Sure, there are people who can drink a few beers without having any problems. Chances are, nothing will happen. Even for people who have drunk a lot on one night, chances are nothing will happen. There are people who drunk drive regularly and have never had problems. But the more it happens, the more likely it is that there's going to be a situation where the alcohol makes a difference. There are statistics that suggest having 0.5% promille doubles the risk of an accident.
What we need to teach everybody, is that alcohol should stay a long distance away from driving at all times, no matter what. Even good drivers are impaired by alcohol, even if they don't notice it themselves. It might be a tiny difference of a fifth of a second in the reaction time, or an increased drowsiness. A doctor will be able to tell if you've had alcohol even before you notice it yourself.
I live in Germany, where the situation is very similar to what you describe in the Netherlands with the license. But one difference is that even if you're only over 0.3, you can have your license taken off you if you cause an accident or show any signs of alcohol influence.
BTW, by the time people gain their drivers license, chances are they've already experienced a lot more than 0.2 promille in their blood.
To quote Richard Dawkins, responding to how the World might have changed since 9/11:
"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!"
I don't want to dig deeper here, as people can make their own mind up about it. But whenever I have met a truly nice and honest person, not once have I come to believe that it was really their religion which was making them that way
Considering that driving while impaired is an offence regardless of what your Blood alcohol is, it's best just to keep cautious. Even if your body has processed all the Alcohol in your blood, you can still get busted for being unfit to drive. If you've got a hangover, simply don't drive. If you're tired, don't drive. And if you've had anything more than a couple of drinks, it probably isn't a good idea to be driving either. (and it's no use pushing yourself just enough to stay under the limit. That's a game you just can't win)
O.08 is a noticeable impairment, and when driving it is a serious issue. You're impaired even before you start to perceive it yourself. Even a minor impairment is seriously dangerous when you're cruising around at 50mph in a two ton chunk of metal.
Of course, like with anything else, there are huge differences between different people, and there are people on the road who are worse drivers than a capable driver with 0.08, even when sober. But you have to draw the line at some point.
Very.
If you look at the parent posts, it was about a disgruntled customer, and the parent specifically goes into the situations of Windows and Office.
They're very similar.
I heard someone somewhere say that creating artificial meat probably wouldn't be that hard, as it would be possible to create tumour like tissue growth in a solution.
Actually, the method they're using is pretty dumb by design. It says that they're counting on Darwinian evolution to select the most reproductive life forms, so they're not doing that much designing anyway.
As far as Microsoft is concerned an abstention is as good as a yes vote. Abstaining is like not having a no vote.
You sure about this? Because if they use normal absolute majority voting, then abstaining is practically the same as a No vote. If they haven't got a specific "YES" then that's one vote that's not going towards a majority.
To put it it simply, the shuttle is going up anyway to do a specific mission, lightsabre or no. The high cost comes from the high level of planning and preparation that goes into a space launch. The thousands of people who are employed to work on the program, and the many inspections that are made to everything used. The program isn't going to cost more just because of a small piece of metal being taken aboard.
Having said that, launching something with the shuttle would cost a bajillion times more than with a proton rocket. And considering how much money will be shuffled around just to report on the lighsabre, and how much attention the mission might gain from this, a few thousand dollars wouldn't even be an issue.
Movies often fail in that regard too. Very often, you're frustrated by the shear stupidity of the characters, that you become distanced from them and don't care any more. And you also know that whatever you do, the movie's still going to end the same way, so you might as well sit back and wait for the ending.
Also, in many horror games going on rampage against an enemy won't help much, and you're forced to run. One of the scariest game scenarios I played was Resident Evil 3, being chased by the Nemesis monster. If he caught you, you were dead, so you had to try as fast as you can to get away, and running through unknown streets didn't help either. One wrong turn and you were history.
Now you're using a different situation as an example.
The point is that there is no universally acknowledged "absolute freedom, guaranteed" and opinions are always subject to bias. You, for example, have had a run-in with the restrictions of the GPL and so you have an impression of the GPL restricting your freedom.
Then there are other people who have been frustrated about not being able to change some piece of software, because some of the source is available and some isn't. Now they feel burnt. Maybe they even contributed some of the code originally.
It's not all that different from electromagnetic radiation, except that the forces are always attracting (so there is no anti-gravity). You have the radiation, and the charge carriers. Of course, we cannot just synthesize gravitation from nothing, the same as with electrical charge. (Except of course by synthesising (or rather converting) particles of matter, which again have a specific electrical chrage)
For flights, verified identification is almost always required, which basically means having a passport for citizens of many European countries. In Germany you are also legally required to carry your identification around at all times, which theoretically means I have to carry my passport everywhere I go, or else a drivers license.
BTW, to vote in the federal elections, you also have to be a German citizen.
The whole thing with ID cards is just the US getting up to date with the rest of the world. Similar plans are being implemented in the UK and Ireland for example.
I find it quite stupid that there has been severe tightening of airport security and passport requirements in Europe due to lobbying from the US as a response to 9/11, but nothing has been done to improve the situation inside the US, although the 9/11 attacks happened on domestic flights.
The reason passports are often requested is because they are basically the only certified, reasonably safe form of identity that exists for US citizens. ID cards are meant to address this issue, and other countries have been way ahead of this for decades.
We may not be able to generate strong gravitational radiation, but we certainly have a clue of how it's done and have evidence for it. The problem is that gravitational forces are so weak, but get me a couple of heavy neutron stars and black holes, and then we're talking.
And people start expecting cars to blow up after accidents, so that bystanders hastily move injured drivers and passengers, sometimes worsening spinal injuries in the process.
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Come on, you could have figured this one out, couldnst you?
Sure, there are people who can drink a few beers without having any problems. Chances are, nothing will happen. Even for people who have drunk a lot on one night, chances are nothing will happen. There are people who drunk drive regularly and have never had problems.
But the more it happens, the more likely it is that there's going to be a situation where the alcohol makes a difference.
There are statistics that suggest having 0.5% promille doubles the risk of an accident.
What we need to teach everybody, is that alcohol should stay a long distance away from driving at all times, no matter what.
Even good drivers are impaired by alcohol, even if they don't notice it themselves. It might be a tiny difference of a fifth of a second in the reaction time, or an increased drowsiness. A doctor will be able to tell if you've had alcohol even before you notice it yourself.
I live in Germany, where the situation is very similar to what you describe in the Netherlands with the license.
But one difference is that even if you're only over 0.3, you can have your license taken off you if you cause an accident or show any signs of alcohol influence.
BTW, by the time people gain their drivers license, chances are they've already experienced a lot more than 0.2 promille in their blood.
To quote Richard Dawkins, responding to how the World might have changed since 9/11:
"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!"
I don't want to dig deeper here, as people can make their own mind up about it. But whenever I have met a truly nice and honest person, not once have I come to believe that it was really their religion which was making them that way
Considering that driving while impaired is an offence regardless of what your Blood alcohol is, it's best just to keep cautious. Even if your body has processed all the Alcohol in your blood, you can still get busted for being unfit to drive.
If you've got a hangover, simply don't drive. If you're tired, don't drive. And if you've had anything more than a couple of drinks, it probably isn't a good idea to be driving either. (and it's no use pushing yourself just enough to stay under the limit. That's a game you just can't win)
O.08 is a noticeable impairment, and when driving it is a serious issue. You're impaired even before you start to perceive it yourself.
Even a minor impairment is seriously dangerous when you're cruising around at 50mph in a two ton chunk of metal.
Of course, like with anything else, there are huge differences between different people, and there are people on the road who are worse drivers than a capable driver with 0.08, even when sober.
But you have to draw the line at some point.
Very. If you look at the parent posts, it was about a disgruntled customer, and the parent specifically goes into the situations of Windows and Office. They're very similar.
Did you read the parent's point? Everyone here knows that there are alternatives to MS Office. But there is essentially no way to get round using it.
I heard someone somewhere say that creating artificial meat probably wouldn't be that hard, as it would be possible to create tumour like tissue growth in a solution.
Actually, the method they're using is pretty dumb by design. It says that they're counting on Darwinian evolution to select the most reproductive life forms, so they're not doing that much designing anyway.
You sure about this? Because if they use normal absolute majority voting, then abstaining is practically the same as a No vote. If they haven't got a specific "YES" then that's one vote that's not going towards a majority.
LOL. Yeah, right.
Pitty that space logistics don't work that way.
To put it it simply, the shuttle is going up anyway to do a specific mission, lightsabre or no.
The high cost comes from the high level of planning and preparation that goes into a space launch. The thousands of people who are employed to work on the program, and the many inspections that are made to everything used.
The program isn't going to cost more just because of a small piece of metal being taken aboard.
Having said that, launching something with the shuttle would cost a bajillion times more than with a proton rocket.
And considering how much money will be shuffled around just to report on the lighsabre, and how much attention the mission might gain from this, a few thousand dollars wouldn't even be an issue.
Movies often fail in that regard too. Very often, you're frustrated by the shear stupidity of the characters, that you become distanced from them and don't care any more. And you also know that whatever you do, the movie's still going to end the same way, so you might as well sit back and wait for the ending.
Also, in many horror games going on rampage against an enemy won't help much, and you're forced to run.
One of the scariest game scenarios I played was Resident Evil 3, being chased by the Nemesis monster. If he caught you, you were dead, so you had to try as fast as you can to get away, and running through unknown streets didn't help either. One wrong turn and you were history.
Now you're using a different situation as an example.
The point is that there is no universally acknowledged "absolute freedom, guaranteed" and opinions are always subject to bias.
You, for example, have had a run-in with the restrictions of the GPL and so you have an impression of the GPL restricting your freedom.
Then there are other people who have been frustrated about not being able to change some piece of software, because some of the source is available and some isn't. Now they feel burnt. Maybe they even contributed some of the code originally.
Why not just use a Satellite antenna?
Since the PS3 hasn't got a CI port there's no chance of watching encrypted content anyway.
An observed effect of gravitational radiation
It's not all that different from electromagnetic radiation, except that the forces are always attracting (so there is no anti-gravity). You have the radiation, and the charge carriers.
Of course, we cannot just synthesize gravitation from nothing, the same as with electrical charge. (Except of course by synthesising (or rather converting) particles of matter, which again have a specific electrical chrage)
For flights, verified identification is almost always required, which basically means having a passport for citizens of many European countries.
In Germany you are also legally required to carry your identification around at all times, which theoretically means I have to carry my passport everywhere I go, or else a drivers license.
BTW, to vote in the federal elections, you also have to be a German citizen.
The whole thing with ID cards is just the US getting up to date with the rest of the world.
Similar plans are being implemented in the UK and Ireland for example.
I find it quite stupid that there has been severe tightening of airport security and passport requirements in Europe due to lobbying from the US as a response to 9/11, but nothing has been done to improve the situation inside the US, although the 9/11 attacks happened on domestic flights.
The reason passports are often requested is because they are basically the only certified, reasonably safe form of identity that exists for US citizens.
ID cards are meant to address this issue, and other countries have been way ahead of this for decades.
Make that 3.76223988 × 10^14 Rods per Lustrum.
We may not be able to generate strong gravitational radiation, but we certainly have a clue of how it's done and have evidence for it.
The problem is that gravitational forces are so weak, but get me a couple of heavy neutron stars and black holes, and then we're talking.
That's nothing compared to lack of nuclear force. Imagine just being a mush of elementary particles with no elements.