...why don't more convicted sex offenders emigrate to other countries
Which countries allow immigration of sex offenders? Plus, typically they are poor because they cannot find a job. Emigration generally requires resources.
So, just to get the Godwin out of the way, if the law says, "turn the Jews over to the paramilitary so they can haul them off for rape, torture, and execution" you should do that, but then vote against the government next election?
In practice, few people stand up to such laws once they are in effect. We can all hope that we will be better than that, but the statistics are not on our side.
3% of all Federal criminal cases in the US make it to actual trial. The rest end in some kind of plea. The risks of going to trial are very high; many crimes carry very long maximum sentences and it is likely that whatever you are accused of amounts to multiple different charges. If you are looking at the possibility of decades in jail, a plea bargain involving a few months or years in jail, some treatment, and registration as a sex offender suddenly starts looking attractive. Even if you are innocent.
That attack is going obsolete. On modern systems with IOMMUs, Linux will not allow the Firewire controller to access memory which has not been set up as a DMA source or target.
You can keep blaming others as much as you want, but correctly adjusted mirrors on a lorry do not miss bikes. Lorries have four mirrors on the passenger side. Visibility from a van is typically quite a bit worse, admittedly, but that just means you have to be that much more vigilant. At least the heavier vans are now getting the same four mirrors as well.
Yes, obviously as a cyclist (or indeed anytime you're out in traffic, no matter what/whether you are driving) you should act defensively. Never assume that someone has seen you unless you have made eye contact. However, drivers of cars and lorries have a special duty to look out for cyclists and pedestrians, because in all likelihood an accident will be serious for the cyclist or the pedestrian. The fact is that other people, including cyclists, are going to do stupid things. It is the duty of all of us to ensure that those stupid things end with a police citation, not with a visit to the hospital.
And no, I don't have a lorry driving license. It was quite fun to try to keep a lorry pointed in the right direction going downhill on fake ice on track though.
LFTR accidents are more likely to be similar to industrial chemical plant accidents than to TMI or Fukushima. Of course that is little comfort to those who know about chemical plant accidents, but society is much more accepting of chemical plant accidents than of nuclear accidents.
LFTR is a potential game changer when it comes to risk perception.
Uranium-233 is produced in LFTR's. It is perfectly suitable for bombs. The neat thing is that it is "easy" to separate since it is chemically different from the rest of the molten salt.
Admittedly nothing is ever easy around molten salts, especially not anything involving fluorine, but that kind of reprocessing is an integral part of how an LFTR will work. If you do not have equipment that could be repurposed to separate uranium-233, you probably do not have a commercially viable LFTR.
It's amazing what scores "informative". Why did they clear the forest? Is there really no farmland nearby which could have been used instead?
Also, modern turbine towers can be built tall enough that trees are less of a concern, although that obviously does not work if we are talking redwoods. Some power will be lost and the towers will be more expensive, but that seems like a reasonable trade off if the forest is not just a tree farm with pines in neat rows.
Because your other points were pretty good but that you don't like the commercial bundle is something quite different than "the author is neither giving the work away nor selling it".
If I like dark chocolate and nougats, I am free to buy the bundle and sell or give away the creamy and vanilla chocolate.
The point is that it's no longer my choice what happens to the book
Once I have bought the book, it is my book and I get to decide what happens to it. If you want to decide what happens to it, do not sell it to random strangers.
I simply said "You ignored my turn signal and attempted to pass me as I slowed down to turn. What the fuck did you expect?"
You are still at fault. You do not have the right to cause a collision.
If a vehicle ahead of a cyclist has its turn signal on, the cyclist must yield and allow the vehicle to turn, its the law
The law is the other way around in Denmark. The right-turning driver must yield to the cyclist "undertaking" on the right. That law works, as proven by the still-low number of right-turning accidents despite the invasion of Eastern European drivers with wrongly-adjusted mirrors and deliberately broken tachographs.
If there is no bike lane, you are taught to place the vehicle close to the curb before the turn so that there is no room for a bike to pass, hopefully encouraging cyclists to overtake on the left instead. If there IS a bike lane, you just have to wait.
All that stuff about blind spots is just wrong. If you position your vehicle correctly and you have the legally-mandated mirrors correctly set, you will not miss a bike. As proven by the lack of fatal accidents that year.
If you find the MX-5 on spritmonitor.de and go for the 2012 model, manual drive and compare the 110kW diesel and the 118kW gasoline, you get 8.14l/100km for gasoline (189g CO2/km) and 6.92l/100km for diesel (183g CO2/km). For automatic, it is 9.09l/100km for gasoline (211g CO2/km) and 7.41l/100km for diesel (196g CO2/km).
Now, it is possible that differences between the individual cars can explain the rather modest gain in CO2 emissions -- just 8% for automatic and 3% for stick shift. However, a significant fraction of the diesel versions on spritmonitor.de are FWD only, whereas all the gasoline versions appear to be AWD. I would have expected the diesels to have a significant advantage due to that alone. It is also possible that diesel drivers just drive less efficiently, but again I would expect those to be the ones worrying most about saving money on fuel.
By the way, notice the huge discrepancy between manufacturer-provided values and real-world measurements. The EU standards for fuel efficiency measurements are a joke; I do not know if the US ones are similarly broken.
What is that supposed to mean? Diesels provably get better mileage, and if you drive them carefully, they provide even larger benefits than if you do the same with gasoline. This is because they run lean all the time, by definition.
Diesel engines are more efficient (less inefficient is perhaps more precise) under partial load than gasoline engines. Gasoline engines are comparatively more sensitive to how you drive. Yes diesels get better mileage, but adjust for fuel density and suddenly the advantage is rather small.
Retrofitted filters do not work. Only proper closed filters have any appreciable effect, and those cannot be retrofitted. But anyway, getting the filter heated is obviously a non-problem when it doesn't exist in the first place.
At 30MPG, hopefully you do not drive very far so mileage is less important.
like trying to pass a truck on the right side while its making a right turn
That is the fault of the lorry driver. He should have used his mirrors.
Yes, it's a stupid thing for the cyclist to do, but the lorry driver is still at fault. And don't give me crap about him not being able to see. That problem has been solved ages ago with mirrors. If the driver cannot figure out how to adjust the mirrors, well then he shouldn't have a license.
Denmark, which is rather full of cyclists, managed a whole year with zero fatalities involving right-turning lorries or buses. Alas, EU regulations mean that most lorry drivers are from Eastern Europe now, and so the murder spree has resumed.
Also notice that there are practically never any right-turning accidents involving buses. You would think that since most buses are in cities, it would be a common thing. Yet it almost never happens. Again, that points to the vast majority of right-turning accidents being entirely avoidable and the fault of the driver.
The funny thing is, electric cars haven't been a success in China. Yet electric four-wheeled thingies with steering wheels are a success, at least in some parts. They just aren't classified as cars, and don't require a driving license or even insurance. Whether they are all strictly legal is rather dubious, but so far authorities haven't cracked down on them.
All EU car makers make good diesel engines now, even Ford sells some very good diesels over here, but of course in the USA fuel superior economy and improved reliability is socialism.
Yet they're still crap. Even the modern ones can be made to spew black smoke, and most of them do so regularly. Filters help, but not enough, and they need high temperatures to clean themselves -- temperatures which the average non-motorway driver never reach.
Also, the fuel economy is mostly a lie. Yes, they go further on each liter/gallon, but the majority of that is because diesel is heavier than gasoline. Try going to spritmonitor.de and calculate the actual CO2 emissions from diesel cars -- they ARE better than gasoline when it comes to CO2, but they are not winning by much.
If you do most of your driving above about 80km/h, diesel is great. However, that is certainly true for less than 48% of the Danish population, yet 48% of all new vehicles sold in Denmark in 2011 were diesel. It is no wonder that Denmark cannot even live up to EU air pollution standards.
D. I think our internet is fucked with more when we have to worry about tinyurl and other random links infecting us with child porn.
The existence of the child porn filter in the UK proved to UK courts that ISP's are capable of cheaply filtering Pirate Bay, and as a consequence various non-child porn sites are now blocked. Hopefully the mission creep to regular porn will be avoided this time, but it seems likely that our luck will run out sooner or later.
Once we get another terrorist attack (it is bound to happen sooner or later), "glorifying terrorism" is likely to go in the filter too, and that could end access to Roj TV and Al Jazeera.
It's funny that you talk about parametrizing user input and then link to a page recommending the thoroughly-beaten-to-death idea of sanitizing user input. Yes, you should sanitize user input. You should also program your application so that nothing serious breaks if the sanitization fails. Because sooner or later it will fail.
SQL has had the problem sorted for ages, every decent database has a way to send commands which do not break no matter how many quote marks or semicolons the user tries to inject. Use them. Don't try to escape, it will break.
Alas, not all other languages are as well protected as SQL. E.g. you cannot do parametrized regular expressions in Perl or Ruby, you are stuck with sanitizing and escaping. HTML is completely hopeless of course.
Unfortunately there's a big difference between a sheet of paper and a backlit LCD screen.
Yes, one is backlit and the other isn't. What is your point? I hate being able to see the pixels on either. Do you actually believe that being able to see the pixels helps readability and reduces eye strain?
Note also that the resolution of what you term "professional offset printing" is often lower than the raw DPI because of the use of halftones or a patterns of dots to simulate the appearance of gray. A magazine picture printed at 1200 DPI may well have a resolution merely equivalent to a 300 DPI photograph printed using traditional analog film processing techniques.
Beyond 300DPI there are diminishing returns, but the jump from 100DPI of a typical screen to a "retina display" is certainly visible.
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Also, it's why the adapter is free, in the box when you buy an iPhone in the EU.
No. The adapter isn't free in the EU and approximately no one owns one.
...why don't more convicted sex offenders emigrate to other countries
Which countries allow immigration of sex offenders? Plus, typically they are poor because they cannot find a job. Emigration generally requires resources.
So, just to get the Godwin out of the way, if the law says, "turn the Jews over to the paramilitary so they can haul them off for rape, torture, and execution" you should do that, but then vote against the government next election?
In practice, few people stand up to such laws once they are in effect. We can all hope that we will be better than that, but the statistics are not on our side.
3% of all Federal criminal cases in the US make it to actual trial. The rest end in some kind of plea. The risks of going to trial are very high; many crimes carry very long maximum sentences and it is likely that whatever you are accused of amounts to multiple different charges. If you are looking at the possibility of decades in jail, a plea bargain involving a few months or years in jail, some treatment, and registration as a sex offender suddenly starts looking attractive. Even if you are innocent.
Only on systems without an IOMMU or with an OS which does not properly limit access. Both of which are becoming rarer.
That attack is going obsolete. On modern systems with IOMMUs, Linux will not allow the Firewire controller to access memory which has not been set up as a DMA source or target.
You can keep blaming others as much as you want, but correctly adjusted mirrors on a lorry do not miss bikes. Lorries have four mirrors on the passenger side. Visibility from a van is typically quite a bit worse, admittedly, but that just means you have to be that much more vigilant. At least the heavier vans are now getting the same four mirrors as well.
Yes, obviously as a cyclist (or indeed anytime you're out in traffic, no matter what/whether you are driving) you should act defensively. Never assume that someone has seen you unless you have made eye contact. However, drivers of cars and lorries have a special duty to look out for cyclists and pedestrians, because in all likelihood an accident will be serious for the cyclist or the pedestrian. The fact is that other people, including cyclists, are going to do stupid things. It is the duty of all of us to ensure that those stupid things end with a police citation, not with a visit to the hospital.
And no, I don't have a lorry driving license. It was quite fun to try to keep a lorry pointed in the right direction going downhill on fake ice on track though.
LFTR accidents are more likely to be similar to industrial chemical plant accidents than to TMI or Fukushima. Of course that is little comfort to those who know about chemical plant accidents, but society is much more accepting of chemical plant accidents than of nuclear accidents.
LFTR is a potential game changer when it comes to risk perception.
Uranium-233 is produced in LFTR's. It is perfectly suitable for bombs. The neat thing is that it is "easy" to separate since it is chemically different from the rest of the molten salt.
Admittedly nothing is ever easy around molten salts, especially not anything involving fluorine, but that kind of reprocessing is an integral part of how an LFTR will work. If you do not have equipment that could be repurposed to separate uranium-233, you probably do not have a commercially viable LFTR.
It's amazing what scores "informative". Why did they clear the forest? Is there really no farmland nearby which could have been used instead?
Also, modern turbine towers can be built tall enough that trees are less of a concern, although that obviously does not work if we are talking redwoods. Some power will be lost and the towers will be more expensive, but that seems like a reasonable trade off if the forest is not just a tree farm with pines in neat rows.
Because your other points were pretty good but that you don't like the commercial bundle is something quite different than "the author is neither giving the work away nor selling it".
If I like dark chocolate and nougats, I am free to buy the bundle and sell or give away the creamy and vanilla chocolate.
The point is that it's no longer my choice what happens to the book
Once I have bought the book, it is my book and I get to decide what happens to it. If you want to decide what happens to it, do not sell it to random strangers.
I simply said "You ignored my turn signal and attempted to pass me as I slowed down to turn. What the fuck did you expect?"
You are still at fault. You do not have the right to cause a collision.
If a vehicle ahead of a cyclist has its turn signal on, the cyclist must yield and allow the vehicle to turn, its the law
The law is the other way around in Denmark. The right-turning driver must yield to the cyclist "undertaking" on the right. That law works, as proven by the still-low number of right-turning accidents despite the invasion of Eastern European drivers with wrongly-adjusted mirrors and deliberately broken tachographs.
If there is no bike lane, you are taught to place the vehicle close to the curb before the turn so that there is no room for a bike to pass, hopefully encouraging cyclists to overtake on the left instead. If there IS a bike lane, you just have to wait.
All that stuff about blind spots is just wrong. If you position your vehicle correctly and you have the legally-mandated mirrors correctly set, you will not miss a bike. As proven by the lack of fatal accidents that year.
If you find the MX-5 on spritmonitor.de and go for the 2012 model, manual drive and compare the 110kW diesel and the 118kW gasoline, you get 8.14l/100km for gasoline (189g CO2/km) and 6.92l/100km for diesel (183g CO2/km). For automatic, it is 9.09l/100km for gasoline (211g CO2/km) and 7.41l/100km for diesel (196g CO2/km).
Now, it is possible that differences between the individual cars can explain the rather modest gain in CO2 emissions -- just 8% for automatic and 3% for stick shift. However, a significant fraction of the diesel versions on spritmonitor.de are FWD only, whereas all the gasoline versions appear to be AWD. I would have expected the diesels to have a significant advantage due to that alone. It is also possible that diesel drivers just drive less efficiently, but again I would expect those to be the ones worrying most about saving money on fuel.
By the way, notice the huge discrepancy between manufacturer-provided values and real-world measurements. The EU standards for fuel efficiency measurements are a joke; I do not know if the US ones are similarly broken.
What is that supposed to mean? Diesels provably get better mileage, and if you drive them carefully, they provide even larger benefits than if you do the same with gasoline. This is because they run lean all the time, by definition.
Diesel engines are more efficient (less inefficient is perhaps more precise) under partial load than gasoline engines. Gasoline engines are comparatively more sensitive to how you drive. Yes diesels get better mileage, but adjust for fuel density and suddenly the advantage is rather small.
Retrofitted filters do not work. Only proper closed filters have any appreciable effect, and those cannot be retrofitted. But anyway, getting the filter heated is obviously a non-problem when it doesn't exist in the first place.
At 30MPG, hopefully you do not drive very far so mileage is less important.
like trying to pass a truck on the right side while its making a right turn
That is the fault of the lorry driver. He should have used his mirrors.
Yes, it's a stupid thing for the cyclist to do, but the lorry driver is still at fault. And don't give me crap about him not being able to see. That problem has been solved ages ago with mirrors. If the driver cannot figure out how to adjust the mirrors, well then he shouldn't have a license.
Denmark, which is rather full of cyclists, managed a whole year with zero fatalities involving right-turning lorries or buses. Alas, EU regulations mean that most lorry drivers are from Eastern Europe now, and so the murder spree has resumed.
Also notice that there are practically never any right-turning accidents involving buses. You would think that since most buses are in cities, it would be a common thing. Yet it almost never happens. Again, that points to the vast majority of right-turning accidents being entirely avoidable and the fault of the driver.
The funny thing is, electric cars haven't been a success in China. Yet electric four-wheeled thingies with steering wheels are a success, at least in some parts. They just aren't classified as cars, and don't require a driving license or even insurance. Whether they are all strictly legal is rather dubious, but so far authorities haven't cracked down on them.
All EU car makers make good diesel engines now, even Ford sells some very good diesels over here, but of course in the USA fuel superior economy and improved reliability is socialism.
Yet they're still crap. Even the modern ones can be made to spew black smoke, and most of them do so regularly. Filters help, but not enough, and they need high temperatures to clean themselves -- temperatures which the average non-motorway driver never reach.
Also, the fuel economy is mostly a lie. Yes, they go further on each liter/gallon, but the majority of that is because diesel is heavier than gasoline. Try going to spritmonitor.de and calculate the actual CO2 emissions from diesel cars -- they ARE better than gasoline when it comes to CO2, but they are not winning by much.
If you do most of your driving above about 80km/h, diesel is great. However, that is certainly true for less than 48% of the Danish population, yet 48% of all new vehicles sold in Denmark in 2011 were diesel. It is no wonder that Denmark cannot even live up to EU air pollution standards.
D. I think our internet is fucked with more when we have to worry about tinyurl and other random links infecting us with child porn.
The existence of the child porn filter in the UK proved to UK courts that ISP's are capable of cheaply filtering Pirate Bay, and as a consequence various non-child porn sites are now blocked. Hopefully the mission creep to regular porn will be avoided this time, but it seems likely that our luck will run out sooner or later.
Once we get another terrorist attack (it is bound to happen sooner or later), "glorifying terrorism" is likely to go in the filter too, and that could end access to Roj TV and Al Jazeera.
If all ISPs and search engines agree to block anything flagged as child porn then wouldn't this solve the problem of child porn distribution?
Unfortunately sometimes people forget to set the Evil Bit (RFC 3514) when they transmit child port. Therefore the filters sometimes fail to block.
but usually most old, established cities wouldn't have the money to dig up the whole town and bury everything.
They seem to have the money to rebuild everything after storms. Unless they get emergency funds from elsewhere for doing that, of course.
Your area has no electric connections to areas without hydro?
A 20 story building with electric heating in a cold climate is in need of demolition.
It's funny that you talk about parametrizing user input and then link to a page recommending the thoroughly-beaten-to-death idea of sanitizing user input. Yes, you should sanitize user input. You should also program your application so that nothing serious breaks if the sanitization fails. Because sooner or later it will fail.
SQL has had the problem sorted for ages, every decent database has a way to send commands which do not break no matter how many quote marks or semicolons the user tries to inject. Use them. Don't try to escape, it will break.
Alas, not all other languages are as well protected as SQL. E.g. you cannot do parametrized regular expressions in Perl or Ruby, you are stuck with sanitizing and escaping. HTML is completely hopeless of course.
Unfortunately there's a big difference between a sheet of paper and a backlit LCD screen.
Yes, one is backlit and the other isn't. What is your point? I hate being able to see the pixels on either. Do you actually believe that being able to see the pixels helps readability and reduces eye strain?
Note also that the resolution of what you term "professional offset printing" is often lower than the raw DPI because of the use of halftones or a patterns of dots to simulate the appearance of gray. A magazine picture printed at 1200 DPI may well have a resolution merely equivalent to a 300 DPI photograph printed using traditional analog film processing techniques.
Beyond 300DPI there are diminishing returns, but the jump from 100DPI of a typical screen to a "retina display" is certainly visible.