What if you store everything on the net? Do the police know where the line stops, and only search the phone? Can they go on to rummage through your Facebook/LinkedIn/Exchange data?
This, of course, assumes you do everything online and you don't keep replicated synced copies on your phone.
so, what will happen after these 8 builds? Any plans for spaceshipThree?
First hit on Google - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipThree
Unless the FD charges an exorbitant fee for unpaid callouts. Or insurance premiums are high for those that don't pay. Your 1st World system is BROKEN.
I'm amazed at how many people are (t)rolling out the line "If everyone could pay on the spot then they'd only pay $75 when they needed it".
Don't you think the policy makers would involve some sort of penalty? It's not rocket science y'know. $75 per year, or $100,000 per callout. The insurance companies could even make a quick profit on it by reducing the payout if it was found that the owner didn't pay the $75pa cost. Doesn't your crazy medical care system work like this already anyway?
Don't you lot have _any_ form of social responsibility or compassion? You call yourselves developed?
I would not be shocked or amazed in the slightest, no not even a bit, to learn that the people who can't be bothered to keep their own records are the same people who create most overdrafts. They clearly think managing their money is someone else's job. That might leave them open to problems that more responsible adults would have foreseen and been able to prevent or at least mitigate. To me that is simple cause-and-effect and nothing more.
I suspect there's another factor at play here. Yes, in this cotton wool society people are now expecting others to look after their own affairs, but there's also the class of people that really don't know how it works.
A colleague used to be a bank branch manager, and had to explain overdrafts to a customer. The customer_genuinely_ thought the bank gave him/her £100 every month, and went ballistic when the money was 'deducted' from their pay (the account was actually offset, as to be expected). He was one step away from getting penny coins out on the desk and saying 'I give you this 1p on the 28th of the month, and you give me this 1p back on the 1st of the next month'. I was flabbergasted to hear this, but to him it was just another day of explanations on how to manage your money.
This sort of attitude to banking appears to be far more widespread than we wish to believe, and makes me really wonder if we're bringing up a generation of people that have any clue whatsoever about how to lead a normal life.
20 years ago Circuit de La Sarthe put chicanes onto the Mulsanne Straight after a Peugeot hit 258mph with the Project 400 team. I see the NASCAR speed record is only 212.8mph too. In any case, the speeds were too high, and it wasn't about the racing any more.
Similarly, the NASCAR speed limits are to reduce costs and risks for teams during this economic weather, not for the enjoyment of spectators.
"Coral IE Tab is not available for Linux."
Yes, handy that...
Put all client side caches and temp directories on a RAM disk. Save backup space and time, reduce your IOPS, and decrease client latency.
There is if course also the issue of Twitter and Facebook being long dead (hopefully) before the car reaches half it's expected lifetime.
A valid comment it may be, but with modern cars having an expected lifetime of about 5 years, I think the car may expire before the social sites!
Personally, I'll stick to my pre-1985 classics! Cheap, easy to fix, and mostly reliable. I've had one 29 year old Land Rover for the past 11 years. I know some people who are on their 6th car in those 29 years, after the other 5 expired. Dread to think of the waste they've created
Presumably nationally, 3000 deaths per month on the road - compared against how many miles or hours spent on the road by the entire nation over a similar timeframe? Addictions such as cigarettes and alcohol have a higher death rate than vehicles. It's just that millions more people drive than are addicted to anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile#Safety would actually indicate that by all metrics, travelling by car is safer than travelling by foot!
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
