I'm well aware of breaking distances, and I have taken a defensive driving course. Thats how I KNOW most roads are way underposted. Unsafe driving like tailgaiting, and not leaving enough stopping distance, are the only reasons the higher speeds would be a problem. Of course you're going to smack into someone if they stop very suddenly and you are tailgaiting them. But try driving at a safe distance, and this isn't even an issue - a GOOD DRIVER increases following distance with speed, or decreases speed with decreased available following distance. Most drivers are quite aware of other vehicles around them, at least periferally, and are continually adjusting their speed and following distances appropriately for whatever speed they are at. If that wasn't true, why aren't we seeing a sharp increase in road accidents on highways that were once 55 and are now 75?
PS - I also hate SUV's, but it's more the gas guzzeling, decreasing driving visiblity, and that people seem to think that 4 wheel drive means you can break on ice that gets me going.
As far as I have ever been able to tell, there is no connection whatsoever between traffic law and traffic safety. The idea that lower speeds mean fewer accidents is a myth created when a gasoline conservation policy speed limit went into effect about the same time as a law that actually does keep people who get into accidents alive - seatbelts. There have actually been fewer roadway accidents since the 55mph speed limit was demandated and many highways went back to 65 or 75 mph limits - cars are just getting safer to drive. There are certainly reasonable speeds that need to be observed depending on the particular stretch of road for safety reasons, however, most roads, especially major ones, are posted FAR under what is actually reasonable, often under the ASSUMPTION people will go 10-15 over what is says because limits are just about always unrealistically low. The truth is police don't want to give up these artificially much lower than safe limits, even though they aren't protecting people, for the very reason that nobody observes them. This means everybody is always breaking the law and always can always be detained, questioned, fined, and increasingly (law enforcement's wet dream) searched without cause. Speed limit laws are held onto tight by authorities as a loophole around our civil rights to ensure we are never in the position where we are actually protected by law, only controlled and abused by it.
When I was making my first mail shirt and putting in 7 hour days on it, I'd see hundreds and hundreds of rings woven together, or apart, even when I'd just close my eyes after too long.
Vanilla Ice wasn't THAT fucked - he had good finance people and actualy retained nearly the entire fortune he did get personally, unlike poor Hammer who was just run out of his money.
Thats VERY good advice - statistics have little meaning without knowing how they're generated. I spend two years in school for CS and never heard anything about statistics other than averaging. But I dealt with a statistics course in my later path to a psychology degree, and finding out what those numbers mean can be a really big deal, especially to a computer scientist, who is someone who designs in algorithm but lets the computer do all the computation.
Reread the clip you quoted - just because educated people are less likely to develope it does not mean that it doesn't progress faster in the cases where they do.
They have those, do a search - it's a device that uses excess current from the alternator when the car is running at higher RPM, and mixes the hydrogen produced with the gasoline to make it burn cleaner.
Yea, thats why everybody seems to be using canned air now, from office supply stores - some guys in my friends dorm literally had dozens of empty cans laying on their floor all the time.
Cough medicine without DXM is by and large snake oil, yea. And DXM is sometimes used recreationally(tho I can't imagine why) so it's being used in less and less cough syrups.
I've generally heard the term hemp used in historical farming contexts, thats why I chose it, nothing more.
I wasn't aware that increasing potency was the only reason to separate plants, but I'm far from a scholar on hemp cultivation - if that's correct, it would be quite hard to believe that he wasn't trying to get nice smokeable buds based on that writing, which I have seen from other sources.
I know they were both noted to dislike tobacco and were known to exchange "smoking mixtures" which were mostly hemp, but I've never read any actual historical document which indicated a frequency of use, do you know any source for that offhand?
We covered this in my cognitive psychology course - ideas almost never emerge in bursts or moments of inspiration, rather, progress is much more linear and based on previous ideas or observations that person or someone else has made. People who claim to have had "rushes of inspiration" and gotten a great new idea from nowhere are generally antecdotal - this never happens in controlled studies. Many claimed this is how it happend, but under controlled conditions, are found to be either not remembering the progression, or in some few cases not even aware of it.
actually, my understanding is that it's intended exactly as you said - for situations where someone will clearly die before help arrives or they arrive to help, but where there might be time to get them to a suspended state which would let them last until it does, even if 1/10 that would kill them.
My understanding of the ignighting the atmosphere issue surrounding the atomic bomb was that it was a fear of the politicomilitary people involved, NOT the scientists. I recall reading in "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman" that Richard Feynman, when observing the "Trinity" experimental atomic blast from the 20 mile marker, ditched the welders glass and watched from his truck, because he knew the front glass was UV shielded and that at that distance that would take care of anything the bomb put out - the goggles were overkill and would keep him from getting a proper view. I believe the ammount of non UV light that got through whited out his vision for a few minutes, thats all.
flash and animated gif restrictions you can use in firefox are the feature that converted me,the internet can no longer flash and scream at me... before that the response speed on IE was more important, at least once it started blocking popups.
"We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin
"We have to go forth and crush every bird of prety that doesn't believe in tollerence and nopredation of homo sapiens"
I personally think raptor predation would be limited to smaller weaker isolated hominids, basically opportunistic kills. However, I beg to differ on the at least weekly statement - that should be limited to warm blooded creatures only - many cold blooded animals need so much less nourishment that they can eat biweekly or monthly and suvive easily.
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I'm well aware of breaking distances, and I have taken a defensive driving course. Thats how I KNOW most roads are way underposted. Unsafe driving like tailgaiting, and not leaving enough stopping distance, are the only reasons the higher speeds would be a problem. Of course you're going to smack into someone if they stop very suddenly and you are tailgaiting them. But try driving at a safe distance, and this isn't even an issue - a GOOD DRIVER increases following distance with speed, or decreases speed with decreased available following distance. Most drivers are quite aware of other vehicles around them, at least periferally, and are continually adjusting their speed and following distances appropriately for whatever speed they are at. If that wasn't true, why aren't we seeing a sharp increase in road accidents on highways that were once 55 and are now 75? PS - I also hate SUV's, but it's more the gas guzzeling, decreasing driving visiblity, and that people seem to think that 4 wheel drive means you can break on ice that gets me going.
Now now, you can't take care of that yourself, you have to leave decisions about your person and privacy to authorities who know better.
As far as I have ever been able to tell, there is no connection whatsoever between traffic law and traffic safety. The idea that lower speeds mean fewer accidents is a myth created when a gasoline conservation policy speed limit went into effect about the same time as a law that actually does keep people who get into accidents alive - seatbelts. There have actually been fewer roadway accidents since the 55mph speed limit was demandated and many highways went back to 65 or 75 mph limits - cars are just getting safer to drive. There are certainly reasonable speeds that need to be observed depending on the particular stretch of road for safety reasons, however, most roads, especially major ones, are posted FAR under what is actually reasonable, often under the ASSUMPTION people will go 10-15 over what is says because limits are just about always unrealistically low. The truth is police don't want to give up these artificially much lower than safe limits, even though they aren't protecting people, for the very reason that nobody observes them. This means everybody is always breaking the law and always can always be detained, questioned, fined, and increasingly (law enforcement's wet dream) searched without cause. Speed limit laws are held onto tight by authorities as a loophole around our civil rights to ensure we are never in the position where we are actually protected by law, only controlled and abused by it.
When I was making my first mail shirt and putting in 7 hour days on it, I'd see hundreds and hundreds of rings woven together, or apart, even when I'd just close my eyes after too long.
Vanilla Ice wasn't THAT fucked - he had good finance people and actualy retained nearly the entire fortune he did get personally, unlike poor Hammer who was just run out of his money.
Thats VERY good advice - statistics have little meaning without knowing how they're generated. I spend two years in school for CS and never heard anything about statistics other than averaging. But I dealt with a statistics course in my later path to a psychology degree, and finding out what those numbers mean can be a really big deal, especially to a computer scientist, who is someone who designs in algorithm but lets the computer do all the computation.
Reread the clip you quoted - just because educated people are less likely to develope it does not mean that it doesn't progress faster in the cases where they do.
They have those, do a search - it's a device that uses excess current from the alternator when the car is running at higher RPM, and mixes the hydrogen produced with the gasoline to make it burn cleaner.
Yea, thats why everybody seems to be using canned air now, from office supply stores - some guys in my friends dorm literally had dozens of empty cans laying on their floor all the time.
I used to play BATMUD on a IBM PS1/286 with a 1200 modem, now that was interesting.
Cough medicine without DXM is by and large snake oil, yea. And DXM is sometimes used recreationally(tho I can't imagine why) so it's being used in less and less cough syrups.
actually, if social defeats cause the effects they suggest, someone bigger pounding on the bullies might be as effective as I've always suggested..
Amazingly, they've yet to begin looting, just looking in through a small hole in the door for now...
I think it has to be piracy on the high seas, so only those offshore CD duplicating boats count...
I've generally heard the term hemp used in historical farming contexts, thats why I chose it, nothing more. I wasn't aware that increasing potency was the only reason to separate plants, but I'm far from a scholar on hemp cultivation - if that's correct, it would be quite hard to believe that he wasn't trying to get nice smokeable buds based on that writing, which I have seen from other sources.
I love Steven King on celebrity jeopardy - he kicks so much ass on the dumbed-down celebrity questions his victory is inevitable and amusing to watch.
I know they were both noted to dislike tobacco and were known to exchange "smoking mixtures" which were mostly hemp, but I've never read any actual historical document which indicated a frequency of use, do you know any source for that offhand?
We covered this in my cognitive psychology course - ideas almost never emerge in bursts or moments of inspiration, rather, progress is much more linear and based on previous ideas or observations that person or someone else has made. People who claim to have had "rushes of inspiration" and gotten a great new idea from nowhere are generally antecdotal - this never happens in controlled studies. Many claimed this is how it happend, but under controlled conditions, are found to be either not remembering the progression, or in some few cases not even aware of it.
actually, my understanding is that it's intended exactly as you said - for situations where someone will clearly die before help arrives or they arrive to help, but where there might be time to get them to a suspended state which would let them last until it does, even if 1/10 that would kill them.
My understanding of the ignighting the atmosphere issue surrounding the atomic bomb was that it was a fear of the politicomilitary people involved, NOT the scientists. I recall reading in "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman" that Richard Feynman, when observing the "Trinity" experimental atomic blast from the 20 mile marker, ditched the welders glass and watched from his truck, because he knew the front glass was UV shielded and that at that distance that would take care of anything the bomb put out - the goggles were overkill and would keep him from getting a proper view. I believe the ammount of non UV light that got through whited out his vision for a few minutes, thats all.
Damn homemade ovenmitt!
The idea is to prevent me from having to see them move at all, so I prefer setting anidisable to just display the first from forever from the start.
flash and animated gif restrictions you can use in firefox are the feature that converted me,the internet can no longer flash and scream at me... before that the response speed on IE was more important, at least once it started blocking popups.
"We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin "We have to go forth and crush every bird of prety that doesn't believe in tollerence and nopredation of homo sapiens"
I personally think raptor predation would be limited to smaller weaker isolated hominids, basically opportunistic kills. However, I beg to differ on the at least weekly statement - that should be limited to warm blooded creatures only - many cold blooded animals need so much less nourishment that they can eat biweekly or monthly and suvive easily.