The UK already uses CCTV cameras on a massive scale to catch uninsured cars. Our motorways have cameras over every lane which track the numberplate and this information can both be used to calculate average speed over a section of road (to enforce speed limits) and also to check for insured, banned drivers, or stolen vehicles.
This is less a new idea as the/. summary implies and more just an expansion of an existing project.
This is a very new idea, forcing a gas station to install and use this system, that is very different from cameras in public places. Having license plate scanning cameras in public areas is not an issue, as it is in public and there is no expectation of privacy. The big issue is not the public's right to privacy but the gas station owner's right to sell gas to whom ever he chooses. This is not a slippery slope, this is the beginning of the government forcing private business sell to whom ever the government sees fit to sell to. The outrage shouldn't be over privacy issues of the customers, it should be over the intrusion of the government on these businesses.
What's to stop someone from filling a jerry can with gas and then fuelling their car, or can lawnmower and chainsaw operators no longer buy gas?
The only people effected by this at all are people walking to the gas station to go buy gas, everyone else will drive there. The real question that should be asked is why the hell should private businesses be compelled to install these. I can't believe the UK doesn't have any protections, what's next forcing gas stations to administer glucose tests to customers if they want to buy junk food.
What you are talking about is fighting for survival even the nicest of person will fight for their lives, that is normal behavior. What the article is talking about is being the aggressor in a situation where doing so gives little benefit, being the bad guy only because you like being the bad guy. Lemmy is actually illustrating that point because of his remorse for what he has to do to survive.
Sociopaths have no remorse for other people and they are much different then the majority of people. Empathy is what separates the general population from sociopaths, it is a developmental trait that allows us to live in close proximity to each other without constantly battling our neighbors for resources. As to whether it is us subconsciously realizing that time spent fighting is time that could be spent gathering resources and that as long as we have enough resources we do not need to fight or if it's us conscientiously deciding that the consequences of fighting far outweigh any benefits is up for debate. My guess is it's both as all sociopaths don't engage in violent behavior so the consequences outweigh any reward for violence but the contrast between normal people and sociopaths can't be denied.
If it's a checkbox requirement, that won't help. "Don't have an account." "Right. Refused to log into Facebook. And now Google+, please."
I'm not usually one for regulation, but this seems like an easy one. Employers must not require employees, contractors or applicants to interact with the company through any social networking service with their personal accounts. Employers must not require employees, contractors or applicants to utilize any social networking service with their personal accounts. Employers may require employees to interact with the company and use a company-provided account on a social networking service as part of their regular job. This could easily fit into a fair employment act.
(I look forward to holes being poked in my prospective law.)
An employer can ask to pull your credit, interview your friends and family, interview neighbors, give you a polygraph, administer a drug test, to make sure you are not at risk to be put in a compromising position, we even demand that our politicians submit their tax documents to us. This has been going on for a long time with little push back, now when an employer wants to see who your friends are to make sure you don't have gang affiliations before you become a corrections officer, this is over the top. If you have a problem with your employer looking at that refuse, you are voluntarily giving that information to them. The only question I wonder about is would an employer have the grounds to deny unemployment if you refused?
Suicide bombers are pawns, they have been manipulated into killing themselves to murder other people. Their commanders are not so "dedicated to the cause" that they become suicide bombers. World leaders love their power and will do anything to keep it, nuking another country is a sure way for them to lose that power, which is why they won't do it. MAD still works for countries, the real worry with nukes is if they fall into non-state actors hands, with little to lose when retaliation happens they are the biggest danger. Even then the origin of the bomb will be found and the country that supplied it probably be dealt with in the same manor, Afghanistan comes to mind as a good example but there would be many more participants.
Except the gram is an arbitrary value, based on the weight of an arbitrary substance, at an arbitrary temperature, and an arbitrary pressure, that happens to be incorrect.
filing patent now for version that uses standard measurement on the ruler instead of metric.
Yeah, because gallons per furlong is a useful measurement.
What you call 'standard' measurement, the rest of us see as mostly a random collection of measures based on fairly arbitrary things. Hogsheads, firkins, furlongs, leagues, cubits, gills, rods, and other random old school things really make no sense to most of us. The dick-length of the 3rd Earl of Canterbury is kind of a stupid measure (ok, it's not a real one, but it's not that far off the mark).
Granted, I grew up during the transition to metric... so my height and weight is feet and pounds, but pretty much everything is metric.
The meter is supposed to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole but the measurement was later determined to be off. 1 Kg is almost the mass of 1 liter of water at STP so again the SI measurement is based on an error. The mol was determined by the number of atoms in 12g of carbon 12, that is completely arbitrary. Arguing that using 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole is some how better then dick-length of the 3rd Earl of Canterbury is nonsense as they are both just as arbitrary. The thing Si units have going for it is the use of prefixes and deriving other units from the base units 1J=1Nm...
Here is a simple test to determine if you are being rude talking in a public setting.
Movies, Plays, Recitals, Conferences,... no cell phone use unless it is so important that you must leave the area and have no plans on returning.
Public Transit, quiet talking for a short period of time if you are sitting next to someone, otherwise no time limit on the length of conversation just keep the conversation suitable for a public setting and use your indoor voice.
Restaurants unless you want to convey that the phone conversation you are having is more important then the company you keep, keep it short.
Sidewalks, streets,... use a normal voice and keep the conversation suitable for the public.
These are simple rules to follow, and anyone that is too ignorant or rude to follow them should be subjected to jamming of their call. The only thing that Eric did that was wrong was his jammer was omnidirectional so anyone using their cell phone in a proper manor could have been cut off.
The problem with our current campaign funding is not where the money comes from but rather the lack of ethics of the people receiving it. Public financing will not suddenly create ethical representatives, approving a controversial plan and going to work for the beneficiaries a few weeks later, or hiring spouses or children to board positions shortly after they are elected. Until we demand our representatives start acting in an ethical manor and not the current system of Republicans vs Democrats, and hold our party's representatives feet to the fire for even minor infractions they will take our complacency as consent for their behavior.
Yes, making earthquake surviving concrete is obviously an offensive move, whereas making weapons designed to destroy such concrete is merely self-defense.
Just like the missile defense system was merely for defense, one could argue that the bomb itself was a very good deterrent, as long as both sides fear MAD. Iran's real problem is that with it's fanatical rhetoric MAD appears not to be a deterrent, then again they could be acting that way because they feel cornered. Iran's true intentions are very hard to read, there have been signs that they are trying to build a nuclear weapons but no concrete evidence. New intelligence has shown they have paused their weapons program but this might be because they have hit a hurdle and need to buy some more research or they could have realized Israel will do whatever it takes to ensure Iran does not get nuclear weapons. There is way too much going on to say simply building hardened bunkers are merely for defense, if those bunkers are hiding a real threat, then they are more like an offensive line, protecting an offensive threat.
" They have strong incentives to be wasteful."
STFU. I word with civil servants, and they are far, FAR more responsible with money then people in the private sector.
"Just about anyone here could do better with less even with Apple kit."
No. Just about everyone here thinks that, but have never done a wide scale implementation of a reliable service and equipment.
The parent to this thread makes the mistake of thinking its only machines. Infrastructure costs a lot of money.
What infrastructure needs to be updated? The cabling should be good unless it was installed in some impressively horrible manor, daisy chaining each room together. That just leaves an upgrade to the router (4-6k) and network switches (4-6k) throw in a few new blade servers (1-2k), a new 10 KVA UPS (4-6k), and an upgrade in cooling 2k at most that is 100K once instillation and service agreements are factored in, that leaves $44.9 million to upgrade computers and buy software for them. The truth is the 45 million is not only going for an upgrade in IT but many other unrelated boondoggles, the upgrade in IT is just the best issue they have to pull at the heartstrings of voters.
Do you remember the shitstorm when daylight savings time got longer, all the problems with clocks not adjusting properly and meetings being missed, and that was just an hour. Imagine a whole day being removed from the calendar every 4 years, the panic will be worse then Y2K. What about the people that were born on Feb 29, do we just say you no longer get a birthday when the calendars are updated? Will entering your birthday as Feb 29 break the system? Our system sucks but it's our system and there is no going back now.
Can you see on the ground directly behind your rear wheel? I thought not. A small child lying down to reach something, or fallen down, is way way below any site line from the drivers seat, no matter if you swivel your head 360 degrees and use all three mirrors. You would have to work the side mirror controls extensively; even then it's very dubious you could cover all approaches; and by the time you'd examined all achievable areas, there would have been plenty of time to miss things in the areas your mirrors weren't pointing.
Unless you are staring at ALL approaches to the blind areas 100% of the time (good luck driving), there is a risk someone or something can enter it without your noticing.
A camera is not going to fix that problem a child could crawl under the bumper and be in a blind spot in your camera. The camera will probably give you a false sense of confidence and you won't pay attention as much making the risk higher.
The most important point that I gathered from your post is either you need to drink better (more expensive) beer, or, if the beer costs more than $1.50 you are a lousy tipper.
I kid. But seriously, I did the same thing - got rid of all credit cards or anything else that allowed me to spend "imaginary" cash. Parting with real dollars "feels" to me more like spending money than swiping a card does and that makes me think a little bit more about my purchases. You never pay any additional fees for using cash, and it is accepted everywhere. Also very hard to have a "negative balance" when you operate on a cash-only basis.
Not to get too off topic but grabbing a beer out of a fridge, opening it, and handing it to the person is not worth $1, 25 cents for 10 seconds of work seems about right.
What happens when shit goes wrong and the device loses power, it will wind up in the lungs (Pulmonary Embolism) or brain (stroke). What fail safe could there possibly be to stop an object from moving freely without stopping the flow of blood around the object.
Nukes won't do much in space... there's nothing to propagate the shock wave, and heat transfer is all down to radiation. You'd have to hit the enemy ship directly with the nuke basically, which might be hard with all those lasers and anti missile guns going off...
The US and USSR carried out high altitude nuclear explosion tests, they damaged and destroyed many satellites.
3. Recoil is easy to solve. Fire a blank in the oposite direction for every round.
The recoil from the gasses expelling down a barrel of a gun will be no where near that of the gasses and the projectile you would need a much larger force to counteract the recoil from the projectile.
Why do you need to cook at 350F 200F will work just fine, meat tastes much better when you cook it at lower temperatures. Most people consider a food too hot to eat if it's temperature is above 160F so 212 is more then warm enough to cook with.
The vast majority if store clerks wouldn't be able to round up or down to the nearest nickel.
Because they had such problems with that when the mill $0.001 and the half cent $0.005 were removed that we learned our lesson and are stuck with a coin worth more in scrap metal if it wasn't illegal to scrap them. As a side note when the Mill and half were taken out of circulation they had more buying power then a nickle
NAND has been around for 14 years and they are trying to extrapolate out to 2024, almost double it's life span. I'm trying to think of any technology that was 10 years old that there was a road map of where it would be in another 10 that turned out to be accurate.
Those exercises won't do much for your heart rate. Fast walks, cross country skiing (X-trainer in the gym), running and rowing are awesome for your heart. Also, don't overthink it: stairs.
None of those things are as good for your heart as beans.
How is sitting around all day living, most of the people that follow your lifestyle are overweight and the only pleasure they get from life is what's on TV. I'll admit I only have 1/2 the life experience and maybe when I've doubled it I will be content to sit around all day. Most people that work out enjoy it, the endorphins and the satisfaction of improving yourself are what motivates them, I know I feel good about myself after a hard workout, long bike rides let me clear my mind of the days troubles, yet some would find it incredibly boring. The increased level of fitness lets me run around with my kids all day and not get tired, go hiking and see beautiful things that people miss because they can't get there, the last time I went to Smokey Mountain National Park I was glad I was in shape many people that were not overweight could not make it up to chimney top and I was treated to a wonderful view.
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Buying junk food is legal. Driving without insurance isn't.
Is selling gas to someone without insurance illegal?
The UK already uses CCTV cameras on a massive scale to catch uninsured cars. Our motorways have cameras over every lane which track the numberplate and this information can both be used to calculate average speed over a section of road (to enforce speed limits) and also to check for insured, banned drivers, or stolen vehicles. This is less a new idea as the /. summary implies and more just an expansion of an existing project.
This is a very new idea, forcing a gas station to install and use this system, that is very different from cameras in public places. Having license plate scanning cameras in public areas is not an issue, as it is in public and there is no expectation of privacy. The big issue is not the public's right to privacy but the gas station owner's right to sell gas to whom ever he chooses. This is not a slippery slope, this is the beginning of the government forcing private business sell to whom ever the government sees fit to sell to. The outrage shouldn't be over privacy issues of the customers, it should be over the intrusion of the government on these businesses.
What's to stop someone from filling a jerry can with gas and then fuelling their car, or can lawnmower and chainsaw operators no longer buy gas?
The only people effected by this at all are people walking to the gas station to go buy gas, everyone else will drive there. The real question that should be asked is why the hell should private businesses be compelled to install these. I can't believe the UK doesn't have any protections, what's next forcing gas stations to administer glucose tests to customers if they want to buy junk food.
What you are talking about is fighting for survival even the nicest of person will fight for their lives, that is normal behavior. What the article is talking about is being the aggressor in a situation where doing so gives little benefit, being the bad guy only because you like being the bad guy. Lemmy is actually illustrating that point because of his remorse for what he has to do to survive.
Sociopaths have no remorse for other people and they are much different then the majority of people. Empathy is what separates the general population from sociopaths, it is a developmental trait that allows us to live in close proximity to each other without constantly battling our neighbors for resources. As to whether it is us subconsciously realizing that time spent fighting is time that could be spent gathering resources and that as long as we have enough resources we do not need to fight or if it's us conscientiously deciding that the consequences of fighting far outweigh any benefits is up for debate. My guess is it's both as all sociopaths don't engage in violent behavior so the consequences outweigh any reward for violence but the contrast between normal people and sociopaths can't be denied.
If it's a checkbox requirement, that won't help. "Don't have an account." "Right. Refused to log into Facebook. And now Google+, please."
I'm not usually one for regulation, but this seems like an easy one. Employers must not require employees, contractors or applicants to interact with the company through any social networking service with their personal accounts. Employers must not require employees, contractors or applicants to utilize any social networking service with their personal accounts. Employers may require employees to interact with the company and use a company-provided account on a social networking service as part of their regular job. This could easily fit into a fair employment act.
(I look forward to holes being poked in my prospective law.)
An employer can ask to pull your credit, interview your friends and family, interview neighbors, give you a polygraph, administer a drug test, to make sure you are not at risk to be put in a compromising position, we even demand that our politicians submit their tax documents to us. This has been going on for a long time with little push back, now when an employer wants to see who your friends are to make sure you don't have gang affiliations before you become a corrections officer, this is over the top. If you have a problem with your employer looking at that refuse, you are voluntarily giving that information to them. The only question I wonder about is would an employer have the grounds to deny unemployment if you refused?
Suicide bombers are pawns, they have been manipulated into killing themselves to murder other people. Their commanders are not so "dedicated to the cause" that they become suicide bombers. World leaders love their power and will do anything to keep it, nuking another country is a sure way for them to lose that power, which is why they won't do it. MAD still works for countries, the real worry with nukes is if they fall into non-state actors hands, with little to lose when retaliation happens they are the biggest danger. Even then the origin of the bomb will be found and the country that supplied it probably be dealt with in the same manor, Afghanistan comes to mind as a good example but there would be many more participants.
Except the gram is an arbitrary value, based on the weight of an arbitrary substance, at an arbitrary temperature, and an arbitrary pressure, that happens to be incorrect.
Yeah, because gallons per furlong is a useful measurement.
What you call 'standard' measurement, the rest of us see as mostly a random collection of measures based on fairly arbitrary things. Hogsheads, firkins, furlongs, leagues, cubits, gills, rods, and other random old school things really make no sense to most of us. The dick-length of the 3rd Earl of Canterbury is kind of a stupid measure (ok, it's not a real one, but it's not that far off the mark).
Granted, I grew up during the transition to metric ... so my height and weight is feet and pounds, but pretty much everything is metric.
The meter is supposed to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole but the measurement was later determined to be off. 1 Kg is almost the mass of 1 liter of water at STP so again the SI measurement is based on an error. The mol was determined by the number of atoms in 12g of carbon 12, that is completely arbitrary. Arguing that using 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole is some how better then dick-length of the 3rd Earl of Canterbury is nonsense as they are both just as arbitrary. The thing Si units have going for it is the use of prefixes and deriving other units from the base units 1J=1Nm ...
Your noise pollution is no different then the RF noise a jammer creates. If you choose to be rude don't be shocked when others respond in kind.
Here is a simple test to determine if you are being rude talking in a public setting. ... no cell phone use unless it is so important that you must leave the area and have no plans on returning. ... use a normal voice and keep the conversation suitable for the public.
Movies, Plays, Recitals, Conferences,
Public Transit, quiet talking for a short period of time if you are sitting next to someone, otherwise no time limit on the length of conversation just keep the conversation suitable for a public setting and use your indoor voice.
Restaurants unless you want to convey that the phone conversation you are having is more important then the company you keep, keep it short.
Sidewalks, streets,
These are simple rules to follow, and anyone that is too ignorant or rude to follow them should be subjected to jamming of their call. The only thing that Eric did that was wrong was his jammer was omnidirectional so anyone using their cell phone in a proper manor could have been cut off.
The problem with our current campaign funding is not where the money comes from but rather the lack of ethics of the people receiving it. Public financing will not suddenly create ethical representatives, approving a controversial plan and going to work for the beneficiaries a few weeks later, or hiring spouses or children to board positions shortly after they are elected. Until we demand our representatives start acting in an ethical manor and not the current system of Republicans vs Democrats, and hold our party's representatives feet to the fire for even minor infractions they will take our complacency as consent for their behavior.
Yes, making earthquake surviving concrete is obviously an offensive move, whereas making weapons designed to destroy such concrete is merely self-defense.
Just like the missile defense system was merely for defense, one could argue that the bomb itself was a very good deterrent, as long as both sides fear MAD. Iran's real problem is that with it's fanatical rhetoric MAD appears not to be a deterrent, then again they could be acting that way because they feel cornered. Iran's true intentions are very hard to read, there have been signs that they are trying to build a nuclear weapons but no concrete evidence. New intelligence has shown they have paused their weapons program but this might be because they have hit a hurdle and need to buy some more research or they could have realized Israel will do whatever it takes to ensure Iran does not get nuclear weapons. There is way too much going on to say simply building hardened bunkers are merely for defense, if those bunkers are hiding a real threat, then they are more like an offensive line, protecting an offensive threat.
" They have strong incentives to be wasteful." STFU. I word with civil servants, and they are far, FAR more responsible with money then people in the private sector.
"Just about anyone here could do better with less even with Apple kit." No. Just about everyone here thinks that, but have never done a wide scale implementation of a reliable service and equipment. The parent to this thread makes the mistake of thinking its only machines. Infrastructure costs a lot of money.
What infrastructure needs to be updated? The cabling should be good unless it was installed in some impressively horrible manor, daisy chaining each room together. That just leaves an upgrade to the router (4-6k) and network switches (4-6k) throw in a few new blade servers (1-2k), a new 10 KVA UPS (4-6k), and an upgrade in cooling 2k at most that is 100K once instillation and service agreements are factored in, that leaves $44.9 million to upgrade computers and buy software for them. The truth is the 45 million is not only going for an upgrade in IT but many other unrelated boondoggles, the upgrade in IT is just the best issue they have to pull at the heartstrings of voters.
Do you remember the shitstorm when daylight savings time got longer, all the problems with clocks not adjusting properly and meetings being missed, and that was just an hour. Imagine a whole day being removed from the calendar every 4 years, the panic will be worse then Y2K. What about the people that were born on Feb 29, do we just say you no longer get a birthday when the calendars are updated? Will entering your birthday as Feb 29 break the system? Our system sucks but it's our system and there is no going back now.
Can you see on the ground directly behind your rear wheel? I thought not. A small child lying down to reach something, or fallen down, is way way below any site line from the drivers seat, no matter if you swivel your head 360 degrees and use all three mirrors. You would have to work the side mirror controls extensively; even then it's very dubious you could cover all approaches; and by the time you'd examined all achievable areas, there would have been plenty of time to miss things in the areas your mirrors weren't pointing.
Unless you are staring at ALL approaches to the blind areas 100% of the time (good luck driving), there is a risk someone or something can enter it without your noticing.
A camera is not going to fix that problem a child could crawl under the bumper and be in a blind spot in your camera. The camera will probably give you a false sense of confidence and you won't pay attention as much making the risk higher.
The most important point that I gathered from your post is either you need to drink better (more expensive) beer, or, if the beer costs more than $1.50 you are a lousy tipper. I kid. But seriously, I did the same thing - got rid of all credit cards or anything else that allowed me to spend "imaginary" cash. Parting with real dollars "feels" to me more like spending money than swiping a card does and that makes me think a little bit more about my purchases. You never pay any additional fees for using cash, and it is accepted everywhere. Also very hard to have a "negative balance" when you operate on a cash-only basis.
Not to get too off topic but grabbing a beer out of a fridge, opening it, and handing it to the person is not worth $1, 25 cents for 10 seconds of work seems about right.
What happens when shit goes wrong and the device loses power, it will wind up in the lungs (Pulmonary Embolism) or brain (stroke). What fail safe could there possibly be to stop an object from moving freely without stopping the flow of blood around the object.
Nukes won't do much in space... there's nothing to propagate the shock wave, and heat transfer is all down to radiation. You'd have to hit the enemy ship directly with the nuke basically, which might be hard with all those lasers and anti missile guns going off...
The US and USSR carried out high altitude nuclear explosion tests, they damaged and destroyed many satellites.
3. Recoil is easy to solve. Fire a blank in the oposite direction for every round.
The recoil from the gasses expelling down a barrel of a gun will be no where near that of the gasses and the projectile you would need a much larger force to counteract the recoil from the projectile.
Why do you need to cook at 350F 200F will work just fine, meat tastes much better when you cook it at lower temperatures. Most people consider a food too hot to eat if it's temperature is above 160F so 212 is more then warm enough to cook with.
The vast majority if store clerks wouldn't be able to round up or down to the nearest nickel.
Because they had such problems with that when the mill $0.001 and the half cent $0.005 were removed that we learned our lesson and are stuck with a coin worth more in scrap metal if it wasn't illegal to scrap them. As a side note when the Mill and half were taken out of circulation they had more buying power then a nickle
NAND has been around for 14 years and they are trying to extrapolate out to 2024, almost double it's life span. I'm trying to think of any technology that was 10 years old that there was a road map of where it would be in another 10 that turned out to be accurate.
Those exercises won't do much for your heart rate. Fast walks, cross country skiing (X-trainer in the gym), running and rowing are awesome for your heart. Also, don't overthink it: stairs.
None of those things are as good for your heart as beans.
How is sitting around all day living, most of the people that follow your lifestyle are overweight and the only pleasure they get from life is what's on TV. I'll admit I only have 1/2 the life experience and maybe when I've doubled it I will be content to sit around all day. Most people that work out enjoy it, the endorphins and the satisfaction of improving yourself are what motivates them, I know I feel good about myself after a hard workout, long bike rides let me clear my mind of the days troubles, yet some would find it incredibly boring. The increased level of fitness lets me run around with my kids all day and not get tired, go hiking and see beautiful things that people miss because they can't get there, the last time I went to Smokey Mountain National Park I was glad I was in shape many people that were not overweight could not make it up to chimney top and I was treated to a wonderful view.