The problem isn't actually the breaking, it's everyone not giving enough room between themselves and the person ahead of them to absorb small slowdowns.
Yeah, but when you start giving enough room between you and the car ahead, an idiot besides you speeds up and steals your place:-/
Conclusion: Traffic jams are caused by idiots. Well of course, that's because it's a race, they HAVE to be in front of you, they HAVE to get to the next red light before you.
The British MP Lembit Opik (name is Scandinavian) has attempted to draw attention to the seriousness of the problem. The media dismiss him as a crank.
I wonder why they do dismiss him? Global warming was the same. It seems curious in the face of the fact that the media, and the UK media in particular, spend most of their energy drumming up irrational abstract things to be afraid of (terrorists, pedophiles, etc etc), things which are unlikely to ever affect many in the UK. Maybe pedophile terrorists could use asteroids to speed up global warming! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!
When people try to justify downloading music, they say it's okay because they wouldn't have bought the album in the first place, which means that no money was lost in the process.
Wouldn't the same kind of logic hold here? How can Nintendo lose money on nonexistent consoles if they're already at full production? No, because no one is downloading magical Wiis and they WOULD give Nintendo that money if they could.
our brains let us survive in new environments (for example, the arctic, which without knowledge of clothing and shelter would kill a human quick) and then those that did so evolved to adapt to the environment (for example, the way the Inuit tend to deal better with high fat diets like you'd expect living on seals.) Not only that, but they are ill-equipped to live in the white man's world. The populations that were forced into sedentary lifestyles in nice government-issue heated homes ended up getting so many ear infections that deafness rates are high above other populations.
It doesn't matter if we evolve, because we change the environment around us as opposed to adapting to it. Therefore evolution has been irrelevant as a factor of survival since humans learned to use tools. That's obviously false http://cbs5.com/local/berkeley.train.cellphone.2.569575.html But a very common belief nonetheless.
Oh, please. Your dogma isn't going to win any debate here.
Are some peoples lives better now than they were before? Yes. Are some peoples lives worse now than they were before? Yes. Does one outweigh the other? I have no idea, and you don't either, so quit pretending like you do. Dogma? You're just throwing random words with bad connotations?
And I think that the people who's lives have gotten so much better than when Saddam was in power Yeah, anarchy and daily explosions ARE an improvement! The destroyed sewers really add a quaint touch to the place it was lacking before...
And yes, I know that we "started it." But that's a little irrelevent.
I mean, MANY innocent civies have been killed by Saddam and his regime and there's no reason to think that was going to stop. I think the people who's lives have become so much worse(or over) than when Saddam was in power don't find this irrelevant. Not even a little.
Because of the red fluorescence protein in their skin cells, the three Turkish Angola kittens look reddish under ultraviolet light, the researchers said. Calling them "glow in the dark" may be overstating the case. More like black light cats. Nothing like having a 70s poster that can scratch back while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. Whatever first step takes us to cats who can walk through walls...
I fail to see why someones criminal record should be accessible to all after they have paid their debt to soceity(sic). In the specific case of sex offenders, if they are so dangerous that we have to notify people when they move into the neighborhood, then why the fuck are they being released from prison? Because they have paid their debt to society. You can't keep them in prison just because it's pretty clear they're going to do it again. If they do, you arrest them again and make them pay their new debt to society, if not, great.
That's how the system works. Some say it's broken, some think they know how to fix it, but it's still chugging along like that and will be for the foreseeable future.
i also question having global warming as the #1 man made disaster, since i don't consider it being a disaster yet. The worst that comes to my mind is hurricane Katrina, and even then, there is no decisive link to the two. I don't link Katrina to global climate change, but it was in part a man made disaster. Contrary to what Bush will tell you, people had known for years that the levees would fail under a hurricane of that strength. It was only a matter of when one would come along.
ok i'm confused. criminality has always favored the not so bright, since if you were smart enough, you'd figure out a better way to get some loot- more of it in a safer way, which usually means you'd find a legal way You're confused because your premise is faulty. It's estimated that global organized crime reaps illegal profits of around $1 trillion per year. That's one trillion dollars that you just can't make legally. Criminality does not favor the not so bright, the media favor the not so bright criminals, and you somehow confused their overexposition as a true representation of reality. And there's a saying that crime does not pay, which is propaganda: crime does pay, it pays a trillion dollars a year.
how long can you really keep a seed safe from the damage that the mere passing of time can cause unless you put it in cryo stasis with a power source that will last a very long time? Thousands of years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_viable_seed
Not only that, but we now have some sort of government-manufactured rule-based system that assigns risk to 'potential terrorists'. Just wait for the inevitable leak of their methodology (via stolen laptops, incompetence, etc.) and you just gave real terrorists a way to evade suspicion. That's the problem with any "model" for suspicious behavior -- once its known, it's easily exploited.
Brown skin: + 10pts Named "Mohamed" or something close: +20pts Last name starts in "Al...": +5 pts Has a beard: + 10pts
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And a movie with a release date coinciding with those numbers would be the culprit, in my opinion.
90% of everything is crap, but we tend to remember the good stuff, so 90% of old stuff seems good.
Keep that in mind.
Yeah, but when you start giving enough room between you and the car ahead, an idiot besides you speeds up and steals your place
Conclusion: Traffic jams are caused by idiots. Well of course, that's because it's a race, they HAVE to be in front of you, they HAVE to get to the next red light before you.
-Yeah? Well I'm from Tunguska and I say KILL THEM ALL!
I wonder why they do dismiss him? Global warming was the same. It seems curious in the face of the fact that the media, and the UK media in particular, spend most of their energy drumming up irrational abstract things to be afraid of (terrorists, pedophiles, etc etc), things which are unlikely to ever affect many in the UK. Maybe pedophile terrorists could use asteroids to speed up global warming! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!
Wouldn't the same kind of logic hold here? How can Nintendo lose money on nonexistent consoles if they're already at full production? No, because no one is downloading magical Wiis and they WOULD give Nintendo that money if they could.
I'm 111% confident that it cannot land in water.
Because it's water, not land, DUH!
But a very common belief nonetheless.
You're using "dogma" as a synonym of "belief"? That's ridiculous.
Are some peoples lives better now than they were before? Yes.
Are some peoples lives worse now than they were before? Yes.
Does one outweigh the other? I have no idea, and you don't either, so quit pretending like you do. Dogma? You're just throwing random words with bad connotations?
I do know which outweighs the other: They live in a war zone where deadly car bombs are NORMAL, that's a net negative.
They live in a country where foreign mercenaries are above the law, for crying out loud!
I mean, MANY innocent civies have been killed by Saddam and his regime and there's no reason to think that was going to stop. I think the people who's lives have become so much worse(or over) than when Saddam was in power don't find this irrelevant. Not even a little.
That's how the system works. Some say it's broken, some think they know how to fix it, but it's still chugging along like that and will be for the foreseeable future.
Contrary to what Bush will tell you, people had known for years that the levees would fail under a hurricane of that strength. It was only a matter of when one would come along.
It's estimated that global organized crime reaps illegal profits of around $1 trillion per year.
That's one trillion dollars that you just can't make legally. Criminality does not favor the not so bright, the media favor the not so bright criminals, and you somehow confused their overexposition as a true representation of reality. And there's a saying that crime does not pay, which is propaganda: crime does pay, it pays a trillion dollars a year.
Brown skin: + 10ptsNot only that, but we now have some sort of government-manufactured rule-based system that assigns risk to 'potential terrorists'. Just wait for the inevitable leak of their methodology (via stolen laptops, incompetence, etc.) and you just gave real terrorists a way to evade suspicion. That's the problem with any "model" for suspicious behavior -- once its known, it's easily exploited.
Named "Mohamed" or something close: +20pts
Last name starts in "Al...": +5 pts
Has a beard: + 10pts
Rich: -100pts