I think we already tax passenger vehicles unfairly, as the road wear goes like the third power of weight, and trucks are a lot heavier than cars, yet still pay very similar fuel tax. Sure, they use more fuel, too, but they don't use cubically more fuel.
At 100mpg, I suspect you're still paying too much.
Plus, the cost of transportation can be folded into the products anyway, so we could maybe just charge by kg^3*mile for the transport sector, metered by GPS logging, and charge nothing for passenger vehicles, letting them, being a small percentage of actual wear, mooch off the transport users for the main arteries, and pay for local streets with property taxes instead.
you might hate to say it, but I would shout it from the rooftops! A likely additional advantage is that they can drive slower and still be acceptable, as they don't have to occupy a human's full attention during the trip. What do I care if some trips take 24 minutes instead of 15, if I'm surfin the web, reading a book, playing video games or napping the whole time?
This would also have a positive effect on efficiency.
My current commute is about an hour each way. Autonomous vehicles would give me an extra 40 hours a week for whatever I want, whether it be relaxing, studying, looking for investments or housing closer to work, or whatever. Time wasted commuting is one of the things that helps maintain the class separation.....
The CRX was a fantastic car, and is highly desired in the used market. Unfortunately, it's perceived as flimsy (it's not) and plastic (it is).
I haven't heard that perception of the CRX, but if it's true, they should have put research into making it seem less flimsy. Luxury car manufacturers employ teams of engineers on things like making the door sound just right when you close it, giving it a "luxury car" thump.
There might be no structural differences at all, but subtle changes mean the difference between a car that "feels" robust and one that "feels" cheap. A car company that actually wants to sell units is going to put research into that.
Reckless endangerment is not putting notch filter film (which apparently already exists for the frequencies in question based on another post under this article) on the windscreen. People use green lasers to point to objects in the sky in astronomy outings. If they're crossing an aircraft, there are several perfectly innocuous reasons why this could be.
They could be pointing out a constellation or other feature in the celestial sphere, and random chance has a plane cross paths
they could be pointing out what they think is a satellite or planet and random hand motions crosses paths with the cockpit
they could be pointing out the plane and random hand motions cross paths with the cockpit
they could be playing giant green lightsabers and random hand motions cross paths with the cockpit
It seems you have a list of unspoken requirements and are complaining that your inhouse programmers aren't meeting them.
Perhaps you should go over that with your developers, because all of the features that you like about excel were put there by programmers - there is no fundamental reason why your in-house software can't perform the job you need more reliably, more usefully, faster, and with superior troubleshooting and auditing capability.
Now, the question of cost-effectiveness may come up at this point, but you won't know until you've actually defined all of the real requirements what the costs of the internally produced tools would be.
Yeah, the scratch thing is weird. Apple doesn't seem to care about the backs for some reason - the iPod Touches have the same problem. I think it might be a fluke that the 4 didn't.
From one of the articles you linked,
... one Apple executive said the issue is "normal" for aluminium products.
I wish I could smack that executive and tell him, "Then, you should have made the outside of the phone out of something other than aluminum. It's a phone. it's going in pockets that maybe have keys or coins in them at some point, even if accidentally. It's not like your customers are mounting it on the wall and then never touching it again."
I used to use an inkjet for vacation photos until I realized it was cheaper and higher quality to outsource them to the dye sublimation printers at the local drug store.
Then high resolution tablets came out, so I think I'll probably be migrating to no photo printing in the future.
Well, yeah, but being a camera with no baffling or shrouds, and a first surface designed as much for scratch resistance as for optical quality, it's going to have big ugly lens flares if the light source isn't diffuse. The only news here is that the big ugly lens flare also has some chromatic aberration.
If you want to take good pictures, get a camera. A cameraphone is for candids and recording the scene at car accidents.
Then opt out entirely. Also, learn to fly. The general aviation loophole will likely remain open indefinitely, because that's how many of the elite travel.
It seems pretty clear that they did so because the MO of almost all judges in publicly important cases seems to be to
1) avoid the issue - find any kind of procedural or technical reason why the case cannot be heard. You cant piss of people for making the wrong ruling if you don't even really make a ruling. Although this preserves the status quo, so it really shouldn't be considered as a neutral non-decision...
2) avoid the issue - find any kind of technical or procedural reason why the case can be dismissed. This technically decides in favor of one of the parties, but only looks like it decides against one of them for not being prepared enough. Also preserves the status quo. Actually, a little moreso, as it makes it more difficult for additional cases to be heard.
3) avoid the issue - decide just enough of the issue to satisfy the case, being careful to leave the larger portion of the issue safely undecided. If we got to this one in the TSA case, I expect they would find some reason why it was wrong in some specific small set of rather unlikely circumstances, while leaving "undecided" anything that would require substantive changes to the actual practices of the TSA. This preserves the status quo while still presenting an appearance of progress.
4) split the baby - make the most absurd ruling possible. Possibly finding in favor of one party, or both, or neither, and hang it on a premise that not only angers everyone involved and those who weren't initially involved, but sets a harmful precedent for all future activity. See Marbury v. Madison for an early US example where the court found a way to usurp additional powers for itself, or the recent ruling on PPACA. Named for a biblical ruling that is often presented, also absurdly, as an example of great wisdom. This preserves the status quo by making people wary of initiating cases in the first place....
They should be rare because prison should be a controlled environment and we should be taking pains to make sure that the opportunities simply do not exist. It should be extremely difficult to commit additional crimes while in prison. Especially particularly heinous crimes.
Always assume that if they say it outshines the moon, they're talking about a new moon. Also, when astronomers talk to newspeople about comets in relation to the moon, they are usually talking about the visible extent, rather than the brightness itself. It could be very dim and transparent, but if it subtends a greater solid angle than the moon - it rivals the moon in the night sky.
Which just proves that the IT crowd is as funny as a bunch of screenwriters who know nothing about networking technology can make a show about the geeks who love and maintain it.....
Both of the AC's names are better than "friend face" which has all of the edginess, humor, and social relevance of a bowl of oatmeal.
To speculate, did you ever think that by the time the chase ended, perhaps this individual preferred death over being pounded in the ass by Bubba for a couple of decades? Maybe you would have chosen Bubba, but you must admit someone else might not.
You make some interesting points, but this "prison rape is part of the punishment" meme is particularly worrisome. First, there is the tacit assumption that prison rape is common, or at least significantly more common than base-rate rape. If true, we are not designing our prisons and guard procedures responsibly.
Next, and perhaps more disturbing, is the idea that this is ok, and even expected. After all, everyone in prison is a subhuman criminal and therefore deserves any treatment they get no matter how terrible, right?
This idea is so ingrained that it's even made light of in comedy movies (Office Space, for one..)
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Ah.. but spying on foreign residents in foreign countries is almost always an offense with a maximum penalty of death in the target country....
It doesn't matter how the case is decided, the lawyers always win...
You don't think it would make any difference whatsoever?
I think we already tax passenger vehicles unfairly, as the road wear goes like the third power of weight, and trucks are a lot heavier than cars, yet still pay very similar fuel tax. Sure, they use more fuel, too, but they don't use cubically more fuel.
At 100mpg, I suspect you're still paying too much.
Plus, the cost of transportation can be folded into the products anyway, so we could maybe just charge by kg^3*mile for the transport sector, metered by GPS logging, and charge nothing for passenger vehicles, letting them, being a small percentage of actual wear, mooch off the transport users for the main arteries, and pay for local streets with property taxes instead.
you might hate to say it, but I would shout it from the rooftops! A likely additional advantage is that they can drive slower and still be acceptable, as they don't have to occupy a human's full attention during the trip. What do I care if some trips take 24 minutes instead of 15, if I'm surfin the web, reading a book, playing video games or napping the whole time?
This would also have a positive effect on efficiency.
My current commute is about an hour each way. Autonomous vehicles would give me an extra 40 hours a week for whatever I want, whether it be relaxing, studying, looking for investments or housing closer to work, or whatever. Time wasted commuting is one of the things that helps maintain the class separation.....
The CRX was a fantastic car, and is highly desired in the used market. Unfortunately, it's perceived as flimsy (it's not) and plastic (it is).
I haven't heard that perception of the CRX, but if it's true, they should have put research into making it seem less flimsy. Luxury car manufacturers employ teams of engineers on things like making the door sound just right when you close it, giving it a "luxury car" thump.
There might be no structural differences at all, but subtle changes mean the difference between a car that "feels" robust and one that "feels" cheap. A car company that actually wants to sell units is going to put research into that.
Reckless endangerment is not putting notch filter film (which apparently already exists for the frequencies in question based on another post under this article) on the windscreen. People use green lasers to point to objects in the sky in astronomy outings. If they're crossing an aircraft, there are several perfectly innocuous reasons why this could be.
It seems you have a list of unspoken requirements and are complaining that your inhouse programmers aren't meeting them.
Perhaps you should go over that with your developers, because all of the features that you like about excel were put there by programmers - there is no fundamental reason why your in-house software can't perform the job you need more reliably, more usefully, faster, and with superior troubleshooting and auditing capability.
Now, the question of cost-effectiveness may come up at this point, but you won't know until you've actually defined all of the real requirements what the costs of the internally produced tools would be.
The slippery slope fallacy would seem a lot more fallacious if you couldn't plot a clear progression of events on so very many disparate issues....
The problem is that the range is too good I'm currently getting interference with from a dorm full of wifi routers and devices a half mile away....
Yeah, the scratch thing is weird. Apple doesn't seem to care about the backs for some reason - the iPod Touches have the same problem. I think it might be a fluke that the 4 didn't.
From one of the articles you linked,
... one Apple executive said the issue is "normal" for aluminium products.
I wish I could smack that executive and tell him, "Then, you should have made the outside of the phone out of something other than aluminum. It's a phone. it's going in pockets that maybe have keys or coins in them at some point, even if accidentally. It's not like your customers are mounting it on the wall and then never touching it again."
Neither one of them use actual maple syrup, so the frame job would appear to trying to make the other one less of a fraud...
I used to use an inkjet for vacation photos until I realized it was cheaper and higher quality to outsource them to the dye sublimation printers at the local drug store.
Then high resolution tablets came out, so I think I'll probably be migrating to no photo printing in the future.
No, you'd still be supporting windows XP.....
Load a full, letter sized paper cartridge as the current one is empty.
LOTR were books about language. The movies stripped out everything. There wasn't even a single song in all of the books.
Well, yeah, but being a camera with no baffling or shrouds, and a first surface designed as much for scratch resistance as for optical quality, it's going to have big ugly lens flares if the light source isn't diffuse. The only news here is that the big ugly lens flare also has some chromatic aberration.
If you want to take good pictures, get a camera. A cameraphone is for candids and recording the scene at car accidents.
There are really only two things. Something you claim to be, and something you can present as evidence of that.
"Something you have" could be either, but it's not really separate.
Then opt out entirely. Also, learn to fly. The general aviation loophole will likely remain open indefinitely, because that's how many of the elite travel.
It seems pretty clear that they did so because the MO of almost all judges in publicly important cases seems to be to
1) avoid the issue - find any kind of procedural or technical reason why the case cannot be heard. You cant piss of people for making the wrong ruling if you don't even really make a ruling. Although this preserves the status quo, so it really shouldn't be considered as a neutral non-decision...
2) avoid the issue - find any kind of technical or procedural reason why the case can be dismissed. This technically decides in favor of one of the parties, but only looks like it decides against one of them for not being prepared enough. Also preserves the status quo. Actually, a little moreso, as it makes it more difficult for additional cases to be heard.
3) avoid the issue - decide just enough of the issue to satisfy the case, being careful to leave the larger portion of the issue safely undecided. If we got to this one in the TSA case, I expect they would find some reason why it was wrong in some specific small set of rather unlikely circumstances, while leaving "undecided" anything that would require substantive changes to the actual practices of the TSA. This preserves the status quo while still presenting an appearance of progress.
4) split the baby - make the most absurd ruling possible. Possibly finding in favor of one party, or both, or neither, and hang it on a premise that not only angers everyone involved and those who weren't initially involved, but sets a harmful precedent for all future activity. See Marbury v. Madison for an early US example where the court found a way to usurp additional powers for itself, or the recent ruling on PPACA. Named for a biblical ruling that is often presented, also absurdly, as an example of great wisdom. This preserves the status quo by making people wary of initiating cases in the first place....
They should be rare because prison should be a controlled environment and we should be taking pains to make sure that the opportunities simply do not exist. It should be extremely difficult to commit additional crimes while in prison. Especially particularly heinous crimes.
Always assume that if they say it outshines the moon, they're talking about a new moon. Also, when astronomers talk to newspeople about comets in relation to the moon, they are usually talking about the visible extent, rather than the brightness itself. It could be very dim and transparent, but if it subtends a greater solid angle than the moon - it rivals the moon in the night sky.
What's weird is that payday loans themselves are scams....
Which just proves that the IT crowd is as funny as a bunch of screenwriters who know nothing about networking technology can make a show about the geeks who love and maintain it.....
Both of the AC's names are better than "friend face" which has all of the edginess, humor, and social relevance of a bowl of oatmeal.
To speculate, did you ever think that by the time the chase ended, perhaps this individual preferred death over being pounded in the ass by Bubba for a couple of decades? Maybe you would have chosen Bubba, but you must admit someone else might not.
You make some interesting points, but this "prison rape is part of the punishment" meme is particularly worrisome. First, there is the tacit assumption that prison rape is common, or at least significantly more common than base-rate rape. If true, we are not designing our prisons and guard procedures responsibly.
Next, and perhaps more disturbing, is the idea that this is ok, and even expected. After all, everyone in prison is a subhuman criminal and therefore deserves any treatment they get no matter how terrible, right?
This idea is so ingrained that it's even made light of in comedy movies (Office Space, for one..)