True... maybe. There is of course, the big "what if the fatality counts refer to the number of fatalities caused by someone of that age range?"
In which case, your statement is only correct if a high number of fatalities caused by older drivers are of older people... as opposed to an older driver hitting a younger person, surviving, but killing the younger person.
8 | Do older drivers constitute a substantial hazard to other road users?
In terms of fatalities, older drivers are a danger mostly to themselves and their passengers, who also typically are older and thus more vulnerable to injuries. One study found that per licensed driver, drivers 75 and older kill fewer pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and occupants in other vehicles compared with drivers ages 30-59. In the fatal crashes of drivers 75 and older, the drivers and their senior passengers were much more likely to be killed than were occupants in other vehicles. However, drivers 70 and older have higher insurance liability claims for damage to other vehicles per insured vehicle year than drivers ages 35-69.
So it does look like older people are the fatalities in question.
Which is why I also pointed out the IIHS study - which debunks the often claimed "younger drivers cause more accidents than older ones" stuff that circulates every time new legislation is proposed to re-test older drivers on a regular basis.
Couldn't find the exact quote about crash rates for elderly drivers being as high as those for teenagers on the IIHS website. But they do say that (item 4 at the above link)...the elevated crash rates for older drivers when measured per mile traveled may be somewhat inflated due to the type of driving they do...
Again, it's difficult to get the whole picture from a few stats.
And to others who have claimed teens have more fatal accidents, I guess it depends on who's study, and what age groups...
Carnegie Mellon University's Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation shows that drivers older than 85 have 11.47 fatalities per 100 million miles driven, compared with 3.3 fatalities in the 16-to-20 age group.
Let's not forget that people over 85 are a bit more fragile than a 16-to-20 year old, easily survivable injures to a young person can be fatal to an older one. Also someone who started driving before seatbelts were invented may be less likely to use them (more likely to be injured/killed in an accident) than a younger driver who has had safety restraints as part of their on road experience from day one of life.
The only thing I can think of is people with ginger hair.
I have never heard of ginger used to describe hair color. At first I thought it's Ginger vs. Mary Ann, but dictionary.com set me straight; 4. a yellowish or reddish brown.
This English language is a strange one. Then again maybe I just don't get out enough;-)
There may be some Flash based solution similar to this, but Limelight seems like a viable option to stream live video to a LOT of people.
Limelight is a content provider so if the content were Flash they could provide that as well. The Silverlight packaging of the DNC video probably has nothing to do with Limelight
Charlie Brooker wrote about it a couple of weeks ago, but the best example he gave was from the Telegraph where journalists wrote: "Young women - such as Britney Spears - are buying more shoes than ever"
That one is a bit much but isn't this just the next logical step from the classic headlines on the print edition? An "Extra" that would have large block text of DEATH, SEX, SCANDAL, TRAGEDY, or whatever that could be seen on the newsstand when you were still a block away. It is a way to get attention.
Today it's page hits yesterday it was copies sold.
If you want to totally fair with the comparison the battery is the fuel tank and most fuel tanks are made of steel. Way easy to recycle.
Yes, but that is a only part of the equation you really need to look at the whole system:
If your gasoline powered engine lasts you 200,000 miles (not unreasonable) and you do regular maintenance (won't last as long if you don't) changing the oil every 5K miles. You end up with about 60 gallons of used motor oil. Not counting any that you need to add between oil changes to compensate for what leaks on the floor or makes it past the rings and out the exhaust.
Motor oil also has a history of recycling but is it much longer than battery recycling?
The real question is which is worse the gas engine and all its byproducts or the electric and its byproducts.
I'm guessing size is the main factor, according to Wiki SD has already maxed out at 32GB while CF has a theoretical max of 137GB. You need a lot of storage space for video.
This isn't about Congress and it's not limited to the US. From TFA;
Increasingly, however, the courts are siding with rights owners and ruling that Web sites are responsible for illegal submissions.
And;
A French judge ordered eBay to pay Louis Vuitton handbag manufacturer LVMH (LVMH.PA) $61 million in damages. In doing so, the judge rejected eBay's argument that it is not responsible for illegal items sold by users because it provides tools to request removal of infringing goods and takes them down once notified.
It applies in RL too. Part of socializing involves making references to both current events and common interests. Basically, it's worthwhile to be able to pull shakespeare quotes off the top of your head if you were out drinking with a bunch of playwrights. Isn't one of the goals of augmented reality to be able to see Shakespeare quotes in your heads up display as the conversation starts to turn toward that subject?
MIT was on the forefront but most of the links I could find are somewhat out of date now. Who is doing state of the art research on this technology now?
Two questions:
1) What is a "fan center"? Google gives an NBA web site as it's top result.
2) As already pointed out above, if you are putting power out on to the grid wouldn't the "fan center" be getting it's power from you when the grid is down?
I think the easiest thing a hobbyist can do is store his power for personal use. Charge batteries during the day and use them to power your (DC powered) lights at night. At some point you save enough on grid charges to pay for the equipment.
Making solar, wind, or hydro power a profit center is a bit more ambitious.
It's not even an interesting concept. It's totally stupid. The gatekeeper program is only going to have a limited number of cat images. All you have to do is have your program get scrape all possible images and then have a human tag all the cats. Even if you have a thousand cats among ten thousand images, it's not that hard for a persistent spammer to mark them. What if the pictures of cats are in the form of cutouts? The cutouts can then be pasted on to random backgrounds at random angles with random amounts of zoom.
Should still be easy for a human to see that the picture contains a cat but the machine would need to do much more than a table look up.
Still not a solution for the visually impaired though.
The form wouldn't go through for me when I listed my address with my apartment number as 3 - "invalid apartment number" (or something). Tried with and without "#", etc. all "invalid".
So on a whim I put "C" as the apartment number (same thing really) and it went through. But the next page was a message saying the address is listed as single family in their records with some vague threat about misrepresenting my eligibility. I just clicked the box indicating that the address was correct and it appeared to go through (got a confirmation number).
Need to dig up the receipt and check status on the website. I had given up but it looks like they are intentionally delaying mailing the coupons.
This one made me laugh out loud: "People have more time for leisure activities in the year 2008. The average work day is about four hours." As if any society would ever let its plebes goof off that much! Maybe this is actually the first accurate prediction of slashdot's effect on worker productivity?-)
One counter started at Zero, the other at One?...These kind of bugs are written all the time. No, it's more like one counter started at +1 the other started at -1. Not such a common bug.
I love it when women aren't interesting enough, men are blamed. Seriously, if she's too shallow to take an interest in the things he likes, then she should have not married him. Some women are so busy trying to find a sugar daddy they forget they're going to have to live with the "bastard." Einstein's wife was a scientist not a "gold digger"
From PBS web site
Who was Mileva Maric? Until recently, the life of Einstein's first wife was little more than a footnote in her famous husband's biography. The world only learned of her existence through the first release of Einstein's private letters in 1987, which offered tantalizing glimpses of a brilliant and ambitious woman who shared her husband's interest in science. This project invites you to explore the facts of Mileva Maric's life and her role as a pioneer in the history of women in science. Emphasis mine.
In this case, the SEC needs to prove the guy did steal the insider information. No, that is not in question, from TFA;
"Dorozhko's alleged 'stealing and trading' or 'hacking and trading' does not amount to a violation" of securities laws, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of United States District Court ruled last month. Although he may have broken laws by stealing the information, the judge concluded, "Dorozhko did not breach any fiduciary or similar duty 'in connection with' the purchase or sale of a security." She ordered the S.E.C. to let him have his profits. This is more of a case of rigid interpretation of the law; the SEC rules don't explicitly say that you can't steal and use insider information so it's not illegal.
Also this guy lives in the Ukraine so this is probably the only punishment [blocking receipt of the money] that the US could possibly give him.
It matters not if you are eating, talking on the mobile, using the computer, reading a magazine/newspaper, or what have you. True, but your food, person on the other end of the line, computer, or magazine/newspaper are much less likely to tell you to keep your eyes on the road when conditions suddenly change. Your friend sitting next to you has a vested interest in collision avoidance. Oh, and you missed screaming child in the back seat as a distraction/stress enhancer;-)
I will usually ignore the buzzing of my phone while driving - if it's important they can leave a message.
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True... maybe. There is of course, the big "what if the fatality counts refer to the number of fatalities caused by someone of that age range?"
In which case, your statement is only correct if a high number of fatalities caused by older drivers are of older people... as opposed to an older driver hitting a younger person, surviving, but killing the younger person.
Well, according to the IIHS
8 | Do older drivers constitute a substantial hazard to other road users?
In terms of fatalities, older drivers are a danger mostly to themselves and their passengers, who also typically are older and thus more vulnerable to injuries. One study found that per licensed driver, drivers 75 and older kill fewer pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and occupants in other vehicles compared with drivers ages 30-59. In the fatal crashes of drivers 75 and older, the drivers and their senior passengers were much more likely to be killed than were occupants in other vehicles. However, drivers 70 and older have higher insurance liability claims for damage to other vehicles per insured vehicle year than drivers ages 35-69.
So it does look like older people are the fatalities in question.
Which is why I also pointed out the IIHS study - which debunks the often claimed "younger drivers cause more accidents than older ones" stuff that circulates every time new legislation is proposed to re-test older drivers on a regular basis.
Couldn't find the exact quote about crash rates for elderly drivers being as high as those for teenagers on the IIHS website. But they do say that (item 4 at the above link) ...the elevated crash rates for older drivers when measured per mile traveled may be somewhat inflated due to the type of driving they do...
Again, it's difficult to get the whole picture from a few stats.
And to others who have claimed teens have more fatal accidents, I guess it depends on who's study, and what age groups...
Carnegie Mellon University's Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation shows that drivers older than 85 have 11.47 fatalities per 100 million miles driven, compared with 3.3 fatalities in the 16-to-20 age group.
Let's not forget that people over 85 are a bit more fragile than a 16-to-20 year old, easily survivable injures to a young person can be fatal to an older one. Also someone who started driving before seatbelts were invented may be less likely to use them (more likely to be injured/killed in an accident) than a younger driver who has had safety restraints as part of their on road experience from day one of life.
Random statistics never give the whole picture.
The only thing I can think of is people with ginger hair.
I have never heard of ginger used to describe hair color. At first I thought it's Ginger vs. Mary Ann, but dictionary.com set me straight;
;-)
4. a yellowish or reddish brown.
This English language is a strange one. Then again maybe I just don't get out enough
We need to do enough research to make sure it won't cause a hurricane / tsunami first
You don't actually know what a tsunami is, do you?
Hey, it could happen. Those clouds can get pretty big! If one of them were to fall....
;-)
No, no, no...
Flying Sheep!
There may be some Flash based solution similar to this, but Limelight seems like a viable option to stream live video to a LOT of people.
Limelight is a content provider so if the content were Flash they could provide that as well. The Silverlight packaging of the DNC video probably has nothing to do with Limelight
Other jokes will become incomprehensible: "What, a V-2 rocket? He could have had a V-8!"
Haven't they recently brought back the "could've had a V8" commercials? The tag line is on their web page anyway.
Even when the subbers explain the jokes, jokes just aren't as funny when they're explained.
I hear this a lot. Particularity in the defense of total rewrites of the dialog (Shin Chan).
I don't agree, watching a movie with footnotes is very different than having a joke explained to you at a party.
Charlie Brooker wrote about it a couple of weeks ago, but the best example he gave was from the Telegraph where journalists wrote: "Young women - such as Britney Spears - are buying more shoes than ever"
That one is a bit much but isn't this just the next logical step from the classic headlines on the print edition? An "Extra" that would have large block text of DEATH, SEX, SCANDAL, TRAGEDY, or whatever that could be seen on the newsstand when you were still a block away. It is a way to get attention.
Today it's page hits yesterday it was copies sold.
"She scooped out the ice cream, opened up a packet of fudge squeezed it out and put the whole bowl into the microwave. I didn't know what to say."
Maybe "No that's not what I meant, just heat the packet not everything."? You're not very good at training people are you?
During his Apollo 14 flight to the moon, he secretly conducted ESP experiments with friends back on Earth.
And how did that go?
Most likely no better than when the same experiments were conducted in the next room.
By the way my patent on the biological reproductive process in humans will go into affect today. So all you with kids prepare to cough up.
I have proof of prior art - my family tree.
I kinda like living in a country where they're not going to throw me in with the violent offenders if I scam the IRS.
Probably the laws are that way because the law makers are more likely to scam the IRS than to be murderers.
If you want to totally fair with the comparison the battery is the fuel tank and most fuel tanks are made of steel. Way easy to recycle.
Yes, but that is a only part of the equation you really need to look at the whole system:
If your gasoline powered engine lasts you 200,000 miles (not unreasonable) and you do regular maintenance (won't last as long if you don't) changing the oil every 5K miles. You end up with about 60 gallons of used motor oil. Not counting any that you need to add between oil changes to compensate for what leaks on the floor or makes it past the rings and out the exhaust.
Motor oil also has a history of recycling but is it much longer than battery recycling?
The real question is which is worse the gas engine and all its byproducts or the electric and its byproducts.
I'm guessing size is the main factor, according to Wiki SD has already maxed out at 32GB while CF has a theoretical max of 137GB. You need a lot of storage space for video.
From TFA;
Increasingly, however, the courts are siding with rights owners and ruling that Web sites are responsible for illegal submissions.
And;
A French judge ordered eBay to pay Louis Vuitton handbag manufacturer LVMH (LVMH.PA) $61 million in damages. In doing so, the judge rejected eBay's argument that it is not responsible for illegal items sold by users because it provides tools to request removal of infringing goods and takes them down once notified.
MIT was on the forefront but most of the links I could find are somewhat out of date now. Who is doing state of the art research on this technology now?
So now diamonds are a supercomputer's best friend?
Two questions:
1) What is a "fan center"? Google gives an NBA web site as it's top result.
2) As already pointed out above, if you are putting power out on to the grid wouldn't the "fan center" be getting it's power from you when the grid is down?
I think the easiest thing a hobbyist can do is store his power for personal use. Charge batteries during the day and use them to power your (DC powered) lights at night. At some point you save enough on grid charges to pay for the equipment.
Making solar, wind, or hydro power a profit center is a bit more ambitious.
Should still be easy for a human to see that the picture contains a cat but the machine would need to do much more than a table look up.
Still not a solution for the visually impaired though.
The form wouldn't go through for me when I listed my address with my apartment number as 3 - "invalid apartment number" (or something). Tried with and without "#", etc. all "invalid".
So on a whim I put "C" as the apartment number (same thing really) and it went through. But the next page was a message saying the address is listed as single family in their records with some vague threat about misrepresenting my eligibility. I just clicked the box indicating that the address was correct and it appeared to go through (got a confirmation number).
Need to dig up the receipt and check status on the website. I had given up but it looks like they are intentionally delaying mailing the coupons.
From PBS web site Who was Mileva Maric? Until recently, the life of Einstein's first wife was little more than a footnote in her famous husband's biography. The world only learned of her existence through the first release of Einstein's private letters in 1987, which offered tantalizing glimpses of a brilliant and ambitious woman who shared her husband's interest in science. This project invites you to explore the facts of Mileva Maric's life and her role as a pioneer in the history of women in science. Emphasis mine.
Also this guy lives in the Ukraine so this is probably the only punishment [blocking receipt of the money] that the US could possibly give him.
Oh, and you missed screaming child in the back seat as a distraction/stress enhancer;-)
I will usually ignore the buzzing of my phone while driving - if it's important they can leave a message.
I agree that the cancer threat is overblown.