I'm impressed you got enough speed up to total a Yugo =)
Turns out, it doesn't really require much speed.:)
I was pretty impressed with the crumple zone technology, though, as I watched the car pretty much tear itself apart around me, and I wasn't even bruised. Actually, kind of cool to watch from the inside, though I wouldn't want to do it again.
If you wreck the company truck and kill a person, you are personally liable outside the liability of the corporation. The extent of the liability will only be limited by the law and any legal proceedings following your participation in the act.
Not entirely true.
While I've never killed anyone, I have managed to wreck company cars before, a couple of times.
The most recent was back in college, while delivering pizza for Round Table. I totaled their Yugo by rear-ending a one-ton pickup. Although the accident was my fault, since I was acting within the "scope of employment", I was not liable at all. Round Table paid 100% of the damages, the accident was put on their record and not on mine, raising their insurance rates and not mine. I was also not involved in the subsequent lawsuit, other than as a witness.
I was fired, of course, as is the general case when a delivery driver gets into any kind of accident, but that was completely company policy not legal liability.
Even though Round Table encourages their drivers to drive as fast as possible, even going so far as to keep maps of where police are likely to be, since such policies are unofficial, the owners and board of directors are also never responsible for the damages caused, only the company.
That's why they never get any widespread support when they try to pass laws limiting what these people can say.
Because most (not all, obviously. In political discourse you're never ever going to get to "all") people, while annoyed at the likes of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Savage, etc., recognize their right to spew their lies and hatred to their idiot followers all they want.
Believe it or not, some people who read/post here are a little on the nerdy side. And some of them read comic books.
Then there's the occasional person who just comes on to a site labeled "News for Nerds" to attempt to boast about how he's not really interested in a specific aspect of nerd subculture.
Those people are sad. They are nerds, but rather than revel in it, they are desperately trying to convince themselves they're not.
Most burglars are no professionals. They are just looking for easily-grabbed items that they can fit into their pockets. Any cash laying around, jewelry, mp3 players or other electronic devices, stuff like that. Carrying a computer down the street would be too obvious.
Likewise, people like this are usually crimes of opportunity. Little to no planning would have been involved - this guy is obviously no professional.
Will it come with a collection of the floppy disks Gene Roddenberry used with it?
I can just see it, though: "Those? Our research showed they were only $.39 each new, so the value would only start at just under $400 for the thousand we threw away..."
Those damn intellectuals, ruining everything with their thinking and their logic, and making decisions based on evidence.
And, even worse, our schools are full of intellectual types trying to convince kids that book-learnin' is important, and that scientific method works.
Bring on the less intelligent, wholesome, family-oriented Real(tm) Americans(tm) who can just Know things without having to spend all that time worrying and checking out whether what the Know is "correct".
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought when you referred to my grandmother's DNR as "helping her kill herself" you were equating getting a DNR with helping someone kill herself.
My mistake.
And, of course, Obama saying that the government can't make the choice for you, because it's a subjective thing, and you have to decide what to do for yourself, well, I understand how that can be read as him saying you have to choose a particular way. I can only blame the sad lack of Bill O'Reilly in my life to explain why I didn't see it as readily as you did.
Alas, I watch no broadcast TV, so this is unlikely to change in the near future.
When that happens, just know, I will be laughing that your death was your own result by approving of others to murder you.
I feel so foolish now in not realizing that expanding health care to include everybody is pretty much the same thing as having others murder me. Damn, I feel so foolish now. Well, I bow to your great intellect. Obviously, I cannot argue with you here. I will get myself a TV set and a cable package that includes Fox News so that perhaps someday I can be as well-informed as you are.
Damn, and to think that if it wasn't for end of life help, nobody would ever die! Every life could be saved! Forever! Oh, how oh how could we have been so foolish?!
You have to really stretch to equate a DNR with killing yourself.
And stretch even more to saying that health care of any type paying for it is the same as advocating suicide.
But you've got all your deeply held beliefs to protect, regardless of their rationality, so nothing I or anyone else says is going to change your mind.
But you are wrong. Hospice isn't suicide. Allowing a patient to make a decision at 105 to forgo a pacemaker isn't killing her. Government isn't going to "take over" hospitals or "interfere" with medicare, and nobody's setting up any death panels for veterans or Sarah Palin's babies.
Sometimes it IS better to take the pain pill instead of life-saving treatment.
When my grandmother was dying, at 94 years old, she did exactly that. When her kidneys finally shut down, she could have gone on dialysis, and been kept alive, in pain, suffering, and bed-ridden, for perhaps another six months to a year.
She chose, ahead of time, not to do that.
She also designated my mother as someone who could make decisions for her. They discussed it with her doctors and signed a Do Not Resuscitate order. She ended up going quietly in her sleep after getting a chance to say good-bye to all her friends and relatives.
The consultations, the documents, the hospice care, the pain medicine, all these things cost money. Thanks to people who fought against your kind in the last generation, my grandmother had Medicare which paid for a good part of it.
THAT is end of life care. THAT is what the proposed bill will pay for. So, yes, it's true, sometimes people will just take the pain medicine instead of prolonging their suffering.
Some people will choose not to, and cling desperately to life regardless of the quality. I personally think each person, should make that decision for themselves, consulting with those they trust, rather than have the government or insurance companies make that decision for them.
But, no, you can't understand that, can you? You're too busy listening to Limbaugh and O'Reilly and Palin and screaming about how government paying for vital services is "Socialism! Eek! Get your gun and run for the hills!"
Of course, the scheduling was fine until they replaced the government system they'd been using with a privatized system.
But, hey, don't let mere facts get in the way of your political opinions. I understand you might not have time to read even the summary when you have to be worried about Obama replacing your doctor with someone willing to kill your grandmother.
...how much more about the government does it need to be?
FOIA is about getting information from the government.
Unless the government claims they hold the copyright to the image, and they themselves issued the takedown notice, they're not going to have any information about it, therefore nothing can be obtained through a FOIA request.
And, if they did issue the takedown notice, they're not admitting it. Therefore, again, nothing can be obtained through a FOIA request.
But it does mean that it doesn't have the properties you expect, if one of those properties is that it should be detectable via such and such a means.
The detector they were using should have seen the gravitational waves in the way they were looking for them. That they did not throws doubt into General Relativity, a very well-established theory.
This could be the most exciting lack of evidence since they failed to find rabbits in pre-cambrian strata.
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Turns out, it doesn't really require much speed. :)
I was pretty impressed with the crumple zone technology, though, as I watched the car pretty much tear itself apart around me, and I wasn't even bruised. Actually, kind of cool to watch from the inside, though I wouldn't want to do it again.
Not entirely true.
While I've never killed anyone, I have managed to wreck company cars before, a couple of times.
The most recent was back in college, while delivering pizza for Round Table. I totaled their Yugo by rear-ending a one-ton pickup. Although the accident was my fault, since I was acting within the "scope of employment", I was not liable at all. Round Table paid 100% of the damages, the accident was put on their record and not on mine, raising their insurance rates and not mine. I was also not involved in the subsequent lawsuit, other than as a witness.
I was fired, of course, as is the general case when a delivery driver gets into any kind of accident, but that was completely company policy not legal liability.
Even though Round Table encourages their drivers to drive as fast as possible, even going so far as to keep maps of where police are likely to be, since such policies are unofficial, the owners and board of directors are also never responsible for the damages caused, only the company.
They attacked us because they hate our freedom.
So we get rid of it. Makes sense.
Somebody does tell that to those people.
All the time.
That's why they never get any widespread support when they try to pass laws limiting what these people can say.
Because most (not all, obviously. In political discourse you're never ever going to get to "all") people, while annoyed at the likes of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Savage, etc., recognize their right to spew their lies and hatred to their idiot followers all they want.
No, it shouldn't matter to you.
But it is of interest to others around here.
Believe it or not, some people who read/post here are a little on the nerdy side. And some of them read comic books.
Then there's the occasional person who just comes on to a site labeled "News for Nerds" to attempt to boast about how he's not really interested in a specific aspect of nerd subculture.
Those people are sad. They are nerds, but rather than revel in it, they are desperately trying to convince themselves they're not.
Probably a tower case.
Most burglars are no professionals. They are just looking for easily-grabbed items that they can fit into their pockets. Any cash laying around, jewelry, mp3 players or other electronic devices, stuff like that. Carrying a computer down the street would be too obvious.
Likewise, people like this are usually crimes of opportunity. Little to no planning would have been involved - this guy is obviously no professional.
Will it come with a collection of the floppy disks Gene Roddenberry used with it?
I can just see it, though: "Those? Our research showed they were only $.39 each new, so the value would only start at just under $400 for the thousand we threw away..."
And that's just the gold. Imagine what it would be worth with the latinum intact!
You never would. But the station may have to pay a fine if enough people complained that they were making you pump your own gas.
I agree!
Those damn intellectuals, ruining everything with their thinking and their logic, and making decisions based on evidence.
And, even worse, our schools are full of intellectual types trying to convince kids that book-learnin' is important, and that scientific method works.
Bring on the less intelligent, wholesome, family-oriented Real(tm) Americans(tm) who can just Know things without having to spend all that time worrying and checking out whether what the Know is "correct".
If you're in the US, you must live on one of the coasts.
In the midwest, bicycles are generally seen as being for children.
Drunks, though, usually take the bus or have a spouse drive them around. Or, probably more frequently, just drive without a license.
The whole time I lived in Missouri, I never saw anyone else commute to work via bicycle.
You just need to realize which modifier is modifying what:
It may look like:
quality (branded content)
But really they mean:
(quality branded) content
Well, the government does have a lot of power.
I for one would prefer it if they did act responsibly.
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought when you referred to my grandmother's DNR as "helping her kill herself" you were equating getting a DNR with helping someone kill herself.
My mistake.
And, of course, Obama saying that the government can't make the choice for you, because it's a subjective thing, and you have to decide what to do for yourself, well, I understand how that can be read as him saying you have to choose a particular way. I can only blame the sad lack of Bill O'Reilly in my life to explain why I didn't see it as readily as you did.
Alas, I watch no broadcast TV, so this is unlikely to change in the near future.
I feel so foolish now in not realizing that expanding health care to include everybody is pretty much the same thing as having others murder me. Damn, I feel so foolish now. Well, I bow to your great intellect. Obviously, I cannot argue with you here. I will get myself a TV set and a cable package that includes Fox News so that perhaps someday I can be as well-informed as you are.
Damn, and to think that if it wasn't for end of life help, nobody would ever die! Every life could be saved! Forever! Oh, how oh how could we have been so foolish?!
You have to really stretch to equate a DNR with killing yourself.
And stretch even more to saying that health care of any type paying for it is the same as advocating suicide.
But you've got all your deeply held beliefs to protect, regardless of their rationality, so nothing I or anyone else says is going to change your mind.
But you are wrong. Hospice isn't suicide. Allowing a patient to make a decision at 105 to forgo a pacemaker isn't killing her. Government isn't going to "take over" hospitals or "interfere" with medicare, and nobody's setting up any death panels for veterans or Sarah Palin's babies.
Sometimes it IS better to take the pain pill instead of life-saving treatment.
When my grandmother was dying, at 94 years old, she did exactly that. When her kidneys finally shut down, she could have gone on dialysis, and been kept alive, in pain, suffering, and bed-ridden, for perhaps another six months to a year.
She chose, ahead of time, not to do that.
She also designated my mother as someone who could make decisions for her. They discussed it with her doctors and signed a Do Not Resuscitate order. She ended up going quietly in her sleep after getting a chance to say good-bye to all her friends and relatives.
The consultations, the documents, the hospice care, the pain medicine, all these things cost money. Thanks to people who fought against your kind in the last generation, my grandmother had Medicare which paid for a good part of it.
THAT is end of life care. THAT is what the proposed bill will pay for. So, yes, it's true, sometimes people will just take the pain medicine instead of prolonging their suffering.
Some people will choose not to, and cling desperately to life regardless of the quality. I personally think each person, should make that decision for themselves, consulting with those they trust, rather than have the government or insurance companies make that decision for them.
But, no, you can't understand that, can you? You're too busy listening to Limbaugh and O'Reilly and Palin and screaming about how government paying for vital services is "Socialism! Eek! Get your gun and run for the hills!"
Of course, the scheduling was fine until they replaced the government system they'd been using with a privatized system.
But, hey, don't let mere facts get in the way of your political opinions. I understand you might not have time to read even the summary when you have to be worried about Obama replacing your doctor with someone willing to kill your grandmother.
FOIA is about getting information from the government.
Unless the government claims they hold the copyright to the image, and they themselves issued the takedown notice, they're not going to have any information about it, therefore nothing can be obtained through a FOIA request.
And, if they did issue the takedown notice, they're not admitting it. Therefore, again, nothing can be obtained through a FOIA request.
You don't necessarily have to leave it in a spot easily visible from outside the car.
Or "rent"?
But it does mean that it doesn't have the properties you expect, if one of those properties is that it should be detectable via such and such a means.
The detector they were using should have seen the gravitational waves in the way they were looking for them. That they did not throws doubt into General Relativity, a very well-established theory.
This could be the most exciting lack of evidence since they failed to find rabbits in pre-cambrian strata.
I disagree with that.
It also makes sense to study it in anthropology.
Also, psychology.
And, perhaps, political science.
Except it's not.
Nobody "studies" ID.
Because there's nothing in ID to "study".
Some people advocate ID. Some people justify ID. Both those are very different things than studying.
Apparently, asking the Best Buy staff to install a new video card will work pretty well.
Yeah, that'd be the one.
(I guess when I say "my" local area, not everyone in the world necessarily knows what I'm talking about.)