My browser is pretty much an "out of the box" IE10 install with minimal plugins. I don't use an ad blockers, I grew up reading newspapers and magazines, my eyes automatically ignore all but the most intrusive ads. However I was intrigued by your claim so I clicked "Disable ads" and (for me) the ads obediently disappeared.
So the problem is very likely something to do with your environment. If you want them to have a look at it then post the details of the problem and your environment to "feedback" - email link in the footer at the bottom of this page.
Loved the movie. Was in a bush town in Oz and pulled up to get petrol. I filled up but nobody was at the register so I wandered around to the "repair shop" basically a converted hayshed with room for about a dozen cars. There was only one car in the far corner, it was in showroom condition but looked strangely at home in a converted hayshed . Just as I spotted it the guy appeared from behind the shed, I said; "Stephen King fan, eh?", to which he smiled and replied "Close, Christine worshiper".
Indeed. My Datsun caught fire on the freeway in the 80's, I didn't hit anything, the car was crap (a beat up Datsun 180). It was an oil fire, thick black smoke poured through the gear stick housing and quickly filled the car. Luckily I had just enough time to pull up on the embankment before entering a long bridge on a freeway junction. It would have been a far more dangerous situation if it happened on the bridge. The fire itself was easy to put out with a rag and the emergency radiator water from the boot.
All that, and not one fucking word from the Datsun during the whole ordeal.;)
The car said it needed servicing and "may not restart", if it were me I'd probably keep driving too. The final "Pull over, I'm shutting down" message would (in hindsight) have been a better initial response from the car but "out of warranty mode" would have been funnier.
Also the GP has a point, all kinds of cars do burst into flames every now and then, in 35 years of driving I've seen it happen 3 times. Once to myself in a Datsun on the freeway, my brother-in-law's ford while it was parked in the driveway, both of those were oil fires. The third incident was a mate's prime mover, a large spanner came loose and fell on the battery shorting out the terminals. All three incidents happened in the 80's. The fact that the car was damaged means all bets are off, but it also means that the manufacturer will get feedback on the incident and suggestions on how to fix it. If they don't listen then often they will be "forced" to do so by legislation that could see a lead engineer jailed for manslaughter.
Western governments are almost single-handedly responsible for the massive improvement in both car and road safety over the last 40yrs, free market competition has worked out how to put those legal requirements into a car without it looking like a 1970's Volvo. If road/car safety was left to the "invisible hand" then people would still be driving around with "DIY LPG conversions" - An 80kg LPG cylinder strapped to the roof racks of station wagons, like a torpedo waiting to be launched in the event of a frontal collision.
Telsa was undoubtedly a genius but his transmission technique was (and still is) ridiculously inefficient compared to a metal wires. And yes, Edison used propaganda and dirty tricks against Telsa, just like the gas light companies did to Edison, just like the coal miners are doing to the wind/solar farmers right now. It's not a conspiracy, it's just plain old greed.
If the early nuclear reactors were not built with the dual role of creating bombs in mind, then there would be no wasteland. Pebble bed reactors are one example of clean, failsafe nuclear power. The basic principle in TFA has been know for centuries, I learnt it the 60's as child when dad helped me build a crystal radio. The material with the properties you describe is also well known to electrical engineers, they call it "unobtanium".
I think most of these stories are just plain old sensationalism, nothing attracts eyeballs like outrage. Sober people, even complete morons do not come up with this shit without some reason, the press love to tell the bizarre bits but are not interested in the mundane explanations. Teacher's and administrators do not think and act as a group with identical political ideologies. Public education is not a socialist plot to brainwash capitalist piglets.
Teachers are people, collectively they have every good and bad personality trait found in the rest of the population.
As a case in point my granddaughter is very mildly autistic, for example it can be difficult to get her attention unless you lightly touch her before speaking her name. She is smart but has trouble with language, particularly metaphors ("raining cats and dogs" prompted over an hour of persistent questioning), according to the specialists her language skills are in the bottom 15%, the rest of the indicators are in the top 20%.
She spent most of this year struggling at kindergarten, couldn't hold a pen, couldn't use scissors, kept crapping her pants and did her best to ignore the teacher. My daughter has taken her to several specialists who gave her a bunch of simple behaviour "tricks", such as the touch to get her attention or the fact she can only concentrate properly while fidgeting because the very act of forcing herself to sit still takes up all her concentration power. She needs to move to think.
Listening to the stories I agreed with my daughter that the teacher simply did not have the patience required and was not listening or following the advice given by the paediatricians. My daughter moved her to another kindergarten last month. Within 3 weeks she was writing simple words, cutting out shapes and using the toilet properly. What's more important is the new school has rebuilt her self esteem virtually "overnight".
I don't advise changing schools lightly but I'm overjoyed at how it turned out for my granddaughter. I've seen it with other peoples kids on several occasions, the change in the kid is dramatic and clearly demonstrates how different one teacher is from the next, so really it's all pretty much the luck of the draw as to what kind of education your kids are getting from school. The "socialising" part of school is not just kid on kid, they also have to learn how to get along with adults in a position of power (some of whom they may personally detest). As I often told my own kids when they complained about some minor "injustice" at school from a teacher, "You will meet plenty of arseholes in your life, you will need to learn how to deal with them yourself".
Almost all law involving minors is based around the ancient notion that people don't start thinking until someone else tells them to. Until that time, the father/owner/king knows best, right?
Yep, that's right. Except the word is "teach" not "tell". Methods of teaching have improved enormously in the last century or two, for example Tomas Edison's father disciplined him with a public beating in the town square. It was not an uncommon punishment for misbehaving children. I grew up in the 60's, a time when both teachers and parents would regularly punish children with a cane or a strap.
I don't agree with either "teaching method" but I still love my dad dearly. Even as a child I knew he did not enjoy disciplining his kids with the cane, however he believed with all his heart he was doing the "right thing". It was a reflection of how he was raised (near Manchester UK, during WW2), "anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger".
The thought of abandoning Tomas to the law of the jungle would horrify Edison's father, When you have kids of your own you'll understand that in most cases it has nothing to do with "ownership" and everything to do with wanting the best future possible for your child. The rock spiders crawling all over the honey pot in TFA did not go there with best interests of the "child" in mind, they went there for sexual-gratification.
OTOH, once a child hits puberty then morality and intent becomes very fuzzy which is why arbitrary post-pubescent age limits never really work as advertised. Such laws are intended for use by the parents and guardians as a legal weapon against predators, but are often used against a slightly older boyfriend the parents simply think is "not good enough".
As Gore Vidal (who knew Clinton at collage) explained. Clinton is one of those people who can't inhale smoke, so he ate his share. In other words Clinton was technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct..
Compiling SOAP on Windows or Linux takes about 20min on a well managed VM with respectable grunt. The couple of dozen other binaries that go with our application take about half that time to build in total. SOAP is not even the largest of the component source trees we have, but from the compiler's POV it's certainly takes the most effort.
The opening line of Karl Mark's book..."From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". A succinct, compassionate, and efficient "prime directive" for any "we the people" if you ask me. Yet most adults know the devil is always in the details, for example China has dragged more people above the poverty line than the rest of the world combined in the last 40yrs, (coincidently 14yrs less than my age). China did that with a centrally planned economy. Of course they also put themselves in that the position of wide spread famine in the first place, ironically using the very same "system" of a centrally planning following a series of 5yr plans.
Frankly a 14yo's opinions on comparative politics are about as insightful and original as a 14yo's opinions on birth control, it's mostly second hand knowledge that (like the Marxist slogan above) often bears little resemblance to the real world. However you do seem to have worked out that the "free market" is actually a set of rules that form a trading system for "we the people" (eg: property law), not some magical hand righting wrongs, just a different set of rules to what we use. The system we use says that the "free" in "free market" means anyone can participate in that market, what's not so clear is whether anyone is free NOT to participate. The alcohol market is a trivial example of a non-free market since some sections of the population are prohibited from buying it, and the rest are prohibited from selling it to them.
Don't believe everything people tell you about Marx, Rand, Orwell, et al, go and read what they have to say. There's also a metric shitload of stuff on youtube from modern writers such as Hitchens, Vidal, Pinker, Feynman, Sagan, et al. I particularly like Pinker's latest stuff about the decline of violence over the last 1000yrs and I personally think the "Stanford prison experiments" will be seen as one of (if not The) most important insight into human nature to come out of the 20th century.
Don't let "being wrong" stop you from thinking, the more angles you look at, the more picture's the kaleidoscope of the real world shows you. - refer to sig.
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know we all wanna change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know we all wanna change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be alright, alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know we'd all love to see the plan, oh yeah
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know we're all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Know it's gonna be alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright, hey, hey
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know we all wanna change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know you better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't gonna make it with anyone, anyhow
There's a WW2 era agreement between the "five eyes" (US/UK/AU/Canada/France) to share intelligence and not to spy on each other. A post war "spy block" if you like. They are mainly concerned with economic/diplomatic espionage, the same thing made world headlines in the 60's and 70's when governments used it to infiltrate and disrupt anti-war groups, before that it was McCarthy vs the civil rights movement in the 50's and 60's. Have you seen the size of the FBI dossier on John Lennon or MLK, who both spent a great deal of time publically denouncing violent revolution?
Information is power and we in the west have had it in spades since 1945, the question is - what are we going to do with it in the next 70yrs?.
'I' is for "Industrial. The eves dropping by the MI complex is not primarily about terrorists, or Joe Random's hydroponic shed, it's economic/diplomatic espionage. The "five eyes" (Google it) have been cooperating on economic espionage since ww2, that's not to say they don't look for terrorist, just that they can do more than one thing at once.
That communications are monitored on a large scale for this sort of information has been common knowledge since the 70's. Doesn't anyone watch Robert Redford movies anymore? It's the same thing, except now they have much more powerful tools.
BTW: We are not "struggling" in the west, we are cock of the roost in the current international pecking order. What's happening here is just another periodic introspection on the practice before everyone forgets and a new Snowden shows up in 2025 and "shocks" us all over again. International politics is still at the level of medieval feudal warlords, with the security council playing the part of the Vatican. We have a long way to go before humans can walk the Earth and not bump into political/military walls.
Pity, it works rather well here, I think the difference is that over here it's set up in such a way that a lower road toll equates to a profit for the state. The idea of a quantitative approach started here in the late 80's and has been widely copied around the world. The statutory injury payouts, compulsory government insurance, the whole thing would probably smell too much like socialism for your average American to stomach, but the results speak for themselves.
Yes, I've seen that happen to a car travelling in front and to the left of me in outer suburban Melbourne, except it was a black and white cow. It was surreal, at one stage the cow was momentarily "turned turtle" on the roof of the car. The car was doing about 50mph, straight road, night, no street lights. The driver received some nasty cuts and fractures but was able to get into the ambulance under his own steam. The car roof was crushed down to the window sill on the passengers side, the cow had sort of rolled across the entire length of the car, it was dead but still intact.
Speed limits have virtually nothing to do with the quality of the road surface. It's about hidden driveways, pedestrians, wildlife, oversized vehicles, bends, trees, sun glare, ect. These problems are summarised in statistics about accidents that are used to set rules aimed at lowering the road toll. This is not to say everywhere works like it does here in Oz, but for the most places around the world the rules are enforced for good reason, not just revenue raising.
As part of your registration here in Oz you have to also pay for third party insurance, the insurance company is a monopoly owned by the state. It is responsible for paying for anyone who is injured, it's also responsible for public awareness campaigns to cut the road toll. It is in their interest to reduce the road toll, a low road toll is their "profit". In my state the toll has dropped from around 600yr to 250yr in the 20yrs the scheme has been operating, random booze buses and seat belts had previously halved the toll from around 1200/yr in the early 70's. All that while the number of cars in my state has increase 10 fold since the early 70's.
So while the authorities may be "unfairly" force drivers slow down in specific circumstances, it's certainly not because they are short of a dime. There will never be a zero road toll as long as there are humans, the question is, and always will be - what is an acceptable toll, where do we stop and say that's as good as it gets?
The gates foundation has one "business" goal - invest it's money and spend the profit on charitable works. If they spend the capital the charitable foundation ceases to exist. Also if you think board decisions of for-profit companies are made solely on the basis of the profit to be had, then I must assume you are projecting your own morals onto others.
As for Gates, I'm almost exactly the same age as he is, I distinctly recall him saying on multiple occasions over the last 30yrs that he would give the bulk of his money to charity when he hit 55. Gates charity work and his efforts to get other billionaires to join him is has almost single-handedly rescued the traditional concept of US philanthropy from the "greed is good" generation.
Thing is you don't have that kind of money, which is odd given your obsession with it?
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Video games don't cause people to be violent, nor do they cause them to be peaceful.
My browser is pretty much an "out of the box" IE10 install with minimal plugins. I don't use an ad blockers, I grew up reading newspapers and magazines, my eyes automatically ignore all but the most intrusive ads. However I was intrigued by your claim so I clicked "Disable ads" and (for me) the ads obediently disappeared.
So the problem is very likely something to do with your environment. If you want them to have a look at it then post the details of the problem and your environment to "feedback" - email link in the footer at the bottom of this page.
Loved the movie. Was in a bush town in Oz and pulled up to get petrol. I filled up but nobody was at the register so I wandered around to the "repair shop" basically a converted hayshed with room for about a dozen cars. There was only one car in the far corner, it was in showroom condition but looked strangely at home in a converted hayshed . Just as I spotted it the guy appeared from behind the shed, I said; "Stephen King fan, eh?", to which he smiled and replied "Close, Christine worshiper".
Indeed. My Datsun caught fire on the freeway in the 80's, I didn't hit anything, the car was crap (a beat up Datsun 180). It was an oil fire, thick black smoke poured through the gear stick housing and quickly filled the car. Luckily I had just enough time to pull up on the embankment before entering a long bridge on a freeway junction. It would have been a far more dangerous situation if it happened on the bridge. The fire itself was easy to put out with a rag and the emergency radiator water from the boot.
;)
All that, and not one fucking word from the Datsun during the whole ordeal.
The car said it needed servicing and "may not restart", if it were me I'd probably keep driving too. The final "Pull over, I'm shutting down" message would (in hindsight) have been a better initial response from the car but "out of warranty mode" would have been funnier.
Also the GP has a point, all kinds of cars do burst into flames every now and then, in 35 years of driving I've seen it happen 3 times. Once to myself in a Datsun on the freeway, my brother-in-law's ford while it was parked in the driveway, both of those were oil fires. The third incident was a mate's prime mover, a large spanner came loose and fell on the battery shorting out the terminals. All three incidents happened in the 80's. The fact that the car was damaged means all bets are off, but it also means that the manufacturer will get feedback on the incident and suggestions on how to fix it. If they don't listen then often they will be "forced" to do so by legislation that could see a lead engineer jailed for manslaughter.
Western governments are almost single-handedly responsible for the massive improvement in both car and road safety over the last 40yrs, free market competition has worked out how to put those legal requirements into a car without it looking like a 1970's Volvo. If road/car safety was left to the "invisible hand" then people would still be driving around with "DIY LPG conversions" - An 80kg LPG cylinder strapped to the roof racks of station wagons, like a torpedo waiting to be launched in the event of a frontal collision.
Telsa was undoubtedly a genius but his transmission technique was (and still is) ridiculously inefficient compared to a metal wires. And yes, Edison used propaganda and dirty tricks against Telsa, just like the gas light companies did to Edison, just like the coal miners are doing to the wind/solar farmers right now. It's not a conspiracy, it's just plain old greed.
If the early nuclear reactors were not built with the dual role of creating bombs in mind, then there would be no wasteland. Pebble bed reactors are one example of clean, failsafe nuclear power. The basic principle in TFA has been know for centuries, I learnt it the 60's as child when dad helped me build a crystal radio. The material with the properties you describe is also well known to electrical engineers, they call it "unobtanium".
Don't flatter yourselves, the French despise everyone.
Signed - The English.
I think most of these stories are just plain old sensationalism, nothing attracts eyeballs like outrage. Sober people, even complete morons do not come up with this shit without some reason, the press love to tell the bizarre bits but are not interested in the mundane explanations. Teacher's and administrators do not think and act as a group with identical political ideologies. Public education is not a socialist plot to brainwash capitalist piglets.
Teachers are people, collectively they have every good and bad personality trait found in the rest of the population.
As a case in point my granddaughter is very mildly autistic, for example it can be difficult to get her attention unless you lightly touch her before speaking her name. She is smart but has trouble with language, particularly metaphors ("raining cats and dogs" prompted over an hour of persistent questioning), according to the specialists her language skills are in the bottom 15%, the rest of the indicators are in the top 20%.
She spent most of this year struggling at kindergarten, couldn't hold a pen, couldn't use scissors, kept crapping her pants and did her best to ignore the teacher. My daughter has taken her to several specialists who gave her a bunch of simple behaviour "tricks", such as the touch to get her attention or the fact she can only concentrate properly while fidgeting because the very act of forcing herself to sit still takes up all her concentration power. She needs to move to think.
Listening to the stories I agreed with my daughter that the teacher simply did not have the patience required and was not listening or following the advice given by the paediatricians. My daughter moved her to another kindergarten last month. Within 3 weeks she was writing simple words, cutting out shapes and using the toilet properly. What's more important is the new school has rebuilt her self esteem virtually "overnight".
I don't advise changing schools lightly but I'm overjoyed at how it turned out for my granddaughter. I've seen it with other peoples kids on several occasions, the change in the kid is dramatic and clearly demonstrates how different one teacher is from the next, so really it's all pretty much the luck of the draw as to what kind of education your kids are getting from school. The "socialising" part of school is not just kid on kid, they also have to learn how to get along with adults in a position of power (some of whom they may personally detest). As I often told my own kids when they complained about some minor "injustice" at school from a teacher, "You will meet plenty of arseholes in your life, you will need to learn how to deal with them yourself".
Almost all law involving minors is based around the ancient notion that people don't start thinking until someone else tells them to. Until that time, the father/owner/king knows best, right?
Yep, that's right. Except the word is "teach" not "tell". Methods of teaching have improved enormously in the last century or two, for example Tomas Edison's father disciplined him with a public beating in the town square. It was not an uncommon punishment for misbehaving children. I grew up in the 60's, a time when both teachers and parents would regularly punish children with a cane or a strap.
I don't agree with either "teaching method" but I still love my dad dearly. Even as a child I knew he did not enjoy disciplining his kids with the cane, however he believed with all his heart he was doing the "right thing". It was a reflection of how he was raised (near Manchester UK, during WW2), "anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger".
The thought of abandoning Tomas to the law of the jungle would horrify Edison's father, When you have kids of your own you'll understand that in most cases it has nothing to do with "ownership" and everything to do with wanting the best future possible for your child. The rock spiders crawling all over the honey pot in TFA did not go there with best interests of the "child" in mind, they went there for sexual-gratification.
OTOH, once a child hits puberty then morality and intent becomes very fuzzy which is why arbitrary post-pubescent age limits never really work as advertised. Such laws are intended for use by the parents and guardians as a legal weapon against predators, but are often used against a slightly older boyfriend the parents simply think is "not good enough".
Oh, and Clinton didn't inhale, either.
As Gore Vidal (who knew Clinton at collage) explained. Clinton is one of those people who can't inhale smoke, so he ate his share. In other words Clinton was technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct..
Compiling SOAP on Windows or Linux takes about 20min on a well managed VM with respectable grunt. The couple of dozen other binaries that go with our application take about half that time to build in total. SOAP is not even the largest of the component source trees we have, but from the compiler's POV it's certainly takes the most effort.
The opening line of Karl Mark's book..."From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". A succinct, compassionate, and efficient "prime directive" for any "we the people" if you ask me. Yet most adults know the devil is always in the details, for example China has dragged more people above the poverty line than the rest of the world combined in the last 40yrs, (coincidently 14yrs less than my age). China did that with a centrally planned economy. Of course they also put themselves in that the position of wide spread famine in the first place, ironically using the very same "system" of a centrally planning following a series of 5yr plans.
Frankly a 14yo's opinions on comparative politics are about as insightful and original as a 14yo's opinions on birth control, it's mostly second hand knowledge that (like the Marxist slogan above) often bears little resemblance to the real world. However you do seem to have worked out that the "free market" is actually a set of rules that form a trading system for "we the people" (eg: property law), not some magical hand righting wrongs, just a different set of rules to what we use. The system we use says that the "free" in "free market" means anyone can participate in that market, what's not so clear is whether anyone is free NOT to participate. The alcohol market is a trivial example of a non-free market since some sections of the population are prohibited from buying it, and the rest are prohibited from selling it to them.
Don't believe everything people tell you about Marx, Rand, Orwell, et al, go and read what they have to say. There's also a metric shitload of stuff on youtube from modern writers such as Hitchens, Vidal, Pinker, Feynman, Sagan, et al. I particularly like Pinker's latest stuff about the decline of violence over the last 1000yrs and I personally think the "Stanford prison experiments" will be seen as one of (if not The) most important insight into human nature to come out of the 20th century.
Don't let "being wrong" stop you from thinking, the more angles you look at, the more picture's the kaleidoscope of the real world shows you. - refer to sig.
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know we all wanna change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know we all wanna change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be alright, alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know we'd all love to see the plan, oh yeah
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know we're all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Know it's gonna be alright
Don't you know it's gonna be alright, hey, hey
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know we all wanna change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know you better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't gonna make it with anyone, anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be alright.....
There's a WW2 era agreement between the "five eyes" (US/UK/AU/Canada/France) to share intelligence and not to spy on each other. A post war "spy block" if you like. They are mainly concerned with economic/diplomatic espionage, the same thing made world headlines in the 60's and 70's when governments used it to infiltrate and disrupt anti-war groups, before that it was McCarthy vs the civil rights movement in the 50's and 60's. Have you seen the size of the FBI dossier on John Lennon or MLK, who both spent a great deal of time publically denouncing violent revolution?
Information is power and we in the west have had it in spades since 1945, the question is - what are we going to do with it in the next 70yrs?.
'I' is for "Industrial. The eves dropping by the MI complex is not primarily about terrorists, or Joe Random's hydroponic shed, it's economic/diplomatic espionage. The "five eyes" (Google it) have been cooperating on economic espionage since ww2, that's not to say they don't look for terrorist, just that they can do more than one thing at once.
That communications are monitored on a large scale for this sort of information has been common knowledge since the 70's. Doesn't anyone watch Robert Redford movies anymore? It's the same thing, except now they have much more powerful tools.
BTW: We are not "struggling" in the west, we are cock of the roost in the current international pecking order. What's happening here is just another periodic introspection on the practice before everyone forgets and a new Snowden shows up in 2025 and "shocks" us all over again. International politics is still at the level of medieval feudal warlords, with the security council playing the part of the Vatican. We have a long way to go before humans can walk the Earth and not bump into political/military walls.
Pity, it works rather well here, I think the difference is that over here it's set up in such a way that a lower road toll equates to a profit for the state. The idea of a quantitative approach started here in the late 80's and has been widely copied around the world. The statutory injury payouts, compulsory government insurance, the whole thing would probably smell too much like socialism for your average American to stomach, but the results speak for themselves.
Yes, I've seen that happen to a car travelling in front and to the left of me in outer suburban Melbourne, except it was a black and white cow. It was surreal, at one stage the cow was momentarily "turned turtle" on the roof of the car. The car was doing about 50mph, straight road, night, no street lights. The driver received some nasty cuts and fractures but was able to get into the ambulance under his own steam. The car roof was crushed down to the window sill on the passengers side, the cow had sort of rolled across the entire length of the car, it was dead but still intact.
Speed limits have virtually nothing to do with the quality of the road surface. It's about hidden driveways, pedestrians, wildlife, oversized vehicles, bends, trees, sun glare, ect. These problems are summarised in statistics about accidents that are used to set rules aimed at lowering the road toll. This is not to say everywhere works like it does here in Oz, but for the most places around the world the rules are enforced for good reason, not just revenue raising.
As part of your registration here in Oz you have to also pay for third party insurance, the insurance company is a monopoly owned by the state. It is responsible for paying for anyone who is injured, it's also responsible for public awareness campaigns to cut the road toll. It is in their interest to reduce the road toll, a low road toll is their "profit". In my state the toll has dropped from around 600yr to 250yr in the 20yrs the scheme has been operating, random booze buses and seat belts had previously halved the toll from around 1200/yr in the early 70's. All that while the number of cars in my state has increase 10 fold since the early 70's.
So while the authorities may be "unfairly" force drivers slow down in specific circumstances, it's certainly not because they are short of a dime. There will never be a zero road toll as long as there are humans, the question is, and always will be - what is an acceptable toll, where do we stop and say that's as good as it gets?
GoodThing(TM) for him, a fucking public menace to the rest of us.
There are a lot of ugly minds today who are telling the whole world how they actually think, and then projecting it onto Bill.
The gates foundation has one "business" goal - invest it's money and spend the profit on charitable works. If they spend the capital the charitable foundation ceases to exist. Also if you think board decisions of for-profit companies are made solely on the basis of the profit to be had, then I must assume you are projecting your own morals onto others.
As for Gates, I'm almost exactly the same age as he is, I distinctly recall him saying on multiple occasions over the last 30yrs that he would give the bulk of his money to charity when he hit 55. Gates charity work and his efforts to get other billionaires to join him is has almost single-handedly rescued the traditional concept of US philanthropy from the "greed is good" generation.
Thing is you don't have that kind of money, which is odd given your obsession with it?
but that is how humans of the highest quality actually operate.
Ironically, the lowest quality humans also behave that way, and on a much more regular basis.
the fact that you can mentally process digital logic means that you are digital computer
Wish I had mod points...
...complete lack of surprise