Have them put that into the loan agreement next time you borrow. They'll likely choose not to give you a loan. Likewise, if you don't like the terms they put into their loan contracts, you don't have to sign. That's fair.
Now, there's an exaggeration. It's a starter interlock - it doesn't stop a running car (despite what the lady who ran out of gas on the highway claimed). If someone drives to, then stops their car in a bad neighborhood, well, that was their choice. If a car isn't maintained, and is so unreliable that it shuts off at intersections and needs restarting, the owner is already putting themselves in danger.
And, of course, they voluntarily entered into a loan contract with this as a requirement - they made a choice there, too.
Defaulting on a loan certainly is illegal - it is a breach of contract, something which is illegal under civil law. You seem to be conflating criminal and civil law.
There's a difference between holding the title, and holding a lien on that title. The driver owns the car, but at the same time, the car is security for the lienholder, who can repossess it (take title) if the buyer defaults on the loan.
...and non noob Debian users generally do NOT use a GUI. So, what's the issue?
And, in my experience, neither Gnome nor KDE are particularly robust. I got tired of fighting graphics drivers and configurations, and have XFCE installed to run those things which simply won't work without.
"they SHOULD be required to maintain physical presence where their products are sold so that the customer does not need to be grossly inconvenienced when trying to obtain warranty service"
Why shouldn't the consumer be allowed to decide for themselves what constitutes "gross inconvenience?" Is your mommy government somehow uniquely qualified to do that?
You mean, like CALEA, a law which was written to cover POTS phone calls, but later expanded by non-elected bureaucrats (via regulatory "law") to include VoIP and Internet traffic?
What makes Apple not a telecommunications carrier subject to CALEA, with their Facetime, email and other such offerings?
While it's apparent that he doesn't understand the difference between a zoom and prime lens, there are some pretty wide range zooms these days. Mostly on point-and-shoots. The newly announced Canon PowerShot SX60 HS has a 65x (21 â" 1365 mm equivalent) zoom. Yes, that's the optical zoom. I can't imagine how bad the chroma or distortion is at the extremes.
"Smaller things further away are easier to hide than close-up."
Not if the resulting images are adjusted so the pictured object is the same size. Unless you're reducing a detail to the single pixel range, that is. Additionally, the phone's lens would be more out of focus (when focused on the edge of the phone) when taken from a closer position - depth of field can be used to de-accentuate a feature. Finally, parallax would make the phone's camera appear smaller in proportion when photographed from a closer position.
You seem to be doing everything exactly, and perfectly, wrong. Are you trying to troll, or simply don't know what you're doing?
Straightedge across phone's camera and edge. Another across the front of the phone. The two straightedges will form a wedge - a lens inside that wedge will see only the side of the phone (no camera, no front). It's not clear why you were playing around with taking pictures from across the room, I doubt the wedge extends nearly that far.
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Stalled at a red light while driving on the freeway? Uh, OK.
" Imagine the car is a stick shift and the driver sucks at stick shifting. "
OK. I'm imagining someone going out of their way (manuals are much less common than autos in the US) to buy the wrong car.
Have them put that into the loan agreement next time you borrow. They'll likely choose not to give you a loan. Likewise, if you don't like the terms they put into their loan contracts, you don't have to sign. That's fair.
"Being subject to grave bodily injury..."
Now, there's an exaggeration. It's a starter interlock - it doesn't stop a running car (despite what the lady who ran out of gas on the highway claimed). If someone drives to, then stops their car in a bad neighborhood, well, that was their choice. If a car isn't maintained, and is so unreliable that it shuts off at intersections and needs restarting, the owner is already putting themselves in danger.
And, of course, they voluntarily entered into a loan contract with this as a requirement - they made a choice there, too.
Defaulting on a loan certainly is illegal - it is a breach of contract, something which is illegal under civil law. You seem to be conflating criminal and civil law.
There's a difference between holding the title, and holding a lien on that title. The driver owns the car, but at the same time, the car is security for the lienholder, who can repossess it (take title) if the buyer defaults on the loan.
FTA:"Some of the devices beep at customers just before payments are due, and whistle when theyâ(TM)re a day away from being shut off."
And, they're starter interlocks, they won't disable a car while it's running, despite what the lady who ran out of gas said.
Right. They should simply not make loans to people who don't have good credit.
Your god makes you use Windows? You have a vengeful god.
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It's obviously their new, patented, "bend to unlock" feature.
I think his lead foil hat has affected his brain.
You've never heard of xconfig? You are a noob.
"Linux noobs generally do NOT use Debian."
...and non noob Debian users generally do NOT use a GUI. So, what's the issue?
And, in my experience, neither Gnome nor KDE are particularly robust. I got tired of fighting graphics drivers and configurations, and have XFCE installed to run those things which simply won't work without.
It's not even free, as in beer.
"they SHOULD be required to maintain physical presence where their products are sold so that the customer does not need to be grossly inconvenienced when trying to obtain warranty service"
Why shouldn't the consumer be allowed to decide for themselves what constitutes "gross inconvenience?" Is your mommy government somehow uniquely qualified to do that?
You mean, like CALEA, a law which was written to cover POTS phone calls, but later expanded by non-elected bureaucrats (via regulatory "law") to include VoIP and Internet traffic?
What makes Apple not a telecommunications carrier subject to CALEA, with their Facetime, email and other such offerings?
"a chrome book, is all they need"
Which Chromebook has a dialup modem port?
While it's apparent that he doesn't understand the difference between a zoom and prime lens, there are some pretty wide range zooms these days. Mostly on point-and-shoots. The newly announced Canon PowerShot SX60 HS has a 65x (21 â" 1365 mm equivalent) zoom. Yes, that's the optical zoom. I can't imagine how bad the chroma or distortion is at the extremes.
So, you've measured. How close do you have to get to hide the camera projection from view?
At least for wireless on Win7Pro, that's not true: "0000 00.. = Differentiated Services Codepoint: Default (0x00)"
"I know very well what I'm doing."
Well, if you know very well that you're doing it wrong, why do you persist?
"Smaller things further away are easier to hide than close-up."
Not if the resulting images are adjusted so the pictured object is the same size. Unless you're reducing a detail to the single pixel range, that is. Additionally, the phone's lens would be more out of focus (when focused on the edge of the phone) when taken from a closer position - depth of field can be used to de-accentuate a feature. Finally, parallax would make the phone's camera appear smaller in proportion when photographed from a closer position.
You seem to be doing everything exactly, and perfectly, wrong. Are you trying to troll, or simply don't know what you're doing?
Straightedge across phone's camera and edge. Another across the front of the phone. The two straightedges will form a wedge - a lens inside that wedge will see only the side of the phone (no camera, no front). It's not clear why you were playing around with taking pictures from across the room, I doubt the wedge extends nearly that far.