Not to mention the fact that the perceived lack of action in one particular case does not accurately predict what happens when it turns into hundreds of cases.
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Heck, the state level sales tax rates are even the easy part. Within states there are counties which often levy additional sales tax, and then cities within the counties do it as well. These county and municipal tax rates are additionally often comprised of a variety of "temporary assessments" which appear and expire seemingly at random. Knowing which rate is charged at a given location devolves into a very difficult problem once you realize there's no centralized address-to-jurisdiction database, nor a centralized jurisdiction-to-tax-rate database.
The most efficient way (which is arguably unnecessary for Minesweeper) is to treat a 10x10 play field as a 1 dimensional array of size 100, stick your X number of mines in the first X cells in the array, then use something like the Fisher-Yates shuffle* on the array.
* Y = random number 1-100. Swap contents of cell Y and cell 100. Y = random number 1-99, swap contents of cell Y and cell 99. Repeat for entire array.
Prohibit prosecutors from going to trial with charges any higher than they offered in the plea deal. If they offer to (say) let you plead to only misdemeanor drug possession, then they shouldn't be allowed to then prosecute for felony drug possession, resisting arrest, plus anything else they can think of simply because you dared to ask for a jury trial. Sentencing can still be somewhat variable, which would offer an actual incentive to those that know they're caught-holding-the-bag guilty, but would not be such a ruinously life destroying difference that it would frighten the innocent into taking the pllea when they did nothing wrong. The argument against plea bargain reform from prosecutors is always along the lines of "the courts could never handle all those cases, so we have to discourage jury trials as best we can", and frankly, that line of reasoning is bullshit. If there aren't enough resources to offer a jury trial to every offender, then I say we have a crisis of constitutional proportions, and dealing with it by gaming the system to force people to forego their rights simply to improve efficiency is a far more evil thing than most of the crimes people plead to.
Nonsense. Even mechanically timed lights can be wired to illuminate any arbitrary set of lamp in either direction. The only difference between then and now is that back then you had to physically move wires, whereas now it's software switched.
Glad to hear I'm not alone. My wife and I listened to the This American Life program on ASMR and I couldn't even stand the few short snippets in the program. The whispery sound of quiet talking where you can hear the speaker's tongue flapping around in their mouth makes me want to pull my teeth out with pliers.
Learning any foreign language will tend to do that, though. It's a function of being forced to consider your native tongue as a language, rather than just speaking it. Plus if you learn a foreign language, you will have the advantage of being able to talk to an established base of people who speak it.
Yeah, I think he's misinterpreting what his photographer friend means. There are TONS of rules for good photographs, everything from technical ("sufficient lighting") all the way up to art theory ("rule of thirds"). The guy's point was probably that any subject, at any time, can possibly be photographed in a way the conforms to the requirements of an artistically pleasing image. Trying to fit that notion to the idea that entrepreneurs should just leap for the stars without checking to see if their figurative lens cap is off is not really very sound.
Oh, it's actually not too difficult to modify transceivers to work outside their regional prescribed bands. There are usually internal jumpers or, more recently, firmware modifications to expand their tuning ranges to include bands normally only allowed in other regions. Some of the software defined radios are surprisingly malleable. I was actually mostly just thinking about the possibility of getting a GSM phone to hit an amateur band freq or vice-versa without a lot of hacking.
This sentence illustrates one of my main gripes with JD's "sunshine and happiness" view of hunter-gatherer societies. Hunter-gatherer lifestyle is fantastic for that small fraction of folks who live where there are plenty of mongongo nuts (so to speak). He sort of handwaves the majority, who are eking a bare subsistence out of the land, or worse, alternately subsisting and starving.
I'd say his opinions become "tortured" when he is forced to address issues that he and the US constitution are at odds over. He practically refuses to admit the 14th Amd even exists. Have you read his views on the 9th Amd? He thinks it only protects the right of the states to recognize some sort of second-class "lesser" rights. His opinions may be thoroughly reasoned, but by god they're certainly not always rational.
I'd call you sexist, but my sample size of one smashed femur by a female left turner who didn't see me fails to disprove your theory.
To be fair, airplanes are not comparable to automobiles. Flying an airplane does not actually require nearly the amount of attention driving a car does. The sky is mostly empty, and planes will generally continue to fly straight ahead even if you let go of the control yoke. If you look away from the sky while flying, you're highly unlikely to swerve out of your air lane into another plane, rear-end a plane in front of you that braked suddenly, T-bone another plane at an intersection, or fly into a pedestrian using a crosswalk.
I will never understand why people think that the crappy audio channel of a youtube video of some guy "umming" and gulping through a poorly prepared speech, all recorded on a $5 microphone, is a suitable way of passing information.
That's not how it works. You can put people into as many circles as you like.
Simple as that, right? They can't compel you to remember information you never had in memory. It's probably too late, as he's likely admitted to remembering the password. Dumb move.