Won't someone please answer that fucking phone?!

This.

No mod points left, but I agree. We ae trying everything to get people out of private cars and onto public transportation with little effect. Just pull the licences from the worst drivers and hand them a transit pass. Reduce traffic volume and save money by postponing expansion projects. And do so by getting the crappiest drivers off the road.

Insurance companies don't show up at accident scenes. Cops do and they fill out the reports that insurance companies compile into statistics.

An improved map will be entering beta test soon.

Who collects the data points for the statistics?

What about the employees breaking the law? Are they permitted to release them? Alter their policy of violating the law?

The new owners will of course appoint a new management, who will have authority to make the changes desired; the old management as a whole retained for a time in advisory capacity only, of course some managers not supervising the sales/marketing/telemarkting departments might be kept for the new management.

Those managers related to the abuse, stripped of all authority and credentials, transferred to a partner company (The McDonalds across the street) and forced to remain on and work full time in the lowest-level job available for 15 years, in order to avoid criminal prosecution.

Not if I'm in the left lane.

It makes planning my vacation touring the brothels of Thailand just that much easier.

They knew the law and they knew how many calls they were making...

They should fine them $1000 per call * 57 million calls = $57 billion.

Prohibited from releasing any employees or managers, altering policies, disposing of any property, or stopping any ongoing business operations in order to pay any portion of the fine. Any amount that cannot be paid in cash within 5 business days, to be settled by constructing a trust and transferring all remaining equity in the company to the trust, with the government assigned secure debt convertible in part or in whole to common shares on demand at any point in time, having value equilvalent to the greater of the number of shares valued at the deficit amount today and the number of shares valued at the deficit amount on the day of conversion.

I agree. It makes more sense to give all blind people car detectors than to make all cars noisy.

I don't know. In my state, there is a special law for pedestrians who are in a wheelchair or blind being led by a guide dog or carrying a metallic or white walking stick.

Drivers are required to ensure their safety, and they are guaranteed right of way at all times, even though not all pedestrians get that priority, and if you hit a blind person crossing, you are essentially going to jail.

So, who do you think you are?

I haven't looked at it yet. So the options are still open.

I hope they never examine all the stuff I've saved on my PC and posted on line.

-- Signed,
Walter Mitty.

Five minutes before Midnight? I always thought it was nearly lunchtime!

Perhaps if these scientists had adopted a digital clock face with military time it wouldn't have been so confusing.

My problem is, always starting from scratch has become too expensive for most customers. I see more and more online adaptive solutions that seem to be more flexible

Obviously, a solution from scratch is more expensive to develop than a templated one.

If you can throw up a cookie-cutter solution that satisfies the customer, it will be to your advantage for a good percentage of cases.

For customers that need high quality tailored code from scratch, that is just fine, but it's a different kind of project, and obviously the price to the customer should be much much higher. And you certainly can afford to do it, if you are being paid properly.

The catch would be customers who want Almas Caviar at canned tuna prices.