One major difference between operating a radio and operating a touchscreen based GPS device is you don't necessarily have to even look at the radio to change stations, etc.
It is much more difficult to operate a touchscreen without looking at it. Also, many newer cars have radio controls attached to the steering wheel so you don't even have to remove your hand from the wheel.
Yes, but . ..
The restriction does not apply to navigation systems that do not have a mobile phone function
Only 2600 deaths a year? Sad how something that causes so little damage is treated with a higher priority than something far worse... like smoking.
(Which causes 443,000 deaths per year according to the CDC).
You think that's bad? Wait till you see what it takes to get us to invade 2 countries, run up a monstrous debt and turn the world against us.
Smoking-related disease, like most disease, is polite and kills its victims in nice private, quiet settings, like hospital beds and easy chairs. If there were a disease that only killed a few hundred people a year in a population the size of the US, but did so by causing them to spontaneously explode among crowds in a spray of blood, tissue and lethal bone fragments, you can bet we spend more on that then AIDS, cancer and cardio-pulmonary disease put together.
Heavily USA biased? The study was about the USA and only the USA. It's not biased, it's exclusive.
Talk to any early years teacher an they will tell you that the oldest in the year tend to do better than those that again could be almost a year younger. Do they ever catch up, can they ever catch up?
When does thee USA school year intake start?
That's where you're off base (or some cricket analogy) -- remember that this is a US study (or US biased if you will). US school years vary by state and community, but they start around mid-August to Early September. Children start school at the grade level determined by their age as of that point. So if a child is 5 on August 20 where school starts on August 21, then he goes to Kindergarten (and I've grossly oversimplified since every jurisdiction has its own rules). These January babies are neither the youngest or oldest in their class, but rather in the middle. They should be neither the largest and oldest or youngest and smallest.
Even in the US, we've heard the studies about birth month and success at football (sic)*. But this study isn't just about athletic achievement but all-around success in school, health and wealth.
*Sorry about that, but I've been a jackass ever since I read "US Department of Labor (sic)" in the Economist years ago. It's a freakin' proper noun! You don't adjust the spelling by region. I probably should get over that, but probably won't.
Much more important is the lack of error bars, they are what you can use to decide if the difference is greater than noise. However since they seem to be confident enough to include a secondary maximum and minimum, we are led to assume that the error bars are rather small. Since TFA says the study looked at 52 million children over 12 years, it sounds fairly reasonable to suggest that error bars are relatively small w.r.t atleast the primary max an min.
TFA also says that the 52 million children in the sample were all of them, making the sample 100% of the population. That should result in some pretty small error bars, indeed!
The two economists examined birth-certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 52 million children born between 1989 and 2001, which represents virtually all of the births in the U.S. during those years.
But lets not cause them any discomfort. After all, if this device is used on terrorists, it must be a terrorist weapon. It shouldn't be uses on people who merely show up and trash your city. Can't have that.
Good old agents provocateurs. Works every time. You'd think we'd catch on.
Course, when LRAD and the tear gas and concussion grenades are coming in, things get a lot less peaceful looking with all the running around screaming, in turn justifying the LRAD, tear gas, and concussion grenades. Fiendishly clever in its simplicity.
I'd imagine that five gallons of honey or liquid mastic would render the sound emitter inoperable.
It must rely on a number of diaphragms to produce and focus the sound, which must be exposed to the air.
Getting some viscous substance on them would lower the frequency response and ruin the focussing.
There would be weather proofing and protection as well, but some should get through.
"The cops are massing, standby on the Honeypault!"
What is the big deal. Can't people go outside and shout about something they don't like? Is it necessary to disperse every crowd? Do we just have to repeat the Boston Massacre over and over again on ever increasing scales for the past 200 years?
Is the government just trying to provoke violence to justify more totalitarian actions? Is the supreme court taking a nap and won't hear cases that would limit the amount of intervention that can occur with a protest?
Will people just have to start bringing a case of molotovs to every protest so they can maintain the protest long enough to have some effect and some media coverage? Violence should be a last resort, but without a right to public protest what other options exist?
"Disperse, ye rebels. Disperse." Violence was the only thing the British would listen to. If the modern US Government copies that strategy by allowing legal protests only in isolated areas where no one can see or hear them, then yes, violence is the only form of protest that will work. We could accelerate the process by getting some of these tactics used on the cracker rebellion.
The real problem is speed, or rather the lack thereof. Air travel became as popular as it is because it's so much *faster*. People might book an airship flight once a decade for the novelty, kind of like a cruise ship trip, but they're not going to hop on the blimp whenever they need to get to the other side of the country. The trip would take too long. Jets are faster, so they win.
People still use cars for cross-country travel. It appears that there's a serious misconception about airship speed here. Maybe we're used to seeing blimps lumbering around stadia (yeah, I typed stadia). These limp airships are only about 1/4th the size of classic rigid craft, and are intended to cruise around 30 knots. The Hindenburg made 85 mph on 4 diesel engines. The USS Akron could do 83 and the Macon 87. These were all built in the 1930s, and were designed to be much faster than surface vessels with much longer range than heavier-than-air ships. Assuming a modern passenger airship could do 100-200 mph, it could easily compete with high speed trains and cars -- even jets for trips under 500 miles or so. People use jet travel not for the speed advantage over airships, but rather for the all-weather availability. It would seem the military picked 20000 ft operational altitude to mostly avoid the problem of weather closer to the surface.
I kinda feel bad that you got a Troll mod (when a mere "Whoosh" would have done) just for ignorance of one of the greatest movies about nuclear annihilation. Take your inner feminist (and the rest of you) to see Dr. Strangelove ASAP.
But therein lies the solution. Get Monsanto to genetically modify pollen from the plant to include huge quantities of THC. Release pollen into the wild. As the THC levels in the plants rise, tell the stoners that pot may be illegal but this stuff isn't even on the radar. Inform Frito-Lay to ramp up production. Then I guess I'll just stick a few ???'s in here and declare profit!
In this case, the ??? is for Monsanto to sue stoners under DMCA for smoking unlicensed GM super-weed.
And why would you choose females based on attractiveness? If you're talking about survival of the species, then repopulation, not physical attractiveness, is the important trait. Physical attractiveness in modern terms is almost counter-productive to this -- narrow hips, tall, and thin, make horrible baby-makers.
But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
After seeing that god-awful HP-33, I did a little research into recent HP calculators. Looks like the 50g is actually an ARM powered device that emulates the Saturn processor so it's code compatible but faster and more modern. It also looks like HP has been farming out not just manufacture but also development of its pocket calculators to Kinpo (who also makes Citizen calculators) for at least 10 years. That kind of bums me out, that the only thing HP is contributing is the logo. I choose to blame Carly, since it's her fault that they spun off the test equipment.
Isn't the very act of scanning and printing using a computer a digital modification?
What if the camera's software tweaked the lighting or white-balance as the picture was being taken?
If all photographs are labeled, then the label becomes meaningless.
I think it's understood that the camera, whether digital or film, has certain limitations as to how well it can approximate reality. Colors and light levels are quantized, shifted, non-linearly altered, but we know that we're looking at a replica with these limitations. Heck, most photos aren't even 3D!
That reminds me of a scene in one of my favorite movies. Michael Douglas takes a fast food joint hostage because the burger doesn't look like the picture;)
"Turn around. Look at that picture. It's big, it's juicy, it's three inches thick. Now look at this sorry sad squashed thing. What's wrong here? Can anybody tell me? Anybody at all?"
I can agree with you on this topic. Falling Down was a great picture about a guy pushed just a little too far and his vengeful but hopeless Odyssey to get back what he's lost. Definitely a guilty pleasure to watch, sort of like A Shock to the System a rung or two down the social status ladder. It helps that I was looking for work as an engineer when this movie came out just as the cold war wound down. It's sort of The Swimmer, except with RPGs.
Casio?
Look into the HP 50g. The keyboard is not quite as good as the HP 48GX, but it's much faster. When I was in school, the HP 48 GX wasn't "supported", but I always found that I learned more by figuring things out myself anyway.
Obviously, I'm getting pretty old here, but what does "supported" mean as you're using it w.r.t. a calculator? Is it like, "here's a problem to solve, and here's the keys to use to solve it, assuming you have a TI-83"? Please tell me I'm wrong.
In my 4 years of undergrad and beyond (started as a EE major and switched to chemistry), I never saw a HP calc.
That's really sad. But from the looks of those on the HP website, I can see why. Some don't even have an Enter key. Most look like they're something else that's been re-badged "HP", except for the 35s which seems to have gone the new Mustang/Challenger/Camero/Mini Cooper route. The rest look as toy-like as the TIs.
Sounds like those people have a problem. Guns are "usually" carried almost everywhere in the United States. Grocery stores, public streets, shopping malls, restaurants, etc, etc.
Call it a problem, call it a phobia, call it pumpkin pie. I don't care. Apparently, I'm not the only one, considering the number of places I see "no guns" stickers on the doors. If I see a person carrying a gun where I don't think they should be, I think "I oughta tell him that it makes me nervous for him to bring a gun here". And then I remember that the whole reason that I'm nervous is he's got a gun, and I just move away. Cause my daddy, like many people's daddys, told me not to argue with guys carrying guns.
Do you have a single example of that "riled up" mob using guns to commit violence?
Carrying a gun != threatening someone else. A holstered/slung firearm represents no threat to anyone except hoplophobes that pass out at the mere sight of weaponry. If you have evidence that someone threatened another human being at a town hall meeting then I suggest you call the authorities and report it.
That's pretty context sensitive. When you're carrying a gun somewhere that guns are not usually carried, other people think something's up. Some for instances: Out in the woods hunting -- not threatening. While at skeet shooting range -- not threatening. On a commercial airplane -- threatening. While standing guard over a big pile of cash -- not threatening. While carrying signs about bloodshed -- threatening. While doing shots in a bar -- threatening. While being part of a riled up mob -- threatening.
It would be "fear-mongering" if there were NO possiblity of a terrorist attack.
Since there are lots of things much more likely to kill you and destroy your property, ya it's fear mongering, as in "selling fear". The public really can't use the color of the Terrorist Alert Status to protect themselves, their families, their neighbors, or their property from harm. All one can do is worry more. Who can add an hour to their life by worrying more? Checking your smoke detector batteries is more likely to save your life than knowing the current color code.
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One major difference between operating a radio and operating a touchscreen based GPS device is you don't necessarily have to even look at the radio to change stations, etc.
It is much more difficult to operate a touchscreen without looking at it. Also, many newer cars have radio controls attached to the steering wheel so you don't even have to remove your hand from the wheel.
Yes, but . . .
The restriction does not apply to navigation systems that do not have a mobile phone function
. . . so a touchscreen GPS is OK.
Only 2600 deaths a year? Sad how something that causes so little damage is treated with a higher priority than something far worse... like smoking. (Which causes 443,000 deaths per year according to the CDC).
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/health/attrdeaths/
You think that's bad? Wait till you see what it takes to get us to invade 2 countries, run up a monstrous debt and turn the world against us.
Smoking-related disease, like most disease, is polite and kills its victims in nice private, quiet settings, like hospital beds and easy chairs. If there were a disease that only killed a few hundred people a year in a population the size of the US, but did so by causing them to spontaneously explode among crowds in a spray of blood, tissue and lethal bone fragments, you can bet we spend more on that then AIDS, cancer and cardio-pulmonary disease put together.
However it is heavily USA biased
Heavily USA biased? The study was about the USA and only the USA. It's not biased, it's exclusive.
Talk to any early years teacher an they will tell you that the oldest in the year tend to do better than those that again could be almost a year younger. Do they ever catch up, can they ever catch up?
When does thee USA school year intake start?
That's where you're off base (or some cricket analogy) -- remember that this is a US study (or US biased if you will). US school years vary by state and community, but they start around mid-August to Early September. Children start school at the grade level determined by their age as of that point. So if a child is 5 on August 20 where school starts on August 21, then he goes to Kindergarten (and I've grossly oversimplified since every jurisdiction has its own rules). These January babies are neither the youngest or oldest in their class, but rather in the middle. They should be neither the largest and oldest or youngest and smallest.
Even in the US, we've heard the studies about birth month and success at football (sic)*. But this study isn't just about athletic achievement but all-around success in school, health and wealth.
*Sorry about that, but I've been a jackass ever since I read "US Department of Labor (sic)" in the Economist years ago. It's a freakin' proper noun! You don't adjust the spelling by region. I probably should get over that, but probably won't.
Much more important is the lack of error bars, they are what you can use to decide if the difference is greater than noise. However since they seem to be confident enough to include a secondary maximum and minimum, we are led to assume that the error bars are rather small. Since TFA says the study looked at 52 million children over 12 years, it sounds fairly reasonable to suggest that error bars are relatively small w.r.t atleast the primary max an min.
TFA also says that the 52 million children in the sample were all of them, making the sample 100% of the population. That should result in some pretty small error bars, indeed!
The two economists examined birth-certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 52 million children born between 1989 and 2001, which represents virtually all of the births in the U.S. during those years.
But lets not cause them any discomfort. After all, if this device is used on terrorists, it must be a terrorist weapon. It shouldn't be uses on people who merely show up and trash your city. Can't have that.
Good old agents provocateurs. Works every time. You'd think we'd catch on.
Peaceably. http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Assembly/overview.aspx
Course, when LRAD and the tear gas and concussion grenades are coming in, things get a lot less peaceful looking with all the running around screaming, in turn justifying the LRAD, tear gas, and concussion grenades. Fiendishly clever in its simplicity.
I'd imagine that five gallons of honey or liquid mastic would render the sound emitter inoperable.
It must rely on a number of diaphragms to produce and focus the sound, which must be exposed to the air. Getting some viscous substance on them would lower the frequency response and ruin the focussing. There would be weather proofing and protection as well, but some should get through.
"The cops are massing, standby on the Honeypault!"
What is the big deal. Can't people go outside and shout about something they don't like? Is it necessary to disperse every crowd? Do we just have to repeat the Boston Massacre over and over again on ever increasing scales for the past 200 years?
Is the government just trying to provoke violence to justify more totalitarian actions? Is the supreme court taking a nap and won't hear cases that would limit the amount of intervention that can occur with a protest?
Will people just have to start bringing a case of molotovs to every protest so they can maintain the protest long enough to have some effect and some media coverage? Violence should be a last resort, but without a right to public protest what other options exist?
"Disperse, ye rebels. Disperse." Violence was the only thing the British would listen to. If the modern US Government copies that strategy by allowing legal protests only in isolated areas where no one can see or hear them, then yes, violence is the only form of protest that will work. We could accelerate the process by getting some of these tactics used on the cracker rebellion.
Yeah? Let's see them use the same techniques against the Tea Baggers carrying guns.
I don't think they'd use these against the armed teabaggers, those guys might shoot back.
If the fake polls do not benefit a company are they astroturfing? If it benefits the current regime is it astroturfing?
Astroturfing implies creating a false impression of grass-roots sentiment. As such, it wouldn't matter who it benefits.
The real problem is speed, or rather the lack thereof. Air travel became as popular as it is because it's so much *faster*. People might book an airship flight once a decade for the novelty, kind of like a cruise ship trip, but they're not going to hop on the blimp whenever they need to get to the other side of the country. The trip would take too long. Jets are faster, so they win.
People still use cars for cross-country travel. It appears that there's a serious misconception about airship speed here. Maybe we're used to seeing blimps lumbering around stadia (yeah, I typed stadia). These limp airships are only about 1/4th the size of classic rigid craft, and are intended to cruise around 30 knots. The Hindenburg made 85 mph on 4 diesel engines. The USS Akron could do 83 and the Macon 87. These were all built in the 1930s, and were designed to be much faster than surface vessels with much longer range than heavier-than-air ships. Assuming a modern passenger airship could do 100-200 mph, it could easily compete with high speed trains and cars -- even jets for trips under 500 miles or so. People use jet travel not for the speed advantage over airships, but rather for the all-weather availability. It would seem the military picked 20000 ft operational altitude to mostly avoid the problem of weather closer to the surface.
I kinda feel bad that you got a Troll mod (when a mere "Whoosh" would have done) just for ignorance of one of the greatest movies about nuclear annihilation. Take your inner feminist (and the rest of you) to see Dr. Strangelove ASAP.
In the meantime, take a look at this youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iesXUFOlWC0
But therein lies the solution. Get Monsanto to genetically modify pollen from the plant to include huge quantities of THC. Release pollen into the wild. As the THC levels in the plants rise, tell the stoners that pot may be illegal but this stuff isn't even on the radar. Inform Frito-Lay to ramp up production. Then I guess I'll just stick a few ???'s in here and declare profit!
In this case, the ??? is for Monsanto to sue stoners under DMCA for smoking unlicensed GM super-weed.
Don't forget the Chinese needle snakes.
And why would you choose females based on attractiveness? If you're talking about survival of the species, then repopulation, not physical attractiveness, is the important trait. Physical attractiveness in modern terms is almost counter-productive to this -- narrow hips, tall, and thin, make horrible baby-makers.
But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
After seeing that god-awful HP-33, I did a little research into recent HP calculators. Looks like the 50g is actually an ARM powered device that emulates the Saturn processor so it's code compatible but faster and more modern. It also looks like HP has been farming out not just manufacture but also development of its pocket calculators to Kinpo (who also makes Citizen calculators) for at least 10 years. That kind of bums me out, that the only thing HP is contributing is the logo. I choose to blame Carly, since it's her fault that they spun off the test equipment.
Isn't the very act of scanning and printing using a computer a digital modification?
What if the camera's software tweaked the lighting or white-balance as the picture was being taken?
If all photographs are labeled, then the label becomes meaningless.
I think it's understood that the camera, whether digital or film, has certain limitations as to how well it can approximate reality. Colors and light levels are quantized, shifted, non-linearly altered, but we know that we're looking at a replica with these limitations. Heck, most photos aren't even 3D!
Clearly, the problem isn't with the idea, but with the label: it should say which thing contains carcinogens so that you can avoid the problem.
And perhaps the relative severity of the risk compared with other daily hazards. But then we've substituted a meaningless sign with one that's TLDR.
That reminds me of a scene in one of my favorite movies. Michael Douglas takes a fast food joint hostage because the burger doesn't look like the picture ;)
"Turn around. Look at that picture. It's big, it's juicy, it's three inches thick. Now look at this sorry sad squashed thing. What's wrong here? Can anybody tell me? Anybody at all?"
I can agree with you on this topic. Falling Down was a great picture about a guy pushed just a little too far and his vengeful but hopeless Odyssey to get back what he's lost. Definitely a guilty pleasure to watch, sort of like A Shock to the System a rung or two down the social status ladder. It helps that I was looking for work as an engineer when this movie came out just as the cold war wound down. It's sort of The Swimmer, except with RPGs.
Casio? Look into the HP 50g. The keyboard is not quite as good as the HP 48GX, but it's much faster. When I was in school, the HP 48 GX wasn't "supported", but I always found that I learned more by figuring things out myself anyway.
Obviously, I'm getting pretty old here, but what does "supported" mean as you're using it w.r.t. a calculator? Is it like, "here's a problem to solve, and here's the keys to use to solve it, assuming you have a TI-83"? Please tell me I'm wrong.
In my 4 years of undergrad and beyond (started as a EE major and switched to chemistry), I never saw a HP calc.
That's really sad. But from the looks of those on the HP website, I can see why. Some don't even have an Enter key. Most look like they're something else that's been re-badged "HP", except for the 35s which seems to have gone the new Mustang/Challenger/Camero/Mini Cooper route. The rest look as toy-like as the TIs.
Sounds like those people have a problem. Guns are "usually" carried almost everywhere in the United States. Grocery stores, public streets, shopping malls, restaurants, etc, etc.
Call it a problem, call it a phobia, call it pumpkin pie. I don't care. Apparently, I'm not the only one, considering the number of places I see "no guns" stickers on the doors. If I see a person carrying a gun where I don't think they should be, I think "I oughta tell him that it makes me nervous for him to bring a gun here". And then I remember that the whole reason that I'm nervous is he's got a gun, and I just move away. Cause my daddy, like many people's daddys, told me not to argue with guys carrying guns.
Do you have a single example of that "riled up" mob using guns to commit violence?
You're kidding, right?
Carrying a gun != threatening someone else. A holstered/slung firearm represents no threat to anyone except hoplophobes that pass out at the mere sight of weaponry. If you have evidence that someone threatened another human being at a town hall meeting then I suggest you call the authorities and report it.
That's pretty context sensitive. When you're carrying a gun somewhere that guns are not usually carried, other people think something's up. Some for instances: Out in the woods hunting -- not threatening. While at skeet shooting range -- not threatening. On a commercial airplane -- threatening. While standing guard over a big pile of cash -- not threatening. While carrying signs about bloodshed -- threatening. While doing shots in a bar -- threatening. While being part of a riled up mob -- threatening.
It would be "fear-mongering" if there were NO possiblity of a terrorist attack.
Since there are lots of things much more likely to kill you and destroy your property, ya it's fear mongering, as in "selling fear". The public really can't use the color of the Terrorist Alert Status to protect themselves, their families, their neighbors, or their property from harm. All one can do is worry more. Who can add an hour to their life by worrying more? Checking your smoke detector batteries is more likely to save your life than knowing the current color code.