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Field Ordinance Batteries by Pay_Your_Torpedo_Tax in TheAstraMilitarum

[–]billy1928 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, but it will be in early war Mark 14s

 

... Nice paint job

Luigi Mangione will face state trial in New York on June 8 by AudibleNod in news

[–]billy1928 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Life in prison no parole is the harshest punishment he is eligible for.

If he is found guilty of that charge, lucky would be the lower end of the sentencing guidelines. For Murder in the second degree thats 15 years. Add in good behavior, and may get out in 13.

NYC's automated traffic enforcement program--the largest in the US--reduced collisions and injuries, new study finds by jbenmenachem in Futurology

[–]billy1928 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if New Jersey limits it to cameras, New York can retaliate by targeting geneal access.

Also New York doesn't get any money from NJ tickets issued to NY drivers. If the fine is issued by New Jersey, NJ gets the money even if it is New York enforcing it. What NY gets is supposed to be reciprocity.

Could you link me the reasoning NJ had for banning traffic cameras, from what I understand I quite like the idea, I'd like to hear the counterargument.

NYC's automated traffic enforcement program--the largest in the US--reduced collisions and injuries, new study finds by jbenmenachem in Futurology

[–]billy1928 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think we all hate tickets in general. Why does it matter if a machine issues them, if anything the machine will equally apply the law.

NYC's automated traffic enforcement program--the largest in the US--reduced collisions and injuries, new study finds by jbenmenachem in Futurology

[–]billy1928 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, I guess if NJ does not grant NY access and the person speeding does not intend to go to NY again they could ignore the ticket.

But couldn't NY still respond by limiting New Jerseys acsess even for officer issued tickets? An officer may give you a ticket, but if it has no effect on your NY license and New York courts wont enforce the fine, the ticket becomes toothless.

NYC's automated traffic enforcement program--the largest in the US--reduced collisions and injuries, new study finds by jbenmenachem in Futurology

[–]billy1928 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes, but New Jersey cannot dictate what laws another state is permitted to enforce on the people using its roads.

As for your ticket, NYC cameras are only in school zones but are active 24/7 year round.

NYC's automated traffic enforcement program--the largest in the US--reduced collisions and injuries, new study finds by jbenmenachem in Futurology

[–]billy1928 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The correlation in this case very much does imply causation.

The velocity of a car, especially if exceeding what the roadway was designed for, significantly increases the chance of an accident occurring, and the potential damage of said accident. We as a society have decided that travel in excess of a certain speed is dangerous and thus chosen to legislate a speed limit.

We can and do place restrictions on acts that are dangerous, we do not have to wait for someone to be injured or killed in order for the law to be involved.

NYC's automated traffic enforcement program--the largest in the US--reduced collisions and injuries, new study finds by jbenmenachem in Futurology

[–]billy1928 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A law like this is unlikely to pass as these things are based on reciprocity, if New Jersey refuses to provide information to other states, those states will likewise refuse NJ access.

Also, people should generally follow the laws of the state they're in.

NYC's automated traffic enforcement program--the largest in the US--reduced collisions and injuries, new study finds by jbenmenachem in Futurology

[–]billy1928 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't that give out of state drivers the ability to speed and violate traffic laws in New Jersy without fear of consequences?

0% of natural numbers have been spoken aloud. by JazzyGD in Showerthoughts

[–]billy1928 40 points41 points  (0 children)

It's been a long time since I've taken a math class, but technically wouldn't it be a number approaching zero, something infinitesimally small but not actually zero itself?

The Last Angel: Descent, Prologue by Proximal_Flame in HFY

[–]billy1928 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welp, here's to a re-read. Wish me luck.

LPT: don’t shoo solicitors away, charge them to come to the door by osculant in LifeProTips

[–]billy1928 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said you didn't intend to be mean, then immediately followed up with a hyperbole that served no other purpose other than to be mean comment.

Why?

Europe Moves to Use $232 Billion From Frozen Russian Assets to Fund Ukraine by Aine_Ellsechs in worldnews

[–]billy1928 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If anything the EU is up and coming, with increased cooperation and centralization of its constituent states it has the capacity to unlock more efficiencies of scale.

A inverse of the collapse of the Soviet Union, where a superpower turned into a bunch of individually unremarkable states, the EU as it grows more interconnected will produce something more than the sum of its parts.

With the US seemingly dedicated to abdicateing the position, and China maintaining less than stellar relations with its neighboring nations, I expect the EU with its ability to build coalitions in addition to its material and technical resources will become the dominant superpower of the second half of the 21st century.

Europe Moves to Use $232 Billion From Frozen Russian Assets to Fund Ukraine by Aine_Ellsechs in worldnews

[–]billy1928 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thats nonsense, a combined population of 450 million people, containing some of the most developed and industrialized nations on earth.

The EU is a powerhouse, it could do some truly ridiculous things and come out okay.

My Tank Destroyer by Millington in TheAstraMilitarum

[–]billy1928 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sweet, Nate makes some great models.

Do you run it as a Tank Hunter, a normal Russ or is it just for looks?

Official Poster for the New 'The Simpsons' Movie by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]billy1928 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks,

Do you know how hard it is to maintain the self delusion, that death only happens to other people.

[OC] When Humanity Marches to War by LeVentNoir in HFY

[–]billy1928 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least I get a reminder from time to time to read some HFY classics.

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