I am thinking for myself and I think the officer, no matter what you think of his privacy rights, isn't always going to want that recorded even if it may only be viewed by a single person, leaked, or viewed ever. They have rights too. Can you please stop with the reactionary nonsense and actually think about someone other than yourself?
I understand that IPv4 will be present for a long time. We will still have the old addresses and things will still be using them. I suspect that one can configure a router to dish out IPv4 addresses and handle IPv6 traffic at the same time. It seems trivial enough though I'm not an expert. I'm *fairly* well read on the IPv6 configurations, methods, and whatnot but I'm not employed in the field (I'm retired) so I don't have any deep knowledge but it seems fairly trivial to still accomplish what you're looking for.
I don't have much of a point really but you should Google "TSA train stations" (sans quotes). Well, maybe you'd rather not know... *sighs* I didn't do it, don't blame me. I vote third party.
Actually, what I usually hear is people explaining how much better Canada is. Don't take that wrong. But, seriously, that's gist of the vast majority of comments I read from Canadians.
Oh, my stupidity behind the wheel was gleefully skidding sideways around corners during a decent snow storm. It was a rear-wheel drive vehicle, way overpowered, and I was turning the car sideways and "drifting" (we didn't call it that then) around the corners at fairly high rates of speed. I crashed. It was stupid. Nobody was really hurt but I learned a lesson. I was also "buzzed" at the time, which, if I had to guess would have put me around the.08 -.10 BAC mark. Which was, also, stupid. Just very very stupid...
That does make some sense. I wonder if someone keeps stats? Either way, it's a trivial number of people who, frankly, are worth it just to have the social benefits of mobility that we currently have at the expenses incurred with the technology readily available. Are there other options? Sure. I'd not start hating cars just yet though. Right now there are no FEASIBLE alternatives.
For the record I wasn't aware of one of the definitions meaning to remove weaker/stupider but, seeing as you mention it earlier... I really am not bothered by that and it seems that most likely stupid people die in accidents. Hell, I'm not the brightest person in the world and I've managed to avoid them like the plague (for the most part - there was a crash while playing in the snow) - when someone's doing stupid shit in a vehicle near me - I move me and my vehicle out of the way. There are possibilities where that can't happen but, in all these years, I've yet to come across one and I've driven a great deal (like, a very significant amount - millions of mile, quite literally probably somewhere near 2.5 or 3 million) and have only been in an accident when I was doing stupid things behind the wheel.
I'd count being unaware of your surroundings and acting accordingly as stupid and even more stupid when you realize that people do that behind the wheel of a two ton vehicle at sixty miles per hour. I am not sure, I don't have stats and searching Google doesn't seem to indicate anyone as having been the arbitrator of stupidity and kept stats.
You do bring interesting thoughts to mind though. It seems that they likely have the front of the vehicle hitting them but there are so many other variables. Now I really want to know these things. I can think of so many stupid driving methods, mistakes, and behaviors that result in crashes (as compared to those that are just accidental) and it seems LIKELY that the majority are caused by stupidity. Stupidity includes inattentive driving and not maintaining proper distances. Stupidity includes not checking blind spots, intersections, and your rear view mirror.
A driver was killed this morning (it was a Fark link) in a wreck involving a semi full of orange juice. He's a driver (I'm guessing) but was not the driver. No, he was asleep in the sleeper cab. Unbelted, unprotected by his safety equipment, and rattling around loose in there like a bucky ball in a child's stomach. I'd call that stupid.
Two kids were killed (the driver lived) over the Memorial Day weekend. They weren't belted and the teenaged driver was drunk and speeding. I'd call that stupid. I'd call riding with someone in a car that's driving recklessly stupid too. So, I'm including passengers in my list - they're culpable too.
Occam's Razor and all that...
But, you do bring some interesting points to mind, as I stated, so you may well be correct. Your experiences don't match mine so mine could well be confirmation bias on my part as I've driven a great deal and see a lot of stupid people on the road or, sometimes, off the road. I had a motorcyclist pass me on a curve (I don't drive slow or anything, just safely) and die a few miles down the road when he managed to squish himself and his bike up under a guardrail. I'd count that as stupid...
I am NOT sure but I'm willing to bet that the majority of those deaths are due to driving drunk or under the influence as well as killing stupid people. There are SOME accidents that are completely at random but the safety features of cars pretty much prevent those. Some... However, if reality bears out my expectations, I bet you'll find that those people who died in car accidents are, for the most part, not random but rather people doing stupid things in their cars.
Are there exceptions? Absolutely. It's going to happen. You take the good with the bad I suppose.
I am more callous than that. I don't think the cost is beyond trivial and I think the population needs culling at times. So, I guess I am an ass but I really don't mind. We've got a lot of people already and yeah, I have lost friends and family to auto accidents, it sucks but nobody gets out of life alive. You grieve, you move on. Things go back to normal. Sometimes it seems like things won't ever go back to normal but they do.
I don't know, either way... However, given the slant and inaccuracies or omissions in the article I'd attempt to verify any claims made by the article before coming to conclusions. I really don't know - but, in this case, I highly recommend finding alternative sources (preferably unbiased) and then use that information to reach any conclusions you wish to come to.
Then again, I often opine that we should seek multiple sources of verification and engage in reasoning before reaching our conclusions. It hasn't helped, my opining that is, but I hope that it does someday. Perhaps my sanity needs to be checked.
I hate to defend Monsanto but enough is enough. By now you've had time to read, you've seen the many posts, you've had the chance to learn. Monsanto has done none of those things you just accused Monsanto of actually happened (except maybe claiming they don't control nature, they don't). Here's a link:
No, that doesn't list all of them but don't you think that they'd include cases such as the types you're claiming they have had? There's no vast conspiracy involving Wikipedia either. If they had cases like the ones you mentioned they'd be listed on that site. They haven't sued folks for having some seeds blow into their field. They've sued people who have intentionally, knowingly, violated either their agreements or their patents.
Wow... I can't believe I'm defending Monsanto. I need to go shower. I don't know where this rumor started but I recall watching some movie that made these claims. I then meandered over to that mystical fact checking box in the corner of my living room and had myself a peek. I typed in various mystical arcana and determined that, frankly, Monsanto is still an asshole but, frankly, didn't do half the stuff people accuse them of doing. It is like a repeat of the McDonald's Hot Coffee Suit.
Your facts get in the way of my getting to use this comment:
"Ah yes, we're exporting Americanism everywhere."
Damn you! I wasn't even going to read the article, I was just hoping for somewhere to place that comment. Now I see it's not even valid. Meh... I could probably STILL use it down-thread and someone will either mod it or reply to it. There's something to be said for just reading the summary, it's definitely not fair if you have to go knowing stuff and spouting facts and stuff. That's just not cool, man. It's not cool at all.;)
(Thanks for the information by the way, I appreciate it.)
I know that. You know that. They don't seem to know that. I'm not sure what it is about the banking industry in the US. I guess they make enough money just taking tax dollars at zero interest and loaning it back to us at high interest. I'm not sure who's bright idea that was. I'm really not sure... I've looked, I don't know. It's just something about my country that doesn't make sense. I am not in a position to change it, nobody ever listens to me. I've thought about running for office but, frankly, I don't really want to play those games either.
No. I take back what I said about the Land Warrior system above. I *will* come out of retirement for that. I'm not going to sober up though. Life is too short for sobriety. People are too people for sobriety too.
Land Warrior system? That's interesting enough that I'd almost come out of retirement to poke at that. I'm lazy though, screw it. I'd rather get high all day and do nothing. What? I worked hard to be able to do this.
The system they are speaking of is one where you have your own individual car and that car fits on a universal track system so that you're not limited in where you go. The track's access would be near your home and would be above ground (suspended in the air usually is how I see them promoted) and would enable you to travel anywhere in the country with it. Having different track sizes would seriously impede your ability to travel anywhere, no?
Are you aware that 50,000 people is about 1/6000 of our country's population? I'd say it is a good trade off in the risks vs. rewards department. The rest of your comment was pretty much spot on but I hate when people toss out large-seeming numbers to make it look good.
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I am thinking for myself and I think the officer, no matter what you think of his privacy rights, isn't always going to want that recorded even if it may only be viewed by a single person, leaked, or viewed ever. They have rights too. Can you please stop with the reactionary nonsense and actually think about someone other than yourself?
I understand that IPv4 will be present for a long time. We will still have the old addresses and things will still be using them. I suspect that one can configure a router to dish out IPv4 addresses and handle IPv6 traffic at the same time. It seems trivial enough though I'm not an expert. I'm *fairly* well read on the IPv6 configurations, methods, and whatnot but I'm not employed in the field (I'm retired) so I don't have any deep knowledge but it seems fairly trivial to still accomplish what you're looking for.
And sometimes I wonder if you ACs are actually all just one guy talking to himself. It's actually more comfortable imagining that you are.
I don't have much of a point really but you should Google "TSA train stations" (sans quotes). Well, maybe you'd rather not know... *sighs* I didn't do it, don't blame me. I vote third party.
Most of Africa could probably be switched by just buying a new home router at Amazon.
As you should. If not then someone in power may decide they need to export some freedom to your country.
Someone should do the per capita stats.
What if they need to use the restroom?
Actually, what I usually hear is people explaining how much better Canada is. Don't take that wrong. But, seriously, that's gist of the vast majority of comments I read from Canadians.
That's what the summary says.
Oh, my stupidity behind the wheel was gleefully skidding sideways around corners during a decent snow storm. It was a rear-wheel drive vehicle, way overpowered, and I was turning the car sideways and "drifting" (we didn't call it that then) around the corners at fairly high rates of speed. I crashed. It was stupid. Nobody was really hurt but I learned a lesson. I was also "buzzed" at the time, which, if I had to guess would have put me around the .08 - .10 BAC mark. Which was, also, stupid. Just very very stupid...
That does make some sense. I wonder if someone keeps stats? Either way, it's a trivial number of people who, frankly, are worth it just to have the social benefits of mobility that we currently have at the expenses incurred with the technology readily available. Are there other options? Sure. I'd not start hating cars just yet though. Right now there are no FEASIBLE alternatives.
For the record I wasn't aware of one of the definitions meaning to remove weaker/stupider but, seeing as you mention it earlier... I really am not bothered by that and it seems that most likely stupid people die in accidents. Hell, I'm not the brightest person in the world and I've managed to avoid them like the plague (for the most part - there was a crash while playing in the snow) - when someone's doing stupid shit in a vehicle near me - I move me and my vehicle out of the way. There are possibilities where that can't happen but, in all these years, I've yet to come across one and I've driven a great deal (like, a very significant amount - millions of mile, quite literally probably somewhere near 2.5 or 3 million) and have only been in an accident when I was doing stupid things behind the wheel.
I'd count being unaware of your surroundings and acting accordingly as stupid and even more stupid when you realize that people do that behind the wheel of a two ton vehicle at sixty miles per hour. I am not sure, I don't have stats and searching Google doesn't seem to indicate anyone as having been the arbitrator of stupidity and kept stats.
You do bring interesting thoughts to mind though. It seems that they likely have the front of the vehicle hitting them but there are so many other variables. Now I really want to know these things. I can think of so many stupid driving methods, mistakes, and behaviors that result in crashes (as compared to those that are just accidental) and it seems LIKELY that the majority are caused by stupidity. Stupidity includes inattentive driving and not maintaining proper distances. Stupidity includes not checking blind spots, intersections, and your rear view mirror.
A driver was killed this morning (it was a Fark link) in a wreck involving a semi full of orange juice. He's a driver (I'm guessing) but was not the driver. No, he was asleep in the sleeper cab. Unbelted, unprotected by his safety equipment, and rattling around loose in there like a bucky ball in a child's stomach. I'd call that stupid.
Two kids were killed (the driver lived) over the Memorial Day weekend. They weren't belted and the teenaged driver was drunk and speeding. I'd call that stupid. I'd call riding with someone in a car that's driving recklessly stupid too. So, I'm including passengers in my list - they're culpable too.
Occam's Razor and all that...
But, you do bring some interesting points to mind, as I stated, so you may well be correct. Your experiences don't match mine so mine could well be confirmation bias on my part as I've driven a great deal and see a lot of stupid people on the road or, sometimes, off the road. I had a motorcyclist pass me on a curve (I don't drive slow or anything, just safely) and die a few miles down the road when he managed to squish himself and his bike up under a guardrail. I'd count that as stupid...
I am NOT sure but I'm willing to bet that the majority of those deaths are due to driving drunk or under the influence as well as killing stupid people. There are SOME accidents that are completely at random but the safety features of cars pretty much prevent those. Some... However, if reality bears out my expectations, I bet you'll find that those people who died in car accidents are, for the most part, not random but rather people doing stupid things in their cars.
Are there exceptions? Absolutely. It's going to happen. You take the good with the bad I suppose.
I am more callous than that. I don't think the cost is beyond trivial and I think the population needs culling at times. So, I guess I am an ass but I really don't mind. We've got a lot of people already and yeah, I have lost friends and family to auto accidents, it sucks but nobody gets out of life alive. You grieve, you move on. Things go back to normal. Sometimes it seems like things won't ever go back to normal but they do.
I don't know, either way... However, given the slant and inaccuracies or omissions in the article I'd attempt to verify any claims made by the article before coming to conclusions. I really don't know - but, in this case, I highly recommend finding alternative sources (preferably unbiased) and then use that information to reach any conclusions you wish to come to.
Then again, I often opine that we should seek multiple sources of verification and engage in reasoning before reaching our conclusions. It hasn't helped, my opining that is, but I hope that it does someday. Perhaps my sanity needs to be checked.
I hate to defend Monsanto but enough is enough. By now you've had time to read, you've seen the many posts, you've had the chance to learn. Monsanto has done none of those things you just accused Monsanto of actually happened (except maybe claiming they don't control nature, they don't). Here's a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Legal_actions_and_controversies
No, that doesn't list all of them but don't you think that they'd include cases such as the types you're claiming they have had? There's no vast conspiracy involving Wikipedia either. If they had cases like the ones you mentioned they'd be listed on that site. They haven't sued folks for having some seeds blow into their field. They've sued people who have intentionally, knowingly, violated either their agreements or their patents.
Wow... I can't believe I'm defending Monsanto. I need to go shower. I don't know where this rumor started but I recall watching some movie that made these claims. I then meandered over to that mystical fact checking box in the corner of my living room and had myself a peek. I typed in various mystical arcana and determined that, frankly, Monsanto is still an asshole but, frankly, didn't do half the stuff people accuse them of doing. It is like a repeat of the McDonald's Hot Coffee Suit.
Your facts get in the way of my getting to use this comment:
"Ah yes, we're exporting Americanism everywhere."
Damn you! I wasn't even going to read the article, I was just hoping for somewhere to place that comment. Now I see it's not even valid. Meh... I could probably STILL use it down-thread and someone will either mod it or reply to it. There's something to be said for just reading the summary, it's definitely not fair if you have to go knowing stuff and spouting facts and stuff. That's just not cool, man. It's not cool at all. ;)
(Thanks for the information by the way, I appreciate it.)
I know that. You know that. They don't seem to know that. I'm not sure what it is about the banking industry in the US. I guess they make enough money just taking tax dollars at zero interest and loaning it back to us at high interest. I'm not sure who's bright idea that was. I'm really not sure... I've looked, I don't know. It's just something about my country that doesn't make sense. I am not in a position to change it, nobody ever listens to me. I've thought about running for office but, frankly, I don't really want to play those games either.
No, he'll just report it. Sell it to the Russian Mafia.
No. I take back what I said about the Land Warrior system above. I *will* come out of retirement for that. I'm not going to sober up though. Life is too short for sobriety. People are too people for sobriety too.
Land Warrior system? That's interesting enough that I'd almost come out of retirement to poke at that. I'm lazy though, screw it. I'd rather get high all day and do nothing. What? I worked hard to be able to do this.
I dunno. Are you a white male? (I'm not white, I am male though. Either way, I really get a kick out of that phrase.)
The system they are speaking of is one where you have your own individual car and that car fits on a universal track system so that you're not limited in where you go. The track's access would be near your home and would be above ground (suspended in the air usually is how I see them promoted) and would enable you to travel anywhere in the country with it. Having different track sizes would seriously impede your ability to travel anywhere, no?
Are you aware that 50,000 people is about 1/6000 of our country's population? I'd say it is a good trade off in the risks vs. rewards department. The rest of your comment was pretty much spot on but I hate when people toss out large-seeming numbers to make it look good.
You, my good sir, do not understand freedom at all. Yes you CAN do those things. You shouldn't but you CAN.