Clearly you didn't read my post especially point 2 about how, if I changed jobs from Annapolis to BelAir, I'd have to pick up and move my whole family. Today, with cars, I can stay in one spot and simply commute to the new location.
>>>I don't get to pick the stocks I own in my 401(k).
Then you have a shitty 401(k). I don't get to pick the stocks either, but I do get to pick the fund which lists the stocks in it. If there's a particular company I don't want to support, like BP, then I simply don't invest in any fund which contains BP stock.
>>>Like an earlier poster asked, how do you mete out punishments? By shares owned?
Well before the JCPenney company incorporated, it was owned by Mr. Penney and about 5 other partners. Although the company never did anything criminal, if it had then all ~5 of these people would have been equally guilty of the crime, and all would have to serve equal jail time. A man or group of men should be held responsible for the actions they perform, even if it's through a private business.
And for people who don't feel like reading the long soliloquy:
- He thinks corporations are persons and should have the same rights.
Therefore I guess Microsoft, Apple, and others will have the right to cast ballots come this November. And not such a strange concept... in one of the "Sliders" episodes corporations voted on behalf of their employees (who stayed home and therefore had no voice).
>>>It's certainly a lot more pleasant to drive on a twisty road.
No it isn't. It sucks. I hate driving on the "twisty" PA turnpike (interstate 76). And it adds unnecessary miles to the trip. Perhaps an extra 10 miles of curves don't matter if your driving across the tiny Member State of Germany, but that extra 10 becomes 100 extra miles of curves when you're driving from New York to Chicago..... or Chicago to Minneapolis... or Minneapolis to Seattle.
Straighter (and 1.5 hours shorter travel time) is better.
As I said in PA, if there are two different stories such that blame can not be determined, BUT the damage is in your rear half of Your car, then the law assumes the other person should have been able to see & avoid hitting you. i.e. Even if you had come over from the right lane, the other driver should have braked and not hit you. The other driver pays the repair bill.
BTW I'm surprised the cop left the guy get away with that. If his left lane ended, and you stayed in your lane, then it should be obvious who was at fault (the guy driving in the terminated lane).
OK so let's suppose my job at Lockheed (for example) follows your suggestions & relocates from the major city to "where the people live" in suburban southern MD. Problems:
(1) It's great for me and the others within walking or subway distance, but there's no way that my coworkers from DC or southern PA or the MD-Delaware border can reach the new location (no cars remember), so they'll be unemployed. I suppose they'll eventually find other jobs within 5-10 miles of their homes, but for that transition period they are out of work.
(2) Suppose I decide Lockheed sucks, and I quit. Unfortunately there are no other engineering companies within distance of my home, except Northrop way far away in Bel Air Maryland. Am I supposed to pack-up ALL my stuff, my family..... yanking my kids away from their schools/friends and relocate to Bel Air???
If I had a car I could just drive (it's about 50 minutes) but in a world without cars I'd have no other choice. It's great that people like you think outside the box, but you often fail to see the flaws with your own idea.
Come this November Microsoft will be casting approximately ~1 million ballots (one per employee they represent). Ditto Apple. The corporate "person" has won the right to vote. (just joking). The employees *inside* the corporation have the right to vote, speak, hire lobbyists, et cetera but the corporation itself has no more rights than a building.
The Turnpike added extra curves on the theory it would help people pay attention to the road. NOW they are taking the curves out (straightening), because people were sliding off of them and into mountains. Rather than dumb-down roads we should be making people smarter - teach them that cars are not offices to text, or take calls, or read a book, or whatever.
>>>The police officer couldn't determine who was at fault
That's weird. In my home state if it's not immediately obvious who is at fault, then they use the "location" rule. The guy who has damage in the rear is not at fault. The guy who has damage in the front is at fault, because he could have seen the other car & avoided the accident. It's not a perfect system but that's the current law.
You missed the point. He's saying if you cause an accident then your insurance company will pay the bill UNLESS it can be shown you were doing something stupid (like texting or using the phone or shaving your face). Then the insurance company is still obligated to help the other driver, but not you. You have to fix your broken car yourself.
I do think automated cars would be safer, as then I wouldn't have to worry about all the other Drivers. I try to stick to interstates, which are the safest roads but still worry when I see Idiots zig-zagging through traffic at 80 mph.
I'm willing to compromise with the Progressives/greens and give-up my current car in exchange for one of those Voklkswagen 2-seaters that get 200 MPG, or the prototype 3-seater than was rated 130 MPG, but I'm not willing to move into a City dorm (like something out of Asimov's Caves of Steel). I would consider that a hellish existence because I HATE cities.
And how on earth would you do that. At my previous job some of my coworkers lived in southern Penna. Others live in southern Maryland near annapolis. One's in northern Virginia, another's in DC, and I know at least one guy who lives near the MD-Delaware border.
Believe it or not, some of us prefer small... um, tracts of land. We'd actually prefer small natural... tracts of land, rather than silicone enhanced... uh, tracts of land. If you catch my meaning. .
>>>young, tall and long armed
i.e. Thin.
There's a tendency in this society (well US society anyway) to hate-on people with vicious comments like "too thin" or "skeletal" or "see-through" when in reality they have a perfectly healthy BMI index. (Between 18.5 and 23)
>>>aren't outright bans on people trying to put on makeup, brushing their teeth, eating a meal
There are. At least in my state and nearby states. It's just that they are not strongly enforced, or if they are, people have enough sense to stop shaving when the cop car zooms by.
Well if everyone in my area had to give-up cars & move close to work, the city would be so compacted it would be like living in dorms. (~20 million people squeezed into just a few acres of land).
How about coming-up with a solution that doesn't involve living in a kind of concrete hell?
The Automobile Association of America found that using a cellphone while driving results in slower braking... as slow as if you were legally drunk (BAC==0.10). They then repeated the test using hands-free headsets and found the results were just as bad.
For texting the AAA found it *doubles* braking response time versus being drunk... in other words a texter is more dangerous than a legally drunk person.
Yeah I know - it sucks when facts interfere with preconceived notions. You'll probably experience cognitive dissonance, refuse to accept the facts, and try to explain away the AAA's results.
Don't RTFA. Websites that force you to load videos are obnoxious, especially for those of us who have slow connections (or are downloading in the background).
At the very least, have an automated question asking, "Would you like to load this video?" so I and others can click "no"
However the TV show that's attached to the The Article looks pretty darn good. Can't complain about beautiful men and women, dancing around almost naked...... so long as I'm watching it from an air conditioned spot .
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Clearly you didn't read my post especially point 2 about how, if I changed jobs from Annapolis to BelAir, I'd have to pick up and move my whole family.
Today, with cars, I can stay in one spot and simply commute to the new location.
>>>I don't get to pick the stocks I own in my 401(k).
Then you have a shitty 401(k). I don't get to pick the stocks either, but I do get to pick the fund which lists the stocks in it. If there's a particular company I don't want to support, like BP, then I simply don't invest in any fund which contains BP stock.
>>>Like an earlier poster asked, how do you mete out punishments? By shares owned?
Well before the JCPenney company incorporated, it was owned by Mr. Penney and about 5 other partners. Although the company never did anything criminal, if it had then all ~5 of these people would have been equally guilty of the crime, and all would have to serve equal jail time. A man or group of men should be held responsible for the actions they perform, even if it's through a private business.
We could just nullify all Incorporation licenses. Then the owners WILL be directly liable for the actions of the company they own.
And for people who don't feel like reading the long soliloquy:
- He thinks corporations are persons and should have the same rights.
Therefore I guess Microsoft, Apple, and others will have the right to cast ballots come this November. And not such a strange concept... in one of the "Sliders" episodes corporations voted on behalf of their employees (who stayed home and therefore had no voice).
>>>It's certainly a lot more pleasant to drive on a twisty road.
No it isn't. It sucks. I hate driving on the "twisty" PA turnpike (interstate 76). And it adds unnecessary miles to the trip. Perhaps an extra 10 miles of curves don't matter if your driving across the tiny Member State of Germany, but that extra 10 becomes 100 extra miles of curves when you're driving from New York to Chicago..... or Chicago to Minneapolis... or Minneapolis to Seattle.
Straighter (and 1.5 hours shorter travel time) is better.
As I said in PA, if there are two different stories such that blame can not be determined, BUT the damage is in your rear half of Your car, then the law assumes the other person should have been able to see & avoid hitting you. i.e. Even if you had come over from the right lane, the other driver should have braked and not hit you. The other driver pays the repair bill.
BTW I'm surprised the cop left the guy get away with that. If his left lane ended, and you stayed in your lane, then it should be obvious who was at fault (the guy driving in the terminated lane).
OK so let's suppose my job at Lockheed (for example) follows your suggestions & relocates from the major city to "where the people live" in suburban southern MD. Problems:
(1) It's great for me and the others within walking or subway distance, but there's no way that my coworkers from DC or southern PA or the MD-Delaware border can reach the new location (no cars remember), so they'll be unemployed. I suppose they'll eventually find other jobs within 5-10 miles of their homes, but for that transition period they are out of work.
(2) Suppose I decide Lockheed sucks, and I quit. Unfortunately there are no other engineering companies within distance of my home, except Northrop way far away in Bel Air Maryland. Am I supposed to pack-up ALL my stuff, my family..... yanking my kids away from their schools/friends and relocate to Bel Air???
If I had a car I could just drive (it's about 50 minutes) but in a world without cars I'd have no other choice. It's great that people like you think outside the box, but you often fail to see the flaws with your own idea.
Didn't ya hear?
Come this November Microsoft will be casting approximately ~1 million ballots (one per employee they represent). Ditto Apple. The corporate "person" has won the right to vote. (just joking). The employees *inside* the corporation have the right to vote, speak, hire lobbyists, et cetera but the corporation itself has no more rights than a building.
This truth is self-evident.
>>>Link?
(tries to shove AAA Magazine through CRT) (clunk) (clunk) (clunk) - It isn't working. Sorry
And more accidents.
The Turnpike added extra curves on the theory it would help people pay attention to the road. NOW they are taking the curves out (straightening), because people were sliding off of them and into mountains. Rather than dumb-down roads we should be making people smarter - teach them that cars are not offices to text, or take calls, or read a book, or whatever.
>>>The police officer couldn't determine who was at fault
That's weird. In my home state if it's not immediately obvious who is at fault, then they use the "location" rule. The guy who has damage in the rear is not at fault. The guy who has damage in the front is at fault, because he could have seen the other car & avoided the accident. It's not a perfect system but that's the current law.
You missed the point. He's saying if you cause an accident then your insurance company will pay the bill UNLESS it can be shown you were doing something stupid (like texting or using the phone or shaving your face). Then the insurance company is still obligated to help the other driver, but not you. You have to fix your broken car yourself.
+1 I Like That Idea.
I do think automated cars would be safer, as then I wouldn't have to worry about all the other Drivers. I try to stick to interstates, which are the safest roads but still worry when I see Idiots zig-zagging through traffic at 80 mph.
Yeah I know.
I'm willing to compromise with the Progressives/greens and give-up my current car in exchange for one of those Voklkswagen 2-seaters that get 200 MPG, or the prototype 3-seater than was rated 130 MPG, but I'm not willing to move into a City dorm (like something out of Asimov's Caves of Steel). I would consider that a hellish existence because I HATE cities.
And how on earth would you do that. At my previous job some of my coworkers lived in southern Penna. Others live in southern Maryland near annapolis. One's in northern Virginia, another's in DC, and I know at least one guy who lives near the MD-Delaware border.
So whose home will you move the workplace to???
P.S. Here's a whole bunch of those THIN but still wide-hipped ladies:
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>>>It used to be wide hipped lady's that used to consider attractive
That's still true. You've never seen a wide-hipped thin lady? They do exist.
>>>with huge... tracts of land.
Believe it or not, some of us prefer small... um, tracts of land. We'd actually prefer small natural... tracts of land, rather than silicone enhanced... uh, tracts of land. If you catch my meaning.
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>>>young, tall and long armed
i.e. Thin.
There's a tendency in this society (well US society anyway) to hate-on people with vicious comments like "too thin" or "skeletal" or "see-through" when in reality they have a perfectly healthy BMI index. (Between 18.5 and 23)
>>>aren't outright bans on people trying to put on makeup, brushing their teeth, eating a meal
There are. At least in my state and nearby states. It's just that they are not strongly enforced, or if they are, people have enough sense to stop shaving when the cop car zooms by.
Well if everyone in my area had to give-up cars & move close to work, the city would be so compacted it would be like living in dorms. (~20 million people squeezed into just a few acres of land).
How about coming-up with a solution that doesn't involve living in a kind of concrete hell?
>>>Which studdies?
The Automobile Association of America found that using a cellphone while driving results in slower braking... as slow as if you were legally drunk (BAC==0.10). They then repeated the test using hands-free headsets and found the results were just as bad.
For texting the AAA found it *doubles* braking response time versus being drunk... in other words a texter is more dangerous than a legally drunk person.
Yeah I know - it sucks when facts interfere with preconceived notions.
You'll probably experience cognitive dissonance, refuse to accept
the facts, and try to explain away the AAA's results.
Here's a warning:
Don't RTFA. Websites that force you to load videos are obnoxious, especially for those of us who have slow connections (or are downloading in the background).
At the very least, have an automated question asking, "Would you like to load this video?" so I and others can click "no"
P.S.
However the TV show that's attached to the The Article looks pretty darn good. Can't complain about beautiful men and women, dancing around almost naked...... so long as I'm watching it from an air conditioned spot
.
Sounds like hell.
(I hate heat.) (And I've been to Vegas in June - felt like I was in a giant concrete oven.)