In my state, it is illegal for a person to drive in the left lane for more than a mile without passing anybody.
Unfortunately, that's just one in a long list of laws that should be enforced, but aren't. But honestly, it's not the 'slow driver in the fast lane' that bother me so much, as the one's who intentionally cut you off at a much lower speed, or pull out in front of you and slam on their brakes, as if they're trying to cause a multi-car pileup. Oh, and the blatant idiots, like the 3 AC's who replied earlier.
Those fuckers should be charged with attempted manslaughter. At the least.
You know,. I could posit some snide remarks, denigrating your lack of intellect quite expertly... then I realized, "hey, this is just some ball-less AC; how is this stupid asshole worth my time?"
According to someone much, much smarter than you could ever imagine being: Most generalizations are false, including this one.
For the record, if you're one of the people I'm complaining about, i.e. that endangers the lives of other drivers so you can play Highway Policeman, then it is you who is among the worst drivers on the road.
P.S. in case you're wondering (which I doubt you have the cogent reasoning abilities to do so, considering), the reason I get "this emotional" about highway safety, is because I travel a fucking lot, and am sick of stupid, selfish assholes trying to kill me.
A solution would be to make it illegal to have a change in speed limit above a certain rate downwards...
That's already illegal, but good luck getting the local circuit judge to rule against the Mayor of CockTown, who also happens to be his brother-in-law...
Fuck your "wrong." What, are you one of those egocentric asshats that appoints yourself Lord and Master of the Interstate or something?
P.S. if you're going to tell someone that they're incorrect, explain it. Otherwise you just look like an asshole.
If everyone went 90mph it would be far safer than having one guy going 65 and another going 90 on the same road.
True. Then again, if slow-moving fuckheads would just keep right (as they're supposed to by current law) and not intentionally cut off faster moving traffic, you'd get the same result.
I blame the lack of training requirement, myself - it is way to damn easy to get a driving license in this country, which probably accounts for more accidents than anyone is willing to admit. I mean, think about it - in most states, at the age of 16 you can get a card that lets you legally operate 2+ tons of steel, hurtling at speeds up to 70-80 MPH, by taking a short written test (as many times as you need to pass it), and subsequent short driving test (which, again, can be retaken repeatedly with no penalty).
The point of speed limits is to get everyone going as close as possible to the same speed, then their speed relative to each other is miniscule causing interactions to happen more slowly and less frequenty.
Considering the significant difference between the maximum (70) and minimum speed (45) on the interstate, I find that theory dubious at best; Rent-seeking seems a far more plausible rationale.
It doesn't do that if you are turning at a light, just if you lane-drift. And it doesn't stop you, just buzz the steering wheel. (My mother-in-law has one. Pretty neat.)
Let me know when they replace the "mild buzzing in the steering wheel" system with a "50,000 volt shock to the arse..."
My mother-in-law could use a new set o' wheels herself...
... and get railroaded, then have some hefty court costs lumped on top of the already excessive fine (as a punishment for exercising your rights), not to mention the time missed from work to go down to the courthouse and fight it...
Sorry, hard for me to believe there are still people out there who buy the whole "right to defend yourself" lie...
His point was exactly what he stated - that we all, individually, break many laws on a daily basis, often unknowingly, and no one dies as a result. The proportion of speeding offenses vs deaths caused by excessive speed is just icing on the cake.
Case in point: ever discuss a broadcasted sporting event in a public place, without express written consent of the sporting organization and broadcasting network? If you said 'yes,' then you've broken the law, even though it has harmed not a soul.
It's the poorly defined "reckless driving" that should be ticketed and enforced... not the easily quantifiable speeding. Speeding doesn't cause accidents. It's the stupid folks who dunno how to drive.
THIS, a million times over.
The guy doing 90 MPH in the fast lane, but not riding asses or driving recklessly, is far less likely to cause an accident than the narcissistic highway nannies who will intentionally cut him off at 65 MPH, just to "teach that guy a lesson."
I wonder when they'll squeeze this into the schedule between all the wrestling and other ratings-chasing dreck.
Every time I start to wonder if I should have the cable re-connected, somebody says something like this, and it reminds me of why I dropped that overpriced crapfest in the first place.
ProTip - anytime someone writes a multi-paragraph, 'woe is me' whinefest... they want you to feel sorry for them.
Perhaps if you had paid more attention in your Literature classes while turning nuts under the hood in Auto Class
Yea, that's not a fight that an unthinking, mouth-breathing Philistine such as yourself should be starting. FYI, "I know how to work on cars" does not give any indication of my other intellectual skills and abilities, but your assumption that it does is a fairly powerful indicator of your own inability to posit cogent thoughts.
Could you elaborate on why it's worthlesss? It's a STEM field that's supposed to pay well.
Auto shops don't give two shits about education or experience - basically, if you don't have that patch on your shirtsleeve that says "ASE" on it, you're worthless in their eyes.
Still, it was good experience: I know which shops are honest and which are crooks, and I can make/fix damn near anything electro-mechanical.
Is that because employers prefer real-world experience over a degree?
ASE certifications. They could give a fuck less about actual know-how, experience, or education. They just want to see that patch on your shoulder.
And what were you expecting to get out of that degree?
Satisfaction of stubbornness, I suppose. Gotta keep in mind, I was both young and a gearhead at the time.
Genuinely curious, always wondered if UTI and those were worth anything.
I looked at UTI, but declined to enroll because A) they refused to recognize my existing credits, meaning I would have to take the same 2 years of classes I had just finished before I could even begin one of the specialty tracks, and B) it would have cost me almost $15,000/semester to attend.
Like when a cop tries to play the "refusing a search is tantamount to probable cause" routine - a bullshit, illegal power-play by some douchebag functionary with more foot odor than brains.
Besides, "no you may not" is probably considered a far more reasonable response than that question would get from me: "Sure, you may ask whatever you want. Just know that I am under no legal obligation to answer you, and therefore, will not."
Sarcasm is a bit difficult to infer from online text, but I'm hard pressed to believe that was his intent, evidenced no less by the last two sentences I quoted.
If you're a person who likes to stir up shit and you meet another person who also likes to stir up shit, then you're probably going to make things shitty for everyone around you.
Huh, that reminds me of the "Dicks, Pussies, and Assholes" speech from Team America.
And how many times have you opted out of the body scanners, champ? I've done so dozens of times, at dozens of airports around the US. I guarantee that my calm & principled refusal will have more effect on the TSA's policies than your incoherent ranting on slashdot ever will.
I bet the one time your mom took you on vacation, you went through the scanner, fuming the whole time, and planning how you were gonna tell all the other teenage tards on/. how tough you would've been if that TSA agent had tried to start shit with YOU.
Real brave behind a keyboard, but ultimately worthless in the real world. Big shocker.
I've never opted out of shit, because I refuse to fly, Internet Tough Guy. But please, don't let reality rip you away from your ego-maniacal fantasy world, where you're the Perfect Specimen, and the rest of us are whinging teenagers.
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In my state, it is illegal for a person to drive in the left lane for more than a mile without passing anybody.
Unfortunately, that's just one in a long list of laws that should be enforced, but aren't. But honestly, it's not the 'slow driver in the fast lane' that bother me so much, as the one's who intentionally cut you off at a much lower speed, or pull out in front of you and slam on their brakes, as if they're trying to cause a multi-car pileup. Oh, and the blatant idiots, like the 3 AC's who replied earlier.
Those fuckers should be charged with attempted manslaughter. At the least.
You know,. I could posit some snide remarks, denigrating your lack of intellect quite expertly... then I realized, "hey, this is just some ball-less AC; how is this stupid asshole worth my time?"
The answer is, of course, that you're not.
According to someone much, much smarter than you could ever imagine being: Most generalizations are false, including this one.
For the record, if you're one of the people I'm complaining about, i.e. that endangers the lives of other drivers so you can play Highway Policeman, then it is you who is among the worst drivers on the road.
P.S. in case you're wondering (which I doubt you have the cogent reasoning abilities to do so, considering), the reason I get "this emotional" about highway safety, is because I travel a fucking lot, and am sick of stupid, selfish assholes trying to kill me.
A solution would be to make it illegal to have a change in speed limit above a certain rate downwards...
That's already illegal, but good luck getting the local circuit judge to rule against the Mayor of CockTown, who also happens to be his brother-in-law...
Wrong.
Fuck your "wrong." What, are you one of those egocentric asshats that appoints yourself Lord and Master of the Interstate or something?
P.S. if you're going to tell someone that they're incorrect, explain it. Otherwise you just look like an asshole.
If everyone went 90mph it would be far safer than having one guy going 65 and another going 90 on the same road.
True. Then again, if slow-moving fuckheads would just keep right (as they're supposed to by current law) and not intentionally cut off faster moving traffic, you'd get the same result.
I blame the lack of training requirement, myself - it is way to damn easy to get a driving license in this country, which probably accounts for more accidents than anyone is willing to admit. I mean, think about it - in most states, at the age of 16 you can get a card that lets you legally operate 2+ tons of steel, hurtling at speeds up to 70-80 MPH, by taking a short written test (as many times as you need to pass it), and subsequent short driving test (which, again, can be retaken repeatedly with no penalty).
The point of speed limits is to get everyone going as close as possible to the same speed, then their speed relative to each other is miniscule causing interactions to happen more slowly and less frequenty.
Considering the significant difference between the maximum (70) and minimum speed (45) on the interstate, I find that theory dubious at best; Rent-seeking seems a far more plausible rationale.
It doesn't do that if you are turning at a light, just if you lane-drift. And it doesn't stop you, just buzz the steering wheel. (My mother-in-law has one. Pretty neat.)
Let me know when they replace the "mild buzzing in the steering wheel" system with a "50,000 volt shock to the arse..."
My mother-in-law could use a new set o' wheels herself...
... and get railroaded, then have some hefty court costs lumped on top of the already excessive fine (as a punishment for exercising your rights), not to mention the time missed from work to go down to the courthouse and fight it...
Sorry, hard for me to believe there are still people out there who buy the whole "right to defend yourself" lie...
That's not his point.
His point was exactly what he stated - that we all, individually, break many laws on a daily basis, often unknowingly, and no one dies as a result. The proportion of speeding offenses vs deaths caused by excessive speed is just icing on the cake.
Case in point: ever discuss a broadcasted sporting event in a public place, without express written consent of the sporting organization and broadcasting network? If you said 'yes,' then you've broken the law, even though it has harmed not a soul.
I'm pretty sure that's what AC was getting at.
It's the poorly defined "reckless driving" that should be ticketed and enforced... not the easily quantifiable speeding. Speeding doesn't cause accidents. It's the stupid folks who dunno how to drive.
THIS, a million times over.
The guy doing 90 MPH in the fast lane, but not riding asses or driving recklessly, is far less likely to cause an accident than the narcissistic highway nannies who will intentionally cut him off at 65 MPH, just to "teach that guy a lesson."
I wonder when they'll squeeze this into the schedule between all the wrestling and other ratings-chasing dreck.
Every time I start to wonder if I should have the cable re-connected, somebody says something like this, and it reminds me of why I dropped that overpriced crapfest in the first place.
Pardon me for not feeling sorry for you.
She isn't asking you to "feel sorry" for her.
ProTip - anytime someone writes a multi-paragraph, 'woe is me' whinefest... they want you to feel sorry for them.
Perhaps if you had paid more attention in your Literature classes while turning nuts under the hood in Auto Class
Yea, that's not a fight that an unthinking, mouth-breathing Philistine such as yourself should be starting. FYI, "I know how to work on cars" does not give any indication of my other intellectual skills and abilities, but your assumption that it does is a fairly powerful indicator of your own inability to posit cogent thoughts.
Served.
Could you elaborate on why it's worthlesss? It's a STEM field that's supposed to pay well.
Auto shops don't give two shits about education or experience - basically, if you don't have that patch on your shirtsleeve that says "ASE" on it, you're worthless in their eyes.
Still, it was good experience: I know which shops are honest and which are crooks, and I can make/fix damn near anything electro-mechanical.
Is that because employers prefer real-world experience over a degree?
ASE certifications. They could give a fuck less about actual know-how, experience, or education. They just want to see that patch on your shoulder.
And what were you expecting to get out of that degree?
Satisfaction of stubbornness, I suppose. Gotta keep in mind, I was both young and a gearhead at the time.
Genuinely curious, always wondered if UTI and those were worth anything.
I looked at UTI, but declined to enroll because A) they refused to recognize my existing credits, meaning I would have to take the same 2 years of classes I had just finished before I could even begin one of the specialty tracks, and B) it would have cost me almost $15,000/semester to attend.
Huh, and here I thought my Associate's of Applied Science in Automotive Technology was a wasted effort...
The difference being, I realized my degree was worth approximately shit after 2 years.
Pardon me for not feeling sorry for you.
Agreed.
Personally, I have never flown commercially, and do not suffer one iota for it.
Like when a cop tries to play the "refusing a search is tantamount to probable cause" routine - a bullshit, illegal power-play by some douchebag functionary with more foot odor than brains.
Besides, "no you may not" is probably considered a far more reasonable response than that question would get from me: "Sure, you may ask whatever you want. Just know that I am under no legal obligation to answer you, and therefore, will not."
Thats why the people who actually can predict the future shut the fuck up ages ago... and we're left with phony 'psychics' who want your money.
I think they prefer to be called "futurists" these days.
Ah, yes, the 'Marie Antoinette Allegory.'
Hopefully with a similar ending...
Are we sure this guy actually works for MS? If so, Sony couldn't pay for such a great PS4 marketing campaign.
On a more serious note... what an unholy douchebag.
Sarcasm is a bit difficult to infer from online text, but I'm hard pressed to believe that was his intent, evidenced no less by the last two sentences I quoted.
If you're a person who likes to stir up shit and you meet another person who also likes to stir up shit, then you're probably going to make things shitty for everyone around you.
Huh, that reminds me of the "Dicks, Pussies, and Assholes" speech from Team America.
Hilarious.
And how many times have you opted out of the body scanners, champ? I've done so dozens of times, at dozens of airports around the US. I guarantee that my calm & principled refusal will have more effect on the TSA's policies than your incoherent ranting on slashdot ever will.
I bet the one time your mom took you on vacation, you went through the scanner, fuming the whole time, and planning how you were gonna tell all the other teenage tards on /. how tough you would've been if that TSA agent had tried to start shit with YOU.
Real brave behind a keyboard, but ultimately worthless in the real world. Big shocker.
I've never opted out of shit, because I refuse to fly, Internet Tough Guy. But please, don't let reality rip you away from your ego-maniacal fantasy world, where you're the Perfect Specimen, and the rest of us are whinging teenagers.
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It's been my experience that stupid, moderately well-off assholes tend to think that way.
are you slaves?
Pretty much, yea.
And, like traditional slaves, we don't get to decide when or if the shackles come off.
Then why the fuck do they care what they say? Because catching smartasses is easier than catching terrorists?
Well, considering that there's a non-zero chance of encountering one, but not the other...