If you run out of battery juice the vehicle is likely to stop moving forward long before the gyro's spin down all the way. Besides which it would be trivially easy for them to implement a kill switch for motor power at some low battery level to make sure you still had enough power for control mechanisms and such.

Alexandria, Ohio.

Unmetered use could definitely lead to abuse I guess but how many people actually try and limit their use of water in serious ways to lower costs? Maybe I've just got really cheap water, but I've never given a crap about the cost of my water bill. My usage has stayed pretty much the same for nearly a decade and the cost is so low that I would have to halve my water usage to save the cost of a lunch. I don't water my lawn because I give nary a shit about my lawn and watering it would just mean having to cut it more frequently.

Anyways an easy way to help curb wasteful use could just be to install valves that automatically shut off whenever you surpass the authorized usage. Although I suppose that might cost just as much as metered billing to maintain.

I don't really know other than that they lost their police department and probably couldn't do much of anything for several years. We're talking a very small town, actually a Village by state law I believe.

Like I said though, bases in Afghanistan and Iraq are far more heavily fortified and protected than bases within the US. And the military simply does not have the resources to quickly and effectively defend those bases. Every military installation I've seen in the last decade has spent resources fortifying the gates a bit. But has largely ignored the miles of perimeter fencing. Even if the perimiter was well fortified most bases simply don't have the equipment you might need to defend it. Most of the armories I've seen had gear for maybe a few dozen troops.

In the case that a base is actually too hard to take seiging it is perfectly acceptable. If all the bases are effectively seiged or overrun where exactly are you going to fly in the resources you need from? In the guerrilla wars of this century we've never had to fight an enemy that numbered more than in the thousands or tens of thousands, in countries of about 32 million each. In the USA you'd probably be facing millions of enemy combatants among a population of more than 320 million.

A small town where I grew up was infamous in the area for always having a cop hiding in the immediate vicinity of a 25mph speed limit sign. They would ticket anybody and everybody that was going above the limit when they passed that sign. It was well known that the only reason they could have a police department at all was that speed trap, and it was their main source of revenue for the town. That went on for more than a decade until one day they ticketed the wrong person, he turned out to be a lawyer that knew state traffic laws pretty well. He recognized that they had illegally reduced the speed limit on a state route. the law being they couldn't lower it below 35 without an extenuating circumstance like the presence of a school. So he took them to court and forced them to repay over a decades worth of speeding ticket revenue. He managed to completely bankrupt the town government and no one has to fear a speed trap there anymore.

There is a city about an hour away from where I live now that has a reputation for speed trapping though they haven't done anything illegal that I can tell. They've just lowered the speed limit on a 15 mile stretch of interstate from 70 to 55, for no apparent reason other than to have a ready supply of speeders whenever they want. I have to drive through there periodically and I refuse to stop and conduct any business in their municipality. And I go out of my way to bring up the whole thing whenever someone mentions that town.

I'm not really opposed to citizens being allowed to own such devices if they can safely maintain them without being a hazard to their neighbors.

Regardless though the american people armed as they are would certainly be able to violently disassemble the government if enough of them decided to try. For examples just look at the bang up job the military managed to do in two foreign countries recently where every facility was built as a fortification. Here in the US, military bases are so weakly protected the idea of defending against more than a couple hundred armed people is laughable. Bases are also not capable of housing the military members and their families. Most installations rely entirely on external local communities to provide practically every resource. Even if you didn't have to worry about troop loyalty keeping enough of your forces together and maintaining communications between them past the initial 48 hours would require an unlikely set of miracles.

Our military is only so mighty today because it has the support of the nation as a whole. We can organize, transport, and supply military activities all around the globe because the infrastructure in the US is secure.

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I think that is the one I read about before.

My wife reads a lot on her iPhone but I just can't do it for more than just referencing something. The small amount of content that fits on the screen is a huge turn off. When I try reading on a phone I have to keep my thumb on the display the whole time to constantly scroll, which just drives me nuts.

Is that a joke, kids can definitely do those things. They obviously can't go to as far of extremes as an adult can but you can definitely still enjoy those activities and many others with Kids. Hell half the fun as a parent for me has been teaching my kids about my own hobbies. The one big limiting factor is the cost of travel, a plane ticket for a child costs the same for an adult. Even then once they are old enough you can leave them with family or friends for extended visits while you go do whatever it is you want to do.

The way I read it was that s/he meant special in relation to other existing reactors.

I'm of pretty mixed emotions over the idea of cap'ing public servant pay. In some localities 100K is pretty high on the hog. Hell where I live an individual making 60 - 70K as a single earner is doing pretty well. But if you were to try and pay the same in a more expensive area you probably wouldn't be able to get takers. In my Local area GS-15's are pretty damn rare, maybe one or two per large organization and no SES that I'm aware of. You go to a place like DC though and SES's are everywhere.

Pay in my opinion should always scale with the local cost of living and be comprable to the private sector where reasonably possible. And if that means that the government is having to pay too much then they should do without or move the facility to a locality that is more financially viable.

Incidentally I'm all for Police getting higher salaries. I would hope that it would make them a little less likely to become corrupt. And possibly make the careerfield more interesting hence attracting better candidates so that you are stuck with thugs.

Marijuana dispensaries are a slightly different matter though. Those dispensaries are violating Federal law, even if they are legal by State law. I oppose them enforcing the Federal law over the State law in that instance but I think everyone opening a dispensary understands that risk.

The industries that the DoJ seems to be targeting in most cases appear to be completely legal by Federal law.

Don a utilitarian yet heavily starched and pressed uniform, wear a funny hat and a hitler style mustache. Then get a ridding crop and an air horn. Go from cubicle to cubicle screaming and yelling obscenities and personal insults while instructing your vic.... users to apply patches or whatever. If anyone tries asking a question blow the air horn in their face then belittle them and kick up the crazyness of the insults a notch or two.

Or you could send out a friendly and professionally written email with precise directions with a picture for every step. But that honestly doesn't seem like much fun to me.

While our military is better armed it is not armed to fight a revolution, and it certainly is not prepared for such an event. Additionally our military is also much more tolerant of differing political view points, so it is very likely that the military its self would fracture in the event of a real revolution or simply refuse to take violent action against non-violent revolution.

Even if you could count on the military staying 100% loyal to the old administration they wouldn't be very difficult to take down by popular action. I've only ever been on one military installation that appeared to have any semblance of defensibility, and that was because it was on an island. Most installations have basic fences on very large perimiters with no defensive works what so ever and armories usually only have enough small arms for the resident MP's and training at the range. Most of the troops also live off base and there wouldn't be room on the installation for them and their families if they had to bring them inside the perimeter.

While we have a rather large standing military most of the troops are not really trained for combat. The current civilian population easily contains more than 10 times as many veterans. The civilian population in the US is also considerably better armed than the populations in many of those countries you are referring to. The kind of armaments that the civilians don't have they likely would not need, you only need tanks if you want to take heavily fortified positions and there just aren't many of those in the US.