IE - in many parts of the US, there are many roads where 'everyone speeds'. Because 'everyone knows' cops won't pull you over until you are going some arbitrary speed faster.
From the Wikipedia, and I know its true because I live there. Quote-mined for clarity:
In California...Drivers moving slower than the general flow of traffic are required to stay in the right-most lanes (by California Vehicle Code (CVC) 21654) to keep the way clear for faster vehicles and thus speed up traffic. However, faster drivers may legally pass in the slower lanes if conditions allow (by CVC 21754). But the CVC also requires trucks to stay in the right lane, or in the right two lanes if the roadway has four or more lanes going in their direction. The oldest freeways in California, and some freeway interchanges, often have ramps on the left, making signs like "TRUCKS OK ON LEFT LANE" or "TRUCKS MAY USE ALL LANES" necessary to override the default rule. Lane splitting, or riding motorcycles in the space between cars in traffic, is permitted as long as it is done in a safe and prudent manner.[2]
As long as you are an average driver, you can abide by the choice phrase "flow of traffic" and that's the easiest way to cope with it. Otherwise the whole thing looks like a group of nested if-else statements gone horribly wrong.
That's because of a bunch of stupid laws that get passed many years apart with no care of the previous law. It use to be very simple. Slower traffic stay to the right (it is still marked like this on many four lane highways, but hardly anyone follows it). Then the speed limit got reduced from 65 to 55 (I know it went back up many years ago, but there are still freeways marked with 55) and now the "fast lane" is no longer fast. I've seen stories on the news where a policeman is giving a reporter a ride and they're watching someone tailgate because they're doing 55 and the other driver wants to go faster. Do they move to the right? No. They ask why the other driver doesn't slow down.
The reason for the "TRUCKS MAY USE ALL LANES" is because on some freeways, and this is mostly coming into LA County from the north (as far as I've ever seen) there are lanes specifically for the trucks. You won't see very many cars on them and they're usually pretty empty, even when the freeway is filled with cars. It's because those roads usually have only one or two lanes and they're specifically meant to get the big trucks out of the traffic. Having an 18 wheeler stuck in stop and go traffic is a lot worse than letting them take a different route (the route is usually longer anyway).
Only in the sense that a burglar doesn't have to pay for the TV he steals. Taking society as a whole, TVs are not free, and nor is electricity. Electricity doesn't occur in nature like fruit on trees or water in streams.
Some places include "utilities" in the rent each month. With those places, you could run your television, air conditioner, and lights all day and it wouldn't cost you any more that it does to not run them. Your rent doesn't change so you are effectively not paying for electricity.
Would you know the serial number is invalid just by looking at it? You might know what makes a serial number valid, but I doubt you'd know if one was invalid if it had the proper makeup. This is why it's mostly 10s and 20s (and higher) that get the metal strip. Counterfeiting anything else isn't worth the trouble.
I don't know about you, but I don't pay anything to use my Visa or MasterCard. The "tax" you refer to is probably the interest payment for not paying the balance in full each month. Not everyone has that problem, so that defeats point 2.
Depending on how I handle a transaction, I can send money through PayPal without any extra fees.
That's the time in circulation. That is not how long a dollar bill will last. I have a handful right now that are 5 years old and a few that are 8 years old. The more damaged they are, and when they are changed, the more likely they are to be pulled out of circulation.
The "average lifespan" is how often the money is pulled out of circulation, shredded, and reissued.
You realize that is a problem with any industry when government is close to the people that run anything, right? Nukes, oil, coal, "green" energy. You name it. When government gets in bed with companies, they end up looking the other way every time.
Canadian dollars are not legal tender in the US, but if someone on the US side of Niagra Falls wants to operate a store and list all the prices in US and Canadian dollars and accept either one as payment, is that illegal?
No because the shop keeper can simply take the Canadian currency and exchange it for US currency at a local bank. Any store can do the same thing with any currency that is accepted. They can also refuse to accept currency over a certain denomination. And that's the trick with bitcoin. A few online retailers might be accepting it, but most are not and I don't know of any brick-and-mortar stores that are.
It's funny how everyone here is acting like BitCoin is this super important thing that is gaining widespread acceptance. Go out on the street and ask someone what bitcoin is and they'll probably look at you funny followed by a "What's a bitcoin?"
Here's something to think about though. If everyone were able to print money, money would be worthless. It would be completely over inflated and totally worthless. Why would I take money you printer when I can print my own? I think the same holds true of bitcoin. Someone with a bunch of computers laying around can just generate bitcoin all day long and cash it in. That seems, to me, to make the currency essentially worthless.
I don't care what that video says, that does not affect all inkjet printers. That mostly affects HP printers. It likely affects any printer that uses a tricolor ink cartridge. I happen to own an Epson and it does not do that (uses separate ink cartridges for every color). I've had it for several years and it still works just as good today as it did when I got it.
Salted meat last quite a long time. If you wanted the ribs and I knew enough to be able to give you the ribs, I could probably salt the rest of it to slow down the clock.
Forget the encryption part for a moment. Their own privacy policy stated that they reserved the right to sell your information if they ever go bankrupt. One of the other online backup places, Carbonite, has no such statement in their privacy policy. Personally, I'd rather pay for a service that isn't going to sell my info.
And please for the love of all that is good QUIT GOING TO WORST BUY! Because I swear I've had to fix more horribly broken shit from them than from any other shop! So just ask around, an honest fixit guy is more than happy to give you references of past customers.
The only problem with this bit of advice is that we keep telling people it, but they keep doing it anyway because they don't want to pay our rates. Then they get mad when it ends up coming out worse.
I do computer repair on the side (I have a regular day job) and I constantly get people asking me about problems with their computer. They don't even have the computer with them yet they want the error explained and solved (they've written it down of course) so they can go home and fix it. I don't even bother trying to help them. And of course, there are people who want their machine fixed because they're a co-worker. They will actually bring their computer to work and ask if you can look at it. Most of the time I just tell them "Sure, after work and I usually bill X amount". Then I glance at it before giving them an estimate. Sorry folks, I am not your personal computer repair technician. It's rare for someone at work to ask about their home computer and be willing to pay to have it fixed.
The only people that get a pass on that are the two owners of the company and the VP.
If you need some wiring done in your house, do you buy a book on basic wiring so you can check what the electrician did? If you need a plumber, do you learn basic plumbing code to is if your plumber is being lazy or trying to cheat you? If your car breaks down, do you spend hours in internet forums trying to get the internet to diagnose your problem before you take it to a mechanic?.
Yes to all 3 actually (except spending hours on the net trying to troubleshoot a breakdown).
Basic electrical isn't that hard to understand. The hard part is usually running the wire. Every outlet sold in the US has a little diagram for how it goes on.
Knowing how pipes fit together isn't that difficult either. Again, a basic knowledge of plumbing doesn't take very long to learn.
A car breakdown isn't too difficult to figure out. Is the "battery light" on? Does it have gas? Does it make any sound when you turn the key? Did the idiot light (oil light) come on before the car stopped? All of those are pretty basic, yet the vast majority of people would have no idea how to diagnose it.
Anything more complex than those and yes, at that point you'd need to take it to someone to have it fixed.
Personally I think high schools should allocate an afternoon to simple PC construction.
Yeah, and I'm sure everyone will show up, not just the geeks.
Do you think most of these people really even care to learn? No. They get pissed when they get ripped off and they'll remember the guy and the company for a long time, but they still don't care about how it works or how to troubleshoot it. Most people are like that and it's just a fact of life.
Probably because "Seal Team 6" doesn't officially exist, is not an official designation (hasn't been since the mid 80s), and is known by the Pentagon as DEVGRU. Just because you keep hearing it called Seal Team 6 doesn't mean that's the actual name.
In short, Disney (or anyone else) can trademark anything they damn well please. It'll be up to the courts to decide if they can hold onto it.
Yeah, because it's so difficult to order a few more access points and put them in strategic places.
How many network engineers do you know that take the climate into consideration? I don't know any. Most network engineers want at least 3 bars of coverage around an entire campus. That's usually enough to keep everything connected. If the signal drops below that, they can add more antennas.
But if you have to make a bet, who would you listen to? The guys who says "It can't last"? Or the guys (and their models) who who have been right for a couple of decades now?
On a large scale? Neither. The guys that say it can't last and the guys with the models that have been right for two decades measure everything else in thousands, millions, and billions of years. Yet they want us to accept that man is contributing to the problem even though they'll readily admit that millions of years ago the planet was probably warmer than they're predicting it will be? I don't think so.
Besides, even if everyone cut back as much as they want, their own models still say it isn't enough. The only solution, according to their models, is for humans to cease to exist.
Only a moron wouldn't see the difference between Bush policies and Obama's.
Only a moron would think that they're different.
We're still involved in two wars in the middle east and Obama has dragged us into a third one. Gitmo is still open. Enhanced interrogation is still being used. KSM is going back to Gitmo for military tribunals instead of being tried in a court in new york. Troops are not fully out of Iraq or Afghanistan (Obama is following the Bush timeline). Which of these is different from the Bush years?
Barack Obama's policies of government intervention into the economy have brought us from a near depression to an economic recovery.
If you think this is an economic recovery, then you're either blind, an idiot, or both. We're doing nothing but repeat the exact same mistakes that stalled the economy during the Great Depression and we may be on the verge of entering a period of stagflation.
Obama spent nearly 1 trillion dollars on "stimulus" for the economy. Unemployment just ticked back up to 9%. Obama has spent more in his presidency than all previous presidency's combined.
If you still don't know the difference, do a bit of research instead of falling back on "both parties" are the same nonsense. Both parties are not the same.
You would do well to take your own advice and read some history.
Democrats pushed health care reform, and got it passed into law by 1 fucking vote against 100% Republican opposition.
Yeah, even with a super majority in the Senate, and the supposed support of the American people (67% were against it), they still couldn't get it passed without resorting to procedural maneuvers. And now over 100 companies have been given exemptions as have the unions.
That's one example of a difference but there are many others in environmental laws and everything else. Try not to be such a fucking brain-dead moron in the future.
Their idea of "environmental laws" is preventing companies from building power plants, buying our energy from foreign governments, and then lobbying to end our addiction to foreign energy.
It costs alot of money to recover from a horrible recession like the one Republicans caused.
When you find yourself in debt, you do not spend more money to get out of debt. You cut spending. Period. It doesn't matter if it's on a personal level or a national level. If you could spend your way to prosperity, everyone would be doing it and the world would be filled with billionaires.
How is it JavaScript's fault that millions of people choose to put their entire lives on Facebook and make it public? It happened before with MySpace. Facebook just took that idea, cleaned up the interface, and has added things like chat and messaging, causing it to, in many cases, replace email for people.
JavaScript is just another tool that is used. If it weren't JavaScript, it would be something else.
Bullshit. The CA economy is based primarily from Agriculture and Technology. We were #4 economy in the world BEFORE all of this bullshit. These companies are the reason we're at #8 and FALLING.
Sorry pal, but we're falling because the education system sucks and an entitlement complex has infected everyone in this state.
'The measure would negatively affect consumers who have come to expect rich content and free services through the Internet
Lets forget about free services, why do you need to store my info if I pay for your rich content service.
Since when do you pay to use Facebook or Google? Are you a business using Google Apps? If not, you're getting rich content, for free. The only thing you're paying for is the Internet connection to get there.
I think this falls under what I call "the Cable TV Conundrum".
When Cable TV came out, one of the big selling points was "no commercials!" How did that work out for us? It started out that way, sure, but pretty soon they cable companies learned they could charge us for the stations and run commercials, basically double-dipping.
The commercials are inserted by the networks. This is why, when watching a local channel, you will see ads for local services. It's also why a Dish customer may see ads for DirecTV. And a Time Warner customer may see ads for Comcast. Or do you really think that if Dish is adding the ads that they're going to put in an ad for a competitor?
The big point of "no commercials" was that you could sit down and watch a movie on HBO without "commercial interruptions" which is still something special on network television. They were also pushing "video on demand" ie PPV.
Google, OTOH, does not - and instead markets on behalf of the advertiser without passing along your info to them.
LOL. Have you ever seen Google Analytics? They tell you what you were looking for (keywords) and your IP address. How do you think marketers end up targetting you? Your ISP stores a location in your ip address. They even mine your email for relevant information.
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IE - in many parts of the US, there are many roads where 'everyone speeds'. Because 'everyone knows' cops won't pull you over until you are going some arbitrary speed faster.
From the Wikipedia, and I know its true because I live there. Quote-mined for clarity:
In California...Drivers moving slower than the general flow of traffic are required to stay in the right-most lanes (by California Vehicle Code (CVC) 21654) to keep the way clear for faster vehicles and thus speed up traffic. However, faster drivers may legally pass in the slower lanes if conditions allow (by CVC 21754). But the CVC also requires trucks to stay in the right lane, or in the right two lanes if the roadway has four or more lanes going in their direction. The oldest freeways in California, and some freeway interchanges, often have ramps on the left, making signs like "TRUCKS OK ON LEFT LANE" or "TRUCKS MAY USE ALL LANES" necessary to override the default rule. Lane splitting, or riding motorcycles in the space between cars in traffic, is permitted as long as it is done in a safe and prudent manner.[2]
As long as you are an average driver, you can abide by the choice phrase "flow of traffic" and that's the easiest way to cope with it. Otherwise the whole thing looks like a group of nested if-else statements gone horribly wrong.
That's because of a bunch of stupid laws that get passed many years apart with no care of the previous law. It use to be very simple. Slower traffic stay to the right (it is still marked like this on many four lane highways, but hardly anyone follows it). Then the speed limit got reduced from 65 to 55 (I know it went back up many years ago, but there are still freeways marked with 55) and now the "fast lane" is no longer fast. I've seen stories on the news where a policeman is giving a reporter a ride and they're watching someone tailgate because they're doing 55 and the other driver wants to go faster. Do they move to the right? No. They ask why the other driver doesn't slow down.
The reason for the "TRUCKS MAY USE ALL LANES" is because on some freeways, and this is mostly coming into LA County from the north (as far as I've ever seen) there are lanes specifically for the trucks. You won't see very many cars on them and they're usually pretty empty, even when the freeway is filled with cars. It's because those roads usually have only one or two lanes and they're specifically meant to get the big trucks out of the traffic. Having an 18 wheeler stuck in stop and go traffic is a lot worse than letting them take a different route (the route is usually longer anyway).
Not everyone has to pay for electricity.
Only in the sense that a burglar doesn't have to pay for the TV he steals. Taking society as a whole, TVs are not free, and nor is electricity. Electricity doesn't occur in nature like fruit on trees or water in streams.
Some places include "utilities" in the rent each month. With those places, you could run your television, air conditioner, and lights all day and it wouldn't cost you any more that it does to not run them. Your rent doesn't change so you are effectively not paying for electricity.
Would you know the serial number is invalid just by looking at it? You might know what makes a serial number valid, but I doubt you'd know if one was invalid if it had the proper makeup. This is why it's mostly 10s and 20s (and higher) that get the metal strip. Counterfeiting anything else isn't worth the trouble.
I don't know about you, but I don't pay anything to use my Visa or MasterCard. The "tax" you refer to is probably the interest payment for not paying the balance in full each month. Not everyone has that problem, so that defeats point 2.
Depending on how I handle a transaction, I can send money through PayPal without any extra fees.
That's the time in circulation. That is not how long a dollar bill will last. I have a handful right now that are 5 years old and a few that are 8 years old. The more damaged they are, and when they are changed, the more likely they are to be pulled out of circulation.
The "average lifespan" is how often the money is pulled out of circulation, shredded, and reissued.
http://www.fleur-de-coin.com/coinfacts/unitedstates_3.asp
You realize that is a problem with any industry when government is close to the people that run anything, right? Nukes, oil, coal, "green" energy. You name it. When government gets in bed with companies, they end up looking the other way every time.
Canadian dollars are not legal tender in the US, but if someone on the US side of Niagra Falls wants to operate a store and list all the prices in US and Canadian dollars and accept either one as payment, is that illegal?
No because the shop keeper can simply take the Canadian currency and exchange it for US currency at a local bank. Any store can do the same thing with any currency that is accepted. They can also refuse to accept currency over a certain denomination. And that's the trick with bitcoin. A few online retailers might be accepting it, but most are not and I don't know of any brick-and-mortar stores that are.
It's funny how everyone here is acting like BitCoin is this super important thing that is gaining widespread acceptance. Go out on the street and ask someone what bitcoin is and they'll probably look at you funny followed by a "What's a bitcoin?"
Here's something to think about though. If everyone were able to print money, money would be worthless. It would be completely over inflated and totally worthless. Why would I take money you printer when I can print my own? I think the same holds true of bitcoin. Someone with a bunch of computers laying around can just generate bitcoin all day long and cash it in. That seems, to me, to make the currency essentially worthless.
I don't care what that video says, that does not affect all inkjet printers. That mostly affects HP printers. It likely affects any printer that uses a tricolor ink cartridge. I happen to own an Epson and it does not do that (uses separate ink cartridges for every color). I've had it for several years and it still works just as good today as it did when I got it.
Salted meat last quite a long time. If you wanted the ribs and I knew enough to be able to give you the ribs, I could probably salt the rest of it to slow down the clock.
Forget the encryption part for a moment. Their own privacy policy stated that they reserved the right to sell your information if they ever go bankrupt. One of the other online backup places, Carbonite, has no such statement in their privacy policy. Personally, I'd rather pay for a service that isn't going to sell my info.
And please for the love of all that is good QUIT GOING TO WORST BUY! Because I swear I've had to fix more horribly broken shit from them than from any other shop! So just ask around, an honest fixit guy is more than happy to give you references of past customers.
The only problem with this bit of advice is that we keep telling people it, but they keep doing it anyway because they don't want to pay our rates. Then they get mad when it ends up coming out worse.
I do computer repair on the side (I have a regular day job) and I constantly get people asking me about problems with their computer. They don't even have the computer with them yet they want the error explained and solved (they've written it down of course) so they can go home and fix it. I don't even bother trying to help them. And of course, there are people who want their machine fixed because they're a co-worker. They will actually bring their computer to work and ask if you can look at it. Most of the time I just tell them "Sure, after work and I usually bill X amount". Then I glance at it before giving them an estimate. Sorry folks, I am not your personal computer repair technician. It's rare for someone at work to ask about their home computer and be willing to pay to have it fixed.
The only people that get a pass on that are the two owners of the company and the VP.
If you need some wiring done in your house, do you buy a book on basic wiring so you can check what the electrician did?
If you need a plumber, do you learn basic plumbing code to is if your plumber is being lazy or trying to cheat you?
If your car breaks down, do you spend hours in internet forums trying to get the internet to diagnose your problem before you take it to a mechanic?.
Yes to all 3 actually (except spending hours on the net trying to troubleshoot a breakdown).
Basic electrical isn't that hard to understand. The hard part is usually running the wire. Every outlet sold in the US has a little diagram for how it goes on.
Knowing how pipes fit together isn't that difficult either. Again, a basic knowledge of plumbing doesn't take very long to learn.
A car breakdown isn't too difficult to figure out. Is the "battery light" on? Does it have gas? Does it make any sound when you turn the key? Did the idiot light (oil light) come on before the car stopped? All of those are pretty basic, yet the vast majority of people would have no idea how to diagnose it.
Anything more complex than those and yes, at that point you'd need to take it to someone to have it fixed.
Personally I think high schools should allocate an afternoon to simple PC construction.
Yeah, and I'm sure everyone will show up, not just the geeks.
Do you think most of these people really even care to learn? No. They get pissed when they get ripped off and they'll remember the guy and the company for a long time, but they still don't care about how it works or how to troubleshoot it. Most people are like that and it's just a fact of life.
Probably because "Seal Team 6" doesn't officially exist, is not an official designation (hasn't been since the mid 80s), and is known by the Pentagon as DEVGRU. Just because you keep hearing it called Seal Team 6 doesn't mean that's the actual name.
In short, Disney (or anyone else) can trademark anything they damn well please. It'll be up to the courts to decide if they can hold onto it.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/07/oliver-stone-hitler-israel-chavez.html
Yeah, because it's so difficult to order a few more access points and put them in strategic places.
How many network engineers do you know that take the climate into consideration? I don't know any. Most network engineers want at least 3 bars of coverage around an entire campus. That's usually enough to keep everything connected. If the signal drops below that, they can add more antennas.
But if you have to make a bet, who would you listen to? The guys who says "It can't last"? Or the guys (and their models) who who have been right for a couple of decades now?
On a large scale? Neither. The guys that say it can't last and the guys with the models that have been right for two decades measure everything else in thousands, millions, and billions of years. Yet they want us to accept that man is contributing to the problem even though they'll readily admit that millions of years ago the planet was probably warmer than they're predicting it will be? I don't think so.
Besides, even if everyone cut back as much as they want, their own models still say it isn't enough. The only solution, according to their models, is for humans to cease to exist.
Only a moron wouldn't see the difference between Bush policies and Obama's.
Only a moron would think that they're different.
We're still involved in two wars in the middle east and Obama has dragged us into a third one. Gitmo is still open. Enhanced interrogation is still being used. KSM is going back to Gitmo for military tribunals instead of being tried in a court in new york. Troops are not fully out of Iraq or Afghanistan (Obama is following the Bush timeline). Which of these is different from the Bush years?
Barack Obama's policies of government intervention into the economy have brought us from a near depression to an economic recovery.
If you think this is an economic recovery, then you're either blind, an idiot, or both. We're doing nothing but repeat the exact same mistakes that stalled the economy during the Great Depression and we may be on the verge of entering a period of stagflation.
Obama spent nearly 1 trillion dollars on "stimulus" for the economy. Unemployment just ticked back up to 9%. Obama has spent more in his presidency than all previous presidency's combined.
If you still don't know the difference, do a bit of research instead of falling back on "both parties" are the same nonsense. Both parties are not the same.
You would do well to take your own advice and read some history.
Democrats pushed health care reform, and got it passed into law by 1 fucking vote against 100% Republican opposition.
Yeah, even with a super majority in the Senate, and the supposed support of the American people (67% were against it), they still couldn't get it passed without resorting to procedural maneuvers. And now over 100 companies have been given exemptions as have the unions.
That's one example of a difference but there are many others in environmental laws and everything else. Try not to be such a fucking brain-dead moron in the future.
Their idea of "environmental laws" is preventing companies from building power plants, buying our energy from foreign governments, and then lobbying to end our addiction to foreign energy.
It costs alot of money to recover from a horrible recession like the one Republicans caused.
When you find yourself in debt, you do not spend more money to get out of debt. You cut spending. Period. It doesn't matter if it's on a personal level or a national level. If you could spend your way to prosperity, everyone would be doing it and the world would be filled with billionaires.
How is it JavaScript's fault that millions of people choose to put their entire lives on Facebook and make it public? It happened before with MySpace. Facebook just took that idea, cleaned up the interface, and has added things like chat and messaging, causing it to, in many cases, replace email for people.
JavaScript is just another tool that is used. If it weren't JavaScript, it would be something else.
"The Californian economy is based on this stuff."
Bullshit. The CA economy is based primarily from Agriculture and Technology. We were #4 economy in the world BEFORE all of this bullshit. These companies are the reason we're at #8 and FALLING.
Sorry pal, but we're falling because the education system sucks and an entitlement complex has infected everyone in this state.
Lets forget about free services, why do you need to store my info if I pay for your rich content service.
Since when do you pay to use Facebook or Google? Are you a business using Google Apps? If not, you're getting rich content, for free. The only thing you're paying for is the Internet connection to get there.
I think this falls under what I call "the Cable TV Conundrum".
When Cable TV came out, one of the big selling points was "no commercials!" How did that work out for us? It started out that way, sure, but pretty soon they cable companies learned they could charge us for the stations and run commercials, basically double-dipping.
The commercials are inserted by the networks. This is why, when watching a local channel, you will see ads for local services. It's also why a Dish customer may see ads for DirecTV. And a Time Warner customer may see ads for Comcast. Or do you really think that if Dish is adding the ads that they're going to put in an ad for a competitor?
The big point of "no commercials" was that you could sit down and watch a movie on HBO without "commercial interruptions" which is still something special on network television. They were also pushing "video on demand" ie PPV.
Also allows use of heat vision to monitor inside houses for police.
A warrant is still required for this. Otherwise, it is illegal search and seizure.
Google, OTOH, does not - and instead markets on behalf of the advertiser without passing along your info to them.
LOL. Have you ever seen Google Analytics? They tell you what you were looking for (keywords) and your IP address. How do you think marketers end up targetting you? Your ISP stores a location in your ip address. They even mine your email for relevant information.
you should at least know as much about their EULAs as most slashdotters know.
Which is actually very little these days.