Or why a guy on the side of the road changing a tire is so damn interesting.
Because (especially if the tyre is on the traffic side of his car) he's a threat to my safety and his. If I can't put a good clear lane between us, you're damned right I'm going to be interested - and that may well translate into a reduction in speed, if I'm not absolutely certain of his intentions.
Nothing to do with brake lights, but I used to thrash my brother at "Lotus Turbo Challenge" in a similar way. When you came up behind another car, a message would flash up, "(DRIVER NAME) AHEAD".
Took him months to work out that my name was DANGER - OIL SLICK...
Yep, when I drove the M25 regularly I got to know where it'd slow down - right on the crest of a hill, as every muppet going over it picks up an extra couple of knots and touches the brake.
Part of the problem, I think, is that brake lights are binary and braking isn't - the light shows that you're braking, but gives no indication of how hard. When you're daydreaming along too close to the vehicle in front, you have to assume the worst and brake harder than you need to. I've often wondered why tail lights couldn't give some indication of braking intensity.
So you could just sue them (if you could find them - the law really needs to require anyone doing this unsolicited to identify themselves with every message, like a traditional speaker does)
Sue the owner of the building that the infernal contraption is attached to. They'll soon give up the culprits.
It would do us no good to have to stop every 2 hours of driving to charge for 5 mins.
Given that the current advice in the UK is to stop for at least 15 minutes every 2 hours (instead of zoning out/nodding off and getting rather too cosy with the crash barrier), it could do us rather a lot of good.
This is why all the modern synchrotrons are in round buildings - so you can jack them up on their sides and roll them into battle, all beamlines blazing...
Canteen - man, I hear you. When the works' cat (which has long since died) was around, there were days when it wouldn't touch the food they put out for it. And on the days when I didn't see it, I went veggie, just in case.:D
if you can directly detect somebody trying to smuggle in a nuke or even a backpack bomb, you don't need to spy on the whole country because you are afraid someone might.
But surely we still need to spy on the whole country, so we know when the Bad Guys have learned to get nukes past our nuke detectors?
Although, the big mushroom cloud in the parking lot might clue us in.
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Or why a guy on the side of the road changing a tire is so damn interesting.
Because (especially if the tyre is on the traffic side of his car) he's a threat to my safety and his. If I can't put a good clear lane between us, you're damned right I'm going to be interested - and that may well translate into a reduction in speed, if I'm not absolutely certain of his intentions.
If you want to understand road traffic, you need only understand data traffic on CSMA/CD half-duplex Ethernet.
:D
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Nothing to do with brake lights, but I used to thrash my brother at "Lotus Turbo Challenge" in a similar way. When you came up behind another car, a message would flash up, "(DRIVER NAME) AHEAD".
Took him months to work out that my name was DANGER - OIL SLICK...
Yep, when I drove the M25 regularly I got to know where it'd slow down - right on the crest of a hill, as every muppet going over it picks up an extra couple of knots and touches the brake.
Part of the problem, I think, is that brake lights are binary and braking isn't - the light shows that you're braking, but gives no indication of how hard. When you're daydreaming along too close to the vehicle in front, you have to assume the worst and brake harder than you need to. I've often wondered why tail lights couldn't give some indication of braking intensity.
If the picture's upside-down and the rover's not going anywhere, it was a big one.
It'll probably take something as dramatic as a direct hit from a meteorite to finish Spirit or Opportunity off.
...I say it makes perfect sense. They could have killed two people, and didn't. "Attempted murder", anyone?
I have no sympathy for them whatsoever.
So you could just sue them (if you could find them - the law really needs to require anyone doing this unsolicited to identify themselves with every message, like a traditional speaker does)
Sue the owner of the building that the infernal contraption is attached to. They'll soon give up the culprits.
It would do us no good to have to stop every 2 hours of driving to charge for 5 mins.
Given that the current advice in the UK is to stop for at least 15 minutes every 2 hours (instead of zoning out/nodding off and getting rather too cosy with the crash barrier), it could do us rather a lot of good.
This is why all the modern synchrotrons are in round buildings - so you can jack them up on their sides and roll them into battle, all beamlines blazing...
Canteen - man, I hear you. When the works' cat (which has long since died) was around, there were days when it wouldn't touch the food they put out for it. And on the days when I didn't see it, I went veggie, just in case. :D
*turns off headlights*
...I've got a real one in the next building! :)
Han, first.
...if we keep on evolving at this rate, in a couple of hundred years we'll be falling out of the trees and flopping back into the water!
But in zero gravity, how do you get Linux to stay on the desktop?
WTF indeed! That's my sig! Bastards!
if you can directly detect somebody trying to smuggle in a nuke or even a backpack bomb, you don't need to spy on the whole country because you are afraid someone might.
But surely we still need to spy on the whole country, so we know when the Bad Guys have learned to get nukes past our nuke detectors?
Although, the big mushroom cloud in the parking lot might clue us in.
I'm allergic, you insensitive clod!
I wonder how much a stolen virtual chair is worth on the virtual black-market?
Depends. If it's a virtual signed Ballmer original...
Have some cojones Thanks for the offer, but if it's all the same to you I'll stick to the pizza...
Sounds like fun (though I'm not into muscle-bound women), but NSFW...
Of *course* it crashed! *You* try driving a buggy on the ceiling!
...or a slap on the wrist, if you can change it to that by hacking into our system.
You, of course, write your CV in the same way - because God forbid that you might end up working for "brittle inflexible minds"? Oh, you don't?