My point is, minivans are perfectly adequate for getting several people, some people plus cargo, or a fairly large amount of cargo from one place to another, reasonably efficiently on fuel, with only a single vehicle to do all of it. For cargo a minivan has the lowest floor of a wagon-type vehicle short of a sedan-based station wagon, has a high roof making large things fit easily, and has three large doors making accessing cargo or seating space fairly easy.
A minivan is not a sports-car. A minivan is not a 4x4. A minivan, however, is probably more efficient than either in the primary use for a vehicle, which is typically on the road. It has a lower load-height than a pickup truck, and can hold a 4x8 sheet of plywood while most pickup trucks can't without leaving the tailgate down.
I don't own a minivan either, but right now I don't need one, as I have a beater truck in addition to my other vehicles. I, like most people, have chosen style in my vehicles over raw utility.
Also, my point in specifically citing firearms, is that the courts interpret what the laws say, and at times they've ruled that it's possible to have what are considered, at the time, to be reasonable restrictions. Whether or not these restrictions are reasonable is later discussed and adjudicated, but fact of the matter is, the Constitution is subject to interpretation, and that interpretation by the legal system is what matters, more than the words themselves.
Me, I'm betting anybody who has worked in tech long enough has a whole litany of stories about how the "exciting new future" turned out to be "yet another dud championed by idiots".
I worked at one place that bought the hype during the NT3.5 years that NT was headed in the embedded systems direction, where the GUI was not going to be important or even necessary for the system. That company bet the farm on that, and by the time NT4.0 and Windows 2000 came along it was clear that this was very much in error, and the product suffered greatly as the backend things that had been promised were never developed for the NT product line. It's only in the last few years that this idea has made a resurgence. That company is long gone because of their choices.
There's a hell of a lot more fad in life than most people want to admit. For our cars, if we wanted function we'd all be driving minivans with stow-n-go seats.
No one ever said that race was the only thing that determines how one is treated, by police or by anyone else. I do not dispute that you had and might even continue to have a very hard life, but your hard life does not mean that racism is false.
Anyone can be racist. Anyone. In fact, probably everyone is racist to a certain degree even if they try to not be. The biggest difference is that black people, already not only in the minority in the general population but in an even smaller minority in positions of authority, have a lot less capability to do harm to white people as a whole than white people, occupying the disproportionate majority of authority positions even relative to their majority-race status, can do to black people as a whole. If 50% of people in each race are racist in their attitudes and behaviors toward the other, and if the balance between white to black populations in authority is 80%:20%, then 40% of jobs (half of those with racist whites making decisions) are already off-the-table for blacks, while only 10% of jobs (half of thsoe with racist blacks making decisions) are off-the-table for whites. That's part of White Privilege, not having a large number of doors already closed simply because of race.
Barack Obama grew up in one of the few places in this country where race is much less of a factor. Hawaii's issues aren't black/white, they're native/migrant in nature, with the natives coming up on the short end of the stick, but with so many natives compared to settlers plus the massive tourism industry, it's less pronounced. A mixed-race child of African and European ancestry will blend in a lot better in Hawaii as the playing field is a lot more level there to start with. Maybe that had something to do with his mindset, and why he was able to succeed further than any other 'black' politician has, he is not a descendant of the legacy of slavery, and he did not start out pre-judged to the same extent that most black people in the continental United States are.
I do have black coworkers and have had black coworkers throughout the years. I've had Asian coworkers. I've had Hispanic coworkers. I've had Indian coworkers, of both definitions of Indian. Obviously I've had white coworkers. It has been true for all of them throughout the years, some are great, some are good, and some aren't worth a damn. Race is irrelevant in that.
Sure they had a reason. That's not in dispute. Either way, they failed to secure the warrant for their activities, and thus their activities were inadmissible.
No given individual is required to care to the point of taking responsibility.
As a group, we agree, that 'we' care, but rather than impose that someone take responsibility, we entice someone to take responsibility through salary. We pay them to care.
You know the addage about the debate as to the sound made by a tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it?
Without evidence of a wrongdoing even as simple as a report by a witness, the police are not supposed to be able to act. If the only evidence they has was their now-ruled-illegal video, then everything from the tipping point of the video onward is "fruit of the poisonous tree" and is not admissable.
I'm a little surprised that the recent ruling about being pulled over for a tail light out and the subsequent drug bust, when it was not illegal to have a tail light out, hasn't also fallen into the same category, actually.
The wording of the natural rights in the Constitution's Bill of Rights don't mention citizenship as a requirement for those rights applying. Court rulings have allowed for narrower interpretations (ie, firearms potentially) but otherwise, the same rules governing the treatment of citizens govern the treatment of everyone else.
This is part of the reason why so many peopel got upset by the 'black sites' used to hold those grabbed in 'extraordinary rendition' protocols and held, and likely tortured, it was an attempt to get around the Contitution's rules regarding the treatment of people by keeping them off of US soil. What was argued and is still argued, is that those engaging in the business of the United States of America, whether on American soil or abroad, should still be bound by the Constitution and laws when working in their official capacity. This is also why rules of war matter, as those rules are what are supposed to allow for different treatment.
But we haven't declared war since WWII if memory serves, so I guess in practice, those conditions have been eroding since the Korean War.
"The Grid" is fully intact here for the main arteries laid-out on one-mile increments, with two or three lanes in each direction. One can drive from any neighborhood to any neighborhood easily, but one cannot drive through neighborhoods easily. One has to use main roads to drive around.
I don't have a problem with this. It reduces traffic where neighborhood casual pedestrians are likely to be.
Someone is required to care about those people only because the State has decided that someone has to care about those people.
Same with kids in schools; the staff care about the kids because they're being paid to care about those kids. If they weren't being paid, there'd be a lot less paying attention to those kids' interests.
Mmmhmm... I've got my side-mirrors adjusted way out, as the central windshield-mounted rearview mirror covers more than a straight shot out the back window. Occasionally I'll have to narrow the angle on one side if I'm backing up into a narrow spot, but that's rare.
The solution is to stop using laminated layers of thin sheet metal for the roof pillars and to use something more durable for a given volume.
The implementation of side-curtain airbags and of stronger roof-strength requirements should not come at the expense of something as fundamental as view.
Another problem is that true Communism isn't supposed to have leaders. There isn't supposed to be a Politburo. It's almost more like Anarchy but where everyone is taken care of than anything else, but leaders are not willing to give up their power to transition to that phase, and end up as dictators or oligarchs. It's simply a change in who is benefiting fro the toil of the workers, they still get the shaft.
Worker-owned companies, often Employee Stock-Option Programs or ESOPs are still a form of captialism, but with the ownership of capital more specially distributed than normal. It's more like a partnership where everyone working there is a partner to a certain degree. The company is owned by the partners, the workers or former workers in this case, and they benefit directly from the company's success.
If I understand the principal intent of Communism, the individual is to be provided for without question, and the individual is supposed to work to the best of their abilities without question. The problem with this is that lots of people won't work if they're provided for without having to do so, and if the system attempts to impose metrics on individuals to compel them to work, they'll look for ways to skirt the rules. In manufacturing that means poor quality goods as various stages do the minimum needed to pass, which compounds as the products go through multiple stages of production.
No, but I actually agree with points 1, 6, and 9. Once kids have enough self-esteem to self-motivate, I think it's a disservice to continue to tell them that they're special. Half the time they aren't even unique in any truly meaningful metric, and once kids are out of school and have reached the age of majority then no one is required to care about what happens to them anymore. Giving kids deserved recognition for their achievements is one thing, but recognition needs to be proportional to the achievement and recognition without achievement (ie, participation 'awards') doesn't seem to help.
I think the point of the no-parking-11am-2pm signs is to get people that went drinking the previous night to pick their damn car up in the morning and not leave it until the following evening, and to stop the lunch-rush from turning into a living hell on those streets.
Downtown Tempe has a lot more restrictive parking rules; one has to have permits to park in many of the neighborhoods around the university, even if those neighborhoods have businesses in them.
Most academic leftists I know understand that true Communism can't function because of the human desire to rise above one's peers. True leaderless Communism would have to shoot for the lowest-common-denominator and be more like the Borg Collective as it was originally portrayed in Star Trek: The Next Generation, as it could not tolerate anyone think that they are better than anyone else or trying to be better than anyone else.
Most leftist academics believe that the argument of what should be government-provided versus what should be laissez-faire is the crux, and it's finding a balance. Anyone so leftist as to seek true communism is as unrealistic as anyone thinking that complete capitalism without government moderation of the market would work. Both are fantasies. Both get subsumed into oligarchies or dictatorships in some fashion or another without counter-forces to keep them in check.
Even though I work closer to the outskirts of the city than to its core, I actually moved closer to the core when buying the most recent house. Traffic outbound is light in the mornings, and traffic inbound in the afternoon is light until one reaches the actual center. Plus, if work ever does change and require me to go inbound in the mornings, I start closer-in than I would have before.
I can picture it now, a raiding party of Sony Asimos running in to disrupt a national television broadcast, wielding guns that look like video game light guns but with gigawatt lasers, blasting-away at the crew, press researchers, and on-air talent, vaporizing heads on-contact and splurting blood everywhere...
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My point is, minivans are perfectly adequate for getting several people, some people plus cargo, or a fairly large amount of cargo from one place to another, reasonably efficiently on fuel, with only a single vehicle to do all of it. For cargo a minivan has the lowest floor of a wagon-type vehicle short of a sedan-based station wagon, has a high roof making large things fit easily, and has three large doors making accessing cargo or seating space fairly easy.
A minivan is not a sports-car. A minivan is not a 4x4. A minivan, however, is probably more efficient than either in the primary use for a vehicle, which is typically on the road. It has a lower load-height than a pickup truck, and can hold a 4x8 sheet of plywood while most pickup trucks can't without leaving the tailgate down.
I don't own a minivan either, but right now I don't need one, as I have a beater truck in addition to my other vehicles. I, like most people, have chosen style in my vehicles over raw utility.
I'm really sorry. Excuse me.
Also, my point in specifically citing firearms, is that the courts interpret what the laws say, and at times they've ruled that it's possible to have what are considered, at the time, to be reasonable restrictions. Whether or not these restrictions are reasonable is later discussed and adjudicated, but fact of the matter is, the Constitution is subject to interpretation, and that interpretation by the legal system is what matters, more than the words themselves.
I worked at one place that bought the hype during the NT3.5 years that NT was headed in the embedded systems direction, where the GUI was not going to be important or even necessary for the system. That company bet the farm on that, and by the time NT4.0 and Windows 2000 came along it was clear that this was very much in error, and the product suffered greatly as the backend things that had been promised were never developed for the NT product line. It's only in the last few years that this idea has made a resurgence. That company is long gone because of their choices.
There's a hell of a lot more fad in life than most people want to admit. For our cars, if we wanted function we'd all be driving minivans with stow-n-go seats.
No one ever said that race was the only thing that determines how one is treated, by police or by anyone else. I do not dispute that you had and might even continue to have a very hard life, but your hard life does not mean that racism is false.
Anyone can be racist. Anyone. In fact, probably everyone is racist to a certain degree even if they try to not be. The biggest difference is that black people, already not only in the minority in the general population but in an even smaller minority in positions of authority, have a lot less capability to do harm to white people as a whole than white people, occupying the disproportionate majority of authority positions even relative to their majority-race status, can do to black people as a whole. If 50% of people in each race are racist in their attitudes and behaviors toward the other, and if the balance between white to black populations in authority is 80%:20%, then 40% of jobs (half of those with racist whites making decisions) are already off-the-table for blacks, while only 10% of jobs (half of thsoe with racist blacks making decisions) are off-the-table for whites. That's part of White Privilege, not having a large number of doors already closed simply because of race.
Barack Obama grew up in one of the few places in this country where race is much less of a factor. Hawaii's issues aren't black/white, they're native/migrant in nature, with the natives coming up on the short end of the stick, but with so many natives compared to settlers plus the massive tourism industry, it's less pronounced. A mixed-race child of African and European ancestry will blend in a lot better in Hawaii as the playing field is a lot more level there to start with. Maybe that had something to do with his mindset, and why he was able to succeed further than any other 'black' politician has, he is not a descendant of the legacy of slavery, and he did not start out pre-judged to the same extent that most black people in the continental United States are.
I do have black coworkers and have had black coworkers throughout the years. I've had Asian coworkers. I've had Hispanic coworkers. I've had Indian coworkers, of both definitions of Indian. Obviously I've had white coworkers. It has been true for all of them throughout the years, some are great, some are good, and some aren't worth a damn. Race is irrelevant in that.
What if I like my coffee black?
Sure they had a reason. That's not in dispute. Either way, they failed to secure the warrant for their activities, and thus their activities were inadmissible.
It might have actually cost more to maintain the site in an unfinished state or to tear down the construction than it would to just finish it.
For all we know, they'll figure out a repurpose for the facility.
No given individual is required to care to the point of taking responsibility.
As a group, we agree, that 'we' care, but rather than impose that someone take responsibility, we entice someone to take responsibility through salary. We pay them to care.
Did neighbors make a complaint?
You know the addage about the debate as to the sound made by a tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it?
Without evidence of a wrongdoing even as simple as a report by a witness, the police are not supposed to be able to act. If the only evidence they has was their now-ruled-illegal video, then everything from the tipping point of the video onward is "fruit of the poisonous tree" and is not admissable.
I'm a little surprised that the recent ruling about being pulled over for a tail light out and the subsequent drug bust, when it was not illegal to have a tail light out, hasn't also fallen into the same category, actually.
The wording of the natural rights in the Constitution's Bill of Rights don't mention citizenship as a requirement for those rights applying. Court rulings have allowed for narrower interpretations (ie, firearms potentially) but otherwise, the same rules governing the treatment of citizens govern the treatment of everyone else.
This is part of the reason why so many peopel got upset by the 'black sites' used to hold those grabbed in 'extraordinary rendition' protocols and held, and likely tortured, it was an attempt to get around the Contitution's rules regarding the treatment of people by keeping them off of US soil. What was argued and is still argued, is that those engaging in the business of the United States of America, whether on American soil or abroad, should still be bound by the Constitution and laws when working in their official capacity. This is also why rules of war matter, as those rules are what are supposed to allow for different treatment.
But we haven't declared war since WWII if memory serves, so I guess in practice, those conditions have been eroding since the Korean War.
"The Grid" is fully intact here for the main arteries laid-out on one-mile increments, with two or three lanes in each direction. One can drive from any neighborhood to any neighborhood easily, but one cannot drive through neighborhoods easily. One has to use main roads to drive around.
I don't have a problem with this. It reduces traffic where neighborhood casual pedestrians are likely to be.
That won't happen until one's future is guaranteed to be secure.
And that won't ever happen.
Someone is required to care about those people only because the State has decided that someone has to care about those people.
Same with kids in schools; the staff care about the kids because they're being paid to care about those kids. If they weren't being paid, there'd be a lot less paying attention to those kids' interests.
Mmmhmm... I've got my side-mirrors adjusted way out, as the central windshield-mounted rearview mirror covers more than a straight shot out the back window. Occasionally I'll have to narrow the angle on one side if I'm backing up into a narrow spot, but that's rare.
The solution is to stop using laminated layers of thin sheet metal for the roof pillars and to use something more durable for a given volume.
The implementation of side-curtain airbags and of stronger roof-strength requirements should not come at the expense of something as fundamental as view.
Another problem is that true Communism isn't supposed to have leaders. There isn't supposed to be a Politburo. It's almost more like Anarchy but where everyone is taken care of than anything else, but leaders are not willing to give up their power to transition to that phase, and end up as dictators or oligarchs. It's simply a change in who is benefiting fro the toil of the workers, they still get the shaft.
Worker-owned companies, often Employee Stock-Option Programs or ESOPs are still a form of captialism, but with the ownership of capital more specially distributed than normal. It's more like a partnership where everyone working there is a partner to a certain degree. The company is owned by the partners, the workers or former workers in this case, and they benefit directly from the company's success.
If I understand the principal intent of Communism, the individual is to be provided for without question, and the individual is supposed to work to the best of their abilities without question. The problem with this is that lots of people won't work if they're provided for without having to do so, and if the system attempts to impose metrics on individuals to compel them to work, they'll look for ways to skirt the rules. In manufacturing that means poor quality goods as various stages do the minimum needed to pass, which compounds as the products go through multiple stages of production.
No, but I actually agree with points 1, 6, and 9. Once kids have enough self-esteem to self-motivate, I think it's a disservice to continue to tell them that they're special. Half the time they aren't even unique in any truly meaningful metric, and once kids are out of school and have reached the age of majority then no one is required to care about what happens to them anymore. Giving kids deserved recognition for their achievements is one thing, but recognition needs to be proportional to the achievement and recognition without achievement (ie, participation 'awards') doesn't seem to help.
I think the point of the no-parking-11am-2pm signs is to get people that went drinking the previous night to pick their damn car up in the morning and not leave it until the following evening, and to stop the lunch-rush from turning into a living hell on those streets.
Downtown Tempe has a lot more restrictive parking rules; one has to have permits to park in many of the neighborhoods around the university, even if those neighborhoods have businesses in them.
Most academic leftists I know understand that true Communism can't function because of the human desire to rise above one's peers. True leaderless Communism would have to shoot for the lowest-common-denominator and be more like the Borg Collective as it was originally portrayed in Star Trek: The Next Generation, as it could not tolerate anyone think that they are better than anyone else or trying to be better than anyone else.
Most leftist academics believe that the argument of what should be government-provided versus what should be laissez-faire is the crux, and it's finding a balance. Anyone so leftist as to seek true communism is as unrealistic as anyone thinking that complete capitalism without government moderation of the market would work. Both are fantasies. Both get subsumed into oligarchies or dictatorships in some fashion or another without counter-forces to keep them in check.
When a truck can have a pallet of those Knowles speakers fall off the back of it, then you'll be able to find them.
Even though I work closer to the outskirts of the city than to its core, I actually moved closer to the core when buying the most recent house. Traffic outbound is light in the mornings, and traffic inbound in the afternoon is light until one reaches the actual center. Plus, if work ever does change and require me to go inbound in the mornings, I start closer-in than I would have before.
I can picture it now, a raiding party of Sony Asimos running in to disrupt a national television broadcast, wielding guns that look like video game light guns but with gigawatt lasers, blasting-away at the crew, press researchers, and on-air talent, vaporizing heads on-contact and splurting blood everywhere...