The solution to this of course is to round up all the politicians and the lawyers (along with Hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants, you name them - you know, all the important people). Tell them We're going to colonize another planet and that they are so vital that they need to arrive there first to prepare for everyone else's arrival. They are so ego-driven that they will be easily convinced to do this by our telling them that they are so important that they need to get there first.
We should be careful about where we send the ship though - you never know, the planet we target could actually be a large-scale computer and we won't want to upset the results. I vote for sending them to the Sun.
Once we have done this we can then move on with life having fewer wars and less poverty and more freedom to innovate./shamelesslyrippedoffHGttG
> I'm also VERY unhappy about the EPA cleanup for these bulbs.
O RLY?
> I broke a 150W equivalent one and following the instructions for cleanup was HORRIBLE. Who can leave the windows open for WEEKS? Come on.
That is an interesting use of the word "weeks" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
The instructions are horrible? You need to keep the windows open for weeks? Which EPA CFL cleanup instructions are you unhappy with? Certainly not these:
Open a window or door to the outdoors and leave the room for 5-10 minutes.
and if you have to vacuum:
Continue to air out the room where the bulb was broken and leave the H&AC system shut off, as practical, for several hours.
Now keep in mind that cleanup instructions, risks, cautionary notices, etc. such as this border on paranoia, because it is all about CYA to avoid civil lawsuits.
Take cellphone warnings on fuel pumps for example: they "forbid" the use of cellphones near the pump, even though the risks are based on urban legends. Why? Because people will sue the gas station if they start a fire while they happen to be on the phone (whether by smoking or electrostatic discharge, etc) at the pump, then in civil court blame the cellphone and the facility for not posting warnings, and in a civil trial the burden of proof is often on the defendant so they have to pay out. With this ridiculous scenario lawyers dream up based on equally ridiculous suits in the past, they have the company post these ridiculous warnings on the pumps, to protect themselves against this sort of liability.
My point is, the EPA instructions are not nearly as bad as you made them out to be, and even as paranoid as they are (minutes to hours to air out the room) they are overly cautious to protect against lawsuits. I can think of a scenario for CFLs:
Suzie is replacing a compact fluorescent light bulb (her home is very modern, you see - central HVAC, "green" lighting throughout, tight construction) and the central heat is on as her newborn baby Johnny is sleeping soundly two rooms away. She is still a little sore from labor and felt a twinge of pain and jerked a little. The new CFL slips from her hand and shatters when it hits the floor. She dutifully cleans up the light bulb, throws it in the trash and never gives it a second thought, until 24 to 30 months later when she notices her precious little snowflake doesn't seem to be hitting certain milestones, and seems withdrawn at times, but very prone to repeated habits and regular tantrums when Suzie doesn't get him fed on time, or to bed on time. Concerned, she takes little Johnny to the doctor, and the child is diagnosed autistic. Suddenly Suzie remembers Jenny McCarthy rambling on about mercury and vaccines and autism, and the light bulb goes on - the EPA must be at fault! CFLs have mercury, she, being a klutz, broke one as her infant child slept in his crib, and followed the cleanup instructions. They never mentioned airing out the room or shutting down the HVAC, so clearly the EPA is to blame for her precious snowflake's being autistic. THE EPA MUST PAY!!! (Never mind that if it was caused by mercury, it was more likely the mercury she played with as a child but the fact that she got into her older brother's chemistry kit and suffered heavy metal poisoning symptoms was never mentioned in court)
Somewhere, some EPA staff lawyer thought about that scenario or one like it, and came up with the overly-cautious cleanup instructions as a CYA measure. Even so, again, it is nowhere near as bad as you make it out to be.
> Other than the one fan/light we use often, it would be stupid and wasteful to throw out all our ceiling fans and buy entire new ones just to have a CFL capable dimmer.
You do realize of course, that the wall switch and dimmer for your fan/light fixture can be replaced, without replacing the fan?
> No, tobacco doesn't. But on the other hand "show[s] promise as" is not the same as "actually does these things".
Do you have any friends who are med or nursing students? If so they have access to many medical databases, some have access to international databases of medical studies. Ask them to run some queries on marijuana and you will find many, many thousands of peer-reviewed studies in countries that are not The united States of America, and most of those studies confirm the claims that "stoners" have been making for thousands of years. Here most medical professionals have avoided conducting studies because the DEA would yank their licenses at ludicrous speed.
There is plenty of scientifically-confirmed data out there, as it has been studied extensively in $NATIONS-NOT-USA, particularly in Israel so the only issue is picking the best delivery method to remain productive and the best strain to maintain cost effectiveness.
Face it - we have been lied to by the government for decades. Until about six months ago I was completely against it, although given my libertarian leanings I thought it should be decriminalized given the victimless nature of such "crimes" however now that I am more informed having read the science I am all for the full legalization of it and am considering it for my migraines rather than Imitrex and narcotics which have confirmed side effects and risks which simply do not exist with cannabis, and cannabis is far less (read: not at all) physically addictive.
Get informed - you just might be surprised at how blatently incorrect the DEA's propaganda is regarding MJ. See:
> Schedule I substances are those that have the following findings:
> The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
MJ has less abuse potential than alcohol
> The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
Key word: accepted.. Many diet, pain, and mental condition meds (as well as alcohol, a legal recreational drug) have very serious, life-threatening side effects (damaging the heart, liver, kidneys) while some brain meds even have the potential to create sociopathic behavior (see: mass murders, domestic abuse) while Cannabis is totally devoid of all of these side effects. The worst side effect is that high THC might give you the munchies (great for cancer patients who suffer from nausea) - but high CBD can actually suppress appetite a bit (great for treating over-eating).
It also can help alleviate withdrawl symptoms from opiates.
> There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.[25]
Again, "lack of accepted" - which in the case of cannabis is purely political; it is a racket to protect the logging and pharmaceutical industies, and also racist since it enables the prison industry to profit on certain socioeconomic groups in large cities. There are tens of thousands of minorities in prisons for simple possession charges - possession of a substance which should never have been criminalized in the first place. This is hugely profitable to the private prison industry (yes, most prisons are private businesses and some
> So sayeth years of pro-cannibis propoganda (as with the items above) and some sometimes rather sloppy science.
get on some of the medical databases (if you know any med or nursing students they will have access) and have them to searches - bonus if the databases they have access to include Canada, the EU, and Israel. You will find many thousands of peer-reviewed studies.
Step outside of the American bubble for a moment. Our government has been stifling this all over lies to protect Big Pharma and the logging industry - and more recently big oil now that Canabis/hemp show promise for carbon-neutral fuels and plastics normally derived from petroleum.
> Why is weed illegal anyway? It's arguably just as harmful as alcohol and tobacco.
It is nowhere near as harmful as either. Does Tobacco show promise as a cancer-fighting, epilepsy-siezure-preventing drug, stress reducing, migraine treating, cluster headache killing, sinus and bronchial congestion reducing, muscle cramp reducing, eating disorder treating, antiemetic, appetite correcting, MS tremor reducing, parkinsons, glaucoma-treating, inflammation-reducing, pain reducing, mood lifting and NOT PHSYSICALLY ADDICTIVE (and can actually be used to treat addicts coming off harmful addictive drugs!!!) drug that is impossible to overdose on? (okay you can theoretically OD on it if you combust many pounds of it over the period of an hour or two - just like you can "OD" on water) Does Alcohol show any promise? Hmm, perhaps then you should not use the word "harmful" anywhere near any word specifying cannabis nor compare it to harmful drugs.
As far as the few potential effects may be concerned? The mental "high" can be avoided by either choosing a low-THC, high-CBD strain or by selecting a method of delivery which limits the release of THC. Tar? Not really tar but there are resins, and those can be avoided by vaporizing it, making extracts, infused oil for cooking, adding it to salad dressings, baking it into cookies, brownies, etc. and avoiding combustion, CO2 and CO exposure. Short-term memory loss? Sure the effect is real, but it is temporary and limited (only while high) for all but chronic users.
There is no miracle drug, but Cannabis may very well be the next closest thing.
To be fair Symantec has gotten more efficient since SMP went mainstream thanks to multicore CPUs - they can now manage to pin every available during a scan rather than just one, so even SMP systems are not usable, so no one feels left out any more.
COLLECTOR: So you draw this! BANKY: (signing the comic) I ink it and I'm also the colorist. The guy next to me draws it. But we both came up with the characters, COLLECTOR: What's that mean - you.ink it'! BANKY: Well. It means that Holden draws the pictures in pencil, and then he gives it to me to go over in ink COLLECTOR: So you just trace! Banky freezes up. He composes himself and continues signing. BANKY: It's not tracing. I add depth and shading to give the image mere definition. Only then does the drawing really take shape. COLLECTOR: You go over what he draws with a pen - that's tracing. BANKY: (hands book back to Collector) Not really. (calling out) Next! A LITTLE KID steps up but the Collector lingers. COLLECTOR: Hey man. If somebody draws something and then you draw the same thing right on top of it, not going out-side the designated original art what do call that! LITTLE KID: (shrugs) I don't know. Tracing? COLLECTOR: (to Banky) See? BANKY: It's not tracing. COLLECTOR: Oh, but it is. BANKY: (to Little Kid) Do you want Lour book signed or what? COLLECTOR: Hey - don't get all testy with him just because you have a problem with your station in life. BANKY: I'm secure with what I do. COLLECTOR: Then say it - you're a tracer. BANKY: (grabbing Little Kid's book) How should I sign this? LITTLE KID: (grabs book back) I don't want you to sign it, I want the guy that draws Bluntman and Chronic to sign it. You're just a tracer.
"Piracy" often removes the incentive to create useful arts and sciences. Why bother working if you can't make a living at it? Don't give me bullshit about doing what one loves for a career - at the end of the day the reason every one of us works is to get paid. Period. We all have bills to pay and we all value our time.
To deny someone a measly $.99 or $1.99 for an app which cost a minimum of tens of thousands to develop is pathetic - and if everyone rips it off, you probably won't see a version 2.0 of the app.
> Nobody has a right to "intellectual property", almost all of which in every case is building on the work of others.
The Constitution grants provisions for patents and copyrights protecting a monopoly for a limited time because it is recognized that people DO have the right to profit from their work. The reason the term is limited (in theory it's limited) is to promote the creation of useful arts and science for the public domain. It's a fair exchange and everyone should recognize that people who work for a living deserve to get paid - this is a case where entitlement IS genuinely deserved.
> If you mean something you hunt for food, no one would use an m16 for that. The spoil radius could render an entire hind quarter inedible, and the accuracy of the weapon would suggest the hind quarter is what you would probably hit if you were aiming for a heart shot.
Wrong on all counts - although it would be insanely stupid to use a fully auto for hunting. The AR-15 would be a poor choice for larger game - for that you want the AR-10.
Hemp, or Cannabis, has many uses: ethanol or biodisel production (and can be further refined into a gasoline replacement), clothing, paper pulp, rope, hemcrete, insulation, it provides a hypoallergenic (making it better than soy!) vegan protein source, it can treat a host of health and mental issues (morning sickness, PMS, nausea, vomiting, migraines, chronic pain, epilepsy, glaucoma, crohn's disease, colitis, diabetes, anxiety, adhd, neuropathy, insomnia, depression, Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, can balance appetite, and is NON-ADDICTIVE, shows promise of being able to cure certain cancers and in combination with western medicine improves effectiveness of Hep C treatment), lubricants for machinery, heating fuel, fertilizer, cattle feed. Also, overdosing is nearly impossible - you would have to ingest many pounds of it to O.D., far more than anyone can fit into their stomach, or if you want to smoke it, you'd die of asphyxiation long before you O.D.
It is also not a gateway drug: there is a greater correlation between either nicotine or alcohol use and hard drugs than there is with cannabis.
Disclaimer: I have never so much as tried pot - I cannot even though it's legal in my state because of my career. I'd like try it myself to treat migraines, but I can't.:-(
Also, if it were legal in my mom's state I'd love to buy some make a tincture for my her to help her with her pain so she can cut down her oxy use (she is on opiates because she is in severe chronic pain and is terminal).
When I pull up to an intersection on a 40+ mph street I start a mental countdown from 4 and estimate how far I'll travel in 3 seconds and if I'll end up past the white line I just keep going, otherwise I come to a stop. If I run the red it is because the yellow is shorter than legally required.
For 45mph the yellow light has to be at least 4 to 4.5 seconds. I have seen lights as little as 2 seconds in those zones. It's all about entrapment.
Even worse is there is this one intersection in MA which is often manually driven by an officer during rush hour. One thing I could count on: every time I drove my Corvettes through there this one cop would quickly change the light green-extremelybriefyellow-red, but when I would drive my truck through there I would get a greeeeeeeen-looooongyellowlight-red. She was consistent on this and I'd see her do it to other sportscar drivers too, so I started taking to calling in to her department and asking for the shift sergeant to complain about her, explaining that every time I'd see the fraction-of-a-second yellow when driving my Corvettes through there, but a long yellow light when driving my pickup. After a few calls he said he would send someone out to investigate. Since then I never saw her on that detail again, even though prior to that I'd see her on that detail most days, for months. Her replacement ran the light fairly and reasonably.
Given the opportunity to abuse power, be it a private corp operating a camera or a police officer directing traffic with a logbook handy, that little bit of power will be abused.
Part of this backlash has to do with the (always accurate) perception that RLCs are a moneymaking scheme, pure and simple.
FTFY. If it weren't true they a) would not ever shorten the yellow light but would rather lengthen it b) they would always post warnings c) would always turn the cameras off when it is snowing out because in icy conditions it is sometimes safer to run a red than to insist on stopping when the intersection is poorly cleaned and you start fishtailing on snow-over-ice even with traction control + abs just because you fear a ticket. Red light cameras are seldom if ever safety-motivated. It all comes down to the almighty dollar.
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The solution to this of course is to round up all the politicians and the lawyers (along with Hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants, you name them - you know, all the important people). Tell them We're going to colonize another planet and that they are so vital that they need to arrive there first to prepare for everyone else's arrival. They are so ego-driven that they will be easily convinced to do this by our telling them that they are so important that they need to get there first.
We should be careful about where we send the ship though - you never know, the planet we target could actually be a large-scale computer and we won't want to upset the results. I vote for sending them to the Sun.
Once we have done this we can then move on with life having fewer wars and less poverty and more freedom to innovate. /shamelesslyrippedoffHGttG
> I'm also VERY unhappy about the EPA cleanup for these bulbs.
O RLY?
> I broke a 150W equivalent one and following the instructions for cleanup was HORRIBLE. Who can leave the windows open for WEEKS? Come on.
That is an interesting use of the word "weeks" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
The instructions are horrible? You need to keep the windows open for weeks? Which EPA CFL cleanup instructions are you unhappy with? Certainly not these:
http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl
http://www2.epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken-cfl-0
Directly copied from the article:
and if you have to vacuum:
Now keep in mind that cleanup instructions, risks, cautionary notices, etc. such as this border on paranoia, because it is all about CYA to avoid civil lawsuits.
Take cellphone warnings on fuel pumps for example: they "forbid" the use of cellphones near the pump, even though the risks are based on urban legends. Why? Because people will sue the gas station if they start a fire while they happen to be on the phone (whether by smoking or electrostatic discharge, etc) at the pump, then in civil court blame the cellphone and the facility for not posting warnings, and in a civil trial the burden of proof is often on the defendant so they have to pay out. With this ridiculous scenario lawyers dream up based on equally ridiculous suits in the past, they have the company post these ridiculous warnings on the pumps, to protect themselves against this sort of liability.
My point is, the EPA instructions are not nearly as bad as you made them out to be, and even as paranoid as they are (minutes to hours to air out the room) they are overly cautious to protect against lawsuits. I can think of a scenario for CFLs:
Suzie is replacing a compact fluorescent light bulb (her home is very modern, you see - central HVAC, "green" lighting throughout, tight construction) and the central heat is on as her newborn baby Johnny is sleeping soundly two rooms away. She is still a little sore from labor and felt a twinge of pain and jerked a little. The new CFL slips from her hand and shatters when it hits the floor. She dutifully cleans up the light bulb, throws it in the trash and never gives it a second thought, until 24 to 30 months later when she notices her precious little snowflake doesn't seem to be hitting certain milestones, and seems withdrawn at times, but very prone to repeated habits and regular tantrums when Suzie doesn't get him fed on time, or to bed on time. Concerned, she takes little Johnny to the doctor, and the child is diagnosed autistic. Suddenly Suzie remembers Jenny McCarthy rambling on about mercury and vaccines and autism, and the light bulb goes on - the EPA must be at fault! CFLs have mercury, she, being a klutz, broke one as her infant child slept in his crib, and followed the cleanup instructions. They never mentioned airing out the room or shutting down the HVAC, so clearly the EPA is to blame for her precious snowflake's being autistic. THE EPA MUST PAY!!! (Never mind that if it was caused by mercury, it was more likely the mercury she played with as a child but the fact that she got into her older brother's chemistry kit and suffered heavy metal poisoning symptoms was never mentioned in court)
Somewhere, some EPA staff lawyer thought about that scenario or one like it, and came up with the overly-cautious cleanup instructions as a CYA measure. Even so, again, it is nowhere near as bad as you make it out to be.
> Other than the one fan/light we use often, it would be stupid and wasteful to throw out all our ceiling
fans and buy entire new ones just to have a CFL capable dimmer.
You do realize of course, that the wall switch and dimmer for your fan/light fixture can be replaced, without replacing the fan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4642527&cid=45918585
You are the one who needs to 'get a clue or an IQ transplant'
> No, tobacco doesn't. But on the other hand "show[s] promise as" is not the same as "actually does these things".
Do you have any friends who are med or nursing students? If so they have access to many medical databases, some have access to international databases of medical studies. Ask them to run some queries on marijuana and you will find many, many thousands of peer-reviewed studies in countries that are not The united States of America, and most of those studies confirm the claims that "stoners" have been making for thousands of years. Here most medical professionals have avoided conducting studies because the DEA would yank their licenses at ludicrous speed.
Also, THC is super-easy to avoid if you don't need it for a given ailment even with high-THC strains. Just run it in a vaporizer at 157C without capturing the vapor, then run it through capturing the vapor at a higher temp for the specific CBDs you need for treatment, then you have your near-THC-free treatment regardless of strain. See: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/543218-Specific-boiling-points-and-roles-of-cannabinoids and http://forum.grasscity.com/recreational-marijuana-use/221715-phytocannabinoids-their-boiling-points-properties.html
There is plenty of scientifically-confirmed data out there, as it has been studied extensively in $NATIONS-NOT-USA, particularly in Israel so the only issue is picking the best delivery method to remain productive and the best strain to maintain cost effectiveness.
Face it - we have been lied to by the government for decades. Until about six months ago I was completely against it, although given my libertarian leanings I thought it should be decriminalized given the victimless nature of such "crimes" however now that I am more informed having read the science I am all for the full legalization of it and am considering it for my migraines rather than Imitrex and narcotics which have confirmed side effects and risks which simply do not exist with cannabis, and cannabis is far less (read: not at all) physically addictive.
Get informed - you just might be surprised at how blatently incorrect the DEA's propaganda is regarding MJ. See:
> Schedule I substances are those that have the following findings:
> The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
MJ has less abuse potential than alcohol
> The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
Key word: accepted.. Many diet, pain, and mental condition meds (as well as alcohol, a legal recreational drug) have very serious, life-threatening side effects (damaging the heart, liver, kidneys) while some brain meds even have the potential to create sociopathic behavior (see: mass murders, domestic abuse) while Cannabis is totally devoid of all of these side effects. The worst side effect is that high THC might give you the munchies (great for cancer patients who suffer from nausea) - but high CBD can actually suppress appetite a bit (great for treating over-eating).
It also can help alleviate withdrawl symptoms from opiates.
> There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.[25]
Again, "lack of accepted" - which in the case of cannabis is purely political; it is a racket to protect the logging and pharmaceutical industies, and also racist since it enables the prison industry to profit on certain socioeconomic groups in large cities. There are tens of thousands of minorities in prisons for simple possession charges - possession of a substance which should never have been criminalized in the first place. This is hugely profitable to the private prison industry (yes, most prisons are private businesses and some
> So sayeth years of pro-cannibis propoganda (as with the items above) and some sometimes rather sloppy science.
get on some of the medical databases (if you know any med or nursing students they will have access) and have them to searches - bonus if the databases they have access to include Canada, the EU, and Israel. You will find many thousands of peer-reviewed studies.
Step outside of the American bubble for a moment. Our government has been stifling this all over lies to protect Big Pharma and the logging industry - and more recently big oil now that Canabis/hemp show promise for carbon-neutral fuels and plastics normally derived from petroleum.
> Why is weed illegal anyway? It's arguably just as harmful as alcohol and tobacco.
It is nowhere near as harmful as either. Does Tobacco show promise as a cancer-fighting, epilepsy-siezure-preventing drug, stress reducing, migraine treating, cluster headache killing, sinus and bronchial congestion reducing, muscle cramp reducing, eating disorder treating, antiemetic, appetite correcting, MS tremor reducing, parkinsons, glaucoma-treating, inflammation-reducing, pain reducing, mood lifting and NOT PHSYSICALLY ADDICTIVE (and can actually be used to treat addicts coming off harmful addictive drugs!!!) drug that is impossible to overdose on? (okay you can theoretically OD on it if you combust many pounds of it over the period of an hour or two - just like you can "OD" on water) Does Alcohol show any promise? Hmm, perhaps then you should not use the word "harmful" anywhere near any word specifying cannabis nor compare it to harmful drugs.
As far as the few potential effects may be concerned? The mental "high" can be avoided by either choosing a low-THC, high-CBD strain or by selecting a method of delivery which limits the release of THC. Tar? Not really tar but there are resins, and those can be avoided by vaporizing it, making extracts, infused oil for cooking, adding it to salad dressings, baking it into cookies, brownies, etc. and avoiding combustion, CO2 and CO exposure. Short-term memory loss? Sure the effect is real, but it is temporary and limited (only while high) for all but chronic users.
There is no miracle drug, but Cannabis may very well be the next closest thing.
If RH does pull an Oracle (unlikely) there is always scientific linux as an option.
No, because that is an infringement.
To be fair Symantec has gotten more efficient since SMP went mainstream thanks to multicore CPUs - they can now manage to pin every available during a scan rather than just one, so even SMP systems are not usable, so no one feels left out any more.
> You can own the parts needed to make a working jet fighter, but you can't legally assemble them into a jet fighter
Actually, you can, and you'd register it as an experimental aircraft.
> quite good if you plan on inking)
"inking" is just a fancy word for tracing. See:
COLLECTOR: So you draw this! .ink it'!
BANKY: (signing the comic)
I ink it and I'm also the colorist.
The guy next to me draws it. But we
both came up with the characters,
COLLECTOR: What's that mean - you
BANKY: Well. It means that Holden draws the
pictures in pencil, and then he gives
it to me to go over in ink
COLLECTOR: So you just trace!
Banky freezes up. He composes himself and continues
signing.
BANKY: It's not tracing. I add depth and
shading to give the image mere
definition. Only then does the drawing
really take shape.
COLLECTOR: You go over what he draws with a pen -
that's tracing.
BANKY: (hands book back to
Collector)
Not really.
(calling out)
Next!
A LITTLE KID steps up but the Collector lingers.
COLLECTOR: Hey man. If somebody draws something
and then you draw the same thing right
on top of it, not going out-side the
designated original art what do call
that!
LITTLE KID: (shrugs)
I don't know. Tracing?
COLLECTOR: (to Banky) See?
BANKY: It's not tracing.
COLLECTOR: Oh, but it is.
BANKY: (to Little Kid) Do you want Lour book signed or what?
COLLECTOR: Hey - don't get all testy with him
just because you have a problem with
your station in life.
BANKY: I'm secure with what I do.
COLLECTOR: Then say it - you're a tracer.
BANKY: (grabbing Little Kid's book)
How should I sign this?
LITTLE KID: (grabs book back) I don't want you to sign it, I want the guy that draws Bluntman and Chronic to sign it. You're just a tracer.
> I highly doubt Ford is using Al for anything in the driveline of a truck to begin with, where did you hear that?
Um,
Cylinder heads
Valve covers
intake and exhaust manifolds
transmission cases
pumpkins
Nosiree, Ford never has uses aluminum in any part of any truck prior to using it in body components.
They did, but they have no signal because the rover is holding it wrong.
Many tablets are sold with root access from the manufacturer. Are they also affected by this?
"Piracy" often removes the incentive to create useful arts and sciences. Why bother working if you can't make a living at it? Don't give me bullshit about doing what one loves for a career - at the end of the day the reason every one of us works is to get paid. Period. We all have bills to pay and we all value our time.
To deny someone a measly $.99 or $1.99 for an app which cost a minimum of tens of thousands to develop is pathetic - and if everyone rips it off, you probably won't see a version 2.0 of the app.
> Nobody has a right to "intellectual property", almost all of which in every case is building on the work of others.
The Constitution grants provisions for patents and copyrights protecting a monopoly for a limited time because it is recognized that people DO have the right to profit from their work. The reason the term is limited (in theory it's limited) is to promote the creation of useful arts and science for the public domain. It's a fair exchange and everyone should recognize that people who work for a living deserve to get paid - this is a case where entitlement IS genuinely deserved.
> If you mean something you hunt for food, no one would use an m16 for that. The spoil radius could render an entire hind quarter inedible, and the accuracy of the weapon would suggest the hind quarter is what you would probably hit if you were aiming for a heart shot.
Wrong on all counts - although it would be insanely stupid to use a fully auto for hunting. The AR-15 would be a poor choice for larger game - for that you want the AR-10.
It's not an Apple product!
If the surface is frictionless I doubt very much that they will be doing any standing.
Hemp, or Cannabis, has many uses: ethanol or biodisel production (and can be further refined into a gasoline replacement), clothing, paper pulp, rope, hemcrete, insulation, it provides a hypoallergenic (making it better than soy!) vegan protein source, it can treat a host of health and mental issues (morning sickness, PMS, nausea, vomiting, migraines, chronic pain, epilepsy, glaucoma, crohn's disease, colitis, diabetes, anxiety, adhd, neuropathy, insomnia, depression, Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, can balance appetite, and is NON-ADDICTIVE, shows promise of being able to cure certain cancers and in combination with western medicine improves effectiveness of Hep C treatment), lubricants for machinery, heating fuel, fertilizer, cattle feed. Also, overdosing is nearly impossible - you would have to ingest many pounds of it to O.D., far more than anyone can fit into their stomach, or if you want to smoke it, you'd die of asphyxiation long before you O.D.
It is also not a gateway drug: there is a greater correlation between either nicotine or alcohol use and hard drugs than there is with cannabis.
Disclaimer: I have never so much as tried pot - I cannot even though it's legal in my state because of my career. I'd like try it myself to treat migraines, but I can't. :-(
Also, if it were legal in my mom's state I'd love to buy some make a tincture for my her to help her with her pain so she can cut down her oxy use (she is on opiates because she is in severe chronic pain and is terminal).
When I pull up to an intersection on a 40+ mph street I start a mental countdown from 4 and estimate how far I'll travel in 3 seconds and if I'll end up past the white line I just keep going, otherwise I come to a stop. If I run the red it is because the yellow is shorter than legally required.
For 45mph the yellow light has to be at least 4 to 4.5 seconds. I have seen lights as little as 2 seconds in those zones. It's all about entrapment.
Even worse is there is this one intersection in MA which is often manually driven by an officer during rush hour. One thing I could count on: every time I drove my Corvettes through there this one cop would quickly change the light green-extremelybriefyellow-red, but when I would drive my truck through there I would get a greeeeeeeen-looooongyellowlight-red. She was consistent on this and I'd see her do it to other sportscar drivers too, so I started taking to calling in to her department and asking for the shift sergeant to complain about her, explaining that every time I'd see the fraction-of-a-second yellow when driving my Corvettes through there, but a long yellow light when driving my pickup. After a few calls he said he would send someone out to investigate. Since then I never saw her on that detail again, even though prior to that I'd see her on that detail most days, for months. Her replacement ran the light fairly and reasonably.
Given the opportunity to abuse power, be it a private corp operating a camera or a police officer directing traffic with a logbook handy, that little bit of power will be abused.
FTFY. If it weren't true they a) would not ever shorten the yellow light but would rather lengthen it b) they would always post warnings c) would always turn the cameras off when it is snowing out because in icy conditions it is sometimes safer to run a red than to insist on stopping when the intersection is poorly cleaned and you start fishtailing on snow-over-ice even with traction control + abs just because you fear a ticket. Red light cameras are seldom if ever safety-motivated. It all comes down to the almighty dollar.