This is why I find the flaming and ranting and social polarization so flat out ridiculous...
My whore leans to the left... you're an idiot, everyone knows a whore should lean to the right. Guys, the operative word here is "Whore" someone who sells themselves as a function of performing social acts for pay. The fact yours lean in different directions doesn't alter the fundamental economic reality. America has one party, the Republicrats. Some of them talk blue and some talk red, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, they are all about the green and everything else is just frosting on a cow flop.
This is exactly right. There are so many things you can do off the grid with a little thinking. You can build a solar grill or oven with cardboard and aluminum foil. Get bother the standard and the HEAVY DUTY which is about 2-4 times as thick, it makes a great small construction material, insulator and can be formed.Case in point, you make a parabolic dish out of cardboard, line it with aluminum foil shiny side out and you can boil water, fry, even start fires with it. A clever person with a properly filled 30 pound (14 Kg) day pack, could easily carry enough food and tools to find/catching more to last as long as they need.
You go to REI, buy up a large supply of pretty decent freeze dried dehydrated food that will last WAY longer. Better yet, there was a wonderful model home for energy efficiency in Denver, they had a 200 sq. ft walk-in refrigerator/freezer (underground) than operated on 10 watts. With a small modification you could do a three stage freezer with a Fridge, Light Freeze and Deep Freeze. Keep your zones well separated and everything well insulated. But you could store meat, and a wide variety of cooked and flash frozen veggies in the deep freeze for years. Running on only 10 - 15 watts, It could have its own solar power and run indefinitely.
As for long term storage, anything make of living matter (plant or animal) irradiated and sealed in a hermetic pouch can last for a couple years. Sooner or later the proteins and enzymes in the food will break it down, and it will get nasty. NASA tests these things for long space flights, and because food is both a social moment and an opportunity for personal enjoyment (important on long tedious missions) they want to know how long food can be made to stay delicious and visually appealing.
For a generation raised on Taco Bell and School Cafeteria Food (canned peas.... eeewwwww), MREs are just fine. For folks who are interested in real food... Drying, Canning, and Freezing are still your best solutions. Back when most folks lived on farms, this was a given, and the amount of amazing food available to make from these processes is simply mind numbing. That and dehydration reduces food volume by anywhere from 60% to 99%. This means you can put a whole lot more good things in the little shelter. Just remember whole dried fruit will reconstitute in your GI tract, and anyone who hasn't experienced eating a dozen dried prune, apricots, peaches, pears... pick a fruit, then followed that with about a liter of water... well let's just say that if your were constipated... you aren't any more (stand back, she's gonna blow!!!)
You might just be a terrorist...
- If you consider C-4 an undergarment...
- If your shoes provide energy return, light up when you walk and go BOOM...
- If your Gawd is bigger than their Gawd and you're willing to fight about it...
- If your idea of "Spraying Pests" includes an automatic machine gun...
- If you're setting off a nuke sounds like the Mutha of all Weenie Roasts...
- If a businessman walking down the street holding out his hand yells "Hi Jack" and you pull a gun...
You're right this works pretty good... Thank you Mr. Foxworthy!
You're absolutely right in fact the whole rabid religions from the dessert have been responsible for most of the general unhappiness in Eurasia for the better part of a thousand years, and the world at large for the last 500. Why does it seem that that whenever someone hears the voice of God, s/he feels compelled to shove it someone else's ear? We are funny hairless monkeys, eh?
Let's remember that in the entire history of this country, we've been invaded once (by our Mother Country), attacked once (at Pearl Harbor), and been terrorized once (on 9/11). Moreover, we had really good intelligence in each case that these events were coming and simply screwed up managing that information (if you believe the official versions or allowed them to happen for one reason or another if you believe in conspiracies.)
The whole point of terrorism is similar to an allergic reaction. The response outweighs the event so dramatically that it does infinitely more harm than the event itself. That isn't to say that blowing up the twin towers wasn't an affront to human dignity. It is to say that the number of innocent people that died as a result of that affront so outnumber the affront itself as to dwarf it to near invisibility, and worse, most of the people that died were innocent Iraqi bystanders who had no dog in the fight to begin with. In an allergic reaction your immune system can charge all the way up to anaphylaxis and death all over a few peanut molecules. We have to be very careful to teach people to weigh threats according to reality and when we catch politicians using the boogie man to scare the public into voting for abominations and the gutting of the Constitution, we need to drag these people out in public places and show the nation who the real terrorists are.
Depends on how smart the advertizing algorithm is... If the add next to your puking Frat Bro is Peptobismol... then it makes way more sense than trying to sell that stuff with Kate Moss. Even Kate Moss puking. If you could use artificial intelligence to categorize facebook images and add metadata tags to them, then you could create who genres of advertizement specific to the images on a person's page and have a much better shot at capitalizing on the images. The problem isn't the social network, its the intelligent leveraging of all that data without pinching the users so hard they all bail.
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1. The Han River is a tributary fork of the Yangtze, what you see on the Han, you see on the Yangtze shortly there after.
2. I beg your pardon, Permanganates can range anywhere from deep purple to red depending on the metal, and this didn't have to be an identical dumping, Iron oxides, certain lead compounds (already responsible for colorful pollution on smaller rivers), even cinnabar (mercury sulphate) could color water red. I mention in the first paragraph we could be looking at any one of a number of industrial effluents that could produce this result. Some of the organic dyes (especially the concentrated oil based dyes) might produce a suspension and even a small amount could color a tremendous amount of water. Geologist working on glaciers melting use such dye and their capacity to color water can exceed tens, even hundreds of millions to one. Just last year powerful dyes were illegally dumped in the Jian River through storm drainage.
3. Water pollutants fall into large groups, some of which are soluble, many not. That said, most of the non-soluble would for emulsions and not suspensions.
There are also a group of geologists who are suggesting a recent earthquake upstream may have released a significant amount of vermiculated (iron oxide rich) clay into the river, so I will concede the possibility that this is a natural event predicated on a sequence of events that together would occur very rarely.
Exactly, when the countries had their own currencies, they could devalue accordingly and their economies could normalize in a meaningful way. With everyone using the same currency managing debt between sovereign nations becomes extremely complicated and leads to unfortunately draconian economic measures in the debtor nations.
China is notorious for its poor environmental practices and there are so many ways to get red, from organic pollutants to heavy metal salts to industrial dyes and coloring agents. The "Golden Watercourse" has run golden for many thousands of years, the chance of a sudden color shift not the result of human intervention (read dumping) though possible is vanishingly remote.
A similar event along the Yangtze happened in February of 2008 when the river ran red and authorities found large amounts of Ammonium Nitrate and Metal Permanganates.
A large number of folks talk about the advantages for business and society of not having to tow strict environmental laws and regulations. The advantages for business are clear, society as a whole, not so much. China is a good place to look at what happens when people do as they please. The results are sometime ugly and other times full on disasters.
The Government will contract crackers to hack your company using exploits inside of the limits specified by the annual security proposal. The crackers get a little something something for their effort plus a bit more if they find new and interesting ways to break people security (fixes for which will be added to next years security standard.)
If they break in, they will levee a "Fine" from your bank account, set aside for security tax and charged for non compliance (by the way this "Fine" is prededucted from the annual tax burden.) This means that every company on the country has an opportunity to save a chunk of change for complying with national security standards and they can make out like bandits year after year if they only invest in the minimum necessary for keeping black hats at bay.
Actually if this is rural Texas, its going to be some idiot from out of state flying at warp 9 into the back of some Bubba who just pulled on with a Tractor, speed differential will be 70 MPH, the Bubba will lose his back hoe, and the idiot will go home in a coke bottle.
You ever drive in Southern California??? Leave more than 1.5 car lengths in from and somebody just slips right in. In fact as you keep backing up to get your space back and cars keep slipping in, you become a hazard to navigation because you are in fact now traveling slower than the traffic in your lane. The simple fact is that if you live in a place where tailgating is the accepted norm, you don't get a say.
In places in SoCal where this behavior is particularly bad, there is a long history of huge accidents involving many cars (especially in bad weather... literally a precipitating event for crashing.)
Please tell me what you mean by best? Fastest? Safest? Most likely to allow you to walk away from a 65mph crash under your own power? Prettiest? Longest lasting? Most reliable? Biggest, largest, carrying the most payload? What do mean by best. I was shopping around and looked at a used Ford Taurus with about 105,000 miles on it. Took it a transmission shop because the tranny felt a little sticky. The guy there said "Look at what's in front of my shop." "Chevy, Ford, Ford, Chevy, GM, Ford, Chevy, Ford...."What don't you see here?" "Anything with a Japanese make..." There were over fifty cars in his lot (Its a big shop), there were 3 Japanese cars, and they all had insane mileage (one Toyota was approaching 350,000 miles on its original transmission) while a lot of the American cars had less than 120,000 miles on them. American automotive manufacturers design their cars to fail shortly after the warranty expires, because dammit, it time for you to buy a new car. Compare the number of Japanese cars at 250,000 miles and above in the want adds to American made cars. There just aren't that many left at 250,000 miles. So, I don't know. Maybe you have a completely different idea of what comprises the best car in the World... I'd love to hear what that is.
Friend you have to remember that force is MV^2... the V is actually more important than the M. You may be right about initial impacts regarding vehicles all moving the same speed, but very soon you have a bunch of disabled stationery object sitting in a road where they're in danger over being hit by other objects moving at most or all of that 85 mph. I've seen on the 405 in Southern CA. Traffic in all 5 lanes moving normally, then suddenly everything comes to a sudden halt, and the first few cars stop in time, but back 10 or 12 cars, you start hearing the unpleasant squeal of locked wheels and crunch of cars suddenly getting much shorter. Do that at 85 mph instead of 55 mph back in the 70s and the only word that pops up in my head is CARnage.
Your stopping distance is also off. Well not exactly, but the stopping distance has two components. There is the time it takes the car to stop once the brakes are applied but there is also the time it takes for the human being to react to hit the brakes in the first place. At 60 mph you're traveling at 88 fps, so with the.4-.6 second delay from the time you perceive trouble to the actual time you react you've already traveled 35 - 55 feet. If the problem that you need to stop over is a road obstacle, traveling at 90 mph make the distance from the instant you see the threat to stop for even your Porsche nearly 250 ft. Imagine a teenager texting, or a guy who's had a few too many cervezas. These are not rare unheard of phenomenon. Think about a blown tire. How will a tire blow react when it is traveling 90 mph vs. 60 mph? How will your car react when it looses a wheel at 90 mph?
I'm not saying that traveling too slow isn't a problem too. The vehicles driving the roads of Texas aren't made for the Autobahn. They're made for 65 mph. I am saying that the amount of damage and injury that will be endured at a 30 mph collision is going to be fundamentally different than the kind of damage that will be accrued at 90 mph and my friend, say all you want but in the end MV^2 wins, Newton will kick Texas' pink fuzzy butt, and if they had a better grasp of science they'd know why an 85 mph speed limit is inherently a bad idea.
You want a workable solution, push Goggles driverless car. Then you do away with collisions and you can meaningfully talk about reading a newspaper and drinking coffee while your car drives at 150 mph on a mag-lev highway.
There are now black boxes in most cars and I can imagine a world where that information could be automatically communicated to the authorities if your you're speeding, especially of they add speed beacons to roads, making you responsible for keeping the speed, or paying the automatic ticket if you don't. I'm surprised that haven't already done it as a law and order thing and in the face of huge state budget deficits.
Friend, on one level you're absolutely right, that is, roads designed for speed tend to be relatively safe. The fact is however, that when accidents happen on high speed roads, they are gruesome and tend to involve for more vehicles that on slower road. Those accidents also tend to have higher body counts. Have you not read about the carnage that has happened on the Autobahn, one of the safest high speed roads on the planet? Though their accident rate is lower than that of the U.S., the amount of damage done in each accident is striking. Often dozens of cars will be involved.
Now translate that to a highway in Texas. These are not going to be high performance sports cars built by Mercedes and BMW with composite space frames built specifically to survive high speed impact. This is going to be Billy-Bob in a flatbed Ford pickup going 95 mph, sure hope he got them bald tires retread...
Driving on any American road and looking at the sheer number of clunkers on the roads, vehicles on the verge of a flat tire, a blown tranny or a sheered U-Joint. Then adding the number of folks texting, reading, phoning, watching TV, looking at maps, changing CDs, or messin with their shotgun (remember its Texas), you know, those hundred other things people do while driving that they have no business doing. Then finally adding the folks who've been drinking, smoking, shooting up, dropping, snorting or rubbing into their gums, chemicals that alter perception and performance. I'm going to have to say particularly in a state where there are "Drive-Through-Liquor-Stores" that a 95 mph highway seems to be a direct extension of the "Texas Express Lane No Wait Death Penalty". I guess that's consistent with a Christian State, we'll send more folks to their reward (good or bad) than any other state in the Union.
There's something about Texas, dumb as a stump and proud of it. Like full on batcrap crazy hardly raises an eyebrow. I like the energy, but man, I'll take I-70 cross country thanks. Those Texicans are way too full of that belief that they're invulnerable.
Friend, it is true that the Dems are suckling at the Hollywood teat hard and long, but don't you for a moment think that Hollywood won't or doesn't invest in the other side too, because in the end, they have far more interest in getting their agenda passed than who does the passing.
You miss the point. The reason that auto-take-down exists is so that current copyright holders can cut huge swaths through anything they feel "Might" infringe on their copyrights, and therefore should be expunged from the planet as we know it. They care less than a wit about collateral damage, improper take-down, and illegal or immoral applications of the laws they've ramrodded through governments around the world. They want to control the content, and force you and me to pay. If along the way the throw the baby out with the bath water, I'm sure for a reasonable price they'll let you rent your own baby back of course that will include proper limitations on use and ownership.
I wanna know why clothing sizes from the far east seem to be designed for munchkins... Saw a size 8 blouse that you couldn't get a 3 year old into. Size 8 what field mouse??? Very odd
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This is why I find the flaming and ranting and social polarization so flat out ridiculous...
My whore leans to the left... you're an idiot, everyone knows a whore should lean to the right. Guys, the operative word here is "Whore" someone who sells themselves as a function of performing social acts for pay. The fact yours lean in different directions doesn't alter the fundamental economic reality. America has one party, the Republicrats. Some of them talk blue and some talk red, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, they are all about the green and everything else is just frosting on a cow flop.
They aren't bare, they poured the can of worms on their naughty bits for decency sake!!! Ooooo squiggly!!!
This is exactly right. There are so many things you can do off the grid with a little thinking. You can build a solar grill or oven with cardboard and aluminum foil. Get bother the standard and the HEAVY DUTY which is about 2-4 times as thick, it makes a great small construction material, insulator and can be formed.Case in point, you make a parabolic dish out of cardboard, line it with aluminum foil shiny side out and you can boil water, fry, even start fires with it. A clever person with a properly filled 30 pound (14 Kg) day pack, could easily carry enough food and tools to find/catching more to last as long as they need.
You go to REI, buy up a large supply of pretty decent freeze dried dehydrated food that will last WAY longer. Better yet, there was a wonderful model home for energy efficiency in Denver, they had a 200 sq. ft walk-in refrigerator/freezer (underground) than operated on 10 watts. With a small modification you could do a three stage freezer with a Fridge, Light Freeze and Deep Freeze. Keep your zones well separated and everything well insulated. But you could store meat, and a wide variety of cooked and flash frozen veggies in the deep freeze for years. Running on only 10 - 15 watts, It could have its own solar power and run indefinitely.
As for long term storage, anything make of living matter (plant or animal) irradiated and sealed in a hermetic pouch can last for a couple years. Sooner or later the proteins and enzymes in the food will break it down, and it will get nasty. NASA tests these things for long space flights, and because food is both a social moment and an opportunity for personal enjoyment (important on long tedious missions) they want to know how long food can be made to stay delicious and visually appealing.
For a generation raised on Taco Bell and School Cafeteria Food (canned peas.... eeewwwww), MREs are just fine. For folks who are interested in real food... Drying, Canning, and Freezing are still your best solutions. Back when most folks lived on farms, this was a given, and the amount of amazing food available to make from these processes is simply mind numbing. That and dehydration reduces food volume by anywhere from 60% to 99%. This means you can put a whole lot more good things in the little shelter. Just remember whole dried fruit will reconstitute in your GI tract, and anyone who hasn't experienced eating a dozen dried prune, apricots, peaches, pears... pick a fruit, then followed that with about a liter of water... well let's just say that if your were constipated... you aren't any more (stand back, she's gonna blow!!!)
You might just be a terrorist...
- If you consider C-4 an undergarment...
- If your shoes provide energy return, light up when you walk and go BOOM...
- If your Gawd is bigger than their Gawd and you're willing to fight about it...
- If your idea of "Spraying Pests" includes an automatic machine gun...
- If you're setting off a nuke sounds like the Mutha of all Weenie Roasts...
- If a businessman walking down the street holding out his hand yells "Hi Jack" and you pull a gun...
You're right this works pretty good... Thank you Mr. Foxworthy!
You're absolutely right in fact the whole rabid religions from the dessert have been responsible for most of the general unhappiness in Eurasia for the better part of a thousand years, and the world at large for the last 500. Why does it seem that that whenever someone hears the voice of God, s/he feels compelled to shove it someone else's ear? We are funny hairless monkeys, eh?
Let's remember that in the entire history of this country, we've been invaded once (by our Mother Country), attacked once (at Pearl Harbor), and been terrorized once (on 9/11). Moreover, we had really good intelligence in each case that these events were coming and simply screwed up managing that information (if you believe the official versions or allowed them to happen for one reason or another if you believe in conspiracies.)
The whole point of terrorism is similar to an allergic reaction. The response outweighs the event so dramatically that it does infinitely more harm than the event itself. That isn't to say that blowing up the twin towers wasn't an affront to human dignity. It is to say that the number of innocent people that died as a result of that affront so outnumber the affront itself as to dwarf it to near invisibility, and worse, most of the people that died were innocent Iraqi bystanders who had no dog in the fight to begin with. In an allergic reaction your immune system can charge all the way up to anaphylaxis and death all over a few peanut molecules. We have to be very careful to teach people to weigh threats according to reality and when we catch politicians using the boogie man to scare the public into voting for abominations and the gutting of the Constitution, we need to drag these people out in public places and show the nation who the real terrorists are.
Depends on how smart the advertizing algorithm is... If the add next to your puking Frat Bro is Peptobismol... then it makes way more sense than trying to sell that stuff with Kate Moss. Even Kate Moss puking. If you could use artificial intelligence to categorize facebook images and add metadata tags to them, then you could create who genres of advertizement specific to the images on a person's page and have a much better shot at capitalizing on the images. The problem isn't the social network, its the intelligent leveraging of all that data without pinching the users so hard they all bail.
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1. The Han River is a tributary fork of the Yangtze, what you see on the Han, you see on the Yangtze shortly there after.
2. I beg your pardon, Permanganates can range anywhere from deep purple to red depending on the metal, and this didn't have to be an identical dumping, Iron oxides, certain lead compounds (already responsible for colorful pollution on smaller rivers), even cinnabar (mercury sulphate) could color water red. I mention in the first paragraph we could be looking at any one of a number of industrial effluents that could produce this result. Some of the organic dyes (especially the concentrated oil based dyes) might produce a suspension and even a small amount could color a tremendous amount of water. Geologist working on glaciers melting use such dye and their capacity to color water can exceed tens, even hundreds of millions to one. Just last year powerful dyes were illegally dumped in the Jian River through storm drainage.
3. Water pollutants fall into large groups, some of which are soluble, many not. That said, most of the non-soluble would for emulsions and not suspensions.
There are also a group of geologists who are suggesting a recent earthquake upstream may have released a significant amount of vermiculated (iron oxide rich) clay into the river, so I will concede the possibility that this is a natural event predicated on a sequence of events that together would occur very rarely.
Exactly, when the countries had their own currencies, they could devalue accordingly and their economies could normalize in a meaningful way. With everyone using the same currency managing debt between sovereign nations becomes extremely complicated and leads to unfortunately draconian economic measures in the debtor nations.
China is notorious for its poor environmental practices and there are so many ways to get red, from organic pollutants to heavy metal salts to industrial dyes and coloring agents. The "Golden Watercourse" has run golden for many thousands of years, the chance of a sudden color shift not the result of human intervention (read dumping) though possible is vanishingly remote.
A similar event along the Yangtze happened in February of 2008 when the river ran red and authorities found large amounts of Ammonium Nitrate and Metal Permanganates.
A large number of folks talk about the advantages for business and society of not having to tow strict environmental laws and regulations. The advantages for business are clear, society as a whole, not so much. China is a good place to look at what happens when people do as they please. The results are sometime ugly and other times full on disasters.
The Government will contract crackers to hack your company using exploits inside of the limits specified by the annual security proposal. The crackers get a little something something for their effort plus a bit more if they find new and interesting ways to break people security (fixes for which will be added to next years security standard.)
If they break in, they will levee a "Fine" from your bank account, set aside for security tax and charged for non compliance (by the way this "Fine" is prededucted from the annual tax burden.) This means that every company on the country has an opportunity to save a chunk of change for complying with national security standards and they can make out like bandits year after year if they only invest in the minimum necessary for keeping black hats at bay.
On to the next problem...
Actually if this is rural Texas, its going to be some idiot from out of state flying at warp 9 into the back of some Bubba who just pulled on with a Tractor, speed differential will be 70 MPH, the Bubba will lose his back hoe, and the idiot will go home in a coke bottle.
You ever drive in Southern California??? Leave more than 1.5 car lengths in from and somebody just slips right in. In fact as you keep backing up to get your space back and cars keep slipping in, you become a hazard to navigation because you are in fact now traveling slower than the traffic in your lane. The simple fact is that if you live in a place where tailgating is the accepted norm, you don't get a say.
In places in SoCal where this behavior is particularly bad, there is a long history of huge accidents involving many cars (especially in bad weather... literally a precipitating event for crashing.)
Please tell me what you mean by best? Fastest? Safest? Most likely to allow you to walk away from a 65mph crash under your own power? Prettiest? Longest lasting? Most reliable? Biggest, largest, carrying the most payload? What do mean by best. I was shopping around and looked at a used Ford Taurus with about 105,000 miles on it. Took it a transmission shop because the tranny felt a little sticky. The guy there said "Look at what's in front of my shop." "Chevy, Ford, Ford, Chevy, GM, Ford, Chevy, Ford...."What don't you see here?" "Anything with a Japanese make..." There were over fifty cars in his lot (Its a big shop), there were 3 Japanese cars, and they all had insane mileage (one Toyota was approaching 350,000 miles on its original transmission) while a lot of the American cars had less than 120,000 miles on them. American automotive manufacturers design their cars to fail shortly after the warranty expires, because dammit, it time for you to buy a new car. Compare the number of Japanese cars at 250,000 miles and above in the want adds to American made cars. There just aren't that many left at 250,000 miles. So, I don't know. Maybe you have a completely different idea of what comprises the best car in the World... I'd love to hear what that is.
Friend you have to remember that force is MV^2... the V is actually more important than the M. You may be right about initial impacts regarding vehicles all moving the same speed, but very soon you have a bunch of disabled stationery object sitting in a road where they're in danger over being hit by other objects moving at most or all of that 85 mph. I've seen on the 405 in Southern CA. Traffic in all 5 lanes moving normally, then suddenly everything comes to a sudden halt, and the first few cars stop in time, but back 10 or 12 cars, you start hearing the unpleasant squeal of locked wheels and crunch of cars suddenly getting much shorter. Do that at 85 mph instead of 55 mph back in the 70s and the only word that pops up in my head is CARnage.
Your stopping distance is also off. Well not exactly, but the stopping distance has two components. There is the time it takes the car to stop once the brakes are applied but there is also the time it takes for the human being to react to hit the brakes in the first place. At 60 mph you're traveling at 88 fps, so with the .4-.6 second delay from the time you perceive trouble to the actual time you react you've already traveled 35 - 55 feet. If the problem that you need to stop over is a road obstacle, traveling at 90 mph make the distance from the instant you see the threat to stop for even your Porsche nearly 250 ft. Imagine a teenager texting, or a guy who's had a few too many cervezas. These are not rare unheard of phenomenon. Think about a blown tire. How will a tire blow react when it is traveling 90 mph vs. 60 mph? How will your car react when it looses a wheel at 90 mph?
I'm not saying that traveling too slow isn't a problem too. The vehicles driving the roads of Texas aren't made for the Autobahn. They're made for 65 mph. I am saying that the amount of damage and injury that will be endured at a 30 mph collision is going to be fundamentally different than the kind of damage that will be accrued at 90 mph and my friend, say all you want but in the end MV^2 wins, Newton will kick Texas' pink fuzzy butt, and if they had a better grasp of science they'd know why an 85 mph speed limit is inherently a bad idea.
You want a workable solution, push Goggles driverless car. Then you do away with collisions and you can meaningfully talk about reading a newspaper and drinking coffee while your car drives at 150 mph on a mag-lev highway.
Yes and at 95 you'll be all the way dead and when you're all the way dead nobody can help you, not even Miracle Max.
There are now black boxes in most cars and I can imagine a world where that information could be automatically communicated to the authorities if your you're speeding, especially of they add speed beacons to roads, making you responsible for keeping the speed, or paying the automatic ticket if you don't. I'm surprised that haven't already done it as a law and order thing and in the face of huge state budget deficits.
Friend, on one level you're absolutely right, that is, roads designed for speed tend to be relatively safe. The fact is however, that when accidents happen on high speed roads, they are gruesome and tend to involve for more vehicles that on slower road. Those accidents also tend to have higher body counts. Have you not read about the carnage that has happened on the Autobahn, one of the safest high speed roads on the planet? Though their accident rate is lower than that of the U.S., the amount of damage done in each accident is striking. Often dozens of cars will be involved.
Now translate that to a highway in Texas. These are not going to be high performance sports cars built by Mercedes and BMW with composite space frames built specifically to survive high speed impact. This is going to be Billy-Bob in a flatbed Ford pickup going 95 mph, sure hope he got them bald tires retread...
Driving on any American road and looking at the sheer number of clunkers on the roads, vehicles on the verge of a flat tire, a blown tranny or a sheered U-Joint. Then adding the number of folks texting, reading, phoning, watching TV, looking at maps, changing CDs, or messin with their shotgun (remember its Texas), you know, those hundred other things people do while driving that they have no business doing. Then finally adding the folks who've been drinking, smoking, shooting up, dropping, snorting or rubbing into their gums, chemicals that alter perception and performance. I'm going to have to say particularly in a state where there are "Drive-Through-Liquor-Stores" that a 95 mph highway seems to be a direct extension of the "Texas Express Lane No Wait Death Penalty". I guess that's consistent with a Christian State, we'll send more folks to their reward (good or bad) than any other state in the Union.
There's something about Texas, dumb as a stump and proud of it. Like full on batcrap crazy hardly raises an eyebrow. I like the energy, but man, I'll take I-70 cross country thanks. Those Texicans are way too full of that belief that they're invulnerable.
Friend, it is true that the Dems are suckling at the Hollywood teat hard and long, but don't you for a moment think that Hollywood won't or doesn't invest in the other side too, because in the end, they have far more interest in getting their agenda passed than who does the passing.
You miss the point. The reason that auto-take-down exists is so that current copyright holders can cut huge swaths through anything they feel "Might" infringe on their copyrights, and therefore should be expunged from the planet as we know it. They care less than a wit about collateral damage, improper take-down, and illegal or immoral applications of the laws they've ramrodded through governments around the world. They want to control the content, and force you and me to pay. If along the way the throw the baby out with the bath water, I'm sure for a reasonable price they'll let you rent your own baby back of course that will include proper limitations on use and ownership.
And while we're at it, let's take a lovely photograph and get all your names as a wonderful memento of the occasion!
I wanna know why clothing sizes from the far east seem to be designed for munchkins... Saw a size 8 blouse that you couldn't get a 3 year old into. Size 8 what field mouse??? Very odd
I'm so sorry to hear you don't fill out the front of your jeans... there are a number of male enhancement products on the market???
That's gotta be pretty a smartphone studded with chocolate and peanuts. Eeeewwwwww