My lifelong friends in my city aren't in my neighborhood, as they're based on common interests, not on geographical proximity, and the distance to drive to leave my neighborhood to find a major road to head their way is a negligible portion of the trip. I am friends with my immediate neighbors, but that's as a result of being immediate neighbors and sharing a common interest in having a nice neighborhood. As they are my immediate neighbors I don't have to drive or even bicycle to see them, I can walk the few feet needed for that. Even when I had to go around the oddly-shaped block to attend a blockwatch meeting, it was still only a walk of a quarter-mile.
My city didn't really exist until after WWII. A lot of neighborhoods that are now bad were built in the fifties, sixties, and even into the seventies with the grid plan, while other neighborhoods built with less rigid designs from those same periods enjoy a lot less crime and poverty. The oldest homes closest to downtown are one of only a very small number of prewar neighborhoods, and for that particular neighborhood, despite having the grid they're some of the most valuable homes in town given their proximity to the downtown white-collar offices and the entertainment venues in the area.
LA isn't laid-out a whole lot different from my city, and there are only a couple of regions where there aren't a whole host of methods to get through without using the freeways. Even those somewhat-isolated areas are served by several freeways and a whole slew of artery roads, so there's no need to duck into collector or neighborhood streets just to get through.
"Except Local Traffic" doesn't work because to enforce, an officer would have to follow the driver from the moment they entered the neighborhood until they left, to ensure that they conducted no business in the neighborhood. "Local Traffic" could be as little as looking at a property with a for-sale sign in front, or driving past a holiday decoration display on the front yard, neither of which would need the car to even stop or slow down very much.
Around here, the neighborhoods that were developed with all straight streets have generally ended up becoming poor neighborhoods. Those with curved streets and cul-de-sacs generally are nicer neighborhoods. Perhaps it's related to laying out the roads so that people that have no legitimate business in the neighborhood have no incentive to drive through it either, which would maintain a degree of exclusivity through a passive design.
The main artery streets can still be an organized grid.
Or petition your city to reduce the number of streets that can be used to enter the neighborhood or to exit it. I the traffic commute predominately flows one direction, make the neighborhood flow the opposite direction, so that there's no benefit to driving through.
I've seen this done around shopping malls, sports stadiums, popular downtowns that have festivals, all sorts of places where the neighborhood itself doesn't have 'destinations' in it. It just requires a civic-minded neighborhood to make the effort, rather than to just sit at home and do nothing about it.
I don't think that a TV series would have kept it. Nearly all science fiction shows have lampshaded it with some sort of technology. Doctor Who explains that the TARDIS does it. Farscape did it with injectable nano devices of some kind. Star Trek does it with the Universal Translator. Babylon 5 explains that since the station's primary function is commerce and since commerce for humans is generally conducted in English, that's why nearly everyone who speaks with humans speaks in English, and if everyone speaks English as a second language because they came to the station for commerce purposes, they'd probably speak English with each other as well.
Language would get in the way of storytelling if this wasn't handled this way, unless a major part of the plot was to try to figure out how to communicate. Stargate the feature film had this, but the TV show could not have sustained itself on that.
Are you certain of that? Bear in mind, when interpreting the Constitution of the United States, judges do look at other influencing documents from the time, like The Federalist Papers, which are not themselves legal documents.
Latin is probably the example that Wells was going for, given that its primary use seems to be in Roman Catholicism and at the time, was the only language that Catholic Mass was conducted in. Given that The Time Machine was published in 1895, and Itamar Ben-Avi was only born in 1882 so his father's experiment to turn him into the first modern Hebrew speaker probably wouldn't have been widely known of yet.
I hope you're right. I also hope that the significant amount of published literature discussing the nature of the license can count for enough public comment to deflate arguments that the violator didn't know of any other interpretations of the license beyond their own.
...he may be the originator of the license, but he'll probably not come across well when talking. Think of Cumberbatch's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in The Reichnbach Fall as an example. Does more harm than good.
Economics is Machiavellian, in the sense that when one is in a position of power, one can use that power for one's advantage to the disadvantage of others, but one must understand that the others one harms will remember being harmed and might choose to harm in return. There are consequences for one's actions.
Is there a price-point where raising it doesn't raise the ire of those wanting fuel? Possibly. Did this gas-station owner hit that point? Absolutely not. As a consequence his customers chose to shop elsewhere even once his prices returned to normal.
Until Apple's or Samsung's compromised corporate network becomes a medium through which Chinese competitors can gain access to the designs, certainly.
Sure, an IP-disrespecting competitor will then have to learn through trial and error how to actually manufacture the new tech in the chip, but reverse-engineering an existing thing is often easier than coming up with it in the first place.
Can you imagine the genetic testing that could have been done to test this? Imagine, freaky-looking birds WITH TEETH, and they get loose!
A friend of mine has a flock of feral peach-faced lovebirds that visits her bird feeder, there are about a dozen of them and they're probably several-generations out from the pet-escapees that started the flock. BIRDS WITH TEETH could probably survive without direct human care. And it would be frightening.
For those that don't know what I'm referring to, give Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun a read. It's a tongue-in-cheek murder-mystery set at a science fiction convention. The murder victim is essentially Harlan Ellison, if not in name.
I'm not proud of myself for knowing who people like Meghan Trainor and Ariana Grande are, but I guess I pay enough attention to what passes for culture these days to usually have a clue when names come up. And I have no idea who Bennett Haselton is. So much for celebrity endorsement.
I guess Mr. Branson is discovering that applied science and engineering is a little harder than telling one's vision to one's lieutenants and instructing them to make it happen.
The Apollo programme was 4% of GDP, by itself. If I understand correctly, to date it has been the most expensive and ambitious applied sciences and engineering project that mankind has ever undertaken. I commend those that want to push the private bounds to recreate Apollo-type objectives, but even with techological improvements and increased knowledge from learning from the past it'll still be VERY expensive and VERY difficult.
the real solution here is to put pressure on the govt employees so there has to be a "cool down" time after they conclude their govt service and before going to a regulated company. For example 12 months.
Unfortunately, depending on the nature of the job, a full year out of work in that industry might make difficult to remain relevant.
There really isn't a good solution. Either one accepts that those that have extensive knowledge of an industry are going to, from time to time, be able to translate their experience on one side to benefit them on the other side in exchange for hopefully being able to do a good job on both sides, or you end up with inexperienced people making more mistakes or worse decisions than the experienced ones that potentially post a conflict of interest.
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My lifelong friends in my city aren't in my neighborhood, as they're based on common interests, not on geographical proximity, and the distance to drive to leave my neighborhood to find a major road to head their way is a negligible portion of the trip. I am friends with my immediate neighbors, but that's as a result of being immediate neighbors and sharing a common interest in having a nice neighborhood. As they are my immediate neighbors I don't have to drive or even bicycle to see them, I can walk the few feet needed for that. Even when I had to go around the oddly-shaped block to attend a blockwatch meeting, it was still only a walk of a quarter-mile.
My city didn't really exist until after WWII. A lot of neighborhoods that are now bad were built in the fifties, sixties, and even into the seventies with the grid plan, while other neighborhoods built with less rigid designs from those same periods enjoy a lot less crime and poverty. The oldest homes closest to downtown are one of only a very small number of prewar neighborhoods, and for that particular neighborhood, despite having the grid they're some of the most valuable homes in town given their proximity to the downtown white-collar offices and the entertainment venues in the area.
Not all cities followed the "white flight" model.
LA isn't laid-out a whole lot different from my city, and there are only a couple of regions where there aren't a whole host of methods to get through without using the freeways. Even those somewhat-isolated areas are served by several freeways and a whole slew of artery roads, so there's no need to duck into collector or neighborhood streets just to get through.
"Except Local Traffic" doesn't work because to enforce, an officer would have to follow the driver from the moment they entered the neighborhood until they left, to ensure that they conducted no business in the neighborhood. "Local Traffic" could be as little as looking at a property with a for-sale sign in front, or driving past a holiday decoration display on the front yard, neither of which would need the car to even stop or slow down very much.
Sure it is. Article on the subject.
Around here, the neighborhoods that were developed with all straight streets have generally ended up becoming poor neighborhoods. Those with curved streets and cul-de-sacs generally are nicer neighborhoods. Perhaps it's related to laying out the roads so that people that have no legitimate business in the neighborhood have no incentive to drive through it either, which would maintain a degree of exclusivity through a passive design.
The main artery streets can still be an organized grid.
Or petition your city to reduce the number of streets that can be used to enter the neighborhood or to exit it. I the traffic commute predominately flows one direction, make the neighborhood flow the opposite direction, so that there's no benefit to driving through.
I've seen this done around shopping malls, sports stadiums, popular downtowns that have festivals, all sorts of places where the neighborhood itself doesn't have 'destinations' in it. It just requires a civic-minded neighborhood to make the effort, rather than to just sit at home and do nothing about it.
I don't think that a TV series would have kept it. Nearly all science fiction shows have lampshaded it with some sort of technology. Doctor Who explains that the TARDIS does it. Farscape did it with injectable nano devices of some kind. Star Trek does it with the Universal Translator. Babylon 5 explains that since the station's primary function is commerce and since commerce for humans is generally conducted in English, that's why nearly everyone who speaks with humans speaks in English, and if everyone speaks English as a second language because they came to the station for commerce purposes, they'd probably speak English with each other as well.
Language would get in the way of storytelling if this wasn't handled this way, unless a major part of the plot was to try to figure out how to communicate. Stargate the feature film had this, but the TV show could not have sustained itself on that.
Are you certain of that? Bear in mind, when interpreting the Constitution of the United States, judges do look at other influencing documents from the time, like The Federalist Papers, which are not themselves legal documents.
He might be a dumb-ass, but he's a VERY effective troll too...
Latin is probably the example that Wells was going for, given that its primary use seems to be in Roman Catholicism and at the time, was the only language that Catholic Mass was conducted in. Given that The Time Machine was published in 1895, and Itamar Ben-Avi was only born in 1882 so his father's experiment to turn him into the first modern Hebrew speaker probably wouldn't have been widely known of yet.
I hope you're right. I also hope that the significant amount of published literature discussing the nature of the license can count for enough public comment to deflate arguments that the violator didn't know of any other interpretations of the license beyond their own.
...he may be the originator of the license, but he'll probably not come across well when talking. Think of Cumberbatch's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in The Reichnbach Fall as an example. Does more harm than good.
Economics is Machiavellian, in the sense that when one is in a position of power, one can use that power for one's advantage to the disadvantage of others, but one must understand that the others one harms will remember being harmed and might choose to harm in return. There are consequences for one's actions.
Is there a price-point where raising it doesn't raise the ire of those wanting fuel? Possibly. Did this gas-station owner hit that point? Absolutely not. As a consequence his customers chose to shop elsewhere even once his prices returned to normal.
Until Apple's or Samsung's compromised corporate network becomes a medium through which Chinese competitors can gain access to the designs, certainly.
Sure, an IP-disrespecting competitor will then have to learn through trial and error how to actually manufacture the new tech in the chip, but reverse-engineering an existing thing is often easier than coming up with it in the first place.
Does Slashdot pay by the word?
Chicken. Dino-chicken. It's the greatest food in his-to-reeee!
From the... Isla Son-ra... I think it will try to kill meeee....
...when everyone is storing everything on the cloud, and relying on the cloud's encryption to protect them.
Never saw the movie. I try to not judge books by their covers^H^H^H^H^H^Hmovies.
Can you imagine the genetic testing that could have been done to test this? Imagine, freaky-looking birds WITH TEETH, and they get loose!
A friend of mine has a flock of feral peach-faced lovebirds that visits her bird feeder, there are about a dozen of them and they're probably several-generations out from the pet-escapees that started the flock. BIRDS WITH TEETH could probably survive without direct human care. And it would be frightening.
There was a book about this. It was called The Island of Doctor Moreau.
So, like a super-fan?
For those that don't know what I'm referring to, give Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun a read. It's a tongue-in-cheek murder-mystery set at a science fiction convention. The murder victim is essentially Harlan Ellison, if not in name.
Who?
I'm not proud of myself for knowing who people like Meghan Trainor and Ariana Grande are, but I guess I pay enough attention to what passes for culture these days to usually have a clue when names come up. And I have no idea who Bennett Haselton is. So much for celebrity endorsement.
I guess Mr. Branson is discovering that applied science and engineering is a little harder than telling one's vision to one's lieutenants and instructing them to make it happen.
The Apollo programme was 4% of GDP, by itself. If I understand correctly, to date it has been the most expensive and ambitious applied sciences and engineering project that mankind has ever undertaken. I commend those that want to push the private bounds to recreate Apollo-type objectives, but even with techological improvements and increased knowledge from learning from the past it'll still be VERY expensive and VERY difficult.
Unfortunately, depending on the nature of the job, a full year out of work in that industry might make difficult to remain relevant.
There really isn't a good solution. Either one accepts that those that have extensive knowledge of an industry are going to, from time to time, be able to translate their experience on one side to benefit them on the other side in exchange for hopefully being able to do a good job on both sides, or you end up with inexperienced people making more mistakes or worse decisions than the experienced ones that potentially post a conflict of interest.