The Taleban put a 7 year old to death for spying. That's as neutral and baldly factual as it gets. Neither of your statements are correct, they are emotion-filled words meant to evoke a response and not state facts.
Have you ever been to a hot area? Nothing happens in the middle of the day, because it's too damn hot to move. So people do things into the evening, and into the night. These lights will also allow farmers to learn to read at night, and other such educational activities during otherwise "down" times.
You don't read much about developing nations, do you? Hell, in India even in technology parks there are periodic power fluctuations a couple times a day. It's really only in the US/Europe that you get good, clean, consistent power.
So... you're thinking of something that is not reality, and then complaining that reality doesn't match your vision of what should be, even though it isn't?
I'm thinking completely about diminishing the number of cars on the road. As long as the HOV is moving faster than the other lanes, then it is a positive pressure to reduce congestion. If the HOV lanes ever get filled up so that they move no faster than the rest of traffic, then we can talk about alternative strategies. Until then, it's just pissing into the wind and worthless speculation.
A properly functioning free market would include consumers being fully informed because then they could choose the best product for the cheapest price. Since that can't actually happen, you get markets regulated as if they were free markets, but the advantage goes to the party that has more information, which is by and large the producer, even more so with lobbyist-bought regulations and such.
Did we ever stop to consider that maybe having the body of law so complex that it is completely incomprehensible to the vast majority of the people that it applies to might be a BAD thing?
It's not any better. But it's simply a differentiating factor. A cop can tell at a glance she belongs there, and you don't.
You're missing the forest for all the trees. Seriously... take some time and think about it in terms of overall traffic volume of what is currently classified as an HOV and what's not. If you can manage to ignore your selfish wants and look at the broader picture, you'll see how it makes sense. It encourages multi-occupant vehicles, better lane use and at very little administration and enforcement overhead.
It properly runs 64bit software and more than 3.5GB or so of RAM. Better multiprocessor support. There's a proper security model in place that is slightly more effective than XP's. New software is increasingly being designed for Win7/Vista instead of XP. Driver updates. But no, there's no "real" reason to upgrade to Windows 7 unless you actually need to run newer software or have the benefits of 10 years of development and research.
But if that's the case, why aren't you still running WinNT4? That does everything you basically seem to need.
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You sit on your XP boxes for another year and you're still planning on a Win7 upgrade. That's all this article is about. It doesn't matter exactly how you accomplish it, whether through software+hardware updates or a whole new platform.
No. Because the HOV designation still encourages carpooling. The problem is that you're looking at everything completely black and white, and have never actually looked at the traffic patterns in an HOV lane. HOV encourages people who otherwise would sit in traffic to carpool, but not enough of them to completely fill the lane, so allowing ANY multi-occupant vehicle to use it is just good sense.
If we just switched it to gallons per mile instead of miles per gallon, we'd still have the same linear progression and not have to change all pumps and road signs.
Wait... are you saying that the corn that is genetically modified is poison, or the business practices of Monsanto are? Because you're full of shit if it's the first, but spot-on if it's the second.
Hey now, I play the lottery. I figure it's a couple bucks of fun every month, I might (but almost certainly won't) win, and the profits go to support the local parks and open spaces. Everyone wins;)
As soon as the speed limit is set by a traffic engineer and not a politician, I'll start following it better. I actually do follow the speed limits fairly closely where they're sanely set, which would be at the 85th percentile. Most of the US sets it 8-12mph below that, which puts the speed limit below what well over 85% of drivers are willing and want to travel on that road. How is that sane?
It doesn't ease traffic? The point of the HOV lanes is to spread cars out more. If it encourages carpooling, great. But it gives you an incentive to bring other people with you, period. If the HOV lane is empty, and the soccer mom is adding to the traffic of the regular lanes... how exactly is that better?
Why is the speed limit the "right" limit, though? Did they put it to a vote? Or did some politician pull it out of his ass? Or the police lobbied to lower it? If it wasn't set by a traffic engineer, what kind of validity does that speed limit have?
Most of the tailgating, aggressive driving and weaving in and out is caused by a disparity between the speed most people go on the road and the speed limit. You get a few people adhering to the limit, and they're almost as bad as a dog randomly running across the road. Doubly so when they think that they're also police officers and should cut off and otherwise slow down people who are going over the limit.
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The Taleban put a 7 year old to death for spying. That's as neutral and baldly factual as it gets. Neither of your statements are correct, they are emotion-filled words meant to evoke a response and not state facts.
Really? Let me know when you can run Flash games on it. Or install non-Apple-sanitized apps. Or multi-task. Or have expandable storage. Or USB.
My paperweight works flawlessly, too.
Have you ever been to a hot area? Nothing happens in the middle of the day, because it's too damn hot to move. So people do things into the evening, and into the night. These lights will also allow farmers to learn to read at night, and other such educational activities during otherwise "down" times.
You're being a bit short-sighted.
You don't read much about developing nations, do you? Hell, in India even in technology parks there are periodic power fluctuations a couple times a day. It's really only in the US/Europe that you get good, clean, consistent power.
Only if you accept responsibility for all damages if we don't use this bacteria
Are you sure they're right, and will they always be right? How can you tell?
If you just believe because some other twit told you do, have I got a great cult for you! We wear comfy robes, and the Kool-Aid is totally free!
Yeah. A battery powered P3-class chip. I'm really upset about that.
So... you're thinking of something that is not reality, and then complaining that reality doesn't match your vision of what should be, even though it isn't?
I'm thinking completely about diminishing the number of cars on the road. As long as the HOV is moving faster than the other lanes, then it is a positive pressure to reduce congestion. If the HOV lanes ever get filled up so that they move no faster than the rest of traffic, then we can talk about alternative strategies. Until then, it's just pissing into the wind and worthless speculation.
Of course they would. Google couldn't stop it. That's kind of the entire point of an open-source system like Android.
Did the stupid leak from the way that Steve Jobs treats you into your actual behavior?
A properly functioning free market would include consumers being fully informed because then they could choose the best product for the cheapest price. Since that can't actually happen, you get markets regulated as if they were free markets, but the advantage goes to the party that has more information, which is by and large the producer, even more so with lobbyist-bought regulations and such.
Did we ever stop to consider that maybe having the body of law so complex that it is completely incomprehensible to the vast majority of the people that it applies to might be a BAD thing?
It's not any better. But it's simply a differentiating factor. A cop can tell at a glance she belongs there, and you don't.
You're missing the forest for all the trees. Seriously... take some time and think about it in terms of overall traffic volume of what is currently classified as an HOV and what's not. If you can manage to ignore your selfish wants and look at the broader picture, you'll see how it makes sense. It encourages multi-occupant vehicles, better lane use and at very little administration and enforcement overhead.
It properly runs 64bit software and more than 3.5GB or so of RAM. Better multiprocessor support. There's a proper security model in place that is slightly more effective than XP's. New software is increasingly being designed for Win7/Vista instead of XP. Driver updates. But no, there's no "real" reason to upgrade to Windows 7 unless you actually need to run newer software or have the benefits of 10 years of development and research.
But if that's the case, why aren't you still running WinNT4? That does everything you basically seem to need.
You sit on your XP boxes for another year and you're still planning on a Win7 upgrade. That's all this article is about. It doesn't matter exactly how you accomplish it, whether through software+hardware updates or a whole new platform.
But if you pay for upgraded computers, where will the executive bonuses go? They won't be as big, and that's just unthinkable.
No. Because the HOV designation still encourages carpooling. The problem is that you're looking at everything completely black and white, and have never actually looked at the traffic patterns in an HOV lane. HOV encourages people who otherwise would sit in traffic to carpool, but not enough of them to completely fill the lane, so allowing ANY multi-occupant vehicle to use it is just good sense.
It actually is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States#Political_considerations
If we just switched it to gallons per mile instead of miles per gallon, we'd still have the same linear progression and not have to change all pumps and road signs.
Wait... are you saying that the corn that is genetically modified is poison, or the business practices of Monsanto are? Because you're full of shit if it's the first, but spot-on if it's the second.
Hey now, I play the lottery. I figure it's a couple bucks of fun every month, I might (but almost certainly won't) win, and the profits go to support the local parks and open spaces. Everyone wins ;)
As soon as the speed limit is set by a traffic engineer and not a politician, I'll start following it better. I actually do follow the speed limits fairly closely where they're sanely set, which would be at the 85th percentile. Most of the US sets it 8-12mph below that, which puts the speed limit below what well over 85% of drivers are willing and want to travel on that road. How is that sane?
It doesn't ease traffic? The point of the HOV lanes is to spread cars out more. If it encourages carpooling, great. But it gives you an incentive to bring other people with you, period. If the HOV lane is empty, and the soccer mom is adding to the traffic of the regular lanes... how exactly is that better?
Why is the speed limit the "right" limit, though? Did they put it to a vote? Or did some politician pull it out of his ass? Or the police lobbied to lower it? If it wasn't set by a traffic engineer, what kind of validity does that speed limit have?
It's because all of them have a couple guns on a rack in the back window. I wouldn't wanna piss them off, either ;)
Most of the tailgating, aggressive driving and weaving in and out is caused by a disparity between the speed most people go on the road and the speed limit. You get a few people adhering to the limit, and they're almost as bad as a dog randomly running across the road. Doubly so when they think that they're also police officers and should cut off and otherwise slow down people who are going over the limit.