Cell towers are required to have generator backup for a week. Of course if the storm knocks out the back haul you get nothing, but that can also happen to your pots, but chances are any random tree blow down will kill your pots long before that.
E911 exceeds pots capabilities in every way. Cell towers have battery and generator backup, and you cell can be charged in your car. Or 20 bucks gets you auxiliary battery to charge your phone multiple times.
Atmospheric lead gets rained out over the whole ocean, no?
The story was not clear that they even checked anywhere else, and absent that, all they can say is this is what we found here, but it could be a lot worse elsewhere.
Please supply a citation that shows that Americans are NOT significantly more criminal. Your own citation tends to suggest that we ARE more criminal than others.
In which cultures on your citation have rampant gangs, massive drug smuggling, and REPEATED school shootings, armed bank robberies? We are more criminal because we can get away with it.
Our justice system still has Juries last time I checked.
Now, we have to worry about the spooks from China, spooks from NSA, and the RESIDENT spooks.
I agree, hiring someone who wasn't good enough to keep his job at the NSA/CIA to protect your business, seems sort of crazy. They can't even use the knowledge they might have gained while employed there. Employing one of these guys probably attracts more interest in your network from those three letter agencies.
And farming out yet more of your network to cloud providers and web based services just seems risky. Web based! Nobody has broken SSL right?
I think that's giving more credit to the cop than is deserved. As you said, the guy was stopped. The cop is already ignoring the spirit of the law. I doubt the cop would pay attention to the specific lettering of the law which would draw a distinction between GPS only and cell phones.
Had the motorist spent 10 bucks for a generic window mount, there would't have been an issue.
However, the judges ruling doesn't specify that you can mess with your phone if stopped, it just says you can mess with your phone as long as you are not "listening and talking" on the phone other than hands free .
Now the law has to be amended, to make it clear that you can't be fiddling with a phone while driving, and that includes while stopped at lights or in heavy traffic. Because as it stands, playing Angry Birds, or watching porn is ok.
I was wondering why it only appears in the known Ocean Currents.
Is this a case of looking for your lost keys under the streetlamp because its easier to see there? Do they not find any evidence in areas away from the currents?
Maybe they didn't take random bottom readings anywhere else. Or maybe it settled out everywhere else but within the currents. Oh, that's it. Its Settled Science.
Reform of the individual is an important part of why we put people in prison.
Nobody believes that any more. Not even the corrections departments make any effort to reform, because 100 years of trying has taught them that it doesn't work.
some people will use any human contact AT ALL to try to become violent.
Sure, some people will. But no where near 80,000 people. If such high rates of solitary confinement were really necessary, then can you explain why no other country in the world has rates anywhere near as high?
First, you are making an assertion you can't back up with hard facts. Second, at least some other countries just stand you up for a firing squad if you misbehave in prison. Also some other countries (Norks) still allow "work camps", entire towns of slave labor. Then there is gangs. Our own, and the Mexicans. Do you suppose Norway has gangs, or Saudi Arabia?
Our official policy is to let a problem get so bad that only stern measures are left, because preventative action is not allowed. As someone up thread says, you really have to try to get into prison, and once there you really have to try to get into solitary confinement. Nobody slips on a banana and falls into prison. It takes hard work and long term dedication to get there. And in spite of one best efforts to go to jail and stay there, people like you come around wanting setting them free to do it all over again.
Yeah, but the moment society closes the doors out of vindictiveness, it's pulled out all the control rods. Unfortunately, the road from being considered law abiding citizen to 'unemployable criminal' grows shorter every day. Once that point is reached, there's no longer any reason to care about anyone else's rules or artificial limitations. There's nothing more to lose.
The summary also says that some prisoners prefer it.
Of course it also says this:
But the real problem is that solitary confinement is ineffective as a rehabilitation technique and indelibly harmful to the mental health of those detained achieving the opposite of the supposed goal of rehabilitating them for re-entry into society.
And that sentence points out the major failure with TFS, and TFA, and your assertions above.
Nobody believes the goal is to rehabilitate any more. A couple hundred years of recidivism statistics has totally washed that nonsense off the slate. Most of the hard core prisoners will never re-enter society. They are in there precisely to protect society from THEM, not the other way around.
They are never going to be model citizens. Society has nothing to gain by playing the rehabilitation with these people any more.
If they can't get along in the general population, and require solitary, what makes you think the goal is to re-introduce them to society? (And never mind quoting what it says in the prison system enabling statutes, and the wishful thinking that goes into calling the prison systems "department of corrections". Nobody believes that any more)
When in France, you are much more likely to find shopkeepers who will actually speak to you in English BEFORE you open your wallet showing US currency.
In Quebec, they don't speak English, unless you have a $10 US bill in your hand, looking like you might spend it.
Yes, but don't jump to the conclusion that I trust government money all that much. I've been hurt by government money. At least Bitcoin hasn't injured me financially. It was an enjoyable toy for me. But trust really wasn't involved.
Its a passtime, and a toy. I never did have any trust in it. It seemed ripe for running afoul of governments sooner or later.
The idea of wasting perfectly good electricity creating something of value out of nothing at all never head any of my interest, even when I did manage to buy a book with bitcoin once. (I earned the bitcoin by selling a piece of software that I wrote, so easy come, easy go).
Read the submission. It is long and the meat is at the end.
The Obama administration refused to use laws related to subsidized imports to stop off-shoring. Now the visual artists have some real legal ground to stand on to compel the administration to stop or tariff subsidized overseas work.
Look, a casual filing with the FTC on a low-level unrelated matter does not change the law. It doesn't constitute "Legal Ground".
Its just a letter of opinion on a specific issue. Nothing compels the MPAA to hold a consistent opinion in other (tangentially related) matters.
The letter under discussion involved importation of movies/music for sale to the public. That's a far cry from Work for hire, which is what Visual Effects work is.
Mountain, Mole Hill. Straws grasped at. Its not the same thing.
And, no, I'm not an MPAA shill, hate the bastards as much as the next guy.
It doesn't "falsely makes it looks like the actors supported this film", and the WHOLE POINT of freedom of speech is that you don't get to PICK AND CHOOSE.
Also the subsidies for an ICE (oil and refinery subsidies) vehicle are built into the subsidized fuel price. So the $7,500 electric vehicle subsidy should be included as part of the price as well for an Apples to Apples vehicle cost comparison.
Exactly.
Most of those so called "subsidies" are provided in the form of facilities. Roads.
Take what ever you prefer to think of as a subsidy, and compare it to the cost of roads. The cost to build roads exceeds all other supposed "subsidies" you can marshal.
So since Electric Cars pay no gas tax, you can make the case that tax break they get is exactly backward, and it should perhaps be a $1430 tax bill instead.
The US fleet average for cars 35.6 MPG. (Note: that seems unrealistically optimistic). The average US gas tax is 49.72 cents per gallon.
Its easy to get 100,000 miles out of current production cars. So the average car will consume an optimistic 2,857 gallons of fuel over 100k miles, and pay gas taxes of around $1430 to the road maintenance fund.
A more realistic estimate of MPG is probably closer to 20, which would show the ICE vehicle contributing $2,270 to road maintenance over the same 100k miles.
Since there is no reason to expect an EV to damage the roads LESS than an ICE vehicle, they might not be paying their fair share of road maintenance tax. States are already becoming aware of this because gas tax revenues are falling short simply due to better MPG in recent years, and having a whole new class of electric only vehicles is going to impact that shortfall even more.
I think you can expect to see that $7500 tax break disappear over the next few years.
The point is that Science Fiction authors have to simply assume some things into existence, usually without a lot of explanation or examination of the actual science behind it. They need a hook to allow stuff in their stories that can't be done, either at the time or ever. That they get lucky sometimes, and something actually comes true is always attributed to huge omniscience and foresight.
Clark was no different. He was just more well read than most. He didn't even invent the concept of a space elevator. A couple of Russians did.
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Cell towers are required to have generator backup for a week.
Of course if the storm knocks out the back haul you get nothing, but that can also happen to your pots, but chances are any random tree blow down will kill your pots long before that.
E911 exceeds pots capabilities in every way.
Cell towers have battery and generator backup, and you cell can be charged in your car.
Or 20 bucks gets you auxiliary battery to charge your phone multiple times.
Or use your google voice number for zero dollars per month.
Magic Jack and Vonage are rip offs.
With most people moving to cellphones, the days of the house phone are numbered.
Wait, why is that the most predictable place?
Atmospheric lead gets rained out over the whole ocean, no?
The story was not clear that they even checked anywhere else, and absent that, all they can say is
this is what we found here, but it could be a lot worse elsewhere.
You live in one of the safest countries on Earth by any metric, at one of the safest points in time in history.
So the justice system is working then?
K, thanks, bye.
Oh, boy, way to leap to conclusions.
Please supply a citation that shows that Americans are NOT significantly more criminal. Your own citation tends to suggest that we ARE more criminal than others.
In which cultures on your citation have rampant gangs, massive drug smuggling, and REPEATED school shootings, armed bank robberies?
We are more criminal because we can get away with it.
Our justice system still has Juries last time I checked.
Now, we have to worry about the spooks from China, spooks from NSA, and the RESIDENT spooks.
I agree, hiring someone who wasn't good enough to keep his job at the NSA/CIA to protect your business, seems sort of crazy. They can't even use the knowledge they might have gained while employed there. Employing one of these guys probably attracts more interest in your network from those three letter agencies.
And farming out yet more of your network to cloud providers and web based services just seems risky. Web based! Nobody has broken SSL right?
Is it mostly just CA and NY that ban all things cell phone while operating a vehicle?
How did you get this deep into the conversation and not realize CA does NOT ban all things cell phone?
The story is about CA.
I think that's giving more credit to the cop than is deserved. As you said, the guy was stopped. The cop is already ignoring the spirit of the law. I doubt the cop would pay attention to the specific lettering of the law which would draw a distinction between GPS only and cell phones.
Had the motorist spent 10 bucks for a generic window mount, there would't have been an issue.
However, the judges ruling doesn't specify that you can mess with your phone if stopped, it just says you can mess with your phone as long as you are not "listening and talking" on the phone other than hands free .
Now the law has to be amended, to make it clear that you can't be fiddling with a phone while driving, and that includes while stopped at lights
or in heavy traffic. Because as it stands, playing Angry Birds, or watching porn is ok.
Would have been nice if a post mentioning an Unveiling would at least link to the picture.
http://www.newscientist.com/da...
What they got is bones.
I was wondering why it only appears in the known Ocean Currents.
Is this a case of looking for your lost keys under the streetlamp because its easier to see there?
Do they not find any evidence in areas away from the currents?
Maybe they didn't take random bottom readings anywhere else. Or maybe it settled out everywhere else but
within the currents. Oh, that's it. Its Settled Science.
The psychopaths and sociopaths that control prisons are the inmates.
The only thing they don't control is the keys.
Reform of the individual is an important part of why we put people in prison.
Nobody believes that any more.
Not even the corrections departments make any effort to reform, because 100 years of trying has taught them
that it doesn't work.
some people will use any human contact AT ALL to try to become violent.
Sure, some people will. But no where near 80,000 people. If such high rates of solitary confinement were really necessary, then can you explain why no other country in the world has rates anywhere near as high?
First, you are making an assertion you can't back up with hard facts.
Second, at least some other countries just stand you up for a firing squad if you misbehave in prison.
Also some other countries (Norks) still allow "work camps", entire towns of slave labor.
Then there is gangs. Our own, and the Mexicans.
Do you suppose Norway has gangs, or Saudi Arabia?
Our official policy is to let a problem get so bad that only stern measures are left, because preventative action is not allowed. As someone up thread says, you really have to try to get into prison, and once there you really have to try to get into solitary confinement. Nobody slips on a banana and falls into prison. It takes hard work and long term dedication to get there.
And in spite of one best efforts to go to jail and stay there, people like you come around wanting setting them free to do it all over again.
So what? Most of those don't end up in solitary confinement. They do their time, then go right back to doing their drugs.
Its the murders rapists etc that end up in solitary.
Yeah, but the moment society closes the doors out of vindictiveness, it's pulled out all the control rods. Unfortunately, the road from being considered law abiding citizen to 'unemployable criminal' grows shorter every day. Once that point is reached, there's no longer any reason to care about anyone else's rules or artificial limitations. There's nothing more to lose.
The summary also says that some prisoners prefer it.
Of course it also says this:
But the real problem is that solitary confinement is ineffective as a rehabilitation technique and indelibly harmful to the mental health of those detained achieving the opposite of the supposed goal of rehabilitating them for re-entry into society.
And that sentence points out the major failure with TFS, and TFA, and your assertions above.
Nobody believes the goal is to rehabilitate any more. A couple hundred years of recidivism statistics has totally washed that nonsense off the slate.
Most of the hard core prisoners will never re-enter society. They are in there precisely to protect society from THEM, not the other way around.
By the time you get a 20 year sentence in this lenient justice system, you have already proven yourself a recidivist.
They are never going to be model citizens. Society has nothing to gain by playing the rehabilitation with these people any more.
If they can't get along in the general population, and require solitary, what makes you think the goal is to re-introduce them to society?
(And never mind quoting what it says in the prison system enabling statutes, and the wishful thinking that goes into calling the
prison systems "department of corrections". Nobody believes that any more)
this is Canada, not France
When it comes to Quebec, what's the difference?
When in France, you are much more likely to find shopkeepers who will actually speak to you
in English BEFORE you open your wallet showing US currency.
In Quebec, they don't speak English, unless you have a $10 US bill in your hand, looking
like you might spend it.
Yes, but don't jump to the conclusion that I trust government money all that much.
I've been hurt by government money. At least Bitcoin hasn't injured me financially. It was an enjoyable toy for me.
But trust really wasn't involved.
Most things I consume were created out of water and sunlight.
Its a passtime, and a toy. I never did have any trust in it. It seemed ripe for running afoul of governments sooner or later.
The idea of wasting perfectly good electricity creating something of value out of nothing at all never head any of my interest, even when I did manage to buy a book with bitcoin once. (I earned the bitcoin by selling a piece of software that I wrote, so easy come, easy go).
Read the submission. It is long and the meat is at the end.
The Obama administration refused to use laws related to subsidized imports to stop off-shoring. Now the visual artists have some real legal ground to stand on to compel the administration to stop or tariff subsidized overseas work.
Look, a casual filing with the FTC on a low-level unrelated matter does not change the law.
It doesn't constitute "Legal Ground".
Its just a letter of opinion on a specific issue.
Nothing compels the MPAA to hold a consistent opinion in other (tangentially related) matters.
The letter under discussion involved importation of movies/music for sale to the public.
That's a far cry from Work for hire, which is what Visual Effects work is.
Mountain, Mole Hill.
Straws grasped at.
Its not the same thing.
And, no, I'm not an MPAA shill, hate the bastards as much as the next guy.
It doesn't "falsely makes it looks like the actors supported this film", and the WHOLE POINT of freedom of speech is that you don't get to PICK AND CHOOSE.
Yup, pretty much. All you need is one disgruntled person who was even tangentially involved to come forward and complain, (about anything).
This is why the Ninth needs to be dismantled.
This would get laughed out of court anywhere else if even so much as a dollar changed hands.
Also the subsidies for an ICE (oil and refinery subsidies) vehicle are built into the subsidized fuel price. So the $7,500 electric vehicle subsidy should be included as part of the price as well for an Apples to Apples vehicle cost comparison.
Exactly.
Most of those so called "subsidies" are provided in the form of facilities. Roads.
Take what ever you prefer to think of as a subsidy, and compare it to the cost of roads. The cost to build roads exceeds all other supposed "subsidies" you can marshal.
So since Electric Cars pay no gas tax, you can make the case that tax break they get is exactly backward, and it should perhaps be a $1430 tax bill instead.
The US fleet average for cars 35.6 MPG. (Note: that seems unrealistically optimistic).
The average US gas tax is 49.72 cents per gallon.
Its easy to get 100,000 miles out of current production cars.
So the average car will consume an optimistic 2,857 gallons of fuel over 100k miles, and pay gas taxes of around $1430 to the road maintenance fund.
A more realistic estimate of MPG is probably closer to 20, which would show the ICE vehicle contributing $2,270 to road maintenance over the same 100k miles.
Since there is no reason to expect an EV to damage the roads LESS than an ICE vehicle, they might not be paying their fair share of road maintenance tax. States are already becoming aware of this because gas tax revenues are falling short simply due to better MPG in recent years, and having a whole new class of electric only vehicles is going to impact that shortfall even more.
I think you can expect to see that $7500 tax break disappear over the next few years.
Talk to a physicist.
The point is that Science Fiction authors have to simply assume some things into existence, usually without a lot of explanation or examination of the actual science behind it. They need a hook to allow stuff in their stories that can't be done, either at the time or ever.
That they get lucky sometimes, and something actually comes true is always attributed to huge omniscience and foresight.
Clark was no different. He was just more well read than most. He didn't even invent the concept of a space elevator. A couple of Russians did.