It's great that an American company can go to an American court and sue someone on the other side of the globe, who must either respond at great expense or lose by default and be subject to whatever these creeps can attach.
What happens when someone, prone to mischief and with re$ources, sues these monkeys for say $2T at the 3rd Circuit Court in Mogadishu.
Fantasy, yes, but imagine a court seizing Disneyland in Japan and France to pay for some judgment, as funky as the one that we will see here.
There are people who need trucks, because of their trade, and people who need minivans, because they have five kids.
That is not the case for more than 80% of the people that have trucks or minivans. These folks would do as well in a Camry or a Civic.
Being large and slower (no, we don't need faster versions!) they block traffic. In traffic engineering trucks count as multiple cars, and these things are trucks (minivans are classified as light trucks, helpful to skip a number of regulations). The effect is that of using more vehicles to transport the same number of people.
Three ideas from fantasy world (or was it traffic hell):
1. Raise gas taxes. Not a shocker, say a penny a month, 12:01am on the first of each month. With inflation this can continue indefinitely (yes, 10yrs = $1.20) At some point even the slower thinkers will catch on.
2. Enforce existing traffic laws. Trucks go on the right lane, except for passing. Instead of everyone going 8mph, cars will be able to go 20 and trucks will be at 4.
Here's my favorite, although unfortunately unconstitutional:
3. Stop trucks and minivans at random checkpoints, inspect them for evidence of construction or landscaping materials (trucks) or kid car seats and the like (vans). If found, go, else the vehicle goes into the traveling shredder.
like Congress, local governments, etc, may not be good examples, as they would be better run by monkeys flipping coins, i.e., they would be wrong only half the time.
And there's only so much bribery you can do w bananas
Once upon a time, everyone knew that lead was best for piping, asbestos for fire protection, coal for heating, thalidomide for pregnancy, etc, etc
Beyond these hallowed halls of knowledge there are indeed serious people questioning the effect of this low-level radiation bathing hundreds of millions of people roughly 24/7.
With its close cousin, the high voltage power line, there is reason for concern, hopefully unfounded.
As with all uncontrolled experiments, anything can happen; maybe in twenty years we'll remember this and laugh.
"The point is, there would be no centralized locations to drop your bombs on. The point is, most of the time there would be no visible difference between the militia and the civilians. The milita would blend in with the population--the only reliable way to find them and destroy them is on foot, on their terms."
That is of course what Hamas and Hezbollah have been doing, however as we have seen it's no big deal, within some minds, to carpet bomb civilians in return.
Why didn't he stop Hitler, Tojo and Stalin.
Is he really for "Truth, Justice and the American Way," or just a spin-master?
My favorite piece of foolishness is picking up a falling person. In an instant the person is accelerated sideways to Superman's speed, while decelerating to zero vertically. Massive internal injuries and neck snapping would be more likely than safe rescue.
He needs of course to grab the person from below and decelerate them at 1G or less to vy=0. Same with Neo.
Once upon a time there were mechanical machines. They were easy to fix and often arrived at the polling place "pre-loaded"
They were replaced by the punch card "chad" type, which were rarely if ever recounted (we saw what happens when recounted). Just run through a card reader and the result read off. "Funky" cards were put aside.
Here in Dade County and under the benign gaze of our holier-than-thou Miami Herald pseudo-newspaper, the computers would always "break down" while counting! Their big day, and they break. Bad boys. After one or two hours the count would resume.;-);-);-) One time a "system" candidate (so badly steamrolled it could not be fixed), and who was losing per partial results, smilingly noted, "the machines are down, let's wait for them to start again.";-);-);-)
With paper ballots we have seen
stuffed boxes,
boxes lost, stolen, dumped into lakes,
pre-marked ballots*,
uncounted ballots
secret counting (OH 04)
Google "Battle of Athens" for fun in 1940s TN.
Not to mention of course after-life voting, multiple voting, less booths at some precincts and more that apply to all methods.
"They" find a way to cheat and steal. When crooks are outlawed, only outlaws will be crooks.
*in the 04 OH election (some) people were given pre-marked ballots; upon complaining they received another marked ballot!
Cheesy, the engines at the edge of exploding, the butt-in-everything Dr., Spock puzzled by human behavior, the pompous Kirk. Plzzzzzz. A/.er can generate scripts for this thing w a Palm Pilot.
My favorite repeating foolishness, is the highest ranking folks being the ones going first into any danger. Like in Iraq, where Rummy and Cheney heloed in with the Seals. And how often did Bush fistfight Saddam?
And the new crewman, that you know with bullseyes front and back.
The Nomad episode was the worst of all, "... the declarations of the moons of (Moronia?)..."
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
To end w a quote from Mick Jagger: "I just can't seem to drink it, off my mind"
To objectively evaluate the situation, we could sum of acts of aggression by Iran and the USA, from the present to 1776.
The one with the most points should not have any nukes.
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What happens when someone, prone to mischief and with re$ources, sues these monkeys for say $2T at the 3rd Circuit Court in Mogadishu.
Fantasy, yes, but imagine a court seizing Disneyland in Japan and France to pay for some judgment, as funky as the one that we will see here.
(c) None of the above
(d) Hang all of the above
Were any of these to win, a new election would be called; in the case of (d) obviously with different candidates.
No bite but a steadily increasing source of funds, which could be used for other transportation modes. Even free bus rides.
Or a nickel a month, that would really stir things up. In retrospect, 3 cents a month sounds more like it, $1.80 in 5 years.
Happy New Year 2007
(I see we have flying guys, where are the flying cars?)
For those who require the greater challenge, who have open minds, and the strength to question and see beyond the well-worn path:
Track A: The four basic elements, Roman numerals, epicycles, alchemy, leeches, phlogiston, aether, UFOs, WMDs, Great Poets, Atlantis, etc.
For the blinder loving set,
Track B: Calculus, Diff Eqs, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Western Civ, etc
By not putting all the eggs in one basket, there's a better chance of success.
Had the CC out already...
Being large and slower (no, we don't need faster versions!) they block traffic. In traffic engineering trucks count as multiple cars, and these things are trucks (minivans are classified as light trucks, helpful to skip a number of regulations). The effect is that of using more vehicles to transport the same number of people.
Three ideas from fantasy world (or was it traffic hell):
1. Raise gas taxes. Not a shocker, say a penny a month, 12:01am on the first of each month. With inflation this can continue indefinitely (yes, 10yrs = $1.20) At some point even the slower thinkers will catch on.
2. Enforce existing traffic laws. Trucks go on the right lane, except for passing. Instead of everyone going 8mph, cars will be able to go 20 and trucks will be at 4.
Here's my favorite, although unfortunately unconstitutional:
3. Stop trucks and minivans at random checkpoints, inspect them for evidence of construction or landscaping materials (trucks) or kid car seats and the like (vans). If found, go, else the vehicle goes into the traveling shredder.
And there's only so much bribery you can do w bananas
Beyond these hallowed halls of knowledge there are indeed serious people questioning the effect of this low-level radiation bathing hundreds of millions of people roughly 24/7.
With its close cousin, the high voltage power line, there is reason for concern, hopefully unfounded.
As with all uncontrolled experiments, anything can happen; maybe in twenty years we'll remember this and laugh.
What if it doesn't want to be switched off?
Miami Herald : Journalism
as
Bush :
a. Quantum Physics
b. Brain Surgery
c. Concert pianist
d. Chemical Engineering
That is of course what Hamas and Hezbollah have been doing, however as we have seen it's no big deal, within some minds, to carpet bomb civilians in return.
Star stuff indeed.
And?
There's a silver lining after all
Hopefully we could find the Paris Hilton channel and use FF and rewind functions
It's just another example of "if we do it good, someone else bad." :[
I, for one, welcome our new 80 core overlords
It's these glitches and people paying more attention to them that lift the curtain a little bit, and what's behind it is not pretty.
Let's give them a couple more election cycles and they'll have it right, things will go smoothly and nobody will have to suspect anything.
We condemn small countries for crooked elections, but really, it's just that they are not polished enough.
My favorite piece of foolishness is picking up a falling person. In an instant the person is accelerated sideways to Superman's speed, while decelerating to zero vertically. Massive internal injuries and neck snapping would be more likely than safe rescue.
He needs of course to grab the person from below and decelerate them at 1G or less to vy=0. Same with Neo.
They were replaced by the punch card "chad" type, which were rarely if ever recounted (we saw what happens when recounted). Just run through a card reader and the result read off. "Funky" cards were put aside.
Here in Dade County and under the benign gaze of our holier-than-thou Miami Herald pseudo-newspaper, the computers would always "break down" while counting! Their big day, and they break. Bad boys. After one or two hours the count would resume. ;-) ;-) ;-) One time a "system" candidate (so badly steamrolled it could not be fixed), and who was losing per partial results, smilingly noted, "the machines are down, let's wait for them to start again." ;-) ;-) ;-)
With paper ballots we have seen
stuffed boxes,
boxes lost, stolen, dumped into lakes,
pre-marked ballots*,
uncounted ballots
secret counting (OH 04)
Google "Battle of Athens" for fun in 1940s TN.
Not to mention of course after-life voting, multiple voting, less booths at some precincts and more that apply to all methods.
"They" find a way to cheat and steal. When crooks are outlawed, only outlaws will be crooks.
*in the 04 OH election (some) people were given pre-marked ballots; upon complaining they received another marked ballot!
(Where?!)
W did everything he could to "talk down" the economy, not helpful
Ferris Bueller: "It's over, go home"
Shatner: "Grow up"
Cheesy, the engines at the edge of exploding, the butt-in-everything Dr., Spock puzzled by human behavior, the pompous Kirk. Plzzzzzz. A /.er can generate scripts for this thing w a Palm Pilot.
My favorite repeating foolishness, is the highest ranking folks being the ones going first into any danger. Like in Iraq, where Rummy and Cheney heloed in with the Seals. And how often did Bush fistfight Saddam?
And the new crewman, that you know with bullseyes front and back.
The Nomad episode was the worst of all, "... the declarations of the moons of (Moronia?) ..."
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
To end w a quote from Mick Jagger: "I just can't seem to drink it, off my mind"
To objectively evaluate the situation, we could sum of acts of aggression by Iran and the USA, from the present to 1776. The one with the most points should not have any nukes.
Check out a Logitech Harmony remote, as the 880. This monkey will do exactly what you are looking for, from a tiny color screen in the remote.
Turbo Prolog was a variation of PDC Prolog, a Danish project. It was a compiled Prolog, and in Prolog fashion taught the user to think backwards, a sometimes useful technique. When Turbo Prolog ended, PDC Prolog continued with the product, later morphing it to Visual Prolog. Somewhere, I have them all. See http://www.visual-prolog.com/ - a new version 7 was coincidentally released a week ago, and a free Personal Edition is available.