But that's not an online ID. That's just a reasonable securing of an already existing supposedly limited-in-scope regular ID. Which any rational person would certainly support.
Unfortunately, increasing the security of Social Security Identifiers is too tremendous of a carrot to waste on just securing the identifiers. Government would never go for that unless they can get something terrible in return. The Tyranny must be fed, after all. And so, this.
I think even exploiting the flaw is fine, depending on how the gambler comes by the knowledge; if he discovered through careful observation, I don't think there's anything fraudulent or criminal about it in any way. I realize the legal system may disagree, but that doesn't make me wrong and the system right, from a moral point of view.
Now, if he discovered the flaw by working for the company that manufacturers the machines, then I can see that there might be a problem, depending on whether he went out to profit from the disc right away, or spent months trying to tell his employer about it before finally giving up.
For it to be gambling, there has to be a risk. For the casinos, that includes the risk that the game is exploitably flawed. The law should not insulate one party from having to do due dilligence to make sure the game really is fair, and especially should not insulate the party that actually has the resources and access to credibly investigate it.
If she's working on New Year's, it's probably in some kind of customer-facing job in one of the many industries that lends itself to small ownership or sole proprietorship.
If she's late for work and owns the business, that means she doesn't open on time, and in the best case scenario she's just hurried to get the pre-opening stuff done in time to open the doors. In the worst case, she not only loses customers that day, but she loses them permanently.
As a european my most direct concern is (3), because having an airhead as the leader of a large and powerful nation is bad for the whole world, but (1) and (2) are painful to watch too.
It sure is a lot easier to solve other people's problems, which is fortunate, because their problems are always so much more embarassing than our own...
Really? My conspiracy theory was that the media was dragging it out to make it seem like the real race was clinton v. obama, to make the november election an anticlimactic endorsement of whoever won the democratic primary. And it kind of worked, too, since the republicans were so happy to oblige by putting forth freakin' McCain. (for which I blame Huckabee's shennigans, and Romney's lack of will.)
(There is software to simulate it, but it is not really, the real thing)
Actually, it's the other way around. Astronomers were some of the first people on board for the digital backs, and they ordered some huge ones (sometimes having to resort to matrices of them...), but even amateur astronomers have been using electronic sensors for a long time now because of the benefit you get with long-term exposures (and quantum efficiency, but that's another matter to discuss some other time.)
And that benefit is that when you're stacking your images into a longer exposure, you can throw away the ones with streaks from the lights of the airplane that passed overhead in the middle of your session.
Depends on where you are and what you're doing with the cables.
Are the cables for transferring mechanical force? That's not particularly efficient, and you have to worry about cable stretching, ongoing maintenance, etc. But they still might have some use if you have short inclined runs at low speeds, because you can use the weight of descending cars to balance the weight of the ascending cars, and only have to actually provide power for the difference in weight and mechanical losses, which at low speeds.. will not be too bad.
Or are they electrical cables? Then you've gotta worry about flooding and corrosion, and kids, too.
Raised cables are definitely more efficient, and allow the cable cars a bit more play to pull off to the side of the road to pick up passengers, avoid road dangers, etc. Less aesthecially pleasing, though.
The next question though is this: with a small battery, would it be possible to charge the bus at each stop, just enough to make it the next couple of stops? Maybe you can have your cake and eat it, too.
But something that Ford is demonstrably capable of: they did not receive TARP money like the dinosaurs down the street, precisely because they recognized in the early oughts, the need for more fuel efficient, reliable cars. (although that may just have been due to being sick of all the "found on road, dead" jokes in the 90s...)
Being a net exporter means that you lose all your stuff and get a wad of IOUs of uncertain value (inflation, for instance, kills the value of your holdings)
Being a net importer means you incur debt, but get all the wonderful stuff.
Neither of which is particularly healthy, and certainly can't possibly be sustainable in the long term. Think about it: China's status as the world's provider of cheaply manufactured goods means that their own citizens are not benefiting from that massive industrial capacity as much as they could be, and they're sure as hell not benefitting from that capacity if the import side of that is money or ownership stakes in foreign countries, and not, y'know, stuff.
I dunno. I think there's something to be said for being able to enter in what you just thought of quickly, while you're still able to hold onto the thought. Perhaps this is more relevant as you get older, though.
In other words, even if you don't think at 400 characters per minute, your quality might still benefit greatly from being able to sustain bursts of typing at 800 cpm.
I suppose it's possible you've managed to find a state that's not doing it, but there are quite a few states that are putting a specific kind of particularly sinister subsidy on renewable projects:
They are legislating that the power distribution company must buy energy from the "alternative" project at greater than wholesale rates. Significantly greater. As in two or three times the market rate.
And that cost is passed on to the retail rates that you pay. When the project is small, you won't notice it, but as the expand, the fraction of energy provided by alternative power increases and has greater and greater effect on your retail rate.
If that's not the government telling you you have to buy it, I don't know what is.
It's not to protect the blind at street intersections. Toned signal posts already do that. It's to protect pedestrians in parking lots, where there isn't significant road noise to warn you, and you're likely to be distracted by task loading.
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I dunno. I saw the same episode of Macguyver and I'm not convinced of your assertion.
They don't have physics in south africa?
But that's not an online ID. That's just a reasonable securing of an already existing supposedly limited-in-scope regular ID. Which any rational person would certainly support.
Unfortunately, increasing the security of Social Security Identifiers is too tremendous of a carrot to waste on just securing the identifiers. Government would never go for that unless they can get something terrible in return. The Tyranny must be fed, after all. And so, this.
I think even exploiting the flaw is fine, depending on how the gambler comes by the knowledge; if he discovered through careful observation, I don't think there's anything fraudulent or criminal about it in any way. I realize the legal system may disagree, but that doesn't make me wrong and the system right, from a moral point of view.
Now, if he discovered the flaw by working for the company that manufacturers the machines, then I can see that there might be a problem, depending on whether he went out to profit from the disc right away, or spent months trying to tell his employer about it before finally giving up.
For it to be gambling, there has to be a risk. For the casinos, that includes the risk that the game is exploitably flawed. The law should not insulate one party from having to do due dilligence to make sure the game really is fair, and especially should not insulate the party that actually has the resources and access to credibly investigate it.
I use a normal alarm clock on 220V, with a backup battery
Pfft. A mere 220V? A real geek would use wye connected 3-phase power.
If she's working on New Year's, it's probably in some kind of customer-facing job in one of the many industries that lends itself to small ownership or sole proprietorship.
If she's late for work and owns the business, that means she doesn't open on time, and in the best case scenario she's just hurried to get the pre-opening stuff done in time to open the doors. In the worst case, she not only loses customers that day, but she loses them permanently.
But what will you spend for that extra .0001?
And will you support a campaign to reduce road deaths by a factor of 99% by setting the national speed limit to 3mph? We could 30,000 lives per year!
As a european my most direct concern is (3), because having an airhead as the leader of a large and powerful nation is bad for the whole world, but (1) and (2) are painful to watch too.
It sure is a lot easier to solve other people's problems, which is fortunate, because their problems are always so much more embarassing than our own...
Really? My conspiracy theory was that the media was dragging it out to make it seem like the real race was clinton v. obama, to make the november election an anticlimactic endorsement of whoever won the democratic primary. And it kind of worked, too, since the republicans were so happy to oblige by putting forth freakin' McCain. (for which I blame Huckabee's shennigans, and Romney's lack of will.)
(There is software to simulate it, but it is not really, the real thing)
Actually, it's the other way around. Astronomers were some of the first people on board for the digital backs, and they ordered some huge ones (sometimes having to resort to matrices of them...), but even amateur astronomers have been using electronic sensors for a long time now because of the benefit you get with long-term exposures (and quantum efficiency, but that's another matter to discuss some other time.)
And that benefit is that when you're stacking your images into a longer exposure, you can throw away the ones with streaks from the lights of the airplane that passed overhead in the middle of your session.
Depends on where you are and what you're doing with the cables.
Are the cables for transferring mechanical force? That's not particularly efficient, and you have to worry about cable stretching, ongoing maintenance, etc. But they still might have some use if you have short inclined runs at low speeds, because you can use the weight of descending cars to balance the weight of the ascending cars, and only have to actually provide power for the difference in weight and mechanical losses, which at low speeds.. will not be too bad.
Or are they electrical cables? Then you've gotta worry about flooding and corrosion, and kids, too.
Raised cables are definitely more efficient, and allow the cable cars a bit more play to pull off to the side of the road to pick up passengers, avoid road dangers, etc. Less aesthecially pleasing, though.
The next question though is this: with a small battery, would it be possible to charge the bus at each stop, just enough to make it the next couple of stops? Maybe you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Ahh, but how much for the parking space...
Why? You can get a private pilot's license for less than $10k worth of training.
Who needs the TSA?
But something that Ford is demonstrably capable of: they did not receive TARP money like the dinosaurs down the street, precisely because they recognized in the early oughts, the need for more fuel efficient, reliable cars. (although that may just have been due to being sick of all the "found on road, dead" jokes in the 90s...)
That's too narrow. (or maybe not narrow enough?)
Equitable trade is mutually beneficial.
Being a net exporter means that you lose all your stuff and get a wad of IOUs of uncertain value (inflation, for instance, kills the value of your holdings)
Being a net importer means you incur debt, but get all the wonderful stuff.
Neither of which is particularly healthy, and certainly can't possibly be sustainable in the long term. Think about it: China's status as the world's provider of cheaply manufactured goods means that their own citizens are not benefiting from that massive industrial capacity as much as they could be, and they're sure as hell not benefitting from that capacity if the import side of that is money or ownership stakes in foreign countries, and not, y'know, stuff.
I refer you to the old adage "no corporation is your friend".
That is an old adage. So old, in fact, that it's been made obsolete by facebook: now corporations can be your friends&ominousellipsis;
Not really. you know what ads are. You might accidentally trust editorial content.
Eh, what?
What about the other message that advertising sometimes sends, "Here's something you may not know about that might be useful to you."
Stuff like that exists.
Depends. Is the impending shutdown of del.icio.us a feature or a flaw?
I dunno. I think there's something to be said for being able to enter in what you just thought of quickly, while you're still able to hold onto the thought. Perhaps this is more relevant as you get older, though.
In other words, even if you don't think at 400 characters per minute, your quality might still benefit greatly from being able to sustain bursts of typing at 800 cpm.
I suppose it's possible you've managed to find a state that's not doing it, but there are quite a few states that are putting a specific kind of particularly sinister subsidy on renewable projects:
They are legislating that the power distribution company must buy energy from the "alternative" project at greater than wholesale rates. Significantly greater. As in two or three times the market rate.
And that cost is passed on to the retail rates that you pay. When the project is small, you won't notice it, but as the expand, the fraction of energy provided by alternative power increases and has greater and greater effect on your retail rate.
If that's not the government telling you you have to buy it, I don't know what is.
But, if you have, unlimited space, you might be tempted, to overuse punctuation!.
Not either of those in fact.
Further, since the faster line serves more people per time period, that skews the numbers in the other direction for the original proposition, too.
Two words: "Parking lot."
It's not to protect the blind at street intersections. Toned signal posts already do that. It's to protect pedestrians in parking lots, where there isn't significant road noise to warn you, and you're likely to be distracted by task loading.
Or, at least, that's where it's useful, anyway.
So it's the old "sure I kept clubbing him, but you gotta believe me, he resisted arrest twelve minutes before the camera started rolling" defense, eh?
Well, if you apply a little logic that defense seems a lot more probable than...
What you seem to be missing, is that while it is certainly more probable, it's hardly a defense.