I'm surprised the number is that high. Where I live people can't be bothered to take two seconds to put their paper, plastic or glass in one bin and garbage in another. The odds of people saving up their Tetrapaks to mail away to be recycled is about 0.
if someone hurts themselves with sharp cutlery, there will be lawsuits.
Isn't this backwards? I thought dull knives were supposed to be more dangerous than sharp ones because you have to apply more force which can cause the blade to slip?
...it was Nevada that first adopted autonomous legislation back in 2011.
Since then, a total of 30 states, plus the District of Colombia, have put some sort of self-driving regulation on the books. Of that group, 25 states—Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont—and Washington, D.C. have adopted official legislation regarding the vehicles. The remaining 6 states—Arizona, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Washington State, and Wisconsin—have dictated autonomous car guidelines through executive orders.
It's turned into a moral panic about children vaping and how manufacturers are targeting them by selling appealing flavors. I guess adults are supposed to be stuck using flavors that taste awful?
I've read stories about schools removing bathroom stall doors because kids might secretly be vaping there. There are also several companies selling vaping detection devices to schools. Kids are getting caught vaping in class, etc.
The prohibitionists aren't content with banning smoking in public places, now they're going after vaping because they claim it's a gateway to smoking.
If this sort of service started to be used in the ways you suggested, then we would possibly do something about it. However, just because something can be used for "bad" purposes doesn't mean we should throw it out.
If you're in public you have no expectation of privacy. If law enforcement wants to build a database of who was at a rally or protest, then more power to them.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but what ever happened to, "if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all?" It's pretty low to trash talk someone who's not there to defend themselves.
As for not knowing about HPV, give me a break, President Trump is over 70 years old. People didn't really talk about HPV before what, 2000? Prior to that most people called it genital warts and men generally don't know what a pap smear is or what it's for.
They know based on your billing address and purchase history. I travel a couple times each year and I've never had a charge declined when I use my credit cards out of state.
Because voter impersonation is mathematically the dumbest way to rig an election.
Chicago is famous for its history of people voting from the grave and for helping President John F. Kennedy "steal" the 1960 election. (JFK beat Richard Nixon by 9,000 votes in Illinois by capturing what some considered a suspiciously high 450,000 advantage in Cook County.)
No one, because there was no vehicular manslaughter.
The woman was found to be at fault for not checking that the road was clear before stepping out of the shadows to cross illegally. Something that she could have easily done since it was dark and the vehicle's headlights were on.
A large median at the site of the crash has signs warning people not to cross mid-block and to use the crosswalk to the north at Curry Road instead.
Take whatever your pay is today, do the math on what fraction of your time would be 50%/100% overtime and work out the equivalent base pay that would bring home the same paycheck.
The problem with this line of thinking is that people sometimes don't know how many hours of overtime are going to be involved until they accept the position. I know people where unreasonable demands started to be made once they had transitioned from hourly to salaried. This is the sort of thing that you can hopefully figure out from other employees before you accept the job. Things also change. I'm doing a lot more work these days then I was two years ago just because the company is now twice as big as before.
I suppose their job is to comment on cultural phenomena like this, but I could really do without pieces that amount to nothing more than an ad for some product.
I do the same. The only problem I run into are delivery drivers who call from random numbers. On more than one occasion I've forgotten I have a delivery coming, not answered the phone call and missed the delivery. I wish they would use the intercom system outside my building, but they don't.
I'm just thankful solicitors can't knock directly on my door like they would do when I rented an apartment.
I've read one of the Scandinavian countries has laws about schools being funded equally to prevent just these kind of shenanigans. I'd love to see those kind of laws here in the States.
That sounds like a terrible system. You're suggesting that everyone get the lowest common denominator of schooling and that richer communities are forbidden from spending more of their own money on better schools? Property and labor are much cheaper in poor communities, you're putting richer communities at an immediate disadvantage.
Such a system would probably have the effect of pushing even more kids into private schools. No parent of means is going to accept a sub-standard government school.
Social Security is a ponzi scheme. Returns are paid with money from new "investors". Anyone younger than a certain age is going to take a loss on their Social Security investment. You're crazy if you think you're entitled to the money, it's already been stolen.
When you measure A and discover it to be spinning clockwise (or whatever), then you also know that B is spinning clockwise. Both A and B were spinning clockwise from the time they were entangled
After entanglement, but before measurement, the particles are in a state of superposition. They're spinning clockwise and counter-clockwise at the same time. Once you take a measurement, that collapses the wave function and you observe either a clockwise or counter-clockwise spin.
The spin is not determined when the particles are entangled, it's determined when the measurement occurs.
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I'm surprised the number is that high. Where I live people can't be bothered to take two seconds to put their paper, plastic or glass in one bin and garbage in another. The odds of people saving up their Tetrapaks to mail away to be recycled is about 0.
if someone hurts themselves with sharp cutlery, there will be lawsuits.
Isn't this backwards? I thought dull knives were supposed to be more dangerous than sharp ones because you have to apply more force which can cause the blade to slip?
You do realize that metal amalgam fillings last about 12 years on average? They're going to eventually need replacing.
These vehicles are already regulated.
The State of State-by-State Autonomous Car Regulation
It's turned into a moral panic about children vaping and how manufacturers are targeting them by selling appealing flavors. I guess adults are supposed to be stuck using flavors that taste awful?
I've read stories about schools removing bathroom stall doors because kids might secretly be vaping there. There are also several companies selling vaping detection devices to schools. Kids are getting caught vaping in class, etc.
The prohibitionists aren't content with banning smoking in public places, now they're going after vaping because they claim it's a gateway to smoking.
If this sort of service started to be used in the ways you suggested, then we would possibly do something about it. However, just because something can be used for "bad" purposes doesn't mean we should throw it out.
If you're in public you have no expectation of privacy. If law enforcement wants to build a database of who was at a rally or protest, then more power to them.
If you think your partner is cheating isn't that enough to end the relationship? Why go to the effort of obtaining proof?
If you find out your partner isn't cheating, how does that resolve the feelings that made you suspect infidelity in the first place?
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but what ever happened to, "if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all?" It's pretty low to trash talk someone who's not there to defend themselves.
As for not knowing about HPV, give me a break, President Trump is over 70 years old. People didn't really talk about HPV before what, 2000? Prior to that most people called it genital warts and men generally don't know what a pap smear is or what it's for.
Yes, the network is what secures the blockchain. I'm not sure who would run network nodes outside of FedEx, maybe their larger customers?
They know based on your billing address and purchase history. I travel a couple times each year and I've never had a charge declined when I use my credit cards out of state.
Please tell me Pico is not your favorite editor?
I'm counting on this. There's a McLaren dealership around the corner and the most affordable model is still almost $200,000.
How do they enforce that law? Has anyone ever been successfully prosecuted?
This seems like another solution in search of a problem.
When I get done at the hair salon I schedule my next appointment after paying for the current appointment.
If I want to schedule service at the car dealership I use their web portal.
Meetings with people I know? Send a Google Calendar invite.
Because voter impersonation is mathematically the dumbest way to rig an election.
Chicago And Rigged Elections? The History Is Even Crazier Than You've Heard
No one, because there was no vehicular manslaughter.
The woman was found to be at fault for not checking that the road was clear before stepping out of the shadows to cross illegally. Something that she could have easily done since it was dark and the vehicle's headlights were on.
A large median at the site of the crash has signs warning people not to cross mid-block and to use the crosswalk to the north at Curry Road instead.
Take whatever your pay is today, do the math on what fraction of your time would be 50%/100% overtime and work out the equivalent base pay that would bring home the same paycheck.
The problem with this line of thinking is that people sometimes don't know how many hours of overtime are going to be involved until they accept the position. I know people where unreasonable demands started to be made once they had transitioned from hourly to salaried. This is the sort of thing that you can hopefully figure out from other employees before you accept the job. Things also change. I'm doing a lot more work these days then I was two years ago just because the company is now twice as big as before.
NPR ran a story about it on Saturday.
I suppose their job is to comment on cultural phenomena like this, but I could really do without pieces that amount to nothing more than an ad for some product.
I do the same. The only problem I run into are delivery drivers who call from random numbers. On more than one occasion I've forgotten I have a delivery coming, not answered the phone call and missed the delivery. I wish they would use the intercom system outside my building, but they don't.
I'm just thankful solicitors can't knock directly on my door like they would do when I rented an apartment.
Discrimination is discrimination.
I've read one of the Scandinavian countries has laws about schools being funded equally to prevent just these kind of shenanigans. I'd love to see those kind of laws here in the States.
That sounds like a terrible system. You're suggesting that everyone get the lowest common denominator of schooling and that richer communities are forbidden from spending more of their own money on better schools? Property and labor are much cheaper in poor communities, you're putting richer communities at an immediate disadvantage.
Such a system would probably have the effect of pushing even more kids into private schools. No parent of means is going to accept a sub-standard government school.
Choosing not to have sex doesn't cost a thing!
Social Security is a ponzi scheme. Returns are paid with money from new "investors". Anyone younger than a certain age is going to take a loss on their Social Security investment. You're crazy if you think you're entitled to the money, it's already been stolen.
When you measure A and discover it to be spinning clockwise (or whatever), then you also know that B is spinning clockwise. Both A and B were spinning clockwise from the time they were entangled
After entanglement, but before measurement, the particles are in a state of superposition. They're spinning clockwise and counter-clockwise at the same time. Once you take a measurement, that collapses the wave function and you observe either a clockwise or counter-clockwise spin.
The spin is not determined when the particles are entangled, it's determined when the measurement occurs.
At least they asked before opening the account!