Yep. All the stupid convicts that got caught first got sent to the US.
The craftier convicts that could figure out how to avoid capture eventually got sent to Australia.:)
In 1810, if you stole a loaf of bread, you got sent to Australia. If you raped or murdered they'd keep you locked up in Britain.
Want "Hollywood" money? How about programmers banding together and insisting on the protections that stop Hollywood management from moving every aspect of production to the cheapest outsourced labor: Unions. Writers, actors, makeup, costume, camera --- they've all got unions, so their jobs aren't competing with $9/hour H1-B labor.
So, without the SAG we would be swamped with actors coming over from Bollywood?
Mexico, Eastern Europe, China.
Hell, you could hire the top actors in Australia for half the cost of American prima donna's. And it's not like that wont work, I'm met a lot of Americans that think Eric Bana and Sam Worthington are Americans (hint: they're Aussies putting on a yank accent). The only thing stopping them are unions.
Drop the protection for American pop stars and you can watch the market being flooded by cheap Asian pop stars. They're smaller, more complaint, create less controversy and with the fact that you can simply fix their singing in post processing (talent is no longer required for a pop star), accent doesn't matter. The music industry loves Rap and Electronic (techno, dubstep) because the "artist" (I use this term very loosely) because they're cheaper and easier to replace, once you can do this with pop stars (who also have sex appeal) they'll drop them like a hot rock.
BTW, as a guitarist, I cant call crap like rap and dubstep music.
Everyone produces something that uses NAND flash. From MP3 players to phones, SSD's, even cars to fridges have internal storage these days.
Samsung has no shortage of customers for NAND flash, Samsung themselves use a significant percentage of what they produce (Samsung make phones, tablets and SSD's) they would stand to make more money by selling Apple's supply to 8 other players at slightly higher prices.
This is how Apple's business model of suing your competitors instead of competing bears fruit. Samsung happily sells to their own competitors, its bad for business not to. But when your competitor is trying to use the legal system to gain an artificial advantage, helping them becomes bad for business. This is pretty much what killed Commodore, abuse your suppliers and you find your suppliers dont want to do business with you any more.
If you have Apple's pile of cash, getting a fab is pretty damn easy. You just hire people who know exactly what they are doing. If you scramble, you can have blueprints and permits done in a month, all the POs and contracts can be signed by next month, and you can break the ground and go ahead. All it takes is focused people who know exactly what it takes in their discipline -- architects, process engineers, building site managers, etc.
Seriously?? LOL...
I used to work for a company that builds the robots/machines required for fabs. It would take 6 to 12 months just to spin up extra capacity in an existing fab. Most fabs took at least 2 years to build, from planning to production. In addition, it then takes another year or so to improve chip yields to get the plant at maximum efficiency. And this is working with major chip manufacturers with experienced personnel already on their payroll and with huge budgets. For Apple to build a fab, it would take them much longer as they would be literally starting from scratch with hiring fab managers, etc.
I hear you,
Even buying an existing fab that produces similar chips will take 12 months to re-tool assuming you already have the skills and technology.
I wager that no matter what resources I muster, getting a functioning baby, from scratch (so to speak), is going to take me no less than 36 weeks, and that's shorting the process by a couple figuring you can induce early (i.e.: the base moulding won't be applied and some of the paint won't be finished).
That's nothing. Any competent project manager will tell you it takes at least 19 years to return a fully functioning human child.
BTW, you can birth a child 8 weeks early using a c-sec and have a good chance of survival. You just really dont want to (it's like starting to build on a slab (concrete foundation) that hasn't finished setting).
Every year my company purchases about 1,500 to 2,500 laptops
This year my company decides to NOT purchase any laptop, simply because the laptop companies (Acer, Asus, Lenovo, HP, Dell( insist on putting Win 8 in laptops with i7 CPU
Your company has a fleet of 2000 laptops and you're using the pre-installed OS rather than rolling out a pre-built image with your SOE on it?
The mind boggles.
My org has 900 computers, We're more concerned about getting the right HW and dont give a fat rat's clacker about the software as the first thing we do is blow away the pre-installed OS and drop our image onto it. If we get the wrong H/W the drivers can have problems. If we get the wrong OS, it just gets overwritten.
Addition: in Europe maps are drawn with Europe in its center. In America maps are drawn with America in its center.
Nah, Most US maps have North and South America on the left, Africa dead center and Eurasia sprawled atop her. (Like the cheap whore it is.) Oz is in the right bottom, Anartica center very bottom and islands peppered around the continents.
Centring maps on the Greenwich meridian seems to be the globally accepted standard for creating world maps. The advantage of this the page is split on the anti meridian where there are no significant land masses.
But it doesn't matter where you split maps, as long as the map is geographically correct. I.E. if you're travelling on the pacific ocean, you don't give a crap if the map is split in the middle of Africa or the Americas as long as it's accurate and you get the complete pacific.
The myth that people can provide things for free is at the heart of communism
You dont know anything about Communism.
The goal of communism is to socialise both gains and costs. They type of communism you are trying to explain (Marxism) is centralised around the idea that the people rule because they are the producers (to own the means of production) and control society through production (work). It was never to provide something for free, it was to provide equal access regardless of status (everyone works the same, everyone gets the same).
The reason communism fails is the same reason any "pure" ideology (including capitalism) fails horribly. Because people aren't the same, people are different and have different needs, wants, beliefs and so on. This is why all successful economies are mixed ideologies, combining both capitalist and socialist components and this mix is constantly in flux with the wants and needs of the society.
Capitalism in the pure form is a company charging a price that people are willing to pay
Actually this is closer to the Free Market (which also doesn't work). Capitalism is closer to amassing as much money as possible through any means necessary, monopolies thrive here and the purest capitalist society would be where the corporation is the state.
Apple doesn't license iOS to other hardware partners, so it really is the opposite.
Google doesn't license Android to other manufacturers. You dont need Google's permission to use Android.
If HTC could make an iOS device, but they couldn't install a competing product to buy music/movies, it would be similar.
Actually this would still be the opposite of Android. Even if you license Google services from Google (read: Play) you aren't restricted from providing an alternate application/media repository and/or store. Sony already does (they've got their own music/movie on the Xperia phones) and the only thing stopping HTC from releasing a With Google phone with Amazon's store pre-installed is Amazon (possibly, I've never read Amazon's contract).
For years, I've always advocated that Microsoft should release DOS and then Windows for free at the very least for non-business use. If you need support, buy it from Microsoft.
Oddly enough, this is almost Microsoft's business model with one big exception.
Microsoft does not like providing support.
Every time I've called on MS support they've been completely useless, I've had to contract in expensive external consultants who seemed to know a hell of a lot more than MS itself did. This is in stark contrast to other software providers like VMWare who normally provide very good technical service including helping plan upgrades and migrations (because all software companies including MS and VMWare want everyone on the latest version to minimise support headaches). Technet provides a lot of technical documentation that is correct, but utterly fecking useless in 95% of cases. A lot of the command line documentation lacks real world examples and sometime even syntax examples. Social.technet is a complete joke of a bad fart. When looking for solutions to problems with Microsoft products I'll ignore technet and MS sites and go to places like MSExchange.org.
Considering the big advantage of paying the yearly fee^H^H^H danegeld to Microsoft is that you get support I find it insulting that support is such a joke.
Not yet, there is "Kingsoft Office", which keeps improving with each new update.
Thanks, it's free so I'll check it out.
One of the biggest problems with stores touting umpteen million applications is that it's hard to find gems that get buried under thousands of crappy talking cat or sepia filter applications... Until someone comes along and points it out for you.
With iOS, you end up getting locked into a "universe". I, naively, wanted to try one of the new Windows 8 phones, but decided against it because
Fixed that for you.
Google owns my life now (I'd have to switch all my contacts over, repurchase most of my software
Sorry, but Google has no responsibility to be inter-operable with IOS or WP7/8/9.
This is your responsibility.
Google at least does not lock me into their hardware or software distribution platform. I'm free to modify them out of my own version of Android. That is all we have a reasonable right to expect.
BTW, exporting contacts out of Android into a.vcf is dead easy, just Google it (or Bing it if you dislike Google, but I wont guarantee results there). I'm yet to get a single commonly used aspect of the Android OS that isn't easily exportable (SMS Backup/Restore exports my SMS's to a XML file). Hell, even Nandroid makes advanced backup/restore easy (including using modified radio files).
Everything in Android is anti-lock in. You can argue that Play has some lock-in but you have to concede three points, 1) its a piss poor attempt at lock-in 2) you're not restricted to Play, you can have Play and alternate media/application sources and 3) you've got a choice to use Play or not unlike WinPhone or IOS.
People who try to defend speeding always try to mix up accidents with fatalities. The main cause of accidents is driver error, but at 60 KPH driver error gets you sent to the hospital. 75 KPH gets you sent to the morgue.
You get a lot of low speed impacts, but next to no fatalities. You get few high speed impacts but they almost always end with a fatality.
Picture it like this, the mob throws a man off a building, scientifically he died from hitting the ground so should the mobster's be acquitted?
BTW, it's not revenue raising because you know exactly what you have to do to avoid it. You choose not to, calling it "revenue raising" is just you trying to avoid taking responsibility for yourself.
Someone who accidentally speeds once in a blue moon is not as much of a danger as someone who speeds excessively or habitually.
Maybe, or maybe the person who speeds every once in a blue moon doesn't realise he's currently speeding, and so isn't aware of some other, important stuff. Maybe the guy who speeds constantly is actually a better driver and is speeding because he knows he's within his skills.
it's not that simple.
LoL no.
The guy who habitually speeds has no regard for what he is doing, let alone other road users.
The guy who gets caught once in a blue moon keeps their speed in check 99% of the time which is better than the guy who always speeds.
Sorry speeder, but this excuse has been done to death and always fails on the point that someone who ignores speed limits is being a worse driver because they are showing that they 1) haven't got the discipline to travel at the speed limit 2) have no regard for other motorists. Discipline and courtesy are the hallmarks of a good driver.
I do track my car, the people who think they are good enough to speed almost always lose control at half the speed I do on the track (240 KPH) because they dont understand their own tolerances (or that of their cars). Fortunately on the track the only person who gets hurt is the driver. Many of them are driving better cars than me (JDM DC5S vs WRX STI) Speeders are almost always characterised by a lack of self control.
it's not that simple.
If we use Occams razor, people who speed do so because they want to. Not because they are better drivers.
In fact when we add the Dunning-Kruger Effect into the mix, people who think they are such great drivers that speed limits dont apply to them tend to be very, very bad drivers and just dont know it.
Unless you know of evidence that Google is forcing manufacturers to use Android at the expense of other systems, then no it's not even close to the same thing. Manufacturers are choosing to user Android. That's not Google's fault.
Didn't Google strong arm Samsung and HTC into not releasing Windows Mobile/Windows Phone handsets...
Oh wait, they didn't.
Even if they did, Google would be met with a resounding "Fuck you, we've already got the source code".
It should be pointed out that EA did lose a ton of money last year ($45 million quarter 4 2012, $381 the quarter before that). If they keep on track they should go out of business pretty quickly.
You also have to remember the THQ implosion.
Personally I think we're on a big shake-up in the gaming industry. Many of the major publishing houses will fall as they've become to reliant using the same IP over and over again, marketing budgets become larger than development budgets.
EA or Ubisoft will be next. The fact they keep trying to funnel people into Origin or Uplay is losing them a lot of customers. I would have purchased Mass Effect 3 and Far Cry 3 if I wasn't forced to install some other bit of always running crapware that required me to be online. As it stands I had an easier time getting FC3 to work than the Australians who bought it legitimately.
BTW, the money I had allocated for games went to other developers/publishers with less onerous DRM requirements.
I don't think that you are thinking about this clearly
No, I'm certain you aren't thinking about this clearly.
The problem is, people who get speeding tickets dont want to take responsibility for their actions. In order to overcome their cognitive dissonance about this they continually create conspiracy theories that absolve them of their responsibility.
The speeder didn't get a ticket for speeding, it's revenue raising so no need to take responsibility. A speeder didn't get a ticket for speeding, they got a ticket so they get a quota.
No matter how much evidence against their conspiracy theory there is, because they cant admit responsibility for it they cant thing straight about it.
because what you are claiming is obviously not true.
What makes it untrue?
Police forces, especially in Australia have repeatedly said there is no quota. Yet the conspiracy exists. Not because they're lying but because people who habitually speed need to absolve themselves of responsibility when they get a ticket.
What you are claiming is obviously not true, just by using occams razor.
It's the poorly defined "reckless driving" that should be ticketed and enforced... not the easily quantifiable speeding. Speeding doesn't cause accidents.
Speeding doesn't cause accidents. Speeding causes fatalities in the event of a crash.
Crash at 50 KPH you go to the hospital, crash at 70 KPH you go to the morgue.
It's the stupid folks who dunno how to drive.
And it's the stupid people who cant control their speed... or know the difference between a crash and a fatality.
The flipside is the extreme opposite - there's a stretch of road just outside Paris (A86, for those playing at home) - that is a tunnel of about 10km long. It's got a speed camera placed every 1 - 2KM (hidden, with infra-red flashes). Even though it's the same stretch of road, with an incredibly short distance between each camera, if you're doing 10km/h over the limit, you will end up with 6 tickets (at 80EU each) - AND have the points withdrawn.
That is to say, you can lose 500EU + your licence for the same offence?
What's next? Cameras every 20m? Where is the limit?
Australia has a law that if you get caught on multiple cameras on the same stretch of road only one ticket is enforced. You can have the other tickets cancelled but the court will enforce the ticket with the greatest alleged speed.
What exactly is wrong with that? If you accidentally speed as a once off then 3 days shouldn't be an issue.
If you are speeding consistently then you really need to be taught what a law is and multiple speed tickets should hopefully accomplish that.
This does raise a good point.
Someone who accidentally speeds once in a blue moon is not as much of a danger as someone who speeds excessively or habitually. The system of fines and punishments should reflect this (and I dont know of an existing system that does).
For example, if it's your first speeding fine in 12 months you should receive a reduced penalty (or let off with a warning if you're only a few K's over). For your second offence it should be the full penalty, for subsequent offences the penalty should be increased. This punishes habitual speeders but lessens the penalty on people who normally obey the law but had a momentary lapse of concentration. However this should only be for low range speeding offences, you can convince me you were accidentally going 10 KPH over, you might even be able to convince me you were accidentally going 20 KPH over, but you've got no chance of convincing me it wasn't deliberate speeding at 25 KPH over.
I'm actually in favour of speed cameras, but the system behind them should be changed to punish repeat and excessive speeders.
You shouldn't use speeding tickets to determine what you're going. You should look at your bloody speedo.
This, and if you need to look at your speedo for more than 1 second to determine your speed, you shouldn't be on the road at all.
There are also a myriad of cheap navigation devices that have speed limit warnings. These devices are designed for drivers too incompetent to control their speed without help.
Expect someone to chime in that "there are no quotas"..
Of course there arent any official quotas.. but you can be damned sure if the officer gave 0 tickets out each month that he would be fired.. proving that there are in fact both acceptable and unacceptable levels of ticketing.. which are of course quotas.
Given the fact that you cant simply hire and fire police officers (they have to go through reveiw boards to be sacked and new cops take years of training) this is untrue. Further more, how does this work for different kinds of police officers, does an investigator in CIB have to give X speeding tickets per month? How about mounted/bicycle cops? Clerks and support staff?
Sorry if destroying your conspiracy using common sense doesn't make you feel better.
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Yep. All the stupid convicts that got caught first got sent to the US. :)
The craftier convicts that could figure out how to avoid capture eventually got sent to Australia.
In 1810, if you stole a loaf of bread, you got sent to Australia. If you raped or murdered they'd keep you locked up in Britain.
Want "Hollywood" money? How about programmers banding together and insisting on the protections that stop Hollywood management from moving every aspect of production to the cheapest outsourced labor: Unions. Writers, actors, makeup, costume, camera --- they've all got unions, so their jobs aren't competing with $9/hour H1-B labor.
So, without the SAG we would be swamped with actors coming over from Bollywood?
Mexico, Eastern Europe, China.
Hell, you could hire the top actors in Australia for half the cost of American prima donna's. And it's not like that wont work, I'm met a lot of Americans that think Eric Bana and Sam Worthington are Americans (hint: they're Aussies putting on a yank accent). The only thing stopping them are unions.
Drop the protection for American pop stars and you can watch the market being flooded by cheap Asian pop stars. They're smaller, more complaint, create less controversy and with the fact that you can simply fix their singing in post processing (talent is no longer required for a pop star), accent doesn't matter. The music industry loves Rap and Electronic (techno, dubstep) because the "artist" (I use this term very loosely) because they're cheaper and easier to replace, once you can do this with pop stars (who also have sex appeal) they'll drop them like a hot rock.
BTW, as a guitarist, I cant call crap like rap and dubstep music.
Look around.
Samsung, LG, HTC, ZTE, Sandisk, Crucial, Western Digital, Huawei, Motorola, Sony.
Everyone produces something that uses NAND flash. From MP3 players to phones, SSD's, even cars to fridges have internal storage these days.
Samsung has no shortage of customers for NAND flash, Samsung themselves use a significant percentage of what they produce (Samsung make phones, tablets and SSD's) they would stand to make more money by selling Apple's supply to 8 other players at slightly higher prices.
This is how Apple's business model of suing your competitors instead of competing bears fruit. Samsung happily sells to their own competitors, its bad for business not to. But when your competitor is trying to use the legal system to gain an artificial advantage, helping them becomes bad for business. This is pretty much what killed Commodore, abuse your suppliers and you find your suppliers dont want to do business with you any more.
If you have Apple's pile of cash, getting a fab is pretty damn easy. You just hire people who know exactly what they are doing. If you scramble, you can have blueprints and permits done in a month, all the POs and contracts can be signed by next month, and you can break the ground and go ahead. All it takes is focused people who know exactly what it takes in their discipline -- architects, process engineers, building site managers, etc.
Seriously?? LOL...
I used to work for a company that builds the robots/machines required for fabs. It would take 6 to 12 months just to spin up extra capacity in an existing fab. Most fabs took at least 2 years to build, from planning to production. In addition, it then takes another year or so to improve chip yields to get the plant at maximum efficiency. And this is working with major chip manufacturers with experienced personnel already on their payroll and with huge budgets. For Apple to build a fab, it would take them much longer as they would be literally starting from scratch with hiring fab managers, etc.
I hear you,
Even buying an existing fab that produces similar chips will take 12 months to re-tool assuming you already have the skills and technology.
I wager that no matter what resources I muster, getting a functioning baby, from scratch (so to speak), is going to take me no less than 36 weeks, and that's shorting the process by a couple figuring you can induce early (i.e.: the base moulding won't be applied and some of the paint won't be finished).
That's nothing. Any competent project manager will tell you it takes at least 19 years to return a fully functioning human child.
BTW, you can birth a child 8 weeks early using a c-sec and have a good chance of survival. You just really dont want to (it's like starting to build on a slab (concrete foundation) that hasn't finished setting).
Apple is pedatory, and loves to abuse the legal system. Google, not so much.
Oh, so that's why the new Macbooks came with a bear logo.
you also need stickers of all the things you add, they add an additional 10 hp per sticker.
You mean RallyArt and Evolution stickers? Also rip the Type R badging off an old Honda. That'll add a least 25 HP to your laptop.
Your company has a fleet of 2000 laptops and you're using the pre-installed OS rather than rolling out a pre-built image with your SOE on it?
The mind boggles.
My org has 900 computers, We're more concerned about getting the right HW and dont give a fat rat's clacker about the software as the first thing we do is blow away the pre-installed OS and drop our image onto it. If we get the wrong H/W the drivers can have problems. If we get the wrong OS, it just gets overwritten.
Addition: in Europe maps are drawn with Europe in its center. In America maps are drawn with America in its center.
Nah, Most US maps have North and South America on the left, Africa dead center and Eurasia sprawled atop her. (Like the cheap whore it is.) Oz is in the right bottom, Anartica center very bottom and islands peppered around the continents.
Centring maps on the Greenwich meridian seems to be the globally accepted standard for creating world maps. The advantage of this the page is split on the anti meridian where there are no significant land masses.
But it doesn't matter where you split maps, as long as the map is geographically correct. I.E. if you're travelling on the pacific ocean, you don't give a crap if the map is split in the middle of Africa or the Americas as long as it's accurate and you get the complete pacific.
Is that like extremist "Christian" geography? (Or astronomy, for that matter?)
If you read the OP correctly, we are in the correct bottom.
Which can be good or bad, depending on the context.
The myth that people can provide things for free is at the heart of communism
You dont know anything about Communism.
The goal of communism is to socialise both gains and costs. They type of communism you are trying to explain (Marxism) is centralised around the idea that the people rule because they are the producers (to own the means of production) and control society through production (work). It was never to provide something for free, it was to provide equal access regardless of status (everyone works the same, everyone gets the same).
The reason communism fails is the same reason any "pure" ideology (including capitalism) fails horribly. Because people aren't the same, people are different and have different needs, wants, beliefs and so on. This is why all successful economies are mixed ideologies, combining both capitalist and socialist components and this mix is constantly in flux with the wants and needs of the society.
Capitalism in the pure form is a company charging a price that people are willing to pay
Actually this is closer to the Free Market (which also doesn't work). Capitalism is closer to amassing as much money as possible through any means necessary, monopolies thrive here and the purest capitalist society would be where the corporation is the state.
Yeah, because Apple is exactly the opposite.
Apple doesn't license iOS to other hardware partners, so it really is the opposite.
Google doesn't license Android to other manufacturers. You dont need Google's permission to use Android.
If HTC could make an iOS device, but they couldn't install a competing product to buy music/movies, it would be similar.
Actually this would still be the opposite of Android. Even if you license Google services from Google (read: Play) you aren't restricted from providing an alternate application/media repository and/or store. Sony already does (they've got their own music/movie on the Xperia phones) and the only thing stopping HTC from releasing a With Google phone with Amazon's store pre-installed is Amazon (possibly, I've never read Amazon's contract).
For years, I've always advocated that Microsoft should release DOS and then Windows for free at the very least for non-business use. If you need support, buy it from Microsoft.
Oddly enough, this is almost Microsoft's business model with one big exception.
Microsoft does not like providing support.
Every time I've called on MS support they've been completely useless, I've had to contract in expensive external consultants who seemed to know a hell of a lot more than MS itself did. This is in stark contrast to other software providers like VMWare who normally provide very good technical service including helping plan upgrades and migrations (because all software companies including MS and VMWare want everyone on the latest version to minimise support headaches). Technet provides a lot of technical documentation that is correct, but utterly fecking useless in 95% of cases. A lot of the command line documentation lacks real world examples and sometime even syntax examples. Social.technet is a complete joke of a bad fart. When looking for solutions to problems with Microsoft products I'll ignore technet and MS sites and go to places like MSExchange.org.
Considering the big advantage of paying the yearly fee^H^H^H danegeld to Microsoft is that you get support I find it insulting that support is such a joke.
There's Microsoft Office for Android now?
Not yet, there is "Kingsoft Office", which keeps improving with each new update.
Thanks, it's free so I'll check it out.
One of the biggest problems with stores touting umpteen million applications is that it's hard to find gems that get buried under thousands of crappy talking cat or sepia filter applications... Until someone comes along and points it out for you.
This is a GREAT place to stop spending money we don't have. If ticket sales can't cover the costs, fuck 'em.
But how will the US government continue with their policy of bread and circuses without circuses?
With iOS, you end up getting locked into a "universe". I, naively, wanted to try one of the new Windows 8 phones, but decided against it because
Fixed that for you.
Google owns my life now (I'd have to switch all my contacts over, repurchase most of my software
Sorry, but Google has no responsibility to be inter-operable with IOS or WP7/8/9. This is your responsibility.
.vcf is dead easy, just Google it (or Bing it if you dislike Google, but I wont guarantee results there). I'm yet to get a single commonly used aspect of the Android OS that isn't easily exportable (SMS Backup/Restore exports my SMS's to a XML file). Hell, even Nandroid makes advanced backup/restore easy (including using modified radio files).
Google at least does not lock me into their hardware or software distribution platform. I'm free to modify them out of my own version of Android. That is all we have a reasonable right to expect.
BTW, exporting contacts out of Android into a
Everything in Android is anti-lock in. You can argue that Play has some lock-in but you have to concede three points, 1) its a piss poor attempt at lock-in 2) you're not restricted to Play, you can have Play and alternate media/application sources and 3) you've got a choice to use Play or not unlike WinPhone or IOS.
Speeding isn't that big of a cause of accidents,
No, Speeding is a big cause of fatalities.
People who try to defend speeding always try to mix up accidents with fatalities. The main cause of accidents is driver error, but at 60 KPH driver error gets you sent to the hospital. 75 KPH gets you sent to the morgue.
You get a lot of low speed impacts, but next to no fatalities. You get few high speed impacts but they almost always end with a fatality.
Picture it like this, the mob throws a man off a building, scientifically he died from hitting the ground so should the mobster's be acquitted?
BTW, it's not revenue raising because you know exactly what you have to do to avoid it. You choose not to, calling it "revenue raising" is just you trying to avoid taking responsibility for yourself.
Someone who accidentally speeds once in a blue moon is not as much of a danger as someone who speeds excessively or habitually.
Maybe, or maybe the person who speeds every once in a blue moon doesn't realise he's currently speeding, and so isn't aware of some other, important stuff. Maybe the guy who speeds constantly is actually a better driver and is speeding because he knows he's within his skills.
it's not that simple.
LoL no. The guy who habitually speeds has no regard for what he is doing, let alone other road users. The guy who gets caught once in a blue moon keeps their speed in check 99% of the time which is better than the guy who always speeds.
Sorry speeder, but this excuse has been done to death and always fails on the point that someone who ignores speed limits is being a worse driver because they are showing that they 1) haven't got the discipline to travel at the speed limit 2) have no regard for other motorists. Discipline and courtesy are the hallmarks of a good driver.
I do track my car, the people who think they are good enough to speed almost always lose control at half the speed I do on the track (240 KPH) because they dont understand their own tolerances (or that of their cars). Fortunately on the track the only person who gets hurt is the driver. Many of them are driving better cars than me (JDM DC5S vs WRX STI) Speeders are almost always characterised by a lack of self control.
If we use Occams razor, people who speed do so because they want to. Not because they are better drivers.
In fact when we add the Dunning-Kruger Effect into the mix, people who think they are such great drivers that speed limits dont apply to them tend to be very, very bad drivers and just dont know it.
Unless you know of evidence that Google is forcing manufacturers to use Android at the expense of other systems, then no it's not even close to the same thing. Manufacturers are choosing to user Android. That's not Google's fault.
Didn't Google strong arm Samsung and HTC into not releasing Windows Mobile/Windows Phone handsets...
Oh wait, they didn't.
Even if they did, Google would be met with a resounding "Fuck you, we've already got the source code".
It should be pointed out that EA did lose a ton of money last year ($45 million quarter 4 2012, $381 the quarter before that). If they keep on track they should go out of business pretty quickly.
You also have to remember the THQ implosion.
Personally I think we're on a big shake-up in the gaming industry. Many of the major publishing houses will fall as they've become to reliant using the same IP over and over again, marketing budgets become larger than development budgets.
EA or Ubisoft will be next. The fact they keep trying to funnel people into Origin or Uplay is losing them a lot of customers. I would have purchased Mass Effect 3 and Far Cry 3 if I wasn't forced to install some other bit of always running crapware that required me to be online. As it stands I had an easier time getting FC3 to work than the Australians who bought it legitimately.
BTW, the money I had allocated for games went to other developers/publishers with less onerous DRM requirements.
No, I'm certain you aren't thinking about this clearly.
The problem is, people who get speeding tickets dont want to take responsibility for their actions. In order to overcome their cognitive dissonance about this they continually create conspiracy theories that absolve them of their responsibility.
The speeder didn't get a ticket for speeding, it's revenue raising so no need to take responsibility. A speeder didn't get a ticket for speeding, they got a ticket so they get a quota.
No matter how much evidence against their conspiracy theory there is, because they cant admit responsibility for it they cant thing straight about it.
What makes it untrue?
Police forces, especially in Australia have repeatedly said there is no quota. Yet the conspiracy exists. Not because they're lying but because people who habitually speed need to absolve themselves of responsibility when they get a ticket.
What you are claiming is obviously not true, just by using occams razor.
It's the poorly defined "reckless driving" that should be ticketed and enforced... not the easily quantifiable speeding. Speeding doesn't cause accidents.
Speeding doesn't cause accidents. Speeding causes fatalities in the event of a crash.
Crash at 50 KPH you go to the hospital, crash at 70 KPH you go to the morgue.
It's the stupid folks who dunno how to drive.
And it's the stupid people who cant control their speed... or know the difference between a crash and a fatality.
The flipside is the extreme opposite - there's a stretch of road just outside Paris (A86, for those playing at home) - that is a tunnel of about 10km long. It's got a speed camera placed every 1 - 2KM (hidden, with infra-red flashes). Even though it's the same stretch of road, with an incredibly short distance between each camera, if you're doing 10km/h over the limit, you will end up with 6 tickets (at 80EU each) - AND have the points withdrawn.
That is to say, you can lose 500EU + your licence for the same offence?
What's next? Cameras every 20m? Where is the limit?
Australia has a law that if you get caught on multiple cameras on the same stretch of road only one ticket is enforced. You can have the other tickets cancelled but the court will enforce the ticket with the greatest alleged speed.
What exactly is wrong with that? If you accidentally speed as a once off then 3 days shouldn't be an issue.
If you are speeding consistently then you really need to be taught what a law is and multiple speed tickets should hopefully accomplish that.
This does raise a good point.
Someone who accidentally speeds once in a blue moon is not as much of a danger as someone who speeds excessively or habitually. The system of fines and punishments should reflect this (and I dont know of an existing system that does).
For example, if it's your first speeding fine in 12 months you should receive a reduced penalty (or let off with a warning if you're only a few K's over). For your second offence it should be the full penalty, for subsequent offences the penalty should be increased. This punishes habitual speeders but lessens the penalty on people who normally obey the law but had a momentary lapse of concentration. However this should only be for low range speeding offences, you can convince me you were accidentally going 10 KPH over, you might even be able to convince me you were accidentally going 20 KPH over, but you've got no chance of convincing me it wasn't deliberate speeding at 25 KPH over.
I'm actually in favour of speed cameras, but the system behind them should be changed to punish repeat and excessive speeders.
You shouldn't use speeding tickets to determine what you're going. You should look at your bloody speedo.
This, and if you need to look at your speedo for more than 1 second to determine your speed, you shouldn't be on the road at all.
There are also a myriad of cheap navigation devices that have speed limit warnings. These devices are designed for drivers too incompetent to control their speed without help.
Expect someone to chime in that "there are no quotas" ..
Of course there arent any official quotas.. but you can be damned sure if the officer gave 0 tickets out each month that he would be fired.. proving that there are in fact both acceptable and unacceptable levels of ticketing.. which are of course quotas.
Given the fact that you cant simply hire and fire police officers (they have to go through reveiw boards to be sacked and new cops take years of training) this is untrue. Further more, how does this work for different kinds of police officers, does an investigator in CIB have to give X speeding tickets per month? How about mounted/bicycle cops? Clerks and support staff?
Sorry if destroying your conspiracy using common sense doesn't make you feel better.