A skilled racing driver could undoubtedly drive safely at a speed far above the posted limit;
I have to respectfully say bollocks. Maybe on a racing track he could drive fast, but through a busy suburban setting with crossings, junctions, etc. he'd be just as much of a liability.
Speeding at 90 mph on a vacant stretch of motorway marked as 70 might be tolerable, but speeding at 50 mph along a busy high street marked as 30 is reckless whoever does is.
I think the statistics also vary quite a bit if you regard speeding as either a) being over the posted speed limit or b) driving too fast for the conditions.
if the posted limit is 70 but it's thick fog or heavy rain, then driving at 70 is within the speed limit but is too fast for the conditions.
Additionally, it is worth considering how many accidents where speed is a factor would have been less serious if the driver had not been speeding. Trying to find some figures here...
original poster states: "I cannot find a car that fits someone of my height and girth"
It might be that it's not the leg room that's the main problem but the other dimension. Most car seats will move backwards a fair way, but I've yet to see one that expands with width...
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk! What's that, Skippy, the space shuttle is in trouble? Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk! Well what can we do, Skippy? Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk! Start up our own Australian Space Agency? How much money do we have?, Skip? Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk! Just over $10 million a year? Crikey mate, you ain't too smart for a bush kangaroo, are you, Skippy?
Have you seen MacDonalds' customers? Most of them bring extra seat padding with them! You'd need to have seats with 6 inch nails hammered upwards through the seat in order to penetrate the comfy cushions of flab...
Vib Ribbon On the original playstation allowed you to put your own music CD in the console and the game play would change depending upon the CD being played.
With life plus 50 years, there are untold numbers of authors dead only 10 or 20 years who might be willing to rise and take a crack at just one more novel.
And as a consequence we ended up with L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" series!
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A skilled racing driver could undoubtedly drive safely at a speed far above the posted limit;
I have to respectfully say bollocks. Maybe on a racing track he could drive fast, but through a busy suburban setting with crossings, junctions, etc. he'd be just as much of a liability.
Speeding at 90 mph on a vacant stretch of motorway marked as 70 might be tolerable, but speeding at 50 mph along a busy high street marked as 30 is reckless whoever does is.
I agree - a speed limiter based on IQ and common sense is called for.
Of course that would leave a lot of drivers stranded by the side of the road...
Care to show a citation?
I think the statistics also vary quite a bit if you regard speeding as either a) being over the posted speed limit or b) driving too fast for the conditions.
if the posted limit is 70 but it's thick fog or heavy rain, then driving at 70 is within the speed limit but is too fast for the conditions.
Additionally, it is worth considering how many accidents where speed is a factor would have been less serious if the driver had not been speeding. Trying to find some figures here...
The guy in the steel-mobile wasn't driving a car. He was driving an overpowered, overbuilt tank.
original poster states: "I cannot find a car that fits someone of my height and girth"
It might be that it's not the leg room that's the main problem but the other dimension. Most car seats will move backwards a fair way, but I've yet to see one that expands with width...
Try getting ones designed for dimmer switches. They should handle it better.
Describing yourself as a "gaming fan" is quite generous, considering it is a successful gaming console and you have never heard of it... ;-)
To err is human...
To totally screw-up takes a programmer..
Nah, he should have made it a pop-up book. Those are much harder to reproduce digitally...
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk!
What's that, Skippy, the space shuttle is in trouble?
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk!
Well what can we do, Skippy?
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk!
Start up our own Australian Space Agency? How much money do we have?, Skip?
Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk!
Just over $10 million a year? Crikey mate, you ain't too smart for a bush kangaroo, are you, Skippy?
Have you seen MacDonalds' customers? Most of them bring extra seat padding with them! You'd need to have seats with 6 inch nails hammered upwards through the seat in order to penetrate the comfy cushions of flab...
Surely you mean Big MAC addresses?
But if we'd stuck with the original copyright law time of 14 years, lot of her earlier works would now be in the public domain.
Of course, if she actually follows your advice and makes a load of money, then you can bill her for millions...!
Where do they expect to get enough sand to build a wall 6000 km long?
Vib Ribbon On the original playstation allowed you to put your own music CD in the console and the game play would change depending upon the CD being played.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vib_Ribbon
The Spanish Inquisition?
(Bet you didn't expect that!)
By the time MS stops security patches for XP, they will have supported the platform for 13 years. How much longer do you want a stable platform?
For as long as my mission critical software has to run on it.
Unless they've decided to start making all IE and Windows release 100% fully-backward compatible...
although it should be noted that the one who didn't act survived and the one who did act died...
I would like to think they are making this decision because someone finally realized that money doesn't actually grow on trees.
It used to until they switched to the plasticized notes...
Parsing the questions in natural language,
Natural language?
Outside of a Jeopardy! gameshow, I have never heard anybody use the this type of phrasing.
"This is a reason for you not handing in your homework Johnny"
"Why is because my dog ate it, sir"
Yeah, sounds very natural :-)
With life plus 50 years, there are untold numbers of authors dead only 10 or 20 years who might be willing to rise and take a crack at just one more novel.
And as a consequence we ended up with L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" series!
oh wait... they do!
I think the average joe shmoe probably treats his electronics a bit better than your average grunt.
You don't have teen-aged children, do you?
People still want hot water...
Besides, this is British summer we're talking about here so what does 1 week matter compared to the 51 cold and wet weeks in a year? ;-)