It's very well known that all the speed controlling devices are located in the areas where people are most likely to speed and people are most likely to speed in the areas where it is the SAFEST to speed.
No, it is not "very well known" - I only see these on back/side road, typically residential or high-pedestrian traffic areas. When I see them on highways it is just before a construction site with reduced speed limits. NONE of those areas are "SAFEST to speed".
The parkway with a healthy forest devider three lane on each side that has typically 50 mph limit in California is getting a 35 mph speed trap for no reason but to rob the drivers.
California is a special case, unlike many of the other 49 states, don't assume that what you observe in California is wide-spread, or even common, outside California. That said, I've never seen a three lane road with a speed limit of 35 that wasn't surrounded by residences.
To operate on the public roadways, your vehicle needs a license plate.
By law your license plate must be readable and not obscured.
Anyone on the side of the road, or in a vehicle behind/in front of you can read the license plate.
There is no presumption of privacy as you drive around on the public roads with a sign that has a tag on it that ties that car to an individual. It's as if you are driving around with your name on the side of the vehicle, and choosing to get upset that people on the side of the road know you are there.
Isn't it kinda stupid to to publicly post that you are "hiding" license plate readers for the DEA in speed-measuring signs?
Were I a person involved in something the DEA might be interested in, I'd make a point of avoiding such signs.
It's like a policeman at a speed trap, waiting behind a billboard, but the billboard says "Warning: There's a speed radar-equipped patrol car behind this billboard!"
The Obama administration estimated that it would cost the electric utility industry an estimated $9.6 billion a year to install that mercury control technology, making it the most expensive clean air regulation ever put forth by the federal government. It found that reducing mercury brings up to $6 million annually in health benefits â" a high number, but not as high as the cost to industry. However, it further justified the regulation by citing an additional $80 billion in health benefits from the additional reduction in soot and nitrogen oxide that occur as a side effect of controlling mercury.
Got that? $9.6BN/to save $6M in direct health costs, a 0.0625% return on investment, but wait! Then they 'projected' a convenient $80BN savings for related reasons... per year. That's a little less than half the health care budget of the VA ($196BN/yr), or about $240/per us citizen ($80BN/320M citizens).
Only roads that cross state boundaries are 'interstate', obviously. The vast majority of all roads in America originate and terminate within the same state, never venturing into snother state.
If the US can't regulate 'the internet' then on what basis can California?
Fact is, net neutrality isn't regulating 'the internet', it regulates ISPs that do business in the US... Your international argument is non-sensical, do you really believe the IS can't regulate within it's own borders how domestic ISP handle domestic traffic to domestic customers?
In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said: "Under the Constitution, states do not regulate interstate commerce -- the federal government does. Once again the California legislature has enacted an extreme and illegal state law attempting to frustrate federal policy."
It's a computer assembled from foreign-manufactured parts in America! By hand! It's a desktop! And it runs Linux!
What else could you possibly need to know?
Interesting to note that Linux enjoys a less than 5% market share among end-users, the desktop is a dying form-factor, and paying people a US wage to plug foreign-made components (where are MB, HD, RAM, CPU, video card, power supply made?) into a 'handcrafted' system sounds expensive, not cheap.
Then again, no one ever accused Linux users as cheap, did they?
Someone wants to take components built around the world, assemble them in America, and refer to it as a 'handcrafted' computer? Unbelievable!
Oh wait, isn't this what Michael Dell did before he moved out of his college dorm room?
Oh, wait - the computers run Linux, that fringe OS most popular in embedded applications and web servers, and still but holds a rounding error scale market share among desktop users?
Hillary was not spared prosecution because of a fear of her being treated differently, she was treated differently.
Intent? Do you think she accidentally caused an IT consultant to build a mail server, and she absentmindedly NEVER logged into her government email account? Was she just forgetful when she failed to return all her work-related emails after leaving government service?
Comey enumerated the crimes he had evidence she committed, but then said 'in my opinion no prosecutor would press charges", so he gave her a pass.
She walks the street a free woman today because Comey lacked the huevos to recommend charges against her.
1. Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University $1,554,058
Arizona State has 51,000 enrolled students, paying either $10/28K each year - call the average tuition $20K, times 51,000 students, and it is a Billion dollar/year business, so paying the President/CEO 1/10th of 1% of revenues isn't really an issue. If you eliminate the President's salary, you'll save $20/year per student - does that really make a difference? $28,000 becoming $27,980 doesn't make college more affordable in any meaningful way.
Well said. Rice has a large endowment fund and can afford to shift to a model of "tuition paid by rich alums who donate".
You literally made that motive up - Rice never claimed that was their motive.
They've got $5.5BN in the bank, they are offering varying grants based on family needs, up to 100% of tuition and expenses. Why is everyone acting like this is something new? Universities have offered tuition assistance to poor/low-income students of merit, the change Rice is making to that program is that they are considering families earning up to $130K/year as "low-income" and deserving of tuition assistance.
Rice feels guilty about it's $5.5 Billion dollar endowment, so it's come up with this scheme to help spend it down.
This program will quickly attract the best students, looking for a free ride for their undergraduate degree, so what does that mean for all the poor and minority students graduating from inferior schools? They will likely not have the grades to get into Rice.
Sometime in mid 2019 I expect a lawsuit alleging the Rice plan is racist.
Oh, and let's not forget, if your family has "unusual" assets (own a business? A farm? Got some serious money in the bank, you're excluded from the program.
Six-figure jobs are everywhere, but it doesn't take 'mad skilz' to make over $100K in Silicon Valley. It *does* take great skills to make that much elsewhere.
I contend the person complaining (who, by the way didn't defer their family, since they are a parent of 2 at 34) is a mid-level grunt with a big paycheck, not a world-class programmer that can command a quarter million dollar pay check.
So I'm stuck making $150k in CA and paying $40k a year in rent because I can't afford paying $1millon for an entry level home. After taxes I clear about $35k and support a family of 4, so my actual cashflow is about the same as a minimum wage worker because they get housing, day care, and food for free.
Wait a minute, you left out something - what are you paying in income taxes? Seems like half your paycheck went to taxes ($40K in rent, $35K left over from $150K income).
"Anywhere else in the country, we'd be successful people who owned a home and didn't worry about anything," said one 34-year-old in a two-income family. "But here, that's not the case." While her husband helps Verizon deploy smart devices with IoT technology, they're raising two daughters in a rented Palo Alto apartment, "only to experience a $500 rent increase over two years."
BS. Anywhere else in the country you'd make 25-40% less - you have to go to SF to get your 6 figure salary, that salary doesn't follow you to MS when you change jobs and move to MS.
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It's very well known that all the speed controlling devices are located in the areas where people are most likely to speed and people are most likely to speed in the areas where it is the SAFEST to speed.
No, it is not "very well known" - I only see these on back/side road, typically residential or high-pedestrian traffic areas. When I see them on highways it is just before a construction site with reduced speed limits. NONE of those areas are "SAFEST to speed".
The parkway with a healthy forest devider three lane on each side that has typically 50 mph limit in California is getting a 35 mph speed trap for no reason but to rob the drivers.
California is a special case, unlike many of the other 49 states, don't assume that what you observe in California is wide-spread, or even common, outside California. That said, I've never seen a three lane road with a speed limit of 35 that wasn't surrounded by residences.
Perhaps they are only buying a few, but they want drug dealers to think they are everywhere?
You have to wonder about a public bid for "secret, hidden" license plate readers, right?
To operate on the public roadways, your vehicle needs a license plate.
By law your license plate must be readable and not obscured.
Anyone on the side of the road, or in a vehicle behind/in front of you can read the license plate.
There is no presumption of privacy as you drive around on the public roads with a sign that has a tag on it that ties that car to an individual. It's as if you are driving around with your name on the side of the vehicle, and choosing to get upset that people on the side of the road know you are there.
Isn't it kinda stupid to to publicly post that you are "hiding" license plate readers for the DEA in speed-measuring signs?
Were I a person involved in something the DEA might be interested in, I'd make a point of avoiding such signs.
It's like a policeman at a speed trap, waiting behind a billboard, but the billboard says "Warning: There's a speed radar-equipped patrol car behind this billboard!"
The Obama administration estimated that it would cost the electric utility industry an estimated $9.6 billion a year to install that mercury control technology, making it the most expensive clean air regulation ever put forth by the federal government. It found that reducing mercury brings up to $6 million annually in health benefits â" a high number, but not as high as the cost to industry. However, it further justified the regulation by citing an additional $80 billion in health benefits from the additional reduction in soot and nitrogen oxide that occur as a side effect of controlling mercury.
Got that? $9.6BN/to save $6M in direct health costs, a 0.0625% return on investment, but wait! Then they 'projected' a convenient $80BN savings for related reasons... per year. That's a little less than half the health care budget of the VA ($196BN/yr), or about $240/per us citizen ($80BN/320M citizens).
The numbers are pure fantasy.
Only roads that cross state boundaries are 'interstate', obviously. The vast majority of all roads in America originate and terminate within the same state, never venturing into snother state.
If the US can't regulate 'the internet' then on what basis can California?
Fact is, net neutrality isn't regulating 'the internet', it regulates ISPs that do business in the US... Your international argument is non-sensical, do you really believe the IS can't regulate within it's own borders how domestic ISP handle domestic traffic to domestic customers?
In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said: "Under the Constitution, states do not regulate interstate commerce -- the federal government does. Once again the California legislature has enacted an extreme and illegal state law attempting to frustrate federal policy."
He's not wrong, the supremacy clause
is a thing...
Calm down, it's a desktop.
Ask any Linux zealot about Linux, and 9 times out of 10* one of the first features they'll cite is how it runs great on older hardware...
*WAG, not a statistical fact.
It's a computer assembled from foreign-manufactured parts in America! By hand! It's a desktop! And it runs Linux!
What else could you possibly need to know?
Interesting to note that Linux enjoys a less than 5% market share among end-users, the desktop is a dying form-factor, and paying people a US wage to plug foreign-made components (where are MB, HD, RAM, CPU, video card, power supply made?) into a 'handcrafted' system sounds expensive, not cheap.
Then again, no one ever accused Linux users as cheap, did they?
Someone wants to take components built around the world, assemble them in America, and refer to it as a 'handcrafted' computer? Unbelievable!
Oh wait, isn't this what Michael Dell did before he moved out of his college dorm room?
Oh, wait - the computers run Linux, that fringe OS most popular in embedded applications and web servers, and still but holds a rounding error scale market share among desktop users?
Well, that really is something!
Odd, 60 million voters pulled the lever for Trump - how many of them were democrats?
Hillary was not spared prosecution because of a fear of her being treated differently, she was treated differently.
Intent? Do you think she accidentally caused an IT consultant to build a mail server, and she absentmindedly NEVER logged into her government email account? Was she just forgetful when she failed to return all her work-related emails after leaving government service?
Comey enumerated the crimes he had evidence she committed, but then said 'in my opinion no prosecutor would press charges", so he gave her a pass.
She walks the street a free woman today because Comey lacked the huevos to recommend charges against her.
They signed away their right to a class action lawsuit when they agreed to private arbitration upon entering into an agreement with UbÃr.
Imagine! Federal courts expecting workers to abide by the contracts they sign - those bastards!
And expect them to dress, feed, and get themselves to school on time.
Not in elementary school.
Rice's $5.5BN endowment is paying for this.
I didn't read the article so it might say... but a lot of Universities charge more for people out of state- and even more for people out of country.
Those are called State Universities, the tuition is subsidized by state tax revenues and federal grants.
Rice is a private university.
1. Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University $1,554,058
Arizona State has 51,000 enrolled students, paying either $10/28K each year - call the average tuition $20K, times 51,000 students, and it is a Billion dollar/year business, so paying the President/CEO 1/10th of 1% of revenues isn't really an issue. If you eliminate the President's salary, you'll save $20/year per student - does that really make a difference? $28,000 becoming $27,980 doesn't make college more affordable in any meaningful way.
If you are twenty and a Conservative, you have no heart.
If you are forty and a Liberal, you have no brain.
Well said. Rice has a large endowment fund and can afford to shift to a model of "tuition paid by rich alums who donate".
You literally made that motive up - Rice never claimed that was their motive.
They've got $5.5BN in the bank, they are offering varying grants based on family needs, up to 100% of tuition and expenses. Why is everyone acting like this is something new? Universities have offered tuition assistance to poor/low-income students of merit, the change Rice is making to that program is that they are considering families earning up to $130K/year as "low-income" and deserving of tuition assistance.
Rice feels guilty about it's $5.5 Billion dollar endowment, so it's come up with this scheme to help spend it down.
This program will quickly attract the best students, looking for a free ride for their undergraduate degree, so what does that mean for all the poor and minority students graduating from inferior schools? They will likely not have the grades to get into Rice.
Sometime in mid 2019 I expect a lawsuit alleging the Rice plan is racist.
Oh, and let's not forget, if your family has "unusual" assets (own a business? A farm? Got some serious money in the bank, you're excluded from the program.
Six-figure jobs are everywhere, but it doesn't take 'mad skilz' to make over $100K in Silicon Valley. It *does* take great skills to make that much elsewhere.
I contend the person complaining (who, by the way didn't defer their family, since they are a parent of 2 at 34) is a mid-level grunt with a big paycheck, not a world-class programmer that can command a quarter million dollar pay check.
So I'm stuck making $150k in CA and paying $40k a year in rent because I can't afford paying $1millon for an entry level home. After taxes I clear about $35k and support a family of 4, so my actual cashflow is about the same as a minimum wage worker because they get housing, day care, and food for free.
Wait a minute, you left out something - what are you paying in income taxes? Seems like half your paycheck went to taxes ($40K in rent, $35K left over from $150K income).
"Anywhere else in the country, we'd be successful people who owned a home and didn't worry about anything," said one 34-year-old in a two-income family. "But here, that's not the case." While her husband helps Verizon deploy smart devices with IoT technology, they're raising two daughters in a rented Palo Alto apartment, "only to experience a $500 rent increase over two years."
BS. Anywhere else in the country you'd make 25-40% less - you have to go to SF to get your 6 figure salary, that salary doesn't follow you to MS when you change jobs and move to MS.