I think it is dangerous to, say, grab your breakfast to eat in the car on your 15 min. drive to work
Doesn't that depend on your breakfast? Sure, a bowl of cereal would be a problem, but a power bar or a sausage biscuit? You pick it up once, you eat it without having to look at it, you drop the wrapper in your trash. Done.
The problem with your theory, other than its premise - that all mood-altering substances must be banned - is that banning all new molecules (or even just those synthesized from existing banned substances) under drug laws would have some really unpleasant consequences for organic chemists. You don't want to do whatever the UK equivalent of US DEA Schedule I paperwork is for everything in your lab.
Does it really need to have a finding that texting is per se reckless driving? Put a video camera in every highway patrol car. When you can show the truck weaving within (or between) lanes, speeding up and slowing down, there's your reckless driving right there. After all, 1 in 50 people can text AND drive safely.
The only interesting drugs we have access to are depressants and stimulants (and the stimulants are watched much more closely than the depressants). If you want psychedelics, you'd be far better served by getting a PhD in organic chemistry.
BTW, is your friend an anesthesiologist? I've always contended that the relatively high rate of drug abuse among anesthesiologists is a result of high-functioning drug users making a rational choice to go into the specialty with the keys to the candy store, and some of them getting in over their head.
FWIW, Fallen Angels is basically not a very good book - it's written about hardcore scifi fans for hardcore scifi fans by an author who goes to cons. The novel is a series of in-jokes that add up to a pretty mediocre whole.
If the possible downside is being on a sex-offender registry for the rest of my life, yes. Even when I was in high school, we knew the statutory rape laws.
Christ on a crutch. Make it 500 miles. Happy? I've never driven 1000 miles in a day (although I've gotten close to it), but 16 hours is no big deal if you're well rested. You pay attention when you need to and space out when you can. It's not all midtown Manhattan out there on the roads, and when your travel speed is 75 mph you can have 2h 40m of rest breaks in a 16-hour day and still average 63 mph.
It is worth noting that the current standards for "drunk driving" are really more about impaired than drunk driving. If you go back and look at the BAC-accident rate graphs, the knee is around 0.15 - which is what the original limits for DUI were. Those people are drunk. Someone with a BAC of 0.08 has impaired reaction times, and shouldn't drive - but they're not the ones who do the really spectacular wrecks.
Very, very occasionally. As said in The House of God: "This man is going to die. Would you like him to have the benefit of a surgical intervention first?"
Yeah, it does, and in the tests I saw back in the 90s, even then it was beaten only by experienced racers. Your interlocutor might have said something dumb, but it would be perfectly reasonable to say that the whole point of ABS is that the computer can figure out the braking threshold faster and better than nearly all drivers.
Unless you're an actual race driver or a serious hypermiler, the manual isn't doing anything other than making you think you're a race driver or hypermiler and increasing the complexity of the actions necessary to drive.
Yes. Absolutely. I can't stand his show, actually, but I get really tired of the Rush haters. He's just a radio host. When I come across radio hosts I dislike, I ignore them. I don't listen to their shows. I don't care how many listeners they have. I suspect that I would not care especially much for Colbert or Stewart (I don't get Comedy Central and have never watched either one), but frankly I don't give a damn what they think, even if other people do.
He's Hitler with no political ambitions.
Head back up to GP of my post, where you find:
Biased and misleading info should be kept from view
He's a True Believer. You can't fix them; you just have to ignore them. In his mind, Rush Limbaugh isn't an over-the-top radio host who occasionally asks a good question in the midst of rants; he's the embodiment of pure evil on earth who takes a break from whipping third world slaves in his basement only to have a fresh blended puppy shake with a baby seal topping served piping hot from a giant open-air fire fueled only with tropical hardwoods.
The Hipster Papers will survive by funding from Soros and Buffett, two men whose opinions on politics will start to mean something to me the moment they qualify 100% of their income as wages.
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Unless they have dedicated truck roads with no other traffic, it's more dangerous to have vehicles traveling at different speeds.
I think it is dangerous to, say, grab your breakfast to eat in the car on your 15 min. drive to work
Doesn't that depend on your breakfast? Sure, a bowl of cereal would be a problem, but a power bar or a sausage biscuit? You pick it up once, you eat it without having to look at it, you drop the wrapper in your trash. Done.
The problem with your theory, other than its premise - that all mood-altering substances must be banned - is that banning all new molecules (or even just those synthesized from existing banned substances) under drug laws would have some really unpleasant consequences for organic chemists. You don't want to do whatever the UK equivalent of US DEA Schedule I paperwork is for everything in your lab.
Does it really need to have a finding that texting is per se reckless driving? Put a video camera in every highway patrol car. When you can show the truck weaving within (or between) lanes, speeding up and slowing down, there's your reckless driving right there. After all, 1 in 50 people can text AND drive safely.
The only interesting drugs we have access to are depressants and stimulants (and the stimulants are watched much more closely than the depressants). If you want psychedelics, you'd be far better served by getting a PhD in organic chemistry.
BTW, is your friend an anesthesiologist? I've always contended that the relatively high rate of drug abuse among anesthesiologists is a result of high-functioning drug users making a rational choice to go into the specialty with the keys to the candy store, and some of them getting in over their head.
Try Craigslist; I think they're still there.
FWIW, Fallen Angels is basically not a very good book - it's written about hardcore scifi fans for hardcore scifi fans by an author who goes to cons. The novel is a series of in-jokes that add up to a pretty mediocre whole.
Everywhere in the usa.
Nope. Try again.
If the possible downside is being on a sex-offender registry for the rest of my life, yes. Even when I was in high school, we knew the statutory rape laws.
Self-updating Rolodex.
1. Don't post anything on Facebook that you wouldn't mind being read out over the loudspeaker at your work, your school, or your boss' church.
Christ on a crutch. Make it 500 miles. Happy? I've never driven 1000 miles in a day (although I've gotten close to it), but 16 hours is no big deal if you're well rested. You pay attention when you need to and space out when you can. It's not all midtown Manhattan out there on the roads, and when your travel speed is 75 mph you can have 2h 40m of rest breaks in a 16-hour day and still average 63 mph.
Would you be happier if I had said 480 miles, which could easily be accomplished in a totally safe eight hours of 60 mph average, you cocksucker?
It is worth noting that the current standards for "drunk driving" are really more about impaired than drunk driving. If you go back and look at the BAC-accident rate graphs, the knee is around 0.15 - which is what the original limits for DUI were. Those people are drunk. Someone with a BAC of 0.08 has impaired reaction times, and shouldn't drive - but they're not the ones who do the really spectacular wrecks.
patient can occasionally be saved
Very, very occasionally. As said in The House of God: "This man is going to die. Would you like him to have the benefit of a surgical intervention first?"
ABS generally works
Yeah, it does, and in the tests I saw back in the 90s, even then it was beaten only by experienced racers. Your interlocutor might have said something dumb, but it would be perfectly reasonable to say that the whole point of ABS is that the computer can figure out the braking threshold faster and better than nearly all drivers.
Let me guess: you've never driven 1000 miles in a day, have you?
Unless you're an actual race driver or a serious hypermiler, the manual isn't doing anything other than making you think you're a race driver or hypermiler and increasing the complexity of the actions necessary to drive.
I know a guy who watch six hours of "The Puppy Bowl" while high
Kids, this is why your parents tell you that pot makes you a loser. Just FYI.
Well, I'd be lying if I said I never wondered what it might be like to violate a Scientologist.
He's a paid entertainer
Yes. Absolutely. I can't stand his show, actually, but I get really tired of the Rush haters. He's just a radio host. When I come across radio hosts I dislike, I ignore them. I don't listen to their shows. I don't care how many listeners they have. I suspect that I would not care especially much for Colbert or Stewart (I don't get Comedy Central and have never watched either one), but frankly I don't give a damn what they think, even if other people do.
He's Hitler with no political ambitions.
Head back up to GP of my post, where you find:
Biased and misleading info should be kept from view
There's your budding fascist.
He's a True Believer. You can't fix them; you just have to ignore them. In his mind, Rush Limbaugh isn't an over-the-top radio host who occasionally asks a good question in the midst of rants; he's the embodiment of pure evil on earth who takes a break from whipping third world slaves in his basement only to have a fresh blended puppy shake with a baby seal topping served piping hot from a giant open-air fire fueled only with tropical hardwoods.
The Hipster Papers will survive by funding from Soros and Buffett, two men whose opinions on politics will start to mean something to me the moment they qualify 100% of their income as wages.
Free rein. Not normally a grammar nazi, but since the phrase appears to work with either word, I like to keep its origins alive.
Anywhere physically, yes. But AT&T and T-Mo don't roam on each other's data networks.