I'd like to see statstics on those claims of drunk driving frequency I agree, I would like to see honest numbers on those too. But I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people who don't have a second thought about driving after drinking too much was over 10-15 percent.
You can't impose restrictions on a majority because of a minority problem. Apparently it can be done if it protects the majority, that's why they're fingerprinting immigrants at airports and making everyone take their shoes off. Furthermore, once the drunk minority get in their cars on friday night around 1, it does become others' problem too, since they endanger everyone else in close proximity to them.
We both agree that people shouldn't drive impaired. I'm just saying that I'm willing to sacrifice my convenience in order to save lives, because I don't trust others to use their (often poor) judgement and hand the keys over to someone else.
Ooooh! Well look at Mr. 7-0-7-9-6-0! He read the article, he's so smart!
Well listen here Mr. Smartypants, we at Slashdot don't NEED to read the article to make wiseass comments! That's the way it's been since day 0, and that's the way it's gonna stay!
I'm not talking about punishment. I'm talking about prevention. Instead of punishing those who do get caught, and rewarding those who don't, this would prevent them from doing it in the first place. I'm not sure if you're from US, so I apologize if I made any incorrect assumptions, but from growing up in rural Nebraska, through attending colleges in South Dakota and Nebraska, I ve seen that there are far more students that do drink and drive, than not. I myself have been in a heavy accident caused by a drunk driver, know one girl that survived one (unlike the 3 of her friends), know 2 other individuals that totaled their brand new Audi while driving it drunk, one guy who trashed his Ford festiva, and knew one person that didn't survive their flight off a bridge. Therefore I would not call them a very small minority.
I do fit into that criteria, but you may not speak for me. I would not mind doing the test daily if it would mean 90% less intoxicated/alcohol impaired people on the roads. I know tons of people who drive impaired for years/decades before they get caught.
Come on people, do you think monkeys punched up this proposition? I'm sure they wouldn't force you to lean over and blow while you're driving. There are other ways to do random tests, such as when you're stopped (like on a red light) or using a cigarette like tube that you could draw and blow into while you drive. (and doing so is MUCH safer than driving intoxicated, as smokers can probably verify)
well you could always delete the executable (IEXPLORE.EXE). i'm pretty sure it wouldn't run after that. i should mention that i agree with you about uninstallation of such garbage (or inability to do such) and that's why i bought a used G4, upgraded it for cheap, and haven't used my windows box since.
So I'll give you a little pointer: Under no circumstances are you to apply reason when it comes to issues regarding anything even remotely related to personal privacy, rights or property. Especially things that have potential to save lives. And yes, I'm still pissed off about seat belts! I have to touch cold/hot metal just so I can have better control of my car and potentially save my life. Not to mention that there is a possibility of them locking me in, while the car is overturned, under water and on fire, no less! (With possibly someone running to attack me!)
(although i must admit that my seatbelt probably did save my life after a very intoxicated driver nailed me head on)
Get a clue people, I don't want drunk fuckers driving all around me, my family, and my kids, just because you find it inconvenient or conspiratory to blow in a tube for 30 secs.
I agree 100% that "GNOME and KDE are already better than UI of XP" (or any other Windows OS for that matter). The problem, for me anyway, is installation of various software. The average user does not want to be compiling, Make-ing, and configuring code for hours just to make it work. It would be nice to have a uniform installation built into the official kernel. But then again, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, and yes, I do own a Mac.
screensavers last night showed menuet os, (www.menuetos.org) written in assembly and it fits on a floppy disk. an os as small as that might be able to be carried as payload.
In my pre-DVD-R days I used to toy around with SVCD compression, and all the nightly conversions really switched me off to SVCDs, plus the fact that they could only hold about an hour of good quality video. Have you considered DVD-Rs?
The fluid units are the worst of all. I've been living in the states for about 12 years and I still have no fricking idea how gallons and pints and quarts relate.
The system is fascinated with 1/16ths and 1/32s which gets really hard to work with when one asks a question how many pints are there in 7.5 gallons of water.
But then again, I'm lazy and not very excited about math.
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I'd like to see statstics on those claims of drunk driving frequency
I agree, I would like to see honest numbers on those too. But I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people who don't have a second thought about driving after drinking too much was over 10-15 percent.
You can't impose restrictions on a majority because of a minority problem.
Apparently it can be done if it protects the majority, that's why they're fingerprinting immigrants at airports and making everyone take their shoes off. Furthermore, once the drunk minority get in their cars on friday night around 1, it does become others' problem too, since they endanger everyone else in close proximity to them.
We both agree that people shouldn't drive impaired. I'm just saying that I'm willing to sacrifice my convenience in order to save lives, because I don't trust others to use their (often poor) judgement and hand the keys over to someone else.
Drunk fuckers.
Ooooh! Well look at Mr. 7-0-7-9-6-0! He read the article, he's so smart!
Well listen here Mr. Smartypants, we at Slashdot don't NEED to read the article to make wiseass comments! That's the way it's been since day 0, and that's the way it's gonna stay!
I'm not talking about punishment. I'm talking about prevention.
Instead of punishing those who do get caught, and rewarding those who don't, this would prevent them from doing it in the first place.
I'm not sure if you're from US, so I apologize if I made any incorrect assumptions, but from growing up in rural Nebraska, through attending colleges in South Dakota and Nebraska, I ve seen that there are far more students that do drink and drive, than not. I myself have been in a heavy accident caused by a drunk driver, know one girl that survived one (unlike the 3 of her friends), know 2 other individuals that totaled their brand new Audi while driving it drunk, one guy who trashed his Ford festiva, and knew one person that didn't survive their flight off a bridge. Therefore I would not call them a very small minority.
I do fit into that criteria, but you may not speak for me.
I would not mind doing the test daily if it would mean 90% less intoxicated/alcohol impaired people on the roads.
I know tons of people who drive impaired for years/decades before they get caught.
Come on people, do you think monkeys punched up this proposition?
I'm sure they wouldn't force you to lean over and blow while you're driving. There are other ways to do random tests, such as when you're stopped (like on a red light) or using a cigarette like tube that you could draw and blow into while you drive. (and doing so is MUCH safer than driving intoxicated, as smokers can probably verify)
well you could always delete the executable (IEXPLORE.EXE). i'm pretty sure it wouldn't run after that.
i should mention that i agree with you about uninstallation of such garbage (or inability to do such) and that's why i bought a used G4, upgraded it for cheap, and haven't used my windows box since.
You forgot about all the dumbasses that don't get caught. What are we supposed to do about them?
So I'll give you a little pointer:
Under no circumstances are you to apply reason when it comes to issues regarding anything even remotely related to personal privacy, rights or property.
Especially things that have potential to save lives.
And yes, I'm still pissed off about seat belts! I have to touch cold/hot metal just so I can have better control of my car and potentially save my life. Not to mention that there is a possibility of them locking me in, while the car is overturned, under water and on fire, no less! (With possibly someone running to attack me!)
(although i must admit that my seatbelt probably did save my life after a very intoxicated driver nailed me head on)
Get a clue people, I don't want drunk fuckers driving all around me, my family, and my kids, just because you find it inconvenient or conspiratory to blow in a tube for 30 secs.
I agree 100% that "GNOME and KDE are already better than UI of XP" (or any other Windows OS for that matter). The problem, for me anyway, is installation of various software. The average user does not want to be compiling, Make-ing, and configuring code for hours just to make it work. It would be nice to have a uniform installation built into the official kernel.
But then again, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, and yes, I do own a Mac.
What do you mean?
" I want Windows to be an OS that is flexible enough to allow me to choose whatever browser, email client, media player I want"
Browser: Opera, Mozilla, etc. etc.
Email Client: Eudora, etc.
Media Player: QuickTime, DivX etc.
Now I have something to give to my honey for Valentine's!
The butterfly comes through for me again!
haha, THAT would be funny.
screensavers last night showed menuet os, (www.menuetos.org) written in assembly and it fits on a floppy disk. an os as small as that might be able to be carried as payload.
because, uhm, i thought like they might be really fancy and stuff?
(he-he, "if you had infrared vision, you could see through silicon"... suckers)
Wouldn't it be nice if someone would write a virus that exploits the same RPC patch vulnerability as welchia and then starts DDOS ing Microsoft?
That way every time I forget to disconnect a freshly ghosted machine, Microsoft gets a nice little "Hi Mom!" message.
I wonder when it'll come!
If I may ask why are you considering SVCD?
In my pre-DVD-R days I used to toy around with SVCD compression, and all the nightly conversions really switched me off to SVCDs, plus the fact that they could only hold about an hour of good quality video.
Have you considered DVD-Rs?
technically you'd have an apple G5 in a fancy box.
but since G5s already have fancy boxes, you'd have an "innovative and eye-catching take on G5s".
They also have an artist's impression of these screens, stating that "Future looks flexible".
Apparently the future is finally here.
They turned out to be rumors.
The fluid units are the worst of all. I've been living in the states for about 12 years and I still have no fricking idea how gallons and pints and quarts relate.
The system is fascinated with 1/16ths and 1/32s which gets really hard to work with when one asks a question how many pints are there in 7.5 gallons of water.
But then again, I'm lazy and not very excited about math.
these have been around for a while...
thx
Those are all perfectly cromulent explanations, and if you don't understand them then perhaps you need to reentagulate your marketing 101 book!
does it support Ogg? because if it doesn't support Ogg, who's gonna buy it?
that'll teach him