So back to politics. All those people I know, that "switched" teams must have undergone a primordial morph in brain structure.
Simpler explanation: The marketing pitches of each team changed. Neither the GOP or the Democratic parties of the '50s and '60s would be recognizable to today's membership.
Why are we so stuck on these stupid stereotypes...
The whole political power game is about getting you to throw your support in behind one 'leader' or another. Never mind having opinions of your own. Those will be provided for you. If not for that, how could leaders exist if no one followed them?</sarcasm>
Of course. It's probably more dependent on how the issue is framed. Climate change, for example, could be a risky (lets burn those fossil fuels, come what may) vs safer (lets fix a problem that may or may not be all that serious) argument. But it has been framed as an economic issue of risk (lets toss our current transportation and energy infrastructure out) vs safety (we know how coal and oil fit into our society).
The spin-meisters know this and know how to frame an issue to draw support from their constituency. It is interesting that these responses may be traceable back to brain structures. And this is where the cool science comes in to the picture. Forget politics.
VISA operates credit cards on behalf of banks. If I direct my bank to transfer money to some individual or company and they do no, they are in violation of several state and federal laws. VISA or my bank are not 'doing business' on their own. They are doing business on my behalf, so its my decision, not theirs.
Good question. I effectively 'own' my home phone number. Due to number portability regulations, I can transfer it to any service provider I want. If I find a service provider that allows me to resell that number, who would stop the transaction? If one refuses, I can just switch to the next one.
False alarm charges? In my town, one needs a permit for an alarm system. And there is a charge for police responses to false alarms over some threshold.
Thief pops the lock on your back door and runs when the siren goes off. Neighbors call the cops. After this happens a few times and you start paying for the calls, you disable the alarm. Next time the thief breaks in, no alarm. Profit!
A monitor system will allow you to see the source of the 'alarm'. You can then select one or more options: 1) Call the cops. 2) Trigger the siren from your cell phone or other mobile device. 3) Have a record of the intruder's identity and possibly handle the situation yourself*.
*Some years ago, I scared off a guy hiding in my hedge who had his pants down around his ankles and was using the cover to watch my neighbors teenage daughters. When I called the cops the officer that arrived started asking leading questions about the perp's identity as if he already knew who he was (correcting a few inaccuracies in my description). Once he determined that I did not have a good enough look at the guy to make a positive ID, he was relieved. Like he was covering for a buddy. Now I have a few cameras up and the next time, I'll just post the videos to YouTube and ask for a crowd-sourced identification. I may live withing spitting distance of Bill Gates, but they could cast Deliverance in this town.
Tell both of them: One of the assault victims suffers from a nearly always fatal STD. We have an antidote, but the side effects are rather nasty. Now, who wants it?
A little itching powder in the shorts applied in the jail laundry should provide some additional motivation.
I know someone who has this alcohol intolerance. She still drinks, in spite of the rotten feeling afterwords.
In some cases, alcoholism is about social and psychological dependence. Not the buzz from the chemistry. If people drink because they need it to fit in to a crowd, getting sick won't stop that.
He says his brakes failed. But Renault has looked at his car after a previous event and concluded that nothing was wrong. Hand controls or not, perhaps his condition prevents him from both operating them as well as perceiving the car's response and correcting his inputs.
The other issue with retrofitted controls is that we are all second guessing why he didn't do this, that or the other thing which would naturally occur to most drivers. But with assisitive technologies (particularly the computer controlled ones) the designers may need to explicitly provide for each combination of inputs. Give some abnormal situation which a normally abled driver could work around, the adaptive controls designer may not have provided the button for that.
"disabled" person who also had epileptic seizures.
At some point, can't we just say "Don't drive". Some handicaps can be accommodated. But an epileptic seizure while driving down the highway? Please, not while I'm on the road.
I don't know to what extent the control modifications were made to accommodate the seizure condition. But unless its a self-driving car, I can't see how this would be safe.
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So back to politics. All those people I know, that "switched" teams must have undergone a primordial morph in brain structure.
Simpler explanation: The marketing pitches of each team changed. Neither the GOP or the Democratic parties of the '50s and '60s would be recognizable to today's membership.
Why are we so stuck on these stupid stereotypes...
The whole political power game is about getting you to throw your support in behind one 'leader' or another. Never mind having opinions of your own. Those will be provided for you. If not for that, how could leaders exist if no one followed them?</sarcasm>
Of course. It's probably more dependent on how the issue is framed. Climate change, for example, could be a risky (lets burn those fossil fuels, come what may) vs safer (lets fix a problem that may or may not be all that serious) argument. But it has been framed as an economic issue of risk (lets toss our current transportation and energy infrastructure out) vs safety (we know how coal and oil fit into our society).
The spin-meisters know this and know how to frame an issue to draw support from their constituency. It is interesting that these responses may be traceable back to brain structures. And this is where the cool science comes in to the picture. Forget politics.
Look at the definition of the card issuer in this context.
VISA operates credit cards on behalf of banks. If I direct my bank to transfer money to some individual or company and they do no, they are in violation of several state and federal laws. VISA or my bank are not 'doing business' on their own. They are doing business on my behalf, so its my decision, not theirs.
And when Apple comes out with their map, iPhone users will all go mad.
Good question. I effectively 'own' my home phone number. Due to number portability regulations, I can transfer it to any service provider I want. If I find a service provider that allows me to resell that number, who would stop the transaction? If one refuses, I can just switch to the next one.
Ain't the free market wonderful?
False alarm charges? In my town, one needs a permit for an alarm system. And there is a charge for police responses to false alarms over some threshold.
Thief pops the lock on your back door and runs when the siren goes off. Neighbors call the cops. After this happens a few times and you start paying for the calls, you disable the alarm. Next time the thief breaks in, no alarm. Profit!
A monitor system will allow you to see the source of the 'alarm'. You can then select one or more options: 1) Call the cops. 2) Trigger the siren from your cell phone or other mobile device. 3) Have a record of the intruder's identity and possibly handle the situation yourself*.
*Some years ago, I scared off a guy hiding in my hedge who had his pants down around his ankles and was using the cover to watch my neighbors teenage daughters. When I called the cops the officer that arrived started asking leading questions about the perp's identity as if he already knew who he was (correcting a few inaccuracies in my description). Once he determined that I did not have a good enough look at the guy to make a positive ID, he was relieved. Like he was covering for a buddy. Now I have a few cameras up and the next time, I'll just post the videos to YouTube and ask for a crowd-sourced identification. I may live withing spitting distance of Bill Gates, but they could cast Deliverance in this town.
But then throttle that connection back to the equivalent of a 110 baud connection.
The individual wanted UPS to do something to "fix" the problem, something that didn't require him to get a new phone number.
Or he'll sell it to FedEx?
Just put them in the cider press and Voila! No more problems!
If that were true, they could test for the STD. I assume these people are not quite *that* stupid.
Watch to see which one goes in for a test.
Tell both of them: One of the assault victims suffers from a nearly always fatal STD. We have an antidote, but the side effects are rather nasty. Now, who wants it?
A little itching powder in the shorts applied in the jail laundry should provide some additional motivation.
We could have used that death star.
Its pronounced "prindle".
Someone asked my high school shop teacher about his car problems. The teacher said, "I think its a problem with your prindle."
"What's a prindle? I've never heard of that part."
"Sure you have. It even says that right on the part. 'PRNDL'."
Midgets have to drink, too.
I know someone who has this alcohol intolerance. She still drinks, in spite of the rotten feeling afterwords.
In some cases, alcoholism is about social and psychological dependence. Not the buzz from the chemistry. If people drink because they need it to fit in to a crowd, getting sick won't stop that.
He says his brakes failed. But Renault has looked at his car after a previous event and concluded that nothing was wrong. Hand controls or not, perhaps his condition prevents him from both operating them as well as perceiving the car's response and correcting his inputs.
The other issue with retrofitted controls is that we are all second guessing why he didn't do this, that or the other thing which would naturally occur to most drivers. But with assisitive technologies (particularly the computer controlled ones) the designers may need to explicitly provide for each combination of inputs. Give some abnormal situation which a normally abled driver could work around, the adaptive controls designer may not have provided the button for that.
The aliens are executing a flanking maneuver.
Panic!
"disabled" person who also had epileptic seizures.
At some point, can't we just say "Don't drive". Some handicaps can be accommodated. But an epileptic seizure while driving down the highway? Please, not while I'm on the road.
I don't know to what extent the control modifications were made to accommodate the seizure condition. But unless its a self-driving car, I can't see how this would be safe.
"A Renault technician had been on the phone with police throughout the chase trying to help but couldn't come up with a solution."
Tell him to drive it to Belgium and wreck it there.
The car in question was an automatic, so no neutral.
Since when? The N in PRNDL stands for neutral.