There's also Chesterton who defined patriotism as "hating your country enough to think it ought to be changed while loving it enough to think it worth changing".
Yes, but when he spends his writing upbraiding society for how the people in it treat each other, is it not relevant to consider how he treated those close to him? Twain was apparently not capable of practicing what he preached, which certainly puts a damper on his personal greatness.
Those photos all look rather ominous... but then again I have no idea what the inside of a jet engine normally looks like. The inside of the exhaust pipe on my car looks rather horrifying too; that doesn't mean the car is in danger of a catastrophic failure; that's just what the insides of exhaust pipes look like. Without some comparison photos of a normal jet engine, it's really hard for a lay person to judge those photos in any meaningful way.
Civil suits also require demonstration of harm. Even if we agree companies ought not be tracking people like this, I can't say how the plaintiffs could show they've been harmed by targeted banner ads.
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. The government's only interest in this is using it as a Trojan horse to get the FCC involved in internet regulation. Once that's done, they can start pushing for content regulation, and end to online anonymity, mandatory DRM, etc.
Companies will just block access non-corporate e-mail websites. Which they should really do anyways since it allows employees to bypass all of the security filters on their e-mail system, creating a big security risk for the corporate LAN.
I'd like to note that my company is the most productive, innovative, and beneficient organization in the history mankind. Indeed, my managers are such paragons of humanity that I have no doubt that were they to control all of society, we would be living in a golden age which would rival, nay exceed, even the most fantasic utopias portrayed in literature.
The problem is that government databases aren't perfect. Every year Social Security declares several thousand people dead who aren't actually dead. Getting your status restored can take years.
When they did a test run of a national ID database for the E-Verify program, the false positve rate (people declared non-citizens who actually were) was more than 6%. In a nation our size, that's more that 20 million people who would be banned from holding any job.
Except it's nothing like auto insurance. You're not required to carry any coverage for your own car, only coverage for liabilities if you hit someone else.
There's also the fact that even though Toyota's are sold worldwide, the reports of unintended acceleration are confined almost entirely to North America:
The Search for the Gas Pedal Flaw
So are American elderly uniquely weak, slow, and easily injured?
To partially answer your question, compare the above to the following graph of number of licensed drivers by age from the Federal Highway Administration:
Has the news media? If you want that level of effort for a comment on a semi-obscure internet site, what of major news organizations that want to blare accusations without even considering alternative explanations? Of course, debunking this story wouldn't help their ratings.
If you look through the list at the ages mentioned, one begins to notice a rather odd pattern: 18, 21, 32, 34, 44, 45, 47, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89
This is a most peculiar bug indeed in that it seems occur primarily when the driver is elderly. Or perhaps, as with previous "sudden acceleration" scares, this will ultimately turn out to be the result of people slamming on the gas when they menat to slam on the brake and then trying to blame the car for their error.
Those that can't speak English at all will either have some very fresh papers saying they can work here, or they will have a concerned family member monitoring them.
Or they could be US citizens from Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands.
Every year, the Social Security administration accidentally declares several thousand people dead who are actually still alive. Once this occurs, it can take years to get the mistake corrected. Imagine if it was against the law for you to work in ANY job during this period.
During test runs of E-verify, 6.3% of checks resulted in false positives (e.g. legal citizens where declared illegals). In a country of 300 million, that comes to nearly 20 million law abiding citizens who would be unjustly banned from any form of employment.
And people think this is a GOOD idea?
The problem is that the vast majority of healthcare is paid for by someone other than the patient, so even if costs were transparent there's no incentive for them to bother paying attention.
There was a report on NPR yesterday that most cars (including Ford, GM, and Honda, but not Toyota) already have an interlink that causes the breaking system to disconnect the throttle when the brakes are activated.
You mean like if your country were to be attacked by terrorists in Afghanistan and you decided to attack Iraq because that's the country you had a plan for?
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There's also Chesterton who defined patriotism as "hating your country enough to think it ought to be changed while loving it enough to think it worth changing".
Yes, but when he spends his writing upbraiding society for how the people in it treat each other, is it not relevant to consider how he treated those close to him? Twain was apparently not capable of practicing what he preached, which certainly puts a damper on his personal greatness.
Given how many climate scientists refuse to release their raw data, the discovery portion of a US civil trial would be extremely interesting.
Contrapositively, just because they are after you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.
Those photos all look rather ominous... but then again I have no idea what the inside of a jet engine normally looks like. The inside of the exhaust pipe on my car looks rather horrifying too; that doesn't mean the car is in danger of a catastrophic failure; that's just what the insides of exhaust pipes look like. Without some comparison photos of a normal jet engine, it's really hard for a lay person to judge those photos in any meaningful way.
Civil suits also require demonstration of harm. Even if we agree companies ought not be tracking people like this, I can't say how the plaintiffs could show they've been harmed by targeted banner ads.
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. The government's only interest in this is using it as a Trojan horse to get the FCC involved in internet regulation. Once that's done, they can start pushing for content regulation, and end to online anonymity, mandatory DRM, etc.
Companies will just block access non-corporate e-mail websites. Which they should really do anyways since it allows employees to bypass all of the security filters on their e-mail system, creating a big security risk for the corporate LAN.
I'd like to note that my company is the most productive, innovative, and beneficient organization in the history mankind. Indeed, my managers are such paragons of humanity that I have no doubt that were they to control all of society, we would be living in a golden age which would rival, nay exceed, even the most fantasic utopias portrayed in literature.
Don't forget to leave your SSN to make absolutely sure there's no confusion. Someone else could have the same full name as you, after all.
The problem is that government databases aren't perfect. Every year Social Security declares several thousand people dead who aren't actually dead. Getting your status restored can take years. When they did a test run of a national ID database for the E-Verify program, the false positve rate (people declared non-citizens who actually were) was more than 6%. In a nation our size, that's more that 20 million people who would be banned from holding any job.
Except it's nothing like auto insurance. You're not required to carry any coverage for your own car, only coverage for liabilities if you hit someone else.
There's also the fact that even though Toyota's are sold worldwide, the reports of unintended acceleration are confined almost entirely to North America: The Search for the Gas Pedal Flaw So are American elderly uniquely weak, slow, and easily injured?
To partially answer your question, compare the above to the following graph of number of licensed drivers by age from the Federal Highway Administration:
Licensed Drivers
Has the news media? If you want that level of effort for a comment on a semi-obscure internet site, what of major news organizations that want to blare accusations without even considering alternative explanations? Of course, debunking this story wouldn't help their ratings.
The Times also helpfully provides a list of all the people who have died in "sudden acceleration" accidents involving Toyotas:
Toyotas, deaths and sudden acceleration
If you look through the list at the ages mentioned, one begins to notice a rather odd pattern: 18, 21, 32, 34, 44, 45, 47, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89
This is a most peculiar bug indeed in that it seems occur primarily when the driver is elderly. Or perhaps, as with previous "sudden acceleration" scares, this will ultimately turn out to be the result of people slamming on the gas when they menat to slam on the brake and then trying to blame the car for their error.
Or they could be US citizens from Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands.
Every year, the Social Security administration accidentally declares several thousand people dead who are actually still alive. Once this occurs, it can take years to get the mistake corrected. Imagine if it was against the law for you to work in ANY job during this period. During test runs of E-verify, 6.3% of checks resulted in false positives (e.g. legal citizens where declared illegals). In a country of 300 million, that comes to nearly 20 million law abiding citizens who would be unjustly banned from any form of employment. And people think this is a GOOD idea?
The problem is that the vast majority of healthcare is paid for by someone other than the patient, so even if costs were transparent there's no incentive for them to bother paying attention.
It's not fun because it's a job. If it was supposed to be fun, you'd be paying your boss to do it, rather than the other way around.
There was a report on NPR yesterday that most cars (including Ford, GM, and Honda, but not Toyota) already have an interlink that causes the breaking system to disconnect the throttle when the brakes are activated.
Why don't we comission a new Korean War Memorial sculpture, smash Mr. Gaylord's sculpture to bits and then mail him the pieces?
You do realize that less than 40% of the US believes in evolution? If you turn textbooks into a popularity contest, I don't think you'll like the result.
Next time my inlaws try to make me watch one of their vacation slide shows, I can have them charged with attempted murder!
You mean like if your country were to be attacked by terrorists in Afghanistan and you decided to attack Iraq because that's the country you had a plan for?
Yeah your right. That could NEVER happen today.