Facial recognition, RFID tags, biometrics and central data bases, but at least the feds will be fitting some of the bill, right? States will give in as long as the financial cost is hidden better than the Bush administration did it.
My state, New Mexico, is taking digital photos that go into a central database for facial recognition reasons. The database seems to be held by a third party in another state. I have been unable to dig up any more details. The license cards are generated in another location and it takes weeks to get it in the mail.
Or Sheriff Dale Williams got in a huff because the damn civilians didn't lay down and do what they are told. I'm sure the 20 dollar story that the sheriff told is the absolute truth and nothing but the truth..... right.
11 hours and they couldn't find a judge to issue a warrant.
Personally I'm glad Verizon refused to track the phone without a warrant regardless of the expressed reason. I don't think we have all the information, and I doubt the parties involved will ever release the documented facts.
If the US and the EU would reach a compromise on required emission and safety standards then the US car makers would be better off (not having to make different cars for different markets) and the US public would have a nicer choice of efficient cars.
Why do so many people think that health care is a right and not a privilege? Does anyone really have the right to tell someone else to drop everything and bandage your wounds? What does that sound like to you? People stop and help others partially out of the kindness of their hearts, but mostly to provide for themselves and their families.
Not like we are on an isolated ball floating in a vacuum with finite resources.
Even if it was just plant and insect life on this planet there would be biosphere effects (i.e. climate change). Add 6.7 Billion people and what did the scientists think would happen. Seems pretty simple to this layman.
For the record, I'm not someone who thinks we should forcefully limit the world population to 10 million. But my opinion is couples with 5+ children are not helping the situation. People that do not have realistic transportation needs, people that light up the night because they can or heat their homes to 80 in the winter while cooling them to 65 in the winter. This ball of dirt will be used up one way or another it's inevitable.
Finally, my opinion is that we should limit our impact on the environment and mitigate climate change. But to believe that we can prevent or have the audacity to think we have the knowledge and resources to reverse it seems foolish to me.
Surely anything that encourages less flying in already crowded and polluted skies is a good thing? Flying is one of the most expensive hobbies that exists in this world, to people who fly, the cost of this new beacon is the cost of a typical corporate lunch!
Corporate lunch huh. You are wrong. I'm currently working to obtain my private pilot certificate. I sure as heck have better things to do with $1200 than lunch.... I'm not sure I spend $1200 on lunch a year.
Please don't stereotype private pilots and light sport pilots based on what you see on TV. We are not all CEOs and Doctors. Most of the pilots I know are middle class people who scrape and save to fly because they like to do it and it is satisfying to accomplish the training. Less than half my ground school class was what I would consider upper middle class in income, less than $50k a year. One woman was a student that probably makes less than $15K a year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class#Income
I see a lot of people have problems with CFL burning out earlier than expected. But no one wants to look at the quality of the power coming into the house as a possible cause. I know from experience that if there is a lot of noise or leakage from switches on a power circuit then the CFLs will fail prematurely.
I have a friend that says his CFLs flash when they are turned off on occasion. My response to this was to tell him to take them off the X10 (or similar home automation circuit). To my surprise he didn't have them on any automation or dimmer switch, it's just the crappy wiring in the house he's in.
As far as color/temperature quality goes. It's a personal preference. I prefer the warm whites, as the cool white or daylight color temperatures give me a headache. Even the incandescent "daylight" bulbs. I also prefer a brunette over a blond, and Guinness over Budweiser.
The difference between the units lumen and lux is that the lux takes into account the area over which the luminous flux is spread. A flux of 1000 lumens, concentrated into an area of one square metre, lights up that square metre with an illuminance of 1000 lux. The same 1000 lumens, spread out over ten square metres, produces a dimmer illuminance of only 100 lux.
Achieving an illuminance of 500 lux might be possible in a home kitchen with a single fluorescent light fixture with an output of 12000 lumens. To light a factory floor with dozens of times the area of the kitchen would require dozens of such fixtures. Thus, lighting a larger area to the same level of lux requires a greater number of lumens.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)
I feel it would be in the police departments best interest to obtain a warrant. Two obvious reasons; 1) Prevent misuse. How long till some officer makes the news because he wanted to see where his/her significant other was spending their time? 2) Prevent the information from being inadmissible. As previously mentioned following someone onto private land or out of one departments jurisdiction gets into the gray areas of law.
Why is it seem so hard for the authorities to obtain warrants now?
First the cars then the kids... I guess the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution is truly dead.
"This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause," Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman)
Maybe they're just after your shiny new laptop/camera/iPod/etc.
This is a valid point, how long until some border patrol agents begin using the crossings as their own private home shopping network? Confiscating items which mysteriously don't get cataloged in.
I am by no means calling all border patrol agents thieves, I have a few friends that are in the Border Patrol. There are bad apples in all organizations.
And the following fines have been automatically removed from your back account:
Rolling though a stop sign 5th and Main at 9:21am: $120
Parking meter expired for 3minutes 18 seconds at 11:57am: $50
Speeding 38mph in a 35mph zone at 5:58pm: $80
Failure to use turn signal while making a lane change at 7:09pm: $35
and your oil is over due for a change by 51 miles: Manufacture warranty now VOID
Due to these violations you vehicle will no longer be allowed to operate , sorry for the inconvenience of leaving you stranded on the highway in the middle of nowhere at 3:47 am. But it's your own fault for not doing what your told.
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Facial recognition, RFID tags, biometrics and central data bases, but at least the feds will be fitting some of the bill, right? States will give in as long as the financial cost is hidden better than the Bush administration did it.
My state, New Mexico, is taking digital photos that go into a central database for facial recognition reasons. The database seems to be held by a third party in another state. I have been unable to dig up any more details. The license cards are generated in another location and it takes weeks to get it in the mail.
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/california-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-by-banning-black-cars/
Or Sheriff Dale Williams got in a huff because the damn civilians didn't lay down and do what they are told. I'm sure the 20 dollar story that the sheriff told is the absolute truth and nothing but the truth..... right.
11 hours and they couldn't find a judge to issue a warrant.
Personally I'm glad Verizon refused to track the phone without a warrant regardless of the expressed reason. I don't think we have all the information, and I doubt the parties involved will ever release the documented facts.
Pick two;
Cleaner cars
Safer cars
More efficient cars
If the US and the EU would reach a compromise on required emission and safety standards then the US car makers would be better off (not having to make different cars for different markets) and the US public would have a nicer choice of efficient cars.
Thank you timothy, I'm glad that some people realize that not everyone lives in LA or New York.
Why do so many people think that health care is a right and not a privilege?
Does anyone really have the right to tell someone else to drop everything and bandage your wounds?
What does that sound like to you?
People stop and help others partially out of the kindness of their hearts, but mostly to provide for themselves and their families.
+1
If only I had mod points. Thank you for phrasing this more eloquently than I ever could.
Not like we are on an isolated ball floating in a vacuum with finite resources.
Even if it was just plant and insect life on this planet there would be biosphere effects (i.e. climate change). Add 6.7 Billion people and what did the scientists think would happen. Seems pretty simple to this layman.
For the record, I'm not someone who thinks we should forcefully limit the world population to 10 million. But my opinion is couples with 5+ children are not helping the situation. People that do not have realistic transportation needs, people that light up the night because they can or heat their homes to 80 in the winter while cooling them to 65 in the winter. This ball of dirt will be used up one way or another it's inevitable.
Finally, my opinion is that we should limit our impact on the environment and mitigate climate change. But to believe that we can prevent or have the audacity to think we have the knowledge and resources to reverse it seems foolish to me.
Surely anything that encourages less flying in already crowded and polluted skies is a good thing? Flying is one of the most expensive hobbies that exists in this world, to people who fly, the cost of this new beacon is the cost of a typical corporate lunch!
Corporate lunch huh. You are wrong.
I'm currently working to obtain my private pilot certificate. I sure as heck have better things to do with $1200 than lunch.... I'm not sure I spend $1200 on lunch a year.
Please don't stereotype private pilots and light sport pilots based on what you see on TV. We are not all CEOs and Doctors. Most of the pilots I know are middle class people who scrape and save to fly because they like to do it and it is satisfying to accomplish the training. Less than half my ground school class was what I would consider upper middle class in income, less than $50k a year. One woman was a student that probably makes less than $15K a year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class#Income
Most planes are co-owned. So multiple people split the cost and flight time of one aircraft. Which can get the monthly cost to an amount below the cost of a typical used car in the US. http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/aircraft/ownership/co-ownership-navigating-airplane-partnerships.html
I see a lot of people have problems with CFL burning out earlier than expected. But no one wants to look at the quality of the power coming into the house as a possible cause. I know from experience that if there is a lot of noise or leakage from switches on a power circuit then the CFLs will fail prematurely.
I have a friend that says his CFLs flash when they are turned off on occasion. My response to this was to tell him to take them off the X10 (or similar home automation circuit). To my surprise he didn't have them on any automation or dimmer switch, it's just the crappy wiring in the house he's in.
As far as color/temperature quality goes. It's a personal preference. I prefer the warm whites, as the cool white or daylight color temperatures give me a headache. Even the incandescent "daylight" bulbs. I also prefer a brunette over a blond, and Guinness over Budweiser.
I think you want to know the lux output not the lumens.
I hate to quote wikipedia but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen_(unit)#Differences_between_lumens_and_lux
Differences between lumens and lux
The difference between the units lumen and lux is that the lux takes into account the area over which the luminous flux is spread. A flux of 1000 lumens, concentrated into an area of one square metre, lights up that square metre with an illuminance of 1000 lux. The same 1000 lumens, spread out over ten square metres, produces a dimmer illuminance of only 100 lux.
Achieving an illuminance of 500 lux might be possible in a home kitchen with a single fluorescent light fixture with an output of 12000 lumens. To light a factory floor with dozens of times the area of the kitchen would require dozens of such fixtures. Thus, lighting a larger area to the same level of lux requires a greater number of lumens.
another source for the discussion of the difference between lux and lumen:
http://www.theledlight.com/lumens.html
I suggest you spend some time reading though this forum:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=45
or
http://www.light-reviews.com/
LEDs are no longer "rare" or just making entrances into flashlight or headlamp applications.
It is even possible to build your own flashlight or even a bulb for household current out of parts from this site:
http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.999
http://www.lumidigm.com/
Been to Disney world lately?
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)
I feel it would be in the police departments best interest to obtain a warrant. Two obvious reasons;
1) Prevent misuse. How long till some officer makes the news because he wanted to see where his/her significant other was spending their time?
2) Prevent the information from being inadmissible. As previously mentioned following someone onto private land or out of one departments jurisdiction gets into the gray areas of law.
Why is it seem so hard for the authorities to obtain warrants now?
First the cars then the kids... I guess the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution is truly dead.
"This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause," Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman)
Maybe they're just after your shiny new laptop/camera/iPod/etc.
This is a valid point, how long until some border patrol agents begin using the crossings as their own private home shopping network? Confiscating items which mysteriously don't get cataloged in.
I am by no means calling all border patrol agents thieves, I have a few friends that are in the Border Patrol. There are bad apples in all organizations.
We're fighting terra, after all.
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...
Don't mind him, it's just the unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine talking.
And the following fines have been automatically removed from your back account:
Rolling though a stop sign 5th and Main at 9:21am: $120
Parking meter expired for 3minutes 18 seconds at 11:57am: $50
Speeding 38mph in a 35mph zone at 5:58pm: $80
Failure to use turn signal while making a lane change at 7:09pm: $35
and your oil is over due for a change by 51 miles: Manufacture warranty now VOID
Due to these violations you vehicle will no longer be allowed to operate , sorry for the inconvenience of leaving you stranded on the highway in the middle of nowhere at 3:47 am. But it's your own fault for not doing what your told.
Faster/Better/Cheaper
As ALWAYS, pick two.
I'm sorry I used up my mod points before reading your post Bob9113. I would have given you a +1 Informative.
The collectors value of this stuff is going to go though the roof.
Sure. But I'll still call it "warrant-less" and "unconstitutional" if you don't mind.
Just exercising my 1st Amendment rights.
Looks like I've got less than 20 months before I'm in the unemployment line.