But, the argument is often put forth that it will cost you more in insurance premiums if there is no helmet law..and that is BUNK.
Regardless of insurance premiums, there is the cost of basic emergency services: police, ambulance, emergency room. These costs will be incurred regardless of the insurance status of the injured party (and I hope we keep it that way).
Motorcycle helmet law = nanny state.
Banning violent video games = nanny state.
Seat belt law = nanny state.
There is a key difference between the items listed above and attempts to stop distracted driving. Items listed above are an attempt to protect us from ourselves. Distracted (or drunk) driving is an attempt to protect you or me from someone else, notably the nut texting her boyfriend who plows her 8 ton SUV into the side of your Prius.
No.
The motorcycle helmet law does protect me from someone else's medical costs coming out of my taxes.
I wish people in the US would realize that the more people in government there is, the exponentially more the burden on private enterprise. Assume 1 government worker in a population of 100 can pay 20% of their salary (say $1000) back. The remaining 80% of that salary comes from private enterprise. Now, imagine 99 government workers and one private enterprise person. We then have a $76,200 bill to be paid by one person. Good luck with that.
You are ignoring the facts that many private sector jobs depend almost entirely on public financing (defense contractors) and that almost all of the private sector depends to some extent on public expenditures (infrastructure, schools, hospitals, housing).
For car navigation, you don't even need it, as the accuracy is better than the width of a road regardless! Not true. Google for "lane-level accuracy". How do you know if you are in an exit/turn lane? On a service road parallel to a freeway? In a lane with a stalled car ahead? (Ok, that's safety, not nav, but the car companies are anticipating precise enough sensor data to do safety apps.)
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But, the argument is often put forth that it will cost you more in insurance premiums if there is no helmet law..and that is BUNK.
Regardless of insurance premiums, there is the cost of basic emergency services: police, ambulance, emergency room. These costs will be incurred regardless of the insurance status of the injured party (and I hope we keep it that way).
Motorcycle helmet law = nanny state. Banning violent video games = nanny state. Seat belt law = nanny state. There is a key difference between the items listed above and attempts to stop distracted driving. Items listed above are an attempt to protect us from ourselves. Distracted (or drunk) driving is an attempt to protect you or me from someone else, notably the nut texting her boyfriend who plows her 8 ton SUV into the side of your Prius.
No.
The motorcycle helmet law does protect me from someone else's medical costs coming out of my taxes.
If you have even one well skilled mainframe person and someone else from the *nix world, you can have two skilled mainframe people in short order.
I've always wondered how mainframe people reproduce.
It's just like those old Budweiser ads (tastes great/less filling) modulo the scantily clad women duking it out in a swimming pool.
The remainder when divided by scantily clad women is an intriguing concept. Please do explain...
with me? We can explore every possible position simultaneously.
We're whalers on the moon....
winers never quilt, and quilters never wine.
What do you use for a decent console app?!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
and while were at it:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
They developed on Windows by Crom!
I always develop by Crom. It's the most cromulent IDE on Windows.
now I'm a full-time web developer. RIP.
Surely, being a full-time web developer is not the end of your life?
put together their own Linux distro
Dalai Linux!
Ubuntu Larky Lama.
I wish people in the US would realize that the more people in government there is, the exponentially more the burden on private enterprise. Assume 1 government worker in a population of 100 can pay 20% of their salary (say $1000) back. The remaining 80% of that salary comes from private enterprise. Now, imagine 99 government workers and one private enterprise person. We then have a $76,200 bill to be paid by one person. Good luck with that.
You are ignoring the facts that many private sector jobs depend almost entirely on public financing (defense contractors) and that almost all of the private sector depends to some extent on public expenditures (infrastructure, schools, hospitals, housing).
Magnetic Levitation = MagLev
Just sign the EULA, pussy
I've been signing EULAs for years. Btw, where can I get new glass for my monitor?
You insensitive clod. I have a thinkpad.
IOOPS?
Biodiesel counts.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/13/BA7I118B1I.DTL&hw=traffic+accident+hoax&sn=001&sc=1000
ACHILLES: Asynchronous Client Hypertext In Lisp Leveraged Enterprise Services
http://home1.gte.net/pjbemail/RibletFlow.html
Not only are there a lot of interesting non-web projects[1] in ruby, there are a lot of non-Rails web frameworks[2] in ruby.
[1] http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/InterestingProjects
[2] Nitro, Merb, Ramaze, Camping http://ramaze.net/home#other-frameworks
At minute 4:33 of the video, they finally tell us the book's title: The Music of Teh Cubes