Yes, snow is a problem for traffic signals. Not so much for street lights which emit light downwards. And are not the same safety issue if they do get blocked.
Heaters can mitigate traffic signal blockage. And even with dozens of snowstorm days per year, will consume less energy than incandescents running 24 x 365.
It appears that the NSA has been monitoring these leaders' cell phone conversations. And odds are that what they were monitoring was more personal conversations than high level strategic conversations. People in Angela Merkel's position don't conduct sensitive business via cellphone. Those conversations were more along the line of whether to pick up a pizza or Chinese take out dinner on the way home.
That's what makes this sort of monitoring particularly intrusive. Its the sort of thing the police do when they are tailing a suspect that they are about to apprehend.
They turn out to be pretty useless. You lose a lot of formatting and semantic information (not that Microsoft ever supported this well). And if you have 10 or 20 thousand documents to process, repairing them manually is a PITA.
I guess if you want a PDF or flat text, the export function is OK.
There is no way to support enforcement without mandatory licensing.
Seize the bike*. Return it upon payment of a fine. Problem solved. If its a junker and nobody claims it, scrap it. Pretty soon the junk supply dries up and that problem is fixed as well.
*A bicycle operators licensing system (voluntary), could be implemented to sidestep the seizure. Get a ticket and be on your way. Too many tickets and the license is pulled, putting the cyclist back into the forfeiture club.
I've been there and I have seen cyclists stopped for infractions by the police. The liability laws do help to keep auto drivers aware. But it appears that they (the authorities) are willing to lean on the cycling community as well.
The cycling infrastructure is amazing and outside of places like Amsterdam, it makes cycling a real pleasure. Traffic in Amsterdam is just crazy in general. There is no room to accommodate everyone. Although they do try where they can manage the space.
By 'undertaking', you mean passing on the curb side (left in the UK, right in America)?
We have the same problem in Seattle. Every few years, I think the local Bicycle Nazis send in one of their club members to take one for the cause. Passing cement mixers and dump trucks on the shoulder that are turning right seems to be a popular way to martyr ones self.
Being in the middle of the lane is particularly safer in intersections (5) were it prevents cars from passing you on the left and turning right into you.
Exactly. So what's with the green bicycle boxes?* These encourage cyclists to ride up on the right at intersections where cars will be turning. In mid-block, in some cases the bike lanes disappear, mixing slow bikes with fast traffic. Its backwards.
Put in bike lanes mid-block to minimize the speed conflicts. At intersections, bicycles should take their place in the traffic lane between cars. So the cars (particularly turning right) can see the bikes immediately ahead instead of in the blind spot. Once across the intersection, bikes can move right (ideally into a bike lane) to let cars pass.
As a cyclist, I don't need to pass the same f*cking cars on the right every time I approach the next intersection. That's what pisses the hot-heads off and why they clip cyclists with their mirrors. If I was in a hurry, I would be driving my Porsche, not riding my bike.
*I can answer that question: These are 'traffic calming' devices. Yeah, right. As a cyclist, I want to be recruited as a speed bump.
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Seattle isn't pro bicycle as much as it is anti car. The bicycles are just being used as traffic calming devices. Like human speed bumps.
the likes of the nutbag Cascade Bicycle Club
Some years ago, I decided to look at one of their Sunday rides around Mercer Island. I rode my bike down and, knowing the terrain, I decided to ride around the island in a clockwise direction. The road shoulder is much wider on the inland side, which I figured would produce less conflict with vehicular traffic. I think I was the only bicycle that day riding in that direction. Other bikers (across the road on the narrow shoulder) were literally screaming at me that I was riding the wrong way. Crazy fuckers.
Control of your own data, and lock-in to a single solution is a different matter.
Actually, I think this is what TFA is about. Buy part of your infrastructure from Microsoft and you'll find yourself sliding towards Azure. The people who have a good handle on their IT operations might be able to avoid this. But it appears that the target is those who just trust the Microsoft brand without a plan in place. Microsoft products are a lot like roach motels. Once the data goes in, it never comes out again. 'Out' being to a non Microsoft platform.
On the cost front your comment misses the mark completely.
Maybe, maybe not. This is how drug dealers work. The stuff they sell to the school kids is cheap. Once they are hooked, the price goes up.
That was sort of my point. I just forgot the <irony> tags.
Industrial/financial espionage aside, the USA is instantiating a policy much the same as that of the Warsaw pact nations and the USSR following WWII. The next war, or terrorist activity, will be fought on EU territory as a buffer zone. Not in the USA. Unlike the World Wars, there is no physical 'front line'. But a logical one can be created by making an asymmetrical defensive barrier.
I think the EU is starting to realize this. And they are not happy.
... cut off the reciprocal data sharing agreements with EU authorities. The ones where their intelligence agencies can hoover up all financial data from any US organization associated with any EU citizen.
You have a point, but you lost credibility when you included OTA in that list. OTA is uncompressed 18.2mbit MPEG.
That's the transport stream rate. Which many broadcasters split into 2 or 3 or more program streams.
There is no point in compressing an OTA broadcast because the bandwidth is functionally unlimited, and I don't even think that the ATSC standard supports compression beyond normal MPEG2.
An I-frame only 1080p program stream would take far more than the 18Mbit data rate available on a 6 MHz channel.
When you see artifacts on an OTA broadcast it is most emphatically *not* from compression, it's usually from interference or a badly tuned/aligned antenna.
Both, actually. And the difference between artifacts due to data drop-outs and poor motion compression are pretty easy for most people to discern. Given source with a lot of motion (sports, panning camera shots, etc.) it is quite obvious when the motion compression can't keep up. Transmission errors usually produce 'bad blocks' randomly across the picture. Some areas of motion keep up while others do not or just produce a block of noise. Slow CODECs produce degradation across all moving parts of the picture. But that degradation is of a type where the high frequency components are 'dropped out' while a lower resolution block is still calculated/displayed.
Not really what I think they had in mind. The only 'computer' my Toyota has is one that monitors RPM and coolant temp and decides whether to open or close a smog solenoid. There's no mileage data there. And mine might have died 10 years ago and I'd never know the difference.
Why not charge more for the people who drive low riders and ricers? The ones who always complain when they bend a rim or lose their exhaust in a pothole. Its because of them that we even have to pave the damned roads.
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So is my text message about acquiring bomb components. Those are all codewords for take-out Chinese food.
"Picking up the dry cleaning" is the code word for arming the WMD.
Street Light != Traffic Signal
Yes, snow is a problem for traffic signals. Not so much for street lights which emit light downwards. And are not the same safety issue if they do get blocked.
Heaters can mitigate traffic signal blockage. And even with dozens of snowstorm days per year, will consume less energy than incandescents running 24 x 365.
It appears that the NSA has been monitoring these leaders' cell phone conversations. And odds are that what they were monitoring was more personal conversations than high level strategic conversations. People in Angela Merkel's position don't conduct sensitive business via cellphone. Those conversations were more along the line of whether to pick up a pizza or Chinese take out dinner on the way home.
That's what makes this sort of monitoring particularly intrusive. Its the sort of thing the police do when they are tailing a suspect that they are about to apprehend.
So all those "export as" selections are fakes?
They turn out to be pretty useless. You lose a lot of formatting and semantic information (not that Microsoft ever supported this well). And if you have 10 or 20 thousand documents to process, repairing them manually is a PITA.
I guess if you want a PDF or flat text, the export function is OK.
There is no way to support enforcement without mandatory licensing.
Seize the bike*. Return it upon payment of a fine. Problem solved. If its a junker and nobody claims it, scrap it. Pretty soon the junk supply dries up and that problem is fixed as well.
*A bicycle operators licensing system (voluntary), could be implemented to sidestep the seizure. Get a ticket and be on your way. Too many tickets and the license is pulled, putting the cyclist back into the forfeiture club.
I've been there and I have seen cyclists stopped for infractions by the police. The liability laws do help to keep auto drivers aware. But it appears that they (the authorities) are willing to lean on the cycling community as well.
The cycling infrastructure is amazing and outside of places like Amsterdam, it makes cycling a real pleasure. Traffic in Amsterdam is just crazy in general. There is no room to accommodate everyone. Although they do try where they can manage the space.
By 'undertaking', you mean passing on the curb side (left in the UK, right in America)?
We have the same problem in Seattle. Every few years, I think the local Bicycle Nazis send in one of their club members to take one for the cause. Passing cement mixers and dump trucks on the shoulder that are turning right seems to be a popular way to martyr ones self.
Being in the middle of the lane is particularly safer in intersections (5) were it prevents cars from passing you on the left and turning right into you.
Exactly. So what's with the green bicycle boxes?* These encourage cyclists to ride up on the right at intersections where cars will be turning. In mid-block, in some cases the bike lanes disappear, mixing slow bikes with fast traffic. Its backwards.
Put in bike lanes mid-block to minimize the speed conflicts. At intersections, bicycles should take their place in the traffic lane between cars. So the cars (particularly turning right) can see the bikes immediately ahead instead of in the blind spot. Once across the intersection, bikes can move right (ideally into a bike lane) to let cars pass.
As a cyclist, I don't need to pass the same f*cking cars on the right every time I approach the next intersection. That's what pisses the hot-heads off and why they clip cyclists with their mirrors. If I was in a hurry, I would be driving my Porsche, not riding my bike.
*I can answer that question: These are 'traffic calming' devices. Yeah, right. As a cyclist, I want to be recruited as a speed bump.
Seattle isn't pro bicycle as much as it is anti car. The bicycles are just being used as traffic calming devices. Like human speed bumps.
the likes of the nutbag Cascade Bicycle Club
Some years ago, I decided to look at one of their Sunday rides around Mercer Island. I rode my bike down and, knowing the terrain, I decided to ride around the island in a clockwise direction. The road shoulder is much wider on the inland side, which I figured would produce less conflict with vehicular traffic. I think I was the only bicycle that day riding in that direction. Other bikers (across the road on the narrow shoulder) were literally screaming at me that I was riding the wrong way. Crazy fuckers.
Control of your own data, and lock-in to a single solution is a different matter.
Actually, I think this is what TFA is about. Buy part of your infrastructure from Microsoft and you'll find yourself sliding towards Azure. The people who have a good handle on their IT operations might be able to avoid this. But it appears that the target is those who just trust the Microsoft brand without a plan in place. Microsoft products are a lot like roach motels. Once the data goes in, it never comes out again. 'Out' being to a non Microsoft platform.
On the cost front your comment misses the mark completely.
Maybe, maybe not. This is how drug dealers work. The stuff they sell to the school kids is cheap. Once they are hooked, the price goes up.
Seal the records.
Oh gawd! My sides hurt from laughing to hard.
Then they will secretly share it all with the NSA,
This. I don't want the gov't holding my records, sealed or not. Because ethics and the law means nothing to them.
Mileage doesn't work because you get taxed when you drive out of state.
The only way to avoid double taxation for fuel with a mileage based tax is to simply charge a large annual fee for the license tab.
Logic fail. Same problem occurs in both cases.
That was sort of my point. I just forgot the <irony> tags.
Industrial/financial espionage aside, the USA is instantiating a policy much the same as that of the Warsaw pact nations and the USSR following WWII. The next war, or terrorist activity, will be fought on EU territory as a buffer zone. Not in the USA. Unlike the World Wars, there is no physical 'front line'. But a logical one can be created by making an asymmetrical defensive barrier.
I think the EU is starting to realize this. And they are not happy.
You have a point, but you lost credibility when you included OTA in that list. OTA is uncompressed 18.2mbit MPEG.
That's the transport stream rate. Which many broadcasters split into 2 or 3 or more program streams.
There is no point in compressing an OTA broadcast because the bandwidth is functionally unlimited, and I don't even think that the ATSC standard supports compression beyond normal MPEG2.
An I-frame only 1080p program stream would take far more than the 18Mbit data rate available on a 6 MHz channel.
When you see artifacts on an OTA broadcast it is most emphatically *not* from compression, it's usually from interference or a badly tuned/aligned antenna.
Both, actually. And the difference between artifacts due to data drop-outs and poor motion compression are pretty easy for most people to discern. Given source with a lot of motion (sports, panning camera shots, etc.) it is quite obvious when the motion compression can't keep up. Transmission errors usually produce 'bad blocks' randomly across the picture. Some areas of motion keep up while others do not or just produce a block of noise. Slow CODECs produce degradation across all moving parts of the picture. But that degradation is of a type where the high frequency components are 'dropped out' while a lower resolution block is still calculated/displayed.
You are preaching to a crowd who thinks they can hear the difference between $500 and $2000 speaker cables.
"But muh spec sheets ....!"
Not really what I think they had in mind. The only 'computer' my Toyota has is one that monitors RPM and coolant temp and decides whether to open or close a smog solenoid. There's no mileage data there. And mine might have died 10 years ago and I'd never know the difference.
The one from my kitchen, down the hallway to my office.
cover the cost of road maintenance
But I drive an SUV. I don't need roads.
Why not charge more for the people who drive low riders and ricers? The ones who always complain when they bend a rim or lose their exhaust in a pothole. Its because of them that we even have to pave the damned roads.
1979 Landcruiser.
Not really. Because after the first few false claims, I would no longer trust him. Or anyone else playing that game for that matter.