Drivers can also hear ads on the car radio, but my specific point is that using a cell phone while driving ALWAYS diverts a small amount of attention from the focus of safe driving. This has been proven. Additionally, someone also listening to an ad on the phone has a further reduction of focus. Yes, conversations with passengers ARE also distracting and they are a cause of accidents especially in teen drivers. But my point was about ads and cell phones and not on the wholly differing topic of passenger distraction of drivers. We're talking about apples versus oranges, both are fruits but one does not override discussion of the other.
On the comment So yes, ads are distracting, but no matter what the "psychology of advertising" says, they're really only a very minor distraction.
No, that is your opinion, but it is an opinion and not backed by reality. Go read about the psychology of advertising and what is known in that field instead of insisting your opinion overrides research and 40 years of experience by the people in that field. Further, they may not distract you, but you are not representing a full spectrum of samples of drivers.
"Driver distraction in its various forms contributes to an estimated 20 to 30 percent of all collisions. A US study published last year determined driver distraction was a factor in about nine percent of serious or fatal crashes, based on police-reported crashes involving over 32,000 vehicles from 1995 to 1999. Close to 30 percent of the distraction-related crashes were attributed to something outside the vehicle - people, objects or events. Adjusting a radio, CD player or the like accounted for 11.4 percent. Other vehicle occupants were blamed in a further 10.9 percent; for example, dealing with children and conversations with passengers. Eating or drinking led to 1.7 percent of distraction-related crashes, and 1.5 percent involved using a mobile phone."
An AAA study shows "Young drivers (under 20 years of age) were the most likely to be
involved in distraction-related crashes. In addition, certain types of distractions
were more prominent in certain age groups, for example, adjusting the
radio, cassette or CD among the under 20-year-olds".
I maintain that ads on free cellphones will raise the percentages measurably, hence ads on cellphones may be undesirable. Your position that they are not of consequence is untenable.
You're distorting the issue. The ads are one time-slice, the call another. My comments are about the ad time-slice. My point is that ads are ALWAYS fine-tuned by the ad agency to maximize their ability to lock in your attention from anything else during the time they are on. If you dispute that, you simply don't understand anything about the ad industry. So for many people there will be a measurable difference between attention focus during the time of the ad versus the call time. If you don't like what I say, that's tough, because it's based on known psychology. I have $50 that says you cannot watch the Superbowl half-time ads and quickly solve partial differential equations at the same time as fast as you could if the TV were off.
The specific purpose of an ad is to draw your attention to its contents. Advertisers specialize in this, it is the mainstay of creating ads. So, yes, the specific purpose of ads is to distract you from your environment. This is well known and accepted. I'm not making this up, you can go look up the psychology of advertising. That's why ads on cell phones in a driver's hands are a very bad idea. When you add that to the easy distractability of teens, it can multiply the chances of an accident. Not everybody has the iron willpower and focus of Green Lantern, you know.
Every 30 second ad is 1/2 minute of your life you'll never have again. Do you really want your life slowly eaten by ads?
Oh, and what happens when a teenager driving a car and listening to an ad isn't paying attention to the road. On average, let's say. Is it okay that once in 100 times they aren't focused on you in the crosswalk? Ok, too much? 500 times then. 10,000 times? And on that 10,000th time, they hit you. To whom was that ad of benefit?
Here at the Transylvania Institute of Technology we have... pioneered new ways of... extracting... energy from.. blood. The blood... is the life. We have few nuclear electric energy generating plants, but many.. peasants. Although.. fewer than before. Pardon me, I must go now, and... sleep. Visit me at the university. My office hours are 9PM to 5AM. Welcome. Bring beautiful girls.
This just in: a spy camel loaded with camera gear was just arrested lurking outside the White House, trying to look inconspicuous. Cheney told reporters: "Obviously it was planted by the Iranians. This is cause to go to war!" He then rode off on a wooden horse, blowing a tin bugle and cackling insanely, leaving a trail of oil and carnage behind him. After throwing their notes away, reporters retired for a drink... make that, many drinks.
I protest, in defense of Dawson. This Executive Order, issued IMMEDIATELY by Bush once he knew Congress could not stop his war effort, is clearly of importance to the people of the United States. The EO is yet another power grab and can be abused quite easily in these days of secret courts and no habeas corpus. The EO in effect threatens the ability of US citizens to protest government policy aimed at attaching the oil assets of Iraq for the sake of Cheney's oil induistry friends. The tone of the rightwingers attacking Dawson, and their repudiation of the desirability of posting this information, show them to be rabid defenders of the establishment. Given that the establisment is corrupt and criminal, I'd say Dawson is in the right and you loudmouthed mob of O'Reillys are in the wrong.
Technically, it's not a Giant Baby Mammoth but the Economy Size Baby Mammoth, which feeds between 4 to 6 caveman families. Keep frozen until use. Do Not Refreeze.
Oven Preparation Instructions:
1. Place on large spit.
2. Build really big fire.
3. Keep Ugg, Son of Hoogah and his Sister Dimbo, away from fire.
Microwave Preparation Instructions:
(Hey, do you think we're stoopid? Cavemen didn't HAVE microwaves. They only had rotisserie cookers.)
Microwave Mammoth NOT RECOMMENDED.
For delicious mammoth recipes, write: Creation Science Cooking Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
I followed that story very carefully. He was a legitimate student and was not trespassing. The rent-a-cops assaulted himn repeatedly in front of many people. The rent-a-cops threatened legitimate students who protested the treatment as they saw him Tasered while lying on the floor not resisting but trying to get up as ordered after being Tasered. It seems to me your framing of the situation is false. Also, where was it ever found that he'd assaulted a librarian? Where did this factoid come from?
I think it's time to sell cheap, conductive underwear to all. Maybe just a cheap aluminized Mylar under-vest, flimsy as a space blanket, but cheap and universal and available in S-M-L. And maybe we need jeans with conductive threads interwoven. But this proliferation of dumb cops with lethal Tasers has got to stop. Ask that UCLA student Tasered repeatedly inside a building after he collapsed. You don't use lethal force on unarmed people, and we have the right to shield ourselves against sanctioned sociopaths on power trips.
DNA analysis reveals it's an ocean-going descendent of the ManBearPig genus. Scientists are afraid to speculate what it tastes like, but Wal-Mart shoppers probably will know that soon.
In column one of his article he states: "Electric current enters the capacitor through a wire and then spreads out across the surface of the plate in the same way as ripples flow out from a stone dropped in a pond."
What's my point on this? Well, it's known in audio design that the design and construction of capacitors radically affects quality of the sound signals. There are hearable differences in performance of coupling capacitors. Perhaps consideration of surface plasmons from a capacitor materials science standpoint could lead to better capacitors for high-end audio.
Just as long as the lithium batteries aren't made by Sony, with extraneous metal particles, and prone to catastrophic thermal runaway failure. As in "Dear, what's smoking?" "Bob, Honey, I think it's YOU! And your chest is glowing!" "Arrrrgggghhhhh!" (plop)
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In the fullness of time, iRobot will no doubt introduce a robot that can remove weed from your carpet, clean the seeds and stems out, and leave only pure bud in the tray.
Also, the Danish engineers probably will have to arm their robots to protect them from angry, paranoid pot-growers everywhere.
Finally, a robot with cat-shaped grippers and a cat-Taser will be welcome, although a simple cat-sized mulching attachment would be just fine by me.
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The thing is, a lightning bolt can deliver an electric current of 40 to 120 kiloamperes, 500 megajoules, and because of this can heat a surface to 28,000 C (50,000 F). I believe that is for a strike to a grounded object. Now, a flying object wouldn't get that much current but you can't really repel a strike and I think it would take a good solid hit.
Sure, Faraday cage shielding diverts energy around what is inside a cage (i.e., aluminum hull of an aircraft, say, around passengers) but there is still damage at the point of contact which heats up.
Let's say a vehicle in air travelled through clouds and picked up a large accumulation of charge in metal of the hull. Then a lighting bolt, attracted to the charge, hits. So a large current could be passed into an area on the vehicle. Hard to prevent that. Objects do pick up such charge, as evidenced by the phenomenon of St Elmo's fire on aircraft.
Commercial vacuum deposition of metals (PVD): of course it had been observed, and done to a limited extent, even in 1838 by Faraday but it was not commercialized and certainly not done in volume, not in this period, and not done over large surface areas. Chemical deposition of course was used but not for putting metallization on the crude plastics of the late 1940s either.
Plastics: around WWII era, plastics were rigid mostly inflexible things like Nylon, Lucite (acrylic), plexiglas. We had neoprene but we didn't have polyester or polyethylene films. Movies were on crude cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate stock but nobody was making big wide sheets of tough flexible plastic usable for construction. Cellophane was prevalent, mylar not. If you were around in the late 1940s, you'd know the bulk of commercial plastics were crude things like Bakelite, and the lack of much else. I challenge you to find commercial products from this period using thin tough flexible 2D plastic of any area.
I stand behind my statements that the materials of the crashed object were not common for the time, and we certainly didn't have thin tough metallized foil-like, Mylar-like materials.
"airplane pilots had to stick their heads out into the air stream" -- much better than sticking one's head up one's ass, AC.
Accounts at the time noted there had been a massive thunder and lightning storm. Maybe they took a really big lightning hit. My guess is that what went down was only a small kind of landing craft, not the big boy. Probably couldn't take a massive lightning strike.
And given the huge number of people deployed to cover many acres looking to retrieve SMALL debris, no weather balloon or Russian nuke detector payload would have justified such effort. And several local people did find and see unusual materials, notably thin yet very strong metallic foil. That was not a technology of the time. Unless we had some form of stiff Mylar, but why aluminize it for a 1947 balloon? And we didn't really have any vacuum-deposition for plastic films technology back then. Remember, plastics technology of the time was limited to Bakelite and other hard chunky plastics, not thin films; the plastics revolution had not yet occurred. Cellophane maybe but nothing better.
And in particular, why would they have rushed to gather a large amount of dry ice, as a local coroner noted occurred, unless there was something likely to chemically or biologically degrade?
As for the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance close to zero, I refute that simply by pointing to Dick Cheney.
Consider the treatment of activists outside the last Republican convention in NYC. It's clear that this 'permitting' will affect grass-roots coverage of what happens to protesters. Excellent means for controlling protesters if you can deny documenting activity. Obviously police could restrict photography during the long periods of conventions and in the worst case, prevent public coverage of abuses. So many ways this could be used negatively. Given what did happen to protesters last time, this is going to collide eventually with civil rights and hammer them flat.
"Mr. Revere? Pull your horse over. Let's see your permit for this 'midnight ride'. No permit? Look out, boys, he's armed with a lantern! Taser him and the horse too!"
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On the comment So yes, ads are distracting, but no matter what the "psychology of advertising" says, they're really only a very minor distraction.
No, that is your opinion, but it is an opinion and not backed by reality. Go read about the psychology of advertising and what is known in that field instead of insisting your opinion overrides research and 40 years of experience by the people in that field. Further, they may not distract you, but you are not representing a full spectrum of samples of drivers.
"Driver distraction in its various forms contributes to an estimated 20 to 30 percent of all collisions. A US study published last year determined driver distraction was a factor in about nine percent of serious or fatal crashes, based on police-reported crashes involving over 32,000 vehicles from 1995 to 1999. Close to 30 percent of the distraction-related crashes were attributed to something outside the vehicle - people, objects or events. Adjusting a radio, CD player or the like accounted for 11.4 percent. Other vehicle occupants were blamed in a further 10.9 percent; for example, dealing with children and conversations with passengers. Eating or drinking led to 1.7 percent of distraction-related crashes, and 1.5 percent involved using a mobile phone."
This comes from http://www.safety-council.org/news/sc/2002/distrac t.html
An AAA study shows "Young drivers (under 20 years of age) were the most likely to be involved in distraction-related crashes. In addition, certain types of distractions were more prominent in certain age groups, for example, adjusting the radio, cassette or CD among the under 20-year-olds".
I maintain that ads on free cellphones will raise the percentages measurably, hence ads on cellphones may be undesirable. Your position that they are not of consequence is untenable.
You're distorting the issue. The ads are one time-slice, the call another. My comments are about the ad time-slice. My point is that ads are ALWAYS fine-tuned by the ad agency to maximize their ability to lock in your attention from anything else during the time they are on. If you dispute that, you simply don't understand anything about the ad industry. So for many people there will be a measurable difference between attention focus during the time of the ad versus the call time. If you don't like what I say, that's tough, because it's based on known psychology. I have $50 that says you cannot watch the Superbowl half-time ads and quickly solve partial differential equations at the same time as fast as you could if the TV were off.
The specific purpose of an ad is to draw your attention to its contents. Advertisers specialize in this, it is the mainstay of creating ads. So, yes, the specific purpose of ads is to distract you from your environment. This is well known and accepted. I'm not making this up, you can go look up the psychology of advertising. That's why ads on cell phones in a driver's hands are a very bad idea. When you add that to the easy distractability of teens, it can multiply the chances of an accident. Not everybody has the iron willpower and focus of Green Lantern, you know.
Oh, and what happens when a teenager driving a car and listening to an ad isn't paying attention to the road. On average, let's say. Is it okay that once in 100 times they aren't focused on you in the crosswalk? Ok, too much? 500 times then. 10,000 times? And on that 10,000th time, they hit you. To whom was that ad of benefit?
Wait. Are we talking about a mouse, or a guy with an iPhone at Starbucks?
Here at the Transylvania Institute of Technology we have ... pioneered new ways of ... extracting ... energy from .. blood. The blood ... is the life. We have few nuclear electric energy generating plants, but many .. peasants. Although .. fewer than before. Pardon me, I must go now, and ... sleep. Visit me at the university. My office hours are 9PM to 5AM. Welcome. Bring beautiful girls.
This just in: a spy camel loaded with camera gear was just arrested lurking outside the White House, trying to look inconspicuous. Cheney told reporters: "Obviously it was planted by the Iranians. This is cause to go to war!" He then rode off on a wooden horse, blowing a tin bugle and cackling insanely, leaving a trail of oil and carnage behind him. After throwing their notes away, reporters retired for a drink... make that, many drinks.
I protest, in defense of Dawson. This Executive Order, issued IMMEDIATELY by Bush once he knew Congress could not stop his war effort, is clearly of importance to the people of the United States. The EO is yet another power grab and can be abused quite easily in these days of secret courts and no habeas corpus. The EO in effect threatens the ability of US citizens to protest government policy aimed at attaching the oil assets of Iraq for the sake of Cheney's oil induistry friends. The tone of the rightwingers attacking Dawson, and their repudiation of the desirability of posting this information, show them to be rabid defenders of the establishment. Given that the establisment is corrupt and criminal, I'd say Dawson is in the right and you loudmouthed mob of O'Reillys are in the wrong.
And now I can afford to buy my single-wide! And have smokes, beer, and beef jerky for the rest of my life!
My brother's a Ford mechanic but he ain't never heard of quantums though. WTF is they?
Space brassiere. One small step for a woman, a giant throbbing problem for mankind.
Oven Preparation Instructions:
1. Place on large spit.
2. Build really big fire.
3. Keep Ugg, Son of Hoogah and his Sister Dimbo, away from fire.
Microwave Preparation Instructions:
(Hey, do you think we're stoopid? Cavemen didn't HAVE microwaves. They only had rotisserie cookers.)
Microwave Mammoth NOT RECOMMENDED.
For delicious mammoth recipes, write: Creation Science Cooking Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
I followed that story very carefully. He was a legitimate student and was not trespassing. The rent-a-cops assaulted himn repeatedly in front of many people. The rent-a-cops threatened legitimate students who protested the treatment as they saw him Tasered while lying on the floor not resisting but trying to get up as ordered after being Tasered. It seems to me your framing of the situation is false. Also, where was it ever found that he'd assaulted a librarian? Where did this factoid come from?
I think it's time to sell cheap, conductive underwear to all. Maybe just a cheap aluminized Mylar under-vest, flimsy as a space blanket, but cheap and universal and available in S-M-L. And maybe we need jeans with conductive threads interwoven. But this proliferation of dumb cops with lethal Tasers has got to stop. Ask that UCLA student Tasered repeatedly inside a building after he collapsed. You don't use lethal force on unarmed people, and we have the right to shield ourselves against sanctioned sociopaths on power trips.
It won't be *labeled* as seafood...
DNA analysis reveals it's an ocean-going descendent of the ManBearPig genus. Scientists are afraid to speculate what it tastes like, but Wal-Mart shoppers probably will know that soon.
In column one of his article he states: "Electric current enters the capacitor through a wire and then spreads out across the surface of the plate in the same way as ripples flow out from a stone dropped in a pond."
What's my point on this? Well, it's known in audio design that the design and construction of capacitors radically affects quality of the sound signals. There are hearable differences in performance of coupling capacitors. Perhaps consideration of surface plasmons from a capacitor materials science standpoint could lead to better capacitors for high-end audio.
On the other hand, this how IronMan got started.
Alas, you cannot know. But I ask you trust me, and send me $20 in the mail, and your kind help will be rewarded 100 fold. Simply send the money to: Occupant, Box 13, Alcatraz Island, California. In no time at all the free energy from your emails will be turned into green power benefitting the planet. I assure you I will retain your return address to which I shall send multiple profits from this worthy endeavor. P.S. My brother in Nigeria also sends you his regards, and wonders if he could send you a missive.
Also, the Danish engineers probably will have to arm their robots to protect them from angry, paranoid pot-growers everywhere.
Finally, a robot with cat-shaped grippers and a cat-Taser will be welcome, although a simple cat-sized mulching attachment would be just fine by me.
I have perfected a process to turn useless comments in Slashdot into energy! All I need are a few investors in this wonderful Web 2.0 opportunity. Please email me at mrbogo@ponzischeme.com
Let's say a vehicle in air travelled through clouds and picked up a large accumulation of charge in metal of the hull. Then a lighting bolt, attracted to the charge, hits. So a large current could be passed into an area on the vehicle. Hard to prevent that. Objects do pick up such charge, as evidenced by the phenomenon of St Elmo's fire on aircraft.
Plastics: around WWII era, plastics were rigid mostly inflexible things like Nylon, Lucite (acrylic), plexiglas. We had neoprene but we didn't have polyester or polyethylene films. Movies were on crude cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate stock but nobody was making big wide sheets of tough flexible plastic usable for construction. Cellophane was prevalent, mylar not. If you were around in the late 1940s, you'd know the bulk of commercial plastics were crude things like Bakelite, and the lack of much else. I challenge you to find commercial products from this period using thin tough flexible 2D plastic of any area.
I stand behind my statements that the materials of the crashed object were not common for the time, and we certainly didn't have thin tough metallized foil-like, Mylar-like materials.
"airplane pilots had to stick their heads out into the air stream" -- much better than sticking one's head up one's ass, AC.
That WOULD explain why he told a Senator, "Bite my shiny metal ass!"
And given the huge number of people deployed to cover many acres looking to retrieve SMALL debris, no weather balloon or Russian nuke detector payload would have justified such effort. And several local people did find and see unusual materials, notably thin yet very strong metallic foil. That was not a technology of the time. Unless we had some form of stiff Mylar, but why aluminize it for a 1947 balloon? And we didn't really have any vacuum-deposition for plastic films technology back then. Remember, plastics technology of the time was limited to Bakelite and other hard chunky plastics, not thin films; the plastics revolution had not yet occurred. Cellophane maybe but nothing better.
And in particular, why would they have rushed to gather a large amount of dry ice, as a local coroner noted occurred, unless there was something likely to chemically or biologically degrade?
As for the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance close to zero, I refute that simply by pointing to Dick Cheney.
"Mr. Revere? Pull your horse over. Let's see your permit for this 'midnight ride'. No permit? Look out, boys, he's armed with a lantern! Taser him and the horse too!"