The police chief in town (Sebastopol. You may have heard of it when they refused the free wi-fi Sonic.net was going to install for us) told the story of a motorcycle cop giving another cop a ticket for 28 in a 25 zone. He's (the motorcycle cop) known to be kinda a stickler, but it keeps the speeding down in the downtown area...
So at the point where $10K/day will rent you an artificial womb and a fetus is 'viable' at 2 weeks, is an abortion at 21 days infanticide? Do you force the woman to carry baby to term, since even though it's only been 21 days it's now viable and can't be aborted? Or do you allow the woman to have it out, but force her to pay for the life thru to the age of majority or until she can find someone else to take it on?
I always figured that abortion should be legal until viability. And at the point of viability, the woman can choose to have it out (delivery) and those who cry about abortion with 7 billion people on the earth can pay to keep the "infant" alive.
That's largely due to the large population, high degree of car ownership and miles traveled, and the local geography (area surrounded by mountains with a constant on-shore wind keeping the pollution trapped there.
But yeah, LA sucks compared to the rest of the state:-)
I live in CA, and my current house has a great roof for solar. If I had a plugin (hybrid, or full electric), I'd also invest in solar panels, since they pay off the investment quite quickly in CA with the high rates and subsidies.
It seems like hybrids would benefit from a gps and software, so it can know my routine, and whether or not a low battery should be charged by running the engine (I'm at the start of a long trip), or not (I'm about to pull into my driveway and plug in).
so far, I haven't seen any coverage of anything like this.
How do you get the bytestream into the computer? Are you waving your arms and affecting cosmic rays, or are you relying on software, many many layers of software?
Sure, but we wouldn't have a few downed planes/year, and we've been dealing with hijackings and accidental crashes for decades before 9/11 without people giving up air travel. It was the combination of 9/11 being out-sized and the governmental and media promotion of fear surrounding the event in the name of power and ratings that really screwed us. Seriously, terrorism should be much less on your mind than your diet and exercise.
A small number of extremists believe those things, but without a fertile environment for attracting more extremists, they would quickly die out. If the US spent all the money wasted by invading Iraq on helping Afghanistan, we'd be in a much better standing in the world, and there'd be much fewer terrorists in the future.
No, it's way too early to use the 2nd. Besides, you'd just be gunned down by many more people with many more guns. Now is the time to organize at the grass-roots level, work with your neighbors and others in your community and vote the bastards out.
Oh, and when ever anyone brings up terror, point out that they must be really scared of cars, since they kill far more people than terrorists ever will.
I accept your premise, but I reject that North Korea changing their codes and our agencies having a harder time listening in being worth giving up our Constitution for. A few downed planes a year isn't worth giving up our freedoms for.
Here at work we have 100Gb links... in the lab. Our internet connection is better than my home (slow DSL), but not as nice as many friends' cable links, and not nearly as nice as the sonic.net 1Gb links available a mile across town from my house.:-(
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Your video card, assuming you've got a fairly modern one which supports the various GPGPU programming models.
Yeah, internet is way way more complex than any living organism you deal with...
because it's composed of all those machines and a crap load of living organisms as well.
You realize that the hydrogen wasn't the problem, it was the aluminum, right?
The police chief in town (Sebastopol. You may have heard of it when they refused the free wi-fi Sonic.net was going to install for us) told the story of a motorcycle cop giving another cop a ticket for 28 in a 25 zone. He's (the motorcycle cop) known to be kinda a stickler, but it keeps the speeding down in the downtown area...
So at the point where $10K/day will rent you an artificial womb and a fetus is 'viable' at 2 weeks, is an abortion at 21 days infanticide? Do you force the woman to carry baby to term, since even though it's only been 21 days it's now viable and can't be aborted? Or do you allow the woman to have it out, but force her to pay for the life thru to the age of majority or until she can find someone else to take it on?
She's got a windows box which is in bad shape. I've got two ChromeBoxs running Ubuntu.
The safe, quick-boot, always updated, easy to manage seems like it's perfect for the "only need the web and email" crowd.
I always figured that abortion should be legal until viability. And at the point of viability, the woman can choose to have it out (delivery) and those who cry about abortion with 7 billion people on the earth can pay to keep the "infant" alive.
Put your money where your mouth is.
So will I. But I'll pay for the showing of a different movie, so he won't see a dime of my ticket price.
So, you support free access to birth control, including RU-486?
Because that's the best way to avoid abortions.
Tolerance of intolerance is idiocy.
Unless it's tolerance of intolerance of intolerance.
Got it?
Yeah, given who I was responding to, I figured I didn't need the /sarcasm tag...
Yeah, those firefighters never do shit. Why do I pay for them in my taxes?
We should have a system more like this: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/07/9272989-firefighters-let-home-burn-over-75-fee-again?lite
That's largely due to the large population, high degree of car ownership and miles traveled, and the local geography (area surrounded by mountains with a constant on-shore wind keeping the pollution trapped there.
But yeah, LA sucks compared to the rest of the state :-)
I live in CA, and my current house has a great roof for solar. If I had a plugin (hybrid, or full electric), I'd also invest in solar panels, since they pay off the investment quite quickly in CA with the high rates and subsidies.
It seems like hybrids would benefit from a gps and software, so it can know my routine, and whether or not a low battery should be charged by running the engine (I'm at the start of a long trip), or not (I'm about to pull into my driveway and plug in).
so far, I haven't seen any coverage of anything like this.
I haven't the time to investigate the methodology of the poll, but WaPo is a rag, so I'd take it with a grain of salt...
Ruby **shudder**
How do you get the bytestream into the computer? Are you waving your arms and affecting cosmic rays, or are you relying on software, many many layers of software?
Sure, but we wouldn't have a few downed planes/year, and we've been dealing with hijackings and accidental crashes for decades before 9/11 without people giving up air travel. It was the combination of 9/11 being out-sized and the governmental and media promotion of fear surrounding the event in the name of power and ratings that really screwed us. Seriously, terrorism should be much less on your mind than your diet and exercise.
A small number of extremists believe those things, but without a fertile environment for attracting more extremists, they would quickly die out. If the US spent all the money wasted by invading Iraq on helping Afghanistan, we'd be in a much better standing in the world, and there'd be much fewer terrorists in the future.
No, it's way too early to use the 2nd. Besides, you'd just be gunned down by many more people with many more guns.
Now is the time to organize at the grass-roots level, work with your neighbors and others in your community and vote the bastards out.
Oh, and when ever anyone brings up terror, point out that they must be really scared of cars, since they kill far more people than terrorists ever will.
I accept your premise, but I reject that North Korea changing their codes and our agencies having a harder time listening in being worth giving up our Constitution for. A few downed planes a year isn't worth giving up our freedoms for.
You should use a script to strip out the comments. If any are actually present, they are almost certainly misleading.
Here at work we have 100Gb links... in the lab. Our internet connection is better than my home (slow DSL), but not as nice as many friends' cable links, and not nearly as nice as the sonic.net 1Gb links available a mile across town from my house. :-(
Singing show tunes was worse than the beatings, if my beaten brain recalls correctly...