You got it backwards. Stupid evil people slowly mess things up. They find small holes in the system that good people have set up. They widen them and abuse them. Then the smart good people notice. They quickly (quick as relative to the amount of time it takes for the problem to arise) fix the holes. Like with the American revolution, trust busting and the Magna Carta.
ah, so where are the smart, good people on the drug war? how about the destruction of social security? the foreign oil dependence? offshoring? nafta? the dmca?
i'm sorry, but the evidence just doesn't bear that out.
My preference is for metering by the bit. This would lead ISPs to provide as much bandwidth to their users, and to as many users, as materially possible, instead of the layered system we have nowadays. After all, more bandwidth = a more enjoyable online experience = more time spent in front of computer downloading and uploading = more profits.
what a crock.
If they charged by the bit you bet your life they'll charge a lot more than they do now. For an example of metering applied to a service which, unlike your examples, are NOT utilities whose prices are heavily regulated by the government, see: american cellular providers.
Only the wealthy will have "free access" to the internet under such a regime. Those who actually have to budget monthly will avoid places like youtube, MMORPGs, xbox live, netflix, etc...
You want to say "but they do it abroad", no they dont. the lighter service packages have bandwidth limits, but they're pretty high, then they throttle the connection. This is different from "charging by the bit". The bill stays the same when they go over.
And you know why Al Qaeda's strategy has been not to attack the USA? It's because the USA took the fight to the mideast and has soldiers fighting them, rather than the FBI.
You're deluded.
Al Quaeda is a nationless organized criminal syndicate. What our military is fighting is the legitimate peoples of other nations, who collectively have taken the butt-end of corruption-driven american foreign policy, and thus have rejected the american way of life.
They may not like despotism, but they don't see democracy as an adequate answer, and they don't want to be ruled by some "america approved" puppet government.
What the bush administration is doing is diligently cultivating several new generations of terrorists for his "fear politics" successors to point to as the next USSR in advancing their agenda to permanently "remove" the impediment to corporate exploit^H^H^H enterprise that the constitution represents.
You should not be targetting specific protocols or applications.
Also, i've had, and continue to have, RST forgeries on my comcrap account on time-sensitive, legitimate traffic to blizzard's servers.. usually when im about to heal the tank in an instance.
It's time to find a new QOS solution, because this one has gone from necessary to abused.
Both diagrams on that page show areas which can easily hide a motorcycle and which, in the event of a lane change, would either overlap (hit) the vehicle or give mere inches, which would likely compel sudden actions which can wipe out a biker (i've personally seen it happen to someone unwary enough to hang off the quarter panel of a '93 deville for too long)
vehicle size is also misleading.
the ford i currently drive is about 30% larger than a grand prix, but has a much smaller blind spot because the cabin designers weren't incompetent.
don't just keep yelling. I smash off your rearview mirror, then beat it to smithereens against your car. If that doesn't sink in the right way, then I smash your window with it. Any funny moves from there, and you've got a guy wearing body armor and a helmet ripping, punching and choking you. Wearing gloves that cover fingerprints. On a motorcycle that can get away without a trace.
maybe it's not them, it's you.
Try that in the area where i live, and you're likely to get a gun in your face.
hey're not in your blind spot, which is behind you
I chellenge you to provide evidence for this blanket claim, for all cars, trucks, RV's and go-karts.
I'm really sorry that you don't think your own choice of road position has any bearing on the risk of an accident.
Personally, I avoid hanging off the rear quarter panels of cars (and similar areas on semis, etc), and I haven't had a near-miss from a lane-changer in the hyper-aggressive driving capital of the southeast I live in in about 4 years (in that time i've logged approx 100k miles).
I'll write it off as you getting angry. Most of your posts are much more down-to-earth and open-minded than this.
For the record, I give extra consideration to bikers and bicyclists when i can see them because i'm aware of how horrific the injuries are on those vehicles.
As we slide into Idiocracy, you'll have a "Traffic Follies" show where you can shame the biggest 'tards of the day, nestled in between Bob Violence and $WEEKday Night Firefight.
I don't have a problem with people running from the cops.
My right to privacy should not be eroded because they want their jobs made easier.
Traffic cops especially, who are basically paid "raiders" for the insurance companies, commanded with the task of finding excuses to raise your rates.
I love how cops can take the time to pull me over for a headlight I didn't notice was out, but it's been 10 years and they still haven't found the guy who stole 2000 dollars in cd's from my car.
the latest grand prix has utterly massive posts in the rear of the car.. form over function. (think normal rear passenger windows, but with a huge trangle painted black across the bottom-rear quadrant)
It was a rental though, so it's not as if I had much of a choice.
i'm just saying those of us on 4 wheels are driving flawed machines.
Blind spots are serious business. I always check it, wait 3 more seconds, and check it again.
35% of the time, someone was there.
It's very important not to hang near the rear quarter panels for an extended period of time. move up toward the doors, or back behind the vehicle by about 7 feet.
I live in the southeast. Do you think i'm stupid enough to trust just my mirrors when changing lanes?
I actually turned and looked, with my own eyeballs, and nothing was there.
Every car has a blind spot, but american cars lately have been getting really bad about it, and motorcycles are considerably smaller than most vehicles.
License plates say you payed your registration fees, also known as an ad valorem tax on your car.
This goes to the government for things like road construction, etc, etc..
The inclusion of unique numerical identifiers should never have happened, though. All you need is a decal with the same anti-counterfeiting measures used on US currency.
100% enforcement of outrageous laws which were passed under the assumption they would be difficult to enforce would eventually lead to the repeal of said laws.
How do I just look up a license plate number, without the fancy gizmos? Just an app or webpage that I can query with the plate number. Or the VIN. To get the owner's name, and hopefully their address.
I'm tired of people driving like murderers, especially when I'm on my motorcycle. I usually get up close to them and snap their picture, and their plate. Which calms me down a little, especially when they start covering their face. (No, I don't care if that endangers them, and I only do it when I am fully safe to do it.) But if I could go home and look up their identity, I could drop by with a note reminding them that they can't just get away with it.
Someday I'd love to send a video of these jerks driving recklessly direct to the cops, and get a call back from them with me bearing witness to the report. Then they can round up that jerk, and I can narrate the video to the judge, and really help get these homicidal drivers off the road.
But in the meantime, how do I just look up their plate# or VIN?
And i'm tired of motorcyclists thinking they own the road.
Recently I was visiting my family in detroit and was rented a grand prix.
So i'm driving down telegraph, check behind me, and change lanes.
Suddenly, this motorcyclist is hitting my window.. he was hugging my blind spot (you can't check it, that's why it's called a "blind spot"), which is particularly large on the model i was driving.
I tell him where to stick it, and he speeds off. Over the next 5 minutes, i watch him hug the blind spots of 3 more vehicles before I finally reached my turn.
If so many people are near-missing you, maybe you're that guy! do you by chance drive a black crotch rocket in the detroit area? Accidents are a two-way affair.
By the way, snapping people's pictures while at speed on a public road is a good way to get yourself, the other driver, and innocent third parties killed. Remember princess Dai?
It's a legal "grey area" known as "tag applied for".
Want to be anonymous going someplace for the day? just get a random piece of cardboard, write a date about 3 weeks from now, and replace your plate with it.
And no, I'm not trolling. I just happen to find the whole "screw physics" wannabe-pioneer attitude exhausting and detrimental to scientific progress.
and I find the whole "everything that can be discovered has been discovered" attitude of certain sects of the scientific community equally exhausting and detrimental to scientific progress.
At one time they thought the sound barrier was impenetrable too!
There are many known examples of superluminal motion, yet explaining, in simple terms, why such motions do not violate the special theory or allow for superluminal communication can be exceedingly diïfcult.
You do realize the continued use of an "incomplete" theory like this is getting in the way of things like interstellar travel and artificial gravity.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with the fact that accelerating past the speed of light is impossible, or that gravitons and exotic matter do not, in fact, appear to exist...
"man will never fly" - everyone to wilbur and orville wright
and if you continue to accept general relativity at face value...
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I'll take the stupidity of the whole over the tyranny of one any day of the week.
I actually am starting to lean back to the tyranny of the one.
The one tends to have a much more limited imagination than the whole, and as such may miss things.
For instance, a "reich of mccain" would ignore the internet, and thus we would be free, because he has no idea how it works.
You got it backwards. Stupid evil people slowly mess things up. They find small holes in the system that good people have set up. They widen them and abuse them. Then the smart good people notice. They quickly (quick as relative to the amount of time it takes for the problem to arise) fix the holes. Like with the American revolution, trust busting and the Magna Carta.
ah, so where are the smart, good people on the drug war? how about the destruction of social security? the foreign oil dependence? offshoring? nafta? the dmca?
i'm sorry, but the evidence just doesn't bear that out.
Oh, right, everything is possible if you can dream it.
Got a perpetual motion machine you want to show me?
the solar system
My preference is for metering by the bit. This would lead ISPs to provide as much bandwidth to their users, and to as many users, as materially possible, instead of the layered system we have nowadays. After all, more bandwidth = a more enjoyable online experience = more time spent in front of computer downloading and uploading = more profits.
what a crock.
If they charged by the bit you bet your life they'll charge a lot more than they do now. For an example of metering applied to a service which, unlike your examples, are NOT utilities whose prices are heavily regulated by the government, see: american cellular providers.
Only the wealthy will have "free access" to the internet under such a regime. Those who actually have to budget monthly will avoid places like youtube, MMORPGs, xbox live, netflix, etc...
You want to say "but they do it abroad", no they dont. the lighter service packages have bandwidth limits, but they're pretty high, then they throttle the connection. This is different from "charging by the bit". The bill stays the same when they go over.
And you know why Al Qaeda's strategy has been not to attack the USA? It's because the USA took the fight to the mideast and has soldiers fighting them, rather than the FBI.
You're deluded.
Al Quaeda is a nationless organized criminal syndicate. What our military is fighting is the legitimate peoples of other nations, who collectively have taken the butt-end of corruption-driven american foreign policy, and thus have rejected the american way of life.
They may not like despotism, but they don't see democracy as an adequate answer, and they don't want to be ruled by some "america approved" puppet government.
What the bush administration is doing is diligently cultivating several new generations of terrorists for his "fear politics" successors to point to as the next USSR in advancing their agenda to permanently "remove" the impediment to corporate exploit^H^H^H enterprise that the constitution represents.
If Al Gore or AOL created the internet, then why does every internet address begin with www? Bush clearly left his mark on the tubes.
there are marks on the tubes?!
no wonder my packets aren't making it back from blizzard's servers.. they're probably still stuck in the scratches!
I happen to agree with him, though.
You should not be targetting specific protocols or applications.
Also, i've had, and continue to have, RST forgeries on my comcrap account on time-sensitive, legitimate traffic to blizzard's servers.. usually when im about to heal the tank in an instance.
It's time to find a new QOS solution, because this one has gone from necessary to abused.
Both diagrams on that page show areas which can easily hide a motorcycle and which, in the event of a lane change, would either overlap (hit) the vehicle or give mere inches, which would likely compel sudden actions which can wipe out a biker (i've personally seen it happen to someone unwary enough to hang off the quarter panel of a '93 deville for too long)
vehicle size is also misleading.
the ford i currently drive is about 30% larger than a grand prix, but has a much smaller blind spot because the cabin designers weren't incompetent.
I wouldn't hesitate to put a round into one of your extremities.
When brought to court, i'd subpoena your body armor and ask the jury how exactly i was supposed to cause enough pain to stop you without the weapon.
"we find the defendant, not guilty based on self defense"
especially in the hicktown bible belt.
Why are governments passing laws... which insult peoples' intelligence?
this one is because of civil claims..
the "stupid" lawsuits which make it through, apparently because the judge cannot read, see, or hear.
for example "mcdonalds made me fat" or "my kid is dead because the electrical appliance didn't have a warning label about bathtub immersion".
that's the reason why the hammer at the store (literally in my area) has a warning which amounts to "if you hit yourself with this, you'll get hurt"
don't just keep yelling. I smash off your rearview mirror, then beat it to smithereens against your car. If that doesn't sink in the right way, then I smash your window with it. Any funny moves from there, and you've got a guy wearing body armor and a helmet ripping, punching and choking you. Wearing gloves that cover fingerprints. On a motorcycle that can get away without a trace.
maybe it's not them, it's you.
Try that in the area where i live, and you're likely to get a gun in your face.
hey're not in your blind spot, which is behind you
I chellenge you to provide evidence for this blanket claim, for all cars, trucks, RV's and go-karts.
I'm really sorry that you don't think your own choice of road position has any bearing on the risk of an accident.
Personally, I avoid hanging off the rear quarter panels of cars (and similar areas on semis, etc), and I haven't had a near-miss from a lane-changer in the hyper-aggressive driving capital of the southeast I live in in about 4 years (in that time i've logged approx 100k miles).
I'll write it off as you getting angry. Most of your posts are much more down-to-earth and open-minded than this.
For the record, I give extra consideration to bikers and bicyclists when i can see them because i'm aware of how horrific the injuries are on those vehicles.
As we slide into Idiocracy, you'll have a "Traffic Follies" show where you can shame the biggest 'tards of the day, nestled in between Bob Violence and $WEEKday Night Firefight.
tru. tv (TM)
"world's worst drivers"
"speeders"
"most shocking"
(and the list goes on)
I don't have a problem with people running from the cops.
My right to privacy should not be eroded because they want their jobs made easier.
Traffic cops especially, who are basically paid "raiders" for the insurance companies, commanded with the task of finding excuses to raise your rates.
I love how cops can take the time to pull me over for a headlight I didn't notice was out, but it's been 10 years and they still haven't found the guy who stole 2000 dollars in cd's from my car.
the latest grand prix has utterly massive posts in the rear of the car.. form over function. (think normal rear passenger windows, but with a huge trangle painted black across the bottom-rear quadrant)
It was a rental though, so it's not as if I had much of a choice.
i'm just saying those of us on 4 wheels are driving flawed machines.
Blind spots are serious business. I always check it, wait 3 more seconds, and check it again.
35% of the time, someone was there.
It's very important not to hang near the rear quarter panels for an extended period of time. move up toward the doors, or back behind the vehicle by about 7 feet.
I always do the same.
I live in the southeast. Do you think i'm stupid enough to trust just my mirrors when changing lanes?
I actually turned and looked, with my own eyeballs, and nothing was there.
Every car has a blind spot, but american cars lately have been getting really bad about it, and motorcycles are considerably smaller than most vehicles.
that's kind of the point though.
License plates say you payed your registration fees, also known as an ad valorem tax on your car.
This goes to the government for things like road construction, etc, etc..
The inclusion of unique numerical identifiers should never have happened, though. All you need is a decal with the same anti-counterfeiting measures used on US currency.
100% enforcement of outrageous laws which were passed under the assumption they would be difficult to enforce would eventually lead to the repeal of said laws.
A little pain now means a lot less later.
How do I just look up a license plate number, without the fancy gizmos? Just an app or webpage that I can query with the plate number. Or the VIN. To get the owner's name, and hopefully their address.
I'm tired of people driving like murderers, especially when I'm on my motorcycle. I usually get up close to them and snap their picture, and their plate. Which calms me down a little, especially when they start covering their face. (No, I don't care if that endangers them, and I only do it when I am fully safe to do it.) But if I could go home and look up their identity, I could drop by with a note reminding them that they can't just get away with it.
Someday I'd love to send a video of these jerks driving recklessly direct to the cops, and get a call back from them with me bearing witness to the report. Then they can round up that jerk, and I can narrate the video to the judge, and really help get these homicidal drivers off the road.
But in the meantime, how do I just look up their plate# or VIN?
And i'm tired of motorcyclists thinking they own the road.
Recently I was visiting my family in detroit and was rented a grand prix.
So i'm driving down telegraph, check behind me, and change lanes.
Suddenly, this motorcyclist is hitting my window.. he was hugging my blind spot (you can't check it, that's why it's called a "blind spot"), which is particularly large on the model i was driving.
I tell him where to stick it, and he speeds off. Over the next 5 minutes, i watch him hug the blind spots of 3 more vehicles before I finally reached my turn.
If so many people are near-missing you, maybe you're that guy!
do you by chance drive a black crotch rocket in the detroit area?
Accidents are a two-way affair.
By the way, snapping people's pictures while at speed on a public road is a good way to get yourself, the other driver, and innocent third parties killed. Remember princess Dai?
It's a legal "grey area" known as "tag applied for".
Want to be anonymous going someplace for the day? just get a random piece of cardboard, write a date about 3 weeks from now, and replace your plate with it.
And no, I'm not trolling. I just happen to find the whole "screw physics" wannabe-pioneer attitude exhausting and detrimental to scientific progress.
and I find the whole "everything that can be discovered has been discovered" attitude of certain sects of the scientific community equally exhausting and detrimental to scientific progress.
At one time they thought the sound barrier was impenetrable too!
uhuh.. yeah.. that faster than light communication between two particles isn't really faster than light right? or maybe it just doesn't exist.
why not just put your fingers in your ears, close your eyes, and scream "LA LA LA" too.
no it's not practically applicable, but SOMETHING is traveling faster than light there.
There are
many known examples of superluminal motion, yet explaining, in simple terms,
why such motions do not violate the special theory or allow for superluminal
communication can be exceedingly diïfcult.
You do realize the continued use of an "incomplete" theory like this is getting in the way of things like interstellar travel and artificial gravity.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with the fact that accelerating past the speed of light is impossible, or that gravitons and exotic matter do not, in fact, appear to exist...
"man will never fly" - everyone to wilbur and orville wright
and if you continue to accept general relativity at face value...