"Yager said drivers engaged in any form of texting were distracted by the communication effort.'"
The brain can multitask 4 things at any one time, driving a car uses most of the brain's abilities. You throw another distraction into the mix and you're basically 'driving impaired'. I've been a passenger while the driver was engrossed in a hands free conversation staring at his phone on the seat while making his point. I say, "brake... brake.... BRAKE!!!" until he looks up and avoids slamming into the slowed car in front of us.
Everyone thinks they are the best driver in the world until they aren't. Safely pull over somewhere before you use any electronic gizmo, reach for the item you dropped. Graveyards are filled with too many who died for dumb actions while driving.
No offense meant, m'lady, really. Though, without knowing your exact experiences with the males in your life, I'd suggest that that thread was pretty tame by todays standards. (I actually posted the ac 'no place like home comment'.)
I worked many years in construction, hung out with real guys talking loosely with one another. And I've also been the only guy in a room full of women, who were talking loosely. From what I know, women are much more blatant and shocking in their talk, what I heard blew me away and made the construction guy talk I've heard seem tame. I also hear how this newer, younger generation talk about the other sex and some of it I'm quite uncomfortable with (I'm in my 50's).
As you know, Slashdot is uncensored. Some of the comments that are way out of line get modded down real quick here, if you notice. Immature, slightly risque 5th grade comments were made, it is true. Some will find it funny, some will be offended, which is always the risk of humor. It's my opinion that there's much worse out there, and perhaps you might lighten up a little, it's a subject many people of both sexes can relate to.
Why not? It would be nice if sending a rocket into space was easy.
I think he means 'let's never get complacent' and cocky. Before there was ever a successful rocket launch there were so many failures with lives lost. The space shuttle disaster, launched in freezing temperatures which caused the engines o-rings to shrink and let gasses escape, Russia's rocket fuel failure that killed many (including some of their best scientists on the ground). Perhaps over-confidence played a factor in those disasters.
Rockets are very complicated machines, and we have much still to learn.
The chairman of the Committee was Thorbjørn Jagland, former Norwegian Labor Party prime minister and Secretary General of the Council of Europe since September 29, 2009. The panel met six or seven times in 2009, beginning several weeks after the February 1 nomination deadline. The winner was chosen unanimously on October 5 but was initially opposed by the Socialist Left, Conservative and Progress Party members until strongly persuaded by Jagland.
Jagland said "We have not given the prize for what may happen in the future. We are awarding Obama for what he has done in the past year. And we are hoping this may contribute a little bit for what he is trying to do," noting that he hoped the award would assist Obama's foreign policy efforts. Involvement in which can now be proven as early as March 2009. Jagland said the committee was influenced by a speech Obama gave about Islam in Cairo in June 2009, the president's efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and climate change, and Obama's support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations to pursue foreign policy goals. The New York Times reported that Jagland shrugged off the question of whether "the committee feared being labeled naïve for accepting a young politician’s promises at face value", stating that "no one could deny that 'the international climate' had suddenly improved, and that Mr. Obama was the main reason...'We want to embrace the message that he stands for.'"
Obama said he was "surprised" and "deeply humbled" by the award. He stated that he does not feel he deserved the award, and that he did not feel worthy of the company the award would place him in. In remarks given at the White House Rose Garden on the day of the announcement, Obama stated, "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations."
The award, he said, "must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity — for the young woman who marches silently in the streets on behalf of her right to be heard even in the face of beatings and bullets; for the leader imprisoned in her own home because she refuses to abandon her commitment to democracy; for the soldier who sacrificed through tour after tour of duty on behalf of someone half a world away; and for all those men and women across the world who sacrifice their safety and their freedom and sometime their lives for the cause of peace." He did not take questions from reporters after giving his statement.
Obama announced early that he would donate the full 10 million Swedish kronor (about US$1.4 million) monetary award to charity.
Anything done by Disney is meant for kids to enjoy. They'll do 'their' disney-fied version, and adult Star Wars fans will scream bloody murder that they're screwing up Star Wars. I say let the new generation of 5-12 year olds enjoy their Star Wars, without 40 year olds in costumes ruining it for them by demonstrating in costumes outside of theaters.
P.S. Jar Jar was meant to be a goofy, lovable character for the kids to enjoy, and still today grown men want to string him up. Amazing.
Un-traveled American here. We have so much going on in our lives here, sometimes we forget that there's anyplace else, please forgive my naivety. I posted an explanation of baseball below the cricket explanation (below).
Cheers, hip-hip, and all that rot to you, old bean. Cheerios!:^)
Thanks, sounds like it would be a fun game to learn as a kid. I cheated and googled an explanation for Baseball, this is a 4 minute YouTube video with a cute girl explaining baseball...
Teams consist of nine players and take turns fielding and at batting, with the home team batting second.
An inning consists of batters from each team taking their turn at bat until three batters are out. A game lasts nine innings, but is extended into extra innings if the scores are level.
The fielding side consists of a pitcher, catcher, four infielders, and three outfielders.
The pitcher throws overhand, using a variety of deliveries from a raised mound to the home plate - a distance of 60.5ft (18.4 m).
An opposing batter attempts to hit the pitches and then get on base, while the fielders attempt to get the batter out through various plays.
A batter who misses three legitimate pitches, or fails to swing at three judged hittable by the umpire, is out on strikes.
But if the pitcher throws four pitches outside the strike zone, the batter obtains a base on balls, and gets a walk to first base.
A strike is also called when the batter swings at a pitch whether it is deemed to be in the strike zone or not.
A run is scored every time a batter becomes a runner and crosses home plate after touching each base in the prescribed order.
When the fielding team gets their opponents' three batters (or runners) out, the teams swap roles.
If the score is level after nine innings, play continues into extra innings until one team has scored more than the other in an equal number of turns at bat.
Point taken, sir. Europeans say they don't understand baseball, well, cricket totally baffles me! (I'm a New Yorker)
You hit the ball, keep running between two poles until the ball is thrown back, and each time you touch a pole is a 'run', right? Does England not have the room for a proper field? Do you need the U.S. to donate some bases for you over there? And is it true you have to drink a pint before you run from a pole? I've got questions...
I couldn't click your hyperlink (I think because of the space in it) on my tablet, found it on wiki:
The game was tied 2–2, going into the top of the 15th inning, until Mets pitcher Octavio Dotel gave up an RBI triple to Keith Lockhart, giving the Braves a 3–2 lead. In the bottom of the 15th inning, the Mets loaded the bases against Braves relief pitcher Kevin McGlinchy. Mets catcher Todd Pratt drew a bases loaded walk, tying the score 3–3.
The next batter was Mets third baseman Robin Ventura. Ventura crushed the 2–1 pitch over the wall in right-center for an ostensible grand slam, winning the game for the Mets and driving the Mets players and fans into a frenzied celebration. Ventura, however, never reached second base as Todd Pratt, the runner who was on first, picked up Ventura in celebration. Subsequently, Ventura was mobbed by his teammates, never finishing his trot around the bases. Because he failed to touch all four bases, the hit was officially scored a single. Roger Cedeño, the runner on third at the time, was ruled the only runner to have crossed home plate before the on-field celebration began and the Mets were awarded a 4-3 victory. Thus, Ventura was only credited with a single and one RBI. As a result, there had never been an official walk-off grand slam in MLB postseason history until Nelson Cruz hit one to allow the Texas Rangers to beat the Detroit Tigers 7–3 in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series on October 10, 2011.
Thanks, that looks like some exce-e-elent reading material. So if we conquer our lack of understanding of energetic particles, the skys the limit (and more)! Tie-fighters that really could turn on a dime. I will devour this website later tonight.:^)
Baseball is different from any other sport, very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs. In most sports the ball, or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he's out; sometimes unintentionally, he's out.
Also: in football,basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score with the ball and in baseball the ball prevents you from scoring.
In most sports the team is run by a coach; in baseball the team is run by a manager. And only in baseball does the manager or coach wear the same clothing the players do. If you'd ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders uniform,you'd know the reason for this custom.
Now, I've mentioned football. Baseball & football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. And as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values.
I enjoy comparing baseball and football:
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.The baseball park!
Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.
In football you wear a helmet.
In baseball you wear a cap.
Football is concerned with downs - what down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups - who's up?
In football you receive a penalty.
In baseball you make an error.
In football the specialist comes in to kick.
In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the sacrifice.
Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...
In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play.
Baseball has the seventh inning stretch.
Football has the two minute warning.
Baseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end - might have extra innings.
Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death.
In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there's not too much unpleasantness.
In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you're capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.
And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different:
In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home! - George Carlin
Why is it every time someone says flying car, it's never like The Jetsons? As far as I'm concerned, anything less than an actual Jetsons car is false advertising.
I'm sure not excusing him killing/harming his fellow humans on account of his age. His brother's influence is a factor to this sad story. Many live ruined, and my sympathies lie with the people hurt and killed. As a continuing society we need to understand their reasonings for this crime in the hope of keeping them from being repeated.
I agree he is responsible for his actions, and will face the full legal (and jailhouse) ramifications of his actions. Whatever happens from here, he brought on himself. He could've walked away at any time, saying, "This is wrong. I don't care what my brother says, I won't do this." He didn't do that, and we all get choices in life to do what's right and wrong.
He, and anyone who irrevocably harms innocent people in commision of any crime should, imo, be made to work to pay all costs for medical, lost wages, pain and suffering for as long as it takes to do so. If that means the rest of their natural lives, so be it.
He'd called his uncle after the bombings and asked for his forgiveness. It's said he idolized his older brother, who family members called the bad one. Yes, now we will be able to know all of the true motives they had for commiting this carnage. We won't like or agree with the answers he gives, but they will be answers, better than guessing at the 'why' of this horrid act.
Edit: He asked for his uncle's forgiveness for not being in touch with him over the years, it turns out. I was going from an incomplete Reuters news article and since learned this. My apologies, didn't mean to spread 'fud' here.
He'd called his uncle after the bombings and asked for his forgiveness. It's said he idolized his older brother, who family members called the bad one. Yes, now we will be able to know all of the true motives they had for commiting this carnage. We won't like or agree with the answers he gives, but they will be answers, better than guessing at the 'why' of this horrid act.
I read police were tracking the hijacked car through it's built-in gps, they threw flash-bang grenades into the previously searched boathouse (a woman noticed later the door was open), and the suspect surrendered, covered in blood.
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The brain can multitask 4 things at any one time, driving a car uses most of the brain's abilities. You throw another distraction into the mix and you're basically 'driving impaired'. I've been a passenger while the driver was engrossed in a hands free conversation staring at his phone on the seat while making his point. I say, "brake... brake.... BRAKE!!!" until he looks up and avoids slamming into the slowed car in front of us.
Everyone thinks they are the best driver in the world until they aren't. Safely pull over somewhere before you use any electronic gizmo, reach for the item you dropped. Graveyards are filled with too many who died for dumb actions while driving.
Ah, thanks for clarifying that for me, carry on then...
I beleive this is a duplicate story, done on last Saturday... http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/04/20/2039245/amazon-nears-debut-of-original-tv-shows
I worked many years in construction, hung out with real guys talking loosely with one another. And I've also been the only guy in a room full of women, who were talking loosely. From what I know, women are much more blatant and shocking in their talk, what I heard blew me away and made the construction guy talk I've heard seem tame. I also hear how this newer, younger generation talk about the other sex and some of it I'm quite uncomfortable with (I'm in my 50's).
As you know, Slashdot is uncensored. Some of the comments that are way out of line get modded down real quick here, if you notice. Immature, slightly risque 5th grade comments were made, it is true. Some will find it funny, some will be offended, which is always the risk of humor. It's my opinion that there's much worse out there, and perhaps you might lighten up a little, it's a subject many people of both sexes can relate to.
Why not? It would be nice if sending a rocket into space was easy.
I think he means 'let's never get complacent' and cocky. Before there was ever a successful rocket launch there were so many failures with lives lost. The space shuttle disaster, launched in freezing temperatures which caused the engines o-rings to shrink and let gasses escape, Russia's rocket fuel failure that killed many (including some of their best scientists on the ground). Perhaps over-confidence played a factor in those disasters.
Rockets are very complicated machines, and we have much still to learn.
The chairman of the Committee was Thorbjørn Jagland, former Norwegian Labor Party prime minister and Secretary General of the Council of Europe since September 29, 2009. The panel met six or seven times in 2009, beginning several weeks after the February 1 nomination deadline. The winner was chosen unanimously on October 5 but was initially opposed by the Socialist Left, Conservative and Progress Party members until strongly persuaded by Jagland.
Jagland said "We have not given the prize for what may happen in the future. We are awarding Obama for what he has done in the past year. And we are hoping this may contribute a little bit for what he is trying to do," noting that he hoped the award would assist Obama's foreign policy efforts. Involvement in which can now be proven as early as March 2009. Jagland said the committee was influenced by a speech Obama gave about Islam in Cairo in June 2009, the president's efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and climate change, and Obama's support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations to pursue foreign policy goals. The New York Times reported that Jagland shrugged off the question of whether "the committee feared being labeled naïve for accepting a young politician’s promises at face value", stating that "no one could deny that 'the international climate' had suddenly improved, and that Mr. Obama was the main reason...'We want to embrace the message that he stands for.'"
Obama said he was "surprised" and "deeply humbled" by the award. He stated that he does not feel he deserved the award, and that he did not feel worthy of the company the award would place him in. In remarks given at the White House Rose Garden on the day of the announcement, Obama stated, "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations."
The award, he said, "must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity — for the young woman who marches silently in the streets on behalf of her right to be heard even in the face of beatings and bullets; for the leader imprisoned in her own home because she refuses to abandon her commitment to democracy; for the soldier who sacrificed through tour after tour of duty on behalf of someone half a world away; and for all those men and women across the world who sacrifice their safety and their freedom and sometime their lives for the cause of peace." He did not take questions from reporters after giving his statement.
Obama announced early that he would donate the full 10 million Swedish kronor (about US$1.4 million) monetary award to charity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize
P.S. Jar Jar was meant to be a goofy, lovable character for the kids to enjoy, and still today grown men want to string him up. Amazing.
Cheers, hip-hip, and all that rot to you, old bean. Cheerios! :^)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYqCqZN5Dew
Teams consist of nine players and take turns fielding and at batting, with the home team batting second.
An inning consists of batters from each team taking their turn at bat until three batters are out. A game lasts nine innings, but is extended into extra innings if the scores are level.
The fielding side consists of a pitcher, catcher, four infielders, and three outfielders.
The pitcher throws overhand, using a variety of deliveries from a raised mound to the home plate - a distance of 60.5ft (18.4 m).
An opposing batter attempts to hit the pitches and then get on base, while the fielders attempt to get the batter out through various plays.
A batter who misses three legitimate pitches, or fails to swing at three judged hittable by the umpire, is out on strikes.
But if the pitcher throws four pitches outside the strike zone, the batter obtains a base on balls, and gets a walk to first base.
A strike is also called when the batter swings at a pitch whether it is deemed to be in the strike zone or not.
A run is scored every time a batter becomes a runner and crosses home plate after touching each base in the prescribed order.
When the fielding team gets their opponents' three batters (or runners) out, the teams swap roles.
If the score is level after nine innings, play continues into extra innings until one team has scored more than the other in an equal number of turns at bat.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/baseball/3562135.stm
You hit the ball, keep running between two poles until the ball is thrown back, and each time you touch a pole is a 'run', right? Does England not have the room for a proper field? Do you need the U.S. to donate some bases for you over there? And is it true you have to drink a pint before you run from a pole? I've got questions...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfhbEUkg7o
The game was tied 2–2, going into the top of the 15th inning, until Mets pitcher Octavio Dotel gave up an RBI triple to Keith Lockhart, giving the Braves a 3–2 lead. In the bottom of the 15th inning, the Mets loaded the bases against Braves relief pitcher Kevin McGlinchy. Mets catcher Todd Pratt drew a bases loaded walk, tying the score 3–3.
The next batter was Mets third baseman Robin Ventura. Ventura crushed the 2–1 pitch over the wall in right-center for an ostensible grand slam, winning the game for the Mets and driving the Mets players and fans into a frenzied celebration. Ventura, however, never reached second base as Todd Pratt, the runner who was on first, picked up Ventura in celebration. Subsequently, Ventura was mobbed by his teammates, never finishing his trot around the bases. Because he failed to touch all four bases, the hit was officially scored a single. Roger Cedeño, the runner on third at the time, was ruled the only runner to have crossed home plate before the on-field celebration began and the Mets were awarded a 4-3 victory. Thus, Ventura was only credited with a single and one RBI. As a result, there had never been an official walk-off grand slam in MLB postseason history until Nelson Cruz hit one to allow the Texas Rangers to beat the Detroit Tigers 7–3 in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series on October 10, 2011.
And the video on MLB.com http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=13062971
It takes real courage to admit your own mistakes. You have my respects.
Thanks, it's my first. There was one other time in my life where I thought I made a mistake, fortunately it turned out I was wrong! :^)
Thanks, that looks like some exce-e-elent reading material. So if we conquer our lack of understanding of energetic particles, the skys the limit (and more)! Tie-fighters that really could turn on a dime. I will devour this website later tonight. :^)
Also, rule 5.06 applies... http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/ball_in_play_5.jsp
I learned an urban myth as a kid, I guess. Something about Babe Ruth not having to run the bases after he hit another out, he ran them for the crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA4LcsyczA8
Weird baseball fact: If you hit an out of the park home run, you do not have to run the bases. It still counts as a run.
Also: in football,basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score with the ball and in baseball the ball prevents you from scoring.
In most sports the team is run by a coach; in baseball the team is run by a manager. And only in baseball does the manager or coach wear the same clothing the players do. If you'd ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders uniform,you'd know the reason for this custom.
Now, I've mentioned football. Baseball & football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. And as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values.
I enjoy comparing baseball and football:
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.The baseball park! Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.
In football you wear a helmet. In baseball you wear a cap.
Football is concerned with downs - what down is it? Baseball is concerned with ups - who's up?
In football you receive a penalty. In baseball you make an error.
In football the specialist comes in to kick. In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness. Baseball has the sacrifice.
Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog... In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play.
Baseball has the seventh inning stretch. Football has the two minute warning.
Baseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end - might have extra innings. Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death.
In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there's not too much unpleasantness. In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you're capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.
And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different:
In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home! - George Carlin
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor7.shtml
George Carlin - “Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror”
Why is it every time someone says flying car, it's never like The Jetsons? As far as I'm concerned, anything less than an actual Jetsons car is false advertising.
I agree he is responsible for his actions, and will face the full legal (and jailhouse) ramifications of his actions. Whatever happens from here, he brought on himself. He could've walked away at any time, saying, "This is wrong. I don't care what my brother says, I won't do this." He didn't do that, and we all get choices in life to do what's right and wrong.
He, and anyone who irrevocably harms innocent people in commision of any crime should, imo, be made to work to pay all costs for medical, lost wages, pain and suffering for as long as it takes to do so. If that means the rest of their natural lives, so be it.
He'd called his uncle after the bombings and asked for his forgiveness. It's said he idolized his older brother, who family members called the bad one. Yes, now we will be able to know all of the true motives they had for commiting this carnage. We won't like or agree with the answers he gives, but they will be answers, better than guessing at the 'why' of this horrid act.
Edit: He asked for his uncle's forgiveness for not being in touch with him over the years, it turns out. I was going from an incomplete Reuters news article and since learned this. My apologies, didn't mean to spread 'fud' here.
That was me....
[anxiously awaits free beer]
Here you go, I liked your answer too. (Free, though data charges may apply)...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486551/
My mistake, I actually meant to type 'houseboat', which is what a news site said it was. Glad it's over, though.
He'd called his uncle after the bombings and asked for his forgiveness. It's said he idolized his older brother, who family members called the bad one. Yes, now we will be able to know all of the true motives they had for commiting this carnage. We won't like or agree with the answers he gives, but they will be answers, better than guessing at the 'why' of this horrid act.
I read police were tracking the hijacked car through it's built-in gps, they threw flash-bang grenades into the previously searched boathouse (a woman noticed later the door was open), and the suspect surrendered, covered in blood.