Not everybody knows there is a key inside the fob. I certainly had no idea, having only recently upgraded from a 14 year old car. At the dealer, I asked how you would get in if the battery died, and they showed me how to open the fob and get the key out. After purchasing the car, there was also one time where I was pulling my keys out of my pocket and the fob opened on its own, revealing the key.
I am so ready for all new vehicles with fob starters to come with three fob sets, by default.
Yes, mine only came with one, and it is multiple hundreds of dollars for another. Well, I mean for ME to get another one. For them to generate one is probably $5.
So what this means is that my wife and I have to have very concrete plans laid out in advance in order to share use of the car.
Same here, whenever I drive my wife's car. Of course, when she drives my car, she seems to always forget that she needs to put her foot on the brake in order to start the engine. I worry that she will leave the parking brake on as well, since she doesn't use it in her minivan. Luckily my car bongs at you and actually shows the message "disengage parking brake" on the monitor.
Now, my car is an automatic, so I have not tried the roll/start on a manual transmission with a push button ignition, but it seems to me that with all of the accessories and instrumentation turned on, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
That might work if the battery at least had enough juice to power the accessories. If it was really dead, it most likely wouldn't recognize your button pushes, so it wouldn't know it was in position 2.
Remember when you voted down that 1% sales tax increase? Guess where that money was earmarked for?
Here's the magic of percentages. If they were getting by fine on x% before, and inflation goes up, then they STILL get x% which is what they got before already magically adjusted for inflation. You don't have to keep increasing the percentage year after year. If anything, the marginal increase in cost of doing business should allow us to DECREASE the percentage of sales tax we need to collect year after year in order to fund the governments operation.
U2, B-52, SR-71, Saturn V, Concorde. All stuff either still in use due to no suitable replacement, or retired with no suitable replacement. It's amazing how brilliant our scientists and engineers used to be 50 years ago. It seems to me that the 50's and 60's was the pinnacle of human achievement.
How well does lane following work when the road is under construction and the lane shifts over. The lines demarking the lane don't necessarily shift. What about road hazards such as a sinkhole has destroyed half of the lane?
Just like software, these seemed designed for perfect conditions, and perfect conditions only exist in controlled environments, and sometimes not even then.
Ass kicked in Afghanistan by people using weapons the CIA gave them back in the late '70s when Brejnev invaded their country and IEDs.
How is it that opponents of the war in Afghanistan both claim a) we got our ass kicked and b) we killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans in retaliation for only a few thousand of our people? Can they not see that these are conflicting statements?
This BMW is ugly as sin and only has half the range.
Electric cars have to be ugly. If they looked like regular cars, then how would everyone else know how you are sacrificing yourself for the environment?
Not me, I'd really like it if there was an EV with a modular battery design. Why carry extra weight when you don't need it?
Or, how about one that weighed less as the available energy ran down? Perhaps it could even be in liquid form. That way you could just pour as much as you wanted into a tank, and it would disappear as you used it.
Well, I am all in favor of that, but how do you actually DO that? What if they don't want to be rehabilitated? What if they like raping and killing babies (that is what one of these guys did)? What if they pretend they were rehabilitated so that you would let them re-enter society and then they did it again? The crime that eventually got these guys on death row was only the last on their rap sheet. Some people are deemed fit to re-enter society and then go back to the prison several times over.
I'm sure everybody would be happy to rehab instead of incarcerate if only somebody could come up with a rehab plan that actually worked.
I would prefer the guilty walk free over the innocent being condemned.
Well, then we should not even bother with a system of law, because there is always some margin of doubt. We'll save trillions a year on lawyers, police, jails, courts and government, which the criminals can then steal from us without penalty.
Well, here is a link to an article about a Nielsen study which finds that minorities, including Asians, Hispanics and Blacks are more likely to own a smartphone than whites. Additionally, minorities are found to be more likely to download apps than whites. It doesn't really go into income, but we already know there is some correlation. Frankly, I think smartphones are just another way to keep people who are bad at financial decisions down.
What it means in context of this particular article is that the fact that the streetbump app mainly located potholes in wealthy areas had nothing to do with race or income (in fact it has a negative correlation) and far more to do with how much personal responsibility certain people as a class (on average) tend to take for their own environment.
Why is it easier for an unemployed trust-fund worker to have his smart-phone report the problem than for someone working two different shitty jobs to have their smart-phone report the problem. After all, it isn't like poor people don't have smart phones. I live in a lower income city and most other family's kids in my area had smart phones before I got one.
Yeah, we love fracking! Now give us the 2.9 million dollars...
Lawsuit money that is. Green Gold. Texas tea.
Well the first thing you know ol Bob's a millionaire,
Doctors said "Bob move away from there"
Said "Californy is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.
Unfortunately, non-profit hospitals are, in many cases, a sham. Yes, the "hospital" is losing money, while all the doctors working there are pulling in substantial incomes at the same time.
This. How do you not make a profit? You write off construction costs, salaries, new machinery, business lunches, telecommunications, IT, all of your typical business costs. Still showing a small profit? No problem, add a wing to the hospital, pay some bonuses, throw a gala party on somebodies yacht, put it into "paid in capital". Congratulations, you now have no profit.
Also, note that non-profit is a tax designation. For profit business pretty much operate the same way. Profits are taxable and they don't want to have to pay taxes, so they usually try to reinvest it or distribute it. For profit businesses still have to pay sales taxes, while non-profits don't, but sales tax is a deductible expense.
There's no reason at all that the website couldn't be hosted locally behind a DMZ with no access to the internal network barring administrative access by designated website administrators.
Well, no reason other than hospitals hate IT and are not willing pay anything near industry standard to get a competent IT person.They spend hundreds of thousands a year on the doctors, millions per year on specialized machinery (which, admittedly gets frequent use, in situations where it is not called for, and then bill the patient because the insurance company knows it is not medically necessary), billions on fancy facilities, but spend almost nothing on IT and pay almost nothing to interns, residents and administrative staff.
While Google claims to have an unofficial "do-no-evil" policy, Facebook makes no such claim and their actions generally follow suit.
So, then Facebook is to be commended for doing evil and not claiming otherwise, while Google is to be lambasted for claiming to not do evil and then doing it.
I can't imagine the number of permission slips needed to allow such adventures in our modern school system.
I remember taking shop in 7th or 8th grade. One time after I cut a piece of wood on the table saw, the shop teacher began poking at the piece of scrap and the blade picked it up and threw it, cutting the top off the ball of my thumb. Then he proceeded to lecture me about how you are not supposed to stand behind a table saw.
Trick question. The answer you want is that one leg of your 220V feed has gone out. The more realistic answer is that some shoddy electrician put half of your electric outlets on a single circuit and now you can't run the microwave and watch TV at the same time.
A corporate pilot for one guy almost certainly means a single type of aircraft, and almost certainly not the type of aircraft that an airline is going to be flying. Airlines are a lot like other companies. When they look to hire someone, they always want someone with lots of experience in the particular type of thing that they use, even if no other company in the world uses it.
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Not everybody knows there is a key inside the fob. I certainly had no idea, having only recently upgraded from a 14 year old car. At the dealer, I asked how you would get in if the battery died, and they showed me how to open the fob and get the key out. After purchasing the car, there was also one time where I was pulling my keys out of my pocket and the fob opened on its own, revealing the key.
I am so ready for all new vehicles with fob starters to come with three fob sets, by default.
Yes, mine only came with one, and it is multiple hundreds of dollars for another. Well, I mean for ME to get another one. For them to generate one is probably $5. So what this means is that my wife and I have to have very concrete plans laid out in advance in order to share use of the car.
Same here, whenever I drive my wife's car. Of course, when she drives my car, she seems to always forget that she needs to put her foot on the brake in order to start the engine. I worry that she will leave the parking brake on as well, since she doesn't use it in her minivan. Luckily my car bongs at you and actually shows the message "disengage parking brake" on the monitor.
With the remote, even if I stepped out w/ it, leaving the car unlocked, anybody can just get in and drive some distance.
How are they going to start it when your remote is not within "seeing" distance?
Now, my car is an automatic, so I have not tried the roll/start on a manual transmission with a push button ignition, but it seems to me that with all of the accessories and instrumentation turned on, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
That might work if the battery at least had enough juice to power the accessories. If it was really dead, it most likely wouldn't recognize your button pushes, so it wouldn't know it was in position 2.
Remember when you voted down that 1% sales tax increase? Guess where that money was earmarked for?
Here's the magic of percentages. If they were getting by fine on x% before, and inflation goes up, then they STILL get x% which is what they got before already magically adjusted for inflation. You don't have to keep increasing the percentage year after year. If anything, the marginal increase in cost of doing business should allow us to DECREASE the percentage of sales tax we need to collect year after year in order to fund the governments operation.
U2, B-52, SR-71, Saturn V, Concorde. All stuff either still in use due to no suitable replacement, or retired with no suitable replacement. It's amazing how brilliant our scientists and engineers used to be 50 years ago. It seems to me that the 50's and 60's was the pinnacle of human achievement.
How well does lane following work when the road is under construction and the lane shifts over. The lines demarking the lane don't necessarily shift. What about road hazards such as a sinkhole has destroyed half of the lane?
Just like software, these seemed designed for perfect conditions, and perfect conditions only exist in controlled environments, and sometimes not even then.
Ass kicked in Afghanistan by people using weapons the CIA gave them back in the late '70s when Brejnev invaded their country and IEDs.
How is it that opponents of the war in Afghanistan both claim a) we got our ass kicked and b) we killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans in retaliation for only a few thousand of our people? Can they not see that these are conflicting statements?
This BMW is ugly as sin and only has half the range.
Electric cars have to be ugly. If they looked like regular cars, then how would everyone else know how you are sacrificing yourself for the environment?
Not me, I'd really like it if there was an EV with a modular battery design. Why carry extra weight when you don't need it?
Or, how about one that weighed less as the available energy ran down? Perhaps it could even be in liquid form. That way you could just pour as much as you wanted into a tank, and it would disappear as you used it.
How about rehabilitating them?
Well, I am all in favor of that, but how do you actually DO that? What if they don't want to be rehabilitated? What if they like raping and killing babies (that is what one of these guys did)? What if they pretend they were rehabilitated so that you would let them re-enter society and then they did it again? The crime that eventually got these guys on death row was only the last on their rap sheet. Some people are deemed fit to re-enter society and then go back to the prison several times over.
I'm sure everybody would be happy to rehab instead of incarcerate if only somebody could come up with a rehab plan that actually worked.
I would prefer the guilty walk free over the innocent being condemned.
Well, then we should not even bother with a system of law, because there is always some margin of doubt. We'll save trillions a year on lawyers, police, jails, courts and government, which the criminals can then steal from us without penalty.
Like an expensive watch.
Well, you see that is exactly what they are setting out to change. They want smart watches to also spell dbag,.
Well, here is a link to an article about a Nielsen study which finds that minorities, including Asians, Hispanics and Blacks are more likely to own a smartphone than whites. Additionally, minorities are found to be more likely to download apps than whites. It doesn't really go into income, but we already know there is some correlation. Frankly, I think smartphones are just another way to keep people who are bad at financial decisions down.
What it means in context of this particular article is that the fact that the streetbump app mainly located potholes in wealthy areas had nothing to do with race or income (in fact it has a negative correlation) and far more to do with how much personal responsibility certain people as a class (on average) tend to take for their own environment.
Why is it easier for an unemployed trust-fund worker to have his smart-phone report the problem than for someone working two different shitty jobs to have their smart-phone report the problem. After all, it isn't like poor people don't have smart phones. I live in a lower income city and most other family's kids in my area had smart phones before I got one.
Yeah, we love fracking! Now give us the 2.9 million dollars...
Lawsuit money that is. Green Gold. Texas tea.
Well the first thing you know ol Bob's a millionaire, Doctors said "Bob move away from there" Said "Californy is the place you ought to be" So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.
Hills that is. Swimmin' pools, clean air.
Wait, what?
Isn't it obvious? Move to Beverly Hills. Sue the city for air quality. Move on to the next lawsuit.
Unfortunately, non-profit hospitals are, in many cases, a sham. Yes, the "hospital" is losing money, while all the doctors working there are pulling in substantial incomes at the same time.
This. How do you not make a profit? You write off construction costs, salaries, new machinery, business lunches, telecommunications, IT, all of your typical business costs. Still showing a small profit? No problem, add a wing to the hospital, pay some bonuses, throw a gala party on somebodies yacht, put it into "paid in capital". Congratulations, you now have no profit.
Also, note that non-profit is a tax designation. For profit business pretty much operate the same way. Profits are taxable and they don't want to have to pay taxes, so they usually try to reinvest it or distribute it. For profit businesses still have to pay sales taxes, while non-profits don't, but sales tax is a deductible expense.
There's no reason at all that the website couldn't be hosted locally behind a DMZ with no access to the internal network barring administrative access by designated website administrators.
Well, no reason other than hospitals hate IT and are not willing pay anything near industry standard to get a competent IT person.They spend hundreds of thousands a year on the doctors, millions per year on specialized machinery (which, admittedly gets frequent use, in situations where it is not called for, and then bill the patient because the insurance company knows it is not medically necessary), billions on fancy facilities, but spend almost nothing on IT and pay almost nothing to interns, residents and administrative staff.
You not knowing anyone that uses is a simple case of being in a different "bubble" as others
But...but... I'm only two degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon!?!
1 in 7 people on Earth uses it and I know none of them. And I know people in India
While Google claims to have an unofficial "do-no-evil" policy, Facebook makes no such claim and their actions generally follow suit.
So, then Facebook is to be commended for doing evil and not claiming otherwise, while Google is to be lambasted for claiming to not do evil and then doing it.
I can't imagine the number of permission slips needed to allow such adventures in our modern school system.
I remember taking shop in 7th or 8th grade. One time after I cut a piece of wood on the table saw, the shop teacher began poking at the piece of scrap and the blade picked it up and threw it, cutting the top off the ball of my thumb. Then he proceeded to lecture me about how you are not supposed to stand behind a table saw.
Trick question. The answer you want is that one leg of your 220V feed has gone out. The more realistic answer is that some shoddy electrician put half of your electric outlets on a single circuit and now you can't run the microwave and watch TV at the same time.
A corporate pilot for one guy almost certainly means a single type of aircraft, and almost certainly not the type of aircraft that an airline is going to be flying. Airlines are a lot like other companies. When they look to hire someone, they always want someone with lots of experience in the particular type of thing that they use, even if no other company in the world uses it.