Do the same for scrap metal dealers what they do here for pawnshops. Put a four week hold on all payments. Payment by cheque only, mailed to the name and address of the government ID of the person selling the scrap metal. Discourages 90% of the "disorganized" (i.e. drug addicts and homeless) opportunistic or desperation type theft. The delay also lets the power and telco companies come around and retrieve their stolen goods before they get shipped off or melted down.
WTF? Since when is driving over 70 mph universally illegal. Last time I drove in Europe, the autobahn I was on had no speed limit. I was hitting top speeds of about 160 km/h (about 100 mph) and cars were passing me like I was standing still. I believe there are a few states (Montana? Texas?) in the USA with no speed limits on some highways, and for sure I have seen highways posted at 75 mph limit.
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Why would Apple need such an expensive desktop machine. $1500 will buy five entry level e-machine type boxes, or three decent mid range HP home/small business computers. If you spend $1500 on a single PC you could get a quad core i7, 16GB RAM at least a TB of hard disk a nice mid range gamer video card and still maybe have some money left over.
There is a great short story about this, I think by Harry Turtledove. One of these alternate history concepts, where the Nazis end up ruling India instead of the British. When Gandhi tries his non-violent resistance the Germans arrest him. After a brief interview with the German commander, who is genuinely curious why Gandhi thinks his methods would have any effect on the German occupation, the German have him shot out of hand. End of story.
Then the companies that buy from China and sell to us would get their goods from Vietnam or Malaysia or Thailand or someplace else. China has a lot of cheap labor, but they don't have a monopoly. Also if China stops shipping to the West all their factories close and you suddenly put 300 million people out of work. The Chinese government is far more afraid of the social unrest that would cause than they are of Western criticism of their human rights record.
"I do believe the science suggesting Marijuana can lead to mental illness" - That's not what the science says. The science says there is a correlation. It could just as easily be explained by suggesting that people with mental illness find relief from their symptoms by smoking weed. As further food for thought, consider that recent studies show as many as 80% of schizophrenics smoke tobacco. No one is suggesting tobacco causes schizophrenia are they?
"will deteriorate after 10 years or so" - Have you been microwaving nachos on them or something. My oldest Cd is Master of Puppets which I go the day it hit the stores in 1986. I put it on the other day and it sounds perfect. My main source of music is still CDs. I would guess that 80% of my collection is pre-1995 and they all still sound fine. The only special care they get is I don't play them in the car. (Burned copies instead, go ahead and steal them). Seriously, what are you doing to trash them so fast?
There are not a lot of covers that beat the original, for sure Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower, has to be at the top of the list. Johnny Cash - Hurt, Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah, Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust. Unfortunately for every one of those are there are 10 that try but fail and another 100 that should never have been recorded ever. For try but fail see Pearl Jam - Last Kiss, Metallica - Astronomy, GNR - Live and Let Die. For should never have been recorded see Brittney - Satisfaction, Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes, Celine Dion - You Shook Me All Night Long (fucking hilarious or excruciating earache - you decide), and any hip hop cover that samples the first 2 lines of some seventies pop song and then lurches suddenly into somebody rapping something completely unrelated. Um....what were we talking about again?
How is 15000 miles a year excessive or wasteful? Around here if you work downtown and live in the burbs you can take transit to work and park the car (I do). But if work is outside of downtown in some business park or industrial area transit is mostly unfeasible. A 30 mile trip to work is hardly unusual. Sixty miles a day = 300 miles a week = 15000 miles a year (roughly). That doesn't include vacation car trips which could be easily another 2000 or 3000 miles in a 2 week trip.
Do what I do. Store the unhallowed debris of your grimy little soul in a true crypt file. When you shuffle off to meet your maker the passphrase goes with you. Need web access, put it on dropbox.
I realize this is slightly offtopic, and I agree that an automated car might sometimes do the opposite of what the driver wants. However, with respect to the ABS I'll say this. You need to learn how to drive with the ABS on. This is not a skill you already have, and learning it in an emergency situation... well, you know how that ended up. The whole point of ABS is that you can apply maximum braking power and still steer the car. Next time it snows, go find an empty parking lot and go nuts with the ABS. A good, "aware and in tune with his car", driver will master controlled panic stops (nice oxmoron eh..) in about 5 minutes. Added bonus, this is a lot of fun.
Anecdote: The first year the Calgary police bought cars with ABS they cracked up twice as many in one winter as the cars without ABS. As soon as the ABS started vibrating the pedal the cops backed off on the brakes and smacked into whatever they were trying to avoid. Once they added ABS practice to the emergency driving training the accident rate went down to where the ABS cars had only half as many accidents as the non-ABS cars.
Fair enough. The GP could be read that way. The idea that doing the obvious and expected thing is "gaming the system" makes my head hurt a bit.
Also, once I learned "the material that would be on the test" I still had time to mess around in the labs and get into chem and physics and programming beyond the basic stuff we had to do to pass the course. Now my kids have these advanced classes, where they first learn the same stuff as the regular classes, but at an accelerated pace. Then they get to go beyond the basics and hit the topics in greater depth. In my case I had to get the advanced stuff on my own (and with the help of a few excellent and understanding teachers). Maybe not all schools offer this (they should). In a perfect world they would expend as much time and energy helping the kids who are 2 standard deviations above the mean as they do helping the ones who are 2 standard deviations below the mean.
Why do you think kids need to "game the system to get 'A's. You can get 'A's the normal way. I got my A marks by studying, reviewing and understanding the material. Now 25 years later my kids are doing the same.Read the notes, do the problems, write the practice tests, learn and understand. No gaming required. It does help to be smart. Lots of time left for sports, art, hanging out with freinds and just being a kid.
What you say is somewhat true. Fortunately smoking is not the only way (or the best way) to consume Cannabis. You can vaporize, which involves no smoke or carcinogenic tars or you can cook it any number of ways.
Well he ran down the hall and he cried
Oh how could his garments have lied
When they said he was an only son
He thought he was the only one
Oh what a lonely boy
Oh what a lonely boy
Oh what a lonely boy
My #1 annoyance is the grid view. I can move every column except the song name which is locked on the far left. WTF?? Any Apple fanbois want to explain that one? Am I the only person who wants to order things by Artist > Album > Track Number > Song Name?
I was trying to find leak in my brake system. My friend who is a mechanic told me to pinch off first the front brakes and then the backs. If the pedal is still soft with the fronts shut off, the leak is in the back or vise versa. He also warned me not to drive it like that and what would happen if I did. For the record, both rear wheel cylinders were leaking. I replaced them and the car was good as new.
Wrong method, it leaves obvious evidence. Clip some vicegrips on the flex hoses going to the front wheel cylinders. You've just eliminated 60% of the cars braking power. The pedal feels normal, or even a bit firmer than usual. Do it right and the vicegrips will come off when the car hits whatever it hits when the brakes (mostly) fail.
Our local police had 18 single vehicle low speed accidents last year, all caused by the officer being distracted by looking at his mobile data terminal while driving. As of last month it is now illegal to text or talk on a phone (except for hands free) while driving. The police have not yet said whether they feel this law applies to their on board terminals or not.
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Do or do not.. there is no try.
Do the same for scrap metal dealers what they do here for pawnshops. Put a four week hold on all payments. Payment by cheque only, mailed to the name and address of the government ID of the person selling the scrap metal. Discourages 90% of the "disorganized" (i.e. drug addicts and homeless) opportunistic or desperation type theft. The delay also lets the power and telco companies come around and retrieve their stolen goods before they get shipped off or melted down.
WTF? Since when is driving over 70 mph universally illegal. Last time I drove in Europe, the autobahn I was on had no speed limit. I was hitting top speeds of about 160 km/h (about 100 mph) and cars were passing me like I was standing still. I believe there are a few states (Montana? Texas?) in the USA with no speed limits on some highways, and for sure I have seen highways posted at 75 mph limit.
Why would Apple need such an expensive desktop machine. $1500 will buy five entry level e-machine type boxes, or three decent mid range HP home/small business computers. If you spend $1500 on a single PC you could get a quad core i7, 16GB RAM at least a TB of hard disk a nice mid range gamer video card and still maybe have some money left over.
There is a great short story about this, I think by Harry Turtledove. One of these alternate history concepts, where the Nazis end up ruling India instead of the British. When Gandhi tries his non-violent resistance the Germans arrest him. After a brief interview with the German commander, who is genuinely curious why Gandhi thinks his methods would have any effect on the German occupation, the German have him shot out of hand. End of story.
Then the companies that buy from China and sell to us would get their goods from Vietnam or Malaysia or Thailand or someplace else. China has a lot of cheap labor, but they don't have a monopoly. Also if China stops shipping to the West all their factories close and you suddenly put 300 million people out of work. The Chinese government is far more afraid of the social unrest that would cause than they are of Western criticism of their human rights record.
"I do believe the science suggesting Marijuana can lead to mental illness" - That's not what the science says. The science says there is a correlation. It could just as easily be explained by suggesting that people with mental illness find relief from their symptoms by smoking weed. As further food for thought, consider that recent studies show as many as 80% of schizophrenics smoke tobacco. No one is suggesting tobacco causes schizophrenia are they?
Much as we all like to look down on Americans, you are way off the mark here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette_consumption_per_capita. Other countries drink twice as much and smoke 3 times as much as the USA. If you want to know what de-criminalizing does to pot use look at the Netherlands. About 45% of Americans (where it is illegal) have smoked weed and in the Netherlands (where it is not illegal) only 18% have smoked it.
I feel the same way when someone calls "Whiskey in the Jar" Whiskey in the Jar-oh" (I blame Metallica).
"will deteriorate after 10 years or so" - Have you been microwaving nachos on them or something. My oldest Cd is Master of Puppets which I go the day it hit the stores in 1986. I put it on the other day and it sounds perfect. My main source of music is still CDs. I would guess that 80% of my collection is pre-1995 and they all still sound fine. The only special care they get is I don't play them in the car. (Burned copies instead, go ahead and steal them). Seriously, what are you doing to trash them so fast?
There are not a lot of covers that beat the original, for sure Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower, has to be at the top of the list. Johnny Cash - Hurt, Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah, Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust. Unfortunately for every one of those are there are 10 that try but fail and another 100 that should never have been recorded ever. For try but fail see Pearl Jam - Last Kiss, Metallica - Astronomy, GNR - Live and Let Die. For should never have been recorded see Brittney - Satisfaction, Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes, Celine Dion - You Shook Me All Night Long (fucking hilarious or excruciating earache - you decide), and any hip hop cover that samples the first 2 lines of some seventies pop song and then lurches suddenly into somebody rapping something completely unrelated. Um....what were we talking about again?
How is 15000 miles a year excessive or wasteful? Around here if you work downtown and live in the burbs you can take transit to work and park the car (I do). But if work is outside of downtown in some business park or industrial area transit is mostly unfeasible. A 30 mile trip to work is hardly unusual. Sixty miles a day = 300 miles a week = 15000 miles a year (roughly). That doesn't include vacation car trips which could be easily another 2000 or 3000 miles in a 2 week trip.
Do what I do. Store the unhallowed debris of your grimy little soul in a true crypt file. When you shuffle off to meet your maker the passphrase goes with you. Need web access, put it on dropbox.
I realize this is slightly offtopic, and I agree that an automated car might sometimes do the opposite of what the driver wants. However, with respect to the ABS I'll say this. You need to learn how to drive with the ABS on. This is not a skill you already have, and learning it in an emergency situation... well, you know how that ended up. The whole point of ABS is that you can apply maximum braking power and still steer the car. Next time it snows, go find an empty parking lot and go nuts with the ABS. A good, "aware and in tune with his car", driver will master controlled panic stops (nice oxmoron eh..) in about 5 minutes. Added bonus, this is a lot of fun.
Anecdote: The first year the Calgary police bought cars with ABS they cracked up twice as many in one winter as the cars without ABS. As soon as the ABS started vibrating the pedal the cops backed off on the brakes and smacked into whatever they were trying to avoid. Once they added ABS practice to the emergency driving training the accident rate went down to where the ABS cars had only half as many accidents as the non-ABS cars.
Fair enough. The GP could be read that way. The idea that doing the obvious and expected thing is "gaming the system" makes my head hurt a bit.
Also, once I learned "the material that would be on the test" I still had time to mess around in the labs and get into chem and physics and programming beyond the basic stuff we had to do to pass the course. Now my kids have these advanced classes, where they first learn the same stuff as the regular classes, but at an accelerated pace. Then they get to go beyond the basics and hit the topics in greater depth. In my case I had to get the advanced stuff on my own (and with the help of a few excellent and understanding teachers). Maybe not all schools offer this (they should). In a perfect world they would expend as much time and energy helping the kids who are 2 standard deviations above the mean as they do helping the ones who are 2 standard deviations below the mean.
Why do you think kids need to "game the system to get 'A's. You can get 'A's the normal way. I got my A marks by studying, reviewing and understanding the material. Now 25 years later my kids are doing the same.Read the notes, do the problems, write the practice tests, learn and understand. No gaming required. It does help to be smart. Lots of time left for sports, art, hanging out with freinds and just being a kid.
What you say is somewhat true. Fortunately smoking is not the only way (or the best way) to consume Cannabis. You can vaporize, which involves no smoke or carcinogenic tars or you can cook it any number of ways.
Lemmy>God
It's sad that you have to work someplace where it doesn't.
How is not drinking disease contaminated water not based on medical science?
Well he ran down the hall and he cried Oh how could his garments have lied When they said he was an only son He thought he was the only one Oh what a lonely boy Oh what a lonely boy Oh what a lonely boy
My #1 annoyance is the grid view. I can move every column except the song name which is locked on the far left. WTF?? Any Apple fanbois want to explain that one? Am I the only person who wants to order things by Artist > Album > Track Number > Song Name?
I was trying to find leak in my brake system. My friend who is a mechanic told me to pinch off first the front brakes and then the backs. If the pedal is still soft with the fronts shut off, the leak is in the back or vise versa. He also warned me not to drive it like that and what would happen if I did. For the record, both rear wheel cylinders were leaking. I replaced them and the car was good as new.
Wrong method, it leaves obvious evidence. Clip some vicegrips on the flex hoses going to the front wheel cylinders. You've just eliminated 60% of the cars braking power. The pedal feels normal, or even a bit firmer than usual. Do it right and the vicegrips will come off when the car hits whatever it hits when the brakes (mostly) fail.
Our local police had 18 single vehicle low speed accidents last year, all caused by the officer being distracted by looking at his mobile data terminal while driving. As of last month it is now illegal to text or talk on a phone (except for hands free) while driving. The police have not yet said whether they feel this law applies to their on board terminals or not.