But twice a month, the tides are extra high (and extra low). One of the extra high tides is higher than the other, this is when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth. The not-quite-so-extra-high is when sun and moon are on opposite sides of the earth.
andydread, instead of calling on the various organizations to SPEAK UP! and do something, do something yourself! If you can't do anything effective on your own, donate to the aforementioned organizations. If you're as outraged as you sound, give $100, $1,000, $10,000... whatever your budget will bear. Nothing will be fixed unless and until we fix it ourselves.
Many fire depts have volunteer firefighters, that much is true. But that's still a far cry from having a private fire department.
Many of those volunteer fire departments are private corporations. Private, not-for-profit corporations, but private nonetheless. They contract with the local government to provide fire and/or EMS service. Private non-profit emergency services can often provide a lot more bang for the buck than direct municipal/county services can.
What we do believe is that some people are truly unable to take care of themselves and we have a deep moral obligation to care for them as if they were our favorite family member.
By "we", you don't actually mean yourself personally.
I'm not the OP, but I mean it personally and do it personally. So do many (well, maybe not that many) others. And I'm not talking about giving change to a homeless person, I'm talking about giving them a place to live. Free. Until they get back on their feet.
in my patent-pending pre-crime detector. My machine flags everyone as a possible criminal. It's win-win for everyone. We're all safer and the DHS gets to interrogate everyone.
"Meanwhile, crime would run rampant on the streets"
I didn't say anything about disbanding local government and local police. They are the ones that stop crime. The state highway patrol would be the only thing that would be gone people see on a regular basis.
I was just talking about getting rid of state and Federal government.
Unfortunately, the Feds subsidize, through grants and other revenue sharing agreements, the state and local police forces. It's just another way the Feds keep control of everyone and everything. It's the same with fire departments. The DHS spends huge money outfitting career and volunteer fire departments for "First Response" purposes. Even in Podunk, Alaska. Disclaimer: 19 year member of the Podunk, Alaska, VFD but disgruntled over the Department applying for and accepting DHS money. Even though we have an otherwise unattainable but much loved fire engine as a result.
New law in Alaska doesn't let the Governor appoint a replacement for empty congressional seats. People were unhappy when newly elected Governor Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter, Lisa, to the Senate seat he vacated in order to move into the Governor's Mansion.
Especially with a robotic driver, extending the range of electric cars is easy -- you don't charge the batteries in the car, the car just backs itself into a battery replacement station when needed and a freshly charged set is swapped in faster than you currently pump gasoline. Battery service stations become the new black.
While basic level textbooks may not change, the science and art of teaching/learning do change. One would hope new textbooks incorporate those advances.
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I'm an opportunivore... given an opportunity to put something food-like near my mouth, down it goes. Unfortunately, there has been less opportunity to put meat within range lately.
Yes, the government has ostensibly more money than we average citizens do. Money isn't the problem... the government is more ORGANIZED, more PATIENT, and more FOCUSED than the people. Besides, even if we the people did have the DNA profile of every government official, do you think the local cops, state cops, FBI, NSA, or CIA are going to give us access to evidence found at the scene of a crime, especially one that might have been committed by one of the bosses?
I'm not too thrilled about me fingerprints being in a permanent file. I just needed to fill in for a couple weeks for the primary system administrator on a few systems. Why can't I have my prints back after some period of time, but especially after those systems were decommissioned?
Drivers should decide ahead of time where their "decision point" is when approaching an intersection. Once the vehicle passes the decision point, if the light hasn't cycled to yellow, go through the intersection. If the light cycles before the vehicle reaches the decision point, the driver stops the vehicle.
The problem is, especially when the yellow cycle duration is less than the time it takes to stop a vehicle, it's difficult to maintain smooth traffic flow. This is especially the case when road conditions change -- it takes much longer to stop on an icy road than dry pavement, but the duration of the yellow remains the same.
In some countries the green light flashes to signal the imminent signal change to yellow. Makes it much easier to predict when the light will change and choose a decision point appropriate to road, vehicle and traffic conditions. I'd like to the states start presignalling the yellow like this. Controlled intersections would be much safer as a result.
Last but not least, I think you are forgetting these IDs are readable at a LONG DISTANCE. You could drive past people and read their IDs. With some data collection, GPS system and mining you can construct a name -> ID number mapping that in theory only the police should have.
My theory is that the police especially SHOULDN'T have easy access to the database built up when the US eventually capitulates to having a national ID card. The "authorities" already treat us either as criminals or potential criminals -- this will be one more tool they want to use "for the children".
Especially don't forget supply and demand. This stuff will not be sold to Joe Driver any cheaper per unit energy than gasoline. These guys didn't come come up with an inexpensive way to produce fuel, they came up with a way to make Big Oil kinds of profit. Hopefully they can control enough of the process to make some money themselves instead of Big Oil siphoning the cash into their own pockets.
My issue is that rather than fight to fix things, you're ready to pack it in and leave the country. What happens when you get to Canada and it's not perfect and you don't like something
The basic problem is that most people feel entirely helpless when confronting the Federal Government. And why shouldn't people feel that way? The Feds haven't listened to Joe Ordinary in quite a number of years.
The South Africans have us beat on the freedom front, too. Not only does their constitution, as I understand it, guarantee equality regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and language... not bad for a country that just over a decade ago was a world leader in racial oppression. On top of that, their wines blow away any comparably priced US produced wine. Check out a South African pinotage if you like reds.
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But twice a month, the tides are extra high (and extra low). One of the extra high tides is higher than the other, this is when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth. The not-quite-so-extra-high is when sun and moon are on opposite sides of the earth.
andydread, instead of calling on the various organizations to SPEAK UP! and do something, do something yourself! If you can't do anything effective on your own, donate to the aforementioned organizations. If you're as outraged as you sound, give $100, $1,000, $10,000 ... whatever your budget will bear. Nothing will be fixed unless and until we fix it ourselves.
The 500lb gorilla and the 800lb gorilla fighting would be fun to watch.
On Pay-Per-View
No, he meant troll.
Or Nissan the car company going after nissan.com
In some states you can be arrested and charged with a full-blown DUI for riding a bicycle while drunk.
Many fire depts have volunteer firefighters, that much is true. But that's still a far cry from having a private fire department.
Many of those volunteer fire departments are private corporations. Private, not-for-profit corporations, but private nonetheless. They contract with the local government to provide fire and/or EMS service. Private non-profit emergency services can often provide a lot more bang for the buck than direct municipal/county services can.
Over that many states? Not much coverage considering that area is a square only thirty miles on edge. That's smaller than most counties.
I don't really see what all the fuss is about. Its hardly like the Feds are going to be spying on ordinary citizens.
You're not very old, are you?
Erm, there are plenty of old idiots, too.
What we do believe is that some people are truly unable to take care of themselves and we have a deep moral obligation to care for them as if they were our favorite family member.
By "we", you don't actually mean yourself personally.
I'm not the OP, but I mean it personally and do it personally. So do many (well, maybe not that many) others. And I'm not talking about giving change to a homeless person, I'm talking about giving them a place to live. Free. Until they get back on their feet.
in my patent-pending pre-crime detector. My machine flags everyone as a possible criminal. It's win-win for everyone. We're all safer and the DHS gets to interrogate everyone.
Well, hey, it's not like /. linked to a five year old newspaper article about a certain airline's pending bankruptcy filing ...
"Meanwhile, crime would run rampant on the streets"
I didn't say anything about disbanding local government and local police. They are the ones that stop crime. The state highway patrol would be the only thing that would be gone people see on a regular basis.
I was just talking about getting rid of state and Federal government.
Unfortunately, the Feds subsidize, through grants and other revenue sharing agreements, the state and local police forces. It's just another way the Feds keep control of everyone and everything. It's the same with fire departments. The DHS spends huge money outfitting career and volunteer fire departments for "First Response" purposes. Even in Podunk, Alaska. Disclaimer: 19 year member of the Podunk, Alaska, VFD but disgruntled over the Department applying for and accepting DHS money. Even though we have an otherwise unattainable but much loved fire engine as a result.
New law in Alaska doesn't let the Governor appoint a replacement for empty congressional seats. People were unhappy when newly elected Governor Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter, Lisa, to the Senate seat he vacated in order to move into the Governor's Mansion.
Especially with a robotic driver, extending the range of electric cars is easy -- you don't charge the batteries in the car, the car just backs itself into a battery replacement station when needed and a freshly charged set is swapped in faster than you currently pump gasoline. Battery service stations become the new black.
While basic level textbooks may not change, the science and art of teaching/learning do change. One would hope new textbooks incorporate those advances.
</dreaming>
This made me laugh. Any woman buying a few gallons of milk has kids
I'm an opportunivore ... given an opportunity to put something food-like near my mouth, down it goes. Unfortunately, there has been less opportunity to put meat within range lately.
I'm not too thrilled about me fingerprints being in a permanent file. I just needed to fill in for a couple weeks for the primary system administrator on a few systems. Why can't I have my prints back after some period of time, but especially after those systems were decommissioned?
Drivers should decide ahead of time where their "decision point" is when approaching an intersection. Once the vehicle passes the decision point, if the light hasn't cycled to yellow, go through the intersection. If the light cycles before the vehicle reaches the decision point, the driver stops the vehicle.
The problem is, especially when the yellow cycle duration is less than the time it takes to stop a vehicle, it's difficult to maintain smooth traffic flow. This is especially the case when road conditions change -- it takes much longer to stop on an icy road than dry pavement, but the duration of the yellow remains the same.
In some countries the green light flashes to signal the imminent signal change to yellow. Makes it much easier to predict when the light will change and choose a decision point appropriate to road, vehicle and traffic conditions. I'd like to the states start presignalling the yellow like this. Controlled intersections would be much safer as a result.
My theory is that the police especially SHOULDN'T have easy access to the database built up when the US eventually capitulates to having a national ID card. The "authorities" already treat us either as criminals or potential criminals -- this will be one more tool they want to use "for the children".
Especially don't forget supply and demand. This stuff will not be sold to Joe Driver any cheaper per unit energy than gasoline. These guys didn't come come up with an inexpensive way to produce fuel, they came up with a way to make Big Oil kinds of profit. Hopefully they can control enough of the process to make some money themselves instead of Big Oil siphoning the cash into their own pockets.
The basic problem is that most people feel entirely helpless when confronting the Federal Government. And why shouldn't people feel that way? The Feds haven't listened to Joe Ordinary in quite a number of years.
The South Africans have us beat on the freedom front, too. Not only does their constitution, as I understand it, guarantee equality regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation and language ... not bad for a country that just over a decade ago was a world leader in racial oppression. On top of that, their wines blow away any comparably priced US produced wine. Check out a South African pinotage if you like reds.