The point is that you were arguing 'she should have had her headlight on', which is an idiotic line of defense. Your 'standard advice' is bullshit and with regard to the strobing part even illegal in the Netherlands.
Didn't know that about the strobing light in the Netherlands. But as I said that's not the main defense for the driver, just an additional point that she wasn't being as careful as I would be.
If you think a blonde white girl on a white bicycle in a 30km/h zone in broad fucking daylight classifies as 'difficult to see', you are unfit to drive or judge situations including any vehicle other than a tricycle.
Cyclists are harder to see than cars. Dark clothes against a dark background are harder still. I'm not saying she's invisible, I'm saying that when I share the road with cars I go out of my way to be visible.
She had the right of way and would also have if she were in a 'car while texting'. The driver of the car in this situation did not. End. Of. Story.
Yes, she had right of way, which is in her favor. And she was texting instead of looking where she was going, which is against her. When weighing something like that, I go with which one is necessary and sufficient. If he's encroaching on her lane, but she's looking where she's going, there's still plenty of room to avoid the collision. If she's not looking, she could run into him even if he's not in her lane. It's not 100% her fault, but it's definitely not 0, either.
Every machine can be overridden, tricked, hijacked and manipulated with an efficiency that's unheard of in the realm of human-operated traditional weaponry.
It isn't really all that difficult to buy, bribe, threaten or convince a human.
Yes, a human. OP said every machine. Learn to subvert one, and you've got them all. Efficiency. That's the problem.
You have obviously never ridden a bicycle in the Netherlands. Pretty much nobody on a bicycle turns on their lights during the day. You look like an idiot if you do.
No, I haven't. But if "you look like an idiot" is a good enough reason to not ride safely, I'm not too sympathetic.
Also: if "she was wearing black whilst cycling in front of a dark tree" is your defense, you should have your license revoked because you are legally blind.
What's the next thing I said after that? "But the fact that she's made herself difficult to see isn't the main point." Yeah, that was just bonus.
If she were driving a car while texting, no one would be arguing that she had right of way.
Nonsense. The car is on the wrong side of the road and can only drive there if it is safe to do so. End of story.
He was stopped. She ran into him. Regardless of where he was on the road, she was the one driving unsafely.
Without taking away from your point that texting whilst cycling can be dangerous and can lead to accidents, the driver of the car is on the wrong side of the road and the accident is his fault.
No it isn't.
She wasn't visible until he'd already started pulling around the parked car. When she does enter line-of-sight, she's dressed in all black with a dark tree behind her, and didn't have her headlight on. (Standard advice for anyone riding open roads is to have head and tail lights on at all times, preferably strobing.)
But the fact that she's made herself difficult to see isn't the main point. If she were driving a car while texting, no one would be arguing that she had right of way.
When you're on a bike, you're harder to see and more vulnerable. You can't put your safety on drivers to be extra careful of you. You have to be more careful than when driving.
If it involves big explosions, danger, or a glorious disregard for human life then chances are the Russians hold the record in it. Gotta love em for it.
According to the Wayback link, they put up a really basic template site last fall. When I say "basic template" I mean they didn't even update the button text from "Call to action". They saw the press release and jumped on it to try to get a payout. They should have taken the $5k and called it a win.
And how is Facebook positively impacting the lives of the Rohingya?
To be fair, he did not say that it is positively impacting the lives of everyone.
Perhaps the positive impact in that scenario was for the other people of Myanmar.
I get that was snark, but if someone convinced me to be so terrified of my neighbors that I went and killed them, I'm pretty sure my life didn't just get better.
...from cases involving Verizon or other telecom issues, leaving policy decisions to senior staff..."
And are the hiring/firing of these senior staff under her direct control?
And if she plans to recuse herself from anything related to her area of expertise, why does she list that experience as her primary qualification for the job?
Possible non-evil explanation: What they meant was, "Thousands of people were moved..."
Hold on, that would have made sense in a headline where "unnecessary" words are dropped all the time. But this was in the text, so... yeah, that's bullshit.
Thousands of people moved to let China build and protect Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope
Orly?!?!? People in China moved because they are very nice and wanted to help out the government??!?!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA
Now let's look at an actual quote from TFA (yeah, I know.. I actually read it. And emphasis is mine)
The country even forcibly relocated thousands of villagers who lived nearby, so their modern trappings wouldn’t interfere with the new prized instrument.
Possible non-evil explanation: What they meant was, "Thousands of people were moved..."
The real fucked up part is because they essentially use slave labor, they undercut OTHER local companies that have employees that are trying to survive without doing crime, but cant because the nevada and california prison systems are taking their work and paying the workers $1.25/day.
Yeah, the warden's racket in The Shawshank Redmption was pretty much reality.
Let's face it, if you couldn't decompress with a couple of beers after work, sooner or later you'd wind up skinning your boss with a letter opener and skull-fucking the company president and his snotty secretary to death with the rolled up hide.
That's... awfully specific. Was that the first thing off the top of your head, or have you been working on that for a while? Actually, I can't decide which of those is more worrying.
WHAT election fraud? None has been shown, and President Obama stated such, emphatically, well after the election.
He said no voter fraud. That isn't the same as election tampering.
Seriously, the ONLY fraud going on here is the belief there is a Trump/Russia connection. NOTHING has been shown. There's been a few convictions and plea bargains related to tax issues from years ago - and nothing from the Trump campaign. Nothing.
You're right. There's absolutely no evidence out there that Trump colluded with the Russians except the Manafort thing, and the Flynn thing, and the Papadopoulos pleading guilty thing, and the Roger Stone thing, and the Cohen thing, and the Kushner thing, and the Carter Page thing, and the Jeff Sessions things, and the Wilbur Ross thing, and the JD Gordon thing, and the Erik Prince thing, and the James Comey firing thing, and the Russian hacking/Wikileaks thing, and the bro-love between TrumPutin thing, and the Russian propaganda machine favoring Trump thing, and the DJT "I have zero ties to Russia!" thing, and the Eric Trump "we get most of our financing from Russian banks thing", and the Donald Trump Jr. "Our portfolio is made up of a disproportionate amount of Russian money" thing, and the DJT "I sold a $60 million mansion to a Russian oligarch known for money laundering for $120 million that he never once lived in " thing, and the Trump business ties with Putin's favorite sports athlete Fedor Emilianenko thing, and the Trump International Corporation's mysterious private server connection to Alfa Bank, Russia's largest commercial bank thing, and Russians guaranteeing sales of Trump properties so he can get backing thing, and sales of Trump properties to LLCs (who can hide their identity) going from 4% to 70% in the two years leading up to the election thing, and the Special prosecutor being named thing, and the I won't release my tax returns thing, and the Ivanka Trump's vacationing with Putin's girlfriend thing, and the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow thing, and the Trump companies business ties to Felix Sater, a criminal felon indicted for stock fraud scheme with the Russian mafia thing, and the FL Group Icelandic hedge fund with massive ties to Putin being heavily invested in Trump Soho thing, and the Rex Tillerson/Exxon ties to Russia thing, and the Russian ambassador at Trump Tower sneaking in and out thing, and part of the dossier being corroborated thing, the Trump tried to roll back Russian sanctions the minute he got elected thing. And the Cambridge Analytica thing. And the Trump advocating for Russia to be allowed into the G7 again thing, And Trump mentioning Russia hacking the DNCs emails the same day they did thing. And the Russians funneling money through the NRA thing, and Trump’s private meeting and subsequent fealty display thing, and the Trump being afraid to be interviewed by Mueller under oath thing, and the stripping people who might testify against Trump and people in his administration of their security clearance thing... Other than that, there's absolutely no reason to suspect anything.
[Shamelessly stolen from teh intarwebz.]
"I guess I thought we were 'sticking it to the man' when I got on board," Mr. Herman said. "But I think 'the man' had already caught on, and had an exit strategy."
Not quite. "The man" is still invested in hard currencies and real stocks. "The man" for the most part never needed an exit strategy, because they were never in to begin with.
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The point is that you were arguing 'she should have had her headlight on', which is an idiotic line of defense. Your 'standard advice' is bullshit and with regard to the strobing part even illegal in the Netherlands.
Didn't know that about the strobing light in the Netherlands. But as I said that's not the main defense for the driver, just an additional point that she wasn't being as careful as I would be.
If you think a blonde white girl on a white bicycle in a 30km/h zone in broad fucking daylight classifies as 'difficult to see', you are unfit to drive or judge situations including any vehicle other than a tricycle.
Cyclists are harder to see than cars. Dark clothes against a dark background are harder still. I'm not saying she's invisible, I'm saying that when I share the road with cars I go out of my way to be visible.
She had the right of way and would also have if she were in a 'car while texting'. The driver of the car in this situation did not. End. Of. Story.
Yes, she had right of way, which is in her favor. And she was texting instead of looking where she was going, which is against her. When weighing something like that, I go with which one is necessary and sufficient. If he's encroaching on her lane, but she's looking where she's going, there's still plenty of room to avoid the collision. If she's not looking, she could run into him even if he's not in her lane. It's not 100% her fault, but it's definitely not 0, either.
I personally have an e-device ...
Sounds likely.
So how was the part you quoted wrong?
Every machine can be overridden, tricked, hijacked and manipulated with an efficiency that's unheard of in the realm of human-operated traditional weaponry.
It isn't really all that difficult to buy, bribe, threaten or convince a human.
Yes, a human. OP said every machine. Learn to subvert one, and you've got them all. Efficiency. That's the problem.
That is a load of pure horseshit. Just because you had a "thing" for your mother doesn't mean the rest of us did.
No, I definitely had a thing for his mother.
You have obviously never ridden a bicycle in the Netherlands. Pretty much nobody on a bicycle turns on their lights during the day. You look like an idiot if you do.
No, I haven't. But if "you look like an idiot" is a good enough reason to not ride safely, I'm not too sympathetic.
Also: if "she was wearing black whilst cycling in front of a dark tree" is your defense, you should have your license revoked because you are legally blind.
What's the next thing I said after that? "But the fact that she's made herself difficult to see isn't the main point." Yeah, that was just bonus.
If she were driving a car while texting, no one would be arguing that she had right of way.
Nonsense. The car is on the wrong side of the road and can only drive there if it is safe to do so. End of story.
He was stopped. She ran into him. Regardless of where he was on the road, she was the one driving unsafely.
Without taking away from your point that texting whilst cycling can be dangerous and can lead to accidents, the driver of the car is on the wrong side of the road and the accident is his fault.
No it isn't.
She wasn't visible until he'd already started pulling around the parked car. When she does enter line-of-sight, she's dressed in all black with a dark tree behind her, and didn't have her headlight on. (Standard advice for anyone riding open roads is to have head and tail lights on at all times, preferably strobing.)
But the fact that she's made herself difficult to see isn't the main point. If she were driving a car while texting, no one would be arguing that she had right of way.
When you're on a bike, you're harder to see and more vulnerable. You can't put your safety on drivers to be extra careful of you. You have to be more careful than when driving.
If it involves big explosions, danger, or a glorious disregard for human life then chances are the Russians hold the record in it. Gotta love em for it.
Hardcore Henry was a documentary.
According to the Wayback link, they put up a really basic template site last fall. When I say "basic template" I mean they didn't even update the button text from "Call to action". They saw the press release and jumped on it to try to get a payout. They should have taken the $5k and called it a win.
To be fair, he did not say that it is positively impacting the lives of everyone.
Perhaps the positive impact in that scenario was for the other people of Myanmar.
I get that was snark, but if someone convinced me to be so terrified of my neighbors that I went and killed them, I'm pretty sure my life didn't just get better.
I want to work on hard problems that positively impact the lives of billions of people around the world.
And how is Facebook positively impacting the lives of the Rohingya?
One that serves as the entry point for how the brain knows when the stomach is full of food and calories.
Your stomach can't be full of calories. That's like saying it's full of ounces, or full of liters. It's a unit of measure.
Excuse me while I go yell at clouds.
Second, you cannot hold an abstract concept accountable.
But we have no problem declaring war on one. (Drugs, Poverty, Crime, etc.)
TM is the perfect example of a monopoly, and what happens once one is allowed to exist.
Not quite. Remember these guys? Not saying they're better, but you've got to pick your poison.
...from cases involving Verizon or other telecom issues, leaving policy decisions to senior staff..."
And are the hiring/firing of these senior staff under her direct control?
And if she plans to recuse herself from anything related to her area of expertise, why does she list that experience as her primary qualification for the job?
About half your list is debunked the OP's link. Just listing the names again doesn't make it true the second time.
Is there a mod option for "+1 funny ... and insightful ... and sad"? Because this comment really needs it.
Louis CK had a bit about how he hates the N-word. No, not the word, the actual phrase "the N-word".
Possible non-evil explanation: What they meant was, "Thousands of people were moved ..."
Hold on, that would have made sense in a headline where "unnecessary" words are dropped all the time. But this was in the text, so ... yeah, that's bullshit.
Thousands of people moved to let China build and protect Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope
Orly?!?!? People in China moved because they are very nice and wanted to help out the government??!?!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA
Now let's look at an actual quote from TFA (yeah, I know .. I actually read it. And emphasis is mine)
The country even forcibly relocated thousands of villagers who lived nearby, so their modern trappings wouldn’t interfere with the new prized instrument.
Possible non-evil explanation: What they meant was, "Thousands of people were moved ..."
The real fucked up part is because they essentially use slave labor, they undercut OTHER local companies that have employees that are trying to survive without doing crime, but cant because the nevada and california prison systems are taking their work and paying the workers $1.25/day.
Yeah, the warden's racket in The Shawshank Redmption was pretty much reality.
Let's face it, if you couldn't decompress with a couple of beers after work, sooner or later you'd wind up skinning your boss with a letter opener and skull-fucking the company president and his snotty secretary to death with the rolled up hide.
That's ... awfully specific. Was that the first thing off the top of your head, or have you been working on that for a while? Actually, I can't decide which of those is more worrying.
WHAT election fraud? None has been shown, and President Obama stated such, emphatically, well after the election.
He said no voter fraud. That isn't the same as election tampering.
Seriously, the ONLY fraud going on here is the belief there is a Trump/Russia connection. NOTHING has been shown. There's been a few convictions and plea bargains related to tax issues from years ago - and nothing from the Trump campaign. Nothing.
You're right. There's absolutely no evidence out there that Trump colluded with the Russians except the Manafort thing, and the Flynn thing, and the Papadopoulos pleading guilty thing, and the Roger Stone thing, and the Cohen thing, and the Kushner thing, and the Carter Page thing, and the Jeff Sessions things, and the Wilbur Ross thing, and the JD Gordon thing, and the Erik Prince thing, and the James Comey firing thing, and the Russian hacking/Wikileaks thing, and the bro-love between TrumPutin thing, and the Russian propaganda machine favoring Trump thing, and the DJT "I have zero ties to Russia!" thing, and the Eric Trump "we get most of our financing from Russian banks thing", and the Donald Trump Jr. "Our portfolio is made up of a disproportionate amount of Russian money" thing, and the DJT "I sold a $60 million mansion to a Russian oligarch known for money laundering for $120 million that he never once lived in " thing, and the Trump business ties with Putin's favorite sports athlete Fedor Emilianenko thing, and the Trump International Corporation's mysterious private server connection to Alfa Bank, Russia's largest commercial bank thing, and Russians guaranteeing sales of Trump properties so he can get backing thing, and sales of Trump properties to LLCs (who can hide their identity) going from 4% to 70% in the two years leading up to the election thing, and the Special prosecutor being named thing, and the I won't release my tax returns thing, and the Ivanka Trump's vacationing with Putin's girlfriend thing, and the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow thing, and the Trump companies business ties to Felix Sater, a criminal felon indicted for stock fraud scheme with the Russian mafia thing, and the FL Group Icelandic hedge fund with massive ties to Putin being heavily invested in Trump Soho thing, and the Rex Tillerson/Exxon ties to Russia thing, and the Russian ambassador at Trump Tower sneaking in and out thing, and part of the dossier being corroborated thing, the Trump tried to roll back Russian sanctions the minute he got elected thing. And the Cambridge Analytica thing. And the Trump advocating for Russia to be allowed into the G7 again thing, And Trump mentioning Russia hacking the DNCs emails the same day they did thing. And the Russians funneling money through the NRA thing, and Trump’s private meeting and subsequent fealty display thing, and the Trump being afraid to be interviewed by Mueller under oath thing, and the stripping people who might testify against Trump and people in his administration of their security clearance thing... Other than that, there's absolutely no reason to suspect anything. [Shamelessly stolen from teh intarwebz.]
"I guess I thought we were 'sticking it to the man' when I got on board," Mr. Herman said. "But I think 'the man' had already caught on, and had an exit strategy."
Not quite. "The man" is still invested in hard currencies and real stocks. "The man" for the most part never needed an exit strategy, because they were never in to begin with.
You joke, but this podcast describes prisoners working as firefighters in California for $1/hr.
Which makes this a great time for a strike by prisoners. This is a moment when we might actually notice.
Yup, that's what the podcast is about. Really good summary of how we got here and what they're trying to change.