I'm for that to a certain extent also- I think that a viable solution to the problem of overcrowded interstates would be investing some money in more Amtrak Autotrains (Currently ONLY available in the highly profitable East Coast corridor, autotrains get cars off the freeways in between towns while giving the driver a break- you literally just drive your car onto the train, and then you have your choice of either staying in your car for short trips, or moving to passenger cars or even sleeper units for longer trips).
Even better is electronic stability control (ESC) which is available on many new cars. This automatically senses skids and applies selective braking to individual wheels (and in some cases throttle control) to correct skids.
I remember reading about that when it was being beta tested on GE locomotives- each wheel is independantly driven by an electric motor, and thus the computer is able to compensate for the traction under each wheel in nanosecond timeframes.
Only if they're finally willing to bring the Moller Skycar into mass production and a reasonable price range. Of course, several other posters have said why not: The American Legal System, Civil complaints division, is so illogical that if 2999 lives were saved, but one lost, we'd rather take the tech completely off the market.
And I'm only 36. I personally want- as a minimum- adaptive cruise control tied to a proximity alarm. I want infrared lasers shooting out 8 ways from my car, measuring distance- and a heads-up-display readout plus audible alarms.
This tech has been avilable since the 1980s, but we've yet to see it in consumer-grade vehicles. Why is that? I'm willing to bet mandatory use of such tech would save at least 2000-3000 lives every year on the highways; after all, it's not the speeding but the tailgating that kills you.
Now that's an interesting idea- I must try it next time this happens. Hmm, seems to me another option (though this would block the middle mirror) would be to put up one of those foil sun shades in the back window at night.
Here's my problem though- with headlights on the car behind me, a small car will "disappear" behind my trunk- but an SUV's headlights, regardless of how they're adjusted, shine over the top of the trunk right into the back window. It's really bad in heavy traffic at night.
I drove a subcompact car, and an SUV or truck on my tail with its headlights in my eyes is blinding.
This might not even be tailgating- their headlights are so high that they can be a safe distance behind you and STILL be blinding. That's why I'm for a maximum hight limit on headlights.
You know, knives are sharp and dangerous, too, but I somehow manage to handle them without slicing my skin to ribbons.
I can't say that I have, throughout my life. In fact, I've had quite a few stiches in the past due to knife wounds- and a big scar on my thumb where I failed, while making margaritas, to discover where the lime ended and my thumb began.
Having said that, there's a distinction- you EXPECT knives to be sharp. You don't expect the plastic packaging on an under-4 child's toy to be sharp.
I've got a three year old son. Who is into Thomas. Nothing's more frustrating than him getting a Thomas-take-along toy (the cheap plastic version of the wooden Brio trains). Those packages look like they'd be easy to open (cardboard sandwitched between plastic) until you try to use the cardboard to open the plastic- at which point you find it just tears off, with the clamshell securely in place. And then you cut away the clamshell- only to find an interior clamshell in between the vehicle and this stupid little trading card and what my kid calls a "map" that is really an advertisement for every other toy in the line ("I need a Cranky, I need a Lady, I need a Boulder Mountain Coal Mine Set"). Then you finally get through the interior clamshell only to have the kid lose the engine or car in the couch a day later.
Some packaging is resistant to even scissors. But the real point is the extremely DANGEROUS packaging left over after you cut it with scissors or knife- that alone can cause really deep cuts and abrassions.
It might well be- for the ZipLinq cable that causes the "power surge" error in Windows XP, it's of the exact same batch as one I purchased at the same time that works perfectly well....
No- I'm trying to claim that the will to genocide is built into certain interpretations of the Koran, to the extent that any insult to the Prophet must be punished violently.
Hint: It's likely the other way around on your car charger- in that you can use it to run your phone off of.....ZipLinq also makes 12V->5V car power converters for you to plug your phone into, and also wall plugs for a variety of countries. The idea is more to use a very common standard connector for as much as possible.
Or alternatively- I've replaced all of the original poster's gadgets with a T-Mobile MDA and an Anycom Bluetooth Stereo Headset. I probably paid just about as much for it though- but it does EVERYTHING his set of gadgets does in much less space, and charges off of standard USB ports.
And as an alternative to iGo, Ziplinq has a variety of tips for your 5V items that plug into standard USB ports and chargers. I started with the iGo, but now that my PDA and bluetooth headphones both have Mini-B sockets for charging, I've switched to Ziplinq. One thing though- iGo was always high quality, and I'm not impressed with the quality of Ziplinq- I've got one cable from them that the ends came off, and another that for some strange reason (perhaps a short?) draws power from the USB as a surge as soon as it's plugged in, even with nothing plugged into the other end of the cable.
What do you mean? Just because they show the difference between a wise man and a fool doesn't mean that one should go out and kill other people who don't belong to your group. And the point is that you should strive to be like the wise man and not the fool.
More than that- you should allow the fool to die of his own foolishness. It's an argument against charity.
One should support markets as a matter of principle if you think that economy is not a zero sum game (which by now can be taken as almost a scientific certainity).
I challenge you to prove that this is a "scientific certainty" instead of just religious claptrap from the worshipers of Adam Smith. I'll give you a big hint- if it wasn't a zero sum game, there'd be no such thing as a trade deficit, because countries could always adjust their money supplies to eliminate trade deficits. The existance of trade deficits prove that Adam Smith and David Ricardo were liars- and that economics is no more of a science than astrology.
If it wasn't for the stock market (which in and of itself is a giant con) there would have been no way to invest in those companies to begin with. If venture capitalism was illegal, there would have been no bubble to burst.
So long as there are nuclear weapons, the military has absolutely no choice but to prevent revolution by any means necessary, with any force necessary.
The easiest way to prevent revolution, is to not act like a bunch of priviledged asshats to begin with. Skill and hard work are worthless, is the message that everybody needs to hear. People in India are just as skilled as people are here. If you think skill will prevent your job from going overseas, you're a naive shithead.
The fault of the economists is their irrational religious belief in markets.
Seems to me that I recall the economists mostly all denouncing the Internet Bubble of 2001, with the "head economist" correctly calling it "irrational exuberance".
But what they seem to fail to understand is that such bubbles in the market would not exist without the market.
Frankly, bitterness is no fun for anyone -- you or the people you interact with. Hell, I can see you're bitter over the Internet, from a single sentence.
The bitterness came later- what came first was the insult and the lie. The lie that the market would reward hard work, and the insult that Americans aren't smart enough or work hard enough to deserve to work.
Are you certain you weren't hired because people get a hint of that in the interview, and nobody wants to work with someone who's got a chip on their shoulder?
In the later interviews, most certainly. In the earlier interviews before I understood the insult and the lie? I wasn't bitter then.
The Bubble screwed over a lot of people, but it wasn't any one person or organization's fault.
Agreed. It was the system's fault for not being good enough to prevent irrational behavior. When I have an operating system that is behaving incorrectly, I patch the kernal to fix the problem. It's time we patched the economic system to prevent the consolidation of wealth, which is the main bug in the system.
Shit happens, but it really only gets messier if you get upset and jump up and down on that pile of shit.
And unless you're willing to shovel the shite, place it into a composter, destroy it and make fertilizer, all you have is just a pile of shit. My bitterness has a point- revolution is neccessary.
Ask first what actions made me bitter. Could it be being forced out of private industry and into public service due to a recession in 2001 that left my family cold & hungry for THREE YEARS before I found a job in government? Nah, couldn't be that....Could it be that during those three years I was turned down for burger flipping jobs because I can speak Cobol, Java, and VB but not Spanish? Nah, couldn't be that....Could it be because I lost my entire life savings attempting to keep my house during that time? Nah, couldn't be that.....
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I'm for that to a certain extent also- I think that a viable solution to the problem of overcrowded interstates would be investing some money in more Amtrak Autotrains (Currently ONLY available in the highly profitable East Coast corridor, autotrains get cars off the freeways in between towns while giving the driver a break- you literally just drive your car onto the train, and then you have your choice of either staying in your car for short trips, or moving to passenger cars or even sleeper units for longer trips).
Even better is electronic stability control (ESC) which is available on many new cars. This automatically senses skids and applies selective braking to individual wheels (and in some cases throttle control) to correct skids.
I remember reading about that when it was being beta tested on GE locomotives- each wheel is independantly driven by an electric motor, and thus the computer is able to compensate for the traction under each wheel in nanosecond timeframes.
Only if they're finally willing to bring the Moller Skycar into mass production and a reasonable price range. Of course, several other posters have said why not: The American Legal System, Civil complaints division, is so illogical that if 2999 lives were saved, but one lost, we'd rather take the tech completely off the market.
And I'm only 36. I personally want- as a minimum- adaptive cruise control tied to a proximity alarm. I want infrared lasers shooting out 8 ways from my car, measuring distance- and a heads-up-display readout plus audible alarms.
This tech has been avilable since the 1980s, but we've yet to see it in consumer-grade vehicles. Why is that? I'm willing to bet mandatory use of such tech would save at least 2000-3000 lives every year on the highways; after all, it's not the speeding but the tailgating that kills you.
Now that's an interesting idea- I must try it next time this happens. Hmm, seems to me another option (though this would block the middle mirror) would be to put up one of those foil sun shades in the back window at night.
Here's my problem though- with headlights on the car behind me, a small car will "disappear" behind my trunk- but an SUV's headlights, regardless of how they're adjusted, shine over the top of the trunk right into the back window. It's really bad in heavy traffic at night.
Must not count for trucks- my kid is 36" and I don't think he could even reach the headlights of a lot of pickup trucks out there.
I drove a subcompact car, and an SUV or truck on my tail with its headlights in my eyes is blinding.
This might not even be tailgating- their headlights are so high that they can be a safe distance behind you and STILL be blinding. That's why I'm for a maximum hight limit on headlights.
You know, knives are sharp and dangerous, too, but I somehow manage to handle them without slicing my skin to ribbons.
I can't say that I have, throughout my life. In fact, I've had quite a few stiches in the past due to knife wounds- and a big scar on my thumb where I failed, while making margaritas, to discover where the lime ended and my thumb began.
Having said that, there's a distinction- you EXPECT knives to be sharp. You don't expect the plastic packaging on an under-4 child's toy to be sharp.
I've got a three year old son. Who is into Thomas. Nothing's more frustrating than him getting a Thomas-take-along toy (the cheap plastic version of the wooden Brio trains). Those packages look like they'd be easy to open (cardboard sandwitched between plastic) until you try to use the cardboard to open the plastic- at which point you find it just tears off, with the clamshell securely in place. And then you cut away the clamshell- only to find an interior clamshell in between the vehicle and this stupid little trading card and what my kid calls a "map" that is really an advertisement for every other toy in the line ("I need a Cranky, I need a Lady, I need a Boulder Mountain Coal Mine Set"). Then you finally get through the interior clamshell only to have the kid lose the engine or car in the couch a day later.
WORST TOY EVER.
Some packaging is resistant to even scissors. But the real point is the extremely DANGEROUS packaging left over after you cut it with scissors or knife- that alone can cause really deep cuts and abrassions.
They probably only just now finished the alpha testing.
It might well be- for the ZipLinq cable that causes the "power surge" error in Windows XP, it's of the exact same batch as one I purchased at the same time that works perfectly well....
No- I'm trying to claim that the will to genocide is built into certain interpretations of the Koran, to the extent that any insult to the Prophet must be punished violently.
Hint: It's likely the other way around on your car charger- in that you can use it to run your phone off of.....ZipLinq also makes 12V->5V car power converters for you to plug your phone into, and also wall plugs for a variety of countries. The idea is more to use a very common standard connector for as much as possible.
Or alternatively- I've replaced all of the original poster's gadgets with a T-Mobile MDA and an Anycom Bluetooth Stereo Headset. I probably paid just about as much for it though- but it does EVERYTHING his set of gadgets does in much less space, and charges off of standard USB ports.
And as an alternative to iGo, Ziplinq has a variety of tips for your 5V items that plug into standard USB ports and chargers. I started with the iGo, but now that my PDA and bluetooth headphones both have Mini-B sockets for charging, I've switched to Ziplinq. One thing though- iGo was always high quality, and I'm not impressed with the quality of Ziplinq- I've got one cable from them that the ends came off, and another that for some strange reason (perhaps a short?) draws power from the USB as a surge as soon as it's plugged in, even with nothing plugged into the other end of the cable.
What do you mean? Just because they show the difference between a wise man and a fool doesn't mean that one should go out and kill other people who don't belong to your group. And the point is that you should strive to be like the wise man and not the fool.
More than that- you should allow the fool to die of his own foolishness. It's an argument against charity.
One should support markets as a matter of principle if you think that economy is not a zero sum game (which by now can be taken as almost a scientific certainity).
I challenge you to prove that this is a "scientific certainty" instead of just religious claptrap from the worshipers of Adam Smith. I'll give you a big hint- if it wasn't a zero sum game, there'd be no such thing as a trade deficit, because countries could always adjust their money supplies to eliminate trade deficits. The existance of trade deficits prove that Adam Smith and David Ricardo were liars- and that economics is no more of a science than astrology.
If it wasn't for the stock market (which in and of itself is a giant con) there would have been no way to invest in those companies to begin with. If venture capitalism was illegal, there would have been no bubble to burst.
And what caused the internet bubble? Could it have been CHEAP LABOR imported from overseas combined with stupid trade policies?
So long as there are nuclear weapons, the military has absolutely no choice but to prevent revolution by any means necessary, with any force necessary.
The easiest way to prevent revolution, is to not act like a bunch of priviledged asshats to begin with. Skill and hard work are worthless, is the message that everybody needs to hear. People in India are just as skilled as people are here. If you think skill will prevent your job from going overseas, you're a naive shithead.
And that's the fault of the economists?
The fault of the economists is their irrational religious belief in markets.
Seems to me that I recall the economists mostly all denouncing the Internet Bubble of 2001, with the "head economist" correctly calling it "irrational exuberance".
But what they seem to fail to understand is that such bubbles in the market would not exist without the market.
Frankly, bitterness is no fun for anyone -- you or the people you interact with. Hell, I can see you're bitter over the Internet, from a single sentence.
The bitterness came later- what came first was the insult and the lie. The lie that the market would reward hard work, and the insult that Americans aren't smart enough or work hard enough to deserve to work.
Are you certain you weren't hired because people get a hint of that in the interview, and nobody wants to work with someone who's got a chip on their shoulder?
In the later interviews, most certainly. In the earlier interviews before I understood the insult and the lie? I wasn't bitter then.
The Bubble screwed over a lot of people, but it wasn't any one person or organization's fault.
Agreed. It was the system's fault for not being good enough to prevent irrational behavior. When I have an operating system that is behaving incorrectly, I patch the kernal to fix the problem. It's time we patched the economic system to prevent the consolidation of wealth, which is the main bug in the system.
Shit happens, but it really only gets messier if you get upset and jump up and down on that pile of shit.
And unless you're willing to shovel the shite, place it into a composter, destroy it and make fertilizer, all you have is just a pile of shit. My bitterness has a point- revolution is neccessary.
And of course, when the courts side with the criminals it becomes MORE profitable and LESS risky.
Ask first what actions made me bitter. Could it be being forced out of private industry and into public service due to a recession in 2001 that left my family cold & hungry for THREE YEARS before I found a job in government? Nah, couldn't be that....Could it be that during those three years I was turned down for burger flipping jobs because I can speak Cobol, Java, and VB but not Spanish? Nah, couldn't be that....Could it be because I lost my entire life savings attempting to keep my house during that time? Nah, couldn't be that.....