someone hit the gas when they "accidentally" ran someone over.
I *was* going to refer you to an excellent Car and Driver article that I read years ago regarding the Audis, but I guess this will have to suffice ( http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/roadtests/firstdriv e/43873/article.html ).
Oddly enough, the 60 Minutes and the CBS websites don't seem to mention this. Neither does the CandD website. Hmmm.
Montreal is only now considering legalizing right turns on red lights for motorists. As far as I know, this is legal everywhere else in North America.
One poster mentioned how badly-designed the Montreal highways (autoroutes) are. That's not necessarily true everywhere, although many of the uptown area Met (Highway 40) onramps are ridiculously short. And the slippery cobblestones only exist in Old Montreal. If you find yourself on cobblestones while driving in Montreal, chances are you're going to be looking at a horse's ass pretty soon (or horse turds on the road...in that area of town, horse-drawn carriages rule).
The article states only "downtown Montreal" as the accident location, but I suspect this indicates that it occurred on the Ville Marie Expressway/HWY 20. This is a relatively recently-designed freeway that has limited access and actually goes under the city for a few kilometres (likely similar to what Boston is now doing). The speed limit varies along this route, but routinely people drive about 100K in the 70K zone when traffic permits.
There are those that say that overall traffic speeds increase in the city during the F1 race season (this is no doubt true, since would-be, wannabe richboys show up with their overpowered, personality-extension machines), but I am unaware of a corresponding, statistical increase in car accidents or deaths for those couple of weeks..
But to get back to the original subject, being able to reconstruct the events before an accident seems like a good idea.
Well, the USA came in close second on the "weasely countries" list; I imagine that Jacques Chirac would have garnered more votes if many Americans had been able to recognize his name.
This is because most Americans think "Blaque Jacques Shellac" when they hear the French leader's name. Blaque Jacques doesn't have nearly enough web presence. Bugs Bunny rules!
The baby breathing thing is nice, but beyond that I never felt the need to monitor my kid 24/7. In fact, I find the idea kind of creepy.At best it smacks of neurosis on the part of the parent.
I found myself sneaking in and gazing in wonder at the life I helped create while he was nice and quiet and not being the usual crap and puke factory.
Keep in mind that most laws were written hundreds of years ago. Back then, there was no feasible way to catch law-breakers, so the punishment was extreme in order to deter others from doing the same thing.
Now it is becoming possible to track individuals via purchasing habits. Who thinks that terrorists and causers of violent chaos use valid credit cards and real ID?
Electrical power going out in the northern united states and Canada for an extended period of time during winter would kill hundreds of thousands of people.
I suggest that the system be reconfigured and backed-up so as to default to providing emergency power to those regions for the months of November through March.
...only drawback was I kept loosing the mouse pointer
You know, this is true. Someone should develop a small utility that causes a brief (1 second?) highlighting (pulsing? big black outline?) of the mouse pointer after it is moved after being static for more than, say, 10 seconds.
If you are American, it is undoubtedly 1,000,000,000. This amount is known to traditionally minded British people as `a thousand million', and by some more adventurous ones as a 'milliard', though this word has not made as much headway in English as in some other European languages. A trillion is then 1,000,000,000,000, and so on.
If you are British, on the other hand, a billion may be 1,000,000,000,000 (a million million), following the older convention.
If you are neither British nor American, you can take your pick! (Both systems were invented by the French, but are called 'British' and 'American' for convenience.)
Once the business world and the financial press found themselves discussing `thousand millions' so much, the 'American' system simply became more convenient, despite a certain lack of logical tidiness.
I fired a 1911 once, it bites (by that I mean the loose skin between thumb and forefinger). But I was inexperienced with the weapon.
There is a Canadian company that manufactures high-capacity 1911-based.45 calibre pistols.
http://www.paraord.com/pages/contact.html
It appears to me that military theory supports volume of fire as compared to effectiveness. Very useful when "other things" are going on during covering fire. Keep the bastards down!
On the other hand, punching great big holes is neat.
I wonder when the US military will realize the advantages of the bullpup layout and perfect it. Combine that with the Calico helical feed system, and...
Have cool twenty-somethings joke about how to get rid of that obnoxious Clippy?
Marketing drones (you know, those people that make 7-figure salaries and displace "real" workers) count on creating the latest "cool thing" that will drive more purchases. In our buy-more-stuff-get-popular-rich-and-famous economy, the younger crowd is one target. Another one is scaring elderly people into buying stuff they don't really need. Ever wonder why a 10 year-old "needs" a hundred dollar pair of sneakers when s/he will outgrow them within six months?
It all comes down to personal insecurity, even if one has a million bucks in the bank. Sad situation.
Not to mention the foot-long flame jumping out of the barrel (maybe I just had hot loads at the time. 6" barrel, King Cobra).
For me, anything boomier than a.357 as a hand-operated defense tool is way overkill. Firing one in the air would likely scare bad guys away with wet pants, however.
Regarding submachine guns and assault rifles, the HK MP5 is a very nice shooting machine. I've only ever fired the long barrel version.
The MP5 seems to be popular with movie-makers, as are the Glocks. For a while there (on TV and in films) it seemed that Sig-Sauer was "cool", and I wonder if Glock had to pay out huge dollars to become the handgun of choice for action movies.
Firing a.357 Magnum at indoor pistol ranges has a similar effect. The sound and reverberation is so great that others on the rage cannot concentrate and have to wait until the magnum shooter is finished.
Good luck getting a charge when you run out of juice in the middle of nowhere. At least the AAA can bring you a 5 gallon container of petrol with a conventional vehicle.
Haven't you ever wondered where all those energizer bunnies went after the commercials went out of fashion?
Unlike both Google and VMWare, Microsoft has an R&D budget of billions of dollars. Microsoft can defeat both Google and VMWare in their respective markets
"Google for it" has become a common phrase in popular culture. IMO, anything MS does to discredit Google will backfire.
The human brain is immensely bad at assessing risks and consequences. Just look at the relative frequencies of fear-of-flying vs. fear-of-riding-in-a-car and compare those frequencies with the objective safety data for the two modes of transport.
These stats are undoubtedly true. What is always overlooked, however, is the amount of control (or maybe, more importantly in the psychological sense, the feeling of control - perhaps SUV "soccer moms" that think they need 4 tons to feel safe are a good example) able to be exercised by the individual user. In a plane crash situation, everyone but those in the pilot cabin would have zero control over the outcome, whereas as being the driver of a vehicule, they have a great deal of control.
What is the % survival rate if one compares all car accidents, train accidents, airplane accidents and cruise ship accidents?
Maybe I'm assuming too much, but media hype doesn't usually make it past my BS filter. Until I hear a report from a multiple reliable media sources, I'm unlikely to believe in wild claims of global destruction. But that's just me.
You only have to fool some of the people all of the time to work them into a frenzy. I forget who said that originally and about whom he said it.
Oh, wait. A. Lincloln, and I guess the mass media.
If an astronomer tells me, that the collision of a specified object with Earth within the next 50 years has a probability of X, I believe him more than a meterologist who tells me, that it will rain with the probability of X in the next 5 hours.
This is all part of the combined Meterologist/Psychologist Social Experiment. Ever wonder why weather reports are so far off? Ever noticed why there are never any weekly polls/accuracy studies about the value of weather predicters?
See, the ability to manipulate the masses' emotions is easy if you can disappoint them by predicting blue skies when in fact ball lightning will set their cars on fire. Similarly, predict snow in June in Montreal and watch everyone go into a depression.
I'm telling you, this guy is the ringleader of the nefarious plot.
Also you may be wondering about TVs and their response time, T.Vs and Monitors (CRT) don't have a response time (or more to the point its the same as the refresh) because on a CRT screen the previous frame is not remembered as the "pixels" on a CRT so to speak, need to be constatly energised to display anything, so the second that the cathode ray stops hitting the phosphor the image dissapears, thus no reponse time.
My understanding (admittedly limited) was that images broadcast over the television tend to change rapidly because attention-catching motion is everything, as opposed to a computer CRT image, which can remain static for a long time. Like when I stare at the blank HTML-Kit screen for hours trying to think of an original web page design, for example.
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someone hit the gas when they "accidentally" ran someone over.
v e/43873/article.html ).
I *was* going to refer you to an excellent Car and Driver article that I read years ago regarding the Audis, but I guess this will have to suffice ( http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/roadtests/firstdri
Oddly enough, the 60 Minutes and the CBS websites don't seem to mention this. Neither does the CandD website. Hmmm.
http://walterolson.com/articles/wpexperts.html
Montreal is only now considering legalizing right turns on red lights for motorists. As far as I know, this is legal everywhere else in North America.
One poster mentioned how badly-designed the Montreal highways (autoroutes) are. That's not necessarily true everywhere, although many of the uptown area Met (Highway 40) onramps are ridiculously short. And the slippery cobblestones only exist in Old Montreal. If you find yourself on cobblestones while driving in Montreal, chances are you're going to be looking at a horse's ass pretty soon (or horse turds on the road...in that area of town, horse-drawn carriages rule).
The article states only "downtown Montreal" as the accident location, but I suspect this indicates that it occurred on the Ville Marie Expressway/HWY 20. This is a relatively recently-designed freeway that has limited access and actually goes under the city for a few kilometres (likely similar to what Boston is now doing). The speed limit varies along this route, but routinely people drive about 100K in the 70K zone when traffic permits.
There are those that say that overall traffic speeds increase in the city during the F1 race season (this is no doubt true, since would-be, wannabe richboys show up with their overpowered, personality-extension machines), but I am unaware of a corresponding, statistical increase in car accidents or deaths for those couple of weeks..
But to get back to the original subject, being able to reconstruct the events before an accident seems like a good idea.
I have to wonder if a million man (anti) spam march might work (in the town of a known spammer).
Maybe they'd move on to owning a nightclub or something.
Well, the USA came in close second on the "weasely countries" list; I imagine that Jacques Chirac would have garnered more votes if many Americans had been able to recognize his name.
This is because most Americans think "Blaque Jacques Shellac" when they hear the French leader's name. Blaque Jacques doesn't have nearly enough web presence. Bugs Bunny rules!
"Never anthromorphize computers. They hate that."
Loading pages can take up to 20 seconds on a DSL connection, with the occasional error page. Not good.
The baby breathing thing is nice, but beyond that I never felt the need to monitor my kid 24/7. In fact, I find the idea kind of creepy.At best it smacks of neurosis on the part of the parent.
I found myself sneaking in and gazing in wonder at the life I helped create while he was nice and quiet and not being the usual crap and puke factory.
Keep in mind that most laws were written hundreds of years ago. Back then, there was no feasible way to catch law-breakers, so the punishment was extreme in order to deter others from doing the same thing.
Now it is becoming possible to track individuals via purchasing habits. Who thinks that terrorists and causers of violent chaos use valid credit cards and real ID?
Anyone have info on Rhino?
Is Maya in the same league?
The Maya/Alias/AutoCAD/Discreet site pops up an uncancellable cookie.
Not a good sign.
I'm sure if I get to see it on TV I'll be impressed to
There's some (Windows Media) video at Discovery Canada's website. Dunno what it is since my 28.8 choked.
Electrical power going out in the northern united states and Canada for an extended period of time during winter would kill hundreds of thousands of people.
I suggest that the system be reconfigured and backed-up so as to default to providing emergency power to those regions for the months of November through March.
The boiled frog scenario aside, no one ever died from being too hot.
...only drawback was I kept loosing the mouse pointer
You know, this is true. Someone should develop a small utility that causes a brief (1 second?) highlighting (pulsing? big black outline?) of the mouse pointer after it is moved after being static for more than, say, 10 seconds.
How much is a billion?
If you are American, it is undoubtedly 1,000,000,000. This amount is known to traditionally minded British people as `a thousand million', and by some more adventurous ones as a 'milliard', though this word has not made as much headway in English as in some other European languages. A trillion is then 1,000,000,000,000, and so on.
If you are British, on the other hand, a billion may be 1,000,000,000,000 (a million million), following the older convention.
If you are neither British nor American, you can take your pick! (Both systems were invented by the French, but are called 'British' and 'American' for convenience.)
Once the business world and the financial press found themselves discussing `thousand millions' so much, the 'American' system simply became more convenient, despite a certain lack of logical tidiness.
What are you talking about pipingguy? Stop smoking the bong for a moment and think with your big brain.
Yeah, I remember when I had my first beer.
Shouldn't the username "Adolf Hitler" be self-cancelling?
I fired a 1911 once, it bites (by that I mean the loose skin between thumb and forefinger). But I was inexperienced with the weapon.
There is a Canadian company that manufactures high-capacity 1911-based
It appears to me that military theory supports volume of fire as compared to effectiveness. Very useful when "other things" are going on during covering fire. Keep the bastards down!
On the other hand, punching great big holes is neat.
I wonder when the US military will realize the advantages of the bullpup layout and perfect it. Combine that with the Calico helical feed system, and...
Have cool twenty-somethings joke about how to get rid of that obnoxious Clippy?
Marketing drones (you know, those people that make 7-figure salaries and displace "real" workers) count on creating the latest "cool thing" that will drive more purchases. In our buy-more-stuff-get-popular-rich-and-famous economy, the younger crowd is one target. Another one is scaring elderly people into buying stuff they don't really need. Ever wonder why a 10 year-old "needs" a hundred dollar pair of sneakers when s/he will outgrow them within six months?
It all comes down to personal insecurity, even if one has a million bucks in the bank. Sad situation.
Not to mention the foot-long flame jumping out of the barrel (maybe I just had hot loads at the time. 6" barrel, King Cobra).
For me, anything boomier than a
Regarding submachine guns and assault rifles, the HK MP5 is a very nice shooting machine. I've only ever fired the long barrel version.
The MP5 seems to be popular with movie-makers, as are the Glocks. For a while there (on TV and in films) it seemed that Sig-Sauer was "cool", and I wonder if Glock had to pay out huge dollars to become the handgun of choice for action movies.
Firing a
Good luck getting a charge when you run out of juice in the middle of nowhere. At least the AAA can bring you a 5 gallon container of petrol with a conventional vehicle.
Haven't you ever wondered where all those energizer bunnies went after the commercials went out of fashion?
I mean, THINK, man!
Unlike both Google and VMWare, Microsoft has an R&D budget of billions of dollars. Microsoft can defeat both Google and VMWare in their respective markets
"Google for it" has become a common phrase in popular culture. IMO, anything MS does to discredit Google will backfire.
The human brain is immensely bad at assessing risks and consequences. Just look at the relative frequencies of fear-of-flying vs. fear-of-riding-in-a-car and compare those frequencies with the objective safety data for the two modes of transport.
These stats are undoubtedly true. What is always overlooked, however, is the amount of control (or maybe, more importantly in the psychological sense, the feeling of control - perhaps SUV "soccer moms" that think they need 4 tons to feel safe are a good example) able to be exercised by the individual user. In a plane crash situation, everyone but those in the pilot cabin would have zero control over the outcome, whereas as being the driver of a vehicule, they have a great deal of control.
What is the % survival rate if one compares all car accidents, train accidents, airplane accidents and cruise ship accidents?
Maybe I'm assuming too much, but media hype doesn't usually make it past my BS filter. Until I hear a report from a multiple reliable media sources, I'm unlikely to believe in wild claims of global destruction. But that's just me.
You only have to fool some of the people all of the time to work them into a frenzy. I forget who said that originally and about whom he said it.
Oh, wait. A. Lincloln, and I guess the mass media.
If an astronomer tells me, that the collision of a specified object with Earth within the next 50 years has a probability of X, I believe him more than a meterologist who tells me, that it will rain with the probability of X in the next 5 hours.
This is all part of the combined Meterologist/Psychologist Social Experiment. Ever wonder why weather reports are so far off? Ever noticed why there are never any weekly polls/accuracy studies about the value of weather predicters?
See, the ability to manipulate the masses' emotions is easy if you can disappoint them by predicting blue skies when in fact ball lightning will set their cars on fire. Similarly, predict snow in June in Montreal and watch everyone go into a depression.
I'm telling you, this guy is the ringleader of the nefarious plot.
Also you may be wondering about TVs and their response time, T.Vs and Monitors (CRT) don't have a response time (or more to the point its the same as the refresh) because on a CRT screen the previous frame is not remembered as the "pixels" on a CRT so to speak, need to be constatly energised to display anything, so the second that the cathode ray stops hitting the phosphor the image dissapears, thus no reponse time.
My understanding (admittedly limited) was that images broadcast over the television tend to change rapidly because attention-catching motion is everything, as opposed to a computer CRT image, which can remain static for a long time. Like when I stare at the blank HTML-Kit screen for hours trying to think of an original web page design, for example.