I agree, I'd need proof that "pinched nerves" is an actual ailment before I buy into these wonky ideas that chiropracty is good for anything.
See a proper ortho doctor and see if (s)he prescribes a chiropractor. Some do, but for specific ailments and as part of a specific treatment. Friends don't let friends mess with each others spines.
And maybe some counseling... We're talking about what the kids get here, and it shouldn't be some great reward. Our justice system has come down to "oh, something bad happened to you, how much money would it take to make you all better?"
That isn't justice, that's entitlement. Realistic recompense for actual damages make sense, transfer of millions of dollars is a travesty-- it enables justice as a means of making sometimes ridiculous amounts of money. Allow the victims to recover their losses, but don't reward them lavishly. Justice isn't to get paid every time somebody offends you. Justice is to make sure the offender (and hopefully a few others considering the same offense) are dissuaded from it.
I make no mention of the perpetrators here getting off the hook for a pittance. Termination of employment, prison or jail time-- we're very good at putting people in prison here in the States. We've gotten to a culture where individuals in an establishment (be that company, school administration, etc) are damn near personally immune for their actions.
A reasonably equipped toolbox already contain *both* metric and standard tools. We've been a dual-system nation for quite some time now. Imperial units in manufacturing will go away eventually, and I look forward to the day I don't need to pull out my 11/16 socket anymore.
You're right, not simple and not easy. It's a process that's happening naturally already, but we'd sure as hell appreciate some official push that direction. Availability of imperial nuts and bolts won't be an issue for a long time.
In the older PowerBook G3s-- RAM and hard disk were accessible through the keyboard. I even recall advertisements pointing out how easy it was to upgrade these components. If my memory serves me correctly, the processor was on a module identical to that in the iMac that could be swapped out in here as well. I've done hard disks on G3 iBooks as well, but honestly I don't recall the process.
Other components and newer models are a bit of a nightmare though-- I've replaced the power input board on two G4 Power Macs. Need to remove a lot of parts to get to those..
Voting out an incumbent is overthrowing the government... It's usually democrats overthrowing republicans, republicans overthrowing democrats, etcetc. But-- you get the point.
Certainly, and I'm not really trying to disagree with you. It just got me thinking that we want the internet to serve two masters-- Free exchange of information AND protection of privacy.
I don't know how to reconcile those competing objectives by design. One necessitates open systems and standards, the other needs lockdowns and safeguards on data. Really, it all comes down to education and people knowing what the risks are and what tools are available. But, try teaching that to your average facebook user!
Well and let's be honest, the Internet just isn't a private place at this point.
Was it ever really? I thought the entire point was the rapid share and exchange of information. Privacy has only become a concern as its use has become mainstream.
Chronic Reply Syndrome is a disease of the brain that has become a serious problem afflicting many adults world wide. While there are many means of treating CRS-- such as reply limits, removing the "reply" button, or omitting notifications that your own posts have been replied to -- these treatments are out of reach of most of those afflicted and as a result see only sporadic use. Furthermore these treatments only alleviate the symptoms of CRS as modern medicine is yet unable to combat the underlying urges to reply during discourse.
If you or someone you love is suffering from CRS, help is available. Please go to www.CancelCRS.org for counseling, links to CRS-friendly forums, and support groups. While we wish you suffer in silence, you do not need to suffer alone.
If we simply give up the fact that car drivers are all incompetent, we lose the backlash against them doing things *wrong*. We can't say "It's OK, the cyclist should have seen it coming." While it may be true in many cases, it isn't always. An incompetent driver can still ruin the day of a cyclist doing every imaginable thing right. What we need to acknowledge is that roads are a shared resource an push for more competence from both parties. Yes, ultimately you are responsible for keeping your squishy ass safe on your bike, but that doesn't matter one lick when cars on the road don't acknowledge their own responsibility.
This is why we have these stories and discussions- so cyclists know how to be safe around cars, and so cars know how to be safe around cyclists.
Ride along a street lined with parked cars within the door zone *at* traffic speed (20MPH+) and let us know how accurate you are at figuring when a person is in their car using their side mirrors. Once you've done that, repeat the experiment while having enough situational awareness about the other objects in front of and behind you to not get killed at a crossroads. Side mirrors are for viewing *out* - not in. Reflections and tints on car windows severely diminish the imagery.
Hell, I'm an "oblivious cager" 90% of the year and I can see how ridiculous this is.
I'd still need to see some citations. Brakes "totally burned through" takes a *long* time or *really* crappy brakes, you certainly aren't going to burn through a perfectly good set of brakes on one drive. If your throttle opens up and you brake to bring yourself to a *stop* your car will stop. Brake fade could have certainly occurred, it only requires the brakes to get extremely hot, which generally means long periods of brake use. Coming to a stop from highway speed isn't a long enough period, otherwise you'd have a ton more accidents at the bottom of long hills due to fade.
Now, the acceleration issue could still be the cause if the drivers used the brakes to keep the speed in check for a while instead of bringing the vehicle to a stop. I won't claim that the accelerator faults aren't part of the problem, but proper driver education and response to the sudden acceleration would have prevented many accidents.
What it comes down to is the relative reliability between systems. Your current braking system will fail if one of the hydraulic lines is punctured and you lose pressure. In boosted brakes if the engine stops you lose a significant amount of stopping power. With an electronic system running on redundant wires, you could lose an entire brake and still manage. Also keep in mind that existing hydraulic systems have a cable driven backup (your handbrake), and I imagine an electronic system would have something similar. In the same vein, steering systems have mechanical linkages that can fail-- if a tie rod snaps you lose steering. Essentially, if an electrical system can be more reliable than its mechanical counterparts, it is worth considering. For the most part that hasn't happened for brakes and steering.
Acceleration on the other hand is not really a "safety critical" system. Just about every modern car uses a drive by wire system for the accelerator rather than a throttle cable to the butterfly. A well-designed electronic system is not inherently less safe than a well designed mechanical system.
I think that was sort of his point: "Yes, it is a bug. Yes, Toyota needs to fix it." From TFS, he said he could reproduce it safely and consistently, but *wasn't getting a response* from Toyota about the issue.
This is important-- my dad is a history professor at a community college and is seeing more students recently than he has in the past-- a significant spike even over the prior semester. He's suspecting the down economy is sending a lot of folks back to school while jobs aren't available.
He noted the exact same thing you did-- many of the students he's seeing really aren't cut out for higher education. They just happen to be there due to economic (or maybe societal?) pressures.
It does win on battery life, so I'll give it that, but there's no compelling reason a netbook can't act as an ebook reader-- albeit a bit less conveniently.
Basically it all comes down to the apps and implementation (as it did with the iPhone). It's definitely an interesting gadget, and the price point isn't terrible. Essentially you need to put the dollar value on the battery life and the app/itunes store convenience.
Again, I'm not saying it's a bad deal-- but unless it manages to create it's own niche it will be competing with the Eees and Aspire Ones of the world, where it does lose out a bit in capability and price. You're absolutely right though that the price all comes down to what you want out of your devices. It really might not be right to even compare this with the netbooks, though until it comes to market there's no telling what market it will be in.
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I agree, I'd need proof that "pinched nerves" is an actual ailment before I buy into these wonky ideas that chiropracty is good for anything.
See a proper ortho doctor and see if (s)he prescribes a chiropractor. Some do, but for specific ailments and as part of a specific treatment. Friends don't let friends mess with each others spines.
I really should look that word up one of these days....
Hey now, not once did I imply I was in touch with reality...
Seriously, won't somebody please think of the children!?!
Oh wait... I see what you did there. Very clever!
And maybe some counseling... We're talking about what the kids get here, and it shouldn't be some great reward. Our justice system has come down to "oh, something bad happened to you, how much money would it take to make you all better?"
That isn't justice, that's entitlement. Realistic recompense for actual damages make sense, transfer of millions of dollars is a travesty-- it enables justice as a means of making sometimes ridiculous amounts of money. Allow the victims to recover their losses, but don't reward them lavishly. Justice isn't to get paid every time somebody offends you. Justice is to make sure the offender (and hopefully a few others considering the same offense) are dissuaded from it.
I make no mention of the perpetrators here getting off the hook for a pittance. Termination of employment, prison or jail time-- we're very good at putting people in prison here in the States. We've gotten to a culture where individuals in an establishment (be that company, school administration, etc) are damn near personally immune for their actions.
A reasonably equipped toolbox already contain *both* metric and standard tools. We've been a dual-system nation for quite some time now. Imperial units in manufacturing will go away eventually, and I look forward to the day I don't need to pull out my 11/16 socket anymore.
You're right, not simple and not easy. It's a process that's happening naturally already, but we'd sure as hell appreciate some official push that direction. Availability of imperial nuts and bolts won't be an issue for a long time.
In the older PowerBook G3s-- RAM and hard disk were accessible through the keyboard. I even recall advertisements pointing out how easy it was to upgrade these components. If my memory serves me correctly, the processor was on a module identical to that in the iMac that could be swapped out in here as well. I've done hard disks on G3 iBooks as well, but honestly I don't recall the process.
Other components and newer models are a bit of a nightmare though-- I've replaced the power input board on two G4 Power Macs. Need to remove a lot of parts to get to those..
Voting out an incumbent is overthrowing the government... It's usually democrats overthrowing republicans, republicans overthrowing democrats, etcetc. But-- you get the point.
Thank god *somebody* is putting some rational thought into this matter!
Certainly, and I'm not really trying to disagree with you. It just got me thinking that we want the internet to serve two masters-- Free exchange of information AND protection of privacy.
I don't know how to reconcile those competing objectives by design. One necessitates open systems and standards, the other needs lockdowns and safeguards on data. Really, it all comes down to education and people knowing what the risks are and what tools are available. But, try teaching that to your average facebook user!
Well and let's be honest, the Internet just isn't a private place at this point.
Was it ever really? I thought the entire point was the rapid share and exchange of information. Privacy has only become a concern as its use has become mainstream.
Chronic Reply Syndrome is a disease of the brain that has become a serious problem afflicting many adults world wide. While there are many means of treating CRS-- such as reply limits, removing the "reply" button, or omitting notifications that your own posts have been replied to -- these treatments are out of reach of most of those afflicted and as a result see only sporadic use. Furthermore these treatments only alleviate the symptoms of CRS as modern medicine is yet unable to combat the underlying urges to reply during discourse.
If you or someone you love is suffering from CRS, help is available. Please go to www.CancelCRS.org for counseling, links to CRS-friendly forums, and support groups. While we wish you suffer in silence, you do not need to suffer alone.
Well, I can't mod you so you'll have to settle for a "Well done good sir!"
It's not so simple as vegetative > coma > dead. Patients can come out of a coma without being vegetative.
I give up. You win.
Absolutely agreed, HOWEVER:
If we simply give up the fact that car drivers are all incompetent, we lose the backlash against them doing things *wrong*. We can't say "It's OK, the cyclist should have seen it coming." While it may be true in many cases, it isn't always. An incompetent driver can still ruin the day of a cyclist doing every imaginable thing right. What we need to acknowledge is that roads are a shared resource an push for more competence from both parties. Yes, ultimately you are responsible for keeping your squishy ass safe on your bike, but that doesn't matter one lick when cars on the road don't acknowledge their own responsibility.
This is why we have these stories and discussions- so cyclists know how to be safe around cars, and so cars know how to be safe around cyclists.
Wait a tick... Where do *you* live that they make sane laws based on actual evidence rather than knee-jerk reaction? Do you take immigrants??
I think this post wins the discussion.
Ride along a street lined with parked cars within the door zone *at* traffic speed (20MPH+) and let us know how accurate you are at figuring when a person is in their car using their side mirrors. Once you've done that, repeat the experiment while having enough situational awareness about the other objects in front of and behind you to not get killed at a crossroads. Side mirrors are for viewing *out* - not in. Reflections and tints on car windows severely diminish the imagery.
Hell, I'm an "oblivious cager" 90% of the year and I can see how ridiculous this is.
Can't get a company car? Can't park your car at work for the week?
Have the faiths, there is always a way!
I'd still need to see some citations. Brakes "totally burned through" takes a *long* time or *really* crappy brakes, you certainly aren't going to burn through a perfectly good set of brakes on one drive. If your throttle opens up and you brake to bring yourself to a *stop* your car will stop. Brake fade could have certainly occurred, it only requires the brakes to get extremely hot, which generally means long periods of brake use. Coming to a stop from highway speed isn't a long enough period, otherwise you'd have a ton more accidents at the bottom of long hills due to fade.
Now, the acceleration issue could still be the cause if the drivers used the brakes to keep the speed in check for a while instead of bringing the vehicle to a stop. I won't claim that the accelerator faults aren't part of the problem, but proper driver education and response to the sudden acceleration would have prevented many accidents.
What it comes down to is the relative reliability between systems. Your current braking system will fail if one of the hydraulic lines is punctured and you lose pressure. In boosted brakes if the engine stops you lose a significant amount of stopping power. With an electronic system running on redundant wires, you could lose an entire brake and still manage. Also keep in mind that existing hydraulic systems have a cable driven backup (your handbrake), and I imagine an electronic system would have something similar. In the same vein, steering systems have mechanical linkages that can fail-- if a tie rod snaps you lose steering. Essentially, if an electrical system can be more reliable than its mechanical counterparts, it is worth considering. For the most part that hasn't happened for brakes and steering.
Acceleration on the other hand is not really a "safety critical" system. Just about every modern car uses a drive by wire system for the accelerator rather than a throttle cable to the butterfly. A well-designed electronic system is not inherently less safe than a well designed mechanical system.
I think that was sort of his point: "Yes, it is a bug. Yes, Toyota needs to fix it." From TFS, he said he could reproduce it safely and consistently, but *wasn't getting a response* from Toyota about the issue.
This is important-- my dad is a history professor at a community college and is seeing more students recently than he has in the past-- a significant spike even over the prior semester. He's suspecting the down economy is sending a lot of folks back to school while jobs aren't available.
He noted the exact same thing you did-- many of the students he's seeing really aren't cut out for higher education. They just happen to be there due to economic (or maybe societal?) pressures.
So... you're in the same room as the guy and your biggest worry is about *you* not humiliating *him* ??
Shouldn't you have more pressing issues on your mind? Like ducking that incoming chair?
It does win on battery life, so I'll give it that, but there's no compelling reason a netbook can't act as an ebook reader-- albeit a bit less conveniently.
Basically it all comes down to the apps and implementation (as it did with the iPhone). It's definitely an interesting gadget, and the price point isn't terrible. Essentially you need to put the dollar value on the battery life and the app/itunes store convenience.
Again, I'm not saying it's a bad deal-- but unless it manages to create it's own niche it will be competing with the Eees and Aspire Ones of the world, where it does lose out a bit in capability and price. You're absolutely right though that the price all comes down to what you want out of your devices. It really might not be right to even compare this with the netbooks, though until it comes to market there's no telling what market it will be in.