I went down at about 50 MPH about 2 weeks ago... came out of it with a sprained wrist
Wow! 50 and only a sprain? That's amazing.
When I had my motorcycle I can remember at least two occasions where a little extra bad luck would have left me either dead or wishing I was.
People make mistakes. People get distracted. It happens. Once that happens it's just a matter of whether or not some other unfortunate thing is happening at the same time (like a driver of a car also being distracted and happening to come at you.)
I happened today to hear Stephen King talking about his accident. He was nearing the crest of a hill when he was suddenly struck by a van coming the other way.
It turns out that the driver of the van had a cooler of meat in the back seat that his dog was trying to get into. He reached back to smack the dog. Stupid, but being distracted in this way he did not realize his van had drifted onto the shoulder just as King happened to be approaching. As the van suddenly appeared at the top of the hill King had no chance, and was flattened and nearly killed.
Had King been in the same place but on a motorcycle the result would have been the same. Had he been in a car with airbags it'd be another story. Same amount of outrageously bad fortune, but he'd have walked away.
You may be the greatest motorcycle rider who ever lived, but you still are giving up some amount of life expectancy to ride that bike.
(By the way, the van was on the road because the driver was heading into town to buy the Mars Bar he was craving.)
"good diet and exercise may reduce risk of heart disease."
May reduce? Don't they know?
Suppose studies had shown that among test subjects who exercized half of them showed a clear reduction in heart disease, while the other half maintained a normal rate of it. Also suppose that they could not determine ahead of time into which half a person would fall. They have clear evidence that it works for some people, but they don't know for anyone in particular. Therefore, excersize may reduce your risk of heart disease.
"Oh, you're going to be bad, we need to lock you away."
Yup. All it will take is one guy who was predicted to be dangerous to go out and mow down a McDonald's or something. After that the Standard Knee-Jerk Reaction will kick in, and people will be screaming for this to be "stopped from ever happening again."
LCD manufacturing yields must be over 40% in order to make a profit.
You mean at this exact instant in time? It all depends on what they can sell them for, doesn't it? As prices and costs change so does that number. It'd be different every day.
writing books on information that's already a point and click away?
So no one should write any factual books anymore because the information is out there somewhere? Isn't much more efficient to have someone else cull through the 65,000 results found in 0.1 seconds, sorting the wheat from the chaff and organizing, summarizing, and presenting it all to you in a handy bound form?
Earthlink keeps a copy of any email that traverses thier servers and keeps it in storage for 5 years
This smells like a myth. Why five years? Why in "storage?" Does someone each day go through that storage and delete those emails that have rolled over?
CRTs will still work, you just won't be able to get them from Apple. I've never in my life purchased a monitor from Apple, but I've bought quite a few Macs from them.
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Wow! 50 and only a sprain? That's amazing.
When I had my motorcycle I can remember at least two occasions where a little extra bad luck would have left me either dead or wishing I was.
People make mistakes. People get distracted. It happens. Once that happens it's just a matter of whether or not some other unfortunate thing is happening at the same time (like a driver of a car also being distracted and happening to come at you.)
I happened today to hear Stephen King talking about his accident. He was nearing the crest of a hill when he was suddenly struck by a van coming the other way.
It turns out that the driver of the van had a cooler of meat in the back seat that his dog was trying to get into. He reached back to smack the dog. Stupid, but being distracted in this way he did not realize his van had drifted onto the shoulder just as King happened to be approaching. As the van suddenly appeared at the top of the hill King had no chance, and was flattened and nearly killed.
Had King been in the same place but on a motorcycle the result would have been the same. Had he been in a car with airbags it'd be another story. Same amount of outrageously bad fortune, but he'd have walked away.
You may be the greatest motorcycle rider who ever lived, but you still are giving up some amount of life expectancy to ride that bike.
(By the way, the van was on the road because the driver was heading into town to buy the Mars Bar he was craving.)
Except for those annoying occasions when you're splattered all over the pavement.
Other people have nerf guns too?
You should have your taste buds checked.
Thanks. So there's no way the DVD player can convert on the fly?
Well if I truly believed that by divorcing I'd fry in Hell for eternity I'd stick it out too.
May reduce? Don't they know?
Suppose studies had shown that among test subjects who exercized half of them showed a clear reduction in heart disease, while the other half maintained a normal rate of it. Also suppose that they could not determine ahead of time into which half a person would fall. They have clear evidence that it works for some people, but they don't know for anyone in particular. Therefore, excersize may reduce your risk of heart disease.
That should be "not literally everyone pays." The way you wrote it you're saying in effect that you hope not one person pays 40%.
that's easily seen as stupid by any semi-literate person who knows English.
Quite.
What happens in 2006?
facile? is that proper in this context? I'm asking seriously, not beng a smartass.
Yup. All it will take is one guy who was predicted to be dangerous to go out and mow down a McDonald's or something. After that the Standard Knee-Jerk Reaction will kick in, and people will be screaming for this to be "stopped from ever happening again."
You mean at this exact instant in time? It all depends on what they can sell them for, doesn't it? As prices and costs change so does that number. It'd be different every day.
So no one should write any factual books anymore because the information is out there somewhere?
Isn't much more efficient to have someone else cull through the 65,000 results found in 0.1 seconds, sorting the wheat from the chaff and organizing, summarizing, and presenting it all to you in a handy bound form?
They wrote Netscape? Did Netscape ever write back?
Oh yeah. Flash is a tool just like those big fluffy buttons on clowns suits are tools.
Tune in next week when our hero points out that his 19 inch monitor isn't really 19 inches.
This smells like a myth. Why five years? Why in "storage?" Does someone each day go through that storage and delete those emails that have rolled over?
CRTs will still work, you just won't be able to get them from Apple. I've never in my life purchased a monitor from Apple, but I've bought quite a few Macs from them.