Oregon officials reached the deal with Oracle after the company reportedly threatened to pull all of its workers off the project and essentially walk away.
So Oracle bluffed, playing games with the lives of Oregon residents. Good job, Oracle! You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training.
It's pretty easy to avoid being tracked by this technology if you've chosen to live and work where you have more than one feasible way of getting around. It's tragic the amount of faith people have that freeways will forever remain unpriced and that gasoline will always be cheap.
Today, over-the-road heavy trucks pay approximately $14,000 per year in combined fuel and other highway taxes. This amount does not come close to paying for the damage to roads and bridges caused by trucks...one 80,000-pound truck does the same road damage as 9,600 automobiles...
The fundamentals of modern web development would be things like configuration management (including source control and deployment strategies), load testing, separation of content from presentation, accessibility, and so on. If you have a good understanding of these, you will remain relevant in the web development workforce long after we've moved away from HTML and JavaScript.
If you don't have a shower at work or a nearby gym, you can take what bicycle commuters call a "bird bath." Shower in the morning before you leave for work so your sweat won't smell (much). When you get to work, wait until you stop sweating, then find an empty bathroom stall and wipe the sweat off with Rocket Shower, unscented baby wipes, or a wet rag with a little soap. Then put on some fresh deodorant and a change of clothes and do your hair.
In an economy where market failures such as negative externalities are corrected, Apple is already doing the sort of thing that any company would do to maximize ROI. The problem is that conservative organizations such as the NCPPR tend not to believe in externalities, probably because it conflicts with their ideology that the Earth is not warming or that humans are not the cause of it.
It's ironic that the NCPPR bring up ROI when they bash a $68.4 billion train project that would provide the same transportation capacity as $158 billion spent on roads and airports. What this and their meddling in Apple's affairs tells us is that they aren't truly interested in ROI but in supporting Big Oil and opposing anything that competes with burning dirty, nonrenewable fuels. This also explains why they don't believe in anthropogenic global warming. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" (Upton Sinclair)
Most of the distraction-based accidents are caused by people picking the wrong time to do something, even simple things like changing radio station, heating/AC settings or checking their speedometer.
...most people grossly over-estimate their abilities and the safety margins around them so we end up with stiff restrictions to eliminate most variables.
Except speed limits. The 85th percentile rule says that, if 100 cars are clocked along a road, the speed limit should be set at the speed of the 16th fastest car.
I'm perfectly willing to agree to such a system - as long as we're able to throw Ichijo in jail the *moment* one of these "rehabilitated" people commits another crime.
To provide the proper incentive to prisons to rehabilitate their tenants, rather than throw me in jail when the "rehabilitated" person re-offends, I think it would be better to fine the prison for releasing the unrehabilitated prisoner. To balance it out, the prison should also be rewarded for each person it releases who doesn't commit another crime.
It's called "retributive justice," and ideally it isn't supposed to be personal, but until human judges are replaced with computer software, it will always be personal.
Would it be so bad if the only role of justice were to protect society while rehabilitating the offender? Some murderers might get out after only a year if they are properly rehabilitated, and serial kleptomaniacs may stay locked away forever, but at least prisons would be a nicer place for them if they weren't meant to be a form of punishment. I think this would do wonders for eliminating crime.
All of the above are perfectly safe if done at a speed that is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances including your level of attentiveness. Given a slow enough speed, even watching a movie while driving is safe as long as you periodically check the road.
In fact, there's already a law against driving faster than what is reasonable and prudent, despite what the speed limit sign says. It's called the "Basic Speed Law," and it's used mainly in times of fog or icy streets. Why can't it also be used against distracted driving?
And there are also laws against driving below the normal speed of traffic unless you're in the right lane and you pull over whenever you're followed by five or more vehicles, so someone driving slowly because he's watching a movie won't obstruct traffic.
Therefore, distracted driving laws are unnecessary for the purpose of safety as long as the other drivng laws are enforced.
I would rather the campus be located away from urban area. Less traffic, less driving, cheap/free parking...
Show me a city free of traffic congestion and parking shortages and I'll show you a city that achieves this by forcing property owners to overbuild their parking lots and by overbuilding freeways. "Free" parking comes at a very high cost.
Buffalo, NY is an exception, but only because it's a city in decline. Let's not try to emulate them.
City planners typically (ab)use the zoning code to require so many parking spaces that there's never a shortage when the price of parking is zero. But the economically optimal amount of parking is the amount where the marginal cost of adding another parking space equals the marginal revenue from adding it (MC=MR). This means if the price is always zero (so MR=0), either the cost of building and owning a parking space should be zero (so MC=0 which is somewhere between highly unlikely and impossible) or it should create a parking shortage on a regular basis to be economically optimal.
Cities also tend to overbuild freeways to try to keep ahead of demand without charging a toll, but this usually doesn't work because transportation agencies are terrible at predicting traffic levels. So one nice thing about tolls, besides giving carless taxpayers a return on their sales tax investment (see Prop K in San Francisco, Measure R in Los Angeles, TransNet in San Diego, Prop 400 in Phoenix, etc.), is that variable congestion tolls make traffic levels predictable by keeping demand constant.
The result of these policies is that urban areas subsidize the suburbs. So areas away from urban areas may seem idyllic, but they come at a great cost.
People who don't like high utility and property tax bills, people who don't like to do lawn maintenance, people who don't like being forced to own a car, people who don't like the social isolation of living in the suburbs, and so on.
"I want to stop all electronic devices from passively collecting visible light but still desire riders' eyes to passively collect visible light."
A requirement worded that way still leaves a loophole for mechanical film cameras without light meters like the Nikkormat FS or even a simple pinhole camera.
A ranked pairs method such as Condorcet would help make it possible to compare students across majors. Each class (a unique course taught by a unique teacher) is a ballot, each teacher is a voter, and each student is a candidate. The teacher ranks the students from best to worst on the "ballot." Then a computer runs the "election" to put all the students in the school in order from best to worst. This will work as long as there's some overlap in classes across majors, because it's how students perform in the overlapping classes that determines how the non-overlapping classes rank relative to each other.
Like grading on a curve, the percentile rank also tells whether you are average or above average. In addition, it also tells you precisely where you rank in the class. It's more difficult to derive that information from a bell curve, approaching impossible if you don't know the frequency distribution.
The renewable generation of power tech exists, but we don't have any way to store base line grid power yet.
Sure we do. There's pumped storage, flywheels, and batteries, just to name a few.
It doesn't take much energy or power to keep a Smart Grid up. Variable pricing will keep supply and demand in equilibrium, no matter how little supply is provided.
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So Oracle bluffed, playing games with the lives of Oregon residents. Good job, Oracle! You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training.
It's pretty easy to avoid being tracked by this technology if you've chosen to live and work where you have more than one feasible way of getting around. It's tragic the amount of faith people have that freeways will forever remain unpriced and that gasoline will always be cheap.
#3 pick up same day at the warehouse.
That's true, and here is proof.
The fundamentals of modern web development would be things like configuration management (including source control and deployment strategies), load testing, separation of content from presentation, accessibility, and so on. If you have a good understanding of these, you will remain relevant in the web development workforce long after we've moved away from HTML and JavaScript.
If you don't have a shower at work or a nearby gym, you can take what bicycle commuters call a "bird bath." Shower in the morning before you leave for work so your sweat won't smell (much). When you get to work, wait until you stop sweating, then find an empty bathroom stall and wipe the sweat off with Rocket Shower, unscented baby wipes, or a wet rag with a little soap. Then put on some fresh deodorant and a change of clothes and do your hair.
In an economy where market failures such as negative externalities are corrected, Apple is already doing the sort of thing that any company would do to maximize ROI. The problem is that conservative organizations such as the NCPPR tend not to believe in externalities, probably because it conflicts with their ideology that the Earth is not warming or that humans are not the cause of it.
It's ironic that the NCPPR bring up ROI when they bash a $68.4 billion train project that would provide the same transportation capacity as $158 billion spent on roads and airports. What this and their meddling in Apple's affairs tells us is that they aren't truly interested in ROI but in supporting Big Oil and opposing anything that competes with burning dirty, nonrenewable fuels. This also explains why they don't believe in anthropogenic global warming. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" (Upton Sinclair)
...and not maintaining a safe following distance under the conditions. It's perfectly safe to do those things if you give yourself enough reaction time.
Except speed limits. The 85th percentile rule says that, if 100 cars are clocked along a road, the speed limit should be set at the speed of the 16th fastest car.
To provide the proper incentive to prisons to rehabilitate their tenants, rather than throw me in jail when the "rehabilitated" person re-offends, I think it would be better to fine the prison for releasing the unrehabilitated prisoner. To balance it out, the prison should also be rewarded for each person it releases who doesn't commit another crime.
It's called "retributive justice," and ideally it isn't supposed to be personal, but until human judges are replaced with computer software, it will always be personal.
Would it be so bad if the only role of justice were to protect society while rehabilitating the offender? Some murderers might get out after only a year if they are properly rehabilitated, and serial kleptomaniacs may stay locked away forever, but at least prisons would be a nicer place for them if they weren't meant to be a form of punishment. I think this would do wonders for eliminating crime.
All of the above are perfectly safe if done at a speed that is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances including your level of attentiveness. Given a slow enough speed, even watching a movie while driving is safe as long as you periodically check the road.
In fact, there's already a law against driving faster than what is reasonable and prudent, despite what the speed limit sign says. It's called the "Basic Speed Law," and it's used mainly in times of fog or icy streets. Why can't it also be used against distracted driving?
And there are also laws against driving below the normal speed of traffic unless you're in the right lane and you pull over whenever you're followed by five or more vehicles, so someone driving slowly because he's watching a movie won't obstruct traffic.
Therefore, distracted driving laws are unnecessary for the purpose of safety as long as the other drivng laws are enforced.
Show me a city free of traffic congestion and parking shortages and I'll show you a city that achieves this by forcing property owners to overbuild their parking lots and by overbuilding freeways. "Free" parking comes at a very high cost.
Buffalo, NY is an exception, but only because it's a city in decline. Let's not try to emulate them.
City planners typically (ab)use the zoning code to require so many parking spaces that there's never a shortage when the price of parking is zero. But the economically optimal amount of parking is the amount where the marginal cost of adding another parking space equals the marginal revenue from adding it (MC=MR). This means if the price is always zero (so MR=0), either the cost of building and owning a parking space should be zero (so MC=0 which is somewhere between highly unlikely and impossible) or it should create a parking shortage on a regular basis to be economically optimal.
Cities also tend to overbuild freeways to try to keep ahead of demand without charging a toll, but this usually doesn't work because transportation agencies are terrible at predicting traffic levels. So one nice thing about tolls, besides giving carless taxpayers a return on their sales tax investment (see Prop K in San Francisco, Measure R in Los Angeles, TransNet in San Diego, Prop 400 in Phoenix, etc.), is that variable congestion tolls make traffic levels predictable by keeping demand constant.
The result of these policies is that urban areas subsidize the suburbs. So areas away from urban areas may seem idyllic, but they come at a great cost.
People who don't like high utility and property tax bills, people who don't like to do lawn maintenance, people who don't like being forced to own a car, people who don't like the social isolation of living in the suburbs, and so on.
Then why can I buy a Kindle with free 3G service?
Whenever it involves operating deadly machinery in the presence of others, yes, society needs to be careful about granting that privilege.
I agree, driving not-so-deadly machinery such as bicycles needs to be a right. Unfortunately, that right has been taken away in certain areas.
Inflation's a pain, isn't it?
...the Navy saved taxpayers at least that much by not having tighter security.
Well, it was a nice thought.
A requirement worded that way still leaves a loophole for mechanical film cameras without light meters like the Nikkormat FS or even a simple pinhole camera.
No, it would be based on which group is better at the general education courses.
If that still isn't enough, the students' SAT and ACT scores could also act as two additional ballots for the "election."
A ranked pairs method such as Condorcet would help make it possible to compare students across majors. Each class (a unique course taught by a unique teacher) is a ballot, each teacher is a voter, and each student is a candidate. The teacher ranks the students from best to worst on the "ballot." Then a computer runs the "election" to put all the students in the school in order from best to worst. This will work as long as there's some overlap in classes across majors, because it's how students perform in the overlapping classes that determines how the non-overlapping classes rank relative to each other.
Like grading on a curve, the percentile rank also tells whether you are average or above average. In addition, it also tells you precisely where you rank in the class. It's more difficult to derive that information from a bell curve, approaching impossible if you don't know the frequency distribution.
How is grading on a curve better than a strict percentile rank? Is there any benefit to the complexity it adds?
Well, the Autobahn isn't exactly a bloodbath.
It's perfectly safe to slam on your brakes as long as you don't lose control and as long as you aren't being tailgated. Show me a rear end collision and I'll show you someone who was driving on a road too close to a frontward vehicle, at a distance which does not guarantee that stopping to avoid collision is possible.
Sure we do. There's pumped storage, flywheels, and batteries, just to name a few.
It doesn't take much energy or power to keep a Smart Grid up. Variable pricing will keep supply and demand in equilibrium, no matter how little supply is provided.