Do you also get mad when people run to return a video just before the store closes, or so that they don't miss the beginning of a movie? Speeding up to 70mph to make the light? Please, take a reality pill. No one need speed up to 70 to make a light; if you do, you won't be making it.
You must either live in a rural area with few traffic lights, and fewer cars on the road, or you haven't been driving long.
I notice that you completely ignore the portion of my comment where i direct you to the letter of the law. Any particular reason you do that, or are you now forced to simply say 'well it should be the way i say'?
It's the law. And I like the idea of the law being enforced when laws are being broken in a way to make the roads more dangerous.
Um typically you can't see the light once you're in the intersection.
Then it shouldn't affect you. If it's green when you entered, then unless you're forced to go slow for some reason, it won't turn red before you get out of it.
And what if the light turns yellow when i'm 5 feet from entering the intersection, and i'm on a road where the speed limit is 50mph? Stopping would likely put me in the intersection.
I've never heard of cops being unreasonable about it. If you can't legitimately stop in time, they won't pull you over. However, if you speed up when it turns yellow, and go through the intersection at 70 mph, then they SHOULD pull you over.
Great. So now I get to pay a higer price for a hybrid vehicle, higer maintenance cost, and still continue to pay basically the same total amount in the long run for fuel. Sounds like a winner to me.
That makes absolutely no sense. The better your mileage, the less gas you buy, the less tax you pay. More gas tax would actually encourage people to drive hybrid cars.
A city councilman in Portland, the largest city, tried to promote a law that would require giving people tickets for going through a yellow (not red) light. Of course, the purpose of a yellow light is to warn drivers that the light will soon be red, not to make them stop.
Nothing unusual about that, it's what cops do around here. Makes sense; if you can logically stop, you should do so. If you're not in the intersection, and are going slow enough to stop, but you speed up to make the light then you should get a ticket.
It is for the higher degrees that you need to go to the prestigeous institutions....
And "prestigious institutions" don't mean much for graduate work; it's the departments that matter. Many ivy league schools have some mediocre graduate departments, while some public universities with mediocre undergraduate records have world-renowned graduate departments in certain subjects.
You need an Insightful, Informative, and Flamebait to collect all eight (are there more?). 8 points have been vaporized forever in this clash of titans. Not bad for your mere 20 words! What are the records here?
I was really hoping for more pairs of overrated-underrated...
Oh, hadn't noticed that yours was a reply to mine; the offtopic moderation messed up my nesting. Anyway I was just venting at the cretinous moderators, not you...
Hmm, I make that joke and I get modded offtopic. Is it because a) moderators tend not to have good senses of humor, or b) moderators tend to be too young to get any jokes that deal with subjects from before 1999?
Bah, or you could just register. It's the best newspaper in the world, they offer their online version for free, I'm not begrudging them knowing my name. Hell, it's all automated, just make your own private anonymous login.
I had a PC Junior when all my friends had commodores. Most of you have no conceivable idea how bad the arcade ports were for PCs in those days. CGA graphics, and no real sprites so everything felt horrible. Flickering cyan pixellated lumps lurching across the screen, ahhh the memories are burning my brain...
Nixon stepped down because otherwise he would have been impeached. He would have been impeached because he was caught on tape committing serious crimes. If you think anything Clinton did is even comparable to Nixon's treason, you are very, very delusional. Typical Republican, no idea of history, but willing to loudly talk about it.
Economics and culture have a lot more to do with population density then the difference in condom usage i think.
Actually, it's 95% geography. China has a huge, barely-inhabited, mountainous or desert inland. The coast is extremely well-populated; I remember seeing satellite images of rural areas, and some places there was like a village every few hundred yards.
I've hoped this has knocked some of the pomposity out of a lot of you; if so, this cloud has a silver lining.
2 years ago 95% of the people on slashdot were CONVINCED that they would never worry about work, since they were just so amazingly skilled that they could always get a job. Unemployment was for those other people, those liberal arts majors and all the people that made fun of them in high school and aren't we showing them since we're all rich and will stay that way. Oh, guess we won't.
I used to play TW2002 a little bit, but in order to do well you had to bot, and I just hated to do that. So I used to attack people right when the game started, die a lot, trade just enough to get money for more fighters, attack again, die, etc. It was pretty fun.
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and working at a staples for 7/hr.
At least you got that. No, I'm not being sarcastic. Same boat as you, but I can't even find retail places that will call me back.
Too bad we don't have access to some sort of vast, worldwide, computer-based information network so we could find out if he was indeed making an actual historical reference.
Kind of strange how they've been selling computers for the past 20 years if NOBODY is willing to buy them...
Do you also get mad when people run to return a video just before the store closes, or so that they don't miss the beginning of a movie? Speeding up to 70mph to make the light? Please, take a reality pill. No one need speed up to 70 to make a light; if you do, you won't be making it.
You must either live in a rural area with few traffic lights, and fewer cars on the road, or you haven't been driving long.
I notice that you completely ignore the portion of my comment where i direct you to the letter of the law. Any particular reason you do that, or are you now forced to simply say 'well it should be the way i say'?
It's the law. And I like the idea of the law being enforced when laws are being broken in a way to make the roads more dangerous.
But who wants an iMac when you can get a Dual G4 with one of those really pretty cinema displays.
And who wants a Honda Civic when you can get an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish? I mean, there's absolutely no reason for people to go with the Honda...
Um typically you can't see the light once you're in the intersection.
Then it shouldn't affect you. If it's green when you entered, then unless you're forced to go slow for some reason, it won't turn red before you get out of it.
And what if the light turns yellow when i'm 5 feet from entering the intersection, and i'm on a road where the speed limit is 50mph? Stopping would likely put me in the intersection.
I've never heard of cops being unreasonable about it. If you can't legitimately stop in time, they won't pull you over. However, if you speed up when it turns yellow, and go through the intersection at 70 mph, then they SHOULD pull you over.
Great. So now I get to pay a higer price for a hybrid vehicle, higer maintenance cost, and still continue to pay basically the same total amount in the long run for fuel. Sounds like a winner to me.
That makes absolutely no sense. The better your mileage, the less gas you buy, the less tax you pay. More gas tax would actually encourage people to drive hybrid cars.
A city councilman in Portland, the largest city, tried to promote a law that would require giving people tickets for going through a yellow (not red) light. Of course, the purpose of a yellow light is to warn drivers that the light will soon be red, not to make them stop.
Nothing unusual about that, it's what cops do around here. Makes sense; if you can logically stop, you should do so. If you're not in the intersection, and are going slow enough to stop, but you speed up to make the light then you should get a ticket.
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Nobody is interested enough in your files to use an electron microscope to reconstruct the bit patterns.
It is for the higher degrees that you need to go to the prestigeous institutions....
And "prestigious institutions" don't mean much for graduate work; it's the departments that matter. Many ivy league schools have some mediocre graduate departments, while some public universities with mediocre undergraduate records have world-renowned graduate departments in certain subjects.
You need an Insightful, Informative, and Flamebait to collect all eight (are there more?). 8 points have been vaporized forever in this clash of titans. Not bad for your mere 20 words! What are the records here?
I was really hoping for more pairs of overrated-underrated...
Oh, hadn't noticed that yours was a reply to mine; the offtopic moderation messed up my nesting. Anyway I was just venting at the cretinous moderators, not you...
Hmm, I make that joke and I get modded offtopic. Is it because a) moderators tend not to have good senses of humor, or b) moderators tend to be too young to get any jokes that deal with subjects from before 1999?
I didn't know Sandra Day O'Connor was part of the Supremes. Are you sure you're not thinking of Diana Ross?
Bah, or you could just register. It's the best newspaper in the world, they offer their online version for free, I'm not begrudging them knowing my name. Hell, it's all automated, just make your own private anonymous login.
I can't see anyone reading the Silmarillon through like a normal book.
I keep it handy to leaf through occasionally when I'm in the mood, or don't feel like sleeping.
I'm sure it will sell far better than the Tolkien estate had expected, due to all the LotR geeks who will buy it for completeness sake.
I had a PC Junior when all my friends had commodores. Most of you have no conceivable idea how bad the arcade ports were for PCs in those days. CGA graphics, and no real sprites so everything felt horrible. Flickering cyan pixellated lumps lurching across the screen, ahhh the memories are burning my brain...
Nixon stepped down because otherwise he would have been impeached. He would have been impeached because he was caught on tape committing serious crimes. If you think anything Clinton did is even comparable to Nixon's treason, you are very, very delusional. Typical Republican, no idea of history, but willing to loudly talk about it.
North Korea may not want to take over the world, but they definitely have plans to invade South Korea and Japan.
Nah, can't see them invading Japan. Can see them trying to nuke them, but not actually take over.
Economics and culture have a lot more to do with population density then the difference in condom usage i think.
Actually, it's 95% geography. China has a huge, barely-inhabited, mountainous or desert inland. The coast is extremely well-populated; I remember seeing satellite images of rural areas, and some places there was like a village every few hundred yards.
Well, you see, Bush DOES suck, and Clinton doesn't. Therefore a post saying the latter wouldn't really be insightful, would it.
"Repressed" doesn't mean what you think it does.
I've hoped this has knocked some of the pomposity out of a lot of you; if so, this cloud has a silver lining.
2 years ago 95% of the people on slashdot were CONVINCED that they would never worry about work, since they were just so amazingly skilled that they could always get a job. Unemployment was for those other people, those liberal arts majors and all the people that made fun of them in high school and aren't we showing them since we're all rich and will stay that way. Oh, guess we won't.
I used to play TW2002 a little bit, but in order to do well you had to bot, and I just hated to do that. So I used to attack people right when the game started, die a lot, trade just enough to get money for more fighters, attack again, die, etc. It was pretty fun.