Note: I drive such a truck for the very concerns you list, I have three kids, I consider the 5,900lbs of steel to be armor for my family.
Except larger cars have a higher risk of killing the occupants (as well as the people they hit due to their propensity to roll. This causes massive head and neck injuries (the big killer in car accidents). Even the yawing in an accident will be enough to injure your kids necks.
Your biggest problem in modern cars isn't penetration, it's rolling. Your armour is pretty useless against that.
BTW, if you want to avoid crashes, forget all those safety buzzers, haptic warning massagers and lane detectors, just take a defensive driving course. Relying on technology to save you is the gamble of a fool, the best way to avoid accidents is to spot potential hazards before they become real hazards. Remember that everyone else out there thinks that the technology will save them and doesn't bother correcting their own driving... being a defensive driver on todays roads makes you the one eyed man in the land of the blind.
If it's subject to interference caused by someone broadcasting on the same channel and it can't compensate for it by switching channels or in some way authenticate it's control traffic, then it's a poorly designed toy and shouldn't be used commercially.
Reading the article:
"Operators of all unmanned drones used in a commercial capacity are required to be certified.
Neither Mr Abrams nor his business appear on the list of the 92 operators certified nationally."
So it sounds like he should be charged with some form of negligence if that is applicable to Australia. In the US the FAA would also probably be fining him.
Negligence is more heavily punished in Australia than in the US... As such professional indemnity insurance costs a lot over here.
I have no doubt he'll be hearing from CASA (Civil Aviation Safety Authority), Australia's FAA.
Sounds like this is a dodgy operator who's trying to get an amateurish legal defence started from the word go.
... what about the fact that about 95% of "revenge porn" is fake -- just staged to look that way and then sold to people who like the idea? Take a look at gfrevenge . com (purposely not made into a link; absolutely NSFW) and let me know if you think there's one piece of actual revenge porn on there.
So what you're saying that that these sites need to be charged with misleading advertisement?
If a model's photo is going to be published in a magazine, be it Hustler or Womans Day then they must sign a models release granting the another party permission to publish their image.
Someone who ends up on a revenge porn site has likely not signed a models release and their image is being used without their consent.
The issue here isn't the taking of these images, rather the publication of them. When a photo or video is taken in private there is a reasonable expectation that the images will remain in private even when the party consents to having the images taken.
That being said, a smart person wont agree to be filmed doing the deed because it could end up anywhere these days however there is still no shortage of idiots in this world.
Even if you're one of the few privileged middle class people who lead almost "normal" lives in Pyongyang you still live under the constant threat of ending up in one of the concentration camps, which can happen if someone thinks that you've said or done something that the leader clique doesn't like.
Please, North Korea doesn't send you to a concentration camp just because they dont like you any more.
Now they just kill you and have done with, no messy kangaroo court, no upkeep, no requirement for new camps, simplified logistics chain.
Yes. Tbe church has always done that which id ehy they created universities and high education.
Well, created is a stretch but they started quite a few of them and are directly connected to most of thr more prominent ones.
What better way to restrict the flow of information than to control the places of learning.
Things like public schooling didn't come about until the age of enlightenment when religion started to lose power in Europe. Even then the poor didn't receive a real education until late in the 1800's, Universities weren't really open until the latter half of the 1900's.
Not a fan (well, I didn't like Consider Phlebas much) but it's Iain Banks. Stuff like this bothers me as much as people writing Tolkein.
To be fair, Consider Phlebas isn't the best book in the series. Player of Games was much better, Excession (spelling) was excellent.
But he's not for everyone. I guess having a British sense of humour helps when reading British/Scottish authors (a lot like watching Red Dwarf). I'd be surprised if you didn't have the same issue with Hamilton (Peter F).
But I see the GP's point, a culture-esque name like "So Much for Teamwork", "I Liked 1942 Better" or "Angry, Short Sighted and Armed" would be a lot more creative than XxKilla34xX and demonstrate the player has a bit of a sense of humour. I laugh a lot more being killed by someone named "Sense Taken Leave".
Right now doing fine with a 256gb one. 128gb ended up cramped far too often with os/apps and normal downloads.
I bought a 256 GB SSD for $500, that got a bit full so I bought a 512 GB SSD for $500 and put the 256 in my laptop. However I doubt I'll pay $500 for a 1 TB SSD. I think my next to drive purchases will be a 3TB spinning drive for stoand a 128 GB SSD so I can separate my OS drive from my Applications (erm... gaming) drive.
Is this caused by Vitamin D perhaps? It would be interesting to compare to people on supplements.
Here in Edmonton, Canada, my family Dr. was participating in a study where her patients were tested to Vitamin D. I ended up having to take 2000 IU a day. Not that I don't get outside; during about six months of the year you won't see any daylight from 5 pm to 9 am.
I highly doubt it, even if it were because of Vitamin D, people on placebos, erm sorry, supplements wouldn't get the same effect.
However I think the cause it more due to the notion that if people are outside... they're moving instead of sitting down so they're burning more calories.
It's not only for Tesla, and not just on videos either.
Engines are getting more efficient and quieter every year, and cars are better insulated as well. Customers are disappointed when they spend big bucks on a car only to find out it doesn't sound like a big old sport car.
A lot of customers now want a quieter car (not me of course, I love hearing my K20 rev to 8000). However engines and exhausts have been getting quieter for ages now, I owned a 98 Honda Civic in 2010, it was damn quiet for a 12 year old car because when the EK Civic was designed in the mid 90's it was designed to be quiet.
I think you'll find a lot more people, especially in places like Asia and Europe are upset that their expensive car sounds like a tractor (to be fair, it's often their fault for buying a diesel).
However putting speakers on is not a good way to create a decent engine note, you do that by putting a different exhaust on. Some European cars will actually inject a small drop of petrol into the exhaust to produce a crackling sound (Jag F-type and some Audi's off the top of my head).
Top Gear is Cartainment... In my opinion, it isn't a serious car show.
I agree with this. Top Gear is pretty much car porn.
However I also don't class 60 minutes as being a news show. Sometimes they are blatantly advertising for an entire hour. The sad thing is, people do think they are "informed" if hey watch 60 minutes.
Jeremy Clarkson is like Eric Cartman. He's a horrible person, but very entertaining to watch.
Top Gear is an entertainment program, not a news program or documentary.
Watching Top Gear for motoring advice is like watching porn for relationship advice. You may pick up one or two tips but chances are you'll get nothing informative and are only watching it because it excites you.
It was. The chain of event that follow the assassination were a pretty rapid and unlikely chain of events to have happened without that assassination.
Erm, no.
There had been an arms race between the European powers for decades before WWI, building more battleships, developing machine guns, bigger artillery pieces. Beyond this, the powers were signing mutual defence pacts. The assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand was merely the spark that ignited the powder keg. The war was pretty inevitable due to the background behind it. Germany and England (as well as everyone else) was spoiling for a fight. If it weren't for Austria being backed by Germany Prussia and Italy and Serbia being backed up by Russia, UK and France the war between the two would likely not have started, but because both sides had the backing of major powers, they were both extremely belligerent and of course their allies were more than happy to get into the fight.
Arch Duke Ferdinand was assassinated on 28 June 1914, the Austro-Hungarian empire declared war on 28 July 1914. What happened in between was a month of diplomacy, however this failed because each side had more interest in war than peace. The assassination in the end, was just an excuse for a war the European powers had been preparing for, for decades.
It's also highly unlikely the WWII would have happened without WWI, since there would not have been the poverty and economic status Hitler used to gain power.
Here I'd say you were half right. Hitler did use poverty and the dissatisfaction of the people with the government to seize power relatively bloodlessly. however it wasn't WWI directly that was the cause, rather the lopsided treaty of Versailles that kept Germany in poverty and the allies, specifically France and Russia were the instigators. Germany was lumped with war debts it couldn't pay so it made the perfect environment for an ultra nationalist party to come in and gain the popularity of the people by blaming all their problems on outside sources (and the Jews).
Churchill attributed the start of WWII directly to the treaty of Versailles. Rather than it being WWI that saw the rise of extreme nationalism in Germany, it was the allies treatment of the Germans after WWI that created the environment that allowed Nationalism to rise.
Because I'm sitting behind you with my indicator on to get into the sliplane as you're approaching the lights at the speed of smell from 3 KM out so you dont have to stop. You block me from entering the sliplane unreasonably (that is illegal in my country and it should be in yours)
Coasting is rude, it breaks the flow of traffic, illegal and is also dangerous (see: solomon curve, going slower than the prevailing traffic increases the risk of a collision as much as going faster).
BTW, if you're worried about brake wear, don't drive. Brakes are meant to be used in stop-start traffic. People who decide to coast to save brake are perpetuating a false economy.
When a tailgaiter
When your best defence is to try to demonize the other driver, you don't have a working defence.
Coasting to the lights is more dangerous, more inconsiderate and in many places, quite illegal. The sad fact is, you're not saving any money (brake pads last 6-12 months and cost $70 for an expensive pair), rather you're just an arsehole who breaks the flow of traffic and blocks people from turning. You're concerned only with yourself and are ignorant of other drivers around you let alone the larger consequences of your actions. This means you aren't a safe driver by a long shot.
BTW, I don't tailgate... ever. That kind of behaviour is not acceptable no matter what the idiot in front of me is doing (especially if he's being an idiot, if I rear end him thats my fault).
We Americans have our own ways of warping the language.
1. We drive on "parkways", and we park on "driveways".
2. "Bad" as in "This boom box is BAD, man!!!"
3. "My bad"
4. "Friend" as a verb
5. "Twerking"
6. "Hella"
Those are not the worst abuses the Americans have inflicted on the English language.
1. The removal of "u" from words that need it (Honour, favour, neighbour) and yes, "our" has a different sound to "or".
2. The swapping of C's for S's in words like Defence.
3. The removal of tenses. "I already ate" is wrong, you should say "I've already eaten" (present perfect).
4. The mangling of re into er (I.E. centre v center).
5. Ain't isn't a word, the correct contraction of "are not" is "aren't" and it is not an alternative for isn't (is not).
6. A "fanny" is an informal and crude a word for lady bits, not your arse.
7. The removal of the letter "r" from arse.
8. Chips are chips, not fries (we cant let the Belgians win on this one, they're close to the France, they speak French, they might as well be French and the French cant win).
9. The season preceding Winter is called Autumn, fall is when nanna takes a tumble down the stairs.
10. Aluminum is the incorrect spelling of aluminium.
11. It's pronounced Jag-U-ar.. like it's spelled.
This is just a short list. The full list I'd be happy to read out in the Hague.
Falling Skies is OK too, assuming they are still making it
At least it was better than the remake of V
-I'm just sayin'
Falling Skies has its own problems. Too much emphasis on the whole family thing and some shockingly bad characters, but the bad guys are hardly original.
However what really grates me about Falling Skies is they leave the season end on a cliff-hanger but at the season start all this shit has happened and they don't explain it. It wrecks the continuity, at least B5 gave you a quick what happened since spiel at the begining of each series (B5 did make some radical changes between some series).
The Israeli's try this all the time. Assassination by rocket fired from AH64.
Despite Israeli intelligent being quite good (I.E. identifying when the target is home and vulnerable) quite a few of the assassinated turn up a few months later alive and well.
There's some problems with this comparison. Israel is fighting against "terrorists" (or whatever you choose to call them) who live in an economically depressed area, and don't have a lot of money (or if they do, they don't spend it on fancy mansions, they spend it on rockets and bombs instead).
I'm happy calling them terrorists (well a spade is a spade).
But the analogy stands because you have a standing military force facing a powerful paramilitary force. Further more, after you begin bombing and killing civilians (yep, there will be civilian deaths) you will turn the drug lords into saviours of the people simply because they now oppose the government that is now killing innocent civilians. The people who opposed them would now flock to their cause.
That is, if any military operation was remotely effective (and the targeted would just move into a populated area)... But this wont happen because there wont ever be an effective military operation as unlike the Israeli's, Mexicans have to deal with distension within their own ranks. What would happen in reality.
Druglord: Buenos Dias General, how is your family? General: Bien. Druglord: It must be tough supporting a family on a generals salary these days. General: Si, my wife, she wants a second car. Druglord: Well I would love to help you General, but you see the government is making my business very difficult. If something could be done about El Presidente, maybe I could help you with your troubles. General: yes, I understand. /two bullets later. Druglord: have you thought about what car to get your wife General.
You need to lose your hard on for war. They never work out as planned.
We're running one DC and our Exchange server on Server 2012, and I haven't had any problems with the AD and Exchange management tools yet. Maybe there are some features that are unsupported, by the big ones I use; DNS, DHCP, AD Computers and Users, GP Management, Event Viewer and Exchange console seem to work alright.
No, we're serious. No problems whatsoever.
Sysadmins always talk to their guns when they clean them. Nothing unusual there.
Still waiting for the "Ok, ok... we admit, we tried to fix something that wasn't broken and realized that looking for a problem with a solution nobody wants is the wrong way 'round."
They may not be fixing it at all.
What I read basically said, we're putting Metro into a start menu which I can only assume was followed by the sound of maniacal cackling.
I assume submarines have replaced the captain looking thru the periscope with his eyes to a camera mounted there and a Star-Trek-style viewscreen viewable to everyone in the control room. If they haven't they should. You can add infrared sensors and stuff to the video. And no more red light so as to not damage the captain's night vision.
Probably,
But they haven't replaced the bullets a soldier uses with smart ordinance that can find it's target on its own.
Not because it technically isn't possible, rather because it isn't 100% reliable in a situation where less than 110% reliability can easily result in a fatality.
I used to work at a public safety/traffic research center and knew people who did studies on RLCs that basically said they do nothing good and tend to cause quite a bit of economic damage.
Serious injuries reduced after the introduction of red light cameras. Even though the number of rear end crashes increased, the total number of injuries decreased because rear end crashes aren't as dangerous to occupants are right angle crashes.
Besides that, an increase in rear end crashes only demonstrates a problem with drivers, not the cameras. If drivers are rear-ending other cars at the lights they are not:
1. maintaining a safe distance (sufficient distance to stop without impacting the vehicle in front).
2. aware of their surroundings.
3. watching traffic ahead of them (I.E. they're only watching the car in front of them).
These are significant problems with driver habits, not road design. They wont get fixed by removing red light cameras, they can only be fixed by proper driver training and law enforcement. Removing red light cameras will only see the number of right angle crashes increase again.
Also a rear end crash blocks one lane, a right angle blocks several lanes in both directions. if you don't see how this alone is more costly, you are not smart enough to talk about economic damage.
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Except larger cars have a higher risk of killing the occupants (as well as the people they hit due to their propensity to roll. This causes massive head and neck injuries (the big killer in car accidents). Even the yawing in an accident will be enough to injure your kids necks.
Your biggest problem in modern cars isn't penetration, it's rolling. Your armour is pretty useless against that.
BTW, if you want to avoid crashes, forget all those safety buzzers, haptic warning massagers and lane detectors, just take a defensive driving course. Relying on technology to save you is the gamble of a fool, the best way to avoid accidents is to spot potential hazards before they become real hazards. Remember that everyone else out there thinks that the technology will save them and doesn't bother correcting their own driving... being a defensive driver on todays roads makes you the one eyed man in the land of the blind.
Well, and the ground.
In fact hitting the ground is not really optional unless you're going 11 KM/s in which case, you're probably going to have bigger problems.
If it's subject to interference caused by someone broadcasting on the same channel and it can't compensate for it by switching channels or in some way authenticate it's control traffic, then it's a poorly designed toy and shouldn't be used commercially.
Reading the article:
"Operators of all unmanned drones used in a commercial capacity are required to be certified.
Neither Mr Abrams nor his business appear on the list of the 92 operators certified nationally."
So it sounds like he should be charged with some form of negligence if that is applicable to Australia. In the US the FAA would also probably be fining him.
Negligence is more heavily punished in Australia than in the US... As such professional indemnity insurance costs a lot over here.
I have no doubt he'll be hearing from CASA (Civil Aviation Safety Authority), Australia's FAA.
Sounds like this is a dodgy operator who's trying to get an amateurish legal defence started from the word go.
... what about the fact that about 95% of "revenge porn" is fake -- just staged to look that way and then sold to people who like the idea? Take a look at gfrevenge . com (purposely not made into a link; absolutely NSFW) and let me know if you think there's one piece of actual revenge porn on there.
So what you're saying that that these sites need to be charged with misleading advertisement?
He likely did the paper work for releases,
And here is the kicker.
If a model's photo is going to be published in a magazine, be it Hustler or Womans Day then they must sign a models release granting the another party permission to publish their image.
Someone who ends up on a revenge porn site has likely not signed a models release and their image is being used without their consent.
The issue here isn't the taking of these images, rather the publication of them. When a photo or video is taken in private there is a reasonable expectation that the images will remain in private even when the party consents to having the images taken.
That being said, a smart person wont agree to be filmed doing the deed because it could end up anywhere these days however there is still no shortage of idiots in this world.
Even if you're one of the few privileged middle class people who lead almost "normal" lives in Pyongyang you still live under the constant threat of ending up in one of the concentration camps, which can happen if someone thinks that you've said or done something that the leader clique doesn't like.
Please, North Korea doesn't send you to a concentration camp just because they dont like you any more.
Now they just kill you and have done with, no messy kangaroo court, no upkeep, no requirement for new camps, simplified logistics chain.
Don't use the good beer. Use the Miller Light that's been sitting in your fridge since someone brought it over months ago.
I banish thee to the firey pits of culinary hell.
If it's not good enough to drink, it's not good enough to cook with.
Save that crap beer for the people you don't like your brother in law or that annoying friend who never brings his own beer.
Yes. Tbe church has always done that which id ehy they created universities and high education.
Well, created is a stretch but they started quite a few of them and are directly connected to most of thr more prominent ones.
What better way to restrict the flow of information than to control the places of learning.
Things like public schooling didn't come about until the age of enlightenment when religion started to lose power in Europe. Even then the poor didn't receive a real education until late in the 1800's, Universities weren't really open until the latter half of the 1900's.
Not a fan (well, I didn't like Consider Phlebas much) but it's Iain Banks. Stuff like this bothers me as much as people writing Tolkein.
To be fair, Consider Phlebas isn't the best book in the series. Player of Games was much better, Excession (spelling) was excellent.
But he's not for everyone. I guess having a British sense of humour helps when reading British/Scottish authors (a lot like watching Red Dwarf). I'd be surprised if you didn't have the same issue with Hamilton (Peter F).
But I see the GP's point, a culture-esque name like "So Much for Teamwork", "I Liked 1942 Better" or "Angry, Short Sighted and Armed" would be a lot more creative than XxKilla34xX and demonstrate the player has a bit of a sense of humour. I laugh a lot more being killed by someone named "Sense Taken Leave".
Which is exactly why the US need 'Splodin trees.
2nd Amendment Rights
Well armed forest, take that treehuggers.
This tree will self destruct in 5 seconds.
Right now doing fine with a 256gb one. 128gb ended up cramped far too often with os/apps and normal downloads.
I bought a 256 GB SSD for $500, that got a bit full so I bought a 512 GB SSD for $500 and put the 256 in my laptop. However I doubt I'll pay $500 for a 1 TB SSD. I think my next to drive purchases will be a 3TB spinning drive for stoand a 128 GB SSD so I can separate my OS drive from my Applications (erm... gaming) drive.
Is this caused by Vitamin D perhaps? It would be interesting to compare to people on supplements.
Here in Edmonton, Canada, my family Dr. was participating in a study where her patients were tested to Vitamin D. I ended up having to take 2000 IU a day. Not that I don't get outside; during about six months of the year you won't see any daylight from 5 pm to 9 am.
I highly doubt it, even if it were because of Vitamin D, people on placebos, erm sorry, supplements wouldn't get the same effect.
However I think the cause it more due to the notion that if people are outside... they're moving instead of sitting down so they're burning more calories.
It's not only for Tesla, and not just on videos either.
Engines are getting more efficient and quieter every year, and cars are better insulated as well. Customers are disappointed when they spend big bucks on a car only to find out it doesn't sound like a big old sport car.
A lot of customers now want a quieter car (not me of course, I love hearing my K20 rev to 8000). However engines and exhausts have been getting quieter for ages now, I owned a 98 Honda Civic in 2010, it was damn quiet for a 12 year old car because when the EK Civic was designed in the mid 90's it was designed to be quiet.
I think you'll find a lot more people, especially in places like Asia and Europe are upset that their expensive car sounds like a tractor (to be fair, it's often their fault for buying a diesel).
However putting speakers on is not a good way to create a decent engine note, you do that by putting a different exhaust on. Some European cars will actually inject a small drop of petrol into the exhaust to produce a crackling sound (Jag F-type and some Audi's off the top of my head).
Top Gear is Cartainment... In my opinion, it isn't a serious car show.
I agree with this. Top Gear is pretty much car porn.
However I also don't class 60 minutes as being a news show. Sometimes they are blatantly advertising for an entire hour. The sad thing is, people do think they are "informed" if hey watch 60 minutes.
Jeremy Clarkson is like Eric Cartman. He's a horrible person, but very entertaining to watch.
Top Gear is an entertainment program, not a news program or documentary.
Watching Top Gear for motoring advice is like watching porn for relationship advice. You may pick up one or two tips but chances are you'll get nothing informative and are only watching it because it excites you.
Top Gear is essentially car porn.
It was. The chain of event that follow the assassination were a pretty rapid and unlikely chain of events to have happened without that assassination.
Erm, no.
There had been an arms race between the European powers for decades before WWI, building more battleships, developing machine guns, bigger artillery pieces. Beyond this, the powers were signing mutual defence pacts. The assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand was merely the spark that ignited the powder keg. The war was pretty inevitable due to the background behind it. Germany and England (as well as everyone else) was spoiling for a fight. If it weren't for Austria being backed by Germany Prussia and Italy and Serbia being backed up by Russia, UK and France the war between the two would likely not have started, but because both sides had the backing of major powers, they were both extremely belligerent and of course their allies were more than happy to get into the fight. Arch Duke Ferdinand was assassinated on 28 June 1914, the Austro-Hungarian empire declared war on 28 July 1914. What happened in between was a month of diplomacy, however this failed because each side had more interest in war than peace. The assassination in the end, was just an excuse for a war the European powers had been preparing for, for decades.
It's also highly unlikely the WWII would have happened without WWI, since there would not have been the poverty and economic status Hitler used to gain power.
Here I'd say you were half right. Hitler did use poverty and the dissatisfaction of the people with the government to seize power relatively bloodlessly. however it wasn't WWI directly that was the cause, rather the lopsided treaty of Versailles that kept Germany in poverty and the allies, specifically France and Russia were the instigators. Germany was lumped with war debts it couldn't pay so it made the perfect environment for an ultra nationalist party to come in and gain the popularity of the people by blaming all their problems on outside sources (and the Jews).
Churchill attributed the start of WWII directly to the treaty of Versailles. Rather than it being WWI that saw the rise of extreme nationalism in Germany, it was the allies treatment of the Germans after WWI that created the environment that allowed Nationalism to rise.
And coasting is a problem why?
Because I'm sitting behind you with my indicator on to get into the sliplane as you're approaching the lights at the speed of smell from 3 KM out so you dont have to stop. You block me from entering the sliplane unreasonably (that is illegal in my country and it should be in yours)
Coasting is rude, it breaks the flow of traffic, illegal and is also dangerous (see: solomon curve, going slower than the prevailing traffic increases the risk of a collision as much as going faster).
BTW, if you're worried about brake wear, don't drive. Brakes are meant to be used in stop-start traffic. People who decide to coast to save brake are perpetuating a false economy.
When a tailgaiter
When your best defence is to try to demonize the other driver, you don't have a working defence.
Coasting to the lights is more dangerous, more inconsiderate and in many places, quite illegal. The sad fact is, you're not saving any money (brake pads last 6-12 months and cost $70 for an expensive pair), rather you're just an arsehole who breaks the flow of traffic and blocks people from turning. You're concerned only with yourself and are ignorant of other drivers around you let alone the larger consequences of your actions. This means you aren't a safe driver by a long shot.
BTW, I don't tailgate... ever. That kind of behaviour is not acceptable no matter what the idiot in front of me is doing (especially if he's being an idiot, if I rear end him thats my fault).
We Americans have our own ways of warping the language.
1. We drive on "parkways", and we park on "driveways".
2. "Bad" as in "This boom box is BAD, man!!!"
3. "My bad"
4. "Friend" as a verb
5. "Twerking"
6. "Hella"
Those are not the worst abuses the Americans have inflicted on the English language.
1. The removal of "u" from words that need it (Honour, favour, neighbour) and yes, "our" has a different sound to "or".
2. The swapping of C's for S's in words like Defence.
3. The removal of tenses. "I already ate" is wrong, you should say "I've already eaten" (present perfect).
4. The mangling of re into er (I.E. centre v center).
5. Ain't isn't a word, the correct contraction of "are not" is "aren't" and it is not an alternative for isn't (is not).
6. A "fanny" is an informal and crude a word for lady bits, not your arse.
7. The removal of the letter "r" from arse.
8. Chips are chips, not fries (we cant let the Belgians win on this one, they're close to the France, they speak French, they might as well be French and the French cant win).
9. The season preceding Winter is called Autumn, fall is when nanna takes a tumble down the stairs.
10. Aluminum is the incorrect spelling of aluminium.
11. It's pronounced Jag-U-ar.. like it's spelled.
This is just a short list. The full list I'd be happy to read out in the Hague.
Falling Skies is OK too, assuming they are still making it
At least it was better than the remake of V
-I'm just sayin'
Falling Skies has its own problems. Too much emphasis on the whole family thing and some shockingly bad characters, but the bad guys are hardly original.
However what really grates me about Falling Skies is they leave the season end on a cliff-hanger but at the season start all this shit has happened and they don't explain it. It wrecks the continuity, at least B5 gave you a quick what happened since spiel at the begining of each series (B5 did make some radical changes between some series).
The Israeli's try this all the time. Assassination by rocket fired from AH64.
Despite Israeli intelligent being quite good (I.E. identifying when the target is home and vulnerable) quite a few of the assassinated turn up a few months later alive and well.
There's some problems with this comparison. Israel is fighting against "terrorists" (or whatever you choose to call them) who live in an economically depressed area, and don't have a lot of money (or if they do, they don't spend it on fancy mansions, they spend it on rockets and bombs instead).
I'm happy calling them terrorists (well a spade is a spade).
/two bullets later.
But the analogy stands because you have a standing military force facing a powerful paramilitary force. Further more, after you begin bombing and killing civilians (yep, there will be civilian deaths) you will turn the drug lords into saviours of the people simply because they now oppose the government that is now killing innocent civilians. The people who opposed them would now flock to their cause.
That is, if any military operation was remotely effective (and the targeted would just move into a populated area)... But this wont happen because there wont ever be an effective military operation as unlike the Israeli's, Mexicans have to deal with distension within their own ranks. What would happen in reality.
Druglord: Buenos Dias General, how is your family?
General: Bien.
Druglord: It must be tough supporting a family on a generals salary these days.
General: Si, my wife, she wants a second car.
Druglord: Well I would love to help you General, but you see the government is making my business very difficult. If something could be done about El Presidente, maybe I could help you with your troubles.
General: yes, I understand.
Druglord: have you thought about what car to get your wife General.
You need to lose your hard on for war. They never work out as planned.
We're running one DC and our Exchange server on Server 2012, and I haven't had any problems with the AD and Exchange management tools yet. Maybe there are some features that are unsupported, by the big ones I use; DNS, DHCP, AD Computers and Users, GP Management, Event Viewer and Exchange console seem to work alright.
No, we're serious. No problems whatsoever.
Sysadmins always talk to their guns when they clean them. Nothing unusual there.
Still waiting for the "Ok, ok... we admit, we tried to fix something that wasn't broken and realized that looking for a problem with a solution nobody wants is the wrong way 'round."
They may not be fixing it at all.
What I read basically said, we're putting Metro into a start menu which I can only assume was followed by the sound of maniacal cackling.
I assume submarines have replaced the captain looking thru the periscope with his eyes to a camera mounted there and a Star-Trek-style viewscreen viewable to everyone in the control room. If they haven't they should. You can add infrared sensors and stuff to the video. And no more red light so as to not damage the captain's night vision.
Probably, But they haven't replaced the bullets a soldier uses with smart ordinance that can find it's target on its own.
Not because it technically isn't possible, rather because it isn't 100% reliable in a situation where less than 110% reliability can easily result in a fatality.
This is wrong.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/public...
Serious injuries reduced after the introduction of red light cameras. Even though the number of rear end crashes increased, the total number of injuries decreased because rear end crashes aren't as dangerous to occupants are right angle crashes.
Besides that, an increase in rear end crashes only demonstrates a problem with drivers, not the cameras. If drivers are rear-ending other cars at the lights they are not:
1. maintaining a safe distance (sufficient distance to stop without impacting the vehicle in front).
2. aware of their surroundings.
3. watching traffic ahead of them (I.E. they're only watching the car in front of them).
These are significant problems with driver habits, not road design. They wont get fixed by removing red light cameras, they can only be fixed by proper driver training and law enforcement. Removing red light cameras will only see the number of right angle crashes increase again.
Also a rear end crash blocks one lane, a right angle blocks several lanes in both directions. if you don't see how this alone is more costly, you are not smart enough to talk about economic damage.