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If you could make a reflective road marker (a "road stud", in the jargon) that contained a small solar cell and battery, you would be able to: A) power a LED at night to provide lit lanes, not just reflection; B) monitor for fog or water on the road surface; C) monitor the temperature to detect ice; D) use infrared ranging and embedded cameras to detect and report the license number of anyone speeding on the road; E) All of the above. If the company can make them cheap enough, they'll be everywhere in a few years.
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then surely your car would slide over more than a hundred meters, then hit an obstacle and be throw upward in the air, at least 10 feet up.
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Totally OT here but...
The reason why it's now said, "In Soviet Russia..." is because after the fall of the Berlin Wall and promotion of semi-democracy, Mr. Smirnoff realized his act needed adjustment.
"Soviet Russia" was HIS solution.
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
Whooo hooo, something for Kerry to raise taxs over if he gets elected in November.
When he was "popular" it was "Soviet Union." This was pre-fall of Communism and, IIRC, the Soviet Union broke up a couple of years after the Berln Wall fell. Anyhow, he was an unfunny dude, so fighting over the semantics of a lame joke about a lame comic by a lame /. posters is, well, lame. ;-)
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
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BOBBY: The key to writing a good Yakov Smirnoff joke is to picture yourself arriving in America and noticing that it is different from Russia.
BILL: And when he says "reckon" and "y'all" in that accent of his, I just lose it. It's brilliant, really.
DALE: The only thing "brilliant, really" about Yakov Smirnoff is that he's a KGB spy. He's been sending U.S. secrets back to Mother Russia while tourists are seduced by his fake comedy act. Although his beard is real.
BOBBY: In America, you put "In God We Trust" on your money. In Russia, we have no money!
YAKOV SMIRNOFF: Hey, kid, I don't do Russian jokes for last ten years. Now I do jokes about relationships and things I observe.
"Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries!"
ABB? ABB??!! Really? ANYBODY?! How about Ralph Nader? How about Lyndon Larouche?
When he was "popular" it was "Soviet Union."
/. posters is, well, lame.
That's what comsymp pedants like you called it. But most people whose minds weren't completely addled by Leftism just called it "Russia". Hence, in this great man's act, it was always "in Russia".
Anyhow, he was an unfunny dude, so fighting over the semantics of a lame joke about a lame comic by a lame
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