I'm in the Southeast, but urban freeways don't count. The Beltway, doubly so. Atlanta and Dallas are off the charts.
When I was in college, a friend of mine and I came up with the idea of having one person act as a spotter, facing backward. It's amazing how fast you can weave through traffic if you don't have to look in the mirrors... we made it from exit 64 of the Long Island Expressway to the George Washington Bridge in under an hour.
Stop modding this down, guys. "Troll" and "incorrect" are not synonyms. He is expressing a commonly held viewpoint, and we are better off if both his comment and my on-point reply above are visible.
In some states, perhaps. But not in all. Just because having a law say something like that would be the logical, reasonable thing to do doesn't mean that the law actually says that logical, reasonable thing.
If you expect people to notice how long the light has been green and to slow down if it has been too long, then your problem is that your yellows are too short. Period. Drivers should pay attention to the road and the traffic around them, not the duration of lights in the distance.
That actually happened in Alabama, which passed a law prohibiting municipalities from issuing tickets on interstates unless the town had at least one exit within its borders. (Prior to that, they were annexing segments of the interstate and issuing tickets on them.)
The typical speed limit on American freeways is 70-75 MPH, depending on whether you are in the East or the West. Driving 84-90 MPH will get you a ticket for sure, but it's not normal. I drive 5-7 MPH over the limit as a general rule and have never been ticketed for doing so (in 23 years of driving I've gotten 3 speeding tickets, all for > 10 MPH over the limit). At that speed, though, I'm passing about 90+% of cars. Most people really don't drive that fast. Badly, yes, but not fast.
The answer is that they ticket the first person on the registration list. My wife, bless her beautiful self, went to college out of state and internalized the idea that parking tickets need not be paid. I almost got my driver's license revoked because she ignored a parking ticket in the city where we live, and while the car is registered in both our names, mine is first.
Campaign contributions are a drop in the bucket; it's what politicians do when they're out of office that makes the in-office stuff look like kindergarten play. Unless you plan to prohibit politicians from ever holding a job or making an investment after they leave office, people will find a legal way to pay them for their insider knowledge.
Politicians set the rules for businesses and individuals in 1790 too, you know.
You don't seriously think that the reach of the federal government in 1790 was as extensive as it is today, so don't be ridiculous.
The owner may not be able to arrest you, but he can sure as hell kick you out and ban you from ever entering again. If you come back in again, he really can have you arrested and hauled off for trespassing by actual cops.
Lack of a work ethic doesn't seem to be a big issue. Over there, they will let you starve to death. The only lazy people I saw were the Masai and other tribal types, who gathered around the entrance to every park trying to sell the same Chinese-made crap at ridiculous prices and begging when that didn't work, but presumably they're all out there doing that because it pays (and they had someone else in the family tending their herds of cattle and goats). For the rest of the people, that wasn't at all the case. Every morning the roads were crowded with kids going to school and parents going to work.
They did have a real problem with trash, though - litter all over the roadsides. Drove our guide nuts.
No, the tragedy of Asians with lots of money and a penchant for rhino horn meeting up with Masai poachers. It's not the development that's killing the animals.
I went to Kenya and Tanzania last fall (if you get the chance to see the wildebeest migration, go; it's magnificent). Kenya is one of the richest countries in Africa and has some of the best infrastructure on the continent, but it's still got a very long way to go. The primary highway from Mombasa to Nairobi and thence on to Kampala, Uganda, is a two-lane strip of pavement that doesn't even have shoulders for some fairly long segments. The Kenyan freeway includes speed bumps at pedestrian crossings. (It seemed odd at first, but since people are going to walk across the road anyway, it ended up being a fairly reasonable concession to reality.) The papers had quite a few stories about the headaches faced by large firms trying to operate in the country, some of which really are difficult to solve - for example, what to do when a piece of land planned for a factory becomes a squatters' camp? The government wants the factory to bring jobs, but it's not exactly excited about kicking a lot of voters out of their homes to do so.
I asked our guide/driver what he thought about the Chinese investment in east Africa; his take was that the roads were nice, but "wherever they go, the rhinos and elephants start disappearing". So there's that, too.
Farmers hate it because they want stores to be open at the end of the day, after they have finished their work. If everyone else changes their schedule so that they go to work around dawn and then quit after eight hours, the farmer's longer workday is not complete before everyone else goes home - so he has to waste precious daylight taking care of those things.
Yeah, living in Central I've never seen a business that is open 9-5; 10-6 are normal small-retail-shop hours, while offices are usually open 8-5 with the understanding that most will be on reduced staff during lunch 11-1 (with staggered lunch breaks so the whole place doesn't have to shut down). Hospitals usually have 7-3 shifts for those who work eight-hour shifts, 6-4 for those on a ten-hour, or something like 6:30-7:30 for those who work three 13-hour shifts a week (most common for ICU nurses, as they actually put in 12 hours of patient care and have thirty minutes at beginning and end for patient handoffs between shifts).
I suppose that the rather facile answer to your point is to say that if those conversations are that important, you need to have them now. The only time extra warning should matter is in getting certain financial affairs in order - there are some things that are easier while someone is still alive, but none of them should really be important in the same way.
Incidentally, should you or anyone else find themselves in the situation of needing to end your or a loved one's life painlessly, quickly, nonviolently, and with supplies obtained easily and legally almost anywhere on earth (any welding supply shop will have the materials), a tank of nitrogen with a regulator and a bit of tubing hooked into a standard dry cleaning bag taped to your neck will do the job. The burning sensation from holding your breath arises from carbon dioxide buildup, not lack of oxygen, and the nitrogen flow will blow that away.
Well, for starters, it will take you something like ten years of programming all the time to be able to do that sort of thing. The programming you will do will be difficult and tedious. And to do a good job of it, you'll also have to be a fully trained physician with enough experience to know how programmatically obvious solutions will fail in real life situations, so now you'll need at least ten more years of training and experience, probably more. And you're going to need a lot of you. Very few people can do both jobs at the level of skill needed to carry off this sort of thing, and very few of those are going to choose to do so.
Because obviously, his heart attack would have happened the same day as his death due to cancer.
Just because you got to spend almost a year saying goodbye doesn't mean it's a good way to die. My wife had a maternal uncle die of pancreatic cancer and a paternal aunt die of (non-smoking-related) lung cancer. Both spent their final weeks - not days, weeks - on home hospice, moaning in pain until the time for another dose of morphine came. Then they drifted into unconsciousness for an hour or two before it all started again. In the end, he tried to kill himself (but his wife found the gun before he could), and she spent her last hours crying, moaning, and screaming for someone to make it stop.
My father's metastatic cancer would have killed him if he hadn't developed renal failure requiring dialysis - he eventually elected to discontinue dialysis, correctly reasoning that fading away gently from uremia before the little crab crawled into every one of his organs and turned his every hour into a fresh torment of flayed nerve endings.
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I'm in the Southeast, but urban freeways don't count. The Beltway, doubly so. Atlanta and Dallas are off the charts.
When I was in college, a friend of mine and I came up with the idea of having one person act as a spotter, facing backward. It's amazing how fast you can weave through traffic if you don't have to look in the mirrors... we made it from exit 64 of the Long Island Expressway to the George Washington Bridge in under an hour.
Stop modding this down, guys. "Troll" and "incorrect" are not synonyms. He is expressing a commonly held viewpoint, and we are better off if both his comment and my on-point reply above are visible.
In some states, perhaps. But not in all. Just because having a law say something like that would be the logical, reasonable thing to do doesn't mean that the law actually says that logical, reasonable thing.
If you expect people to notice how long the light has been green and to slow down if it has been too long, then your problem is that your yellows are too short. Period. Drivers should pay attention to the road and the traffic around them, not the duration of lights in the distance.
That actually happened in Alabama, which passed a law prohibiting municipalities from issuing tickets on interstates unless the town had at least one exit within its borders. (Prior to that, they were annexing segments of the interstate and issuing tickets on them.)
The city that collects the fines sets the length of the yellow light. Do you see the problem now?
The city that collects the fines sets the length of the yellow light. Now do you see the problem?
The city sets the timing of the yellow light. How sure are you that you can stop on a dime?
Costs to be picked up by the loser
Your optimism is showing. Doesn't work that way in real life.
The typical speed limit on American freeways is 70-75 MPH, depending on whether you are in the East or the West. Driving 84-90 MPH will get you a ticket for sure, but it's not normal. I drive 5-7 MPH over the limit as a general rule and have never been ticketed for doing so (in 23 years of driving I've gotten 3 speeding tickets, all for > 10 MPH over the limit). At that speed, though, I'm passing about 90+% of cars. Most people really don't drive that fast. Badly, yes, but not fast.
The answer is that they ticket the first person on the registration list. My wife, bless her beautiful self, went to college out of state and internalized the idea that parking tickets need not be paid. I almost got my driver's license revoked because she ignored a parking ticket in the city where we live, and while the car is registered in both our names, mine is first.
Politicians set the rules for businesses and individuals in 1790 too, you know.
You don't seriously think that the reach of the federal government in 1790 was as extensive as it is today, so don't be ridiculous.
The owner may not be able to arrest you, but he can sure as hell kick you out and ban you from ever entering again. If you come back in again, he really can have you arrested and hauled off for trespassing by actual cops.
Who mods this shit up?
Yeah, I'd never get this published in a respectable journal. Thankfully, this is /.
Lack of a work ethic doesn't seem to be a big issue. Over there, they will let you starve to death. The only lazy people I saw were the Masai and other tribal types, who gathered around the entrance to every park trying to sell the same Chinese-made crap at ridiculous prices and begging when that didn't work, but presumably they're all out there doing that because it pays (and they had someone else in the family tending their herds of cattle and goats). For the rest of the people, that wasn't at all the case. Every morning the roads were crowded with kids going to school and parents going to work.
They did have a real problem with trash, though - litter all over the roadsides. Drove our guide nuts.
No, the tragedy of Asians with lots of money and a penchant for rhino horn meeting up with Masai poachers. It's not the development that's killing the animals.
I went to Kenya and Tanzania last fall (if you get the chance to see the wildebeest migration, go; it's magnificent). Kenya is one of the richest countries in Africa and has some of the best infrastructure on the continent, but it's still got a very long way to go. The primary highway from Mombasa to Nairobi and thence on to Kampala, Uganda, is a two-lane strip of pavement that doesn't even have shoulders for some fairly long segments. The Kenyan freeway includes speed bumps at pedestrian crossings. (It seemed odd at first, but since people are going to walk across the road anyway, it ended up being a fairly reasonable concession to reality.) The papers had quite a few stories about the headaches faced by large firms trying to operate in the country, some of which really are difficult to solve - for example, what to do when a piece of land planned for a factory becomes a squatters' camp? The government wants the factory to bring jobs, but it's not exactly excited about kicking a lot of voters out of their homes to do so.
I asked our guide/driver what he thought about the Chinese investment in east Africa; his take was that the roads were nice, but "wherever they go, the rhinos and elephants start disappearing". So there's that, too.
Farmers hate it because they want stores to be open at the end of the day, after they have finished their work. If everyone else changes their schedule so that they go to work around dawn and then quit after eight hours, the farmer's longer workday is not complete before everyone else goes home - so he has to waste precious daylight taking care of those things.
Yeah, living in Central I've never seen a business that is open 9-5; 10-6 are normal small-retail-shop hours, while offices are usually open 8-5 with the understanding that most will be on reduced staff during lunch 11-1 (with staggered lunch breaks so the whole place doesn't have to shut down). Hospitals usually have 7-3 shifts for those who work eight-hour shifts, 6-4 for those on a ten-hour, or something like 6:30-7:30 for those who work three 13-hour shifts a week (most common for ICU nurses, as they actually put in 12 hours of patient care and have thirty minutes at beginning and end for patient handoffs between shifts).
I suppose that the rather facile answer to your point is to say that if those conversations are that important, you need to have them now. The only time extra warning should matter is in getting certain financial affairs in order - there are some things that are easier while someone is still alive, but none of them should really be important in the same way.
Incidentally, should you or anyone else find themselves in the situation of needing to end your or a loved one's life painlessly, quickly, nonviolently, and with supplies obtained easily and legally almost anywhere on earth (any welding supply shop will have the materials), a tank of nitrogen with a regulator and a bit of tubing hooked into a standard dry cleaning bag taped to your neck will do the job. The burning sensation from holding your breath arises from carbon dioxide buildup, not lack of oxygen, and the nitrogen flow will blow that away.
Well, for starters, it will take you something like ten years of programming all the time to be able to do that sort of thing. The programming you will do will be difficult and tedious. And to do a good job of it, you'll also have to be a fully trained physician with enough experience to know how programmatically obvious solutions will fail in real life situations, so now you'll need at least ten more years of training and experience, probably more. And you're going to need a lot of you. Very few people can do both jobs at the level of skill needed to carry off this sort of thing, and very few of those are going to choose to do so.
... was the better choice. Forgot to finish the sentence.
Because obviously, his heart attack would have happened the same day as his death due to cancer.
Just because you got to spend almost a year saying goodbye doesn't mean it's a good way to die. My wife had a maternal uncle die of pancreatic cancer and a paternal aunt die of (non-smoking-related) lung cancer. Both spent their final weeks - not days, weeks - on home hospice, moaning in pain until the time for another dose of morphine came. Then they drifted into unconsciousness for an hour or two before it all started again. In the end, he tried to kill himself (but his wife found the gun before he could), and she spent her last hours crying, moaning, and screaming for someone to make it stop.
My father's metastatic cancer would have killed him if he hadn't developed renal failure requiring dialysis - he eventually elected to discontinue dialysis, correctly reasoning that fading away gently from uremia before the little crab crawled into every one of his organs and turned his every hour into a fresh torment of flayed nerve endings.
Not to be Debbie Downer, but if you think those are bad ways to die you've never seen someone die of metastatic cancer or emphysema.
"What did you see the defendant doing? Did he appear to be making chest compressions? Were you aware that the defendant is a certified CPR provider?"
None of that requires the defendant to take the stand.