How is a bike a danger? It typically weighs 20-30lbs and travels 20-30 mph cf a car that weights 100 times as much, and travles about 2wice as fast Cars are much more dangerious.
Okay, I'd rather be run down by a Huffy than a Honda. You convinced me. Oh wait, that wasn't the point of my original post. It was that one point of slower traffic in a system of faster traffic is a danger.
Bikes can travel near the shoulder and do not obstruct the flow of faster moving traffic.
Maybe, but a lot of streets don't have a shoulder. Please note that I did advocate bike lanes or bike specific routes!
Indeed in stop and go traffic bikes can 'white-line' and are faster than cars.
Again, this has nothing to do with my original post. I thank you for putting a black mark on cyclists by pointing out that they can get places a lot faster by violating the traffic laws. If you want to be on the street, the least you can do is play by the same rules as cars (stay in a lane, stop at lights, don't pass on the sidewalk, etc.)
so do you think that all bicycles should be off the road?
I do. Bikes should be provided special lanes or routes along major corridors, and kept off any but slow residential streets. On a 35 or 45 MPH road, a bike is a danger. In fact, in most places, if I was going as slowly as a bicycle in my car, I could be ticketed for travelling too slow. Why? Because it's dangerous.
Sorry. This is totally unrelated to any arguments about pollution. You wouldn't advocate letting a pedestrian walk on a busy road, so why should a bike be allowed?
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Nobody else wanted to sell used items next to new items because they didn't think it would work
Except of course Powell's who has been doing this for years, in real life and on the web.
I'm sure there are others.
I can only guess that the initial poster was mistaken. He was probably charge $250 for the ambulance ride. Where I live, if you get an ambulance sent to your house, you pay a set fee for the ride regardless of which ambulance company and where they take you.
I'd be thrilled with the revisionist history. I had a package shipped from Phoenix to Nebraska.
Day 1: Phoenix
Day 2: Albequerque
Day 3: Phoenix
Day 4: Albequerque
Day 5: Denver
Day 6: Delivered: Boulder, Colorado
I was already irritated about the circular path it took its first few days. When they delivered it to the wrong state, I was through the roof. In fairness to UPS, when I called to find out what happened, they were pretty good about it, and sent a truck out to pick it up the next day, but really! I understand delivering to the wrong address in town if the addresses are similar, but the next state? If you can't get it within 600 miles, something's wrong.
that the hijackers were [insert 20 names, cities of residence]. They all passed the id checkpoints at the airports. Of course, there's still 6000 dead."
Having a positive id at the airport means very little, unless we're willing to ban people suspected of crimes from travelling.
In the US, check cards prompt for your PIN number.
Really? That's news to me. My Visa check card requires nothing more than a signature, and that's presuming I'm somewhere where I have to present my card to a human, and not at Amazon.com or a gas pump. The only time I would have to put in a pin number is at an ATM or if I wanted cash back at the grocery store. As I understand it, there are two modes for point of purchase with check cards: Credit card and debit card. With debit cards you have to use a pin, and it goes through a different system (like the ATM network). Personally, I would have to pay a fee to use it as a debit card.
I wouldn't mind if they asked for a password/pin when I made a purchase. It sounds like a good idea to me. Particularly if they could build it in to non-attended systems like the gas stations.
BTW, in Europe, if you have to enter a pin every time, how do they do things like restaurants? Does the waiter bring a keypad to the table? Do you always pay at the counter?
Because some shows have national commercials that will run ANYWHERE.. so if say Earthlink ran that then the cable company can't block it with their own commercial.
Now for the spots that the cable company is allowed to fill with their advertising, I don't see a problem with this at all..
Uh, hello? The point is that they're keeping small, local ISPs from advertising. Texas.net not only couldn't afford tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to advertise nationally, why would they want to? They have no use for people in Baltimore to see the ads, only Texas.
I always thought it would be interesting to run a campaign on the promise of repealing laws. Would you vote for a candidate that promised to work as hard as he could to honestly reduce laws? In the U.S., the Republicans have traditionally talked about getting government out of our lives, but want to do that by passing more laws. I would vote for a candidate who promised to support new legislation only when absolutely neccessary.
What was it that Heinlein (L. Long) said? Something along the lines of, "Any society where it becomes neccessary to carry identification has already begun to die."
Clearly defined terms my ass. Go ahead, search my username. I've never come down on/. for product placement before. I understand that this isn't a true journalistic forum. Most of the criticism that/. gets is undeserved.
However, seeing as this story has no content except for, "Whoa, cool product" I don't think it's unreasonable to question this.
I'm a thinkgeek customer. They have lots of cool stuff. But I know who owns them.
Maybe it's a coincidence. In fact, I'm willing to bet it is. But this particular case looks fishy. The fact that thinkgeek is a good store doesn't change that.
Okay, I'm seeing a lot of comments along the lines of "We put ratings on everything else, what's the big deal?" I agree. I'm also seeing a lot of comments along the lines of "It's not like they're banning quake." Wrong.
"B.C. Film Classification Office...would have the power to ban games it deems innapropriate for sale. "
The government WILL decide what you can or can not do. This is why industry ratings are a better choice.
Is the film rating system in Canada the same? In the U.S., movies are rated but there is no law stopping a theater from admitting an underage viewer.
Correct. The previous poster alluded to journalistic uses. Newspapers, magazines, tv reporters, etc will get names and addresses of as many people as they can (and I think in some cases get waivers signed) before publishing the images. Have you ever seen those filler pictures in the paper of a little kid playing hopscotch or sledding down a hill? Ever notice that the picture always identifies the child's parents? That's because the newspaper asked where the kid lives and got the parents' permission to run the photo.
I can understand the pressure of the job. It can't be easy to deal with criminals all day and know you might get shot, etc.
However, that does not give cops the right to
a) exercise complete power. They have to work in the frame of the law.
Ask anyone who's ever been pulled over for speeding and had the cop ask, "Can I search your car." If they don't have probable cause, and you say no, expect to be there for a while. They will run your plates and license (of course) but also your VIN. Additional police will arrive. One cruiser turns into three. You will debate the issue for the better part of an hour. You will probably be asked to perform sobriety tests. And most definitely, the cops will become immediately rude, if they weren't already. Which brings me to
b) be assholes.
I've been in relatively calm situations, such as a traffic accident, where the police showed me no respect whatsoever. And I was being polite. Answering questions, speaking when spoken to, calm, "Yes, sir. No, sir." The police were bullying and unpleasant. There was no reason for the cops to be as arrogant and rude as they were.
seriously less likely to assault a child than is a pedophile with kiddie porn?
There are exactly 2 factors that determine whether a person is going to molest a child:
1) A inclination towards molesting children.
2) Access to children.
I believe that if you don't already have (1), you aren't likely to go looking for kiddie porn anyway, and if you find it you will probably be turned off by it. If you do already have (1) then you're going to try to molest a child, whether you can get worked up with dirty pictures first or not.
The child porn laws are on the books to protect children from being exploited in these films. A work of fiction, no matter how realistic, is fiction and should not be illegal.
There's more, though.
They shelve the used books right alongside the new books. So if I walk into Powells and want to buy a copy of a book, more often than not I walk out with a used copy.
What's more interesting is that, suprise!, many people walk out with a new copy. Powells has proven that their business model works, and that it continues to promote sales of new books.
It will be interesting, if Amazon eventually folds, to see what happens to book sales. I bet the Author's Guild would not be pleased.
First of all, newspapers still deliver in depth information and local news better than online resources. But any of that could change in a moment if the right people were working for the online news sites. The real need for a newspaper now is as an unmutable record of our history. Think about George Orwell's 1984. In 1984, when the government wanted to change history, they would go out and collect every newspaper that mentioned that topic and reprint it to reflect the changes. Even in the lockdown world of Big Brother, a few papers always slipped through the cracks and there remained a record of what had originally been. In real practice, something like retrieving all the newspapers from a certain day is impossible. On the other hand, changing a web archive, or any other digital data, is trivial. The government or the news media themselves could swoop down, sieze the archive, and make any change they want. They could make a week disappear. Okay, with thousands of news sources, this might be difficult, but what about official records? Imagine the "Congressional Record". Every day that the United States Congress is in session, a newspaper containing transcripts and reports of the session is printed. Although it is already somewhat suspect, since Congressmen can edit it before it is published, once the "Congressional Record" is published, there is a permanent record of what has occurred. Newspapers serve this same purpose in a way that digital media never will. People clip articles and save papers and can go back to them years later and say, "Look. This is what happened." This is the role of the newspaper in the digital age, as surely as it was 100 years ago.
Not being James Bond or a gun-toting Gary Busey type means jack. I have a friend who works for the USDA (Agriculture) and he has a department issued service piece. He works behind a desk analyzing data on welfare cheats. The gun sits in a lockbox in his bedroom closet.
If there's one thing that us geeks should be able to understand, it's that today INFORMATION is the name of the game. If the NSA is so innocent, why won't they discuss Echelon with Congress? Monitoring private citizens is not in the best interests of National Security.
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I do. Bikes should be provided special lanes or routes along major corridors, and kept off any but slow residential streets. On a 35 or 45 MPH road, a bike is a danger. In fact, in most places, if I was going as slowly as a bicycle in my car, I could be ticketed for travelling too slow. Why? Because it's dangerous.
Sorry. This is totally unrelated to any arguments about pollution. You wouldn't advocate letting a pedestrian walk on a busy road, so why should a bike be allowed?
Except of course Powell's who has been doing this for years, in real life and on the web. I'm sure there are others.
Well, then, take it as a fact because it was stated explicitly in the novel, which predated the films.
I can only guess that the initial poster was mistaken. He was probably charge $250 for the ambulance ride. Where I live, if you get an ambulance sent to your house, you pay a set fee for the ride regardless of which ambulance company and where they take you.
We have always been at war with Afghanistan. We have always been allies with Russia.
Ummm... please tell me people don't ship FUCKING HANTA VIRUS FedEx... please....
I'd be thrilled with the revisionist history. I had a package shipped from Phoenix to Nebraska.
Day 1: Phoenix
Day 2: Albequerque
Day 3: Phoenix
Day 4: Albequerque
Day 5: Denver
Day 6: Delivered: Boulder, Colorado
I was already irritated about the circular path it took its first few days. When they delivered it to the wrong state, I was through the roof. In fairness to UPS, when I called to find out what happened, they were pretty good about it, and sent a truck out to pick it up the next day, but really! I understand delivering to the wrong address in town if the addresses are similar, but the next state? If you can't get it within 600 miles, something's wrong.
that the hijackers were [insert 20 names, cities of residence]. They all passed the id checkpoints at the airports. Of course, there's still 6000 dead."
Having a positive id at the airport means very little, unless we're willing to ban people suspected of crimes from travelling.
Really? That's news to me. My Visa check card requires nothing more than a signature, and that's presuming I'm somewhere where I have to present my card to a human, and not at Amazon.com or a gas pump. The only time I would have to put in a pin number is at an ATM or if I wanted cash back at the grocery store. As I understand it, there are two modes for point of purchase with check cards: Credit card and debit card. With debit cards you have to use a pin, and it goes through a different system (like the ATM network). Personally, I would have to pay a fee to use it as a debit card.
I wouldn't mind if they asked for a password/pin when I made a purchase. It sounds like a good idea to me. Particularly if they could build it in to non-attended systems like the gas stations.
BTW, in Europe, if you have to enter a pin every time, how do they do things like restaurants? Does the waiter bring a keypad to the table? Do you always pay at the counter?
Because some shows have national commercials that will run ANYWHERE.. so if say Earthlink ran that then the cable company can't block it with their own commercial. Now for the spots that the cable company is allowed to fill with their advertising, I don't see a problem with this at all..
Uh, hello? The point is that they're keeping small, local ISPs from advertising. Texas.net not only couldn't afford tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to advertise nationally, why would they want to? They have no use for people in Baltimore to see the ads, only Texas.
I always thought it would be interesting to run a campaign on the promise of repealing laws. Would you vote for a candidate that promised to work as hard as he could to honestly reduce laws? In the U.S., the Republicans have traditionally talked about getting government out of our lives, but want to do that by passing more laws. I would vote for a candidate who promised to support new legislation only when absolutely neccessary.
What was it that Heinlein (L. Long) said? Something along the lines of, "Any society where it becomes neccessary to carry identification has already begun to die."
Clearly defined terms my ass. Go ahead, search my username. I've never come down on /. for product placement before. I understand that this isn't a true journalistic forum. Most of the criticism that /. gets is undeserved.
However, seeing as this story has no content except for, "Whoa, cool product" I don't think it's unreasonable to question this. I'm a thinkgeek customer. They have lots of cool stuff. But I know who owns them.
Maybe it's a coincidence. In fact, I'm willing to bet it is. But this particular case looks fishy. The fact that thinkgeek is a good store doesn't change that.
So, he's pissed off because his filtering software didn't work, and his solution is to require filtering software? WHAT???
...it's a Beowulf cluster. :P
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Correct. The previous poster alluded to journalistic uses. Newspapers, magazines, tv reporters, etc will get names and addresses of as many people as they can (and I think in some cases get waivers signed) before publishing the images. Have you ever seen those filler pictures in the paper of a little kid playing hopscotch or sledding down a hill? Ever notice that the picture always identifies the child's parents? That's because the newspaper asked where the kid lives and got the parents' permission to run the photo.
I can understand the pressure of the job. It can't be easy to deal with criminals all day and know you might get shot, etc.
However, that does not give cops the right to
a) exercise complete power. They have to work in the frame of the law.
Ask anyone who's ever been pulled over for speeding and had the cop ask, "Can I search your car." If they don't have probable cause, and you say no, expect to be there for a while. They will run your plates and license (of course) but also your VIN. Additional police will arrive. One cruiser turns into three. You will debate the issue for the better part of an hour. You will probably be asked to perform sobriety tests. And most definitely, the cops will become immediately rude, if they weren't already. Which brings me to
b) be assholes.
I've been in relatively calm situations, such as a traffic accident, where the police showed me no respect whatsoever. And I was being polite. Answering questions, speaking when spoken to, calm, "Yes, sir. No, sir." The police were bullying and unpleasant. There was no reason for the cops to be as arrogant and rude as they were.
If you don't care now, then by the time they poke the camera into your house, it will be illegal to complain.
seriously less likely to assault a child than is a pedophile with kiddie porn?
There are exactly 2 factors that determine whether a person is going to molest a child:
1) A inclination towards molesting children.
2) Access to children.
I believe that if you don't already have (1), you aren't likely to go looking for kiddie porn anyway, and if you find it you will probably be turned off by it. If you do already have (1) then you're going to try to molest a child, whether you can get worked up with dirty pictures first or not.
The child porn laws are on the books to protect children from being exploited in these films. A work of fiction, no matter how realistic, is fiction and should not be illegal.
What's more interesting is that, suprise!, many people walk out with a new copy. Powells has proven that their business model works, and that it continues to promote sales of new books.
It will be interesting, if Amazon eventually folds, to see what happens to book sales. I bet the Author's Guild would not be pleased.
First of all, newspapers still deliver in depth information and local news better than online resources. But any of that could change in a moment if the right people were working for the online news sites. The real need for a newspaper now is as an unmutable record of our history. Think about George Orwell's 1984. In 1984, when the government wanted to change history, they would go out and collect every newspaper that mentioned that topic and reprint it to reflect the changes. Even in the lockdown world of Big Brother, a few papers always slipped through the cracks and there remained a record of what had originally been. In real practice, something like retrieving all the newspapers from a certain day is impossible. On the other hand, changing a web archive, or any other digital data, is trivial. The government or the news media themselves could swoop down, sieze the archive, and make any change they want. They could make a week disappear. Okay, with thousands of news sources, this might be difficult, but what about official records? Imagine the "Congressional Record". Every day that the United States Congress is in session, a newspaper containing transcripts and reports of the session is printed. Although it is already somewhat suspect, since Congressmen can edit it before it is published, once the "Congressional Record" is published, there is a permanent record of what has occurred. Newspapers serve this same purpose in a way that digital media never will. People clip articles and save papers and can go back to them years later and say, "Look. This is what happened." This is the role of the newspaper in the digital age, as surely as it was 100 years ago.
Rupert? I hope you're right, because my first thought was that it was Unicron!
Not being James Bond or a gun-toting Gary Busey type means jack. I have a friend who works for the USDA (Agriculture) and he has a department issued service piece. He works behind a desk analyzing data on welfare cheats. The gun sits in a lockbox in his bedroom closet.
If there's one thing that us geeks should be able to understand, it's that today INFORMATION is the name of the game. If the NSA is so innocent, why won't they discuss Echelon with Congress? Monitoring private citizens is not in the best interests of National Security.