I don't know about any of this nonsense. I always thought Crimea was on the continent of Tellius and had been part of the Begnion Empire.
You know I was thinking just the same thing. To me this is like Jaffa Cakes. Are they cakes or biscuits? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
The world will never stop arguing about them nor this.
Also, whoever decided to auto-play audio on Slashdot should be fired from a cannon that was loaded with 3-inch nails, and then with them, into a brick wall and then slid from the brick wall into a vat of boiling acid.
FTFY.
this camera thing won't help. i promise you this. It won't make bad drivers into good drivers. No amount of technology can accomplish that.
This may be partially true but I don't believe that "bad driver" is the only variable in this argument. It also has to do with the cars design. In my car (2014 BMW 428i) the rear window is tiny and does not afford much if any better view than the center rear view mirror does. The seats also don't permit turning around and looking out the rear window, it can be done but boy is it awkward.
The combination of the rear view camera, a front and rear ultrasonic parking distance control (with object detection) coupled with the use of the rear view mirrors make backing up quite safe and easy for this car .
All of the cars I've had prior to this one had none of this equipment. Now that I have used it I'd never buy a car without it. Kinda like heated front seats!
As to other arguments I've read (not in your post but others) about the increasing of technology in cars... Well that battle is long lost my friends. And it's not really about compensating for a lack of driving skill but rather more like life insurance, those system can and do save lives. But, as the owners manual states, no system can compensate of a lack of good judgement on the drivers part. These systems can however help you get maximum performance (like breaking and maneuvering) out your vehicle as long as you operate it within the laws of physics.
A bit of advise, if you can afford it, consider a extended warranty.
Cheers!
Even in the big city performance on broadband is often pretty bad (comcastic is not a compliment) and I can't count the number of times a person I was gaming with kept lagging out until they discovered a roommate was streaming something and shut down the stream. This is especially prevalent on DSL connections. Worse, all the big providers are moving towards bandwidth caps, so... good luck with that.
Well, that's not the case for me and it's never been no matter where I've lived. A quick check in the cubes says nope, seems to not be the case for anyone except the dude that live in the sticks where there is no broadband at all. I currently get 11-12 Mbps on Cox (what I pay for) and no lag that I can remember. Yeah, I've had really good luck with this for many years. As far as caps Cox will get pissy if you have like 2 Mbps service and start downloading >200 Gigs of data/month. If you have a higher tier of service (that profit thing again) they appear to be OK with it. I stream Netflix and never have had a issue. Hell Netflix is my primary source of TV these days. It would appear your wrong on all counts as far as I can tell. So, yeah, I have and will have good luck with this.
Thank you... I can't believe how many posts it took before someone mentioned this. "Only" 70-80% of the country has some form of internet or broadband, depending on who you ask... I bet the remaining 20+% account for more than their fair share of DVD users (I can't be sure, but still). Alienating that group is potentially bad for business.
And whose fault is that?! You went to the sticks and decided to live there. You knew the internet was crappy. I say let your streaming suck
The rest of us will live in the big city where where the internet flows like profits into the wallets of the DSL, fiber and cable providers! Profit my friend, profit that's the true motivation. Let the Rules of Acquisition guide you http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...
I could never figure out how to save the game so I always had to start over naked, in the woods, on a dark path where I found a a wood club. Kinda strange how I always had a wood club when I was naked in the woods hmmmm. Wait a minute! Girl DM's go figure.
If the boss says "You need to go to America," then your interest might be in keeping your job to, as we sometimes say here, "put food on your family." Of course, if you're independently wealthy, you do have many more choices and lots fewer problems . .
Exactly. And might I add that any reasonable company will give the employee a "clean loaner laptop" to take to this wonderful country. That way they do not have to risk loosing their computer. Just don't be doing any "funny business" on that machine!
By all means come to the USA (soon to be the USSA) and see what is used to be like when we were free and had rights. I think you'll find a exhibit or something in a museum. It's right next to the diorama showing when this country had a set of balls and wasn't so afraid of it's own shadow that it would create departments like the NSA, TSA and Homeland Security (really, homeland?! sounds like the fucking Nazi's). Don't mind the anal cavity search on the way in and out. That's our way of saying how much we like you!
As soon as it is obvious that a so called super earth is far to close to its sun to be inhabitable they should stop calling it like that.
If they really want to get attention next time they'll call it "Super Earth 2000 Extreme (tm)"
What people should realize here is that the "Justice" system is in place to, primarily, protect the power structure. If you're still accepting that "justice is blind" and "rule of Law" fairy tale they taught in government schools, it's time to wake up and smell the tyranny.
YEAH! I thought it was just me. It's refreshing to read a agreeing opinion.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
Seems like old time don't it?
That data is given voluntarily. People may be pretty glib in giving the information, but it is still their choice. Maybe I do want Facebook knowing everything, but don't want my government to. Still, my choice. I never opted-in at the NSA web site.
I agree, 100%. Further his statement that *we* hand data over to corporations all the time is an assumption on his part. He has no proof at all to support that statement. An example of a conflict in his statement is that some citizens purposely live completely "off the grid" to avoid any corporate entanglements. What about those people?
I believe this judge is saying anything he can to keep the NSA in power and doing what they're doing. Somehow the NSA's actions are helping him, his party or some other interest he or some other involved party of his have.
Also note that once again the statement is made that our protections under the Constitution are not absolute but can be regulated, limited and changed as the Government see fit. Whenever our "rights" interfere with the Government's desires for more power we will see them diminish further. What has happened to our country? The Constitution is clearly of little importance to the Government or the Courts anymore.
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." --Matt Groening
