Cyclists can't speed, but speeding is not dangerous in most situations, while blowing through a stop sign is something no sane competent driver does, but cyclists do with regularity.
When those cyclists get smeared, the roads have become a safer place for everyone else.
That's simply not true. Lane splitting is allowed as long as multiple vehicles can fit, and there are no restrictions on speed aside from the local speed limit. As of a year ago, CA just began regulations, but no regulations have been implemented as they are waiting for guidelines from CHP (who I might add regularly have officers lane splitting at 65 mph).
And that in turn is a problem in civic planning. People are WAY WAY more likely to stop at the line when visibility of intersecting traffic isn't obscured by trees, parked cars, protesters carrying signs (I've seen this; it fucked up an intersection for two weeks straight), etc.
Roundabouts are atrocious in the U.S. They might work in areas where they are the norm, but here in the U.S. it's always some idiot civil engineer who just learned about roundabouts and wants to try them out. I just witnessed - in the span of about a year - the introduction of three of them to one stretch of road, and their subsequent removal after sanity was reclaimed. People do not know how to use them, and they cannot learn. At least not when they only appear on one road in the county.
If you spend half your time bicycling or you are lucky enough to ride flat lands the whole way, that might work. Normal people are going to need a shower after biking to work, regardless of if they are going all out.
I don't know where you live, but around here, you sound like an incompetent driver with emotional issues. "Lane-splitting" is a way to get more traffic passing through the same roads. Get rid of lane-splitting, and you get more traffic. That doesn't fly where I live, and people (and the laws) recognize this.
I don't think you understand. It's not that the laws don't apply to cyclists. It's that they systematically ignore them. It doesn't matter if it's electric. The problem isn't the bike or the laws, it's the human.
You've either never driven in a city, you're lying, or you've developed myopic aversion to witnessing the regularity of moving violations committed by cyclists.
Bullshit. The RAM used by a running guest Linux system is insignificant compared to the RAM used by the OSX host. If you need to test an app on Mac and Linux, then you can't test both at the same time by dual booting, so the RAM consumption of your app testing isn't double either.
That doesn't actually work in many (most?) legal jurisdictions. Public domain doesn't even work in some jurisdictions. It needs a valid license for the public to use it in such places.
The anti-corporatist communists who think all software should be free up until the point a big corporation figures out how to make profit will be apoplectic.
Governments having control over banking is still the norm in (the limited number of remaining) non-Eurozone nations in the EU, and certainly through the rest of Europe. What's the difference between a government monopoly on banking and a government monopoly on mobile payments?
I certainly understand why Brussels takes issue, but I don't buy the government competition angle.
Read a book. Natives were managing wildfires and flooding on scales not seen again in the Americas until the industrial revolution was in full swing. It's amazing what engineering can do, but it's also amazing what hundreds of years of cultural knowledge of your local environment can do. Only in the 20th century did we start to learn (to not be racist and) what role "primitive" people played in ecological management.
Certainly, the agrarian economy of the South wasn't going to keep up with the industrial north, but before the 18th century, farming was still the source of much of America's wealth.
And it may also be true that there were more poor white people per capita in the South, but there were also fantastically wealthy ones. Income inequality was the issue, not poverty, at least not in the context of national economic output.
The North had five times as many free people, yet the South spent just as much on th war. We weren't keeping good GDP numbers at the time, but that's pretty stark.
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Cyclists can't speed, but speeding is not dangerous in most situations, while blowing through a stop sign is something no sane competent driver does, but cyclists do with regularity.
When those cyclists get smeared, the roads have become a safer place for everyone else.
The research is fundamentally flawed. Come back at me with a methodology that makes sense (e.g. doesn't rely on police reports).
In all my years driving, I have never once seen a car just out-and-out blow through a stop sign. I see it at least twice a month with cyclists.
If the research tells you something that is so obviously false, you should take the time to verify the research.
That's simply not true. Lane splitting is allowed as long as multiple vehicles can fit, and there are no restrictions on speed aside from the local speed limit. As of a year ago, CA just began regulations, but no regulations have been implemented as they are waiting for guidelines from CHP (who I might add regularly have officers lane splitting at 65 mph).
Per trip, maybe. But you are going to be making a LOT more trips on that bike than I do with my car.
...stop exporting your copyrighted works if you're gonna bitch about foreign laws.
Most people know how to click "No" when the app asks for permissions. Most people just don't care.
Sprawl is an ecological disaster. No environmentally conscious person should live anywhere but densely populated cities or on organic farmland.
It's great you have so much free time.
And that in turn is a problem in civic planning. People are WAY WAY more likely to stop at the line when visibility of intersecting traffic isn't obscured by trees, parked cars, protesters carrying signs (I've seen this; it fucked up an intersection for two weeks straight), etc.
Roundabouts are atrocious in the U.S. They might work in areas where they are the norm, but here in the U.S. it's always some idiot civil engineer who just learned about roundabouts and wants to try them out. I just witnessed - in the span of about a year - the introduction of three of them to one stretch of road, and their subsequent removal after sanity was reclaimed. People do not know how to use them, and they cannot learn. At least not when they only appear on one road in the county.
If you spend half your time bicycling or you are lucky enough to ride flat lands the whole way, that might work. Normal people are going to need a shower after biking to work, regardless of if they are going all out.
I don't know where you live, but around here, you sound like an incompetent driver with emotional issues. "Lane-splitting" is a way to get more traffic passing through the same roads. Get rid of lane-splitting, and you get more traffic. That doesn't fly where I live, and people (and the laws) recognize this.
I don't think you understand. It's not that the laws don't apply to cyclists. It's that they systematically ignore them. It doesn't matter if it's electric. The problem isn't the bike or the laws, it's the human.
You've either never driven in a city, you're lying, or you've developed myopic aversion to witnessing the regularity of moving violations committed by cyclists.
Bullshit. The RAM used by a running guest Linux system is insignificant compared to the RAM used by the OSX host. If you need to test an app on Mac and Linux, then you can't test both at the same time by dual booting, so the RAM consumption of your app testing isn't double either.
Don't fight uphill battles. System76 sells laptops with Linux pre-installed and so do many other vendors.
Anyone find that weird?
"Sure, you can spy on our government or military and steal our most heavily guarded secrets, but we draw the line at making iPhone clones."
The GPL restricts rights. BSD is the path to freedom.
That doesn't actually work in many (most?) legal jurisdictions. Public domain doesn't even work in some jurisdictions. It needs a valid license for the public to use it in such places.
The anti-corporatist communists who think all software should be free up until the point a big corporation figures out how to make profit will be apoplectic.
Governments having control over banking is still the norm in (the limited number of remaining) non-Eurozone nations in the EU, and certainly through the rest of Europe. What's the difference between a government monopoly on banking and a government monopoly on mobile payments?
I certainly understand why Brussels takes issue, but I don't buy the government competition angle.
Read a book. Natives were managing wildfires and flooding on scales not seen again in the Americas until the industrial revolution was in full swing. It's amazing what engineering can do, but it's also amazing what hundreds of years of cultural knowledge of your local environment can do. Only in the 20th century did we start to learn (to not be racist and) what role "primitive" people played in ecological management.
Is everyone blind or illiterate? The "original people of California" is a racial designation.
If you think it was I who brought in a racial component, I direct your gaze farther up the thread.
If you don't think there's a racial component to wildfire management, I direct you to Google.
Or souther poverty is just a myth: https://www.abbevilleinstitute...
Certainly, the agrarian economy of the South wasn't going to keep up with the industrial north, but before the 18th century, farming was still the source of much of America's wealth.
And it may also be true that there were more poor white people per capita in the South, but there were also fantastically wealthy ones. Income inequality was the issue, not poverty, at least not in the context of national economic output.
The North had five times as many free people, yet the South spent just as much on th war. We weren't keeping good GDP numbers at the time, but that's pretty stark.