mutually agreed upon?
That's only a problem when the test doesn't adequately measure what it needs to. And if you think there are some things that can't be tested, then try to name something that can be taught but cannot be tested. Good luck!
Amtrak's Acela Express makes a profit. Why would California's HSR be any different?
The tickets for LA->SF are going to be over $100, and likely closer to $200. So it will be both slower and more expensive than flying.
Are you sure? Even today, the average cost of a flight between LA and SF is $145.58 according to GoFox.com. When the HSR line opens, you can be sure that airfares will be even higher.
Also, if you had read the business plan, you would know that they're planning to set ticket prices at 83% of airfares.
So for not just one but two reasons, you're wrong about it being more expensive than flying.
As for it being slower than flying, do you really think you can get from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in less than 2 hours 45 minutes? The time in the air alone is over an hour, plus there's the taxi rides, getting through security, getting on and off the plane, and retrieving your luggage at the end of your flight. On a good day, if you're in a rush, and you don't miss your flight by being late to the airport, just maybe flying will be faster.
Also, did you know that sometimes bicyclist are faster than flying?
Unless the desalination plant operator isn't willing to pay what it costs to generate that electricity. Then it's cheaper to shut down a power plant or two. Saving your customers money is a good thing, right?
Because demand for electricity is constant throughout the day?
If you raise the price of something, demand goes down, and if you lower the price, demand goes up. So it seems possible to flatten power demand by varying the price, just as eBay does in order to prevent too many people from winning the same auction.
This gives the poor a way to economize by taking advantage of lower-than-average electricity prices during times of high electricity production and low demand--an opportunity that doesn't exist with flat rates because the average price is the only price.
Because it would give the poor a way to save money that doesn't exist today, by doing their electricity-intensive chores when electricity is cheaper than average. With flat rate pricing, they always have to pay the average rate.
If you'll read the summary, a molten salt tower continues to generate power after the sun goes down. With demand-responsive pricing, the plant can satisfy 100% of demand until it runs out of heat, 10 hours after the sun goes down.
Why do you need to smooth pricing? By allowing prices to rise and fall throughout the day in response to supply and demand, you don't need to add supply between the time the sun goes down and the time people go to bed at night.
In other words, you can treat it as an economics problem and save your customers a lot of money on power plants and fuel. This is why the world is switching from flat rate pricing to time-of-use pricing.
Also those who thinks roads are important for the economy but can't agree on how to fund them.
And that's why the USA's economy was dead between 1946 and 1964 when the top tax bracket was 91%.
Why can't we take the lead instead of waiting for China?
Unless, of course, prisons were motivated to rehabilitate prisoners rather than keep them locked up. When prisons start doing all they can to rehabilitate prisoners in order to make their profits, they might realize that charging for phone calls is counterproductive to their bottom line, and so the profit motive will make this kind of thing actually stop.
So the profit motive isn't the problem. It's the incentives. As any economist will tell you, "incentives matter."
They already use the timing specifications of the original machine in order to make their current line of accelerators work on existing machines. So now their new motherboards must use the same timings again in order to work with their accelerators.
They've dug themselves into a hole of compatibility, and that's good for everyone.