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From: Charlie E. on 3 Jun 2010 19:53 On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:03:56 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >"Charlie E." wrote: >> >> Fog can be a trick! When I designed the 91 Express Lanes, I built a >> vehicle sensor that was basically two laser light curtains abount a >> foot apart. I designed it to only distinguish vehicles going in the >> proper direction. What I hadn't anticipated was fog. I heard that, >> one day a few months after I was let go, they had thick fog move >> through the pass, and recorded hundreds of phantom cars in the toll >> lanes! > > > They are too stupid to close toll roads in heavy fog? Ubetcha! This is in the middle of a freeway, and it only closes for maintanance... Charlie
From: krw on 3 Jun 2010 20:18 On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:26:02 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:34:14 -0500, "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" ><krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote: > >>On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:54:28 -0700, John Larkin >><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:44:30 -0500, "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" >>><krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote: >>> >>>>On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:57:02 -0700, John Larkin >>>><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:27:30 -0700 (PDT), "langwadt(a)fonz.dk" >>>>><langwadt(a)fonz.dk> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On 2 Jun., 20:55, John Larkin >>>>>><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Shot from our conference room: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Sun_1.jpg >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Somebody covered the billboard across the street with plywood, and now >>>>>>> two guys are working with chisels and mallets to strip away the darker >>>>>>> surface layer and make an image. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We rented out one window to a time-lapse photographer, who will >>>>>>> eventually produce a video ad for the sponsor. $500 will fund a pretty >>>>>>> nice barbeque. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The lighthouse is part of the cafe/car wash. I don't know why they >>>>>>> need a lighthouse. Across the street is another lighthouse, part of >>>>>>> the u-store business. Goodwill, on a third corner, has sort of a >>>>>>> lighthouse too. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> John >>>>>> >>>>>>why didn't they do the carving before they put it up? would be easy >>>>>>with a >>>>>>cnc router too. Not artsy enough? :) >>>>> >>>>>Not artsy enough. >>>>> >>>>>As far as that goes, why don't they use paint? At the rate they're >>>>>going, the BP well will be capped before this billboard is done. >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>price gas here in Denmark is around twice that >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Gas is too cheap in the USA. I don't generally approve of tax >>>>>increases, but a huge increase in gas tax makes a lot of sense. >>>>>Proposing it is political suicide, even for the craziest Democrats. >>>> >>>>It's a great recessive tax, though the government doesn't need any more money. >>>>It'll just go even further in debt. >>> >>>It's not recessive. >> >>Sorry, "regressive". >> >>>The tax on every gallon would be the same. >> >>That's like saying a flat tax isn't "regressive" (technically it's neutral, >>but...) > >I learned in economics class that a progressive tax had a >greater-than-1 exponent on the cost of the thing taxed (like US income >taxes), and that a flat tax has a constant percentage (like most sales >taxes, past the 12 cent threshold), and a regressive tax had a >less-then-1 exponent (like Social Security taxes.) Ok, that's a good definition. >Lots of people now call a tax "regressive" if it taxes everyone at the >same rate (like a sales tax, for instance) because rich people can >theoretically afford it easier than poor people. That's a transition >from mathematics to morality. Relativity. Relative to the income tax it's regressive (so is a mugging). >There used to be a different definition of "species", too. It used to >be scientific, now it's moral. So we have lots more species than we >used to have. Sure. Salmon are classified into "species" based on where they spawn, not their DNA. >>>Poor >>>folk could even buy Regular and pay less tax than rich folk who buy >>>Premium. They could even buy small, high-mileage cars. >> >>The tax today is per gallon, not percentage. "Poor folk" often have old >>beaters, which are more often than not gas-guzzlers. >> >>But that doesn't alter the fact that the government spends far too much money >>now. They don't need more smack. > >Tax policy influences behavior. There are bad ways to collect X >dollars and better ways to collect X dollars. Lots of our current ways >kill jobs and encourage a huge balance of payments deficit. That doesn't alter the fact that the government spends far too much money now. Raising the gas tax *would* be just like giving a junkie that much more smack.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 3 Jun 2010 22:16 "Charlie E." wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:03:56 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" > <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > >"Charlie E." wrote: > >> > >> Fog can be a trick! When I designed the 91 Express Lanes, I built a > >> vehicle sensor that was basically two laser light curtains abount a > >> foot apart. I designed it to only distinguish vehicles going in the > >> proper direction. What I hadn't anticipated was fog. I heard that, > >> one day a few months after I was let go, they had thick fog move > >> through the pass, and recorded hundreds of phantom cars in the toll > >> lanes! > > > > > > They are too stupid to close toll roads in heavy fog? > > Ubetcha! This is in the middle of a freeway, and it only closes for > maintanance... I've seen fog so thick that you couldn't see the end of the hood on your vehicle, yet idiots were rolling by at high speed. Even worse is when it's mixed with heavy smoke from controlled burns. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: ehsjr on 3 Jun 2010 22:22 John Larkin wrote: <snip> > > The camera in the conference room goes SNAP! every 30 seconds. It > freaked me out at first, after hours. He's taken over 12,000 4Kx4K > images so far. > > Here's the guy's site: > > http://chadrichard.typepad.com/ > > Check out the fog in the Big Sur flic. > Nice! Please be sure to post again when he's finished with the "plywood art" photos and has completed the movie. I'd love to see it. :-) Ed > John > > >
From: John Larkin on 3 Jun 2010 23:18
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:22:29 -0400, ehsjr <ehsjr(a)nospamverizon.net> wrote: >John Larkin wrote: > ><snip> > >> >> The camera in the conference room goes SNAP! every 30 seconds. It >> freaked me out at first, after hours. He's taken over 12,000 4Kx4K >> images so far. >> >> Here's the guy's site: >> >> http://chadrichard.typepad.com/ >> >> Check out the fog in the Big Sur flic. >> > >Nice! Please be sure to post again when he's finished with the >"plywood art" photos and has completed the movie. I'd love >to see it. :-) > >Ed It's going to be a "viral marketing" thing for SunChips, on the web somewhere. John |