Also, at least in California, you have a right to resist arrest if you have a reasonable fear that the arresting officer intends to do you bodily harm... but good luck proving your fear is "reasonable" in court! That would at least require documented evidence of a previous relationship with the officer substantiating previous threats made by the officer against you. Again, it is theoretically possible to argue that, but I doubt that anybody has ever successful justified resisting.
Pulling a gun on a group of police officers is generally referred to as "suicide by cop". I generally make it a point not to argue with people carrying loaded weapons, but in this case I said "I have committed no crimes; you have no right to be here", which the police decided was "combative", thus justifying their use of force. I'm still not clear on what justified their smoking a cigar in my house.
I'm confused... shouldn't the average number of opposite-sex partners be about the same for both men and women? (Slightly less for women just because there are more of them.)
At least in California, it is unlawful to arrest somebody for resisting arrest without any additional charges. That is why they always charge you with "disturbing the peace" whenever they order you to do something and you question their authority to order you to do it. Remember: when 4 police officers burst into your bedroom through a locked door in the middle of the night, push you back onto your bed, hold you down and burn your leg with a lit cigar, you are "disturbing the peace" when you cry out in pain.
The one where the government acts to prevent collusion between the different companies, as well as to prevent any one company from having a monopoly in a specific market. You are correct, self-regulation doesn't work without the government enforcing transparency and severely penalizing companies for lying to customers.
Customers already trained by Apple to "just bend over and take it" get more sex... next you'll be telling me that customers used to taking it from Microsoft without even any lube get a lot more sex!
Ow! I just got hit with an electron! Ow! A positron! Mommmmmm! Make him stop! He's throwing electrons at me!
I suspect electrons and positrons don't exactly make audible "splat" noises when they hit something... But then, explosions in space are actually silent, and big yellow flames don't normally occur in a vacuum either.
They don't "stop for a fraction of a second", they merely reflect off the mirrors... try using the patented CSI "infinite magnification of a digital image" technique next time to zoom in close enough to see the mirrors.
Isn't the fact the electron/positron pairs can be created in a vacuum by a strong enough electromagnetic field pretty interesting Physics in and of itself? What goes around comes around -- every day we get closer to resurrecting the theory of the luminiferous aether... (Yeah, I know... energy in a vacuum is not exactly the same thing.)
The original Insite used the same IMA system as the Civic. In addition, it did not come in a non-hybrid model, so price comparisons are difficult. The Insite did indeed get better mileage (about 10 more miles per gallon) because it was a lightweight 2-seater specifically designed for mileage, including better aerodynamics and low rolling resistance tires. The Civic Hybrid was just a standard Civic with a motor/generator replacing the flywheel, a trunk modified to hold the batteries, and some additional control circuitry. I'm not sure of the details of the new Insite, but if "full hybrid" means being able to move off of just the electric motor with the internal combustion engine shut off, I don't think it qualifies either. The Toyota system uses a separate electric and gas motor with a drive train that balances the torque so that either one or both can be used, so in theory it can run off just electricity. However, the owner's manual advises you against that on the grounds that if you run down the lithium batteries, the car will no longer start and Toyota has to send out a mechanic to recharge them! (It's not a 12-volt system.) Disclaimer: I own both a Honda Civic Hybrid and a Toyota Highlander Hybrid. The Honda takes some getting used to as it shuts the engine off when you stop and take it out of gear. The Toyota is even more disconcerting in that you can start driving off before it actually starts the engine -- I'm usually halfway down my driveway before the engine comes on.
Firing Hurd was a bad idea. Other than paying corporate funds to a cute woman who didn't earn them, I still not clear on what Hurd did. But I'm sure it is far less than what Larry Ellison or Larry Michaels (CEO of the original SCO) have gotten away with.
The Honda Civic Hybrid and Prius should both get around 40mpg city, 50mpg highway. If you're not getting that, you're doing something wrong. Of course, just about anybody could build a tiny car with a 500cc engine and get over 50 mpg. The trick is to do that and still meet the safety regulations.
How much of the $4,261,876 they scammed people out of was used to cover the cost of postage for these bogus bills? It's trivially easy to get addresses out of the whois database, but couldn't you potentially actually lose money on this scam?
No, it doesn't, it's based on driving the car into the ground. But I suspect that about 10 years after they are sold when the battery packs go out the original hybrids will get pretty cheap. Either that or someone will come up with a much more cost-effective battery and make millions retrofitting them. Batteries are also the reason I don't believe in electric-only cars. In a Tesla, the batteries alone cost $30,000 -- a lot more than I paid for my whole car.
Because I also value my life, and I was almost killed by a dump truck making a left turn into me at because it didn't see my bike at night. As far as public transportation, if a bus route would actually come within a mile of my house, I might consider it. For my rural house, even the fucking school bus stop was 0.8 miles of steep hill away -- great fun for a first grader to walk home every day.
I don't know... sounds like church attendance has actually gone UP since strippers started hanging out outside the church. If messin' with strippers helps increase the offering take every Sunday, believe me, the good Pastor is going to keep it up!
Yes and no. I believe plug-in hybrids are the best vehicle for the near future, but they are more of an incremental improvement, not a radical improvement over existing cars. (I am looking forward to eventually being able to buy a plug-in hybrid Aptera. Not just for the fuel economy, but also because it looks really fun to drive!)
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I tried telling the machine my age and gender, and it just kept trying to sell me used panties!
Also, at least in California, you have a right to resist arrest if you have a reasonable fear that the arresting officer intends to do you bodily harm... but good luck proving your fear is "reasonable" in court! That would at least require documented evidence of a previous relationship with the officer substantiating previous threats made by the officer against you. Again, it is theoretically possible to argue that, but I doubt that anybody has ever successful justified resisting.
Pulling a gun on a group of police officers is generally referred to as "suicide by cop". I generally make it a point not to argue with people carrying loaded weapons, but in this case I said "I have committed no crimes; you have no right to be here", which the police decided was "combative", thus justifying their use of force. I'm still not clear on what justified their smoking a cigar in my house.
I'm confused... shouldn't the average number of opposite-sex partners be about the same for both men and women? (Slightly less for women just because there are more of them.)
I'm an Android user, and I got laid last night. By a remarkable coincidence, so did my wife, and she doesn't even own a "smart phone"!
At least in California, it is unlawful to arrest somebody for resisting arrest without any additional charges. That is why they always charge you with "disturbing the peace" whenever they order you to do something and you question their authority to order you to do it. Remember: when 4 police officers burst into your bedroom through a locked door in the middle of the night, push you back onto your bed, hold you down and burn your leg with a lit cigar, you are "disturbing the peace" when you cry out in pain.
The one where the government acts to prevent collusion between the different companies, as well as to prevent any one company from having a monopoly in a specific market. You are correct, self-regulation doesn't work without the government enforcing transparency and severely penalizing companies for lying to customers.
If you don't like the FCC regulations, pay your congressperson, get them changed.
Fixed that for you.
Customers already trained by Apple to "just bend over and take it" get more sex... next you'll be telling me that customers used to taking it from Microsoft without even any lube get a lot more sex!
The vibrator built into the iPhone isn't strong enough...
Trust me, being widely known as an avid slashdot reader is a MUCH more effective form of birth control!
"Wanna find someone for a one-night stand? There's an app for that!"
Ow! I just got hit with an electron! Ow! A positron! Mommmmmm! Make him stop! He's throwing electrons at me!
I suspect electrons and positrons don't exactly make audible "splat" noises when they hit something... But then, explosions in space are actually silent, and big yellow flames don't normally occur in a vacuum either.
Wait... you can "dig holes in the ground" to mine positron-electron pairs?
They don't "stop for a fraction of a second", they merely reflect off the mirrors... try using the patented CSI "infinite magnification of a digital image" technique next time to zoom in close enough to see the mirrors.
Isn't the fact the electron/positron pairs can be created in a vacuum by a strong enough electromagnetic field pretty interesting Physics in and of itself? What goes around comes around -- every day we get closer to resurrecting the theory of the luminiferous aether... (Yeah, I know... energy in a vacuum is not exactly the same thing.)
The original Insite used the same IMA system as the Civic. In addition, it did not come in a non-hybrid model, so price comparisons are difficult. The Insite did indeed get better mileage (about 10 more miles per gallon) because it was a lightweight 2-seater specifically designed for mileage, including better aerodynamics and low rolling resistance tires. The Civic Hybrid was just a standard Civic with a motor/generator replacing the flywheel, a trunk modified to hold the batteries, and some additional control circuitry. I'm not sure of the details of the new Insite, but if "full hybrid" means being able to move off of just the electric motor with the internal combustion engine shut off, I don't think it qualifies either. The Toyota system uses a separate electric and gas motor with a drive train that balances the torque so that either one or both can be used, so in theory it can run off just electricity. However, the owner's manual advises you against that on the grounds that if you run down the lithium batteries, the car will no longer start and Toyota has to send out a mechanic to recharge them! (It's not a 12-volt system.) Disclaimer: I own both a Honda Civic Hybrid and a Toyota Highlander Hybrid. The Honda takes some getting used to as it shuts the engine off when you stop and take it out of gear. The Toyota is even more disconcerting in that you can start driving off before it actually starts the engine -- I'm usually halfway down my driveway before the engine comes on.
Actually, it's the 'B' Ark they're putting him on, but they keep telling him it's for the "rich and influential" or else he wouldn't get on board.
they could lose tens of billions of dollars in market cap. They have already lost about 10 billion in market cap, just on the news of him leaving.
Firing Hurd was a bad idea. Other than paying corporate funds to a cute woman who didn't earn them, I still not clear on what Hurd did. But I'm sure it is far less than what Larry Ellison or Larry Michaels (CEO of the original SCO) have gotten away with.
The Honda Civic Hybrid and Prius should both get around 40mpg city, 50mpg highway. If you're not getting that, you're doing something wrong. Of course, just about anybody could build a tiny car with a 500cc engine and get over 50 mpg. The trick is to do that and still meet the safety regulations.
How much of the $4,261,876 they scammed people out of was used to cover the cost of postage for these bogus bills? It's trivially easy to get addresses out of the whois database, but couldn't you potentially actually lose money on this scam?
No, it doesn't, it's based on driving the car into the ground. But I suspect that about 10 years after they are sold when the battery packs go out the original hybrids will get pretty cheap. Either that or someone will come up with a much more cost-effective battery and make millions retrofitting them. Batteries are also the reason I don't believe in electric-only cars. In a Tesla, the batteries alone cost $30,000 -- a lot more than I paid for my whole car.
Because I also value my life, and I was almost killed by a dump truck making a left turn into me at because it didn't see my bike at night. As far as public transportation, if a bus route would actually come within a mile of my house, I might consider it. For my rural house, even the fucking school bus stop was 0.8 miles of steep hill away -- great fun for a first grader to walk home every day.
I don't know... sounds like church attendance has actually gone UP since strippers started hanging out outside the church. If messin' with strippers helps increase the offering take every Sunday, believe me, the good Pastor is going to keep it up!
Yes and no. I believe plug-in hybrids are the best vehicle for the near future, but they are more of an incremental improvement, not a radical improvement over existing cars. (I am looking forward to eventually being able to buy a plug-in hybrid Aptera. Not just for the fuel economy, but also because it looks really fun to drive!)