If the first hybrids/electrics looked/performed like the Tesla I'd have been pretty shocked myself...especially since they date all the way back to the end of the 19th century.
I'm quite certain this already happened. If jamming/spoofing tech gets good enough (hi Iran!) we may still need manned planes on combat missions but actual combat will be drone swarm A vs drone swarm B and will not involve Chuck Yeager barrel rolls.
Exxon's refineries are here, Apples manufacturing facilities aren't. See the difference?
Now I'm all in favor of revising the tax structure to make it more profitable to manufacture things here, otherwise known as the "you don't give tax perks to people who offshore everything you overpaid fucknuts" bill but good luck passing that one through congress.
...also, even if you do manage to move production back onshore it won't actually employ people, it will employ (primarily) robots, because that's exactly what happened to most of the jobs we didn't outsource in the first place.
There may be a smallpox epidemic in this country. Unbelievable. A smallpox epidemic. How could that be possible? And the reason is the smallpox vaccine that we were given, and that I was told was gonna last forever, wore off. And our government waited until a possible emergency condition to inform us. Now, that's a cracker jack group of fuckers, isn't it? How could you fuckin' not call us? 'Hey Lew, uh, your smallpox vaccine wore off. You want another?' 'YOU'RE FUCKING RIGHT I WANT ANOTHER!' Because my whole life has been a delusion. Because everyday I'd wake and I'd go, 'You know, it's gonna suck today, but at least I'm not getting smallpox!'
If 'doing something about it' means two draft dodgers sending tens of thousands of soldiers to die in the desert on a complete fking lie, then (in future) I'd really rather they not do anything about it.
All Revenue From Property Taxes Is Allocated to Local Governments. Property tax revenue remains within the county in which it is collected and is used exclusively by local governments. State laws control the allocation of property tax revenue from the 1 percent rate to more than 4,000 local governments, with Kâ"14 districts and counties receiving the largest amounts. The distribution of property tax revenue, however, varies significantly by locality.
This is why many cities went broke after the real estate bubble popped...
These municipalities think that more red light camera revenue = more money = great and glorious government. ...
So the net result is a slower economy, tax revenue is not nearly as high as expected, and vendors line their pockets.
No, no no, the result for citizens is quite different from the result for government.
Their tax revenue (aside from red light cameras and other scams) is mainly driven by property taxes and income taxes. Just because citizens have less cash to spend doesn't reduce either of those numbers.
So, is it bad for citizens and safety? Absolutely. Does it increase government revenue,... also Absolutely.
It is a similar problem, the hope in that case is the truly innocent can be proven so by a legal aid lawyer.
That's a fairly faint hope from what I've seen. Public defenders have such heavy caseloads there's no way you'd get much of their time even if you did manage to qualify, which I'd hazard a guess less than 1% of the people here would based on income and asset requirements.
So yes, lots of people plead guilty via the plea-bargaining process who aren't. It's a big problem and it's been here a long time.
The process goes a little something like this:
1. Police trump up as many charges as they possibly can during an arrest.
2. Prosecutor looks for any more charges that could possibly be applied.
3. Bail is set at an absurd amount due to 1+2
4. You hire a lawyer for an absurd amount of money (probably via credit card debt)
5. Prosecutor offers a plea deal removing all of the charges they probably couldn't have proved in the first place.
6. Your defense lawyer advises you to take it.
Scenario #1:
You take it, accepting whatever penalty assessed. Prosecutor wins (it counts as a win no matter what they bargain it down to)
Defense Lawyer wins (your retainer)
Bail Bondsmen wins (around 10% of #3)
You 'win' by not having to go into bankruptcy to pay for a full trial
Scenario #2:
You refuse to take it.
Defense Lawyer wins (your retainer, plus whatever they can get before your credit cards start getting declined)
Prosecutor wins (once you run out of money and your lawyer tells you go go away)
Bail Bondsmen wins (around 10% of #3)
You 'win' a free trip to PMITA prison and some laughably wrong felony charges.
Anyone who regularly enters spec racing series is not impaired by driving 80mph in a 55 zone. If I am as safe at 80 as yonder trophy wife/soccer mom in her Escalade full of screaming kids is at 55 why can I not drive 80?
And yes, old people and distracted driving (be it screaming kids, makeup application, texting, rubbernecking, etc) contribute far more to accidents and fatalities than the odd drunk, but for some reason it's politically incorrect to mention this.
Some Catholics have done some truly horrible things , and their leaders actively worked to suppress that information and prevent criminal charges from being filed therefore the Catholic Church is a vast criminal conspiracy.
FTFY. This is of course ignoring indulgences, the crusades, religious persecution, etc.
Leonard: Hey, you got Snoopy out! (Referring to the snow cone maker.)
Sheldon: Yes.
Leonard: Can I have one?
Sheldon: Sure.
Leonard: Hmmm. What flavor is this? This is good.
*Leonard guesses a few flavors.*
Sheldon: Mango caterpillar.
*Leonard spits it out and trashes the rest.*
My brother happened to work on jet engines- he's seen every kind of catastrophic material failure under the sun. And a pilot can't exactly "take over" for engine failure.
And this is why virtually all jet aircraft have more than one engine and, in the case of a 747, more than 3 engines...
Apparently the Boston PD never got a 'lite-brite' as a kid, since they locked down the entire city and sent Comedy Central the bill.
Police lock-down and mandatory house to house searches (in violation of the 4th amendment) after the marathon? I'm surprised it doesn't happen there every other weekend.
Right here. As a fun fact, the very first use of the State secrets privilege was eventually proven to be fraudulent and I hardly think it was the only time this has happened.
And what if we tied all those trailers and had a few really big trucks drive them, maybe on steel rails for less drag.
And what if we made sure that several large companies had complete control over those steel rails and really big trucks and could charge whatever rate they chose since they had a transportation monopoly...because that's exactly what already happened before the rise of long haul trucking.
Unfortunately being better informed doesn't makes us smarter.
Pretty much everything conspiracy theorists label as 'OMG Aliens' is actually 'OMG Smart People'. Be it pyramids, calculus, astronomy, geogylphs (Nazca Lines), mechanical computers (Antikythera), etc. Just because you couldn't figure it out without ET's help doesn't mean nobody could.
Sometimes dead is better. The sandwich you put up there
ain't the sandwich that comes back.
It may look like that sandwich, but it ain't that sandwich.
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OTOH, your own helmet cam should prove you completely innocent when the case goes to trial.
...and the recurring problems with officers purposely positioning their cars so the dashboard cameras can't see what's going on.
You make the 14 teenagers who love both Twitter and Cyanogen sad....
What he said. OK *maybe* borders where THERE ARE OTHER COUNTRIES. MAYBE...but when the border you're describing is the pukking ocean...WTF
If the first hybrids/electrics looked/performed like the Tesla I'd have been pretty shocked myself...especially since they date all the way back to the end of the 19th century.
I'm quite certain this already happened. If jamming/spoofing tech gets good enough (hi Iran!) we may still need manned planes on combat missions but actual combat will be drone swarm A vs drone swarm B and will not involve Chuck Yeager barrel rolls.
Exxon's refineries are here, Apples manufacturing facilities aren't. See the difference?
Now I'm all in favor of revising the tax structure to make it more profitable to manufacture things here, otherwise known as the "you don't give tax perks to people who offshore everything you overpaid fucknuts" bill but good luck passing that one through congress.
...also, even if you do manage to move production back onshore it won't actually employ people, it will employ (primarily) robots, because that's exactly what happened to most of the jobs we didn't outsource in the first place.
There may be a smallpox epidemic in this country. Unbelievable. A smallpox epidemic. How could that be possible? And the reason is the smallpox vaccine that we were given, and that I was told was gonna last forever, wore off. And our government waited until a possible emergency condition to inform us. Now, that's a cracker jack group of fuckers, isn't it? How could you fuckin' not call us? 'Hey Lew, uh, your smallpox vaccine wore off. You want another?' 'YOU'RE FUCKING RIGHT I WANT ANOTHER!' Because my whole life has been a delusion. Because everyday I'd wake and I'd go, 'You know, it's gonna suck today, but at least I'm not getting smallpox!'
-Lewis Black
If 'doing something about it' means two draft dodgers sending tens of thousands of soldiers to die in the desert on a complete fking lie, then (in future) I'd really rather they not do anything about it.
Understanding Californiaâ(TM)s Property Taxes
All Revenue From Property Taxes Is Allocated to Local Governments. Property tax revenue remains within the county in which it is collected and is used exclusively by local governments. State laws control the allocation of property tax revenue from the 1 percent rate to more than 4,000 local governments, with Kâ"14 districts and counties receiving the largest amounts. The distribution of property tax revenue, however, varies significantly by locality.
This is why many cities went broke after the real estate bubble popped...
No, no no, the result for citizens is quite different from the result for government.
Their tax revenue (aside from red light cameras and other scams) is mainly driven by property taxes and income taxes. Just because citizens have less cash to spend doesn't reduce either of those numbers.
So, is it bad for citizens and safety? Absolutely. Does it increase government revenue,... also Absolutely.
Quite correct. After 4.7 (circa IE5) they chucked it and Mozilla was born after several more years of re-development.
I've no idea how bad the old code base was but I'd imagine based on past experience they would have done a cleaner job this time around.
That's a fairly faint hope from what I've seen. Public defenders have such heavy caseloads there's no way you'd get much of their time even if you did manage to qualify, which I'd hazard a guess less than 1% of the people here would based on income and asset requirements.
So yes, lots of people plead guilty via the plea-bargaining process who aren't. It's a big problem and it's been here a long time.
The process goes a little something like this:
1. Police trump up as many charges as they possibly can during an arrest.
2. Prosecutor looks for any more charges that could possibly be applied.
3. Bail is set at an absurd amount due to 1+2
4. You hire a lawyer for an absurd amount of money (probably via credit card debt)
5. Prosecutor offers a plea deal removing all of the charges they probably couldn't have proved in the first place.
6. Your defense lawyer advises you to take it.
Scenario #1:
You take it, accepting whatever penalty assessed.
Prosecutor wins (it counts as a win no matter what they bargain it down to)
Defense Lawyer wins (your retainer)
Bail Bondsmen wins (around 10% of #3)
You 'win' by not having to go into bankruptcy to pay for a full trial
Scenario #2:
You refuse to take it.
Defense Lawyer wins (your retainer, plus whatever they can get before your credit cards start getting declined)
Prosecutor wins (once you run out of money and your lawyer tells you go go away)
Bail Bondsmen wins (around 10% of #3)
You 'win' a free trip to PMITA prison and some laughably wrong felony charges.
Anyone who regularly enters spec racing series is not impaired by driving 80mph in a 55 zone. If I am as safe at 80 as yonder trophy wife/soccer mom in her Escalade full of screaming kids is at 55 why can I not drive 80?
And yes, old people and distracted driving (be it screaming kids, makeup application, texting, rubbernecking, etc) contribute far more to accidents and fatalities than the odd drunk, but for some reason it's politically incorrect to mention this.
Some Catholics have done some truly horrible things , and their leaders actively worked to suppress that information and prevent criminal charges from being filed therefore the Catholic Church is a vast criminal conspiracy.
FTFY. This is of course ignoring indulgences, the crusades, religious persecution, etc.
Leonard: Hey, you got Snoopy out! (Referring to the snow cone maker.)
Sheldon: Yes.
Leonard: Can I have one?
Sheldon: Sure.
Leonard: Hmmm. What flavor is this? This is good.
*Leonard guesses a few flavors.*
Sheldon: Mango caterpillar.
*Leonard spits it out and trashes the rest.*
"[America Is] a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich."
-Gore Vidal
...except that we can now lump the EU into that statement since they did the exact same fking thing two years later.
And this is why virtually all jet aircraft have more than one engine and, in the case of a 747, more than 3 engines...
Apparently the Boston PD never got a 'lite-brite' as a kid, since they locked down the entire city and sent Comedy Central the bill.
Police lock-down and mandatory house to house searches (in violation of the 4th amendment) after the marathon? I'm surprised it doesn't happen there every other weekend.
Where is immunity for the Government?
Right here. As a fun fact, the very first use of the State secrets privilege was eventually proven to be fraudulent and I hardly think it was the only time this has happened.
Sheldon: "For what it's worth, my mother says that when we deceive for personal gain, we make Jesus cry."
And unlike the Atari Jaguar, it will actually be a 64 bit system. *rimshot*
And what if we made sure that several large companies had complete control over those steel rails and really big trucks and could charge whatever rate they chose since they had a transportation monopoly...because that's exactly what already happened before the rise of long haul trucking.
Pretty much everything conspiracy theorists label as 'OMG Aliens' is actually 'OMG Smart People'. Be it pyramids, calculus, astronomy, geogylphs (Nazca Lines), mechanical computers (Antikythera), etc. Just because you couldn't figure it out without ET's help doesn't mean nobody could.
Sometimes dead is better. The sandwich you put up there ain't the sandwich that comes back. It may look like that sandwich, but it ain't that sandwich.