I hope this one is better....I had a hard time with the entire "The most advanced race, Vulcans, allow a drilling ship within range". How about, it should have been stopped at whatever planet is the outlier in that system......
This wasn't the Empire taking on Alderaan....This was the freaking Vulcans....
Next up, NYC allows a North Korean Trawler to go up the Hudson River without even so much as a Coast Guard Courtesy inspection.
DRM useful ? Only as long as the provider of the DRM management stays alive. I and a few thousand other users of the Sony HDD 250 DVR were just given doorstops this last two months when Sony and Rovi stopped supporting the proprietary feed of data needed for TV program listings, and clock.
They refuse to provide a clock set screen or software patch. The DVR is now almost useless. You can approximate a time set per a few methods on the web, but without the feed from Rovi, the device is a lot less useful.
Any fulltime DRM is at the mercy of the provider.
I'll never buy Sony again...and no, they never rootkitted me.
Drove last year on a good percentage of the autobahn system. I saw hundreds of variable speed limit signs-the autobahn has a lot of speed limits, but they are modulated in real time. I have no idea what level of intelligence the management system has, but this tourist saw that in Germany, speed limits were valuable information, not a marker for "how expensive will the ticket be as I run with traffic".
If you are in a free speed zone and the limit goes to 130 kph, you slow down... likewise when that drops to 100 kph....and around the corner is a hairpin curve.
That's the difference. In Germany I'd see a ticket as having a safety aspect, where as designed and executed in the US, it will just be another toll booth.
Most of the signs also have cameras, or at least look like they do.
Whether or not cameras come down based on popular outrage depends on how far the governed are from the governors. On one side we have England, where the party in power can line the streets with cameras free of any popular groundswell.
On the other side, many cities in the US, where the local town council is a bit closer to the people, and suddenly individuals can lose office based on support of scamera/free money technology.
Cities like NYC, where the people/govt ratio is the same as a middle class person/Washington DC ratio, can put cameras up without fear of blowback, aided by a few useful idiots along the way. A smaller municipality will find the town hall meeting room full of unhappy constituents and act accordingly.
We would all lose our licenses in ten miles if every violation, no matter how petty or meaningless, was recorded.
current speed limits are set low, but enforced occasionally, with "tolerance". This keeps us from getting an autobahn mentality and keeps the speed limit from becoming a joke. The reality is that most limits are set a bit low so "everyone speeds".
Most folks who get caught feel bad and recall the conversation with the cop.
Photo enforcement changes the parameters. Suddenly, this low limit is being enforced by machines. No one will raise the limits until too many "normal drivers" (see...everyone speeds) get tickets.
The fact most limits in the US are set to a 1950's car and that the camera proponents have a god like reverence for "the speed limit" are not mentioned.
Bad engineering (non 85th percentile speed limits, short yellow intervals in intersections) now become profit opportunities....with money from car drivers, who have some money....and are "bad people" in some quarters.....
No wonder some governments want to line our roads with these gadgets...free money forever, and all you need is poorly set speed limits and badly engineered intersections.
I got George Bush lite....but it was still better than a vulture capitalist. Anyone notice that the core republicans stayed away, letting him take the fall alone ?
Sure, but anyone who has any stake in the existing system, like for housing, or food privileges, will be out there in a perfectly pressed Comrade Outfit. They will protest on cue. They will profess love of the Diminutive Leader. They will shout "death to america". Their knowledge of the outside world is strictly controlled. I don't see revolution anytime soon.
I think China uses them as a buffer zone, although China has an illegal NK emigrant problem. If you are escaping to China, it's not good
We pay about as much as you do in taxes, when you add them all up (property tax-sales taxes-income taxes)
We just don't get health care, or decent mass transit, or first world roads (in the northeast)
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Hams and business radio users also have to back to Moto to get their radios programmed. In Moto World, there is no such thing as user modifications.
When I went to school, there were lots of Iranians, under the Shah. I think they were "good" Iranians, I recall them intelligent students. Most were western but there were a few religious zealot types. I recall one of them making a comment after a young lady stayed over one night-clearly the product of a more closed society. It is a pity his group runs the place, not the more open folks I met from there.
I don't get it. I have a diesel car that gets 40 mpg, wasn't quite 20k. In Europe, most cars, big or small, have a 2 liter turbodiesel, getting you that 40 mpg even with euro speed limits. The same boring Chrysler minivan in front of your school with a 3 liter v6 and 18 mpg is in front of a school in the EU right now with a turbodiesel and 35 mpg.
Solar cells and windmills are all over Europe, too.
Most potheads I know have six figure incomes, and coach their kids teams on the weekend. I even know a few active in local government. The wrecks I know all drink way too much....
I've had three jetski carbs destroyed by this stuff, one snowblower, and various friends have had issues with motorcycle and boat motors.
Please get this crap out of my gas tank. Please.
Back before I learned the hard way not to buy Sony, I bought an RPTV. It was fun as the NYC stations were still experimenting with ATSC. Time went on, and a Plasma is now the main TV. We still use the Sony, though, and while it has eaten one projector bulb, it soldiers on....of course, the $2500 it cost back then is now $399.
Ethanol subsidies, wars in foreign lands, money to support governments that hate us. Oh, and send your kids (the military is high percentage heartland kids).
I know I'm showing my age, but I really miss toll quality calls. You know, the polar opposite of the typical...hello....it'sssss bbbsx... ble b. sors and then....s t boob bleeep blorp.
So we'll meet then. bye....click
All of my consumer electronics has crappy DRM. I'm stuck with HDMI and HDCP. Occasionally box A does not want to talk to box B. Sometimes it does. I had to toss a perfectly good AVR because the HDMI/HDCP board went...something not really essential.
DRM is a raging success for making my CE experience harder.
In the US, they snap over one loop. We don't have this level of sophistication. By the way, AU is a camera hell only exceeded by England-you have speed cams, average speed cams, etc. I don't look to AU for anything automotive, save a few V8 Holden models....
It is also quite clear you've never driven in NYC traffic-you can get caught out while looking a few blocks ahead..only takes ONE Livery car drive or truck delivery who blocks the whole road without warning and does not care....
If this technology cost money, it would never, ever be installed. Unfortunately, it works "best" in places the signal intervals are incorrectly set.
In NYC, it is very good at giving you "gridlock" tickets, if the car in front of you stops and you get caught in the "box".
They are called scameras for a reason. And no, I don't run red lights, even at 3 am, thank you.
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I hope this one is better....I had a hard time with the entire "The most advanced race, Vulcans, allow a drilling ship within range". How about, it should have been stopped at whatever planet is the outlier in that system...... This wasn't the Empire taking on Alderaan....This was the freaking Vulcans.... Next up, NYC allows a North Korean Trawler to go up the Hudson River without even so much as a Coast Guard Courtesy inspection.
DRM useful ? Only as long as the provider of the DRM management stays alive. I and a few thousand other users of the Sony HDD 250 DVR were just given doorstops this last two months when Sony and Rovi stopped supporting the proprietary feed of data needed for TV program listings, and clock. They refuse to provide a clock set screen or software patch. The DVR is now almost useless. You can approximate a time set per a few methods on the web, but without the feed from Rovi, the device is a lot less useful. Any fulltime DRM is at the mercy of the provider. I'll never buy Sony again...and no, they never rootkitted me.
The Vulcans allow a planet driller owned by a Romulan within range of the home planet. uh huh fail.....of plot
Sure, but you have to be the CIA to get one.
Drove last year on a good percentage of the autobahn system. I saw hundreds of variable speed limit signs-the autobahn has a lot of speed limits, but they are modulated in real time. I have no idea what level of intelligence the management system has, but this tourist saw that in Germany, speed limits were valuable information, not a marker for "how expensive will the ticket be as I run with traffic". If you are in a free speed zone and the limit goes to 130 kph, you slow down ... likewise when that drops to 100 kph....and around the corner is a hairpin curve.
That's the difference. In Germany I'd see a ticket as having a safety aspect, where as designed and executed in the US, it will just be another toll booth.
Most of the signs also have cameras, or at least look like they do.
This may be the best description of enforcement for profit I've ever seen.
Whether or not cameras come down based on popular outrage depends on how far the governed are from the governors. On one side we have England, where the party in power can line the streets with cameras free of any popular groundswell. On the other side, many cities in the US, where the local town council is a bit closer to the people, and suddenly individuals can lose office based on support of scamera/free money technology. Cities like NYC, where the people/govt ratio is the same as a middle class person/Washington DC ratio, can put cameras up without fear of blowback, aided by a few useful idiots along the way. A smaller municipality will find the town hall meeting room full of unhappy constituents and act accordingly. We would all lose our licenses in ten miles if every violation, no matter how petty or meaningless, was recorded.
current speed limits are set low, but enforced occasionally, with "tolerance". This keeps us from getting an autobahn mentality and keeps the speed limit from becoming a joke. The reality is that most limits are set a bit low so "everyone speeds". Most folks who get caught feel bad and recall the conversation with the cop. Photo enforcement changes the parameters. Suddenly, this low limit is being enforced by machines. No one will raise the limits until too many "normal drivers" (see...everyone speeds) get tickets. The fact most limits in the US are set to a 1950's car and that the camera proponents have a god like reverence for "the speed limit" are not mentioned. Bad engineering (non 85th percentile speed limits, short yellow intervals in intersections) now become profit opportunities....with money from car drivers, who have some money....and are "bad people" in some quarters..... No wonder some governments want to line our roads with these gadgets...free money forever, and all you need is poorly set speed limits and badly engineered intersections.
I got George Bush lite....but it was still better than a vulture capitalist. Anyone notice that the core republicans stayed away, letting him take the fall alone ?
Sure, but anyone who has any stake in the existing system, like for housing, or food privileges, will be out there in a perfectly pressed Comrade Outfit. They will protest on cue. They will profess love of the Diminutive Leader. They will shout "death to america". Their knowledge of the outside world is strictly controlled. I don't see revolution anytime soon. I think China uses them as a buffer zone, although China has an illegal NK emigrant problem. If you are escaping to China, it's not good
We pay about as much as you do in taxes, when you add them all up (property tax-sales taxes-income taxes) We just don't get health care, or decent mass transit, or first world roads (in the northeast)
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Hams and business radio users also have to back to Moto to get their radios programmed. In Moto World, there is no such thing as user modifications.
I notice they've killed the "record in" jack on my video machines.....
as a ham who learned back in the day, i just bought a baofeng radio. it is sdr. why not ?
When I went to school, there were lots of Iranians, under the Shah. I think they were "good" Iranians, I recall them intelligent students. Most were western but there were a few religious zealot types. I recall one of them making a comment after a young lady stayed over one night-clearly the product of a more closed society. It is a pity his group runs the place, not the more open folks I met from there.
I don't get it. I have a diesel car that gets 40 mpg, wasn't quite 20k. In Europe, most cars, big or small, have a 2 liter turbodiesel, getting you that 40 mpg even with euro speed limits. The same boring Chrysler minivan in front of your school with a 3 liter v6 and 18 mpg is in front of a school in the EU right now with a turbodiesel and 35 mpg. Solar cells and windmills are all over Europe, too.
Most potheads I know have six figure incomes, and coach their kids teams on the weekend. I even know a few active in local government. The wrecks I know all drink way too much....
I've had three jetski carbs destroyed by this stuff, one snowblower, and various friends have had issues with motorcycle and boat motors. Please get this crap out of my gas tank. Please.
Really. I was at someone elses' place, watching a movie and was amazed that I couldn't skip....gaaah !
Back before I learned the hard way not to buy Sony, I bought an RPTV. It was fun as the NYC stations were still experimenting with ATSC. Time went on, and a Plasma is now the main TV. We still use the Sony, though, and while it has eaten one projector bulb, it soldiers on....of course, the $2500 it cost back then is now $399.
Ethanol subsidies, wars in foreign lands, money to support governments that hate us. Oh, and send your kids (the military is high percentage heartland kids).
I know I'm showing my age, but I really miss toll quality calls. You know, the polar opposite of the typical...hello....it'sssss bbbsx ... ble b. sors and then....s t boob bleeep blorp.
So we'll meet then. bye....click
All of my consumer electronics has crappy DRM. I'm stuck with HDMI and HDCP. Occasionally box A does not want to talk to box B. Sometimes it does. I had to toss a perfectly good AVR because the HDMI/HDCP board went...something not really essential. DRM is a raging success for making my CE experience harder.
In the US, they snap over one loop. We don't have this level of sophistication. By the way, AU is a camera hell only exceeded by England-you have speed cams, average speed cams, etc. I don't look to AU for anything automotive, save a few V8 Holden models.... It is also quite clear you've never driven in NYC traffic-you can get caught out while looking a few blocks ahead..only takes ONE Livery car drive or truck delivery who blocks the whole road without warning and does not care....
If this technology cost money, it would never, ever be installed. Unfortunately, it works "best" in places the signal intervals are incorrectly set. In NYC, it is very good at giving you "gridlock" tickets, if the car in front of you stops and you get caught in the "box". They are called scameras for a reason. And no, I don't run red lights, even at 3 am, thank you.