Because most speed limits are unnaturally low (to account for rainy or other adverse conditions).
In the past, most people sped by 5 to 10mph over the limit. The police didn't bother pulling them over-- they pulled over the "real" speeders.
Now with money tight, they are starting to pull over more people (it's not about safety- it's about money).
With automated systems, these unnaturally low speeds are enforced on 100% of the drivers.
So what they need to do is get smarter signs combined with automatic communication with the cars and automated enforcement.
A freeway might have an 80mph speed limit on a sunny day, a 60mph speedlimit during rain, and a 65mph speed limit on a clear night. All bluetoothed to your car so it makes warning noises if you are over the current speed limit. If you are over the speed limit for a significant time, then you get fined.
A lot of the current body of law was passed when enforcement was 5% likely. So it is a bit draconian. If you have 100% enforcement and you don't want to be oppressive then the fines need to be more reasonable and more reasonably applied. (i.e. a 5 buck ding for breaking a realistic speedlimit by 10mph for a couple minutes-- but a bigger fine for breaking it for a full hour).
That being said, wouldn't you feel differently about Mr. Tiller if those were born, living, 3 month old babies that were being killed by the 10's of thousands? Wouldn't you be willing to give up your life and kill others to save a hundred newborn babies?
So it's a question of timing. I can understand why Mr. Tiller (et al) attack an abortion clinic because to them babies are dying in large numbers there.
However, except for that one issue, I suspect Mr. Tiller would not act violently. You could probably walk all over the christian religion in many ways and he'd politely turn the other cheek. You could probably disrespect god, curse jesus, piss on the bible and he'd just be irritated.
As an FYI, they are killing born, female babies by the millions in china. as in drop them in a bucket of water and drown them when they turn out to be female. And the police know and will stop you from saving the baby. So I kinda think, there are better targets for some of this energy than stopping a 70 day old fetus from being born. Or adopting unwanted children and giving them good homes so they won't live in a depraved or uncaring environment.
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Meanwhile we have a group of people willing to kill you for drawing a prophet with a bomb for a turbin (and it's a majority of the population, not a fringe element).
Played endless hours of Battletech (so sweet-- and the new versions do not duplicate the experience- they always get their egos involved and try to make it "better" and drop something that was cool for something which is stupid). We made our own mechs, had our own fleets, had our own pilots and occasionally watched them die on a failed eject. Played ridiculous numbers of games of hours and hours and hours.
The long hours for programming are a fossil of a time when programmers made so much money that they could work six months and then take six months off.
When programmers commonly contracted and were paid very high hourly rates to make tight deadlines. When programmers were given the job to do and then left ALONE to do it. When programmers were "priest kings" and worked in 60 degree air conditioned rooms.
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Unfortunately since that time, all the bad parts have remained but
Companies had specific laws passed that made it very difficult to be a contract programmer. Programmers are no longer left alone to get the job done and companies measure programmers a lot (weekly, daily under Agile and other methods). The pay went to crap (from 3x average to 2x average to now as little as 1.25x average pay-- 4 year degree that cost 50k or more and for that you get an extra 15k a year). programmers are STILL expected to work nights, weekends, holidays. programmers are viewed as interchangable by management-- a ".net programmer" is somehow supposed to be interchangable with a "c" coder and both are interchangable with a "java" coder. Offshoring started slow but grew fast and is growing still and is likely to grow for another 4-6 years.
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I am lucky to have made the jump over to management. I wouldn't enjoy being a programmer any more knowing how far things have fallen. Hell, our guys can't make a 1 line code change to production in less than 4 weeks and three meetings now.
Is there a particular reason the mayor couldn't get to him in less than one day?
I'm in a huge city-- 150 miles across-- and I could get to any part of it in under 2 hours. I regularly travel across it for situations a lot less important than this.
If you are liable for security, you don't want to be told, "That person who told you on the phone that they were the mayor? Well, they actually were not the mayor."
I'm very suspicious and I've not been defrauded or phished or whatever.
If the network was so important that they can imprison this guy on charges (no proven crime- no lives at stake) for over a year, then it's reasonable that the network admin would want to give the password to the appropriate person (in this case, the Mayor) directly and securely.
The written policy was that he only gave the passwords to the mayor in a secure setting.
People besides the mayor tried to get the passwords. The mayor tried to get the passwords in a non-secure setting.
They grossly over-reacted and were probably trying to violate their own written policies.
If they can force you to violate policies or go to jail for up to 5 years, then you don't want to be in that job since the penalty for violating written policies may be just as draconian.
Sick people with bad hearts, lungs, chronic fatigue often put on the weight because they can't exercise.
Listen-- this is a cliche. DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.
Get the facts before you judge them.
I have a friend who is very grateful these things exist- because somedays she has trouble even standing up. She's also gone gained about 80 pounds since this problem started 15 years ago.
You are an asshat with no sensitivity to other people's pain. Probably like those bullies who drove the young girl to suicide.
The only time a significant percentage of people died was due to the Black Plague.
Disease is going to get faster as population density increases but it is an area we are making vast progress in. I can see a day in less than a hundred years where we can analyze any disease and develop a cure before it can get more than a few million people.
The brittleness of our systems is more of a threat. Highly efficient but really susceptible to disruption.
Say we had a mega flare which didn't kill anyone but which took down the internet and most power stations for two weeks.
I've been in many businesses in different fields (welding supplies, fast food, programming shops) over the last 30 years and that's a typical average figure for labor costs.
Oh heck if 50 cents is going to make the difference in selling it or not, why not just go the extra mile and enslave the kids? Then we could lower the price to $9.50. They have lots of kids so if we skimped on food and took an acceptable death rate, we could probably lower costs even more.
They got down picking random objects out of a bin last year.
So now think about how this plays out.
Say a robot that can do a particular arbitrary job (stocking grocery shelves, assembling a mouse) gets down to $25k and lasts 4 years.
Heaven or Hell because how is anyone going to get any money to buy anything when 70% of the jobs can be done by robots?
And the republicans are talking about cutting off unemployment because $1100 a month is supposedly keeping people from taking $30,000 a year jobs. It's been a talking point for several months now on conservative talk radio and now it looks like they are convincing enough democrats to make it happen. After giving a trillion dollars to wall street they are going to stiff americans out of 7-8 billion dollars in unemployment benefits.
I think we are getting close to having civil unrest, increased crime, general bad things.
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Because most speed limits are unnaturally low (to account for rainy or other adverse conditions).
In the past, most people sped by 5 to 10mph over the limit. The police didn't bother pulling them over-- they pulled over the "real" speeders.
Now with money tight, they are starting to pull over more people (it's not about safety- it's about money).
With automated systems, these unnaturally low speeds are enforced on 100% of the drivers.
So what they need to do is get smarter signs combined with automatic communication with the cars and automated enforcement.
A freeway might have an 80mph speed limit on a sunny day, a 60mph speedlimit during rain, and a 65mph speed limit on a clear night. All bluetoothed to your car so it makes warning noises if you are over the current speed limit. If you are over the speed limit for a significant time, then you get fined.
A lot of the current body of law was passed when enforcement was 5% likely. So it is a bit draconian. If you have 100% enforcement and you don't want to be oppressive then the fines need to be more reasonable and more reasonably applied. (i.e. a 5 buck ding for breaking a realistic speedlimit by 10mph for a couple minutes-- but a bigger fine for breaking it for a full hour).
Duplicate the license (could use a photocopier).
Pass a speed camera at point "A".
Have your friend then pass the other camera several miles away a couple seconds later, giving you an apparent speed of several hundred miles per hour.
Do this several times. Then speed as much as you want after that since you have a history of the cameras grossly mis measuring your speed.
I understand where you are coming from.
I personally am for the right to abortion.
That being said, wouldn't you feel differently about Mr. Tiller if those were born, living, 3 month old babies that were being killed by the 10's of thousands? Wouldn't you be willing to give up your life and kill others to save a hundred newborn babies?
So it's a question of timing. I can understand why Mr. Tiller (et al) attack an abortion clinic because to them babies are dying in large numbers there.
However, except for that one issue, I suspect Mr. Tiller would not act violently. You could probably walk all over the christian religion in many ways and he'd politely turn the other cheek. You could probably disrespect god, curse jesus, piss on the bible and he'd just be irritated.
As an FYI, they are killing born, female babies by the millions in china. as in drop them in a bucket of water and drown them when they turn out to be female. And the police know and will stop you from saving the baby. So I kinda think, there are better targets for some of this energy than stopping a 70 day old fetus from being born. Or adopting unwanted children and giving them good homes so they won't live in a depraved or uncaring environment.
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Meanwhile we have a group of people willing to kill you for drawing a prophet with a bomb for a turbin (and it's a majority of the population, not a fringe element).
The amiga was awesome.
My first computer virus
Tank Wars
I wrote and sold a game for it (made about $900).
Played endless hours of Battletech (so sweet-- and the new versions do not duplicate the experience- they always get their egos involved and try to make it "better" and drop something that was cool for something which is stupid). We made our own mechs, had our own fleets, had our own pilots and occasionally watched them die on a failed eject. Played ridiculous numbers of games of hours and hours and hours.
The long hours for programming are a fossil of a time when programmers made so much money that they could work six months and then take six months off.
When programmers commonly contracted and were paid very high hourly rates to make tight deadlines.
When programmers were given the job to do and then left ALONE to do it.
When programmers were "priest kings" and worked in 60 degree air conditioned rooms.
---
Unfortunately since that time, all the bad parts have remained but
Companies had specific laws passed that made it very difficult to be a contract programmer.
Programmers are no longer left alone to get the job done and companies measure programmers a lot (weekly, daily under Agile and other methods).
The pay went to crap (from 3x average to 2x average to now as little as 1.25x average pay-- 4 year degree that cost 50k or more and for that you get an extra 15k a year).
programmers are STILL expected to work nights, weekends, holidays.
programmers are viewed as interchangable by management-- a ".net programmer" is somehow supposed to be interchangable with a "c" coder and both are interchangable with a "java" coder.
Offshoring started slow but grew fast and is growing still and is likely to grow for another 4-6 years.
---
I am lucky to have made the jump over to management. I wouldn't enjoy being a programmer any more knowing how far things have fallen. Hell, our guys can't make a 1 line code change to production in less than 4 weeks and three meetings now.
Took out the hard drives... maybe... maybe... I'll mount them and extract them.
Took out the memory (???? who is going to use the old memory- why did I do that?)
Threw two away- put the other on the curb (it felt like a super high quality case someone might want).
Entire box of random cables (sorted through it and kept 5 "special" cables but tossed the rest.
When in doubt, watch an episode of Hoarders.
Trying to get my house in decent shape for a party this weekend.
* Talking about a password in front of others. (i.e. the Mayor apparently first asked him to tell the password with many others clearly listening in.)
They were in the same city.
Is there a particular reason the mayor couldn't get to him in less than one day?
I'm in a huge city-- 150 miles across-- and I could get to any part of it in under 2 hours. I regularly travel across it for situations a lot less important than this.
If you are liable for security, you don't want to be told, "That person who told you on the phone that they were the mayor? Well, they actually were not the mayor."
I'm very suspicious and I've not been defrauded or phished or whatever.
If the network was so important that they can imprison this guy on charges (no proven crime- no lives at stake) for over a year, then it's reasonable that the network admin would want to give the password to the appropriate person (in this case, the Mayor) directly and securely.
I found this article helpful:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-management/sorting-out-fact-fiction-in-terry-childs-case-310
I wonder if there is an achievement for getting both "0" and "5" posts in the same topic? :-)
I can see your point on flamebaiting but still don't think the parent post was a troll.
Troll? Seriously? Has to be the worse troll.. mod... ever!
Troll would be for some purposely offensive post designed to provoke a flame war, not a straight-forward opinion like this.
Seriously, I've seen several of these weird "troll" mods lately on slashdot. They usually get undone within a few hours too.
The written policy was that he only gave the passwords to the mayor in a secure setting.
People besides the mayor tried to get the passwords.
The mayor tried to get the passwords in a non-secure setting.
They grossly over-reacted and were probably trying to violate their own written policies.
If they can force you to violate policies or go to jail for up to 5 years, then you don't want to be in that job since the penalty for violating written policies may be just as draconian.
For some values of bad.
Cheeky for an anonymous coward.
Sick people with bad hearts, lungs, chronic fatigue often put on the weight because they can't exercise.
Listen-- this is a cliche. DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.
Get the facts before you judge them.
I have a friend who is very grateful these things exist- because somedays she has trouble even standing up. She's also gone gained about 80 pounds since this problem started 15 years ago.
You are an asshat with no sensitivity to other people's pain. Probably like those bullies who drove the young girl to suicide.
Someday-- you'll likely be old, sick, tired too.
There is no requirement to fix it.
You can break it and leave.
Happens throughout recorded history.
Rome did not fix Carthage.
People with chronic fatigue, weak hearts, damaged lungs look normal but lack the energy to do what healthy people take for granted.
Russia has a pretty bad reputation too.
Contracts are basically meaningless. And they will sell things exclusively... multiple times.
The corruption got pretty bad under Stalin and the kids grew up with it and a lot of the folks bothered by it left.
No. In china, he would have been executed.
On the other hand, if things are colder than predicted by global warming models over the next couple years then I'm sure it will be the cause.
It will also probably be used as a "temporary" cause for higher job losses in the united states as well which they can then adjust away.
Millions sounds so big.
Say it as a percentage.
The only time a significant percentage of people died was due to the Black Plague.
Disease is going to get faster as population density increases but it is an area we are making vast progress in. I can see a day in less than a hundred years where we can analyze any disease and develop a cure before it can get more than a few million people.
The brittleness of our systems is more of a threat. Highly efficient but really susceptible to disruption.
Say we had a mega flare which didn't kill anyone but which took down the internet and most power stations for two weeks.
bipeds in good shape don't tire easier. One of the hunting methods of bipeds is to keep chasing the 4 legged prey until it is too exhausted to flee.
Source?
I've been in many businesses in different fields (welding supplies, fast food, programming shops) over the last 30 years and that's a typical average figure for labor costs.
Oh heck if 50 cents is going to make the difference in selling it or not, why not just go the extra mile and enslave the kids? Then we could lower the price to $9.50. They have lots of kids so if we skimped on food and took an acceptable death rate, we could probably lower costs even more.
And there is no such thing as an "unconscionable contract" when it comes to souls?
In fables, a lot of soul acquisition turns on trickery.
This would be a pretty major supernatural event.
The store owner could die and find he has major stroke in the afterworld.
We are very close on robots.
They got down picking random objects out of a bin last year.
So now think about how this plays out.
Say a robot that can do a particular arbitrary job (stocking grocery shelves, assembling a mouse) gets down to $25k and lasts 4 years.
Heaven or Hell because how is anyone going to get any money to buy anything when 70% of the jobs can be done by robots?
And the republicans are talking about cutting off unemployment because $1100 a month is supposedly keeping people from taking $30,000 a year jobs. It's been a talking point for several months now on conservative talk radio and now it looks like they are convincing enough democrats to make it happen. After giving a trillion dollars to wall street they are going to stiff americans out of 7-8 billion dollars in unemployment benefits.
I think we are getting close to having civil unrest, increased crime, general bad things.
Labor costs are about 15%.
So for your $10 mouse, giving them decent 10 hour days would cost you about an extra 50 cents.
Hmmm. 50 cents extra for a mouse, or work children like slaves.