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The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws

New submitter HeLLFiRe1151 sends this quote from Physics Central: "Here's a practical application for your physics education: using math to successfully beat a traffic ticket in court. Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist based at the University of California San Diego, did just that to avoid paying a fee for (purportedly) running a stop sign. Krioukov not only proved his innocence, but he also posted a paper detailing his argument online (PDF) on the arXiv server."

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  1. Re:Actually.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The great thing? We can be absolutely certain this scientist is not black!

    There are a few exceptional blacks that contribute and coexist peacefully with their neighborhoods. The rest of the blacks hate them and call them "uncle tom" because they're "acting white". Black males are about 6% of the population and commit over 50% of murders. They mostly murder other blacks but when they do murder whites Jesse Jackson is oddly quiet.

    Most blacks have a "thug" or "gangsta" culture that glorifies violence, drug abuse, abuse of women, racism against whites, incarceration, an ignorant dialect of pidgin English, and the failure to assume paternal responsibility. It is a gutter culture of anti-achievement. The most idiotic of whites embrace it too, like the white kids from nuclear families who grew up in the suburbs and think they're hardass street gangbangers. If you pardon the vernacular they would shit their pants if they wound up in a real ghetto with real gangsters but that is not the point. The point is this gutter culture is not only toxic. It is contagious. It doesn't just infect urban blacks and impressionable white youth. It is the main reason that black-on-black crime happens at a much bigger rate than white-on-black crime during the Jim Crow era.

    Most black males will have been incarcerated at least once by the time they are 30 years old. Blacks have a higher rate of obesity than whites or Asians or Hispanics. Their rate of children born out of wedlock (better known as bastards) is twice the rate for whites. They score lower than whites or Asians on IQ tests which makes Liberals come up with flimsy and poorly supported excuses, anything to avoid admitting a real inferiority. Despite blacks having been born and raised in the USA for many generations, they still do not speak proper English with no discernable"accent", something Asian immigrants do within 1-2 generations.

    Almost all modern scientific discoveries were made by whites and Asians. Add up all the contributions to society blacks have made. And then subtract from that the costs of political correctness, welfare, affirmative action, lectures and seminars and 'sensitivity training' for diversity, crime including damage done to the victims and court costs and incarceration costs and law enforcement costs, the costs of bussing for black schoolchildren, the decline in property value of homes as black gangs move in, plus the constant media sensationalism about race and the money/energy wasted on it, and the election of Obama.

    As a group blacks are a net drain on society. FACT!!

    P.S. The real insult is blacks scream for more and more because it's never enough for them instead of being grateful we put up with their net drain status. They are much better off here than they would be in Africa because black-goverened nations always fail horribly and that's just another FACT.

  2. Re:Actually.. by Arancaytar · · Score: 0, Troll

    We can be absolutely certain this scientist is not black!

    Because a black scientist in the situation would have been shot by the officer long before it went to court.