That's actually quite rare, if it ever actually happens at all; I've never heard a well-sourced report of anyone entering a house via car that wasn't a teenager or drunk. We do all sorts of other things to dissociate ourselves from the operation of the car (manual chokes, for example, are a thing of the past), and we don't make those a point of macho pride. I guess it really is mostly fanboi-ism.
If the traffic is sufficiently light that no slow-down occurs, it doesn't matter whether you do it early or late. If there is too much traffic for one lane, there will be stop-and-go traffic - you only get to choose whether that backup occurs at the point of merge or farther back up the roadway. If you're interested, read this.
any traffic signal that losses power is to be treated as a 4 way stop. Yeah, right. That is going to happen
I've never seen any trouble with this - in some cases the self-organized traffic flow is more efficient than the regular light.
How many of us "fine, considerate, American drivers" go ahead and start merging and how many run all the way to the end and them force our way into the right lane?
The latter behavior is actually much more efficient use of the road. You should use both lanes until the end, then alternate merge.
Genuine question: why do you hate automatic transmissions? I mean, if you prefer to drive a manual, then great. But why do you care what others do? I see this sentiment all the time, and the best answer I've ever gotten was "it's better on steep icy roads". I suppose if you live in Scandinavia, that's a pretty good argument, but I don't.
I'm sure it works well, but that sounds really expensive - in addition to the cost of roundabout installation, you still have to pay for lights (both installation and maintenance).
On small roads, the people will even move over to the shoulder to let you pass.
Absolutely, positively, the single best thing about Texas driving. Well, that, and the fact that a lot of relatively minor roads have fully paved shoulders that allow people to do this. Now, if we can just get the traffic engineers to implement this neato structure called a cloverleaf...
Use both lanes until the end. Zipper merge at that point. It's far more efficient. You think you're being nice, but you're actually making it worse.
As far as cooperation among drivers go, Americans generally do it quite well. Think about the last time you went through an area where the power was out and you came to an intersection that normally was light-controlled. Every time I've dealt with that, people have managed to self-organize traffic flow quite smoothly. (In a few cases, it actually led to shorter waiting times than normally experienced with the light.)
The first ones put in in my area were over-marked - pylons to mark the edges of the lanes as you were about to enter, pylons surrounding the center of the circle, yield signs on both sides of entering drivers, a couple of signs before the yield signs informing drivers that "traffic in circle has right of way". Worked well to educate unfamiliar drivers, and most of the stuff was later taken down.
The new breed are fundamentally different in construction from classic NJ/DC rotaries - they are smaller, they don't have lights, speeds are lower, and traffic entering always yields to traffic already in the circle.
The BBC managed to find some unhinged guy who claimed all sorts of odd things, among which was that fewer lights = fewer tickets for running the lights = higher local taxes to make up for lost ticket revenue.
It's a quote from some unhinged guy that the BBC found on the Intarwebs. Fewer traffic lights = fewer tickets for running the light = higher taxes, still gotta pay for city government somehow.
Until I joined a private practice six months ago, I was an assistant professor of anesthesiology at a medical school in the US. Unless things have changed radically in that time, medical students most assuredly do work. Now, someone does follow up their clinical work, but they gather lab results, pull stitches, hold retractors, look up unusual diagnoses to present to the team, and serve as general gofers throughout their last two years of school. Depending on the rotation, that could be anywhere from forty to ninety hours a week, which most assuredly adds up to hundreds of hours over the course of a year.
It's largely so that it can take off, launch a military satellite into a polar orbit, and land back in the continental united states, without overflying russian territory.
I enjoyed your post, but I'm a little fuzzy on this. The only place I can see that you could do a polar orbit starting on US territory and not end up overflying former Soviet territory would be from Hawaii, and the only proposed military launch location I know of was Vandenberg AFB. Would you mind explaining?
Arial is a knockoff of Helvetica. Design people hate this, even more than they hate Helvetica. It's one of the things that can be used to distinguish someone who knows a little bit about the subject from someone who doesn't, and as such is really just a bit of snobbery.
and yet, without government, every problem you describe only gets much much worse
What, the problem of corrupt government?
I would ask only this: are there any limits to the appropriate size of government? If so, why does a different opinion of just how big it should be make someone an idiotic asshole?
Actually, his comparison is quite apt even if his terminology is confusing - medical and nursing students work long hours for which they pay very good money as their schooling, just as an unpaid intern actually has to be enrolled in a college course (i.e., be a student) for which s/he receives credit in order to be legally unpaid. It's just that in the medical world, "intern" means something very different from outside it.
It works just fine for small files; the problem is that doing so craps up the bittorrent software's window with a bunch of different torrents. Something like the eMule Kad protocol is better suited to handling lots of small files from a user's point of view.
people who are single get offered diapers, or middle aged men being offered teen book series
Not that surprising. The tastes of women in their child bearing years are not particularly different based on whether they have children or not - often they will buy child-centered items for friends having kids, e.g. And many middle-aged men have teenage daughters who buy books on their accounts.
If they can't ask your history, then it's not so much insurance, which spreads out risk, as it is a service contract with somebody else footing the bill for a majority of your care. Having said that, states do have high-risk pools that provide government-subsidized (but still expensive) insurance to those who can't get it elsewhere.
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That's actually quite rare, if it ever actually happens at all; I've never heard a well-sourced report of anyone entering a house via car that wasn't a teenager or drunk. We do all sorts of other things to dissociate ourselves from the operation of the car (manual chokes, for example, are a thing of the past), and we don't make those a point of macho pride. I guess it really is mostly fanboi-ism.
Try backing up in an uphill doing some tight parking maneuver.
I don't live in a terribly hilly area, but wouldn't that be a lot easier with an automatic?
If the traffic is sufficiently light that no slow-down occurs, it doesn't matter whether you do it early or late. If there is too much traffic for one lane, there will be stop-and-go traffic - you only get to choose whether that backup occurs at the point of merge or farther back up the roadway. If you're interested, read this.
any traffic signal that losses power is to be treated as a 4 way stop. Yeah, right. That is going to happen
I've never seen any trouble with this - in some cases the self-organized traffic flow is more efficient than the regular light.
How many of us "fine, considerate, American drivers" go ahead and start merging and how many run all the way to the end and them force our way into the right lane?
The latter behavior is actually much more efficient use of the road. You should use both lanes until the end, then alternate merge.
Genuine question: why do you hate automatic transmissions? I mean, if you prefer to drive a manual, then great. But why do you care what others do? I see this sentiment all the time, and the best answer I've ever gotten was "it's better on steep icy roads". I suppose if you live in Scandinavia, that's a pretty good argument, but I don't.
I'm sure it works well, but that sounds really expensive - in addition to the cost of roundabout installation, you still have to pay for lights (both installation and maintenance).
On small roads, the people will even move over to the shoulder to let you pass.
Absolutely, positively, the single best thing about Texas driving. Well, that, and the fact that a lot of relatively minor roads have fully paved shoulders that allow people to do this. Now, if we can just get the traffic engineers to implement this neato structure called a cloverleaf...
You obviously never tried to go south on I-95 through the old Springfield interchange. That one was horrible.
Use both lanes until the end. Zipper merge at that point. It's far more efficient. You think you're being nice, but you're actually making it worse.
As far as cooperation among drivers go, Americans generally do it quite well. Think about the last time you went through an area where the power was out and you came to an intersection that normally was light-controlled. Every time I've dealt with that, people have managed to self-organize traffic flow quite smoothly. (In a few cases, it actually led to shorter waiting times than normally experienced with the light.)
The first ones put in in my area were over-marked - pylons to mark the edges of the lanes as you were about to enter, pylons surrounding the center of the circle, yield signs on both sides of entering drivers, a couple of signs before the yield signs informing drivers that "traffic in circle has right of way". Worked well to educate unfamiliar drivers, and most of the stuff was later taken down.
The new breed are fundamentally different in construction from classic NJ/DC rotaries - they are smaller, they don't have lights, speeds are lower, and traffic entering always yields to traffic already in the circle.
The BBC managed to find some unhinged guy who claimed all sorts of odd things, among which was that fewer lights = fewer tickets for running the lights = higher local taxes to make up for lost ticket revenue.
It's a quote from some unhinged guy that the BBC found on the Intarwebs. Fewer traffic lights = fewer tickets for running the light = higher taxes, still gotta pay for city government somehow.
I don't see why it would be any longer than a four-way stop
If a major thoroughfare is crossed by a minor road, there may not be any gaps appearing in the traffic headed straight across the roundabout.
Until I joined a private practice six months ago, I was an assistant professor of anesthesiology at a medical school in the US. Unless things have changed radically in that time, medical students most assuredly do work. Now, someone does follow up their clinical work, but they gather lab results, pull stitches, hold retractors, look up unusual diagnoses to present to the team, and serve as general gofers throughout their last two years of school. Depending on the rotation, that could be anywhere from forty to ninety hours a week, which most assuredly adds up to hundreds of hours over the course of a year.
Single-orbit flight is the idea here, in which case launch site does matter quite a bit.
Yeah, that makes a bit more sense.
It's largely so that it can take off, launch a military satellite into a polar orbit, and land back in the continental united states, without overflying russian territory.
I enjoyed your post, but I'm a little fuzzy on this. The only place I can see that you could do a polar orbit starting on US territory and not end up overflying former Soviet territory would be from Hawaii, and the only proposed military launch location I know of was Vandenberg AFB. Would you mind explaining?
Arial is a knockoff of Helvetica. Design people hate this, even more than they hate Helvetica. It's one of the things that can be used to distinguish someone who knows a little bit about the subject from someone who doesn't, and as such is really just a bit of snobbery.
and yet, without government, every problem you describe only gets much much worse
What, the problem of corrupt government?
I would ask only this: are there any limits to the appropriate size of government? If so, why does a different opinion of just how big it should be make someone an idiotic asshole?
Actually, his comparison is quite apt even if his terminology is confusing - medical and nursing students work long hours for which they pay very good money as their schooling, just as an unpaid intern actually has to be enrolled in a college course (i.e., be a student) for which s/he receives credit in order to be legally unpaid. It's just that in the medical world, "intern" means something very different from outside it.
It works just fine for small files; the problem is that doing so craps up the bittorrent software's window with a bunch of different torrents. Something like the eMule Kad protocol is better suited to handling lots of small files from a user's point of view.
people who are single get offered diapers, or middle aged men being offered teen book series
Not that surprising. The tastes of women in their child bearing years are not particularly different based on whether they have children or not - often they will buy child-centered items for friends having kids, e.g. And many middle-aged men have teenage daughters who buy books on their accounts.
If they can't ask your history, then it's not so much insurance, which spreads out risk, as it is a service contract with somebody else footing the bill for a majority of your care. Having said that, states do have high-risk pools that provide government-subsidized (but still expensive) insurance to those who can't get it elsewhere.
If you really believe this, why don't you have a part-time job for evenings and weekends?