Slashdot Mirror
Coasters to Face G-Force Limits?
jonerik writes "NBC News is reporting that today New Jersey will begin examining the possibility of placing limits on roller coaster G-forces. Pointing out that the G-forces on coasters are considerably greater than even those experienced by astronauts and race car drivers, legislators on both the state and national levels want to start reining in coaster G-forces which have been blamed for a number of injuries and deaths over the past few years. Pansies. Why do they think people ride roller coasters to begin with?"
Overcast, cold, and the line was less than 20 mins.
BTW -- Taco, if you are reading this, the speed at which I type is TOO fast for your little website to handle, fix that. Also, I like to post, I paid, I should get priority over those that don't.
Our legislators in their finite wisdom decided that to avoid this in the future, drivers would have to *stop* on *both lanes* of trafic anytime a school bus was unloading. The fine for not stoping ? 1500$.
I have nearly gotten in 5 accidents because of this -- people slam on their breaks when the buses flip on their stop sign because they're afraid of the amazing fine (and guess what -- cops are following the buses so they can *give* amazing fines). Then invariably a busy street or expressway comes to a halt with screaching tires. And yes ive narowly avoided some fantastic collisions only by luck.
If I ever meet the fucker who wrote that bill, I'm going to kill him for nearly getting *me* killed 5 times.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
fucking dick, spoiler mother fucker, i will eat your children for that, fucker, you have been warned.
PS the lameness filter that picks up on all caps suck ass, if i want to yell I will, fucking GEEKS
You forgot to mention the vast right-wing conspiracy to disprove the theory of evolution. Fundamentalist Christians purchase bible-thumping politicians and force them to pass laws to prevent natural selection. Once this results in an America which has regressed to the point where it is inhabited only by slack-jawed droolmeisters, they will declare victory.
And everyone will be a Fundamentalist Christian to boot!
Heroin is illegal for race reasons. While the Chinese slaves were building the railroads, they smoked opium. After the railroads were finished, the Chinese moved to the West Coast and frequented Opium Bars. White women were attracted to these opium bars (to smoke opium) and White men were upset. They outlawed opium. Now the derivitaves are also illegal.
Marajuana is the Mexican name for Canibis. In America (about 100 years ago), Canibis was called Hemp. Ever wonder why Americans refer to a plant by it's Mexican name? Do you need three guesses to realise it's to make it sound "Mexican"? Guess who Americans hated around the time of the criminilization of Hemp?
Once we started down the road of criminilizing things people liked doing, it really didn't stop. Well, you could say that it stopped with the nullification of prohibition, but in reality, that was just a minor bump. The government continues to restrict drug use in as many ways as possible. Just look at tobacco. Even people who smoke say it is a filthy habit. The government is slowly making everyone think the world would be better off without tobacco.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
what about the morons behind you who are riding your rear bumper when you stop?! Even if you compensated for the driver in front of you, it won't protect you from the jerk behind you. I think was the point the original post was making.
Besides the fact that most driver's license tests are a complete joke!
majority of pain killers being sold in drug stores was causing a major adiction problem
Addiction is your problem, not mine. If I want to be addicted to moriphine, that is none of your buisness.
also causing quite a bit of deaths
If a bottle says take one every 24 hours, and you take one every hour, who is at fault? Should my right to have one every day be taken because you can't/won't follow directions. OTOH, if the bottle says take one an hour and that causes death, then the company producing the product is at fault. Do you then ban the product because the company was stupid, or do you just fine the company and have them change their labling?
stupid mom giving their crying baby a little morphine
Child abuse is already agianst the law. Why make things illegal just because they can be used to abuse a child?
No, my friend, the politicians are not that manevolent. They banned drugs because they cannot control production. Any idiot can grow poppies and canibis. Tobacco is HARD to grow and alcohol is tough to distil. The government can license tobacco and hops fields and then tax the output. They can't tax you if you grow poppies for your own use. If they can't tax it, they ban it.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.