Not sure about the side by side in terms of technical legality, but it is at least legal for a bike to be on just about any road other than interstates. As far to the right as you feel safe. Now, you would be out of your goddamn mind to ride on a lot of them, but you wouldn't be breaking the law.
Same story more or less, except it scared me into wearing a helmet instead of reaffirming that I did. Biking has been pretty much my only transport for about 8 years now. Never wore a helmet, figured that I never wrecked because I never really did anything stupid....and also because I was just that good (ha).
In the middle of one of those rides that anyone who rides a lot knows well, where you are flying and you just aren't getting tired at all....I am standing up while cranking to stretch my legs out.....I hit the ground and am sliding along the road wondering what the hell just happened.
Catastrophic failure of the bottom bracket. Didn't hit my head, but a spur from the broken metal unzipped about 18 inches of the skin on my leg. Made me realize that it doesn't matter if you aren't doing anything stupid or how good you think are (or really might be)....things break, people make mistakes....shit happens.
And there are helmets now that don't look ridiculous. You don't have to look like you are gunning for the front of the peloton or that a spaceship has come down and landed on your head.
Second the wired link. It's a pretty interesting read. I want to see what gets made from the malleable glass.....hopefully it doesn't take 40 years to figure out a use for it the way it did for gorilla glass.
Just out of curiosity....how many ppl in tech jobs, other than myself, ever think to themselves that you wish you had kept computers as a hobby and learned a trade instead?
Maybe it is just idle grumbling when I am hating 12 hour days at a desk....but if I had it to do over again I would have done electrician/plumber/carpenter/millwright instead of keyboard banger. (I list millwright just because a great uncle of mine was a millwright. He almost never worked....but when he did, wow he made a lot of money).
I have a neighbor who is a plumber that I have been helping with computer questions for some time now because it's always good to have a plumber that owes you favors. I envy him coming home and being excited about getting on his computer. I remember that.
It wasn't as cold and it probably wasn't at as busy of an airport, but ramp hand (or lineman in the US) isn't a particularly hard job. I did it for several years when I was younger. It's really no different than working at a full service gas station. Except you pump a lot more fuel into far more valuable vehicles.
In the US (I would hope that linemen at northern Canadian airports got paid more) it is a very low paying job in any instance other than working for/at a major airport. The only advancement opportunity was to buddy up with some pilots and get them to teach you to fly and not charge for the lessons.
Not really, if you like it the go with it. I am just giving you a hard time. I am sure you are used to it. I just recall the first (and only actually) time I saw one of those. I said "wow, look at that badass neon"...someone else in the car said "what the hell did you just say?" and we had a good laugh. I am sure it's a great car. Just about all sports cars are impractical.
What's my best quarter mile time? You don't know what I got!
....actually my current situation does not require a car so I don't have anything at all. Thinking about looking for a mid 90's to early 2000's tacoma. One of those 4 cylinder 4wd ones. People hang on to those damn things, they are hard to find. Anyway, the point I am making here is that you and I need different things out of our vehicles...no reason to argue about it.
Hey, you bought one of those! I always wondered who in the hell would want one of those cars. I am not making fun, just pointing out how outlandishly impractical they seem to be. Also, to nitpick, I don't think that car will do 150 in a manner that you would want anything to do with unless you were in a fire suit with an ambulance following you.
I have an iPad and I really enjoy it for what I use it for....but if I hadn't already known how to turn it off because it probably worked like the iphone did I am not sure I would have immediately gone for the lock button either. Here's another handy one....double click the home button, touch and hold an app, the red dash that appears on the icon will kill that app.
you'll never see it, because there's no reason for it to even exist, let alone be an iOS app, let alone be an iPad-only iOS app
Hehe, the company I work for did the exact same thing and were all excited about it (and it never went anywhere because nobody used it). I am working with a client of ours now who also doing this exact thing. At least we will make some money on it this time.
government reimbursement rate is today about 30% of the billed cost
I am nitpicking I guess...but that is a little low. When you say gov't payers I assume you are only talking about Medicaid, and there are only a few states that hover around or below 30% of what they would have been paid by a non-gov't payer for the same service. Most are well above 30%
I don't disagree with your point, just that 30% figure.
Yeah, I live next to a real piece of work. I will leave the ridiculous argument he started with me one day....but he threatened me and his "old lady" said she was going to kill my dog. I went in the house before I wound up in prison. The neighbor saw it all and called the cops and they were arrested. Nothing really came of it....but they were arrested.
Unless the reason was that people that knew him called to say that he needed help. I don't know, I can't look at that because I don't have a facebook login. I had to deactivate it because I kept getting drunk and saying stupid shit on facebook (see what I did there). So, I am more than willing to believe he is harmless...here's hoping that he is checked out, determined to be batshit crazy but harmless...then let go.
However, it doesn't bother me at all that they detained him to check him out.
I was thinking about this the other day. That I would like to see what Vista has been patched to currently. Not badly enough to install it on anything. I never had a problem with it...but it ran on my gaming machine that had more than enough power to run it well. A friend had a laptop that had vista on it and it was atrocious.
At the risk of whoosing myself....Carter hadn't been president for 14 years and the cold war had been over for 4 in 1995. I hadn't started drinking heavily yet in 95 so I actually remember it. Last week, not so much...
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Not sure about the side by side in terms of technical legality, but it is at least legal for a bike to be on just about any road other than interstates. As far to the right as you feel safe. Now, you would be out of your goddamn mind to ride on a lot of them, but you wouldn't be breaking the law.
Same story more or less, except it scared me into wearing a helmet instead of reaffirming that I did. Biking has been pretty much my only transport for about 8 years now. Never wore a helmet, figured that I never wrecked because I never really did anything stupid....and also because I was just that good (ha).
In the middle of one of those rides that anyone who rides a lot knows well, where you are flying and you just aren't getting tired at all....I am standing up while cranking to stretch my legs out.....I hit the ground and am sliding along the road wondering what the hell just happened.
Catastrophic failure of the bottom bracket. Didn't hit my head, but a spur from the broken metal unzipped about 18 inches of the skin on my leg. Made me realize that it doesn't matter if you aren't doing anything stupid or how good you think are (or really might be)....things break, people make mistakes....shit happens.
And there are helmets now that don't look ridiculous. You don't have to look like you are gunning for the front of the peloton or that a spaceship has come down and landed on your head.
And even if you ever do make to the end, the rebel mothership is just gonna kill you anyway......oh wait, that's the video game Faster Than Light.
Second the wired link. It's a pretty interesting read. I want to see what gets made from the malleable glass.....hopefully it doesn't take 40 years to figure out a use for it the way it did for gorilla glass.
Just out of curiosity....how many ppl in tech jobs, other than myself, ever think to themselves that you wish you had kept computers as a hobby and learned a trade instead?
Maybe it is just idle grumbling when I am hating 12 hour days at a desk....but if I had it to do over again I would have done electrician/plumber/carpenter/millwright instead of keyboard banger. (I list millwright just because a great uncle of mine was a millwright. He almost never worked....but when he did, wow he made a lot of money).
I have a neighbor who is a plumber that I have been helping with computer questions for some time now because it's always good to have a plumber that owes you favors. I envy him coming home and being excited about getting on his computer. I remember that.
double wat
Seriously, when are we going to evolve from that stage where we are still inventing new ways to throw rocks at each other?
Ever? No, not likely. In our lifetimes? Absolutely not.
It wasn't as cold and it probably wasn't at as busy of an airport, but ramp hand (or lineman in the US) isn't a particularly hard job. I did it for several years when I was younger. It's really no different than working at a full service gas station. Except you pump a lot more fuel into far more valuable vehicles.
In the US (I would hope that linemen at northern Canadian airports got paid more) it is a very low paying job in any instance other than working for/at a major airport. The only advancement opportunity was to buddy up with some pilots and get them to teach you to fly and not charge for the lessons.
Your (sic) talking shit.
Not really, if you like it the go with it. I am just giving you a hard time. I am sure you are used to it. I just recall the first (and only actually) time I saw one of those. I said "wow, look at that badass neon"...someone else in the car said "what the hell did you just say?" and we had a good laugh. I am sure it's a great car. Just about all sports cars are impractical.
What's my best quarter mile time? You don't know what I got!
....actually my current situation does not require a car so I don't have anything at all. Thinking about looking for a mid 90's to early 2000's tacoma. One of those 4 cylinder 4wd ones. People hang on to those damn things, they are hard to find. Anyway, the point I am making here is that you and I need different things out of our vehicles...no reason to argue about it.
Hey, you bought one of those! I always wondered who in the hell would want one of those cars. I am not making fun, just pointing out how outlandishly impractical they seem to be. Also, to nitpick, I don't think that car will do 150 in a manner that you would want anything to do with unless you were in a fire suit with an ambulance following you.
That's because American cars are crap when it comes to safety.
Nonsense.
R&D spending: Hrair dollars.
you countless comment reminded me I guess
you'll never see it, because there's no reason for it to even exist, let alone be an iOS app, let alone be an iPad-only iOS app
Hehe, the company I work for did the exact same thing and were all excited about it (and it never went anywhere because nobody used it). I am working with a client of ours now who also doing this exact thing. At least we will make some money on it this time.
odds of pregnancy from a single act of coitus is somewhere around 5%
Unless you are Julian Assange, then it's not a statistical matter, it's an international ordeal. (ducks)
government reimbursement rate is today about 30% of the billed cost
I am nitpicking I guess...but that is a little low. When you say gov't payers I assume you are only talking about Medicaid, and there are only a few states that hover around or below 30% of what they would have been paid by a non-gov't payer for the same service. Most are well above 30%
I don't disagree with your point, just that 30% figure.
More info here http://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2012/08/21/the-real-tragedy-of-obamacare-has-yet-to-be-felt-by-the-poor/
Yeah, I live next to a real piece of work. I will leave the ridiculous argument he started with me one day....but he threatened me and his "old lady" said she was going to kill my dog. I went in the house before I wound up in prison. The neighbor saw it all and called the cops and they were arrested. Nothing really came of it....but they were arrested.
Unless the reason was that people that knew him called to say that he needed help. I don't know, I can't look at that because I don't have a facebook login. I had to deactivate it because I kept getting drunk and saying stupid shit on facebook (see what I did there). So, I am more than willing to believe he is harmless...here's hoping that he is checked out, determined to be batshit crazy but harmless...then let go.
However, it doesn't bother me at all that they detained him to check him out.
Lemme check......yep, I can still make it say boobies!
It reminded me of this though...which is a lot funnier than I remember.
Hey Euros. Make this about how America sucks.
I was thinking about this the other day. That I would like to see what Vista has been patched to currently. Not badly enough to install it on anything. I never had a problem with it...but it ran on my gaming machine that had more than enough power to run it well. A friend had a laptop that had vista on it and it was atrocious.
I thought new Coke was a ploy to mask the switch from sugar to HFCS. (I have an uncle who is a very smart man who wholeheartedly believes this).
At the risk of whoosing myself....Carter hadn't been president for 14 years and the cold war had been over for 4 in 1995. I hadn't started drinking heavily yet in 95 so I actually remember it. Last week, not so much...
It certainly isn't. Which is why I never did that. Take the last word, I am finished.
Ah, I see. It's because the church can't just trust it's members to follow what they claim to believe in. Principles....gotcha.