It is an infrequent occurrence. Even more infrequent is when the driver doesn't immediately respond with apologies when I first wave at them calmly, then politely explain what they missed, when we're stopped at the next light.
But when they almost kill me, and then ignore or mock my initial polite waving, that makes me angry. When someone runs you down and isn't apologetic, if you're not angry, you're not really human.
In none of my posts have I implied anything but that. If you don't relate, you shouldn't be driving. Or at least you should just read and learn, and not post something that just blames the victim.
No, I don't think it would be smart. But I can't help but notice that the people who run such things, for the state and for private corps (and for those who are doing both), are not smart.
So I asked. I got one decent answer. The rest of the answers have been mostly from people who are smart enough to give me what I want, if only they were in charge of not doing so.
The car and my bike are both stopped. I'm homicidal, not suicidal.
Once I'm smashing your window in and grabbing your throat, control of the vehicle coverts to me, not you. I'm the one wearing armor, with the element of surprise, and already cheated death at your hands once that day.
You'd be hesitating while you reached for your gun, and I'd have you with a jagged edge of broken mirror in your face, and my hand on whatever you're reaching for. And if you did manage to get off a shot, I'd surely kill you immediately. Your gun doesn't protect your windpipe from crushing. The initiative in the hands of someone with my experience is the lethal factor.
That bible belt is going to have to take care of something a lot less useful to you when the dust settles. Besides, NYC lawyers are happy to fly to the bible belt and prove to judges that a guy who almost killed their client for no reason with their car was also guilty of pointing a gun through a window at someone who was just waving at them a few seconds later at the stoplight.
Look, this is a theoretical argument for you. For me, it's the reality that I deal with whenever I'm on my bike. I'm not interested in some kind of fantasy faceoff in these comments. I don't even like doing it when it's real and necessary. Just be careful when you're driving. Even if you do shoot me before I kill you, you don't want to deal with that just to change lanes without looking. You don't even want to run me over if I somehow don't see you coming. Let's just watch what we're doing, and everyone will get where we're going.
No, the blind spots, as those diagrams illustrate, are all behind the car. Only if the biker is passing you when you move into their lane are they in danger of being in your blind spot and touching your car. And if they're passing you, then only in the rarest coincidences where your trajectories and speeds are synced so closely that they move towards your car in a straight line entirely contained within the blind spot cone are they really blocked while you both move. Practically all the time, you can see them before and after they're in the blind spot as you change lanes.
The bottom line is that you should never drive your car into a space you haven't seen is actually empty. That is achievable by looking, and taking an extra second or two while signaling and slowly starting to move whenever you can't be sure the space is empty. Which should be rare, because you should be watching all the vehicles entering your nearby space when driving.
This is nearly always easy to do. If you can't do it due to conditions or your own skills, you shouldn't take those risks. Not when someone else's life hangs on it. Perhaps your own.
You can't run me over when I follow you to the next stoplight and pull up next to you. Which is of course where I'll be when I'm just yelling at you first.
You really don't know anything about driving. You should stay off the roads entirely, not just away from motorcycles.
Unless your car is too big for you to drive it. Then you shouldn't drive it.
I know where they are. I drive a car, too, and I know where they are. I've driven all kinds of trucks, from SUVs to panel trucks to buses to everything but semis, garbage trucks or fire trucks. When I approach a driver who's almost hit me (when we've stopped at a light), I don't start out yelling. I start by just waving at them first. When they ignore me, it's obvious they saw me in the first place. I don't start yelling unless that's what it takes to make an impression. And then their further actions take it from there. When they continue to act like they're immune to consequences because they're the one inside a tough steel box, I prove them wrong.
So they don't forget. And so I don't have to drive away shaken up, and therefore more vulnerable to the next fool. They give me a good reason to vent, which is better for both of us.
When I'm smashing in your window with your mirror, you're not going to have time to get your gun, one of those "funny moves", before I throttle you.
And just because you're the one who brought the gun, doesn't mean you're the one who's going to use it.
My neighborhood is NYC, and has been since before I learned to drive. Don't bother threatening me with guns, when I've already faced down the kind of people who like to make such threats, or act like fools just because they're carrying one.
As I said, one doesn't cancel the other. "Twice" is obviously not a mathematical expression in that statement. And there aren't real body counts in either China's or the US' mass murders.
If you instigate me into chasing you because you almost killed me and get yourself killed, you won't be looking up anything, except whatever the view might be from hell.
And if you survive, you can tell it to the judge.
I'm willing to take my chances. If you're not, just be appropriately careful on the roads, and we'll get along fine by never knowing each other.
I don't drive in people's blind spots. And if you can hit the motorcyclist, they're not in your blind spot, which is behind you, unless they're passing you, in which case they're moving through your blind spot, and you should be able to see them before and after they move through it.
And like I said, when someone almost kills me when they don't have to, I really don't care whether my taking their picture endangers them. Once they've demonstrated they don't care about my life, I don't care about theirs.
Really, your whole post reads like a pack of lies by someone who wants to own the road in a car that's too big for you to drive safely. Next time you almost kill a biker who isn't really driving in your blind spot, it better not be me. Or I won't be just yelling at you. I'll be making a much more lasting impression.
If they were in your way while merging, then they were not in your blind spot. Car blind spots are behind you. And even if your car is so big that it somehow has blind spots, moving across lanes puts wide sectors of your side and front fields into which you're moving in clear view. If you're looking.
So it's obvious that you're lying. And even if you just didn't look carefully enough, and almost killed the biker, then they're not the jerk for just yelling at you. You are the jerk for almost killing them and acting like nothing should happen, not even getting yelled at.
And you're wrong again about that biker being someone like me. Because when I yell at someone like you for almost running me over, and they just shrug their shoulders instead of indicating somehow that maybe they learned a lesson to be more careful next time, I don't just keep yelling. I smash off your rearview mirror, then beat it to smithereens against your car. If that doesn't sink in the right way, then I smash your window with it. Any funny moves from there, and you've got a guy wearing body armor and a helmet ripping, punching and choking you. Wearing gloves that cover fingerprints. On a motorcycle that can get away without a trace.
You must understand that bikers are risk takers. And that some of us are me. And that if you try something stupid like almost killing me and then acting like a "jerk" about it, I'm going to ruin your day at least as bad as you almost ruined mine.
No, I have done quite a lot to stop both China's mafia government and the US mafia government. One doesn't cancel the other: they each make it twice as bad.
What have you done to stop either, other than whine about the US mafia government (as a lame excuse for China's mafia government)? Anonymous hypocrite Coward.
By which they meant that most of our chemical composition elements were forged in the cores of stars before they went supernova. No PhD for plagiarizing Joni Mitchell, though.
How do I just look up a license plate number, without the fancy gizmos? Just an app or webpage that I can query with the plate number. Or the VIN. To get the owner's name, and hopefully their address.
I'm tired of people driving like murderers, especially when I'm on my motorcycle. I usually get up close to them and snap their picture, and their plate. Which calms me down a little, especially when they start covering their face. (No, I don't care if that endangers them, and I only do it when I am fully safe to do it.) But if I could go home and look up their identity, I could drop by with a note reminding them that they can't just get away with it.
Someday I'd love to send a video of these jerks driving recklessly direct to the cops, and get a call back from them with me bearing witness to the report. Then they can round up that jerk, and I can narrate the video to the judge, and really help get these homicidal drivers off the road.
But in the meantime, how do I just look up their plate# or VIN?
This small advance for freedom (for some privileged people) in a tiny sector of China (in Beijing) for a brief, extraordinary period (while the whole world is watching) is better than nothing. And it's the result of pressure on China's mafia government by people who expect freedom, and won't accept less. Not even in a tiny sector for a brief, extraordinary period.
This tiny victory might not last long at all. But it does prove that there's at least one way it can be done.
Now the harder part is finding the other ways. For everyone, everywhere in China. That last.
The proof of concept, though, is the hole in the balloon. Better than nothing, and perhaps the window into a future with the whole jail's walls down.
The registry is the lookup that keeps the records of "whatever the hell the user expects a double-click on that".
The point here is not the implentation details. It's the single, common API to this info that we now know everyone wants to use, in the structure everyone uses: the protocol for retrieval, and the read/write/exec processes. The point is to canonicalize that API. Then you go ahead and write those tools that you like to use that API.
No, this is not an execution problem, but a compilation problem. I found the compiler flag you're probably referring to, _IRR_GETPROCADDRESS_WORKAROUND_ , in COpenGLExtensionHandler.cpp#182,and uncommented it (after googling for the nvidia bug), and I'm still getting the same compiler errors, mostly like COpenGLDriver.cpp: In member function 'bool irr::video::COpenGLDriver::setTexture(irr::u32, const irr::video::ITexture*)': COpenGLDriver.cpp:1082: error: 'GL_TEXTURE_2D' was not declared in this scope COpenGLDriver.cpp:1082: error: 'glDisable' was not declared in this scope COpenGLDriver.cpp:1089: error: 'GL_TEXTURE_2D' was not declared in this scope COpenGLDriver.cpp:1089: error: 'glDisable' was not declared in this scope COpenGLDriver.cpp:1094: error: 'GL_TEXTURE_2D' was not declared in this scope COpenGLDriver.cpp:1094: error: 'glEnable' was not declared in this scope COpenGLDriver.cpp:1096: error: 'const class irr::video::COpenGLTexture' has no member named 'getOpenGLTextureName' COpenGLDriver.cpp:1096: error: 'glBindTexture' was not declared in this scope COpenGLDriver.cpp: At global scope: COpenGLDriver.cpp:1116: error: variable or field 'createGLMatrix' declared void COpenGLDriver.cpp:1116: error: 'GLfloat' was not declared in this scope COpenGLDriver.cpp:1116: error: expected primary-expression before 'const' COpenGLDriver.cpp:1123: error: variable or field 'createGLTextureMatrix' declared void
Which looks more like some dependency isn't installed. But there's no instructions for such dependencies, or any other instructions that "type make in the directory".
The gouging isn't determined by "exorbitant profits". It's determined by how they make those profits. The oil industry is entirely defined by cartels, starting with OPEC. McCain is busy arguing in Congress for Exxon to get an additional $BILLION or more in profits each year through extra tax breaks, as the typical Republican "do the opposite of what makes sense" response to Democrats' efforts to cut the vast and pervasive government subsidies to oil corps like Exxon. That is how come the industry is making such huge profits across the board, while its customers are starving in order to afford their essential commodity products.
If the oil market were really free, then Exxon would have cut its profitability closer to 5% or less, in order to get a lot more than $400B in revenue, by underpricing its competition like Shell and BP. Instead, they all float within a range, controlled by a myriad of factors, just like their oil producing supplier countries upstream do.
That is the evidence of gouging. It requires thorough investigations, and probably hundreds of $billions in fines to compensate for years of it. But Congress can't even get their bribed members (starting, but not ending, with lockstep obstructionist Republicans) to fully cancel all the $billions in subsidies to these most profitable corporations in history, bled from the most indebted Treasury in history.
If you're going to do "Conservative math" and divide quarterly profit by annual revenue, you're going to come up with whatever numbers you want, like inany Republican economic analysis.
If you leave out a $290M Exxon-Valdez settlement (pennies on the dollar owed, and a onetime charge on decades of legal operations), Exxon actually profited $11.97 BILLION. Annualize that number, and you get $47.88 BILLION profit. Of about $404.55 BILLION 2007 revenue, that would be about 11.8% profit. On such a huge, global operation, with retail prices hitting all kinds of ceilings (like people forced to decide to skip food, healthcare or gas/heat), that is a fabulous profit rate on a fabulous amount of revenue. More than 5% profit on such huge revenues would still be fabulous. Especially when the rest of the US economy, that these giant revenue extractions are strangling, is shrinking and failing.
Now, if you want to go for Conservative economics gold, just suggest something irrelevant like "Wal-Mart is #2". Congratulations!
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Someday my bike and my car will have 360 degree surveillance cameras.
It is an infrequent occurrence. Even more infrequent is when the driver doesn't immediately respond with apologies when I first wave at them calmly, then politely explain what they missed, when we're stopped at the next light.
But when they almost kill me, and then ignore or mock my initial polite waving, that makes me angry. When someone runs you down and isn't apologetic, if you're not angry, you're not really human.
In none of my posts have I implied anything but that. If you don't relate, you shouldn't be driving. Or at least you should just read and learn, and not post something that just blames the victim.
No, I don't think it would be smart. But I can't help but notice that the people who run such things, for the state and for private corps (and for those who are doing both), are not smart.
So I asked. I got one decent answer. The rest of the answers have been mostly from people who are smart enough to give me what I want, if only they were in charge of not doing so.
The car and my bike are both stopped. I'm homicidal, not suicidal.
Once I'm smashing your window in and grabbing your throat, control of the vehicle coverts to me, not you. I'm the one wearing armor, with the element of surprise, and already cheated death at your hands once that day.
Just drive carefully. For both our sakes.
You'd be hesitating while you reached for your gun, and I'd have you with a jagged edge of broken mirror in your face, and my hand on whatever you're reaching for. And if you did manage to get off a shot, I'd surely kill you immediately. Your gun doesn't protect your windpipe from crushing. The initiative in the hands of someone with my experience is the lethal factor.
That bible belt is going to have to take care of something a lot less useful to you when the dust settles. Besides, NYC lawyers are happy to fly to the bible belt and prove to judges that a guy who almost killed their client for no reason with their car was also guilty of pointing a gun through a window at someone who was just waving at them a few seconds later at the stoplight.
Look, this is a theoretical argument for you. For me, it's the reality that I deal with whenever I'm on my bike. I'm not interested in some kind of fantasy faceoff in these comments. I don't even like doing it when it's real and necessary. Just be careful when you're driving. Even if you do shoot me before I kill you, you don't want to deal with that just to change lanes without looking. You don't even want to run me over if I somehow don't see you coming. Let's just watch what we're doing, and everyone will get where we're going.
No, the blind spots, as those diagrams illustrate, are all behind the car. Only if the biker is passing you when you move into their lane are they in danger of being in your blind spot and touching your car. And if they're passing you, then only in the rarest coincidences where your trajectories and speeds are synced so closely that they move towards your car in a straight line entirely contained within the blind spot cone are they really blocked while you both move. Practically all the time, you can see them before and after they're in the blind spot as you change lanes.
The bottom line is that you should never drive your car into a space you haven't seen is actually empty. That is achievable by looking, and taking an extra second or two while signaling and slowly starting to move whenever you can't be sure the space is empty. Which should be rare, because you should be watching all the vehicles entering your nearby space when driving.
This is nearly always easy to do. If you can't do it due to conditions or your own skills, you shouldn't take those risks. Not when someone else's life hangs on it. Perhaps your own.
You can't run me over when I follow you to the next stoplight and pull up next to you. Which is of course where I'll be when I'm just yelling at you first.
You really don't know anything about driving. You should stay off the roads entirely, not just away from motorcycles.
Blind spots.
Unless your car is too big for you to drive it. Then you shouldn't drive it.
I know where they are. I drive a car, too, and I know where they are. I've driven all kinds of trucks, from SUVs to panel trucks to buses to everything but semis, garbage trucks or fire trucks. When I approach a driver who's almost hit me (when we've stopped at a light), I don't start out yelling. I start by just waving at them first. When they ignore me, it's obvious they saw me in the first place. I don't start yelling unless that's what it takes to make an impression. And then their further actions take it from there. When they continue to act like they're immune to consequences because they're the one inside a tough steel box, I prove them wrong.
So they don't forget. And so I don't have to drive away shaken up, and therefore more vulnerable to the next fool. They give me a good reason to vent, which is better for both of us.
When I'm smashing in your window with your mirror, you're not going to have time to get your gun, one of those "funny moves", before I throttle you.
And just because you're the one who brought the gun, doesn't mean you're the one who's going to use it.
My neighborhood is NYC, and has been since before I learned to drive. Don't bother threatening me with guns, when I've already faced down the kind of people who like to make such threats, or act like fools just because they're carrying one.
More than twice. On foot, too.
As I said, one doesn't cancel the other. "Twice" is obviously not a mathematical expression in that statement. And there aren't real body counts in either China's or the US' mass murders.
If you instigate me into chasing you because you almost killed me and get yourself killed, you won't be looking up anything, except whatever the view might be from hell.
And if you survive, you can tell it to the judge.
I'm willing to take my chances. If you're not, just be appropriately careful on the roads, and we'll get along fine by never knowing each other.
I don't drive in people's blind spots. And if you can hit the motorcyclist, they're not in your blind spot, which is behind you, unless they're passing you, in which case they're moving through your blind spot, and you should be able to see them before and after they move through it.
And like I said, when someone almost kills me when they don't have to, I really don't care whether my taking their picture endangers them. Once they've demonstrated they don't care about my life, I don't care about theirs.
Really, your whole post reads like a pack of lies by someone who wants to own the road in a car that's too big for you to drive safely. Next time you almost kill a biker who isn't really driving in your blind spot, it better not be me. Or I won't be just yelling at you. I'll be making a much more lasting impression.
If they were in your way while merging, then they were not in your blind spot. Car blind spots are behind you. And even if your car is so big that it somehow has blind spots, moving across lanes puts wide sectors of your side and front fields into which you're moving in clear view. If you're looking.
So it's obvious that you're lying. And even if you just didn't look carefully enough, and almost killed the biker, then they're not the jerk for just yelling at you. You are the jerk for almost killing them and acting like nothing should happen, not even getting yelled at.
And you're wrong again about that biker being someone like me. Because when I yell at someone like you for almost running me over, and they just shrug their shoulders instead of indicating somehow that maybe they learned a lesson to be more careful next time, I don't just keep yelling. I smash off your rearview mirror, then beat it to smithereens against your car. If that doesn't sink in the right way, then I smash your window with it. Any funny moves from there, and you've got a guy wearing body armor and a helmet ripping, punching and choking you. Wearing gloves that cover fingerprints. On a motorcycle that can get away without a trace.
You must understand that bikers are risk takers. And that some of us are me. And that if you try something stupid like almost killing me and then acting like a "jerk" about it, I'm going to ruin your day at least as bad as you almost ruined mine.
No, I have done quite a lot to stop both China's mafia government and the US mafia government. One doesn't cancel the other: they each make it twice as bad.
What have you done to stop either, other than whine about the US mafia government (as a lame excuse for China's mafia government)? Anonymous hypocrite Coward.
Pretty limited search, especially for license plates. But thanks for the help :).
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By which they meant that most of our chemical composition elements were forged in the cores of stars before they went supernova. No PhD for plagiarizing Joni Mitchell, though.
How do I just look up a license plate number, without the fancy gizmos? Just an app or webpage that I can query with the plate number. Or the VIN. To get the owner's name, and hopefully their address.
I'm tired of people driving like murderers, especially when I'm on my motorcycle. I usually get up close to them and snap their picture, and their plate. Which calms me down a little, especially when they start covering their face. (No, I don't care if that endangers them, and I only do it when I am fully safe to do it.) But if I could go home and look up their identity, I could drop by with a note reminding them that they can't just get away with it.
Someday I'd love to send a video of these jerks driving recklessly direct to the cops, and get a call back from them with me bearing witness to the report. Then they can round up that jerk, and I can narrate the video to the judge, and really help get these homicidal drivers off the road.
But in the meantime, how do I just look up their plate# or VIN?
Thank you for admitting that China is a rightwing paradise, the kind everyone is heading for by letting corporate mafiosos control our countries.
And for admitting that freedom is "left" of that kind of fascism on the political spectrum.
Anonymous Cowards have their uses, even if they don't realize it.
This small advance for freedom (for some privileged people) in a tiny sector of China (in Beijing) for a brief, extraordinary period (while the whole world is watching) is better than nothing. And it's the result of pressure on China's mafia government by people who expect freedom, and won't accept less. Not even in a tiny sector for a brief, extraordinary period.
This tiny victory might not last long at all. But it does prove that there's at least one way it can be done.
Now the harder part is finding the other ways. For everyone, everywhere in China. That last.
The proof of concept, though, is the hole in the balloon. Better than nothing, and perhaps the window into a future with the whole jail's walls down.
If there's life, we can kill it. If there's been life for a long time, it's probably left an oily residue somewhere.
Prepare for the Space War I! Spreading democracy throughout the Solar System!
The registry is the lookup that keeps the records of "whatever the hell the user expects a double-click on that".
The point here is not the implentation details. It's the single, common API to this info that we now know everyone wants to use, in the structure everyone uses: the protocol for retrieval, and the read/write/exec processes. The point is to canonicalize that API. Then you go ahead and write those tools that you like to use that API.
No, this is not an execution problem, but a compilation problem. I found the compiler flag you're probably referring to, _IRR_GETPROCADDRESS_WORKAROUND_ , in COpenGLExtensionHandler.cpp#182 ,and uncommented it (after googling for the nvidia bug), and I'm still getting the same compiler errors, mostly like
COpenGLDriver.cpp: In member function 'bool irr::video::COpenGLDriver::setTexture(irr::u32, const irr::video::ITexture*)':
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1082: error: 'GL_TEXTURE_2D' was not declared in this scope
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1082: error: 'glDisable' was not declared in this scope
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1089: error: 'GL_TEXTURE_2D' was not declared in this scope
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1089: error: 'glDisable' was not declared in this scope
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1094: error: 'GL_TEXTURE_2D' was not declared in this scope
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1094: error: 'glEnable' was not declared in this scope
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1096: error: 'const class irr::video::COpenGLTexture' has no member named 'getOpenGLTextureName'
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1096: error: 'glBindTexture' was not declared in this scope
COpenGLDriver.cpp: At global scope:
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1116: error: variable or field 'createGLMatrix' declared void
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1116: error: 'GLfloat' was not declared in this scope
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1116: error: expected primary-expression before 'const'
COpenGLDriver.cpp:1123: error: variable or field 'createGLTextureMatrix' declared void
Which looks more like some dependency isn't installed. But there's no instructions for such dependencies, or any other instructions that "type make in the directory".
The gouging isn't determined by "exorbitant profits". It's determined by how they make those profits. The oil industry is entirely defined by cartels, starting with OPEC. McCain is busy arguing in Congress for Exxon to get an additional $BILLION or more in profits each year through extra tax breaks, as the typical Republican "do the opposite of what makes sense" response to Democrats' efforts to cut the vast and pervasive government subsidies to oil corps like Exxon. That is how come the industry is making such huge profits across the board, while its customers are starving in order to afford their essential commodity products.
If the oil market were really free, then Exxon would have cut its profitability closer to 5% or less, in order to get a lot more than $400B in revenue, by underpricing its competition like Shell and BP. Instead, they all float within a range, controlled by a myriad of factors, just like their oil producing supplier countries upstream do.
That is the evidence of gouging. It requires thorough investigations, and probably hundreds of $billions in fines to compensate for years of it. But Congress can't even get their bribed members (starting, but not ending, with lockstep obstructionist Republicans) to fully cancel all the $billions in subsidies to these most profitable corporations in history, bled from the most indebted Treasury in history.
If you're going to do "Conservative math" and divide quarterly profit by annual revenue, you're going to come up with whatever numbers you want, like inany Republican economic analysis.
If you leave out a $290M Exxon-Valdez settlement (pennies on the dollar owed, and a onetime charge on decades of legal operations), Exxon actually profited $11.97 BILLION. Annualize that number, and you get $47.88 BILLION profit. Of about $404.55 BILLION 2007 revenue, that would be about 11.8% profit. On such a huge, global operation, with retail prices hitting all kinds of ceilings (like people forced to decide to skip food, healthcare or gas/heat), that is a fabulous profit rate on a fabulous amount of revenue. More than 5% profit on such huge revenues would still be fabulous. Especially when the rest of the US economy, that these giant revenue extractions are strangling, is shrinking and failing.
Now, if you want to go for Conservative economics gold, just suggest something irrelevant like "Wal-Mart is #2". Congratulations!