"Clearly all knowledge leads to Bad Things (C). We must keep our kids in total ignorance*. Only then can we be a Great Country!"
I know you were modded funny but you also hit the nail on the head. Religious nutters and other control freaks are not interested in educated kids they are interested in obidient kids
So your reply to a guy quoting Jefferson is your uncited opinion that Jefferson disagrees with the quote?
Citation or STFU.
Carefully read the first sentance of his post, he is citing the OP's own link.
The quote indicates Jefferson thought there is a fine line between patents and pain, if england could do it, then he could do it the same...sorry Cindy Lauper is on the radio...
"In fact, this is what we should have been practicing against Mideast state terror sponsors -- a plane gets blown up over Scotland? Tripoli gets bombed."
"aliens would pick a nicer place to land than war-torn fundie Jordan, now THAT'S stupid."
Maybe the aliens were just ignorant and thought Jordan was similar to the UK - a peacefull constiutional monarchy with a secular society that embraces modernity?
There's a big difference between HIPAA and the war on drugs, one is an enforceable regulation on a corporate activity the other is an unenforcable prohibition on a social activity. The reason for success in Portugal and the Netherlands is they are regulating drugs as opposed to prohibiting them.
BTW: Technically drugs are still illegal in both countries due to international treaties, it's the enforcement policy that has changed.
The customer is the judge of what "adds value" and they vote with their wallet.
If ISO 9001 says life jackets must float and the customer demands lead life jackets that comply with ISO 9001 then simply make hollow lead life jackets that float and pocket the fools money.
Even if you have a good warning system, people are stupid. We had a tsunami warning for the east coast of Australia after the recent earthquake in Chile and every idiot with a surfboard headed to the beach.
"Respectfully, from page 5 of the Motor Trend timeline [motortrend.com] that I linked"
Fair point, I didn't see there was more than one page. However the incident initiated a seperate recall, it did not kick the first recall into overdrive. The decision to make the second recall was also made in less than a month after the first confirmed mat-less crash, "though the cause is still under investigation"(pg 6.)
"I think I was reasonable in saying that mat-less incident is what finally provoked a deeper action on Toyota's part: they could no longer deny a problem less trivial than pedals stuck under floormats."
But is it reasonable to expect additional recall action from Toyota before the evidence from the December crash? There are two seperate problems here, they had a demonstratable problem with mats in September and acted properly. Nobody had hard evidence of mat-less crashes until December when again they acted properly. Yes the accident was tragic but short of polishing a crystal ball I still don't see what Toyota should (or could) have done differently?
I've owned quite a few cars with that style of dip switch and none of them actually turned the lights on. However back in the 70's I had a Honda 750 motorbike. The headlight was controlled by a sliding thumb switch mounted on the RH side of the handlebar, it had three settings off(left), low(center) and high(right). Kinda scary when going around a bend and you flick it across to off instead of low.
Have you never heard of an old (or inexperienced) person driving their car through a shop window because they slammed on the gas instead of the brake while sitting in a car park? Of course given the public speculation in the media anybody who does that now has the perfect excuse if they happen to be doing it in a Toyota.
There is nothing about mat-less crashes in the first article, if anything that article backs up Toyota's claims, it claims Toyota took one month to decide on a recall that will cost them over $50M a DAY. The second article also says nothing about mat-less crashes, it is just hearsay about an alleged memo, they don't even show you the memo let alone authenticate it.
What I find far more concerning than people who can't tell their floor mat is pressing on their gas pedal are the vast numbers of people like you who think unsubstaniated assertions are a valid form of evidence against someone/something they don't like.
Actually it's a matter of government policy. Europe and Australia pay more for petrol because their governments put a large excise on it after the oil crisis of the 70's. It was a premeditated policy designed to encourage people to drive more fuel efficient cars, the results speak for themselves.
Yes, I'm also an old fart who remebers how police departments around the world were run before the stanford prison experiment became common wisdom. The people who sterotype cops do not understand their own human nature let alone have the ability to resist it. They are therefore the most likely group to be bad cops if the shoe was on the other foot.
"The problem originated on high ( started at the chief and snowballed )."
That's the problem in a nutshell and it is certainly NOT unique to cops or government departments. If the boss doesn't buy it you're dead in the water, the number one reason for the boss not to buy it is office politics. I have found the software industry much less stressfull by ignoring executive politics and just being happy that I get paid either way.
"Bats don't have any problem with cave interiors, so it would seem locating gunshots despite the hard surfaces should be possible"
Generally speaking, comparing our solutions to nature's is like comparing Newton to a monkey with a hammer.
A bats sonar abilities make human attempts look primative at best. Bats can detect and track the soft body of a moth with enough accuracy to pluck it out of midair, and they do this with a transmit/recieve surface area of a few square inches. Using multiple mics to detect the general direction of something that makes it own sound is a much easier problem than bats solve to get their lunch, and yet we still find it difficult.
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Because parent is wrong. /A physicist.
Parent is correct. /An amature astronomer.
"Clearly all knowledge leads to Bad Things (C). We must keep our kids in total ignorance*. Only then can we be a Great Country!"
I know you were modded funny but you also hit the nail on the head. Religious nutters and other control freaks are not interested in educated kids they are interested in obidient kids
Yeah, your right. It was redirected to google.com.au
So your reply to a guy quoting Jefferson is your uncited opinion that Jefferson disagrees with the quote?
Citation or STFU.
Carefully read the first sentance of his post, he is citing the OP's own link.
The quote indicates Jefferson thought there is a fine line between patents and pain, if england could do it, then he could do it the same...sorry Cindy Lauper is on the radio...
Speaking of which, C now stands for Citigroup according to Google.
Huh? Your search shows "C programming language" as the first hit. "C is for cookie" comes before the citigroup hits.
"In fact, this is what we should have been practicing against Mideast state terror sponsors -- a plane gets blown up over Scotland? Tripoli gets bombed."
Actually Tripoli was bombed because a disco was blown up in Germany.
"most people don't know why they know his name"
I remeber Haile Selassie because the Rastas worship him as the second coming of christ.
when presidents do things that harm the economy, such as allowing fed chairmen to "lower interest rates."
Are you really that clueless about the workings of the federal reserve that you believe the president is the chairman's boss?
"aliens would pick a nicer place to land than war-torn fundie Jordan, now THAT'S stupid."
Maybe the aliens were just ignorant and thought Jordan was similar to the UK - a peacefull constiutional monarchy with a secular society that embraces modernity?
Seems I misread the GP. Thanks for explaining the wooshing sound. :)
Windows server 2008 R2 dropped 32-bit x86 support, actually.
Actually they didn't, they made it an optional feature that is not installed by default.
There's a big difference between HIPAA and the war on drugs, one is an enforceable regulation on a corporate activity the other is an unenforcable prohibition on a social activity. The reason for success in Portugal and the Netherlands is they are regulating drugs as opposed to prohibiting them.
BTW: Technically drugs are still illegal in both countries due to international treaties, it's the enforcement policy that has changed.
The customer is the judge of what "adds value" and they vote with their wallet.
If ISO 9001 says life jackets must float and the customer demands lead life jackets that comply with ISO 9001 then simply make hollow lead life jackets that float and pocket the fools money.
Even if you have a good warning system, people are stupid. We had a tsunami warning for the east coast of Australia after the recent earthquake in Chile and every idiot with a surfboard headed to the beach.
"Respectfully, from page 5 of the Motor Trend timeline [motortrend.com] that I linked"
Fair point, I didn't see there was more than one page. However the incident initiated a seperate recall, it did not kick the first recall into overdrive. The decision to make the second recall was also made in less than a month after the first confirmed mat-less crash, "though the cause is still under investigation"(pg 6.)
"I think I was reasonable in saying that mat-less incident is what finally provoked a deeper action on Toyota's part: they could no longer deny a problem less trivial than pedals stuck under floormats."
But is it reasonable to expect additional recall action from Toyota before the evidence from the December crash? There are two seperate problems here, they had a demonstratable problem with mats in September and acted properly. Nobody had hard evidence of mat-less crashes until December when again they acted properly. Yes the accident was tragic but short of polishing a crystal ball I still don't see what Toyota should (or could) have done differently?
I've owned quite a few cars with that style of dip switch and none of them actually turned the lights on. However back in the 70's I had a Honda 750 motorbike. The headlight was controlled by a sliding thumb switch mounted on the RH side of the handlebar, it had three settings off(left), low(center) and high(right). Kinda scary when going around a bend and you flick it across to off instead of low.
Have you never heard of an old (or inexperienced) person driving their car through a shop window because they slammed on the gas instead of the brake while sitting in a car park? Of course given the public speculation in the media anybody who does that now has the perfect excuse if they happen to be doing it in a Toyota.
There is nothing about mat-less crashes in the first article, if anything that article backs up Toyota's claims, it claims Toyota took one month to decide on a recall that will cost them over $50M a DAY. The second article also says nothing about mat-less crashes, it is just hearsay about an alleged memo, they don't even show you the memo let alone authenticate it.
What I find far more concerning than people who can't tell their floor mat is pressing on their gas pedal are the vast numbers of people like you who think unsubstaniated assertions are a valid form of evidence against someone/something they don't like.
"It's simply a matter of economics, my friend."
Actually it's a matter of government policy. Europe and Australia pay more for petrol because their governments put a large excise on it after the oil crisis of the 70's. It was a premeditated policy designed to encourage people to drive more fuel efficient cars, the results speak for themselves.
Yes, I'm also an old fart who remebers how police departments around the world were run before the stanford prison experiment became common wisdom. The people who sterotype cops do not understand their own human nature let alone have the ability to resist it. They are therefore the most likely group to be bad cops if the shoe was on the other foot.
"The problem originated on high ( started at the chief and snowballed )."
That's the problem in a nutshell and it is certainly NOT unique to cops or government departments. If the boss doesn't buy it you're dead in the water, the number one reason for the boss not to buy it is office politics. I have found the software industry much less stressfull by ignoring executive politics and just being happy that I get paid either way.
"Bats don't have any problem with cave interiors, so it would seem locating gunshots despite the hard surfaces should be possible"
Generally speaking, comparing our solutions to nature's is like comparing Newton to a monkey with a hammer.
A bats sonar abilities make human attempts look primative at best. Bats can detect and track the soft body of a moth with enough accuracy to pluck it out of midair, and they do this with a transmit/recieve surface area of a few square inches. Using multiple mics to detect the general direction of something that makes it own sound is a much easier problem than bats solve to get their lunch, and yet we still find it difficult.
"Valid question?"
Not really, dualisim died an natural death long ago.
"that it would always reduce any spiritual or transcendental experience to a physical, chemical or biological basis (and nothing more)?"
So which one of those categories do the following fit into? - logic, mind, time.
Religion is immoral
Traffic fines work that way in several European countries such as Finland and Norway.