1. Because tickets are sent to the wrong people? 2. Because tickets are assessed to the owner (not the driver) of the car? 3. Because you have no accuser to confront in court?
These three are irrelevant, because a picture of the driver is included with the ticket in the mail. If you don't look like the picture, then it's pretty easy to contest it.
In MD at least, the ticket does go to the car owner, and not the driver. The red light camera ticket I saw had only a picture of the rear of the car, and you could in no way identify the driver.
4. Because rear-end collisions increase at intersections with red-light cameras? Citation needed.
IMHO the purpose of math in public schools is to make sure that upon release into the real world, students can do things like balance their checkbook, calculate a tip or a discount without a calculator, make change, and understand the concept of compounding interest. Sadly, it appears that they are failing miserably at that simple task.
I use gmail and I get very little spam that actually shows up in my inbox. I would say ~maybe~ 1 message a month at the absolute most. I also have a yahoo email that I use as a throw away account when I have to give an email. Even that one isn't tooo bad. Nothing ever shows up on my corporate email, but I know that one is heavily filtered.
I'm not saying spam isn't a problem on mail servers, but how much does it effect the average Joe?
I want to work where you do, I've found my professional life to be depressingly similar to Office Space. Still not showing Jennifer Aniston my O face though.
It's difficult enough to get people to ditch work for a tiny stipend
Thats the biggest problem right there. In MD, you get either $15 or $30 a day, and your employer is not required to pay you for time lost.
So let me get this straight: you want to subject me to mind numbing boredom, for little more than the cost of parking and a sandwich? It's little wonder everyone does whatever they can to get out of it. Frankly, it's offensive that you think my time is worth so little.
Thank god somebody finally said this. Madden is probably the most important sports game of all time. I can remember being just blown away by the number of plays available. It's also the first game franchise I can think of that had yearly updates. It's spawned it's own superstition - the madden cover curse. Nobody even bothers to release a competing game anymore. It's even influenced how football gets covered on t.v.
NBA Jam, while not a console game, also still ranks pretty damn high on my list of "fun to play" games. It's kind of anti-influential, since sports games have since gone to increasing levels of realism. It really was one of the last just for fun sports games.
not a game in and of itself, but I remember the 3DO controller allowed you to daisy chain a bunch together. 8 Of us used to play 4 on 4 FIFA soccer, that was always a blast.
Most Americans don't even KNOW about the Libertarian party. Many who have heard of it, don't have an accurate idea of what it is. Go ahead, start telling people you know that you are a Libertarian. I've been told I'm wasting my vote, a notion reinforced by TV. I've gotten dumbfounded stares. I've even had a guy respond with "So you're extremely Liberal?"
Some days it just doesn't pay to chew through the restraints.
Oh I don't know, considering how nobody really mentioned the Keating 5 during the election, and taking a look at his wife, I'd say that McCain was able to talk his way out of a scandal and into a white woman's bed with no problem.
multiple writes of the entire drive with random noise is considered to be pretty good. I don't believe that the average joe who wants to just steal your CC nums has access to the equipment or the knowledge to recover data from the drives in that scenario. Even less likely if you come up with some sort of mechanical destruction. I know it takes a while to do those multiple writes, but I'd just set up an old machine to do it.
I would hit the platters with a belt sander. Wear a dust mask. Another option would be to run a bead along them with a welder. I know my MIG machine will render magnets non-magnetic, so I have to guess that it would be pretty effective at demagnetizing the platters as well.
My Mom taught High School for years. I'd estimate the largest portion of the problem starts at home. Administration fearful of litigation and looking like a failure is a close second. She tells this story when ever it comes up in a debate and it still makes my jaw drop.
Angry Parent: Why did you fail little Johnny. Hes not going to graduate because of you.
Mom: Little Johnny has turned in 2 of 18 homework assignments, 0 of 2 papers, and has test grades of 27%, 42%, and 31%.
Angry Parent: Well, what are you going to do about this?
~smacks forehead~
Whats worse is that Angry Parent called up the administrative food chain. It finally came down from the mountain that "Something Must Be Done", and little Johnny was assigned an extra credit project so that he could pass the class.
I go to my local dump/recycling center frequently. I think official policy is that you can't take anything. The reality is that it depends on the guy standing there. I tried to take a large pile of still in the package patch cables and KVM cables, and was told that "this isn't walmart." I've also come home with lots of stuff. The worst they are going to do is tell you put it back and ask you to leave. I have brought home perfectly good, but old, machines several times.
McCain was accusing him of palling around with terrorists (ie, a lie).
So are you saying that William C Ayres isn't a terrorist, and didn't help form a terrorist organization, the Weathermen? Or are you saying Obama has NO association with him? Or maybe you deny that he worked with Ayres on board of the Woods Fund? Or do you believe they didn't give money to the Arab American Action Network, then run by co-founder and former PLO employee Rashid Khalidi.
I think anyone who says all life is equal, is lying to themselves. It's simply not true. If you saw an old woman and a child standing in the path of an oncoming train, and you could only push one to safety, which would you choose? I feel that most would save the child. I would. Change the scenario a little bit, now its a person in your family, and a total stranger. Who would you save? Again, most would save the family member. Now go just one step farther. One is in your ethnic group, and one is not, but identical in every other way. How would you handle that situation? Quick! No time to think about it. The train is coming.
I think it's pretty well established that people do not believe all human life is equal. I agree with the parent that it's just a matter of ranking them.
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1. Because tickets are sent to the wrong people?
2. Because tickets are assessed to the owner (not the driver) of the car?
3. Because you have no accuser to confront in court?
These three are irrelevant, because a picture of the driver is included with the ticket in the mail. If you don't look like the picture, then it's pretty easy to contest it.
In MD at least, the ticket does go to the car owner, and not the driver. The red light camera ticket I saw had only a picture of the rear of the car, and you could in no way identify the driver.
4. Because rear-end collisions increase at intersections with red-light cameras?
Citation needed.
this page has 5 studies that conclude that accidents increase
http://www.motorists.org/blog/red-light-cameras-increase-accidents-5-studies-that-prove-it/
IMHO the purpose of math in public schools is to make sure that upon release into the real world, students can do things like balance their checkbook, calculate a tip or a discount without a calculator, make change, and understand the concept of compounding interest. Sadly, it appears that they are failing miserably at that simple task.
I don't condone either behavior, but your friend is just asking to become a hood ornament.
We do in fact need higher taxes in order to pay off the monstrous debt we're accumulating.
Oh my god! you're right. I deserve a raise because I have a huge mortgage I could never afford, 3 car payments, and $60k in credit card debt.
ktappe in 2012
So wait, we are fighting to give the Iraqis Linux. Have we decided on a distro yet?
I'm a man of wealth and taste.
open it up first, a lot of them are just a solid chip now, not flash soldered to a board.
..how much spam does everyone actually see?
I use gmail and I get very little spam that actually shows up in my inbox. I would say ~maybe~ 1 message a month at the absolute most. I also have a yahoo email that I use as a throw away account when I have to give an email. Even that one isn't tooo bad. Nothing ever shows up on my corporate email, but I know that one is heavily filtered.
I'm not saying spam isn't a problem on mail servers, but how much does it effect the average Joe?
I mean the real world isn't like Office Space.
I want to work where you do, I've found my professional life to be depressingly similar to Office Space. Still not showing Jennifer Aniston my O face though.
It's difficult enough to get people to ditch work for a tiny stipend
Thats the biggest problem right there. In MD, you get either $15 or $30 a day, and your employer is not required to pay you for time lost.
So let me get this straight: you want to subject me to mind numbing boredom, for little more than the cost of parking and a sandwich? It's little wonder everyone does whatever they can to get out of it. Frankly, it's offensive that you think my time is worth so little.
Thank god somebody finally said this. Madden is probably the most important sports game of all time. I can remember being just blown away by the number of plays available. It's also the first game franchise I can think of that had yearly updates. It's spawned it's own superstition - the madden cover curse. Nobody even bothers to release a competing game anymore. It's even influenced how football gets covered on t.v.
NBA Jam, while not a console game, also still ranks pretty damn high on my list of "fun to play" games. It's kind of anti-influential, since sports games have since gone to increasing levels of realism. It really was one of the last just for fun sports games.
not a game in and of itself, but I remember the 3DO controller allowed you to daisy chain a bunch together. 8 Of us used to play 4 on 4 FIFA soccer, that was always a blast.
Most Americans don't even KNOW about the Libertarian party. Many who have heard of it, don't have an accurate idea of what it is. Go ahead, start telling people you know that you are a Libertarian. I've been told I'm wasting my vote, a notion reinforced by TV. I've gotten dumbfounded stares. I've even had a guy respond with "So you're extremely Liberal?"
Some days it just doesn't pay to chew through the restraints.
Oh I don't know, considering how nobody really mentioned the Keating 5 during the election, and taking a look at his wife, I'd say that McCain was able to talk his way out of a scandal and into a white woman's bed with no problem.
multiple writes of the entire drive with random noise is considered to be pretty good. I don't believe that the average joe who wants to just steal your CC nums has access to the equipment or the knowledge to recover data from the drives in that scenario. Even less likely if you come up with some sort of mechanical destruction. I know it takes a while to do those multiple writes, but I'd just set up an old machine to do it.
I would hit the platters with a belt sander. Wear a dust mask. Another option would be to run a bead along them with a welder. I know my MIG machine will render magnets non-magnetic, so I have to guess that it would be pretty effective at demagnetizing the platters as well.
That sounds dangerously close to independent thought.
I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya?! That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself!
... we may all be spared the horror of having to see two at-at's making sweet sweet love.
Thats OK, but if Darth Vader is driving one, and Chewbacca is driving the other, the line is clearly crossed.
My Mom taught High School for years. I'd estimate the largest portion of the problem starts at home. Administration fearful of litigation and looking like a failure is a close second. She tells this story when ever it comes up in a debate and it still makes my jaw drop.
Angry Parent: Why did you fail little Johnny. Hes not going to graduate because of you.
Mom: Little Johnny has turned in 2 of 18 homework assignments, 0 of 2 papers, and has test grades of 27%, 42%, and 31%.
Angry Parent: Well, what are you going to do about this?
~smacks forehead~
Whats worse is that Angry Parent called up the administrative food chain. It finally came down from the mountain that "Something Must Be Done", and little Johnny was assigned an extra credit project so that he could pass the class.
I go to my local dump/recycling center frequently. I think official policy is that you can't take anything. The reality is that it depends on the guy standing there. I tried to take a large pile of still in the package patch cables and KVM cables, and was told that "this isn't walmart." I've also come home with lots of stuff. The worst they are going to do is tell you put it back and ask you to leave. I have brought home perfectly good, but old, machines several times.
I used to know a guy who had a file he would print that would make his dot matrix printer play "Hail to the Redskins"
McCain was accusing him of palling around with terrorists (ie, a lie).
So are you saying that William C Ayres isn't a terrorist, and didn't help form a terrorist organization, the Weathermen? Or are you saying Obama has NO association with him? Or maybe you deny that he worked with Ayres on board of the Woods Fund? Or do you believe they didn't give money to the Arab American Action Network, then run by co-founder and former PLO employee Rashid Khalidi.
I'm just a little bit unclear whats a lie.
ohhh thats a good one.
I couldn't live without rsync for keeping the backup server current.
If you can't stack commands, you wouldn't be given the root password on any of my machines, much less be made an admin.
Mod parent up. That is a very interesting link on letters of marque. Looks like I lernt myself sumtin today.
I think anyone who says all life is equal, is lying to themselves. It's simply not true. If you saw an old woman and a child standing in the path of an oncoming train, and you could only push one to safety, which would you choose? I feel that most would save the child. I would. Change the scenario a little bit, now its a person in your family, and a total stranger. Who would you save? Again, most would save the family member. Now go just one step farther. One is in your ethnic group, and one is not, but identical in every other way. How would you handle that situation? Quick! No time to think about it. The train is coming.
I think it's pretty well established that people do not believe all human life is equal. I agree with the parent that it's just a matter of ranking them.
The problem with China though is the rampant piracy.
They were selling Vista disk for a few dollars before it was even released.
So they were selling it for what it is worth. Sounds fair to me.