This guys debauchery isn't limited to internet piracy.
He also had a penchant for suing restaurants and businesses for supposed ADA compliance violations, of course offering to settle for a few grand instead of going to trial.
If you have a "situation" you call a fucking ambulance.
Otherwise, if you're driving at speeds where a max of 112 is a problem, you're more likely to get yourself, your family member, and worst of all, some other random people killed.
Volvo's technology is designed to reduce crashes. Not accidents.
An accident is "an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause."
If someone is driving drunk, or driving distracted, and they crash, it's no accident. By defaulting to the term "accident", we are implicitly absolving drivers of heavy machines of their responsibility to operate them safely and competently.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Doesn't sound like there's any progressing at all, besides legal trickery.
Why shouldn't it be? You see people storing their private cars on the streets everywhere you go, yet you probably don't even give that a second thought.
It's really not terribly complicated to figure out. Roads and highways have a non-zero width. Space occupied by the highways is space that isn't being used for productive uses. Some parts of the interstates through major cities carve canyons through the area that are between 350 and 500 feet wide. Parking lots needed to store all the cars on those highways create endless expanses of paved areas. With more and more lanes and wider roads, it means destinations are farther apart because there is more paved space in between them. Compare historic, even rural downtowns, to more auto-centric design that is inhospitable to anyone not in a car: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
Additionally suburban cul-de-sac style, single use residential planning forces commercial and other areas far away from where people live, also requireing more car travel. Said developments usually have winding one-way and non-thru streets which dump all traffic onto already overused arterial feeders.
No, city planners have just realized what you have failed to realize: we can't solve traffic unless we get rid of the cars. You can't build enough highway lanes to solve traffic congestion. Building wider streets and bigger highways just ends up spreading everything out more and more, and thus necessitating more and more car travel. It's a positive feedback system.
Planners have realized that we need to go back to building cities for people, not for cars. Bike lanes are just one part of that. Slowing down traffic is another.
It doesn't help that Australia is one of the most cyclist-hostile nations, and has done just about everything it can to ensure a bike-sharing system would fail.
Offshore is a small shithole country that does virtually nothing but run a bank with low taxes, but is recognized as a country.
The Cook islands, despite only having 17 thousand people, likely stores many hundreds of millions to several billions worth of US dollars, despite requiring several million/year in foreign aid to keep its residents at a reasonable standard of living.
An estimated 1 teradollars is hiding around places like that.
It is also ludicrous to claim that the bottom 20% pay more taxes than the top. How can the bottom 20% pay more income tax if the bottom 40-45% pay NO taxes.
Did you really write that? You included in your own post a quote indicating the "NO taxes" claim is horseshit.
You can absolutely rent backhoes, small excavators, etc. I've personally rented an excavator to help a friend with a basement repair.
Dealing with 611, which I'm presuming is your local utility locator hotline, is something you have to do even if you are digging a posthole by hand. Additionally, permitting you have to deal with on many projects regardless what equipment you are using.
Look up your local rental shop, you'll find they rent all the stuff. They'll have skidsteers (bobcats), excavators, tillers, trenchers, etc. If you don't have a trailer to haul it on, they'll rent that too. Your car can't tow 4000 lbs? They'll rent you a truck to tow it too.
I know this may just sound like old-man-curmudgeon speak, but many of their products were much better in the earlier days. Maps is the most dramatic example. The new maps, once MBA-types took over it, runs considerably slower and has a worse UI than the original maps.
The earlier android versions were also much better looking, much better looking than the recent flat-ui idiocy.
Using FPGA and memristors in any meaningful capacity is well within the "Has a degree in EE" territory, hardly an area where you'd use the word "tinker".
While Pi is designed to cater to beginners, they are cheap and they can be pretty handy for prototyping stuff rather than going through the hassle of spinning up your own board.
If you are going to be lifting 100kg, you should know exactly what you are doing before even thinking about building such a device. If you are going to have 32 degrees of freedom you should use a PC to do all your math, which is going to be a lot, and only use embedded processors for the motion controls. Additionally, you should already be familiar with platforms suitable for that application, an STM32 Nucleo board should be not even be considered unless you are only using it to evaluate the STM32 platform for use one of your own boards.
Please don't get anyone killed when your software has bugs and it tries to deliver 100kg of force into someones arms or something.
It did withstand a knock like that. They replace the window and blade because it's a flying vehicle with a tendency to fail catastrophically, and they want it operating at 100% all the time, otherwise they put the pilots and passengers at unreasonable risk.
I've never served aboard a US submarine, but I'm guessing that if seawater is splashing around in the bridge enough to cause corrosion problems in an Xbox controller, they're going to have worse problems to deal with.
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This guys debauchery isn't limited to internet piracy.
He also had a penchant for suing restaurants and businesses for supposed ADA compliance violations, of course offering to settle for a few grand instead of going to trial.
https://minnlawyer.com/2018/08...
If you have a "situation" you call a fucking ambulance.
Otherwise, if you're driving at speeds where a max of 112 is a problem, you're more likely to get yourself, your family member, and worst of all, some other random people killed.
Don't be a dumbass.
Volvo's technology is designed to reduce crashes. Not accidents.
An accident is "an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause."
If someone is driving drunk, or driving distracted, and they crash, it's no accident. By defaulting to the term "accident", we are implicitly absolving drivers of heavy machines of their responsibility to operate them safely and competently.
https://www.crashnotaccident.c...
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Doesn't sound like there's any progressing at all, besides legal trickery.
Why shouldn't it be? You see people storing their private cars on the streets everywhere you go, yet you probably don't even give that a second thought.
650b is still pretty common and available, though it is really only used by small riders.
29ers are the same diameter as 700c wheels which virtually every road bike uses and has been using for decades.
It's really not terribly complicated to figure out. Roads and highways have a non-zero width. Space occupied by the highways is space that isn't being used for productive uses. Some parts of the interstates through major cities carve canyons through the area that are between 350 and 500 feet wide. Parking lots needed to store all the cars on those highways create endless expanses of paved areas. With more and more lanes and wider roads, it means destinations are farther apart because there is more paved space in between them. Compare historic, even rural downtowns, to more auto-centric design that is inhospitable to anyone not in a car: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
Additionally suburban cul-de-sac style, single use residential planning forces commercial and other areas far away from where people live, also requireing more car travel. Said developments usually have winding one-way and non-thru streets which dump all traffic onto already overused arterial feeders.
Just try using your brain for once.
No, city planners have just realized what you have failed to realize: we can't solve traffic unless we get rid of the cars. You can't build enough highway lanes to solve traffic congestion. Building wider streets and bigger highways just ends up spreading everything out more and more, and thus necessitating more and more car travel. It's a positive feedback system.
Planners have realized that we need to go back to building cities for people, not for cars. Bike lanes are just one part of that. Slowing down traffic is another.
I've been to rural Arkansas and it was a litter filled shithole. I'll take the twin cities metro over that any day.
What? They've had them at White Castle for several months already, and I've seen a few Minneapolis restaurants with them too.
It doesn't help that Australia is one of the most cyclist-hostile nations, and has done just about everything it can to ensure a bike-sharing system would fail.
Looks like what I'd expect if the Timecube author took up veganism.
Offshore is a small shithole country that does virtually nothing but run a bank with low taxes, but is recognized as a country.
The Cook islands, despite only having 17 thousand people, likely stores many hundreds of millions to several billions worth of US dollars, despite requiring several million/year in foreign aid to keep its residents at a reasonable standard of living.
An estimated 1 teradollars is hiding around places like that.
Did you really write that? You included in your own post a quote indicating the "NO taxes" claim is horseshit.
You can absolutely rent backhoes, small excavators, etc. I've personally rented an excavator to help a friend with a basement repair.
Dealing with 611, which I'm presuming is your local utility locator hotline, is something you have to do even if you are digging a posthole by hand. Additionally, permitting you have to deal with on many projects regardless what equipment you are using.
Look up your local rental shop, you'll find they rent all the stuff. They'll have skidsteers (bobcats), excavators, tillers, trenchers, etc. If you don't have a trailer to haul it on, they'll rent that too. Your car can't tow 4000 lbs? They'll rent you a truck to tow it too.
Is this a joke?
I know this may just sound like old-man-curmudgeon speak, but many of their products were much better in the earlier days. Maps is the most dramatic example. The new maps, once MBA-types took over it, runs considerably slower and has a worse UI than the original maps.
The earlier android versions were also much better looking, much better looking than the recent flat-ui idiocy.
Using FPGA and memristors in any meaningful capacity is well within the "Has a degree in EE" territory, hardly an area where you'd use the word "tinker".
If you need hard realtime then you don't use a miniature PC, it's as simple as that.
While Pi is designed to cater to beginners, they are cheap and they can be pretty handy for prototyping stuff rather than going through the hassle of spinning up your own board.
If you are going to be lifting 100kg, you should know exactly what you are doing before even thinking about building such a device. If you are going to have 32 degrees of freedom you should use a PC to do all your math, which is going to be a lot, and only use embedded processors for the motion controls. Additionally, you should already be familiar with platforms suitable for that application, an STM32 Nucleo board should be not even be considered unless you are only using it to evaluate the STM32 platform for use one of your own boards.
Please don't get anyone killed when your software has bugs and it tries to deliver 100kg of force into someones arms or something.
I think you mean "the standard operating practice for Humans". Might makes Right has been policy since the dawn of recorded history.
It did withstand a knock like that. They replace the window and blade because it's a flying vehicle with a tendency to fail catastrophically, and they want it operating at 100% all the time, otherwise they put the pilots and passengers at unreasonable risk.
I've never served aboard a US submarine, but I'm guessing that if seawater is splashing around in the bridge enough to cause corrosion problems in an Xbox controller, they're going to have worse problems to deal with.
You can just "fix it in software" the same way you can fix a mouse with a post-it over the sensor in software: you can't.