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I am keenly reminded that these are the same police services and directors of public prosecutions who won't investigate the banks. Not who can't; who won't
No, they really can't. If they did, they would find themselves jobless rapidly.
I put plastic bottles (some time one, some time more than one) and filled them up with liquids, and then put them into my luggage and also carry on luggage.
Did you also include the large mixing pump system necessary for binary explosives? Douche.
How about actually, you know, paying attention to what the kids in class are doing?
That's what filtering does.
If you want to pay for an internet monitor to look over children's shoulders, I'm sure schools will institute your policies.
Can you honestly say that you're satisfied with how taxes are collected and spent in this country?
Obviously not. But that doesn't invalidate the concept. You can't fix it by crying about taxation, only by actually doing something to kick against the pricks. Whining about entitlement doesn't win you any friends when the real problems are the self-entitled rich fucks who don't want to pay their share.
There is little I enjoy more than the timeless argument and ceaseless complaints about the USA being deficient compared to higher population density countries in services (such as mass transit and broadband) that are dependent on high population density.
What a coincidence! There's nothing I enjoy more about excuses about the nation which invented the internet not managing decent penetration with its massive budget.
Right, because we can only do one thing at a time! I private company *must not* spend their own money on exploring space or going to Mars until we've fixed problems A, B, and C!
Nobody said that, and broadband penetration in the USA is pathetic, and frankly we cannot claim to be a modern nation while it's so poor. At best, we can claim to have some forward thinkers.
I moved there ages ago and moved away for the reasons you describe (less fracking) and another important one: The weather sucks for all but about two to four weeks a year.
Actually, E-Series short buses with the barest accomodations (for which most school buses would qualify) can be had new for that kind of price. You can still get a 2000 E-450 airport shuttle with a 7.3 powerstroke and a nice interior, especially compared to a school bus, for anywhere from $6k on up. Oddly, though, you can buy a used long bus with a Cummins for the same kind of money, and even at about the same age.
At 10-15 MPG, it's terrible for a car, but when you're carrying 60+ people, that's fantastic.
it's not that fantastic. I knew a dude who had a tour bus converted into an RV that would get 10+ MPG pulling two cars on a big trailer. And that's a way heavier bus. The big problem with modern buses is aerodynamics, they have none. Around town it's irrelevant. On the highway it's serious.
Says the progressive handing me their invoice for no services rendered.
I pay my own way, and then some. Why don't you go cry about how you'd rather shit on everyone than help anyone to someone who is sympathetic to your crap?
I hope they needed huge titties for balance or to fit more electronics or something. Otherwise... WTF Japan. *shakes head*
The internet holds more knowledge than a single human ever could, but machines cannot do anything without direct, explicit directions - told to it by a human. That's the definition of stupid to me: unable to do a thing without having to all spelled out to you.
Once. And then it can be rather damn good at it,
...and then it will try to do it even at times when it's not appropriate, and when a reasoning being wouldn't have tried. Because it's not one. All it can do is what it's told, even if that makes no sense in the greater context of the world with people in it.
That's why a computer is stupid, even a highly-programmed one. It doesn't react to unforeseen situations.
Neither do most people, of course. At least, not well. But then, not everyone's clever.
Robots" will never be as smart as a human
Only assholes start their comment in the subject line.
Computers on the other hand can already be argued to be smarter than a human - if you consider the entire internet as a single computer.
It's obvious that eventually we'll have single computers which are as complex as the entire internet is today. Your statement is thus nonsensical at best.
The difference between a robot and a computer is that the computer is self-mobile at the very minimum.
No, that's not the difference. Buy a dictionary.
More importantly, there is little to no reason for us to build a computer that, being as smart as us, would want to be us. Star Trek's Data is poor planning
Star Trek's Data is a fictional character. I guess that's your problem; you can't tell fantasy from reality.
In CA, I don't know -- it's an expensive place to live. The average (over the entire country) salary of a patrol officer is what, $30k??? (read: a whole LOT less than 200k, but a cop is the very definition of "high maintenance".)
What the actual fuck. No, really, what? You can access Slashdot, but you can't access Google? In fact the average is $51,218. That's quite good money. Most cops will never even discharge their weapon, or have their life seriously threatened throughout the course of their employment. The ones at serious risk of one or both of these things are paid more than the baseline.
Now, let's move on to bad cops, good cops. A cop who lets a cop get away with bad behavior is a bad cop. By this definition there are almost no good cops. The blue shield is real. I think they're overpaid, given that so many cops are not actually doing their jobs, and therefore exist primarily to harass and shake down. Let me know when the massive endemic corruption in policing is over and I'll be more sympathetic to your horribly uneducated and misguided views, some of which would have been corrected using google by an intelligent person.
Money cannot buy love, nor even friendship.