NO! You cannot be detained in the U.S. just for not having ID. You are simply wrong.
The U.S. also does not have any requirements for exit. Airlines will check that you have a passport so that you can get intothe country you arrive at. But the U.S. has no exit restrictions at our borders. You are free to leave.
They're not necessarily trying to keep the user out. They're trying to keep non-owner hackers out. If someone hacked the OnStar system, for example, they could stall every car on the network. Worse if they could figure out how to make every car accelerate out of control. Or what if they could change the engine settings to timing that would damage the engine over time. Or if the OnStar system stays secure, what if they could do the equivalent using the internet connectivity in some cars? or break in using the remote key functionality? Or what if someone could take over the entertainment system using the satellite radio feed (spoof the feed, I'm not imagining them taking over the satellites). A poorly designed system might allow take-over of the entertainment system to allow take-over of the critical systems, as well.
These mpg numbers aren't "apples to apples". Aviation fuel has a higher energy density than gasoline, so all else equal, you'd expect to get better mileage anyway.
Also, something like a Cessna tends to get mileage in the plus/minus 20 mpg range. A flying car would almost certainly be less efficient than a purpose-built aircraft.
The poster above may think that Apple came up with the hard-drive based mp3 player, but I do not think it is a widely adopted meme. Most people I know accept that the iPod was just a really well-designed and implemented mp3 player. Much like everyone I know understands that Apple didn't invent the smartphone. In fact, almost everyone I know had a Blackberry at some time before the iPhone came out, or was at least familiar with what a Blackberry was before the iPhone came out. But the iPhone kicks ass over the Blackberry. Apple may have only invented a better smartphone... but OMG it was WAY better.
(Was way better than the smartphones available at the time. Android has certainly closed the gap, and Blackberries are actually almost on par these days.)
Steve had made similar comments in other forums. He seemed to be a big believer that people don't know what they want until you show it to them. If you did a market survey before the iPad came out, and asked people what they wanted in a tablet computer, very few would have articulated something that looked/operated similar to an iPad. Even after it was announced many people scoffed. But it's been a huge success.
While he sometimes said things that were not entirely clear, Steve's philosophy never seemed to be "don't ask the customer what they like or don't like about existing products". Especially knowing what they don't like is important. That's where the opportunities are. The trick is, in Steve's mind, that the customer is not the appropriate person to ask HOW to fix it. The great designers at Apple will come up with a fix. And if they do the job right, it will be something the customer would never have thought of, but will love.
The article did not say that trades were canceled for Knight Capital. There would have been other trading in those stocks between other parties. It is possible some of those trades have been reversed.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. I would be irresponsible and creating some kind of unnecessarily-extra inconvenience for you if I had not taught gun-safety to my 3-year-old?
I think that's an overly simplistic view of these magnets. I know I had never even thought about how they might be harmful until someone pointed it out to me. It's not particularly obvious.
"As they say: if you have a pool in the backyard, which do you think would be more effective: Putting a fence around it, or teaching your kids to swim?"
You should teach your kids to swim. But since you can't control whether the neighbors teach their kids to swim, you should still have a fence.
Same thing applies to guns in the home. Even if your kids are perfectly safe around the guns, you need to be cognisant that their friends may not have the same education. You really don't want to find yourself in the position of saying "it's not my fault that the neighbor kid accidentally shot himself with my gun, his parents should have taught him gun safety". Not only will the jury not be very interested in that argument when the parents sue you, but I imagine you'd feel bad if the neighbor kid killed himself with your gun. (Even if you would believe it wasn't your "fault", I imagine you'd still wish it hadn't happened.)
Another problem with the suit is that your body shape changes dramatically during long-duration microgravity. Astonauts will show up at Mars with significantly skinnier legs and bulkier torsos than they had on Earth.
Acela has similarly quick stops for most of it's run. It takes longer at NYC because that is it's major stop. More people get off/on at NYC than at either of the terminal stops (DC, Boston), for example. From my experience being on the train 50%-75% of the passengers turn over at NYC. I'm sure shinkansen takes more than 30 seconds to unload at it's Tokyo stop.
Acela stops for under a minute at most stops. However, even 3 minutes would not be enough for the NYC stop. Probably 50-75% of the train turns over at NYC. (Get hundreds of people off, many with luggage, then hundreds on, many with luggagge.) Having been on the train at NYC, they just wouldn't be able to get everyone off/on comfortably in less than 10 minutes, and even that would be tight. They could maybe shave 5-10 minutes off of the 15-20 minute NYC stop, but at that point, it's kinda splitting hairs.
Furthermore, having a stop in the middle of the run that is a few minutes longer builds a little flexibility into the system. If Acela is five minutes late into NYC, it can still leave NYC on time and be back on schedule.
The full Acela run is like 6 hours. Giving the largest stop an extra 5-10 minutes for boarding is hardly an impediment to it's overall efficiency.
Acela does not travel one foot on freight rail. It travels significantly faster than other trains on the NEC. And it certainly stops more than once per state.
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But what were you doing when you were detained?
So a police officer asked you for ID. When you refused......... nothing happened?
Isn't that exactly how freedom works?
"Several states require if you're an adult on public land you must carry ID or you'll be charged."
I think you need to back up this statement. Because it simply is not true.
Evidence for this? Or are you just talking out of your ass. I suspect "ass".
Name one.
NO! You cannot be detained in the U.S. just for not having ID. You are simply wrong.
The U.S. also does not have any requirements for exit. Airlines will check that you have a passport so that you can get intothe country you arrive at. But the U.S. has no exit restrictions at our borders. You are free to leave.
They're not necessarily trying to keep the user out. They're trying to keep non-owner hackers out. If someone hacked the OnStar system, for example, they could stall every car on the network. Worse if they could figure out how to make every car accelerate out of control. Or what if they could change the engine settings to timing that would damage the engine over time. Or if the OnStar system stays secure, what if they could do the equivalent using the internet connectivity in some cars? or break in using the remote key functionality? Or what if someone could take over the entertainment system using the satellite radio feed (spoof the feed, I'm not imagining them taking over the satellites). A poorly designed system might allow take-over of the entertainment system to allow take-over of the critical systems, as well.
"Drink four liters of water each day, and you will probably die."
Not a chance. In fact, if you are working outside in a hot desert, for instance, that would be the minimum suggested amount to be drinking each day.
These mpg numbers aren't "apples to apples". Aviation fuel has a higher energy density than gasoline, so all else equal, you'd expect to get better mileage anyway.
Also, something like a Cessna tends to get mileage in the plus/minus 20 mpg range. A flying car would almost certainly be less efficient than a purpose-built aircraft.
This is exactly what I was thinking. You don't fix corporate culture through interior design.
The poster above may think that Apple came up with the hard-drive based mp3 player, but I do not think it is a widely adopted meme. Most people I know accept that the iPod was just a really well-designed and implemented mp3 player. Much like everyone I know understands that Apple didn't invent the smartphone. In fact, almost everyone I know had a Blackberry at some time before the iPhone came out, or was at least familiar with what a Blackberry was before the iPhone came out. But the iPhone kicks ass over the Blackberry. Apple may have only invented a better smartphone... but OMG it was WAY better.
(Was way better than the smartphones available at the time. Android has certainly closed the gap, and Blackberries are actually almost on par these days.)
Steve had made similar comments in other forums. He seemed to be a big believer that people don't know what they want until you show it to them. If you did a market survey before the iPad came out, and asked people what they wanted in a tablet computer, very few would have articulated something that looked/operated similar to an iPad. Even after it was announced many people scoffed. But it's been a huge success.
While he sometimes said things that were not entirely clear, Steve's philosophy never seemed to be "don't ask the customer what they like or don't like about existing products". Especially knowing what they don't like is important. That's where the opportunities are. The trick is, in Steve's mind, that the customer is not the appropriate person to ask HOW to fix it. The great designers at Apple will come up with a fix. And if they do the job right, it will be something the customer would never have thought of, but will love.
It didn't say that the do-overs were for Knight. The do-overs might be for some third-parties who blundered into the middle of the fray.
The article did not say that trades were canceled for Knight Capital. There would have been other trading in those stocks between other parties. It is possible some of those trades have been reversed.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. I would be irresponsible and creating some kind of unnecessarily-extra inconvenience for you if I had not taught gun-safety to my 3-year-old?
I've never bought any. I've never seen the box.
If a friend had some sitting on a shelf (outside of the box, that is) in his family room, I'm not sure how I would know they were unsafe.
I think that's an overly simplistic view of these magnets. I know I had never even thought about how they might be harmful until someone pointed it out to me. It's not particularly obvious.
"As they say: if you have a pool in the backyard, which do you think would be more effective: Putting a fence around it, or teaching your kids to swim?"
You should teach your kids to swim. But since you can't control whether the neighbors teach their kids to swim, you should still have a fence.
Same thing applies to guns in the home. Even if your kids are perfectly safe around the guns, you need to be cognisant that their friends may not have the same education. You really don't want to find yourself in the position of saying "it's not my fault that the neighbor kid accidentally shot himself with my gun, his parents should have taught him gun safety". Not only will the jury not be very interested in that argument when the parents sue you, but I imagine you'd feel bad if the neighbor kid killed himself with your gun. (Even if you would believe it wasn't your "fault", I imagine you'd still wish it hadn't happened.)
Another problem with the suit is that your body shape changes dramatically during long-duration microgravity. Astonauts will show up at Mars with significantly skinnier legs and bulkier torsos than they had on Earth.
Acela has similarly quick stops for most of it's run. It takes longer at NYC because that is it's major stop. More people get off/on at NYC than at either of the terminal stops (DC, Boston), for example. From my experience being on the train 50%-75% of the passengers turn over at NYC. I'm sure shinkansen takes more than 30 seconds to unload at it's Tokyo stop.
Acela stops for under a minute at most stops. However, even 3 minutes would not be enough for the NYC stop. Probably 50-75% of the train turns over at NYC. (Get hundreds of people off, many with luggage, then hundreds on, many with luggagge.) Having been on the train at NYC, they just wouldn't be able to get everyone off/on comfortably in less than 10 minutes, and even that would be tight. They could maybe shave 5-10 minutes off of the 15-20 minute NYC stop, but at that point, it's kinda splitting hairs.
Furthermore, having a stop in the middle of the run that is a few minutes longer builds a little flexibility into the system. If Acela is five minutes late into NYC, it can still leave NYC on time and be back on schedule.
The full Acela run is like 6 hours. Giving the largest stop an extra 5-10 minutes for boarding is hardly an impediment to it's overall efficiency.
Oh, and the Northeast Regional only stops that long on weekends. On weekdays, both trains stop for 15-20 minutes at NY Penn.
I just checked Amtrak's schedules.
For Philly Boston, Acela is 45 min faster (5 hours on Acela)
For the whole route (DC Boston), Acela is 1 hour 10 min faster (6hrs 40 min on Acela)
That's "Harrolde"
Acela does not travel one foot on freight rail. It travels significantly faster than other trains on the NEC. And it certainly stops more than once per state.