Health care providers have a legitimate use for BACRO. Your wife might not be too happy to find that the local walk-in health clinic has been repeatedly calling, but not leaving a message on the machine (because they are bound to inform you, and only you, that the chippie down the street mentioned your name when she was getting her antibiotics). So they have to make their calls anonymously -- and they do have to get through the block.
From the Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 22nd September 1998
By ROBERT WAINWRIGHT, Transport Writer
First it was motorbike riders, cyclists and skateboarders - now motorists and their passengers are being encouraged to wear helmets. The move comes in the wake of a new study which claims that headwear can dramatically reduce brain injuries in road accidents.
A report by the Federal Office of Road Safety claims that "bicycle-style" helmets would be as effective as airbags and better than seat belts, reducing the severity of accidents by 50 per cent and saving the life of one in five head-injury victims. The report, released yesterday with the backing of the Department of Transport and Regional Development, even suggested that protective headbands could be designed as a fashion accessory.
It presents findings from a two-year study on head and brain injuries conducted jointly by the accident research units at the University of Adelaide and Monash University, which said head injuries were costing the economy more than $1.5 billion a year. The universities concluded that helmets would provide more protection than safety options such as interior padding, side-impact airbags and advanced seat belt designs. Full helmet protection would lessen the severity of more than 60 per cent of brain injuries, compared with a bicycle-style helmet (50 per cent) and better interior vehicle padding (30 per cent).
A spokesman for the Office of Road Safety said the idea was being put forward only as a voluntary measure, and there were no plans to make it compulsory. "Car occupants are already better protected than cyclists or motorcyclists," the spokesman said. "But this research shows that safety could be improved quite a lot by using simple, low-cost protection. We are publishing these results so that the community can make an informed choice." Professor Jack McLean, from the University of Adelaide, said studies of head injuries found that specially designed headbands could offer a practical alternative to full helmets. "The proposed headbands would apply padding to the front and sides of the head, where most impacts occur," Professor McLean said. "They would be lighter, cooler and less bulky than a conventional helmet."
Ms Pam Leicester, a behavioural scientist from the NRMA's Road Safety Department, said the idea had merit, but it would not be easy to persuade motorists to wear helmets. The report, which concluded that a helmet would have avoided one in five fatal accidents, will be given to Australian helmet designers and manufacturers.
"A detailed analysis of head impact patterns... suggests that specifically designedheadbands could provide a practical alternative to full helmets," it says. "With some imaginative designing, the headband might well be developed as a new fashion accessory."
Hey, great argument. "The honest would never object. If you object, you must not be honest."
Except you left out a few other categories of people who should have something to fear: commie pinkos chinks, gooks, and japs faggots anarchists (and union organizers. They're probably pinkos anyway) nigger-lovers religious fanatics (like Koresh) gun nuts (like Koresh) animal-rights loons (PETA are pinkos too) hippies (they're all either pinkos, faggots or bums) bicyclists (what, are they too stooopid to drive?) crips (well, they're ok as long as they keep their mouths shut and don't get any ideas from their pinko friends)
Ketzer, take a look at some history books. No place is free from oppressive, even violent, maintenance of social conformity. Sometimes laws are (inappropriately) used as tools, sometimes law enforcement agencies and their employees act illegally to threaten and harm people they dislike. It happens every couple of years somewhere in the US. At some point within the last few centuries, you could have been *killed* for being identified with one of those groups. I hope you're not so naive as to believe that it isn't still happening, and can't happen in the future.
I don't know who the next wrongly oppressed group is going to be, but I think I want to make sure that they have the tools they need.
Care to share the details? (wine version, which native DLLs you're using, from what version of Windows, etc). I just tried Quicken 98 (thinking an older version might have fewer os-specific hacks), and I am having lots of problems with the file (new,open) dialogs inserting random crap in the path names. Also, it tried to install IE -- but the install process hung.
This is barely related to the previous flap. In particular, there is nothing here which says what MS did with the PAC. Or in other words, how a non-Windows system can find out to what groups a particular user belongs. I don't see what all the hootin' and hollerin' is about.
The 767 has one 120VAC outlet on each side in coach, which is powered during flight. It's on the floor under the window, forward of the wing -- about halfway to the cockpit bulkhead. (Exactly which row this is depends on how the airline configures the seats.) Other planes may also have such outlets, but you won't know if you don't look.
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Health care providers have a legitimate use for BACRO. Your wife might not be too happy to find that the local walk-in health clinic has been repeatedly calling, but not leaving a message on the machine (because they are bound to inform you, and only you, that the chippie down the street mentioned your name when she was getting her antibiotics). So they have to make their calls anonymously -- and they do have to get through the block.
It's called RealNames. But there's more to the Net than web browsers.
http://www.magma.ca/~ocbc/nigel.html
... suggests that specifically designedheadbands could provide a practical alternative to full helmets," it says. "With some imaginative designing, the headband might well be developed as a new fashion accessory."
has an article from NZ. And there's this:
Motorists get head start in drive for road safety
From the Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 22nd September 1998
By ROBERT WAINWRIGHT, Transport Writer
First it was motorbike riders, cyclists and skateboarders - now motorists and their passengers are being encouraged to wear helmets. The move comes in the wake of a new study which claims that headwear can dramatically reduce brain injuries in road accidents.
A report by the Federal Office of Road Safety claims that "bicycle-style" helmets would be as effective as airbags and better than seat belts, reducing the severity of accidents by 50 per cent and saving the life of one in five head-injury victims. The report, released yesterday with the backing of the Department of Transport and Regional Development, even suggested that protective headbands could be designed as a fashion accessory.
It presents findings from a two-year study on head and brain injuries conducted jointly by the accident research units at the University of Adelaide and Monash University, which said head injuries were costing the economy more than $1.5 billion a year. The universities concluded that helmets would provide more protection than safety options such as interior padding, side-impact airbags and advanced seat belt designs. Full helmet protection would lessen the severity of more than 60 per cent of brain injuries, compared with a bicycle-style helmet (50 per cent) and better interior vehicle padding (30 per cent).
A spokesman for the Office of Road Safety said the idea was being put forward only as a voluntary measure, and there were no plans to make it compulsory. "Car occupants are already better protected than cyclists or motorcyclists," the spokesman said. "But this research shows that safety could be improved quite a lot by using simple, low-cost protection. We are publishing these results so that the community can make an informed choice." Professor Jack McLean, from the University of Adelaide, said studies of head injuries found that specially designed headbands could offer a practical alternative to full helmets. "The proposed headbands would apply padding to the front and sides of the head, where most impacts occur," Professor McLean said. "They would be lighter, cooler and less bulky than a conventional helmet."
Ms Pam Leicester, a behavioural scientist from the NRMA's Road Safety Department, said the idea had merit, but it would not be easy to persuade motorists to wear helmets. The report, which concluded that a helmet would have avoided one in five fatal accidents, will be given to Australian helmet designers and manufacturers.
"A detailed analysis of head impact patterns
Hey, great argument.
"The honest would never object. If you object, you must not be honest."
Except you left out a few other categories of people who should have something to fear:
commie pinkos
chinks, gooks, and japs
faggots
anarchists (and union organizers. They're probably pinkos anyway)
nigger-lovers
religious fanatics (like Koresh)
gun nuts (like Koresh)
animal-rights loons (PETA are pinkos too)
hippies (they're all either pinkos, faggots or bums)
bicyclists (what, are they too stooopid to drive?)
crips (well, they're ok as long as they keep their mouths shut and don't get any ideas from their pinko friends)
Ketzer,
take a look at some history books.
No place is free from oppressive, even violent, maintenance of social conformity. Sometimes laws are (inappropriately) used as tools, sometimes law enforcement agencies and their employees act illegally to threaten and harm people they dislike. It happens every couple of years somewhere in the US. At some point within the last few centuries, you could have been *killed* for being identified with one of those groups. I hope you're not so naive as to believe that it isn't still happening, and can't happen in the future.
I don't know who the next wrongly oppressed group is going to be, but I think I want to make sure that they have the tools they need.
Care to share the details? (wine version, which native DLLs you're using, from what version of Windows, etc). I just tried Quicken 98 (thinking an older version might have fewer os-specific hacks), and I am having lots of problems with the file (new,open) dialogs inserting random crap in the path names. Also, it tried to install IE -- but the install process hung.
This is barely related to the previous flap. In particular, there is nothing here which says what MS did with the PAC. Or in other words, how a non-Windows system can find out to what groups a particular user belongs. I don't see what all the hootin' and hollerin' is about.
The 767 has one 120VAC outlet on each side in coach, which is powered during flight. It's on the floor under the window, forward of the wing -- about halfway to the cockpit bulkhead. (Exactly which row this is depends on how the airline configures the seats.) Other planes may also have such outlets, but you won't know if you don't look.