Then you should have made your context clear in your post
And there I thought the parent post was sufficient context. Oh well. From now on, just for you, I'll define the complete context of all posts I make, even if it means writing the equivalent of War & Peace each time.
I was replying to this post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3278431&cid=42114519), which has as much to do with your scenario as Kelsey Grammer's left sock. Instead, you decided to take mty post out of context in some vain attempt to make yourself all smug and superior.
Way to totally misread what I wrote. In your scenario, the driver pulling out is clearly at fault, as he has to merge with a different flow of traffic. If you actually applied context, you'd see that too.
"People are so worried about entering an intersection on red that they are causing rear-end accidents by sudden stopping..."
That's a basic misunderstanding of safety. The people tailgating are the ones causing the accidents.
No, you are suffering from a basic misunderstanding of how people react to revenue camera intersections and shortened yellow times. They slam on their brakes at a disproportionately higher rate than at intersections with appropriate yellow light times. You cannot expect people to use one following distance for some intersections and a different following distance for others.
UK law makes it very simple - the guy behind is at fault. If you keep the advised separation (2 seconds), you will have plenty of time to safely react to even the harshest emergency brake.
If we're getting technical, the jet engine can be traced to Ancient Greece, and the aeolipile. However, I was thinking of the turbojet, to which Whittle was the first to patent.
I mean what is the percent of traffic on the net related to porn and what is it's percent represented on Google?
While it's often repeated that porn makes up the majority of traffic, in reality it's an almost insignificant amount. I'd bet that traffic only from Google exceeds porn traffic by several orders of magnitude.
If 100% of tax revenue goes to Social Security, then where's the money to invest in basic infrastructure? Social Security is useless if you can't deliver power to homes and hospitals, or if you can't ship goods across the road/rail networks.
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Plus MS can deliver the updates via Windows Update, so there's no requirement for physical media (which should nevertheless still be an option).
FUD
Updating my LG Optimus 7 from WP7 to WP7.5:
1. Connect phone to PC
2. Start Zune
3. Go to Device Details
4. Click 'Update' link/button
5. There is no step 5
The finer details may be a little off, but it's essentially correct.
I was still getting patches for Win2K long after my old Mac became a doorstop.
Additionally, XP is still getting security fixes 11 years after release.
Then you should have made your context clear in your post
And there I thought the parent post was sufficient context. Oh well. From now on, just for you, I'll define the complete context of all posts I make, even if it means writing the equivalent of War & Peace each time.
I was replying to this post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3278431&cid=42114519), which has as much to do with your scenario as Kelsey Grammer's left sock. Instead, you decided to take mty post out of context in some vain attempt to make yourself all smug and superior.
Definition of context, sine you clearly don't know what it means.
Again, way to misread my words. Are you creating unrelated scenarios just so you can feel superior for 5 seconds?
Way to totally misread what I wrote. In your scenario, the driver pulling out is clearly at fault, as he has to merge with a different flow of traffic. If you actually applied context, you'd see that too.
"People are so worried about entering an intersection on red that they are causing rear-end accidents by sudden stopping..."
That's a basic misunderstanding of safety. The people tailgating are the ones causing the accidents.
No, you are suffering from a basic misunderstanding of how people react to revenue camera intersections and shortened yellow times. They slam on their brakes at a disproportionately higher rate than at intersections with appropriate yellow light times. You cannot expect people to use one following distance for some intersections and a different following distance for others.
UK law makes it very simple - the guy behind is at fault. If you keep the advised separation (2 seconds), you will have plenty of time to safely react to even the harshest emergency brake.
Clearly you've never wanted to turn right in a UK box junction, where you can stop in the intersection (but only for that reason).
It's in lower case, which implies he was a commander of a mission, regardless of actual military rank.
Cars too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
If we're getting technical, the jet engine can be traced to Ancient Greece, and the aeolipile. However, I was thinking of the turbojet, to which Whittle was the first to patent.
I mean what is the percent of traffic on the net related to porn and what is it's percent represented on Google?
While it's often repeated that porn makes up the majority of traffic, in reality it's an almost insignificant amount. I'd bet that traffic only from Google exceeds porn traffic by several orders of magnitude.
And the problem with Europeans is their faggot accents and overall lack of achievement over the years.
Obvious troll is obvious, but what the hell.
How are you enjoying those jet engines we invented (British)? Or all that electricity (Italian)? Not to mention the US Navy was created by a Scot.
What they've pointed out are the facts that you gave, not the conclusion you drew from it.
I posted no conclusions, only a hypothetical. This post isn't mine, it's from Solandri.
Is there no equivalent of the UK's National Grid in the US?
The first word of my post was 'if', though as it's a small word, I'll allow for you missing it.
Also, for context.
If 100% of tax revenue goes to Social Security, then where's the money to invest in basic infrastructure? Social Security is useless if you can't deliver power to homes and hospitals, or if you can't ship goods across the road/rail networks.
Micro$oft is stuck in the past. Their windows OS is tied to the PC and to an old 32bit architecture which are both going to be deprecated soon.
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The point's about 50 yards to the right, mate.
Stop me - I dare you
Apologies for not doing a full background check on all /. users I reply to.
Sounds about right. Just goes to show DDG's spouting crap.
Nice try
You win the 'Stating The Obvious Award'! Congratulations!