(Actually my geo died a month ago, so former owner)
More than once I took my Geo on a trip where the headwind was strong enough that I could not reach 70 mph. I still go 40 mpg on that trip, even though I held the pedal to the metal for over an hour. I do not see how an able person can get less than that in a Geo. (Obviously the disabled could, because the disabled need an automatic)
Everytime I was behind a Prosche on a freeway on-ramp with my (now dead) Geo metro, I was able to accelerate hard enough that I passed it before I reached freeway speeds. And that car was only running on 2 cylinders at the time!
As the other guy said, it is how you use the power. True the Geo Metro only had 49 horses new (when it was running on all 3 cylinders), but that is more than enough if you use it correctly. Most people do not use the power their car has, but they think they need it.
Diesels don't sell well in the US because there is only one company bring a diesel car to the US: VW. IF you look at the numbers you will discover that VW NEVER advertises their diesel engine, yet they manage to sell everyone they can legally bring to the US (due to average emissions they need to sell ~3 gas cars for each diesel - they can't improve emissions on the junk that passes for diesel in the US). Not only that, the dealers almost never take less than MSRP, and sometimes they charge more. The resale is excellent too (with 100k miles you are still looking at only a few thousand off MSRP of when it was new!)
It is quite clear that Americans will buy more diesels cars than they are allowed to. Now maybe it is only a tiny amount more, maybe it is a lot. There is no evidence either way.
In a Wal-Mart type store you are correct, people will take off the coats and hats. At a gas station where they are just paying for gas (and likely spending all their time near the door which will open and close as other people come/go) they will not. Same thing for other stores where they just need one thing.
I get hit. I drive a Geo Metro with 2 working cylinders. I don't have power to spare. I can just barely out accelerate Semis.
I have driven that car 60,000 miles, and never encountered the situation you have described. Sure it can happen, but it doesn't happen often enough to worry about. Even if it did, few cars have enough acceleration that after you account for reaction time it would make a difference. I would guess none in fact, because a good driver isn't looking for that type of accident in traffic as there are many much more likely hazards a good driver will be looking for. Looking down a side street long enough to realize that the car has no intention of stopping means you never look elsewhere.
Please tell me that you were joking. I have never met an American who is as ignorant about foreign cultures as you are about the American culture. And that includes the women who yelled in a Foreign restaurant "I'm stick of this country with all the black people who don't speak English." (Not exactly those words, but that was the tone - English was not the native language of that island)
London is a part of the UK. Either you recognize that there are different cultures in the US just like there are in the UK, or you don't recognize any difference in culture between London and the rest of Briton.
There is a large difference between California and Mississippi. In theory the language is the same, but anyone who has tried to speak with people from both areas will tell you they are not close. The culture is also very different.
Course you probably traveled to America to go to McDonald's. You could have stayed home, as there is a McDonald's in your city which will give you the exact same experience. There is plenty of culture in the US, but as is typical you are too blind to find it.
With a bike trailer getting the groceries home is not a problem.
Today most people are not in physical shape to do this. The typical person is also too lazy to try. Many people will drive the 30 feet down the driveway to get the mail.
However it wouldn't take long to build the average person up to where a 100 mile bikeride isn't a big deal.
So does Minnesota. Brazil is a country of ~190million, MN is a state of ~4.5million. There are many biodiesel plants in he US.
Brazil leads the world on Ethanol production (though the US is not far behind). They are just a player in biodiesel. Many countries want to get involved in production of both. Who knows how the future will shape up.
Though I do note that Brazil is in an ideal location if you want to make bio-fuels. They have a lot of land, and get they get a lot of sun. I wish them luck.
I think this is a small town (pop 200 or something like that). There will be enough incentives that while you can purchase a gas car, you wouldn't. I wouldn't be surprised if the promoters bought you a car. At the very least they will pay for the conversion.
Since the gas station owners are being paid off to not sell normal gas, even if you hated the idea you would go along with it because the alternative is driving many miles to the next town when you need gas.
So it becomes a no-brainer if you live in that town - it costs nothing, plus if/when it happens you will get reporters coming to town. While making stories they will spend money locally.
Keep in mind that last I looked the details where not even close to final. Exactly how this works is not known to me.
I've heard many politicians talk about it. Most of them in the US midwest, or Brazil. Guess which areas of the world have more farming capacity than markets and see bio-fuel as a way to help farmers?
A small number from Washington (state), and a few other areas are also interested. Some locals are more into this type of thing than others, and if enough are interested in the area the politicians becomes interested to, to get that vote.
Come to the of it, George Bush is interested. He knows the situation. Why do you think he pushes hydrogen? If it is as easy a solution as the optimists say, it will solve the whole problem just as peak oil is really hurting things.
If you add current US ethanol plants + plants underconstruction, the US has more ethanol than Brazil (though Brazil is building more plants too, so this isn't meaningful. I have no idea how many they are building so I can't give you those numbers)
Minnesota has had all gasoline as E10 for nearly 10 years, and other states are putting the same into place. (Hawaii and Montana that I know of). In Iowa make sure you can buy pure gas, but it would be stupid because everyone else buys E10, and thus the pure gas may have been sitting in the tank long enough to go bad. Several other midwestern states have similar results.
Minnesota turns 40% of their corn crop into ethanol for fuel use, and Iowa even more. (but Iowa has more corn, so as a percentage they do less)
I've been looking for ethanol or biodiesel companies to invest in because it seems like a good idea. So far I have not found any, but I'm picky.
There are a lot more WalMarts in America than you think. Most people who shop at WalMart (or their competition) live within 10 miles of it - easy bike distance. (WalMart doesn't have as many stores in cities so you can be excused for not knowing this)
This isn't true in rural areas, but farmers have no choice really - their job takes a lot of space per person.
There is not acceptions problem elsewhere though. California is big, but they are not that big. They account for about 15% of the people in the US (estimate). The us is a much larger market than many of the other countries that Europe exports cars to.
Where I live a diesel engine is worth several thousand $ in a car or truck. Doesn't matter what age, the engine doesn't loose near as much value as the rest of the car. That means there is demand for them.
VWs limit on selling their various TDI models is how much they import, not how much people will buy. (last I checked there was a waiting list to buy them. Even on the used market they get snapped up fast) VW they will increase the number of diesels they import in 2006 when new (and much needed) fuel laws go into effect - the TDI does not run when on the garbage that current diesel fuel is in the US.
Could be worse, he could have suggested Visual Basic for instance.
There are know known cases of someone who starts programming with Basic going onto becoming a good programmer. There are cases of programmers starting with C going on to become good (though I wouldn't recommend C to beginners either).
There are good programmers who work with Basic, but they started with something else, and only do Basic because that is where the money is.
Magazines typically have a 3 months lead time between when articles are due and when you see the magazine. To get a end of year (someone else says that this is a July issue, if so this whole argument doesn't apply well) best of in your hands at the end of the year they need to make the decisions in September. Anything released after that goes into the next years list - if it is remembered.
Some authors do wait to the end of the year, but you don't see this best of lists until about the April issue.
Wow! I live in the US, and I have never see it that bad. I know the neighborhoods you speak of though. In several cases they are telling you something that just isn't true. (sadly not all, some places do have rules about what color you paint your door - I refuse to live in them, as does most of the US. Most people who live in such areas don't care, but there is always one, and the rest are just guilty of ignoring them)
The US is a large country. California is not representative of the rest of the country. Think of each state as a different county. You wouldn't make broad statements about Spain based on a trip to Finland, likewise don't make broad statements about the US, or even any one state based on a visit to California.
Though I would note that there are unwritten rules that make society function better. Standing in lines is not enjoyable, but if everyone waits their turn nicely the experience of everyone is equally bad, while if you don't form nice lines some people get it worse. If you head to areas where there are less people you will find that it is universal that people will let you go in front of them in line when you have much less than they do.
Of course if you were in California to go to Disneyland, you should be aware that standing in lines is part of their scam - a lot of people can be held in a line, you have paid your admission, then want you to be in lines nearly all the time where you don't cost much.
You can blame the Supreme Court in the past 100 years for much of the damage done to the Constitution. I really don't understand, if treason is punishable by death, and violating the oath to uphold the Constitution is treason, why haven't we had more hangings in Washington these past 100 years?
Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
All three branches of the US government have done many things that are unconstitutional. However little of it qualifies as treason, which is strictly defined for good reason - treason was abused when the constitution was written.
Note that I said all three branches are guilty? The supream court is least guilty of it. They still rule many things that are against the constitution.
Well the constitution doesn't really allow for a standing army.
Section. 8 Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Section. 10 Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Reading closely, the Army (milltia) belongs to the states, but congress can call them as needed. Congress can also allocate supplies. An army may be funded, but only for 2 years at a time. When compared with the language used for the Navy, it is clear that a standing army is not what is intended. Though it is also clear the the milltia is not state troops, but the common people which the state trains.
Section. 8 Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
The IRS is legal - congress can collect taxes, and the IRS is the agency that is allowed to collect taxes. I don't think we should have an IRS, but it is legal - my argument is against the taxes they collect.
Section. 2. Clause 2: He [the president] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The CIA can (with the concent of congress) fit into all other officers who shall be established as law. While you can argue that the US shouldn't have spies, it is clear from the rest of the constitution that if the US has them, they belong on the federal level. I think your argument that the CIA is illegal is wrong, but it is clearly the case where your argument is strongest.
I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to MiB, so I won't comment.
The US constitution is a very readable document. If you are a citizen of the US you should read it from time to time to remind yourself what it says. Obviously slashdot has an international audience, so I can't blame the parent for not knowing it (I don't know foreign governments well either).
I have analyzed your conversions in depth. While your AES encryption itself is fine, your conversations are not secure.
Your random number generator used to choose keys has serious problems, meaning that the total keyspace a brute force attack needs to search is less than 2^8.
In most conversations you have forgotten to discard the early bits, which further leaks information about the key used. This is an ongoing problem that you have not made progress in correcting.
Your key exchange algorithm is flawed. More than once I was able to choose the key that you would use, and with a man in the middle attack get the conversation to use it.
I normally wouldn't tell you this, but it turns out nobody with money is interested in your conversations. I'm hoping that publishing my research can get me some credits are a local university so the effort isn't completely wasted.
BTW, you know that cheerleader who you have a crush on? The one you think has slept with the football team. She is still a virgin (the only cheerleader who is). Don't waste your time on her though, she is saving herself for a multimillionaire who is looking for a trophy wife (she knows of one who wants a virgin on the wedding night, so she won't ruin her chances)
What percentage of accidents are caused by faulty equipment.... I am guessing it is a extremely small percentage of overall vehicle accidents.
You would be correct. I don't have the numbers, but I don't need them. A driver is required to maintain enough space between cars so that they can respond to trouble. Doesn't matter if I'm stopping suddenly because a deer is running in front of me, or if my transmissions locks up tight, you need to be able to stop in time.
If a tire falls off of my car and into your lane you might not have the distance to stop in time. There are a few variations on this that amount to an accident caused by a faulty car. These are rare cases though. (and the tire falling off can happen to new cars as well - alloy wheels are notorious for falling off cars)
Faulty cars can be a factor in accidents, but they are rarely the primary factor.
Now a faulty car is an issue because even on the side of the road traffic needs to slow down. However the accidents they cause is a non-factor.
Psychology is a pseudo-science. They do not do well controlled experiments. They do not try repeat things. Once in a while someone does a good scientific experiment in psychology, but that is ignored. So while Psychology could be, and should be a science, it is not in the real world.
Go back and read Fred Brooks' Mythical Man Month. Microsoft doesn't have the money to hire enough coders to fix all their bugs. Their code is just too complex for that to work. Each coder coming in to change something affects all (most) of the others. Hiring more coders just makes it more difficult to fix bugs.
Where I work there are 5 programmers on a project that was written from scratch within the last year or two, and we were all on the project from the beginning. Even still we still have problems where two different coders are assigned to two seeming different bugs that have subtile interactions. More than one patch was stopped at the last minute because it overwrote a file from a different patch. (We use CVS which helps a lot, but it is not perfect - I'm told most companies do not use any version control, I have no clue how they can get any patches out)
In fact I'm sure of the opposite. If I did not have a gun handy, then I have no choice to kill an intruder who backs me into a corner. If I have a gun handy I have the choice to kill an intruder.
When someone is intruding on my home I have no idea what his intentions are. Perhaps he just wants my iPod, perhaps he wants to rape my family. The former is more likely, but I cannot discount the latter. I have to take action based on limited information.
If I have the opportunity to retreat I will, but I do not know in advance that I have that chance. In fact I do not know in advance that my house will be broken into. If I knew 100% that someone would break into my house today I would hire 10 security guards (per person breaking in), to make sure that nothing bad happens to me. I have no reason to believe that my house will ever be broken into, so I do not have any security guards.
I enjoy target shooting, so I have the gun anyway, therefore I may as well keep it handy just in case.
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(Actually my geo died a month ago, so former owner)
More than once I took my Geo on a trip where the headwind was strong enough that I could not reach 70 mph. I still go 40 mpg on that trip, even though I held the pedal to the metal for over an hour. I do not see how an able person can get less than that in a Geo. (Obviously the disabled could, because the disabled need an automatic)
Everytime I was behind a Prosche on a freeway on-ramp with my (now dead) Geo metro, I was able to accelerate hard enough that I passed it before I reached freeway speeds. And that car was only running on 2 cylinders at the time!
As the other guy said, it is how you use the power. True the Geo Metro only had 49 horses new (when it was running on all 3 cylinders), but that is more than enough if you use it correctly. Most people do not use the power their car has, but they think they need it.
Diesels don't sell well in the US because there is only one company bring a diesel car to the US: VW. IF you look at the numbers you will discover that VW NEVER advertises their diesel engine, yet they manage to sell everyone they can legally bring to the US (due to average emissions they need to sell ~3 gas cars for each diesel - they can't improve emissions on the junk that passes for diesel in the US). Not only that, the dealers almost never take less than MSRP, and sometimes they charge more. The resale is excellent too (with 100k miles you are still looking at only a few thousand off MSRP of when it was new!)
It is quite clear that Americans will buy more diesels cars than they are allowed to. Now maybe it is only a tiny amount more, maybe it is a lot. There is no evidence either way.
In a Wal-Mart type store you are correct, people will take off the coats and hats. At a gas station where they are just paying for gas (and likely spending all their time near the door which will open and close as other people come/go) they will not. Same thing for other stores where they just need one thing.
I get hit. I drive a Geo Metro with 2 working cylinders. I don't have power to spare. I can just barely out accelerate Semis.
I have driven that car 60,000 miles, and never encountered the situation you have described. Sure it can happen, but it doesn't happen often enough to worry about. Even if it did, few cars have enough acceleration that after you account for reaction time it would make a difference. I would guess none in fact, because a good driver isn't looking for that type of accident in traffic as there are many much more likely hazards a good driver will be looking for. Looking down a side street long enough to realize that the car has no intention of stopping means you never look elsewhere.
Really? Where I live the temp is -20c or so, and the wind is blowing rather fierce. In short, a typical winter evening. Ski Masks are normal attire.
Please tell me that you were joking. I have never met an American who is as ignorant about foreign cultures as you are about the American culture. And that includes the women who yelled in a Foreign restaurant "I'm stick of this country with all the black people who don't speak English." (Not exactly those words, but that was the tone - English was not the native language of that island)
London is a part of the UK. Either you recognize that there are different cultures in the US just like there are in the UK, or you don't recognize any difference in culture between London and the rest of Briton.
There is a large difference between California and Mississippi. In theory the language is the same, but anyone who has tried to speak with people from both areas will tell you they are not close. The culture is also very different.
Course you probably traveled to America to go to McDonald's. You could have stayed home, as there is a McDonald's in your city which will give you the exact same experience. There is plenty of culture in the US, but as is typical you are too blind to find it.
With a bike trailer getting the groceries home is not a problem.
Today most people are not in physical shape to do this. The typical person is also too lazy to try. Many people will drive the 30 feet down the driveway to get the mail.
However it wouldn't take long to build the average person up to where a 100 mile bikeride isn't a big deal.
So does Minnesota. Brazil is a country of ~190million, MN is a state of ~4.5million. There are many biodiesel plants in he US.
Brazil leads the world on Ethanol production (though the US is not far behind). They are just a player in biodiesel. Many countries want to get involved in production of both. Who knows how the future will shape up.
Though I do note that Brazil is in an ideal location if you want to make bio-fuels. They have a lot of land, and get they get a lot of sun. I wish them luck.
I think this is a small town (pop 200 or something like that). There will be enough incentives that while you can purchase a gas car, you wouldn't. I wouldn't be surprised if the promoters bought you a car. At the very least they will pay for the conversion.
Since the gas station owners are being paid off to not sell normal gas, even if you hated the idea you would go along with it because the alternative is driving many miles to the next town when you need gas.
So it becomes a no-brainer if you live in that town - it costs nothing, plus if/when it happens you will get reporters coming to town. While making stories they will spend money locally.
Keep in mind that last I looked the details where not even close to final. Exactly how this works is not known to me.
I've heard many politicians talk about it. Most of them in the US midwest, or Brazil. Guess which areas of the world have more farming capacity than markets and see bio-fuel as a way to help farmers?
A small number from Washington (state), and a few other areas are also interested. Some locals are more into this type of thing than others, and if enough are interested in the area the politicians becomes interested to, to get that vote.
Come to the of it, George Bush is interested. He knows the situation. Why do you think he pushes hydrogen? If it is as easy a solution as the optimists say, it will solve the whole problem just as peak oil is really hurting things.
If you add current US ethanol plants + plants underconstruction, the US has more ethanol than Brazil (though Brazil is building more plants too, so this isn't meaningful. I have no idea how many they are building so I can't give you those numbers)
Minnesota has had all gasoline as E10 for nearly 10 years, and other states are putting the same into place. (Hawaii and Montana that I know of). In Iowa make sure you can buy pure gas, but it would be stupid because everyone else buys E10, and thus the pure gas may have been sitting in the tank long enough to go bad. Several other midwestern states have similar results.
Minnesota turns 40% of their corn crop into ethanol for fuel use, and Iowa even more. (but Iowa has more corn, so as a percentage they do less)
I've been looking for ethanol or biodiesel companies to invest in because it seems like a good idea. So far I have not found any, but I'm picky.
There are a lot more WalMarts in America than you think. Most people who shop at WalMart (or their competition) live within 10 miles of it - easy bike distance. (WalMart doesn't have as many stores in cities so you can be excused for not knowing this)
This isn't true in rural areas, but farmers have no choice really - their job takes a lot of space per person.
There are a large number of experts who believe that petroleum is not decayed plant matter, but various leftovers form the formation of the earth.
I don't know what the truth is, but I doubt you do either.
There is not acceptions problem elsewhere though. California is big, but they are not that big. They account for about 15% of the people in the US (estimate). The us is a much larger market than many of the other countries that Europe exports cars to.
Where I live a diesel engine is worth several thousand $ in a car or truck. Doesn't matter what age, the engine doesn't loose near as much value as the rest of the car. That means there is demand for them.
VWs limit on selling their various TDI models is how much they import, not how much people will buy. (last I checked there was a waiting list to buy them. Even on the used market they get snapped up fast) VW they will increase the number of diesels they import in 2006 when new (and much needed) fuel laws go into effect - the TDI does not run when on the garbage that current diesel fuel is in the US.
Could be worse, he could have suggested Visual Basic for instance.
There are know known cases of someone who starts programming with Basic going onto becoming a good programmer. There are cases of programmers starting with C going on to become good (though I wouldn't recommend C to beginners either).
There are good programmers who work with Basic, but they started with something else, and only do Basic because that is where the money is.
Magazines typically have a 3 months lead time between when articles are due and when you see the magazine. To get a end of year (someone else says that this is a July issue, if so this whole argument doesn't apply well) best of in your hands at the end of the year they need to make the decisions in September. Anything released after that goes into the next years list - if it is remembered.
Some authors do wait to the end of the year, but you don't see this best of lists until about the April issue.
Wow! I live in the US, and I have never see it that bad. I know the neighborhoods you speak of though. In several cases they are telling you something that just isn't true. (sadly not all, some places do have rules about what color you paint your door - I refuse to live in them, as does most of the US. Most people who live in such areas don't care, but there is always one, and the rest are just guilty of ignoring them)
The US is a large country. California is not representative of the rest of the country. Think of each state as a different county. You wouldn't make broad statements about Spain based on a trip to Finland, likewise don't make broad statements about the US, or even any one state based on a visit to California.
Though I would note that there are unwritten rules that make society function better. Standing in lines is not enjoyable, but if everyone waits their turn nicely the experience of everyone is equally bad, while if you don't form nice lines some people get it worse. If you head to areas where there are less people you will find that it is universal that people will let you go in front of them in line when you have much less than they do.
Of course if you were in California to go to Disneyland, you should be aware that standing in lines is part of their scam - a lot of people can be held in a line, you have paid your admission, then want you to be in lines nearly all the time where you don't cost much.
You can blame the Supreme Court in the past 100 years for much of the damage done to the Constitution. I really don't understand, if treason is punishable by death, and violating the oath to uphold the Constitution is treason, why haven't we had more hangings in Washington these past 100 years?
All three branches of the US government have done many things that are unconstitutional. However little of it qualifies as treason, which is strictly defined for good reason - treason was abused when the constitution was written.
Note that I said all three branches are guilty? The supream court is least guilty of it. They still rule many things that are against the constitution.
Well the constitution doesn't really allow for a standing army.
Section. 8
Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Section. 10
Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Reading closely, the Army (milltia) belongs to the states, but congress can call them as needed. Congress can also allocate supplies. An army may be funded, but only for 2 years at a time. When compared with the language used for the Navy, it is clear that a standing army is not what is intended. Though it is also clear the the milltia is not state troops, but the common people which the state trains.
The IRS is legal - congress can collect taxes, and the IRS is the agency that is allowed to collect taxes. I don't think we should have an IRS, but it is legal - my argument is against the taxes they collect.
The CIA can (with the concent of congress) fit into all other officers who shall be established as law. While you can argue that the US shouldn't have spies, it is clear from the rest of the constitution that if the US has them, they belong on the federal level. I think your argument that the CIA is illegal is wrong, but it is clearly the case where your argument is strongest.
I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to MiB, so I won't comment.
The US constitution is a very readable document. If you are a citizen of the US you should read it from time to time to remind yourself what it says. Obviously slashdot has an international audience, so I can't blame the parent for not knowing it (I don't know foreign governments well either).
I have analyzed your conversions in depth. While your AES encryption itself is fine, your conversations are not secure.
Your random number generator used to choose keys has serious problems, meaning that the total keyspace a brute force attack needs to search is less than 2^8.
In most conversations you have forgotten to discard the early bits, which further leaks information about the key used. This is an ongoing problem that you have not made progress in correcting.
Your key exchange algorithm is flawed. More than once I was able to choose the key that you would use, and with a man in the middle attack get the conversation to use it.
I normally wouldn't tell you this, but it turns out nobody with money is interested in your conversations. I'm hoping that publishing my research can get me some credits are a local university so the effort isn't completely wasted.
BTW, you know that cheerleader who you have a crush on? The one you think has slept with the football team. She is still a virgin (the only cheerleader who is). Don't waste your time on her though, she is saving herself for a multimillionaire who is looking for a trophy wife (she knows of one who wants a virgin on the wedding night, so she won't ruin her chances)
What percentage of accidents are caused by faulty equipment.... I am guessing it is a extremely small percentage of overall vehicle accidents.
You would be correct. I don't have the numbers, but I don't need them. A driver is required to maintain enough space between cars so that they can respond to trouble. Doesn't matter if I'm stopping suddenly because a deer is running in front of me, or if my transmissions locks up tight, you need to be able to stop in time.
If a tire falls off of my car and into your lane you might not have the distance to stop in time. There are a few variations on this that amount to an accident caused by a faulty car. These are rare cases though. (and the tire falling off can happen to new cars as well - alloy wheels are notorious for falling off cars)
Faulty cars can be a factor in accidents, but they are rarely the primary factor.
Now a faulty car is an issue because even on the side of the road traffic needs to slow down. However the accidents they cause is a non-factor.
Psychology is a pseudo-science. They do not do well controlled experiments. They do not try repeat things. Once in a while someone does a good scientific experiment in psychology, but that is ignored. So while Psychology could be, and should be a science, it is not in the real world.
Richard Feynman explains it better than I can
Go back and read Fred Brooks' Mythical Man Month. Microsoft doesn't have the money to hire enough coders to fix all their bugs. Their code is just too complex for that to work. Each coder coming in to change something affects all (most) of the others. Hiring more coders just makes it more difficult to fix bugs.
Where I work there are 5 programmers on a project that was written from scratch within the last year or two, and we were all on the project from the beginning. Even still we still have problems where two different coders are assigned to two seeming different bugs that have subtile interactions. More than one patch was stopped at the last minute because it overwrote a file from a different patch. (We use CVS which helps a lot, but it is not perfect - I'm told most companies do not use any version control, I have no clue how they can get any patches out)
In fact I'm sure of the opposite. If I did not have a gun handy, then I have no choice to kill an intruder who backs me into a corner. If I have a gun handy I have the choice to kill an intruder.
When someone is intruding on my home I have no idea what his intentions are. Perhaps he just wants my iPod, perhaps he wants to rape my family. The former is more likely, but I cannot discount the latter. I have to take action based on limited information.
If I have the opportunity to retreat I will, but I do not know in advance that I have that chance. In fact I do not know in advance that my house will be broken into. If I knew 100% that someone would break into my house today I would hire 10 security guards (per person breaking in), to make sure that nothing bad happens to me. I have no reason to believe that my house will ever be broken into, so I do not have any security guards.
I enjoy target shooting, so I have the gun anyway, therefore I may as well keep it handy just in case.