Three lanes of traffic. He was in the center lane (lane #2) at the stop line. The stop line had a pedestrian crossing, so assume you've got 10' of clearance in front of the stop line before you're into cross traffic.
Car approaches from behind.
Now, to avoid the collision/and/ avoid moving into cross-traffic, he would have had to do a/hard/ left or right turn, from a standing start. Not impossible, but that would have taken seconds to execute. Not enough time, I think, to complete the maneuver before impact. You'd have to: - Notice there was a car behind you. - Notice that is was approaching fast. - Notice (make a judgement that) it's not going to stop in time. - Decide he's not going to turn left or right to avoid collision. - *Then* move and turn.
Again, you may have tried that. You might, even, have succeeded. You may just have presented your flank for him to hit instead of your rear. Who knows?
I'd have just braced for impact, unless it was a big-rig.
He runs the light, T-bones cross-traffic. His excuse that it was to 'avoid being rear-ended' (for running a red and hitting someone) will not help him with the cops. Its' also possible that/he/ might be T-boned by cross traffic. All of a sudden he's looking at a 40MPH impact on his passenger side or driver's side, which is far, far worse than a (maybe) 10MPH rear collision for him.
He doesn't run the light, gets rear-ended. It's 100% the fault of the driver who struck him, and he's in a more survivable crash situation. There's a chance he'll be shunted into oncoming traffic, of course, but if he's like you and has left enough space in front,/and/ he sees it coming, that will be minimized.
This is all risk-management stuff, and people have different thresholds of what they consider 'acceptable risk' to avoid one type of crash whilst risking another. Me, I'd brace for impact and take the rear collision unless it was an out-of-control semi.
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I'm sorry, Citizen, but your Freedom Index is too low. I'm afraid we can't give you Social Security benefits. Guess you shouldn't have voted Democrat and had that vegetarian meal on that one-way flight you took seven years ago, eh?
American Airlines tried that in 1998 with their "More Room Throughout Coach" program. An extra 2 to 4" (depending on the plane) of legroom, for a slight price premium.
You'll note there's no more MRTC on AA - it didn't work. The sad fact is, even though there *are* people like you and I who would pay a little extra for more legroom and/or a wider seat, the vast majority of coach fliers buy on price and nothing else.
And I thank you for that - your review was instrumental in me not getting Music Link for my Accord.
Honda would have been better off just providing an AUX input in the glove compartment. How hard would that have been? They even managed to put an AUX on the front panel of the new Civics, for frak's sake.
30GB from portable hard drive via USB to laptop hard drive is > 5-10mins.
And at no point was I whining. I was pointing out to the parent poster that iTunes does not, in fact, do what he thought it did, and that the grandparent was correct in his interpretation of iTune's features.
You can only synch iTunes purchased music between computers. You can't sync the rest of your libary using iTunes.
The key word is 'sync'. That help doc you reference is for moving, one time, all your music from an old computer to a new computer. The assumption is you will no longer be using the old computer.
If the only music you have in iTunes is music purchased from the iTMS, then you can keep two computers iTunes libraries in sync. But iTunes still won't let you keep music from other sources in sync. (There's a couple of ways to do it manually, but that's not the parent's point).
For example, I have a music library in iTunes and an iPod. Most of it is my own ripped CDs, with some iTMS purchases. I have both a work and a home computer. I cannot keep my music library snychronised between these two computers using my iPod - I have to manually add any ripped music to both iTunes libraries. iTunes7 just means my iPod will now at least keep my iTMS purchases synchronized. But it's a low blow to enable it from iTMS content and not for the rest of the libary.
First, get a budget. Second, if the money is a loan, it's not *your* money. Spend it wisely. Third, don't risk it. That means don't buy stocks or bonds. You're only a Junior, you'll have plenty of time to invest in the future. Also, the market's unsettled at the moment and there's a real risk of a recession in the next 18 months or so. You don't want to be buying into a bear market with capital you may need to liquidate fast.
Fourth, why are you asking on Slashdot for financial advice?:)
You're right about usage patterns being wonky for residential consumers - that's why California has a 'net contributer' law; you can feed the juice you generate back to the utility company, and get credit for it later (up to 12 months after generation), at the price you paid in at. This is key, as PGE has just announced their intention to start time-of-da y rate variations for residential customers.
The idea is that if you contribute energy during times of peak demand (say, at 35c/KWh) you can tap it back when demand is lower and you actually need it - during the evenings or winter months.
And if you happen to be home during a hot day and there's a blackout, you have solar power to run your airconditioners.:)
It's still not cheaper than getting all your electricity from the utilities (but it's getting closer, thanks to several tax rebates), but if you have external factors (like you want to be a net generator of green electricity, or want to have AC during a blackout) it's great.
Chances are the District will settle for enough money for you to pay for college. As far as I know, schools have very little say in what you do when you're not at school, so long as it's not illegal.
Now, they could probably say "don't go to that proxy during school hours, from school computers," and they'd probably be on good ground. But to ask you to take the proxy down or not graduate? Ground less stable, methinks.
But as I said; find a lawyer, file suit, find out. Let us know how it goes!
Or it could be the crazies have found one of the internets again.
My local hospital had a patient reporting something very similar - claimed that bugs were eating her and her son, and she was itching all over. Examination showed she did, in fact, have rashes - from direct self-inflicted skin irritation - and the 'bugs' she'd captured in a little baggy were most definitely lint.
She got told to stop scratching and put some cream on it, and she got a nice friendly psych consult.
Never, ever underestimate how many crazies there are. Just ask anyone in retail or another customer-facing industry if you don't believe me.
I've only read Verizon and ATT/Cingular - both are anal. Sprint's out of the running for me because I don't care how good their ToS is if I can't get signal.:(
All these services have the typical CYA in them which forbids doing anything other than browsing web pages. They specifically forbid running anything server-like and also forbid streaming media.
No, it's that if they're investigating a crime, and find you have an encrypted hard drive, they can ask you for your key. And if you say no, then they can charge you with another crime.
Think of it in terms of the DMCA - Breaking DRM is a crime, even if you do nothing else with the data. RIPA means refusing to decrypt something when asked is a crime, even if the data isn't germaine to the investigation or 'illegal'.
People walk in to the ED because it's open 24x7, and it's easy to find. Just follow the signs to 'hospital'.
Clinics are not open 24x7 and are harder to find. Also, many many many people just don't "get" what a clinic can do for them. They know that if they have a problem, to go to the ED for 'free' treatment. They don't know (or don't care) about going to a clinic.
It's that this is a Marketing Person who has realised that IP != Unique User.
That places him amongst a tiny minority of marketing people, even if his reasoning and ideas on methodology are just as batshit insane as the rest of his kin.
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I believe his description was this:
/and/ avoid moving into cross-traffic, he would have had to do a /hard/ left or right turn, from a standing start. Not impossible, but that would have taken seconds to execute. Not enough time, I think, to complete the maneuver before impact. You'd have to:
Three lanes of traffic.
He was in the center lane (lane #2) at the stop line.
The stop line had a pedestrian crossing, so assume you've got 10' of clearance in front of the stop line before you're into cross traffic.
Car approaches from behind.
Now, to avoid the collision
- Notice there was a car behind you.
- Notice that is was approaching fast.
- Notice (make a judgement that) it's not going to stop in time.
- Decide he's not going to turn left or right to avoid collision.
- *Then* move and turn.
Again, you may have tried that. You might, even, have succeeded. You may just have presented your flank for him to hit instead of your rear. Who knows?
I'd have just braced for impact, unless it was a big-rig.
Consider the downside.
/he/ might be T-boned by cross traffic. All of a sudden he's looking at a 40MPH impact on his passenger side or driver's side, which is far, far worse than a (maybe) 10MPH rear collision for him.
/and/ he sees it coming, that will be minimized.
He runs the light, T-bones cross-traffic. His excuse that it was to 'avoid being rear-ended' (for running a red and hitting someone) will not help him with the cops. Its' also possible that
He doesn't run the light, gets rear-ended. It's 100% the fault of the driver who struck him, and he's in a more survivable crash situation. There's a chance he'll be shunted into oncoming traffic, of course, but if he's like you and has left enough space in front,
This is all risk-management stuff, and people have different thresholds of what they consider 'acceptable risk' to avoid one type of crash whilst risking another. Me, I'd brace for impact and take the rear collision unless it was an out-of-control semi.
How? By running the red light and T-boning crossing traffic? Or by ploughing through the pedestrians on the cross-walk?
ATS data about an individual may be shared with state, local and foreign governments for use in hiring decisions and in granting licenses, security clearances, contracts or other benefits.
I'm sorry, Citizen, but your Freedom Index is too low. I'm afraid we can't give you Social Security benefits. Guess you shouldn't have voted Democrat and had that vegetarian meal on that one-way flight you took seven years ago, eh?
American Airlines tried that in 1998 with their "More Room Throughout Coach" program. An extra 2 to 4" (depending on the plane) of legroom, for a slight price premium.
You'll note there's no more MRTC on AA - it didn't work. The sad fact is, even though there *are* people like you and I who would pay a little extra for more legroom and/or a wider seat, the vast majority of coach fliers buy on price and nothing else.
Holy Return of Obscure Software, Batman!
I used to use Ability Office back when it was a DOS-based, x86 text word processor, spreadsheet and database in the late 1980s, early 90s.
That thing just won't die!
And I thank you for that - your review was instrumental in me not getting Music Link for my Accord.
Honda would have been better off just providing an AUX input in the glove compartment. How hard would that have been? They even managed to put an AUX on the front panel of the new Civics, for frak's sake.
30GB from portable hard drive via USB to laptop hard drive is > 5-10mins.
And at no point was I whining. I was pointing out to the parent poster that iTunes does not, in fact, do what he thought it did, and that the grandparent was correct in his interpretation of iTune's features.
Wow, what constructive criticism and insight.
It's a problem when you have 20 or 30GB of music. USB2, from a portable harddrive? That takes time.
Synching is faster. Much faster.
No, parent is right.
You can only synch iTunes purchased music between computers. You can't sync the rest of your libary using iTunes.
The key word is 'sync'. That help doc you reference is for moving, one time, all your music from an old computer to a new computer. The assumption is you will no longer be using the old computer.
If the only music you have in iTunes is music purchased from the iTMS, then you can keep two computers iTunes libraries in sync. But iTunes still won't let you keep music from other sources in sync. (There's a couple of ways to do it manually, but that's not the parent's point).
For example, I have a music library in iTunes and an iPod. Most of it is my own ripped CDs, with some iTMS purchases. I have both a work and a home computer. I cannot keep my music library snychronised between these two computers using my iPod - I have to manually add any ripped music to both iTunes libraries. iTunes7 just means my iPod will now at least keep my iTMS purchases synchronized. But it's a low blow to enable it from iTMS content and not for the rest of the libary.
Dear G. Khan,
I came to this topic looking for a discussion on hot Swedes downloading porn, hopefully with some hyperlink thingies.
Instead, I find the most erudite defence of Sir Isaac Newton I have ever read.
Thank you.
Yours, et&,
E. Magnus.
You can cut that off, you know. There's switchs that'll do it. :)
No good if the blackout is at night, though - that's where the batteries and backup generator comes in handy.
First, get a budget.
:)
Second, if the money is a loan, it's not *your* money. Spend it wisely.
Third, don't risk it. That means don't buy stocks or bonds. You're only a Junior, you'll have plenty of time to invest in the future. Also, the market's unsettled at the moment and there's a real risk of a recession in the next 18 months or so. You don't want to be buying into a bear market with capital you may need to liquidate fast.
Fourth, why are you asking on Slashdot for financial advice?
You're right about usage patterns being wonky for residential consumers - that's why California has a 'net contributer' law; you can feed the juice you generate back to the utility company, and get credit for it later (up to 12 months after generation), at the price you paid in at. This is key, as PGE has just announced their intention to start time-of-da y rate variations for residential customers.
:)
The idea is that if you contribute energy during times of peak demand (say, at 35c/KWh) you can tap it back when demand is lower and you actually need it - during the evenings or winter months.
And if you happen to be home during a hot day and there's a blackout, you have solar power to run your airconditioners.
It's still not cheaper than getting all your electricity from the utilities (but it's getting closer, thanks to several tax rebates), but if you have external factors (like you want to be a net generator of green electricity, or want to have AC during a blackout) it's great.
You're forgetting that Christians outright and publically denounced the IRA's methods and actions.
You've never been to South Boston have you? Ever heard of NORAID?
The IRA is a CATHOLIC para-military organisation. It stands to reason that it has Christian supporters.
Some Christians support PIRA. Some Christians denounced PIRA. Some Christians don't care either way. Beware generalities.
Find a lawyer, file a lawsuit and find out.
Chances are the District will settle for enough money for you to pay for college. As far as I know, schools have very little say in what you do when you're not at school, so long as it's not illegal.
Now, they could probably say "don't go to that proxy during school hours, from school computers," and they'd probably be on good ground. But to ask you to take the proxy down or not graduate? Ground less stable, methinks.
But as I said; find a lawyer, file suit, find out. Let us know how it goes!
Really? Last I heard the tree hadn't passed QA, only the rose bush.
That's progress!
Why assume that there's something defective about the people's machinery, rather than habitation of a pathological state inherent in the machine?
Occam's Razor.
People are Just Plain Crazy.
Or it could be the crazies have found one of the internets again.
My local hospital had a patient reporting something very similar - claimed that bugs were eating her and her son, and she was itching all over. Examination showed she did, in fact, have rashes - from direct self-inflicted skin irritation - and the 'bugs' she'd captured in a little baggy were most definitely lint.
She got told to stop scratching and put some cream on it, and she got a nice friendly psych consult.
Never, ever underestimate how many crazies there are. Just ask anyone in retail or another customer-facing industry if you don't believe me.
I've only read Verizon and ATT/Cingular - both are anal. Sprint's out of the running for me because I don't care how good their ToS is if I can't get signal. :(
All these services have the typical CYA in them which forbids doing anything other than browsing web pages. They specifically forbid running anything server-like and also forbid streaming media.
It's all about protecting the revenue stream.
No, it's that if they're investigating a crime, and find you have an encrypted hard drive, they can ask you for your key. And if you say no, then they can charge you with another crime.
Think of it in terms of the DMCA - Breaking DRM is a crime, even if you do nothing else with the data. RIPA means refusing to decrypt something when asked is a crime, even if the data isn't germaine to the investigation or 'illegal'.
Sounds like it'd ban email, too.
After all, what is email but user-created content that is then shared with others?
People walk in to the ED because it's open 24x7, and it's easy to find. Just follow the signs to 'hospital'.
Clinics are not open 24x7 and are harder to find. Also, many many many people just don't "get" what a clinic can do for them. They know that if they have a problem, to go to the ED for 'free' treatment. They don't know (or don't care) about going to a clinic.
It's that this is a Marketing Person who has realised that IP != Unique User.
That places him amongst a tiny minority of marketing people, even if his reasoning and ideas on methodology are just as batshit insane as the rest of his kin.