"I am 17 (and I wish morons would not judge by age) and I have not a licence, but I can drive a 1969 GTO without any of this modern bullshit implemented and perfectly(even a 1994 Chevy Beretta)..."
I remember when I was 17 and I was the same, I thought I could drive better than most people too but I look back and now I know that I was wrong. Perhaps you are different then most 17 year olds with a sports car and no drivers license but statistics are against you. Just do a google search for "Young Drivers" and you will find lots of sobering information.
Crashes are the leading cause of death for 15-20 year olds and one of the main exceeding the speed limit or traveling too fast for road conditions.
"This "study" is big-time BS for the simple reason that the typical road-going driver has NEVER been able to pilot a vehicle safely through these sorts of dog-n-pony show tests which is why all of these technologies got invented in the first place."
You dang right!
ABS is a good technology and may help compensate for lack of "panic situation" expireance which you won't gain unless you get into those situations either in real life or on test tracks.
Think about driving in snow, folks that live in colder climate that gets lots of snow will get good at driving on it and will generally pick everything back up at the first snow of the season. In contrast, if a milder area gets a unusually bad winter with lots of snow, the drivers will start out having trouble but within a few days they start to get better at it but if they go a few years without any snow then get a snowstorm, everyone has trouble at the start again. I live in a southern US state and that's the way it usually works out and I have even talked to transplanted Northerers that will admit that they have trouble after not dring in snow for a few years.
Actually, if the free apples program costs $100/day then you would probibly be budgeted $500/day and would have to do the usual orgy of aquisition at the end of the year so that you can say you don't have enought money to do the job. You will probibly have at least twice as many employees working for you then you need too since in government, your status is judged by how many people you have.
Lets not even get into how you will frequently run out of apples while waiting for multiple competitive bids from apple suppliers. Then you must make sure that the apple supply contracts are handed to vendors in the proper legislative districts so you will have the votes you need.
special consideration to 'disadvantaged' apple suppliers
"As has been pointed out before... who needs an extension to the PATRIOT act, when the President can just issue an executive order?"
One reason might be that information gathered without warrents might not be admissible in court. Another might be that executive order that Bush used to wiretap International calls wouldn't give access to the Domestic calls that the suspect makes. Lets not forget that the PATRIOT act would allow access to Library records which could be used to embarass a suspected terrorist into cooperation if it came to light that the suspect checked out back issues of "Cat Fancy" or something like that.
>> Perhaps I am confused, for I am not a parent.. but.. wouldn't it be a good thing to be able to know where your kids are at all times?>Perhaps the paranoia is that, if it's okay to use on children, the government might think it's okay to use on it's citizens.
I think that might be the fear but the relationship that a Parent has with their children is different.
"eventually AG announces an out of court "settlement" between company and the State. Said settlement money goes straight into State's coffers, never to be seen or heard about again."
Sometimes the people affected get something too. Sony will cop a deal where they give a jillion to the state as well as coupons to their affected customers for a free blank Sony brand cassette tape or 8Track or some other usless noncash item.
I was in the Dentist office yesterday and read a Business week article about how India's internal economy is booming so much now that it's getting harder to find and keep workers. This is leading to high turnover and making it tougher to outsource work there. I wish I had a URL but it was an early Nov. issue.
This could mean that outsourcing might have peaked, at least for India.
"Hard to say because it's been 11 days since two African- American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this."
>>And the only people that could change that system is *drumroll* congress.
Congress can't change the two party system. The states could make some changes but there are some restrictions in the US Constitution that they can't work around.
I think that one reason multiple parties are possible in many countries is because of proportional representation in their legislative bodies. You vote for the party they like and then each party gets represented in Parliament based on their percent of the vote.
US House of Representatives are picked by districts with only one representitive from each district and nothing congress can do can change this. The states decide how the districts are drawn and how the election is carried out. The only thing Congress can really do is increase the number of districts but the states still draw the lines and can't change the one member per district rule.
An ammendment to the US Constitution would be required and that takes 3/4 of the states allong with 2/3 of both houses of Congress (Or a constitutional convention which has never happend).
"...occupants of the lightest cars have dramatically higher death rates. Also, most significantly from a safety point of view, heavy pickups and SUVs are associated with far higher death rates in the other vehicle than in themselves, or than death rates caused by comparably heavy cars."
>>They have a higher roll over rate and that combined with the lack of seat belts (since most SUV people dont wear them)....
While I don't doubt the higher rollover rates which would explain why smaller SUVs are deathtraps (I remember the Suzuki Samari being nicknamed the "suicide," I would love to see a study that concludes significant differance in seatbelt usage rates.
" Except that mediaresearch is full of opinion and judgements."
Nothing wrong with that. That way there is no mistaking where their bias is. Mediaresearch is a conservitive site and they even put their mission on the front page , "The Leader in Documenting, Exposing and Neutralizing Liberal Media Bias."
Mediamatters is a liberal site and if you click on their "about" link they proudly proclaim it(well they call themselves "Progressive" which is the new code word for Liberal because Conservitives have succesfully turned "Liberal" into a bad word).
I think it's safe to say both are biased. Both could be said to use distortions or nit picking to point out the distortions or nit picking of those they don't agree with. Both spin it the way they want.
"But you can tell him that he can expect to see a $10,000 (or $17,523) contribution added to his "blind" coffers tomorrow."
1)This idea would never happen because they make the rules
2)if this rule were in effect, I am sure rules could be put into place to keep politicians from finding ways to know who gave what including doing what you describe.
Instead of full disclosure we should go to a blind disclosure system. Donations are all anonymous in such a way that not only do the candidates not know who gave money but neither will anyone else.
Then I can tell my congressman that I gave him $10,000 and he wouldn't have any way of knowing if It were true.
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How did that song go?
"She's looking good after NINE Coronas!"
"I am 17 (and I wish morons would not judge by age) and I have not a licence, but I can drive a 1969 GTO without any of this modern bullshit implemented and perfectly(even a 1994 Chevy Beretta)..."
I remember when I was 17 and I was the same, I thought I could drive better than most people too but I look back and now I know that I was wrong. Perhaps you are different then most 17 year olds with a sports car and no drivers license but statistics are against you. Just do a google search for "Young Drivers" and you will find lots of sobering information.
Crashes are the leading cause of death for 15-20 year olds and one of the main exceeding the speed limit or traveling too fast for road conditions.
This is just from one website I found:
http://www.modot.org/safety/YoungDrivingFacts.htm
"This "study" is big-time BS for the simple reason that the typical road-going driver has NEVER been able to pilot a vehicle safely through these sorts of dog-n-pony show tests which is why all of these technologies got invented in the first place."
You dang right!
ABS is a good technology and may help compensate for lack of "panic situation" expireance which you won't gain unless you get into those situations either in real life or on test tracks.
Think about driving in snow, folks that live in colder climate that gets lots of snow will get good at driving on it and will generally pick everything back up at the first snow of the season. In contrast, if a milder area gets a unusually bad winter with lots of snow, the drivers will start out having trouble but within a few days they start to get better at it but if they go a few years without any snow then get a snowstorm, everyone has trouble at the start again. I live in a southern US state and that's the way it usually works out and I have even talked to transplanted Northerers that will admit that they have trouble after not dring in snow for a few years.
It is usually caused by viewing too much porn online. Have you noticed any new hair growing on your palms?
"..i was fed up with two-year contracts,..."
When I signed up for service I paid an extra $30 and only had to sign a one year contract which works out to a couple of dollars a month.
Actually, if the free apples program costs $100/day then you would probibly be budgeted $500/day and would have to do the usual orgy of aquisition at the end of the year so that you can say you don't have enought money to do the job. You will probibly have at least twice as many employees working for you then you need too since in government, your status is judged by how many people you have.
Lets not even get into how you will frequently run out of apples while waiting for multiple competitive bids from apple suppliers. Then you must make sure that the apple supply contracts are handed to vendors in the proper legislative districts so you will have the votes you need.
special consideration to 'disadvantaged' apple suppliers
Invironmental impact studies
Gotta make sure you pay the fairtrade apple rate
and so on...
"As has been pointed out before... who needs an extension to the PATRIOT act, when the President can just issue an executive order?"
One reason might be that information gathered without warrents might not be admissible in court. Another might be that executive order that Bush used to wiretap International calls wouldn't give access to the Domestic calls that the suspect makes. Lets not forget that the PATRIOT act would allow access to Library records which could be used to embarass a suspected terrorist into cooperation if it came to light that the suspect checked out back issues of "Cat Fancy" or something like that.
You had me at HELLO.
Using Wiki is also like a porn lottery. You never know when you will hit an article that has been turned into a porn page.
1: Users can tell you exactly what is wrong and how to fix it.
1a:Don't listen to them.
1b:If for some reason they are right, make them do something else first and tell them that fixed it. Don't want them to become too cocky.
>> Perhaps I am confused, for I am not a parent.. but.. wouldn't it be a good thing to be able to know where your kids are at all times?>Perhaps the paranoia is that, if it's okay to use on children, the government might think it's okay to use on it's citizens.
I think that might be the fear but the relationship that a Parent has with their children is different.
"eventually AG announces an out of court "settlement" between company and the State. Said settlement money goes straight into State's coffers, never to be seen or heard about again."
Sometimes the people affected get something too. Sony will cop a deal where they give a jillion to the state as well as coupons to their affected customers for a free blank Sony brand cassette tape or 8Track or some other usless noncash item.
I was in the Dentist office yesterday and read a Business week article about how India's internal economy is booming so much now that it's getting harder to find and keep workers. This is leading to high turnover and making it tougher to outsource work there. I wish I had a URL but it was an early Nov. issue.
This could mean that outsourcing might have peaked, at least for India.
Well, all those out of work Star Trek writers have to have something to do. They will be diggin' up a dead klingon any day now.
The ones that understand this stuff would never go out on a Saturday night... or Friday... or Monday... well, you get my point.
Started when a coupld of american teens were killed according to CNN http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/06/snn .01.html
"Hard to say because it's been 11 days since two African- American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this."
So this whole riot makes no sense.
>>And the only people that could change that system is *drumroll* congress.
Congress can't change the two party system. The states could make some changes but there are some restrictions in the US Constitution that they can't work around.
I think that one reason multiple parties are possible in many countries is because of proportional representation in their legislative bodies. You vote for the party they like and then each party gets represented in Parliament based on their percent of the vote.
US House of Representatives are picked by districts with only one representitive from each district and nothing congress can do can change this. The states decide how the districts are drawn and how the election is carried out. The only thing Congress can really do is increase the number of districts but the states still draw the lines and can't change the one member per district rule.
An ammendment to the US Constitution would be required and that takes 3/4 of the states allong with 2/3 of both houses of Congress (Or a constitutional convention which has never happend).
Does Vivid need anyone to screen their movies?
>> actaully if you would read the safety reports you would realize SUV's are more dangerous for the occupants.
I gotta call BS on this. Size is one of the strongest predictors of death rates in vehicle crashes. http://www.safecarguide.com/exp/overall/idx.htm
"...occupants of the lightest cars have dramatically higher death rates. Also, most significantly from a safety point of view, heavy pickups and SUVs are associated with far higher death rates in the other vehicle than in themselves, or than death rates caused by comparably heavy cars."
>>They have a higher roll over rate and that combined with the lack of seat belts (since most SUV people dont wear them)....
While I don't doubt the higher rollover rates which would explain why smaller SUVs are deathtraps (I remember the Suzuki Samari being nicknamed the "suicide," I would love to see a study that concludes significant differance in seatbelt usage rates.
Can't pay channels do whatever they want?
" Except that mediaresearch is full of opinion and judgements."
Nothing wrong with that. That way there is no mistaking where their bias is. Mediaresearch is a conservitive site and they even put their mission on the front page , "The Leader in Documenting, Exposing and Neutralizing Liberal Media Bias."
Mediamatters is a liberal site and if you click on their "about" link they proudly proclaim it(well they call themselves "Progressive" which is the new code word for Liberal because Conservitives have succesfully turned "Liberal" into a bad word).
I think it's safe to say both are biased. Both could be said to use distortions or nit picking to point out the distortions or nit picking of those they don't agree with. Both spin it the way they want.
Might as well link to http://www.mediaresearch.org/ so people can check a right wing site too.
Look at what the Conservitives and Liberals say about bias and make your own judgements.
"But you can tell him that he can expect to see a $10,000 (or $17,523) contribution added to his "blind" coffers tomorrow."
1)This idea would never happen because they make the rules
2)if this rule were in effect, I am sure rules could be put into place to keep politicians from finding ways to know who gave what including doing what you describe.
Instead of full disclosure we should go to a blind disclosure system. Donations are all anonymous in such a way that not only do the candidates not know who gave money but neither will anyone else.
Then I can tell my congressman that I gave him $10,000 and he wouldn't have any way of knowing if It were true.
Aluminum Foil lined Trash bags?