humans don't generally have experience with those situations either.
While yes it may be possible that a human pilot can make some lucky guesses or instinctively come up with the right solution or even cook-up some desperate out of the box move that saves the day its not all together likely. "Hey I could land this tub on the Hudson river" does happen sometimes though we must admit.
Still the grater likely hood I think is a human panics and makes the problem worse, turning a recoverable situation into an unrecoverable one. I am not an expert here but even experienced pilots in small plans have done things like fly strait into the ground when the lose visibility etc after being blown around they start to see things, and their sense of orientation goes.
Well, yes and no. The folks on Flight 93 paid the ultimate price for resisting the hijackers. They saved a lot of lives on the ground, but the choice between "take the bastards with us" and "keep the bastards off the flight to begin with" is a no-brainer.
That may be true but look at the terrorists perspective. If you know the most you can accomplish is the destruction of a airline filled with mostly unimportant people, it does not advance the cause as much as destroying a major military complex, or symbol of Western Culture does. It may even hurt the cause because even people sympathetic to you might see it as just killing and maiming the innocent.
Not as easy to find people willing to die to accomplish that.
Right and the pilots will be aware of the problem because the door should be robust enough that it cannot be forced with them being unaware. giving them time to ready the gun and train it on the door way.
Humans are pretty good at noticing anyone that looks or acts different. We are social animals and this type of observation provides all kinds of useful information in all kinds of contexts. My guess is this capability was heavily selected for all down our primate lineage.
The problems here are two. The first is that looking or acting slightly strange in a situation ( air travel ) that is common and normal for some, stressful and foreign for others and somewhere in between for the majority isn't necessarily as good an indicator of malicious intent as it is of who is going to need help filing out the gate check slip for the luggage.
The second is hindsight bias, everyone who does have some malicious intent gave some indicator, if you look hard enough after the fact. That indicator is probably imaginary and meaningless. You get a bunch of people saying "you know the underwear bomber guy did kinds shuffle funny when he walked". So now you get a bunch of agents standing around watching how everyone walks, the next guy they see shuffling though is just in uncomfortable shoes.
I am going to guess at most larger retail the network is less than critical. I worked for a big box retailer for a couple years. I was writing financial software for them not store systems but I interfaced with the store systems developers and operations people a lot because obviously for financial cost control tools and stuff we needed lot of information about what was happening in stores each day.
The network isn't critical. Each box store has its own AIX cluster that hosts everything needed to support the registers, price guns, time clocks, etc. It manages all the stores inventory etc. A few times a day the mainframe sweeps up sales history, inventory levels, whatever demand adjustments the local manager has keyed in, selling exceptions, time clock info needed for payroll etc.
The store can run with the network down for a considerable period of time. About the only customer facing thing that might not work is the gift registry kiosk. Most employees would never notice anything was wrong either. Now after a couple days things might start to get interesting demand info won't be transmitted so you won't get restocked, you may be nearing a payroll window etc.
If its happens connections are down or expected to be for a long time the stores GM knows how run a job that will put all the information on LTO tape, and it can get couriered back to HQ if connectivity can't be restored.
It only makes it moderately harder and in practice I am not even sure its all that different in terms of posture.
In the case of a small mostly personal site that you use to communicate with yourself its win but in the more general case of you as the provider don't want someone else impersonating you to your clients not much changes going to DNS sec.
Today if someone wants to spoof my SSL site they need a server certificate from a CA the client will trust to either control the clients DNS or be able to redirect its https traffic. If you actually hijack my DNS zone, I am likely to notice, especially if I am a bank or some high value target with active monitoring and a security team.
With DNS sec you are going to still need a signing key from *any* CA the client will trust, so you can sign to fake zone that points the client where you want. Then you will need just as before to control the clients DNS in some way. I guess it closes the redirect the https traffic hole, but if you can do that you can probably just as easily fake their DNS.
Honestly while I think from an administrative perspective DNSec driven authentication of websites will work better for site operators its not much more secure against MTIM attacks than the current system. There are probably very few cases it adds anything that certificate pinning does not, which is not say your DNS resolver cannot or should not implement something similar.
I have read every work of Ayn Rand I am aware of. I am sure there are some essays and stuff I have missed but that isn't important. Atlas is NOT her best work IMHO. Its certainly what Rand herself is most proud of, but it really isn't good writing, regardless of your agreement or disagreement with the ideas it espouses.
Honestly her first book "We the Living" is at least in my opinion her best. She wrote it very young as a recent immigrant and its characters are inspired by people and institutions she knew. I don't if that's the reason or if something in Rand herself changed, but you read that book and its hard to believe it was written by the same woman as the others.
Its not that the ideas and options are so far away but the characters actually feel real and like whole people. They have feelings you identify with, or at least understand. It also does not have the shrill I know better than you tone either. I actually highly recommend it; especially to people who politically disagree with Rand. Its a good way to see the other side without being offended by it.
This is because they don't have their own manufacturing base. Which means stuff must get imported.
Which means someone has to take a risk. You could own the inventory and sell on consignment but risk the government doing something like in the article. You might suddenly just not have your property any more one day and nothing to show for it. So you best extract a super premium while you can.
Or you let someone in country buy it. If you let them pay in their own currency you have the risk you might in turn find yourself unable to exchange that currency for anything else one day, again because of that governments policies.
Or you find a middle man who will do the currency exchange and they need the giant premium for the same reason.
The core issue here is the exchange rate is not what the government their says it is. They will not themselves make dollars available at that rate, because they can't (petro-dollar revenue is down). The country does not export much of anything other than oil, and it does not appear production is going to increase. So anyone accepting the currency abroad has serious reason to doubt they can either change the Bolivar or dollars in the future or for other valuable goods from Venezuela. So the Bolivars are simply not worth as many dollars as the government says they are. I
Chavez, not nationalization, ruined the oil industry.
This, and more this. Chavez and the resultant government is the problem, not nationalisation. The US not buying from Peru is also a big problem.
Chavez was the government. Anytime you nationalize something it implies government control. Sure you get philosopher kings some of the time and things work out but eventually some idiot ends up in power. When government control an entire industry when the idiot gets power bad things happen.
Nationalization definitely was/is the problem. Once something is nationalized its just a matter of waiting for the symptoms to develop.
Except there is a larger catalog of active acts now than ever. The amount of money spent promoting music is huge, and certainly larger than it was prior to the digital era.
I am not defending copyright infringement here. Just pointing out the facts don't really agree with you. The record industry is still profitable. I don't see how it can cost less to produce and distribute these newer acts albums than the ones you are nostalgic for. The price of putting on a performance is probably higher venue rental, insurance, etc; but its hard to imagine copyright infringement is hurting concert ticket sales.
The reality is the quality of music is what is because that is what people want or its at least what the record industry thinks people want. Consider this their core demographic they market to is also the most likely the infringe using p2p etc. Its still apparently optimal to try to target their product to this demographic despite the incidence of infringement.
Personal I think people should play by the rules or lobby to get the rules changed. If $RECORD CO wants $18.95 of $ARTISTS $LATEST than you should decide to pay it or not. I think our society actually is really over allocating wealth toward the production of art and entertainment, and I think that is because of to much government protection an regulation of the industry.
Or go back a few hundred years in Europe. People from knights to bards did not queue up to work for a king because of huge monetary saleries.
Umm what?
Knights and Bards perhaps did not draw a huge monetary salary but the certainly were paid. They enjoyed nice accommodations and plentiful food at court which were provided at great expense to the crown. There was also the strong possibility if you impress the king enough he might bestow some property or the right to use some property upon you. Just because they never got a W2 at the end of the year does not mean they were not paid.
Then there were all the vassals, who again were getting the use of their manor. You might view them as property mangers today. They performed the administrative functions to productive manage the land and people on it for again what amounts to a cut of the profits, the rest was remanded to the king in direct taxes or some other means like providing troops for his army, which he might well employ against another vassal that's stepped out of line.
In short there was definitely a concept of wealth and ownership under the feudal system. There was an employee of the month type incentive as well sure, but Kinghts were absolutely their for the economic benefits not just fame.
The saddest part is that is never quite what happens.
Private property is the most fundamental component of freedom and democracy. Strong private property rights both in the form of society won't allow a strong man to just smash and grab and society does not appropriate property at will are key. Add to that a currency and you get a form of democracy. One mans money is as good as the next and if you want more of it you'll have to get offer him something he will consider a fair trade for it.
What you get in the face of communism/socialism is political currency becomes a new sort of exchange. Politically important people still find a way to concentrate wealth in their hands. Even shortly after the Russian revolution while perhaps most people were hungry and being forced to share what had been single domiciles because nothing could get built or maintained, loyal party members got to eat tea-biscuits and watch the ballet. Sixty years later when it all comes a part a small group of people who'd managed to get into the right government roles managed to walk away with lots of formerly state property giving themselves quite the leg up in the new economy.
Marxism might be a nice ideal but it completely ignores human nature. Whenever anyone really tries to implement you don't get your Marxist workers paradise you instead get something that is a lot more tribal; an oligarchy where a few guys share power with their sons, nephews, and old army buddies who live very comfortably, a little more equal if you will, and everyone else who gets to support it.
The kernel is not like most software project though because of what it does. It provides an interface to hardware for other software. That other software might be done but as long as the hardware changes the kernel is never done.
You could argue that something like a scheduler might one day be done, but the rules change, memory is cheap in plentiful even on the smallest devices, it was a major constraint when Linus started Linux. Now its okay for your scheduler to use much more memory if that gets you to other properties you want.
Most computers had one CPU and one decoder, than it was one CPU and a couple decoders. Now its multiple cores with a couple decoders and shared cache. Even if what worked before still works now, whats best now is different.
Storage technology is evolving as well, as is network technology.
While some areas of the kernel might mature for a time until some sea change happens, I don't the project as a whole will ever be done.
You have to be pretty darn "bad at the web" to put stuff on a web server unintentionally. I doubt the guy in this article had any more intent to reveal what he was downloading and who he was than AT&T had to publish that customer list. He did publicly because he did not fully understand the nature of how the application worked, just like AT&T apparently did not understand how.htaccess, or or whatever the problem was worked.
Finally its not other people's sensitive information its AT&T's sensitive information at least that is what the Feds tell us whenever they ask them to hand it over to the DEA or the NSA.
I have a bunch of self contained Linux based boxes we have to restart on a regular basis due to memory leak issues in software.
Memory leaks (unless they are IN the kernel or some very core process like init ) should never require a reboot. Once the process is killed, and the OOM killer should do that at some point, all the memory used/leaked will be freed, by a proper kernel. Which is not to say the application or even the entire system might not be thrashing and nearly at a stand still.
I give it 99% odds you could put a cron job on those Linux boxes to kill and restart the offending process at whatever interval your "regular basis" is and they would never need rebooting.
Wonderful now that I can finally run a full operating system in a browser, I can finally deliver a rich client server experience in my web-based applications:-)
Its Obama's EPA that has done these things, and Obama clearly supports the games.
President Obama says no to a boycott of 2014 Sochi Olympics - Los... articles.latimes.com/.../la-sp-sn-president-obama-olympics-boycott-2013...âZ Aug 9, 2013 - âoeWe fully support the comments today from President Obama rejecting calls to boycott the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Russia. President Obama Supports Tax Exemption for Olympic Athletes... www.forbes.com/.../president-obama-supports-tax-exemption-for-olymp...âZ Aug 6, 2012 - Olympics (Photo credit: ClaraDon) Even President Obama has Olympic fever, it seems. That's the only plausible explanation for the latest word...
So there I can cite at least one example; no that a few moments of Goggling could not reveal at least 100's of others.
Yes and lets not forget the construction of these massive concrete venues, that don't see much post games use in many cases followed by millions of people jetting half way across the globe to attend is environmentally unconscionable.
I find it amazing the same ass holes who expect me to buy $10 light bulbs and support banning the conventional wood stove; are in most cases ardent supports of the disgustingly carbon intensive exercise that is the Olympic Games.
I assume a Tesla has a big LCD, like in the Dart I just bought where they could display anything they wanted.
When you are driving down the interstate at 70+ mph though do you want. "Please pull over vehicle needs service" or do you want "Ground fault detected in battery cell 2... Ground fault detected in battery cell 3... Battery pack potential below normal... Battery temperate high... " and so forth scrolling past?
I have no problem with the thing just displaying a CEL ( check engine light ) when something goes wrong while in operation. What I object to is that with all the fancy displays and processing power to do voice recognition and media play back I can't get detailed diagnostic info while the vehicle isn't in operation without some code reader.
At least when the vehicle is not running I should be able to do something to get it print a tail of the fault log with the codes resolved to human readable values.
Many companies pollute because the cost of doing so (in the form of fines and penalties) is less than the cost to not pollute.
This is the problem with liberal thinking it always depends on circular reasoning.
Companies do pollute because it costs less than not polluting, but ignores the fact the reason it costs less is because we don't hold them liable.
We mostly did hold BP liable. Ask them if it would have cost more or less to invest in additional safe guards that could have prevented the disaster. I am pretty sure if they could go back in time and do things different they would. They behaved as they did because they had the expectation they'd be let off the hook ( and under current law I think they probably should have been actually (but that is because the laws are bad, not because is just)).
Unlimited personal liability would pretty much make everyone straiten up and fly right. It needs to extend to share holders as well. ie if the company is bankrupted by paying for the cleanup costs they ownership is liable for whatever percentage of the remaining costs as they have in the company. Then even the share holds won't be so focused on just cost cutting they will want the risk balanced against the preservation of their own capital.
If something like Fukushima has happened under this proposal TEPCO and its ownership would be forced to purchase ALL the real-estate in the exclusion zone at its estimated market value prior to the accident. My guess is TEPCO would be gone, and those with a larger percentage of its ownership would be in the soup line right behind the people displaced by the tsunami.
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humans don't generally have experience with those situations either.
While yes it may be possible that a human pilot can make some lucky guesses or instinctively come up with the right solution or even cook-up some desperate out of the box move that saves the day its not all together likely. "Hey I could land this tub on the Hudson river" does happen sometimes though we must admit.
Still the grater likely hood I think is a human panics and makes the problem worse, turning a recoverable situation into an unrecoverable one. I am not an expert here but even experienced pilots in small plans have done things like fly strait into the ground when the lose visibility etc after being blown around they start to see things, and their sense of orientation goes.
Well, yes and no. The folks on Flight 93 paid the ultimate price for resisting the hijackers. They saved a lot of lives on the ground, but the choice between "take the bastards with us" and "keep the bastards off the flight to begin with" is a no-brainer.
That may be true but look at the terrorists perspective. If you know the most you can accomplish is the destruction of a airline filled with mostly unimportant people, it does not advance the cause as much as destroying a major military complex, or symbol of Western Culture does. It may even hurt the cause because even people sympathetic to you might see it as just killing and maiming the innocent.
Not as easy to find people willing to die to accomplish that.
Right and the pilots will be aware of the problem because the door should be robust enough that it cannot be forced with them being unaware. giving them time to ready the gun and train it on the door way.
Humans are pretty good at noticing anyone that looks or acts different. We are social animals and this type of observation provides all kinds of useful information in all kinds of contexts. My guess is this capability was heavily selected for all down our primate lineage.
The problems here are two. The first is that looking or acting slightly strange in a situation ( air travel ) that is common and normal for some, stressful and foreign for others and somewhere in between for the majority isn't necessarily as good an indicator of malicious intent as it is of who is going to need help filing out the gate check slip for the luggage.
The second is hindsight bias, everyone who does have some malicious intent gave some indicator, if you look hard enough after the fact. That indicator is probably imaginary and meaningless. You get a bunch of people saying "you know the underwear bomber guy did kinds shuffle funny when he walked". So now you get a bunch of agents standing around watching how everyone walks, the next guy they see shuffling though is just in uncomfortable shoes.
Those failed over to pots lines in the back room. Transparent to those at the register mostly but likely a little slower.
I am going to guess at most larger retail the network is less than critical. I worked for a big box retailer for a couple years. I was writing financial software for them not store systems but I interfaced with the store systems developers and operations people a lot because obviously for financial cost control tools and stuff we needed lot of information about what was happening in stores each day.
The network isn't critical. Each box store has its own AIX cluster that hosts everything needed to support the registers, price guns, time clocks, etc. It manages all the stores inventory etc. A few times a day the mainframe sweeps up sales history, inventory levels, whatever demand adjustments the local manager has keyed in, selling exceptions, time clock info needed for payroll etc.
The store can run with the network down for a considerable period of time. About the only customer facing thing that might not work is the gift registry kiosk. Most employees would never notice anything was wrong either. Now after a couple days things might start to get interesting demand info won't be transmitted so you won't get restocked, you may be nearing a payroll window etc.
If its happens connections are down or expected to be for a long time the stores GM knows how run a job that will put all the information on LTO tape, and it can get couriered back to HQ if connectivity can't be restored.
It only makes it moderately harder and in practice I am not even sure its all that different in terms of posture.
In the case of a small mostly personal site that you use to communicate with yourself its win but in the more general case of you as the provider don't want someone else impersonating you to your clients not much changes going to DNS sec.
Today if someone wants to spoof my SSL site they need a server certificate from a CA the client will trust to either control the clients DNS or be able to redirect its https traffic. If you actually hijack my DNS zone, I am likely to notice, especially if I am a bank or some high value target with active monitoring and a security team.
With DNS sec you are going to still need a signing key from *any* CA the client will trust, so you can sign to fake zone that points the client where you want. Then you will need just as before to control the clients DNS in some way. I guess it closes the redirect the https traffic hole, but if you can do that you can probably just as easily fake their DNS.
Honestly while I think from an administrative perspective DNSec driven authentication of websites will work better for site operators its not much more secure against MTIM attacks than the current system. There are probably very few cases it adds anything that certificate pinning does not, which is not say your DNS resolver cannot or should not implement something similar.
I have read every work of Ayn Rand I am aware of. I am sure there are some essays and stuff I have missed but that isn't important. Atlas is NOT her best work IMHO. Its certainly what Rand herself is most proud of, but it really isn't good writing, regardless of your agreement or disagreement with the ideas it espouses.
Honestly her first book "We the Living" is at least in my opinion her best. She wrote it very young as a recent immigrant and its characters are inspired by people and institutions she knew. I don't if that's the reason or if something in Rand herself changed, but you read that book and its hard to believe it was written by the same woman as the others.
Its not that the ideas and options are so far away but the characters actually feel real and like whole people. They have feelings you identify with, or at least understand. It also does not have the shrill I know better than you tone either. I actually highly recommend it; especially to people who politically disagree with Rand. Its a good way to see the other side without being offended by it.
This is because they don't have their own manufacturing base. Which means stuff must get imported.
Which means someone has to take a risk. You could own the inventory and sell on consignment but risk the government doing something like in the article. You might suddenly just not have your property any more one day and nothing to show for it. So you best extract a super premium while you can.
Or you let someone in country buy it. If you let them pay in their own currency you have the risk you might in turn find yourself unable to exchange that currency for anything else one day, again because of that governments policies.
Or you find a middle man who will do the currency exchange and they need the giant premium for the same reason.
The core issue here is the exchange rate is not what the government their says it is. They will not themselves make dollars available at that rate, because they can't (petro-dollar revenue is down). The country does not export much of anything other than oil, and it does not appear production is going to increase. So anyone accepting the currency abroad has serious reason to doubt they can either change the Bolivar or dollars in the future or for other valuable goods from Venezuela. So the Bolivars are simply not worth as many dollars as the government says they are. I
Chavez, not nationalization, ruined the oil industry.
This, and more this. Chavez and the resultant government is the problem, not nationalisation. The US not buying from Peru is also a big problem.
Chavez was the government. Anytime you nationalize something it implies government control. Sure you get philosopher kings some of the time and things work out but eventually some idiot ends up in power. When government control an entire industry when the idiot gets power bad things happen.
Nationalization definitely was/is the problem. Once something is nationalized its just a matter of waiting for the symptoms to develop.
Except there is a larger catalog of active acts now than ever. The amount of money spent promoting music is huge, and certainly larger than it was prior to the digital era.
I am not defending copyright infringement here. Just pointing out the facts don't really agree with you. The record industry is still profitable. I don't see how it can cost less to produce and distribute these newer acts albums than the ones you are nostalgic for. The price of putting on a performance is probably higher venue rental, insurance, etc; but its hard to imagine copyright infringement is hurting concert ticket sales.
The reality is the quality of music is what is because that is what people want or its at least what the record industry thinks people want. Consider this their core demographic they market to is also the most likely the infringe using p2p etc. Its still apparently optimal to try to target their product to this demographic despite the incidence of infringement.
Personal I think people should play by the rules or lobby to get the rules changed. If $RECORD CO wants $18.95 of $ARTISTS $LATEST than you should decide to pay it or not. I think our society actually is really over allocating wealth toward the production of art and entertainment, and I think that is because of to much government protection an regulation of the industry.
Or go back a few hundred years in Europe. People from knights to bards did not queue up to work for a king because of huge monetary saleries.
Umm what?
Knights and Bards perhaps did not draw a huge monetary salary but the certainly were paid. They enjoyed nice accommodations and plentiful food at court which were provided at great expense to the crown. There was also the strong possibility if you impress the king enough he might bestow some property or the right to use some property upon you. Just because they never got a W2 at the end of the year does not mean they were not paid.
Then there were all the vassals, who again were getting the use of their manor. You might view them as property mangers today. They performed the administrative functions to productive manage the land and people on it for again what amounts to a cut of the profits, the rest was remanded to the king in direct taxes or some other means like providing troops for his army, which he might well employ against another vassal that's stepped out of line.
In short there was definitely a concept of wealth and ownership under the feudal system. There was an employee of the month type incentive as well sure, but Kinghts were absolutely their for the economic benefits not just fame.
Everyone will be piss poor.
The saddest part is that is never quite what happens.
Private property is the most fundamental component of freedom and democracy. Strong private property rights both in the form of society won't allow a strong man to just smash and grab and society does not appropriate property at will are key. Add to that a currency and you get a form of democracy. One mans money is as good as the next and if you want more of it you'll have to get offer him something he will consider a fair trade for it.
What you get in the face of communism/socialism is political currency becomes a new sort of exchange. Politically important people still find a way to concentrate wealth in their hands. Even shortly after the Russian revolution while perhaps most people were hungry and being forced to share what had been single domiciles because nothing could get built or maintained, loyal party members got to eat tea-biscuits and watch the ballet. Sixty years later when it all comes a part a small group of people who'd managed to get into the right government roles managed to walk away with lots of formerly state property giving themselves quite the leg up in the new economy.
Marxism might be a nice ideal but it completely ignores human nature. Whenever anyone really tries to implement you don't get your Marxist workers paradise you instead get something that is a lot more tribal; an oligarchy where a few guys share power with their sons, nephews, and old army buddies who live very comfortably, a little more equal if you will, and everyone else who gets to support it.
The kernel is not like most software project though because of what it does. It provides an interface to hardware for other software. That other software might be done but as long as the hardware changes the kernel is never done.
You could argue that something like a scheduler might one day be done, but the rules change, memory is cheap in plentiful even on the smallest devices, it was a major constraint when Linus started Linux. Now its okay for your scheduler to use much more memory if that gets you to other properties you want.
Most computers had one CPU and one decoder, than it was one CPU and a couple decoders. Now its multiple cores with a couple decoders and shared cache. Even if what worked before still works now, whats best now is different.
Storage technology is evolving as well, as is network technology.
While some areas of the kernel might mature for a time until some sea change happens, I don't the project as a whole will ever be done.
Kids today... Geez
There is: http://kernelnewbies.org/
You have to be pretty darn "bad at the web" to put stuff on a web server unintentionally. I doubt the guy in this article had any more intent to reveal what he was downloading and who he was than AT&T had to publish that customer list. He did publicly because he did not fully understand the nature of how the application worked, just like AT&T apparently did not understand how .htaccess, or or whatever the problem was worked.
Finally its not other people's sensitive information its AT&T's sensitive information at least that is what the Feds tell us whenever they ask them to hand it over to the DEA or the NSA.
I have a bunch of self contained Linux based boxes we have to restart on a regular basis due to memory leak issues in software.
Memory leaks (unless they are IN the kernel or some very core process like init ) should never require a reboot. Once the process is killed, and the OOM killer should do that at some point, all the memory used/leaked will be freed, by a proper kernel. Which is not to say the application or even the entire system might not be thrashing and nearly at a stand still.
I give it 99% odds you could put a cron job on those Linux boxes to kill and restart the offending process at whatever interval your "regular basis" is and they would never need rebooting.
Wonderful now that I can finally run a full operating system in a browser, I can finally deliver a rich client server experience in my web-based applications :-)
Not a straw man and not a no true scottsman.
Its Obama's EPA that has done these things, and Obama clearly supports the games.
President Obama says no to a boycott of 2014 Sochi Olympics - Los ... ... ...
articles.latimes.com/.../la-sp-sn-president-obama-olympics-boycott-2013...âZ
Aug 9, 2013 - âoeWe fully support the comments today from President Obama rejecting calls to boycott the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Russia.
President Obama Supports Tax Exemption for Olympic Athletes
www.forbes.com/.../president-obama-supports-tax-exemption-for-olymp...âZ
Aug 6, 2012 - Olympics (Photo credit: ClaraDon) Even President Obama has Olympic fever, it seems. That's the only plausible explanation for the latest word
So there I can cite at least one example; no that a few moments of Goggling could not reveal at least 100's of others.
Yes and lets not forget the construction of these massive concrete venues, that don't see much post games use in many cases followed by millions of people jetting half way across the globe to attend is environmentally unconscionable.
I find it amazing the same ass holes who expect me to buy $10 light bulbs and support banning the conventional wood stove; are in most cases ardent supports of the disgustingly carbon intensive exercise that is the Olympic Games.
Alright to play devils advocate though:
I assume a Tesla has a big LCD, like in the Dart I just bought where they could display anything they wanted.
When you are driving down the interstate at 70+ mph though do you want. "Please pull over vehicle needs service" or do you want "Ground fault detected in battery cell 2 ... Ground fault detected in battery cell 3 ... Battery pack potential below normal ... Battery temperate high ... " and so forth scrolling past?
I have no problem with the thing just displaying a CEL ( check engine light ) when something goes wrong while in operation. What I object to is that with all the fancy displays and processing power to do voice recognition and media play back I can't get detailed diagnostic info while the vehicle isn't in operation without some code reader.
At least when the vehicle is not running I should be able to do something to get it print a tail of the fault log with the codes resolved to human readable values.
(P0299) O2 Sensor failure
(P0455) Intake vacume leak detected
etc.
Many companies pollute because the cost of doing so (in the form of fines and penalties) is less than the cost to not pollute.
This is the problem with liberal thinking it always depends on circular reasoning.
Companies do pollute because it costs less than not polluting, but ignores the fact the reason it costs less is because we don't hold them liable.
We mostly did hold BP liable. Ask them if it would have cost more or less to invest in additional safe guards that could have prevented the disaster. I am pretty sure if they could go back in time and do things different they would. They behaved as they did because they had the expectation they'd be let off the hook ( and under current law I think they probably should have been actually (but that is because the laws are bad, not because is just)).
Unlimited personal liability would pretty much make everyone straiten up and fly right. It needs to extend to share holders as well. ie if the company is bankrupted by paying for the cleanup costs they ownership is liable for whatever percentage of the remaining costs as they have in the company. Then even the share holds won't be so focused on just cost cutting they will want the risk balanced against the preservation of their own capital.
If something like Fukushima has happened under this proposal TEPCO and its ownership would be forced to purchase ALL the real-estate in the exclusion zone at its estimated market value prior to the accident. My guess is TEPCO would be gone, and those with a larger percentage of its ownership would be in the soup line right behind the people displaced by the tsunami.
How does the EPA regulate a Mexican factory or wood stove for that matter? Its not germane to the discussion.
Until the administration mandates it anyway, slave.