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Big Rigs Go High Tech
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If you want to be afraid, just wait until the foreign trucking provisions of NAFTA come through, and we're flooded with Mexican truckers, driving Mexican trucks, completely immune to American safety, and EPA standards, much less CDL standards.
Let me second that from a UK perspective.
Since the inclusion of the former Eastern European states into the EU, we have seen a huge rise in traffic accidents caused by foreign drivers, especially Eastern Europeans with badly maintained rigs.
Disclaimer - I'm not a trucker, but I regularly do about 40,000 miles a year on the roads, and have never had an accident while moving (been rear-ended twice, but hey, what can you do?).
2000 - a couple of incidents, neither serious nor fatal.
2001 - a cluster of 'Real IRA' incidents - again, none fatal.
Then a gap of 4 years, until a small group of misguided Islamists actually manage to get it together to cause mayhem - bad, but only about a weeks worth of road deaths in the UK.
Then another gap of two years, and two unrelated incidents - the Glasgow attack was particularly inept and risible, the letter bombs were the work of a nutter rather than organised terrorism.
I live here, and my parents were a couple of hundred yards away from the Arndale Centre truck bomb when it went off, and I'm not worried about terrorism at all.
I am, however, worried about the authoritarian tendencies of Neues Arbeit and the complicity of their friends in the media.
No - what he did was more akin to insulting Jesus or the Holly Sprite or Dog - still not illegal, but likely to upset a whole bunch more people than insulting an idiot, a power-crazed feminist, a genuinely sensible guy or a nice old geezer who's much maligned (there - equal opportunity again).
Here in the UK, we still have blasphemy laws, but the state has given up enforcing them - the last occasion of note was some play about Jesus being gay that upset Mary Whitehouse (not the porn star, the other one) back in the 70s.
Some Hindus take their religion just as seriously as fundies of all sorts, and the BJP and their ilk are pretty influential in India - given the religious tensions still active there following the great British botch that was Partition, it's unsurprising to me that sensitivities are easily pricked.
Having said that, you're right - it's no place of Google's to assist in the application of unjust law.
If Adam Crozier didn't insist on taking huge bonuses for running an underperforming operation (along with the rest of the monkeys on the board), the Post Office would actually turn a profit.
I hate the Chinese government - I have Tibetan and Nepalese friends, and have heard from them what goes on in Tibet.
But this is a major disaster for those involved, and we should all wish God speed to the emergency services who are trying to help those afflicted by the earthquake.
So I hope that in this case the Chinese government has everything it needs to give assistance, and that they succeed - but they'll dance on my grave before I concede that Tibet is Chinese.
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Used all my mod points earlier, but that's insightful.
The following line of the chorus is perhaps more apposite to the discussion, though -
And nothin aint worth nothin but its free
Thanks for putting Janis in my head, though - I've gone all warm and hippyish again :o)
Robert Trevithick or George Stephenson might be relevant.~
US-ian gallons are smaller than ours :o)
Let me second that from a UK perspective.
Since the inclusion of the former Eastern European states into the EU, we have seen a huge rise in traffic accidents caused by foreign drivers, especially Eastern Europeans with badly maintained rigs.
Disclaimer - I'm not a trucker, but I regularly do about 40,000 miles a year on the roads, and have never had an accident while moving (been rear-ended twice, but hey, what can you do?).
You may want to read Winston Churchill's take on Communism - old Winnie was none too keen on the Jews himself.
Thankyou - not!
Moderator: "I was only following orders!"
(OK - it should be das panel, but it's a revealing typo as it is...) :P
Nah - he just missed out the 'divide both sides by two' step :o)
"Muay Thai" means God is coming round to kick ass :P
I was thinking more along the lines of setting Donkey Kong on his sorry ass :P
"I'm not sure, but He seems to be inordinately fond of beetles."
So it's hardly surprising to find beetles with advanced optical properties, is it?
Note - I'm as atheist as they come, and my tongue is firmly in my cheek :o)
Being real software, though, I doubt whether they tested their page with any Windows based browser :P
Sorry, spelling's bad this morning :P
Wrong - it goes back at most to around 600BC, and is all myths and propaganda.
he was probably Little-Endian :P
nah - his tool's called PhlashDance, which made me go all warm and fuzzy at the thought of Jennifer Beals stamping on my fimware in her heels :P
OK, we'll get off your lawn :P
Will have to travel. Far. Probably to another galaxy.
There - fixed that for ya.
2000 - a couple of incidents, neither serious nor fatal.
2001 - a cluster of 'Real IRA' incidents - again, none fatal.
Then a gap of 4 years, until a small group of misguided Islamists actually manage to get it together to cause mayhem - bad, but only about a weeks worth of road deaths in the UK.
Then another gap of two years, and two unrelated incidents - the Glasgow attack was particularly inept and risible, the letter bombs were the work of a nutter rather than organised terrorism.
I live here, and my parents were a couple of hundred yards away from the Arndale Centre truck bomb when it went off, and I'm not worried about terrorism at all.
I am, however, worried about the authoritarian tendencies of Neues Arbeit and the complicity of their friends in the media.
Here in the UK, we still have blasphemy laws, but the state has given up enforcing them - the last occasion of note was some play about Jesus being gay that upset Mary Whitehouse (not the porn star, the other one) back in the 70s.
Some Hindus take their religion just as seriously as fundies of all sorts, and the BJP and their ilk are pretty influential in India - given the religious tensions still active there following the great British botch that was Partition, it's unsurprising to me that sensitivities are easily pricked.
Having said that, you're right - it's no place of Google's to assist in the application of unjust law.
That's a pretty tight approximation for a physicist to make :P
But this is a major disaster for those involved, and we should all wish God speed to the emergency services who are trying to help those afflicted by the earthquake.
So I hope that in this case the Chinese government has everything it needs to give assistance, and that they succeed - but they'll dance on my grave before I concede that Tibet is Chinese.
Well I guess my old Sparcstation's fucked, then - but then again it's only running my CERN proxy, so that's OK :P