There are things, like underage (below legal age) marriage, that can be signed off as well. The way the OP positioned himself, it made it sound as though corporations could sign away your life and it's all the fault of the USA. As if you could position yourself to be threatened by signing a dotted line.
Most cases I can think of actually give the citizen more choice though. (ie: I choose to get married early. I accept this waver of trial hearing for faster resolution.) I see no moral dilemma with these examples though unless you are truly an absolute authoritarian and think that government knows absolute best. No law can be waved.
I simply can't think of anything that you wave your rights outright by signing a dotted line that cannot be resolved because "the corporation said so." That's my issue with his post.
I think your rampant hate for the US is starting to affect your sanity.
You make it sound as though I can fill up a room with people, force them to all sign on the dotted line and fill the room with nerve gas. Laws cannot be 'undone' by contracts. There are no activities that I am aware (feel free to point out one) that can violate the law when dealing with rights of an individual. I cannot think of a single contract that violates basic human rights. Most of what I see is service limitations and you are fully capable of not buying that product.
This Sony ordeal sucks, and I truly think someone should step up in the US courts, but there simply isn't enough people effected by it to raise that concern and it's not like it's going to kill me to not run Linux on my PS3. I have my other computers to do that. I really only installed Linux on my PS3 because I could, but I never used it.
Have you ever seen a poor chipmunk caught up in one of those infinity (∞ / U+221E) symbols? It's a sad state of affairs because they can't seem to chew through the thing when it's wrapped around their neck.
Won't you think of the poor defenseless animals when you flush good bits down the drain?
Then stop paying 20 million to produce that first copy.
I mean, look at it this way. If I make a paper airplane and I spend 15 years doing it. I can consider that I've spent over $1million making that plane and I can complain and gripe all I want that someone made one exactly like mine... or I can get out of the paper airplane making business.
If people want content, they will pay for it... if not, they will get whatever you can make with the money you make on ads or first point of sale.
Yeah, I read that, but people assume that the vehicles only traveled 50 feet before being photographed. I'm stating that the radar reading from the sensor could have been 50+feet before the sensor and the camera caught the vehicle "nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors" (also from TFA) and that could allow the vehicles to slow without hitting the brakes the entire time from reading to photo.
Think about it this way. The radar is not pointing straight across the road. It's pointing down the road and the reading has to be calibrated at a distance before the sensor.
It really wouldn't be that hard to setup those two cameras above the lanes of traffic where the first analyzes the leading edge of the vehicle and the second does the same. If the angle was correct on the first camera, you could cause it to fire off a second picture to capture the plate if the timing between each camera's frames were over the limit.
Then you rely upon someone being able to identify an elongated panel van vs. half ton panel van or the difference between a standard conversion van and one that has been lengthened several inches. That's not to mention different trailer lengths for Semi trucks. With or without bed cabin? What length is the stretch on that limo?
Are you basing this measurement on the size of the passenger window? Coupe vs. Sedan?
Well... technically they pay a greater percentage of the taxes that make that infrastructure...
If you paid $50 every time you went to the go-kart track and some other schmuck was only paying $15 wouldn't you ask for them to make it more fun for you by taking off the limiter?
I'm not saying it's right, but that's why you see nicer roads, street signage, sidewalks, etc. in high income areas. The cities want to keep those folks happy so the upkeep is directed closer to those high income areas. If you run a town, wouldn't you want to keep them happy?
Have you seen taxes on homes? I'm looking for one in the $150K area and taxes are $3k-$4k per year (or more depending on what town you are near) for the Central Ohio area. If you have 1 kid, that's your $1100 per person right there.
I think you've just made a case for me to follow the speed limits... if they can't afford to pay people because there's no speeding fines... that's less government! Of course, they'll just raise taxes or cut schooling (or both) to get people to cough up more money. Bah, I'll stick to my police friend's recommendation and keep it within 10.
What if they hit the brakes when they saw the camera box? We don't know how far they traveled from being captured on radar to when the pictures were taken. TFA says the pictures are "taken nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors", so you could possibly slam on the brakes when you see the radar and even if they catch you doing 50mph, slow down enough to get to 35 before the camera snaps pictures. (ie: if the radar catches you 50 feet from the sensor pole, you actually have 100 feet to slow down.)
It's divisible easily and cleanly by 2,3,4,5,6,8... USEFUL.
Twelve is not easily divided by 5 or 8. It's only easily and cleanly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 (who divides a day into 6??) Heck, 60 isn't even cleanly divisible by 8. (Why did you pick 8?) Technically, if you want it to be divisible by 5 and 8 so you'd likely want to use 2520 as your "ideal" clock because it's the lowest number divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
If you want to get technical, one is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and every variation of that. You want noon in Greenwich? Sure, it's a half day, 0.5 or 1/2. You want to add a full day's work to any time? Add 0.333 (1/3) and you find out what time you leave. I came in a 0.400, I go home at 0.733. Maybe you can convince your workplace to let you work for 0.300 of a day to make the math easier! ('it's a little less than 7.25 hours... you know what 7.25 hours is?)
People know what a quarter (1/4) is. It's 0.25. A Dime is 1/10th of a dollar, or 0.100. Decimal is not a hard concept for people.
I'm all for Decimal (0-1 Earth rotation or [Swatch / 1000]) time. (Why some French used 10 is beyond me!) Just make sure it's fixed on one point (and I'm fine with Greenwich taking that since it's been doing a great job.) I used to have a flash decimal clock that used the 0-1 day and I can't find it anymore.
Wheel/tread based systems have many less points of failure, require less resources to maintain balance, and are generally more stable. They can also be designed to navigate obstacles with minimal energy for balance.
Or throw a ball across the plate. As you stated, wheels can be far less prone to failure and they've been using wheels to propel balls across plates for years.
This robot was clearly designed to throw balls (with a Lacrosse like attachment on the end of the arm... or what were those toys that had the long scoop like throwing tool with a ball?), but it does it in the most inefficient way. It has no hands.
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Plus, you don't have to worry about the neighbors being noisy.
Cemetery's have that perk too!
There are things, like underage (below legal age) marriage, that can be signed off as well. The way the OP positioned himself, it made it sound as though corporations could sign away your life and it's all the fault of the USA. As if you could position yourself to be threatened by signing a dotted line.
Most cases I can think of actually give the citizen more choice though. (ie: I choose to get married early. I accept this waver of trial hearing for faster resolution.) I see no moral dilemma with these examples though unless you are truly an absolute authoritarian and think that government knows absolute best. No law can be waved.
I simply can't think of anything that you wave your rights outright by signing a dotted line that cannot be resolved because "the corporation said so." That's my issue with his post.
I think your rampant hate for the US is starting to affect your sanity.
You make it sound as though I can fill up a room with people, force them to all sign on the dotted line and fill the room with nerve gas. Laws cannot be 'undone' by contracts. There are no activities that I am aware (feel free to point out one) that can violate the law when dealing with rights of an individual. I cannot think of a single contract that violates basic human rights. Most of what I see is service limitations and you are fully capable of not buying that product.
This Sony ordeal sucks, and I truly think someone should step up in the US courts, but there simply isn't enough people effected by it to raise that concern and it's not like it's going to kill me to not run Linux on my PS3. I have my other computers to do that. I really only installed Linux on my PS3 because I could, but I never used it.
Effectively shooting themselves in the foot as people move to XBox?
He got tired of the constant grind and "FedEx" questing.
Mothers Against Drunk Dudes?
Androgynous Green Women
(oh come on...)
Have you ever seen a poor chipmunk caught up in one of those infinity (∞ / U+221E) symbols? It's a sad state of affairs because they can't seem to chew through the thing when it's wrapped around their neck.
Won't you think of the poor defenseless animals when you flush good bits down the drain?
Then stop paying 20 million to produce that first copy.
I mean, look at it this way. If I make a paper airplane and I spend 15 years doing it. I can consider that I've spent over $1million making that plane and I can complain and gripe all I want that someone made one exactly like mine... or I can get out of the paper airplane making business.
If people want content, they will pay for it... if not, they will get whatever you can make with the money you make on ads or first point of sale.
Yeah, I read that, but people assume that the vehicles only traveled 50 feet before being photographed. I'm stating that the radar reading from the sensor could have been 50+feet before the sensor and the camera caught the vehicle "nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors" (also from TFA) and that could allow the vehicles to slow without hitting the brakes the entire time from reading to photo.
Think about it this way. The radar is not pointing straight across the road. It's pointing down the road and the reading has to be calibrated at a distance before the sensor.
vehicle ....... <- Radar | camera -> ..... vehicle
It really wouldn't be that hard to setup those two cameras above the lanes of traffic where the first analyzes the leading edge of the vehicle and the second does the same. If the angle was correct on the first camera, you could cause it to fire off a second picture to capture the plate if the timing between each camera's frames were over the limit.
Then you rely upon someone being able to identify an elongated panel van vs. half ton panel van or the difference between a standard conversion van and one that has been lengthened several inches. That's not to mention different trailer lengths for Semi trucks. With or without bed cabin? What length is the stretch on that limo?
Are you basing this measurement on the size of the passenger window? Coupe vs. Sedan?
Well... technically they pay a greater percentage of the taxes that make that infrastructure...
If you paid $50 every time you went to the go-kart track and some other schmuck was only paying $15 wouldn't you ask for them to make it more fun for you by taking off the limiter?
I'm not saying it's right, but that's why you see nicer roads, street signage, sidewalks, etc. in high income areas. The cities want to keep those folks happy so the upkeep is directed closer to those high income areas. If you run a town, wouldn't you want to keep them happy?
Have you seen taxes on homes? I'm looking for one in the $150K area and taxes are $3k-$4k per year (or more depending on what town you are near) for the Central Ohio area. If you have 1 kid, that's your $1100 per person right there.
I think you've just made a case for me to follow the speed limits ... if they can't afford to pay people because there's no speeding fines... that's less government! Of course, they'll just raise taxes or cut schooling (or both) to get people to cough up more money. Bah, I'll stick to my police friend's recommendation and keep it within 10.
They just dump the raw image from the CCD to memory, and process ALL of them to jpg (and insert time stamp) AFTER all of them are shot.
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What if they hit the brakes when they saw the camera box? We don't know how far they traveled from being captured on radar to when the pictures were taken. TFA says the pictures are "taken nearly 50 feet down the road from sensors", so you could possibly slam on the brakes when you see the radar and even if they catch you doing 50mph, slow down enough to get to 35 before the camera snaps pictures. (ie: if the radar catches you 50 feet from the sensor pole, you actually have 100 feet to slow down.)
The obvious solution then is to put time delays on your brake lights so the cameras do not capture the light!
You could use dry erase markers and/or wax pens.
Yeah, I couldn't remember the name of that sport and the quick search I did didn't help me out.
FYI, Found it: http://www.orologistrani.com/images/video/base_10_clock.swf (It says base10, but it does not use the 10 hour day)
It's divisible easily and cleanly by 2,3,4,5,6,8... USEFUL.
Twelve is not easily divided by 5 or 8. It's only easily and cleanly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 (who divides a day into 6??) Heck, 60 isn't even cleanly divisible by 8. (Why did you pick 8?) Technically, if you want it to be divisible by 5 and 8 so you'd likely want to use 2520 as your "ideal" clock because it's the lowest number divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
If you want to get technical, one is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and every variation of that. You want noon in Greenwich? Sure, it's a half day, 0.5 or 1/2. You want to add a full day's work to any time? Add 0.333 (1/3) and you find out what time you leave. I came in a 0.400, I go home at 0.733. Maybe you can convince your workplace to let you work for 0.300 of a day to make the math easier! ('it's a little less than 7.25 hours ... you know what 7.25 hours is?)
People know what a quarter (1/4) is. It's 0.25. A Dime is 1/10th of a dollar, or 0.100. Decimal is not a hard concept for people.
I'm all for Decimal (0-1 Earth rotation or [Swatch / 1000]) time. (Why some French used 10 is beyond me!) Just make sure it's fixed on one point (and I'm fine with Greenwich taking that since it's been doing a great job.) I used to have a flash decimal clock that used the 0-1 day and I can't find it anymore.
Wheel/tread based systems have many less points of failure, require less resources to maintain balance, and are generally more stable. They can also be designed to navigate obstacles with minimal energy for balance.
Or throw a ball across the plate. As you stated, wheels can be far less prone to failure and they've been using wheels to propel balls across plates for years.
This robot was clearly designed to throw balls (with a Lacrosse like attachment on the end of the arm... or what were those toys that had the long scoop like throwing tool with a ball?), but it does it in the most inefficient way. It has no hands.
So traditional pitching machines that have thrown balls just fine and are more efficient at doing so don't count?
My thoughts exactly...
I went to the article expecting to see a robot walk out on the field and/or standing on it's own and throw a pitch to the strike zone.