Maine driver's ed taught me that when turning left on a solid green non-arrow (yield to oncoming traffic), you are supposed to enter the intersection while waiting for the chance to go. If the light turns red, all traffic is stopped, so you have the right of way to GTFO.
Of course it's been a while since I took driver's ed. and things may have changed. and what was taught may be a rule of thumb rather than law. but I will always fight a ticket if this is the case.
NOTE: I am NOT talkig about the case where you FAIL to predict the flow of traffic and end up blocking the intersection (can't proceed). By all means, write me up if I do that.
Or maybe they figured the Republicans had already done enough damage to mess up the country, and that anything but a Republican would be good, but the only viable choice was a Democrat? Sometimes it's a matter of picking the lesser of two evils.
Nail on the head. A lot of people saw another republican, that looked just like the old republican that barely anyone liked, and said "f*ck that, anything else will be better than this again." whether it was an educated opinion or not, I find it easy to justify.
I think if Barack Obama wasn't half black, he would not have been elected. Younger voters wanted to prove that their generation could look beyond race. He had very little experience, he never offered anything but vague ideas, and he came from Chicago which is known for corrupt politics.
Not that I'm saying there were better options out there, I just believe if you put a white guy named Barry in his place he never even makes the Democratic primary ballot.
You have a point, but I think there are multiple factors at play here.
1. race probably had a major influence in winning non-white voters. I disagree with your opinion that 'younger' (I'll read that as young-white) voters voted for him to prove they are color blind.
2. age probably had a major influence in winning young voters. The fact that he didn't sound like the crusty old men of yesteryear probably made a pretty big difference. I think age > race for most people 18-30.
I remember my first (only other) election. I had to vote between, as South Park so eloquently put, a douche bag and a turd sandwich. This is probably why it was so easy to drink the Obama kool-aid this time around...
Way to analyze a stressful situation, sitting from the comforts of your own home. A+++++
There are a number of situations where it isn't so cut and dry. Imagine getting ready to pass a car by squeezing into the lane on your left (you can give yourself a lot of room, if you'd like, or it can be a last minute decision). As you're checking your blind spot, your car suddenly accelerates. You quickly approach the car in front of you, putting you in tailgating position, and this driver coincidentally, at the same time, lightly touches his breaks (maybe he caught himself tailgating the guy in front of him, or was distracted.) What would most people do? I am pretty sure they'd go for the breaks as soon as they see those break lights flash. The fact that the car took off on its own would be an afterthought.
Not every scenario is as if you're cruising down a 1 lane highway with a 2 car following distance between every car with a 10 ft shoulder.
I don't disagree with you. Many people drive like crap. And many people are probably WRONG about their cars accelerating on their own. as you mention, there are perfectly simple ways to recover from such a car malfunction. But you can't trivialize a situation where your car has a mind of its own during the middle of a maneuver.
I remember my first day, of my first real summer job. I was working at the Christmas Tree Shops and during my break all I wanted was a fricking cigarette. (no, I've never smoked, but looking back, I remember how it felt)
This is one case I am glad I RTFA. The dataset is destroyed, but there is still a neeto little web application to play with. It's fun to poke around with... I find myself wanting more.
And of course facebook wanted to shut him down... this is probably data they are collecting themselves and are selling / want to sell:)
Having been born and raised in Maine, I am very disappointed Olympia Snow (I think I voted for her...) helped draft this. Good thing I moved to California!!!! Wait, what?
No kidding. I drive a Honda Fit, totally unaltered, and I scrape bottom around 5mph at my friend's apartment complex. He's a little heavier set, so I practically have to come to a stand still if he's in the car.
I was considering moving into the complex, and made it very clear to the owners that it wasn't happening simply because of the speed walls.
GameStop can pay less per game because they take on the burden of selling+distribution. They are providing a service. If people find that service fee to be too much (ie. GameStop doesn't pay enough for used games) then they can feel free to track down their own buyers.
I think the most offensive thing here is that this idiot would actually buy a used game for a mere $5 discount. This is the fundamental problem I have with the likes of GameStop. They probably gave the previous owner $20 for this game and then turn around and sell it for $55.
The advantage of buying used isn't always in the money saved... GameStop has (or had) a 7 day full-refund (read: NOT STORE CREDIT) return policy on used games. Don't like it? Return it. Too short and you beat it? Return it. Sure, you're only saving $5 off of retail, but you're getting some security that buying new doesn't grant.
I've only taken advantage of this once for some ps3 game that took me 5 hours to beat and had barely any replay value.
I know this was off topic, but I felt it had to be pointed out. W.r.t the article... I don't really have much of a formed opinion yet.
I used to think like you. I was insanely uncomfortable walking around in popular brand names because I did not want people thinking it was all for show (rather than because I liked the shirt, etc). I thought I was better than needing to be trendy. It was just my own insecurity and a reflection of how negatively I thought about other people (because of the chip on my shoulder)... Yes, some people notice brands, trends, etc, and it's okay to want to be trendy.
Now, if they hold it against you, or try to showboat, then they either aren't worth a damn due to their superiority complex or are insecure, themselves. Hey wait- sounds exactly the same as my old attitude.
Do what you want, and be confident and accepting... otherwise it doesn't matter which side of the fence you fall on- you're still a shallow, prick.
Can I just say it's amazing that Lineage is still popular enough in Asian countries that people are stealing passwords for it like this. If only it held on in the US... that game gave me so many lovely hours of punching ents.
I don't believe I have ever gotten marked off for not meeting a required minimum page length, word count, or following a specific format (unless that was the purpose of the paper). You're right that the 3-pronged essay was usually given in the assignment instructions, but I never met a teacher who would penalize me for writing in a style more fitting to the topic.
<caveat>But the ideas and style must be good. </caveat>
Facebook has allowed me to keep in touch w/ people from highschool and college. It connects me to them in a very easy, convenient way. Why do people argue this?
It's amazing that people will trade the labours of their mind for mere web hosting.
It's amazing people consider facebook and myspace as "mere web hosting;" social networks are about connectedness. I am not defending them, but you're trivializing these communities and showing your ignorance.
They're named different things because they have different inputs and outputs. A VS takes a 3D vert and processes it, outputting a transformed 3D vert. A pixel shader gets a 2D coord and writes to memory. The fixed function units pretty much do stuff in between.
The PROCESSING (read: adding, multiplying, powing, moving, SHADING) of the vert/pixel happens on the same sets of computational units (cores, eu, whatever). A good pipe or driver can balance its workload, and a very specific execution can in theory max out all cores and have them running full throttle.
The last time I had access to the WHQL test suite, it was mostly used for testing the functionality and compliance of hardware to DX9/10. I don't recall it covering any areas of 'stress.' Although I sure wasn't looking for it.
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Maine driver's ed taught me that when turning left on a solid green non-arrow (yield to oncoming traffic), you are supposed to enter the intersection while waiting for the chance to go. If the light turns red, all traffic is stopped, so you have the right of way to GTFO.
Of course it's been a while since I took driver's ed. and things may have changed. and what was taught may be a rule of thumb rather than law. but I will always fight a ticket if this is the case.
NOTE: I am NOT talkig about the case where you FAIL to predict the flow of traffic and end up blocking the intersection (can't proceed). By all means, write me up if I do that.
Or maybe they figured the Republicans had already done enough damage to mess up the country, and that anything but a Republican would be good, but the only viable choice was a Democrat? Sometimes it's a matter of picking the lesser of two evils.
Nail on the head. A lot of people saw another republican, that looked just like the old republican that barely anyone liked, and said "f*ck that, anything else will be better than this again." whether it was an educated opinion or not, I find it easy to justify.
I think if Barack Obama wasn't half black, he would not have been elected. Younger voters wanted to prove that their generation could look beyond race. He had very little experience, he never offered anything but vague ideas, and he came from Chicago which is known for corrupt politics. Not that I'm saying there were better options out there, I just believe if you put a white guy named Barry in his place he never even makes the Democratic primary ballot.
You have a point, but I think there are multiple factors at play here.
1. race probably had a major influence in winning non-white voters. I disagree with your opinion that 'younger' (I'll read that as young-white) voters voted for him to prove they are color blind.
2. age probably had a major influence in winning young voters. The fact that he didn't sound like the crusty old men of yesteryear probably made a pretty big difference. I think age > race for most people 18-30.
I remember my first (only other) election. I had to vote between, as South Park so eloquently put, a douche bag and a turd sandwich. This is probably why it was so easy to drink the Obama kool-aid this time around...
breaks = brakes, today
Way to analyze a stressful situation, sitting from the comforts of your own home. A+++++
There are a number of situations where it isn't so cut and dry. Imagine getting ready to pass a car by squeezing into the lane on your left (you can give yourself a lot of room, if you'd like, or it can be a last minute decision). As you're checking your blind spot, your car suddenly accelerates. You quickly approach the car in front of you, putting you in tailgating position, and this driver coincidentally, at the same time, lightly touches his breaks (maybe he caught himself tailgating the guy in front of him, or was distracted.) What would most people do? I am pretty sure they'd go for the breaks as soon as they see those break lights flash. The fact that the car took off on its own would be an afterthought.
Not every scenario is as if you're cruising down a 1 lane highway with a 2 car following distance between every car with a 10 ft shoulder.
I don't disagree with you. Many people drive like crap. And many people are probably WRONG about their cars accelerating on their own. as you mention, there are perfectly simple ways to recover from such a car malfunction. But you can't trivialize a situation where your car has a mind of its own during the middle of a maneuver.
Just about every gun-owning American is a responsible gun owner
I don't even think I could agree with
Just about every American is a responsible person
Using your line of assessment, one could look at online pornography and conclude that the computer was invented solely for this purpose.
that would make my parents' christmas present from my sister and me very, very awkward.
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I remember my first day, of my first real summer job. I was working at the Christmas Tree Shops and during my break all I wanted was a fricking cigarette. (no, I've never smoked, but looking back, I remember how it felt)
This is one case I am glad I RTFA. The dataset is destroyed, but there is still a neeto little web application to play with. It's fun to poke around with... I find myself wanting more.
:)
And of course facebook wanted to shut him down... this is probably data they are collecting themselves and are selling / want to sell
Having been born and raised in Maine, I am very disappointed Olympia Snow (I think I voted for her...) helped draft this. Good thing I moved to California!!!! Wait, what?
No kidding. I drive a Honda Fit, totally unaltered, and I scrape bottom around 5mph at my friend's apartment complex. He's a little heavier set, so I practically have to come to a stand still if he's in the car.
I was considering moving into the complex, and made it very clear to the owners that it wasn't happening simply because of the speed walls.
GameStop can pay less per game because they take on the burden of selling+distribution. They are providing a service. If people find that service fee to be too much (ie. GameStop doesn't pay enough for used games) then they can feel free to track down their own buyers.
I think the most offensive thing here is that this idiot would actually buy a used game for a mere $5 discount. This is the fundamental problem I have with the likes of GameStop. They probably gave the previous owner $20 for this game and then turn around and sell it for $55.
The advantage of buying used isn't always in the money saved... GameStop has (or had) a 7 day full-refund (read: NOT STORE CREDIT) return policy on used games. Don't like it? Return it. Too short and you beat it? Return it. Sure, you're only saving $5 off of retail, but you're getting some security that buying new doesn't grant.
I've only taken advantage of this once for some ps3 game that took me 5 hours to beat and had barely any replay value.
I know this was off topic, but I felt it had to be pointed out. W.r.t the article... I don't really have much of a formed opinion yet.
Take a picture, load it into photoshop, content aware fill, and BAM sneak peak into the past.
I used to think like you. I was insanely uncomfortable walking around in popular brand names because I did not want people thinking it was all for show (rather than because I liked the shirt, etc). I thought I was better than needing to be trendy. It was just my own insecurity and a reflection of how negatively I thought about other people (because of the chip on my shoulder)... Yes, some people notice brands, trends, etc, and it's okay to want to be trendy.
Now, if they hold it against you, or try to showboat, then they either aren't worth a damn due to their superiority complex or are insecure, themselves. Hey wait- sounds exactly the same as my old attitude.
Do what you want, and be confident and accepting... otherwise it doesn't matter which side of the fence you fall on- you're still a shallow, prick.
Agreed. At uni the social outcasts have bags they drag about on rollers... :)
We had one of those in high school. Too bad she never made it to college... she would have found a friend or two.
No bark... no fruit!
I don't believe I have ever gotten marked off for not meeting a required minimum page length, word count, or following a specific format (unless that was the purpose of the paper). You're right that the 3-pronged essay was usually given in the assignment instructions, but I never met a teacher who would penalize me for writing in a style more fitting to the topic.
<caveat>But the ideas and style must be good. </caveat>
Facebook has allowed me to keep in touch w/ people from highschool and college. It connects me to them in a very easy, convenient way. Why do people argue this?
It's amazing that people will trade the labours of their mind for mere web hosting.
It's amazing people consider facebook and myspace as "mere web hosting;" social networks are about connectedness. I am not defending them, but you're trivializing these communities and showing your ignorance.
They're named different things because they have different inputs and outputs. A VS takes a 3D vert and processes it, outputting a transformed 3D vert. A pixel shader gets a 2D coord and writes to memory.
The fixed function units pretty much do stuff in between.
The PROCESSING (read: adding, multiplying, powing, moving, SHADING) of the vert/pixel happens on the same sets of computational units (cores, eu, whatever). A good pipe or driver can balance its workload, and a very specific execution can in theory max out all cores and have them running full throttle.
The last time I had access to the WHQL test suite, it was mostly used for testing the functionality and compliance of hardware to DX9/10. I don't recall it covering any areas of 'stress.' Although I sure wasn't looking for it.
No, well written contracts typically are set up so that is one section is in default the other sections are still in force.
try { // blocking fxn
workAssOff()
}catch( CareerException=> e ) {
print "oh shit something happened: " + e.Message
}finally{
dontTouchAComputerInMonths( 6 )
}
I myself believe the system to be deficient, and it is the primary reason I have abstained from joining MENSA.
I, myself, believe the Imperial System to be deficient, and it is the primary reason I have abstained from joining TIC (12 inch club).
btw. last I checked mensa is a word, not an acronym.