The move came after a fiery 2009 Lexus crash after a floor mat was improperly installed and may have trapped the accelerator pedal, causing the vehicle to race down California Highway 125 outside San Diego at more than 100 miles per hour, crashing and bursting into flames, killing an off-duty California Highway Patrol Officer and three members of his family.
Sounds Darwinian to me. If you don't know how to turn your car off, then frankly as a race we don't need you genes!
Stock split taxation.... What, you owe stock, and, the number of shares you have is doubled? Now you will have to pay a 30% share price tax on your increase in shares.
Capital gains tax is applicale to the selling of shares.
Credit card taxation.... spend $$$ on a credit card, sounds like free money, you will have to pay 30% of your credit card spendings to the government.
VAT.
Auto purchase taxation... what, free money from the bank? OK, but you will owe 30% of your auto purchase in taxes.
Also VAT, plus fuel duty and VED.
Mortgage taxation.... what, more free money? OK, but you will have to pay 30% of the money you get from your mortgage back to the government.
Stampy duty.
Sold your home for less than you bought it for? Oh, it still looks like you got lots of money from selling it. We will have to charge a 30% tax on this windfall income.
Also subject to capital gains tax if it's not your main home. Regardless of stamp duty.
Personally I can think of lots of words for people who actively enjoy the killing of other creatures, let alone the likes of Elephants. Pretty much all of which I cant post on/. to protect everyones innocence.
However, the law at the time required a prosecution and, as such, long-standing policy has been to accept that such convictions took place and, rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times.
I guess the difference is the US finds it far more sporting to simply read your tweets and prosecute* you for them, rather than not letting you say them in the first place. Although its interesting to see exactly the lengths they go to!
I didn't think ships generally fall away from the side which is damaged.
I'm also just a layman, but to me it would seem that given the hole we can see is toward the stern and the quite sharp angle the rock has managed to hit and become stuck would suggest a bigger impact on the other side, which in turn would force the ship sidewards. All in I'd imagine the hull was a pretty big mess.
Yes and my own situation is probably unique. I like in west London and I drive up to Leeds (well Wakefield) 4-5 times a year to see friends in a village just outside. (Where there is free parking.) Door to door its still quicker than having to get to and then take the tube to Kings Cross, wait at the station, and get a taxi at the other end. Even with the seemingly endless roadworks on the M1. There is the added bonus that I don't need to carry the weekend bag across town either.
Naturally the train is safer and more comfortable (if you can get a seat, trains on that route seem to be always packed) and being able to take the train after a particularly big night is a boon. But I wouldn't say reliability for train travel is on its pro list. There always seems to have been something, a broken down train a few hours before which is still causing delays, or something. If a train breaks down ahead of you, you can bit sitting there for hours. If there is an accident on the M1 your sat nav will probably helpfully route you around it.
However that really doesn't make up for the cost. My car costs £40-£50, a train ticket, between £80 and £140. If you miss the train (because say, the minicab you called just didn't bother to turn up) and thats another £100. Its just crazy prices. And thats for one person. If you're heading up with 3 friends, your looking at £320 - £560. Thats insane.
70 litres of petrol to go from London to Leeds and back? I've done this journey a few times recently, while my car isn't the greatest, it averages 45mpg on the journey, so ends up costing me about half the price of the train ticket. Incidentally, that ticket will probably only be for one train there and one back, if you miss it you pay again.
So half the cost without the risk of there being planned engineering works, unplanned engineering works, that the train breaks down, that the only carriage with seats (Leeds-London trains seem to always be quite full) is the one where the air-conditioning has broken, that the person next to you has their iPod turned up to 11, etc, etc. And on top of all that, it takes the same time as driving door to door.
So trains don't come out in front for convenience, reliability, comfort and price. And they still think its ok to put the prices up by 6% this year!
Although this you could argue it was 50/50 between a design flaw and pilot error. One pilot was pulling up (in panic?), the other was pushing down (to gain airspeed). So the system took something like the average. As you say, once the other pilot knew what the one who was pulling up was doing, he realised that they were pretty stuffed. (IIRC, he says something along the line of 'you've killed us'.)
A physical link between the two joysticks, or possibly even only allowing input from one, would have saved the aircraft.
Well I certainly don't remember any phone like it before. There were colour phones with decent size screens, but none that I can recall that were entirely touch.
You use the word 'locked' like its a bad thing. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of users (remember kids,/. is not generally in the majority;) think iTunes and the lock in is a good thing. Personally I don't, but I'm not a 'normal' user either.
As for the data plan, I'm pretty sure that was the case here with O2 (the uk) and in the USA there was something similar. Other countries may vary naturally.
The iPhone sold because it offered something that other phones did not... It was appealing to users, and although it didn't really offer anything new it did existing things like email and web browsing better than other phones on the market.
I'm pretty sure the iPhone was the first smart phone that was exclusively touch screen. It also had other new features that other phones didn't have, like iTunes, visual voicemail and IIRC the requirement that any carrier that offered the iPhone must offer unlimited data, to name a few!
Or instead of having to buy all new equipment to play back BRs that his existing equipment should be able, just get 'em from the bay. If they are going to go out of their way to stop the consumer from using their product which they are willing to pay for, can you really blame people when they do?
Even if they couldn't, it doesn't explain why they need to broadcast at this frequency. The only thing I can think of, is so a van can drive down the street and ask all meters around it for a reading, not only does that not solve the problem, but that's shockingly bad idea on so many levels...
Right, but the sort of broadcasting in the article wouldn't achieve this. Connection via the mobile network, or via the physical electricity line would. I still cant see a need for them to broadcast at this frequency.
Why do 'smart' meters need to broadcast anything? If they're planning on using these things to communicate to high power devices, or any electrical device, the damn things are already wired together. Use that.
If we're talking meter reading, then use the mobile network. Powering up to send a text with the reading every 3 months isn't exactly a big deal and I'd imagine would be considerably cheaper than still having to send someone to each property.
You really do have to wonder who comes up with these ideas...
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The move came after a fiery 2009 Lexus crash after a floor mat was improperly installed and may have trapped the accelerator pedal, causing the vehicle to race down California Highway 125 outside San Diego at more than 100 miles per hour, crashing and bursting into flames, killing an off-duty California Highway Patrol Officer and three members of his family.
Sounds Darwinian to me. If you don't know how to turn your car off, then frankly as a race we don't need you genes!
Only on /. would this be rated 'interesting'!!
Stock split taxation.... What, you owe stock, and, the number of shares you have is doubled? Now you will have to pay a 30% share price tax on your increase in shares.
Capital gains tax is applicale to the selling of shares.
Credit card taxation.... spend $$$ on a credit card, sounds like free money, you will have to pay 30% of your credit card spendings to the government.
VAT.
Auto purchase taxation... what, free money from the bank? OK, but you will owe 30% of your auto purchase in taxes.
Also VAT, plus fuel duty and VED.
Mortgage taxation.... what, more free money? OK, but you will have to pay 30% of the money you get from your mortgage back to the government.
Stampy duty.
Sold your home for less than you bought it for? Oh, it still looks like you got lots of money from selling it. We will have to charge a 30% tax on this windfall income.
Also subject to capital gains tax if it's not your main home. Regardless of stamp duty.
There are 14 months in a year now?
As it's perfect for the educational purposes it was designed for.
And how much would Amazon demand in return for listing it?
Given you can only buy one, and the price of one is less than 50euros, I think you don't know what you're talking about. Nice trolling though.
Personally I can think of lots of words for people who actively enjoy the killing of other creatures, let alone the likes of Elephants. Pretty much all of which I cant post on /. to protect everyones innocence.
...the whole article reads...
You must be new here...
However, the law at the time required a prosecution and, as such, long-standing policy has been to accept that such convictions took place and, rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times.
I guess the difference is the US finds it far more sporting to simply read your tweets and prosecute* you for them, rather than not letting you say them in the first place. Although its interesting to see exactly the lengths they go to!
* Or deported in this case.
In some parts of the UK, they even get to impose Sharia law on muslim-inhabited areas and have their rulings enforced by the police
Citation needed. Its one thing having the community police itself, but the police will only intervene and work on the law of the land.
I didn't think ships generally fall away from the side which is damaged.
I'm also just a layman, but to me it would seem that given the hole we can see is toward the stern and the quite sharp angle the rock has managed to hit and become stuck would suggest a bigger impact on the other side, which in turn would force the ship sidewards. All in I'd imagine the hull was a pretty big mess.
Yes and my own situation is probably unique. I like in west London and I drive up to Leeds (well Wakefield) 4-5 times a year to see friends in a village just outside. (Where there is free parking.) Door to door its still quicker than having to get to and then take the tube to Kings Cross, wait at the station, and get a taxi at the other end. Even with the seemingly endless roadworks on the M1. There is the added bonus that I don't need to carry the weekend bag across town either.
Naturally the train is safer and more comfortable (if you can get a seat, trains on that route seem to be always packed) and being able to take the train after a particularly big night is a boon. But I wouldn't say reliability for train travel is on its pro list. There always seems to have been something, a broken down train a few hours before which is still causing delays, or something. If a train breaks down ahead of you, you can bit sitting there for hours. If there is an accident on the M1 your sat nav will probably helpfully route you around it.
However that really doesn't make up for the cost. My car costs £40-£50, a train ticket, between £80 and £140. If you miss the train (because say, the minicab you called just didn't bother to turn up) and thats another £100. Its just crazy prices. And thats for one person. If you're heading up with 3 friends, your looking at £320 - £560. Thats insane.
70 litres of petrol to go from London to Leeds and back? I've done this journey a few times recently, while my car isn't the greatest, it averages 45mpg on the journey, so ends up costing me about half the price of the train ticket. Incidentally, that ticket will probably only be for one train there and one back, if you miss it you pay again.
So half the cost without the risk of there being planned engineering works, unplanned engineering works, that the train breaks down, that the only carriage with seats (Leeds-London trains seem to always be quite full) is the one where the air-conditioning has broken, that the person next to you has their iPod turned up to 11, etc, etc. And on top of all that, it takes the same time as driving door to door.
So trains don't come out in front for convenience, reliability, comfort and price. And they still think its ok to put the prices up by 6% this year!
Although this you could argue it was 50/50 between a design flaw and pilot error. One pilot was pulling up (in panic?), the other was pushing down (to gain airspeed). So the system took something like the average. As you say, once the other pilot knew what the one who was pulling up was doing, he realised that they were pretty stuffed. (IIRC, he says something along the line of 'you've killed us'.)
A physical link between the two joysticks, or possibly even only allowing input from one, would have saved the aircraft.
> their ancestral homeland
Ah yes, and there we have it, when people bring their space fairies into the argument, you just know all logic and reason is lost.
> We just want to live and peace and be left alone
Maybe, and this is just a thought, just maybe, you should stop invading the countries around you?
Well I certainly don't remember any phone like it before. There were colour phones with decent size screens, but none that I can recall that were entirely touch.
/. is not generally in the majority ;) think iTunes and the lock in is a good thing. Personally I don't, but I'm not a 'normal' user either.
You use the word 'locked' like its a bad thing. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of users (remember kids,
As for the data plan, I'm pretty sure that was the case here with O2 (the uk) and in the USA there was something similar. Other countries may vary naturally.
The iPhone sold because it offered something that other phones did not... It was appealing to users, and although it didn't really offer anything new it did existing things like email and web browsing better than other phones on the market.
I'm pretty sure the iPhone was the first smart phone that was exclusively touch screen. It also had other new features that other phones didn't have, like iTunes, visual voicemail and IIRC the requirement that any carrier that offered the iPhone must offer unlimited data, to name a few!
Or instead of having to buy all new equipment to play back BRs that his existing equipment should be able, just get 'em from the bay. If they are going to go out of their way to stop the consumer from using their product which they are willing to pay for, can you really blame people when they do?
This on a day when I don't have mod points!! Damn you slashgods!!
Really? (Warning PDF!)
Even if they couldn't, it doesn't explain why they need to broadcast at this frequency. The only thing I can think of, is so a van can drive down the street and ask all meters around it for a reading, not only does that not solve the problem, but that's shockingly bad idea on so many levels...
Right, but the sort of broadcasting in the article wouldn't achieve this. Connection via the mobile network, or via the physical electricity line would. I still cant see a need for them to broadcast at this frequency.
Why do 'smart' meters need to broadcast anything? If they're planning on using these things to communicate to high power devices, or any electrical device, the damn things are already wired together. Use that.
If we're talking meter reading, then use the mobile network. Powering up to send a text with the reading every 3 months isn't exactly a big deal and I'd imagine would be considerably cheaper than still having to send someone to each property.
You really do have to wonder who comes up with these ideas...