Yeah, some states do have better laws. I know in Western Australia: if you are in possession of the key and within 3 m of the car you are legally "in control of the vehicle" and can be ticketed for drunk driving.
Is it a separate law? I was under the impression that the inattentive driving law was clarified to state that any time a person was using a communications device it will legally considered to be inattentive driving. In the case of you and your block of wood, that just pushes the onus back on them to prove that the block of wood really does distract you from driving. Also, if you piss them off bad enough to look up your call records, then they find that you really were using the phone and just pretending to use the block of wood they'd find some other charge to stick you with. I'm not familiar enough with the law to know exactly which one, but it probably falls under the obstructing justice umbrella.
There is an argument to be made that at that age their brains are still developing and you don't want them developing the killing hookers areas. I think that's quite valid: you want your children to grow up to do good things, so you should be encouraging good things as early as possible.
Most people I've seen don't come within inches of the passing cars. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I've never heard of an accident of the kind you describe actually happening.
Usually happens when there's a long line of cars already waiting. Also you need at least two people not paying attention in my experience. Also don't forget that a lot of the time during peak hour you won't make it through on one change anyway, and it sucks to be the first car to not make it through.
Yes, the whole point of traffic laws is to keep people safe. Bumping up his quota by giving tickets to people who aren't driving in an unsafe manner doesn't make him a good cop.
And they're always so smug about it. "Well you're technicallly breaking the law so fuck you."
Like the asshats who ticket you for drunk driving when you're sleeping in your car. Lesson learned: you're harder to catch if you're a moving target, save the texts for the highway, and drive home to sleep in your own bed.
I'm glad to see that you thoroughly skimmed the summary. The issue raised is the difficulty in getting a bicycle from a bicycle store to the burning man event. It is estimated that the additional cost of transporting a bicycle (compared to the planned mode of transportation: catching a plane then a bus) would exceed $200. This leads to a potential business venture to economically transport bicycles from bicycle shops more efficiently than people could on their own, and then charge them somewhere between what it costs to transport bicycles on mass and what it costs to transport bicycles individually. Welcome to capitalism.
I've always thought about it more like a Chemist or nanotechnologist. You don't get a really small pair of tweezers and put molecules next to each other to make them react, you just pour stuff into a beaker with the knowledge of what will happen on scales too small to really control. God put a bunch of matter into a void with the knowledge that it would expand and become a universe, and in that universe intelligent life would emerge.
It's not a strawman. It's an impediment to my ability to get to work in a reasonable timeframe. I'm sure you are the one guy who knows how to get around bends without flipping your ridiculously oversized vehicle, but the road is littered with soccer moms who want to make sure they're the ones doing the killing in car accidents.
(And for the record, I have a coupe, not a sedan.)
If your daughter is carrying around enough child pr0n that she can't climb into an SUV you might have other problems. (I do share your views missing station wagons, though.)
So you're the jackass in front of me on the on ramp doing 20 so he won't roll over. Pull the fuck over and let the real cars pass, then you can use your "better view" to watch for a 3 mile gap in which you can to accelerate to a highway speed, or just pull into traffic doing 60 when you're doing 20, like you were going to do anyway.
Fuck yes. I lost the ability to lucid dream, but when I was in my early twenties, I'd be able to realise I was in a dream and use superpowers I'd had in previous dreams. Imagine all the best videos games you've ever played, then smoosh them together however you want!
From an efficiency standpoint, I completely agree. We can fit so much more into our day now that we're not tied to old schedules which necessitated the kind of planning you spoke of above. What worries me is that people don't get as much practice for planning. You still need to be able to plan what you're going to spend your money on this month, you still need to plan where you want your career to go. People used to get a lot of practice planning and trying to envisage the unexpected (we said we'd meet outside, but it's raining). I'm sure that people will adapt, but that practice was a good thing in my opinion.
No, but we had phones, and cordless phones. Sure, you had to call my office number rather than my mobile to tell me to fetch milk on the way home, but you could still do it. Mobile phones haven't actually changed that people stand around talking on the phone. They just mean everyone has their own and can be called everywhere rather than having to plan ahead.
I agree with almost all of what you said. I think that the only thing of value we're losing is the ability to plan ahead. Back in the day, to do something fairly simple there were either a couple of set up steps, or planning ahead involved. Now you don't have to plan ahead for things like that, but you still need the skill in life. I worry about how today's children will get on without learning those skill by doing trivial things.
a) Historical sciences do in fact use the scientific method: make observations-> make theories-> make more observations-> refine theories. b) Climate science is not at an early stage. A few of the predictions were slightly off, but that just means refining the parameters a little, not throwing out the whole model.
I looked up the "no ice in 2013" you mentioned, it's here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm. Notice that the actual estimates aren't predicting no ice until 2030 or 2040. We may be reversing the trend this year, but the longer trend is still towards less ice.
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Yeah, some states do have better laws. I know in Western Australia: if you are in possession of the key and within 3 m of the car you are legally "in control of the vehicle" and can be ticketed for drunk driving.
Is it a separate law? I was under the impression that the inattentive driving law was clarified to state that any time a person was using a communications device it will legally considered to be inattentive driving. In the case of you and your block of wood, that just pushes the onus back on them to prove that the block of wood really does distract you from driving. Also, if you piss them off bad enough to look up your call records, then they find that you really were using the phone and just pretending to use the block of wood they'd find some other charge to stick you with. I'm not familiar enough with the law to know exactly which one, but it probably falls under the obstructing justice umbrella.
There is an argument to be made that at that age their brains are still developing and you don't want them developing the killing hookers areas. I think that's quite valid: you want your children to grow up to do good things, so you should be encouraging good things as early as possible.
Most people I've seen don't come within inches of the passing cars. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I've never heard of an accident of the kind you describe actually happening.
Usually happens when there's a long line of cars already waiting. Also you need at least two people not paying attention in my experience. Also don't forget that a lot of the time during peak hour you won't make it through on one change anyway, and it sucks to be the first car to not make it through.
Yes, the whole point of traffic laws is to keep people safe. Bumping up his quota by giving tickets to people who aren't driving in an unsafe manner doesn't make him a good cop.
And they're always so smug about it. "Well you're technicallly breaking the law so fuck you."
Like the asshats who ticket you for drunk driving when you're sleeping in your car. Lesson learned: you're harder to catch if you're a moving target, save the texts for the highway, and drive home to sleep in your own bed.
I'm glad to see that you thoroughly skimmed the summary. The issue raised is the difficulty in getting a bicycle from a bicycle store to the burning man event. It is estimated that the additional cost of transporting a bicycle (compared to the planned mode of transportation: catching a plane then a bus) would exceed $200. This leads to a potential business venture to economically transport bicycles from bicycle shops more efficiently than people could on their own, and then charge them somewhere between what it costs to transport bicycles on mass and what it costs to transport bicycles individually. Welcome to capitalism.
I've always thought about it more like a Chemist or nanotechnologist. You don't get a really small pair of tweezers and put molecules next to each other to make them react, you just pour stuff into a beaker with the knowledge of what will happen on scales too small to really control. God put a bunch of matter into a void with the knowledge that it would expand and become a universe, and in that universe intelligent life would emerge.
Did you realise that these so-called "volunteers" don't even get paid!
You realise that the "I" in ISS stands for "international" so Russia doing some of the work doesn't really mean that NASA is outsourcing.
It's not a strawman. It's an impediment to my ability to get to work in a reasonable timeframe. I'm sure you are the one guy who knows how to get around bends without flipping your ridiculously oversized vehicle, but the road is littered with soccer moms who want to make sure they're the ones doing the killing in car accidents.
(And for the record, I have a coupe, not a sedan.)
Especially when you're telling someone else that they're wrong.
So we all came from a guy crewing his sister, as opposed to his mother. I feel much better now.
If your daughter is carrying around enough child pr0n that she can't climb into an SUV you might have other problems. (I do share your views missing station wagons, though.)
So you're the jackass in front of me on the on ramp doing 20 so he won't roll over. Pull the fuck over and let the real cars pass, then you can use your "better view" to watch for a 3 mile gap in which you can to accelerate to a highway speed, or just pull into traffic doing 60 when you're doing 20, like you were going to do anyway.
Maybe you actually are a mountain man who needs a 4x4. You are the only one.
Fuck yes. I lost the ability to lucid dream, but when I was in my early twenties, I'd be able to realise I was in a dream and use superpowers I'd had in previous dreams. Imagine all the best videos games you've ever played, then smoosh them together however you want!
From an efficiency standpoint, I completely agree. We can fit so much more into our day now that we're not tied to old schedules which necessitated the kind of planning you spoke of above. What worries me is that people don't get as much practice for planning. You still need to be able to plan what you're going to spend your money on this month, you still need to plan where you want your career to go. People used to get a lot of practice planning and trying to envisage the unexpected (we said we'd meet outside, but it's raining). I'm sure that people will adapt, but that practice was a good thing in my opinion.
No. This is SPARTA!
No, but we had phones, and cordless phones. Sure, you had to call my office number rather than my mobile to tell me to fetch milk on the way home, but you could still do it. Mobile phones haven't actually changed that people stand around talking on the phone. They just mean everyone has their own and can be called everywhere rather than having to plan ahead.
I agree with almost all of what you said. I think that the only thing of value we're losing is the ability to plan ahead. Back in the day, to do something fairly simple there were either a couple of set up steps, or planning ahead involved. Now you don't have to plan ahead for things like that, but you still need the skill in life. I worry about how today's children will get on without learning those skill by doing trivial things.
Just keep going all the way around.
I thought peanut allergies were caused by exposing babies too young to them...
a) Historical sciences do in fact use the scientific method: make observations-> make theories-> make more observations-> refine theories.
b) Climate science is not at an early stage. A few of the predictions were slightly off, but that just means refining the parameters a little, not throwing out the whole model.
I looked up the "no ice in 2013" you mentioned, it's here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm. Notice that the actual estimates aren't predicting no ice until 2030 or 2040. We may be reversing the trend this year, but the longer trend is still towards less ice.
If 512k is enough then 640k (being more than 512k) is more than enough.