I've never seen anyone try to surf at Virginia Beach or Nag's Head.
Oh, people try to surf here - heh. Of course, the East Coast Surfing Championships have been held here in Va Beach every August (or so) for about 50 years...
I drive a single cab light pickup. It has almost zero blind spots and backing up is a breeze.
Almost zero isn't zero. Can you see a 3-year-old sitting less than a foot directly behind the vehicle? Bet not. Even if you remove the tailgate, how about a kid lying down there?
While extremely rare, this is the kind of situation for which this law is designed.
You do realize that the rule doesn't take effect until 2014 - right? Plenty of time for auto makers to make it more affordable. And... rules like this usually only apply to new and (possibly) used cars, not existing cars. I didn't see anything in the articles that indicated retrofits for existing vehicles.
confirm there's nothing in the blind spot that you DO have no matter where you point your mirrors
Actually, with the SAE recommended method (Google: adjust mirrors sae ) there's NO blind spot requiring a look over the shoulder as the rear of the vehicle next to you is still visible in the side mirror. That said, a *really* short car - or motorcycle - it may not be visible unless you turn your head to the side, but there's no need to look over your shoulder. Obviously, this adjustment method requires three mirrors.
Still you're absolutely correct that double-checking should *always* be done.
I have had my mirrors adjusted using this "SAE recommended method" for years and it's great, with NO blind spots. Here are a few articles explaining the method or simply Google: adjust mirrors sae
Edmunds said some of the biggest blind spots are on passenger cars where the trunk has a high deck lid and the driver sits low to the ground. For the Cadillac CTS-V coupe, Edmunds measured a blind spot 101 feet long, compared with about 40 feet for minivans from Toyota and Honda.
I strongly suspect a lot of people with chronic pain issues are on some kind of sleeping pills.
The types of pills in the study - hypnotics - don't really help when you're in pain. Of course, they would if you mixed them with strong pain-killers, but then you'd have the possibly of actually dying (dieing?) in your sleep...
Kodak was in the black and white picture printing business since the 1880s. It was in the color printing business by 1835....
All true, of course, but I was referring to laser/inkjet printers, not film printers - my mistake for being unclear - and their use in the age of digital photography. I believe Kodak vastly underestimated the popularity of digital photos/printing by the masses. Sure simple film prints are less expensive (judging by the price of laser/inkjet photo paper), but people are willing to ignore that for greater flexibility in handling things themselves.
As for personal Kodak printers, they may be good (I don't know), but I don't know anyone that owns one.
I think the difference is, as someone else pointed out, that Kodak was primarily a photochemical (and film) company, whereas Canon and Nikon are primarily camera companies. With the decline of film, came the decline in photochemical usage. As for other photochemical uses, like printers, companies like HP, Brother, etc... have long-standing reputation. As for film itself, I have friends that have preferred Fugi film for many years.
If war was no more complicated than two societies who couldn't resolve their differences each sending a certain number of soldiers to be incinerated in some machine located on an island, and the country with the biggest number won, then I suspect war would be a lot less common. All these layers of technology and rationalization takes away from the fact that is all war is.
Or war would be more common with no physical destruction or other lingering signs of war. In either case, congratulations, you've just described the premise of the Star Trek (TOS) episode: A Taste of Armageddon from 1967.
... the entire war between the two planets is completely simulated by computers which launch wargame attacks and counterattacks, then calculate damage and select the dead. Citizens reported as "killed" must submit themselves for termination by stepping inside a disintegration booth.
Another idea is to have a daily or weekly maintenance password. That is, you are required to type in a password once a day or once a week, and if you don't, the passkey changes to some random 500 characters and is permanently inaccessible.... While I am sure it would be a problem for you to go around actively destroying evidence, I'm curious to see if you get in trouble for this. First of all, you aren't destroying evidence per se, rather it is being rendered inaccessible (automatically I might add).
IANAL but I think there is a distinction between evidence being specifically/actively destroyed and routinely destroyed. If there's a data-retention policy and data is automatically destroyed (or rendered inaccessible) as a result of that policy, then I fail to see how that's your problem...
Yes, PETA is trying to get antislavery law to be applied against animals,...
The Daily Show did a great piece on this: Seaworld of Pain. Wyatt Cenac interviewed a woman, can't remember if also a lawyer, from PETA. She fully support the anti-slavery angle. Cenac then found/showed a picture of her with her pet - um, slave - dog. She pointed out that the dog was a pet and lived indoors, while the animals at Seaworld were not. Then it got a little funnier... From a summary of the video:
After messing with PETA’s Lisa Lange by calling her out for owning a dog—a “house ni**er”—Cenac serves PETA with his own lawsuit, charging the group with exploiting animals without their consent or paying them for their campaigns.
... I can tell you that's spot on. I mean it seems great, everyone feels good - no great - but then there's the heat, moisture (either sticky or slimy) and runoff... sometimes exhaustion from all the activity and close proximity, but you go on - drill baby drill, right?. Then... oh, wait - "fracking"? Never mind.
But what was so wrong with the lunch the mother provided? Nothing apparently. A spokesowman for the Division of Child Development explained that the mother’s meal should have been okay.
“With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that’s the dairy,” Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory policy manager for the division, told the Journal. “It sounds like the lunch itself would’ve met all of the standard.”
It‘s unclear from reports who determined the lunch wasn’t healthy enough.... The school denied knowledge of the incident and said it’s looking into it.
The real funny thing is at the bottom of TFA, people are posting rants against the Gov'ment and Michelle Obama, but it's a North Carolina rule, so people should be upset with their elected officials instead and, by proxy, themselves for voting for them...
Dug: My master made me this Adderall. He is a good and smart master and he made me this Adderall so that I may be good and calm. Squirrel!
{ You get where this is going - right? }
Dug: [cycling through languages and different voices] Hey would you - cuerdo con tigo - I use that Adderall - watashi wa hanashi ma - to be good and calm with. I would be happy if you stop.
What they're doing is deceptive at best and outright lying at worst.
It's called "marketing". Otherwise, you are correct Lord Argon!
I also take exception to companies offering "free" things - like "free HD channels with your digital service" - when those should simply be called "included at no extra charge". If it were up to me, I'd pop all the marketing executives first, then all the lawyers. { That's a joke thought police. }
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I've never seen anyone try to surf at Virginia Beach or Nag's Head.
Oh, people try to surf here - heh. Of course, the East Coast Surfing Championships have been held here in Va Beach every August (or so) for about 50 years...
I drive a single cab light pickup. It has almost zero blind spots and backing up is a breeze.
Almost zero isn't zero. Can you see a 3-year-old sitting less than a foot directly behind the vehicle? Bet not. Even if you remove the tailgate, how about a kid lying down there?
While extremely rare, this is the kind of situation for which this law is designed.
You do realize that the rule doesn't take effect until 2014 - right? Plenty of time for auto makers to make it more affordable. And... rules like this usually only apply to new and (possibly) used cars, not existing cars. I didn't see anything in the articles that indicated retrofits for existing vehicles.
confirm there's nothing in the blind spot that you DO have no matter where you point your mirrors
Actually, with the SAE recommended method (Google: adjust mirrors sae ) there's NO blind spot requiring a look over the shoulder as the rear of the vehicle next to you is still visible in the side mirror. That said, a *really* short car - or motorcycle - it may not be visible unless you turn your head to the side, but there's no need to look over your shoulder. Obviously, this adjustment method requires three mirrors.
Still you're absolutely correct that double-checking should *always* be done.
In the stupidly big vehicles lots of people drive these days,
Some are less big, but with large blind spots none-the-less. From a related article U.S. Rule Set for Cameras at Cars’ Rear:
Edmunds said some of the biggest blind spots are on passenger cars where the trunk has a high deck lid and the driver sits low to the ground. For the Cadillac CTS-V coupe, Edmunds measured a blind spot 101 feet long, compared with about 40 feet for minivans from Toyota and Honda.
Telcos/ISPs are greedy and uncaring liars - film @ 11.
You want CD quality downloads? Yeah, ...
Don't start with the Red Hot Chili Peppers ... :-)
I strongly suspect a lot of people with chronic pain issues are on some kind of sleeping pills.
The types of pills in the study - hypnotics - don't really help when you're in pain. Of course, they would if you mixed them with strong pain-killers, but then you'd have the possibly of actually dying (dieing?) in your sleep...
Perhaps all the Democrats should heed Santorum's call to vote in the Michigan Republican primary - and vote for Ron Paul. :-)
That will show 'em.
... so drivers will even be able to update their Twitter accounts and post messages to Facebook.
No good can come of this.
Kodak was in the black and white picture printing business since the 1880s. It was in the color printing business by 1835. ...
All true, of course, but I was referring to laser/inkjet printers, not film printers - my mistake for being unclear - and their use in the age of digital photography. I believe Kodak vastly underestimated the popularity of digital photos/printing by the masses. Sure simple film prints are less expensive (judging by the price of laser/inkjet photo paper), but people are willing to ignore that for greater flexibility in handling things themselves.
As for personal Kodak printers, they may be good (I don't know), but I don't know anyone that owns one.
I think the difference is, as someone else pointed out, that Kodak was primarily a photochemical (and film) company, whereas Canon and Nikon are primarily camera companies. With the decline of film, came the decline in photochemical usage. As for other photochemical uses, like printers, companies like HP, Brother, etc... have long-standing reputation. As for film itself, I have friends that have preferred Fugi film for many years.
If war was no more complicated than two societies who couldn't resolve their differences each sending a certain number of soldiers to be incinerated in some machine located on an island, and the country with the biggest number won, then I suspect war would be a lot less common. All these layers of technology and rationalization takes away from the fact that is all war is.
Or war would be more common with no physical destruction or other lingering signs of war. In either case, congratulations, you've just described the premise of the Star Trek (TOS) episode: A Taste of Armageddon from 1967.
... the entire war between the two planets is completely simulated by computers which launch wargame attacks and counterattacks, then calculate damage and select the dead. Citizens reported as "killed" must submit themselves for termination by stepping inside a disintegration booth.
Coincidentally, patient's name is Bob.
... and discover girls
This is /. - please explain. Are they some sort of attachment for your game controller?
IANAL but I think there is a distinction between evidence being specifically/actively destroyed and routinely destroyed. If there's a data-retention policy and data is automatically destroyed (or rendered inaccessible) as a result of that policy, then I fail to see how that's your problem...
The Daily Show did a great piece on this: Seaworld of Pain. Wyatt Cenac interviewed a woman, can't remember if also a lawyer, from PETA. She fully support the anti-slavery angle. Cenac then found/showed a picture of her with her pet - um, slave - dog. She pointed out that the dog was a pet and lived indoors, while the animals at Seaworld were not. Then it got a little funnier... From a summary of the video:
After messing with PETA’s Lisa Lange by calling her out for owning a dog—a “house ni**er”—Cenac serves PETA with his own lawsuit, charging the group with exploiting animals without their consent or paying them for their campaigns.
When the company food taster is asked for his opinion on the beef, he stares off sadly and says, "it tastes like despair".
... I can tell you that's spot on. I mean it seems great, everyone feels good - no great - but then there's the heat, moisture (either sticky or slimy) and runoff ... sometimes exhaustion from all the activity and close proximity, but you go on - drill baby drill, right?. Then... oh, wait - "fracking"? Never mind.
But what was so wrong with the lunch the mother provided? Nothing apparently. A spokesowman for the Division of Child Development explained that the mother’s meal should have been okay.
“With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that’s the dairy,” Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory policy manager for the division, told the Journal. “It sounds like the lunch itself would’ve met all of the standard.”
It‘s unclear from reports who determined the lunch wasn’t healthy enough. ... The school denied knowledge of the incident and said it’s looking into it.
The real funny thing is at the bottom of TFA, people are posting rants against the Gov'ment and Michelle Obama, but it's a North Carolina rule, so people should be upset with their elected officials instead and, by proxy, themselves for voting for them...
{ See the movie Up! if you're confused. }
It's called "marketing". Otherwise, you are correct Lord Argon!
I also take exception to companies offering "free" things - like "free HD channels with your digital service" - when those should simply be called "included at no extra charge". If it were up to me, I'd pop all the marketing executives first, then all the lawyers. { That's a joke thought police. }
Note to self: Don't tweet that joke.
Read The Windup Girl for a (fictionalized) glimpse at that thought.
I don't know about that. Everyone I know who has died has been an habitual eater.