Bikes do have to obey the same traffic laws as cars.
However, some cyclists take the risk and run a light because they feel that stopping completely robs their momentum. In some cases, such as a stop sign at the bottom of a hill, this may be true. At a 4-way stop downtown, it's a different story. (My experience with 4-way stops downtown is that everyone, including bikes, cars, pedestrians, etc, take a "do whatever the fuck you want" approach to proceeding through the intersection.)
I digress. With a rolling stop, the cyclist is taking a serious risk to their own health. If they mess up the rolling stop, they might well die. If a car messes up the rolling stop and hits a bike, then the cyclist might well die. So in both cases, the cyclist assumes all physical consquences of the accident. The driver can get another car that day, likely without personal injury.
I don't particularly support the practice, but I can understand why some people would want to engage in it.
I've been biking to work for 15 years. I assume every car is going to run every stop sign. I also assume that every intersection contains at least one car that is going to turn in front of me without signalling, slowing, or checking.
Back when they still had photo radar here, they were fishing in a 50km/h zone, then went out to the highway. They forgot to change the speed up to 80km/h and everyone who went past the van got a ticket.
They refused to overturn the tickets until someone went to the local media pointing out that there was a Jersey Barrier in the background, showing that it was in fact on the highway. As far as I know, you still had to go to court to get the tickets overturned, one at a time.
First, if it's not peer reviewed and repeatable, it's an anomaly. Once that gets into a few journals, then we've got something that's actually something and not a quirk of the measurements or something.
If there's a thin layer of superconducting material or interface in a lot of other stuff, then the resistance across the whole assembly will approach that of the superconducting section.
Wait, he does all the committing to the kernel himself? Basically, you're saying if M$ paid him, say, a billion dollars to retire to Aruba and never touch Linux again, Linux would be over forever.
Well, I was young, I was in College, I tried not shaving just before a camping trip, one thing led to another, and one day when I woke up I realized, "Oh, I have a beard. I have to accept this as part of who I am."
"Look, you've got a claim to 84% of something that's not worth a lot of direct cash. You'll have to prove it in court. After maybe five years of appeals, you'll be exhausted personally and financially, and you'll have at most, 25% chance of having this work out. You can spend millions to maybe make millions.
"Or, if I can direct your attention to this new contract and cheque for X million dollars, we have another option available..."
Many times the Informative ratings are from people who laughed but wanted to give you a better Karma rating. If you've told a joke, think of the Inf/Ins ratings as Funny++. I'm not sure how that started, but it's been going on for about 3 years.
I had great karma IRL but burned it all about four years ago. It was worth it, even if I have to start as a freakin' ant again.
Sometimes guilty people get away with it. That's part of the Criminal Justice system. The idea, which we don't get, is that no innocent person should be punished.
Punishment can include being watched by the police.
Also, and this is one of the cornerstones of Western Civilization, which I have put in capital letters on purpose, is that you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
A warrant is issued once it has been proven in court that you probably did something and that better evidence is required to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
I have children; I would never want to live in a world where people get their right curtailed in the off chance that someone who has never been convicted of a crime does something to them.
I have four computers in my house. My wife's runs Win 7, mine runs Mint, and the kids use Puppy. (I have puppy on my laptop too, but it's a P2 366 w/ 64 MB of RAM.)
Linux is a pain in the ass to use. That's all there is to it. It doesn't handle Flash or ATI cards very well at all. The solution is "lol buy a better card" or "Flash is all Adobe's fault for having proprietary drivers".
When is DOES work, which is in all fairness most of the time, there are a few quirks: 1. Only the main HDD is mounted at boot. 2. The display keeps defaulting to 1078 x 768 @ 60Hz. Flickery. 3. File transfer windows close before file transfers are complete. 4. It won't generate playlists for my walkman. ("lol, that's Sony's problem for not using XML playlists with an open standard.") 5. Ocassionally, the web browsers will stop displaying links properly, for example on PBS Kids Curious George. 6. The Internet connection drops out randomly.
So there are some quirks. It works most of the time, and I can stream HD video from my desktop to my TV without many issues.
The real issue with all flavours of Linux is that there's basically fuck all marketing and fuck all support. Sure, there's a forum that you can go to to try and resolve issues by entering random commands from strangers.
MS and Apple make their market share by selling their product to people who don't give a fuck about their computers. They want their stuff to work. They don't care or want to hear about installing a codec after enabling the multiverse, and ignore the warning about proprietary code, and then it will work. Oh, if it didn't work, just edit/etc/conf/fucker/ and comment out the lines referring to USB.
Meanwhile, the ads say "Macs just work" and people flock over. Yes, I know that it's Unix-based. Interesting how a little marketing and support would make it into a pretty damned fine product, eh?
I'm an Engineer. It took me 5 years of University (co-op program) and six years of EIT time before I became a Pro. I would charge out time at about $200 an hour, which is roughly the same as other Pros. (This isn't what I get paid at work but then I get other benefits like steady work, legal resources and insurance, and a great environment.)
Lawyers get a degree before they go to law school and then have to spend years articling before they can do their bar thing. (What? I'm not a lawyer. My lawyer's a lawyer.) Why should they charge a cheap rate for professional services? Law is a difficult topic and requires a lot of training. It's not like on Law and Order or Ally MacBeal where it's just talking. Most of it is research, practice, and training.
Loser pay, though, that's the way to go. They do it up here.
You can't find the quote because I made it up. My point is that if the government was to say something like that, then everyone would roll over and say, "Oh, then it's okay."
The parent post to mine said that people would get outraged. I pointed out, and rather effectively I must add, that public opinion could be easily swayed by a nothing quote from someone who just wanted to put corporate interests ahead of what you used to call The First Amendment.
I know it says nothing. I didn't see that list anywhere, I just made it up. My post is responding to the one above, where theRoAm said people would stand up against this sort of thing.
My point is that if that starts to happen, the response would be as above. You're right, I missed drugs.
I note that since I'm modded informative and everyone actually believed me it would actually work.
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Well again, good job. It looks like this is number eight for you. I've submitted a handful of articles, but nothing's been accepted.
I'm partially posting because one of the mods apparently really hates you for it.
Did you get an article on the front page? If so, congratulations.
Bikes do have to obey the same traffic laws as cars.
However, some cyclists take the risk and run a light because they feel that stopping completely robs their momentum. In some cases, such as a stop sign at the bottom of a hill, this may be true. At a 4-way stop downtown, it's a different story. (My experience with 4-way stops downtown is that everyone, including bikes, cars, pedestrians, etc, take a "do whatever the fuck you want" approach to proceeding through the intersection.)
I digress. With a rolling stop, the cyclist is taking a serious risk to their own health. If they mess up the rolling stop, they might well die. If a car messes up the rolling stop and hits a bike, then the cyclist might well die. So in both cases, the cyclist assumes all physical consquences of the accident. The driver can get another car that day, likely without personal injury.
I don't particularly support the practice, but I can understand why some people would want to engage in it.
I've been biking to work for 15 years. I assume every car is going to run every stop sign. I also assume that every intersection contains at least one car that is going to turn in front of me without signalling, slowing, or checking.
Guess how many times I've been hit?
Back when they still had photo radar here, they were fishing in a 50km/h zone, then went out to the highway. They forgot to change the speed up to 80km/h and everyone who went past the van got a ticket.
They refused to overturn the tickets until someone went to the local media pointing out that there was a Jersey Barrier in the background, showing that it was in fact on the highway. As far as I know, you still had to go to court to get the tickets overturned, one at a time.
My experience is that BMWs and pickup trucks generally have the most dickheaded drivers.
I am fortunate to have never encountered a BMW pickup. If there is such a thing I would not want to know about it lest I be unable to sleep.
Priuses are only environmentally friendly if you don't understand how manufacturing and recycling works.
First, if it's not peer reviewed and repeatable, it's an anomaly. Once that gets into a few journals, then we've got something that's actually something and not a quirk of the measurements or something.
If there's a thin layer of superconducting material or interface in a lot of other stuff, then the resistance across the whole assembly will approach that of the superconducting section.
The winrar is you; that's got to be the best pun of the day.
Wait, he does all the committing to the kernel himself? Basically, you're saying if M$ paid him, say, a billion dollars to retire to Aruba and never touch Linux again, Linux would be over forever.
That's... interesting.
Well, I was young, I was in College, I tried not shaving just before a camping trip, one thing led to another, and one day when I woke up I realized, "Oh, I have a beard. I have to accept this as part of who I am."
And I liked it.
Yeah, that's just stupidity on FB's part.
"Look, you've got a claim to 84% of something that's not worth a lot of direct cash. You'll have to prove it in court. After maybe five years of appeals, you'll be exhausted personally and financially, and you'll have at most, 25% chance of having this work out. You can spend millions to maybe make millions.
"Or, if I can direct your attention to this new contract and cheque for X million dollars, we have another option available..."
Many times the Informative ratings are from people who laughed but wanted to give you a better Karma rating. If you've told a joke, think of the Inf/Ins ratings as Funny++. I'm not sure how that started, but it's been going on for about 3 years.
I had great karma IRL but burned it all about four years ago. It was worth it, even if I have to start as a freakin' ant again.
But... I...
I had facial hair when I started my /. account and...
This is a bookmark for later.
You actually want the opposite.
Sometimes guilty people get away with it. That's part of the Criminal Justice system. The idea, which we don't get, is that no innocent person should be punished.
Punishment can include being watched by the police.
Also, and this is one of the cornerstones of Western Civilization, which I have put in capital letters on purpose, is that you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
A warrant is issued once it has been proven in court that you probably did something and that better evidence is required to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
I have children; I would never want to live in a world where people get their right curtailed in the off chance that someone who has never been convicted of a crime does something to them.
Life isn't like 24.
Wow, you have to be pretty bad to make the MP look legitimate.
Hey, isn't that par for the course in Canada? Every party has a total fuckup for a leader.
(Except you, of course, Jack.)
As a military contractor, I encourage the addition of new systems onto NATO ships.
As a Mechwarrior fan, I say bring on the Clan-LAMS. 1d6 heat?
I have four computers in my house. My wife's runs Win 7, mine runs Mint, and the kids use Puppy. (I have puppy on my laptop too, but it's a P2 366 w/ 64 MB of RAM.)
Linux is a pain in the ass to use. That's all there is to it. It doesn't handle Flash or ATI cards very well at all. The solution is "lol buy a better card" or "Flash is all Adobe's fault for having proprietary drivers".
When is DOES work, which is in all fairness most of the time, there are a few quirks:
1. Only the main HDD is mounted at boot.
2. The display keeps defaulting to 1078 x 768 @ 60Hz. Flickery.
3. File transfer windows close before file transfers are complete.
4. It won't generate playlists for my walkman. ("lol, that's Sony's problem for not using XML playlists with an open standard.")
5. Ocassionally, the web browsers will stop displaying links properly, for example on PBS Kids Curious George.
6. The Internet connection drops out randomly.
So there are some quirks. It works most of the time, and I can stream HD video from my desktop to my TV without many issues.
The real issue with all flavours of Linux is that there's basically fuck all marketing and fuck all support. Sure, there's a forum that you can go to to try and resolve issues by entering random commands from strangers.
MS and Apple make their market share by selling their product to people who don't give a fuck about their computers. They want their stuff to work. They don't care or want to hear about installing a codec after enabling the multiverse, and ignore the warning about proprietary code, and then it will work. Oh, if it didn't work, just edit /etc/conf/fucker/ and comment out the lines referring to USB.
Meanwhile, the ads say "Macs just work" and people flock over. Yes, I know that it's Unix-based. Interesting how a little marketing and support would make it into a pretty damned fine product, eh?
Sometimes, yes.
I'm an Engineer. It took me 5 years of University (co-op program) and six years of EIT time before I became a Pro. I would charge out time at about $200 an hour, which is roughly the same as other Pros. (This isn't what I get paid at work but then I get other benefits like steady work, legal resources and insurance, and a great environment.)
Lawyers get a degree before they go to law school and then have to spend years articling before they can do their bar thing. (What? I'm not a lawyer. My lawyer's a lawyer.) Why should they charge a cheap rate for professional services? Law is a difficult topic and requires a lot of training. It's not like on Law and Order or Ally MacBeal where it's just talking. Most of it is research, practice, and training.
Loser pay, though, that's the way to go. They do it up here.
Red Mars did it.
Refer to my earlier post, which is the one right above yours.
I made up the quote to show how easy it would be to have people not rise up against random website shutdowns.
You can't find the quote because I made it up. My point is that if the government was to say something like that, then everyone would roll over and say, "Oh, then it's okay."
The parent post to mine said that people would get outraged. I pointed out, and rather effectively I must add, that public opinion could be easily swayed by a nothing quote from someone who just wanted to put corporate interests ahead of what you used to call The First Amendment.
I know it says nothing. I didn't see that list anywhere, I just made it up. My post is responding to the one above, where theRoAm said people would stand up against this sort of thing.
My point is that if that starts to happen, the response would be as above. You're right, I missed drugs.
I note that since I'm modded informative and everyone actually believed me it would actually work.
Horse, barn door, etc.
One of the first rules is that you don't use a photo of a real person. Use, for example, David Hyde Pierce, or some clipart.
Gimp is your daughter's friend, unless your son has a really bad haircut.
Real-life cops love the way guns are held in movies because the ballistic accuracy is basically zero when you hold a gun sideways.
[citation needed]