"Perhaps the British should also work on reforming their laws on free speech (or lack thereof)." -- While I am all in support of the right of free speech (excluding the "yelling fire in a crowded theater kind"), isn't it a bit pretentious for somebody not a citizen or residing within a given country to tell them they need to work at making their laws more like your own? If I'm not mistaken, in a strict legal sense, the USA is amongst the minority.
Not to mention that the other difference is that we the captive audience to somebody's cellphone conversation only hear half of the conversation, which is far more annoying that hearing the whole conversation at the same volume level.
That depends highly on where you live. Not everywhere has this option. Even in states where it is common to find 87 as 100% gasoline, it is still extremely hard to find 91+ octane as 100% gasoline. My car requires 91 or higher.
And if I had a child that was born on that day, that child would be preparing for his Bar Mitsvah by now. That's how many years they've been making us take off our shoes to go through insecurity. How many more years will we be made to do this nonsensical action, let alone get groped and have hands stuck in our pants by strangers who are no more than the equivalent of mall security?
Or how about all those idiots doing 45 in a 65 zone gtfo of the inside lane. That's for passing, and I shouldn't have to pass on the right in the USA. (And don't tell me that this is due to traffic conditions, because the right lane is routinely wide open in the places I'm discussing.)
I remember back in the late 90's early 2000's when a commercial Russian airline flight crew got a little too drunk and tried to land their plane on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, which is a few kilometers away from the landing field at Ben Gurion Airport. That being said, I think there's low risk in general of these scenarios.
And if you ask me, this is the wrong solution to a trivial problem. Should having to carry around a few pieces of lightweight plastic in my pocket be the biggest inconvenience to me in my life. The solution here sounds waaaay more complex than just having one single piece of plastic with a switch on it that flips it between card a to card b to card n... or just carrying 6+ pieces of plastic.
Here they tend to not even look at the signature and go straight to the "show me id" stage. I do have a problem with that, and it usually involves me getting delayed while they have to call a manager over to give them permission to check my signature. They like to claim it's because they can't understand what is written on my signature... since when is that a requirement?
Apparently the Los Angeles County volunteer sheriff deputies are put through a battery of polygraph tests as a condition to their employment... as volunteers who are... unpaid... We also know of the military employing polygraphs as a precondition to holding a certain job description. I personally would flat out refuse to go through a polygraph as a condition of employment or in any circumstance at all, to which I would be denied said employment with little recourse. Ain't nobody got time for (bullshit like) that!
Think of what most people do every day in a car... They get into it, sit in a traffic jam for hours as their lives waste away. Having a computer-driven car would be the best of both worlds - the convenience of not having to drive yourself or pay attention to the road, coupled with the convenience of because able to go directly from point A to point B at your convenience. I too would opt for this convenience if it was a mature enough technology.
Also there are different types of faults - convergent and divergent. For example, Mt. St. Helens lies on a convergent fault zone, and Hawaii lies on a divergent fault zone. Yep, volcanoes often form along fault lines.
Sorry, Apple, but the Woz was right when he explained concern over your company. And I've not really seen Microsoft innovate itself out of a paper bag in years... But that's ok, they'll make sure they're on the gravy train by attempting to collect royalties every Android device out there...
You're simply contributing scenarios as to to why last-mile needs to belong to the municipality / county / state gov't and the users select their service provider on top of this. The telcos and cable cos need to NOT own the last mile.
...that only using Google will make it easier for the NSA to track you. You do realize that EVEN if you are using SIPs with ZRTP on a pure VoIP call, there will always be some sort of meta-data that can potentially be tracked by the NSA or other domestic or foreign intelligence agencies. And if you wish to call to the PSTN, well, you can forget it, because then you are sending your calls to yet another centralized point of transit (VoIP to PSTN), and you can be easily tracked there too.
Sunday is a normal work day to orthodox Judaism. Perhaps you are thinking of those other people who deliberately changed the day of rest from its original day and make up at least the [secular] majority of this country... additionally, I am unfamiliar with any such restrictions on the sale of anything normally legal to sell on Sunday besides alcoholic beverages in my region.
If I had points I'd mod parent up. (Hah, how fitting is that?) As a parent myself, I have to agree with what you said. I'd never get a 4 year old a phone. I don't even want to get him anything resembling a computer until he's perfectly able to read manuals on operating and programming the device. And when we go on road trips or on the airplane, I don't let my kid plug into a tablet either.
What I liked in Penn & Teller's expose on Bullshit about polygraphs is that the real meat of the "investigation" came *after* the subject had just completed the "being monitored on the polygraph and now disconnected". It's a psychological game where they say "see, the machine says you weren't being completely honest." It's a coercion to get your to admit to something even if you have nothing to admit to.
Your fuel economy at any speed is highly dependent on your vehicle. My vehicle gets better fuel economy at around 80-85mph than it does at 55mph. In fact, my car's efficiency keep climbing up until some point in triple digits that I've not yet traveled at to know.
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"Perhaps the British should also work on reforming their laws on free speech (or lack thereof)." -- While I am all in support of the right of free speech (excluding the "yelling fire in a crowded theater kind"), isn't it a bit pretentious for somebody not a citizen or residing within a given country to tell them they need to work at making their laws more like your own? If I'm not mistaken, in a strict legal sense, the USA is amongst the minority.
Not to mention that the other difference is that we the captive audience to somebody's cellphone conversation only hear half of the conversation, which is far more annoying that hearing the whole conversation at the same volume level.
The house always wins anyway. :-)
That depends highly on where you live. Not everywhere has this option. Even in states where it is common to find 87 as 100% gasoline, it is still extremely hard to find 91+ octane as 100% gasoline. My car requires 91 or higher.
And if I had a child that was born on that day, that child would be preparing for his Bar Mitsvah by now. That's how many years they've been making us take off our shoes to go through insecurity. How many more years will we be made to do this nonsensical action, let alone get groped and have hands stuck in our pants by strangers who are no more than the equivalent of mall security?
Or how about all those idiots doing 45 in a 65 zone gtfo of the inside lane. That's for passing, and I shouldn't have to pass on the right in the USA. (And don't tell me that this is due to traffic conditions, because the right lane is routinely wide open in the places I'm discussing.)
I remember back in the late 90's early 2000's when a commercial Russian airline flight crew got a little too drunk and tried to land their plane on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, which is a few kilometers away from the landing field at Ben Gurion Airport. That being said, I think there's low risk in general of these scenarios.
And if you ask me, this is the wrong solution to a trivial problem. Should having to carry around a few pieces of lightweight plastic in my pocket be the biggest inconvenience to me in my life. The solution here sounds waaaay more complex than just having one single piece of plastic with a switch on it that flips it between card a to card b to card n... or just carrying 6+ pieces of plastic.
Here they tend to not even look at the signature and go straight to the "show me id" stage. I do have a problem with that, and it usually involves me getting delayed while they have to call a manager over to give them permission to check my signature. They like to claim it's because they can't understand what is written on my signature... since when is that a requirement?
Apparently the Los Angeles County volunteer sheriff deputies are put through a battery of polygraph tests as a condition to their employment... as volunteers who are... unpaid... We also know of the military employing polygraphs as a precondition to holding a certain job description. I personally would flat out refuse to go through a polygraph as a condition of employment or in any circumstance at all, to which I would be denied said employment with little recourse. Ain't nobody got time for (bullshit like) that!
OMG they're not using $flavor_of_the_month!!!
Think of what most people do every day in a car... They get into it, sit in a traffic jam for hours as their lives waste away. Having a computer-driven car would be the best of both worlds - the convenience of not having to drive yourself or pay attention to the road, coupled with the convenience of because able to go directly from point A to point B at your convenience. I too would opt for this convenience if it was a mature enough technology.
This. There is indeed a fault zone in Texas.
Also there are different types of faults - convergent and divergent. For example, Mt. St. Helens lies on a convergent fault zone, and Hawaii lies on a divergent fault zone. Yep, volcanoes often form along fault lines.
Or you could be thinking of the 5 star General Protection Fault...
Those who can, innovate.
Those who can't, litigate.
Sorry, Apple, but the Woz was right when he explained concern over your company. And I've not really seen Microsoft innovate itself out of a paper bag in years... But that's ok, they'll make sure they're on the gravy train by attempting to collect royalties every Android device out there...
You're simply contributing scenarios as to to why last-mile needs to belong to the municipality / county / state gov't and the users select their service provider on top of this. The telcos and cable cos need to NOT own the last mile.
...and not as many do this sort of hosting as a turnkey solutions either.
...that only using Google will make it easier for the NSA to track you. You do realize that EVEN if you are using SIPs with ZRTP on a pure VoIP call, there will always be some sort of meta-data that can potentially be tracked by the NSA or other domestic or foreign intelligence agencies. And if you wish to call to the PSTN, well, you can forget it, because then you are sending your calls to yet another centralized point of transit (VoIP to PSTN), and you can be easily tracked there too.
Sunday is a normal work day to orthodox Judaism. Perhaps you are thinking of those other people who deliberately changed the day of rest from its original day and make up at least the [secular] majority of this country... additionally, I am unfamiliar with any such restrictions on the sale of anything normally legal to sell on Sunday besides alcoholic beverages in my region.
If he's in Chicago, I bet he votes quite well too - early and often. :-)
But is pr0n going to be one of the first industries to make use of this technology?
If I had points I'd mod parent up. (Hah, how fitting is that?) As a parent myself, I have to agree with what you said. I'd never get a 4 year old a phone. I don't even want to get him anything resembling a computer until he's perfectly able to read manuals on operating and programming the device. And when we go on road trips or on the airplane, I don't let my kid plug into a tablet either.
I'd really like to taste a burger from the cow at Milliways... that must be the tastiest animal around...
What I liked in Penn & Teller's expose on Bullshit about polygraphs is that the real meat of the "investigation" came *after* the subject had just completed the "being monitored on the polygraph and now disconnected". It's a psychological game where they say "see, the machine says you weren't being completely honest." It's a coercion to get your to admit to something even if you have nothing to admit to.
Your fuel economy at any speed is highly dependent on your vehicle. My vehicle gets better fuel economy at around 80-85mph than it does at 55mph. In fact, my car's efficiency keep climbing up until some point in triple digits that I've not yet traveled at to know.