This feeling that the article, and most of the top-modded posts in this thread, are concern-trolling so sincerely that the writers themselves almost believe it.
"Envirowhacko cartel", check..."safety Nazis", check...Warp 9 as a car speed, check...engines that clean dirty air, check...all cars the size of a "breadbox" (I assume this is something somewhat larger than a typical loaf of bread, never having seen one in real life), check...
Ok, I think that qualifies you for entry into this year's contest in the Most Rabid Hyperbole In A Slashdot Post category.
The real problem here is people purchasing enough engine displacement to carry a Bigfoot camper while towing a 30 foot boat across the Rockies, and then using it half the time to drive down the street to fetch a six pack.
Only half? You're being charitable. (And don't forget commuting for an hour with a 40% duty cycle of idling in stop-and-go backups.)
Light on the brake pedal requires more traffic anticipation than the average person can muster while talking on a cell phone. I can usually detect these people pretty quickly. They're the ones riding up my ass while I coast up to a red light (or one that is about to become red long before I get there), make an abrupt lane change to pass me, then come to an abrupt halt when the light actually turns red.
Alternate interpretation: they would have made the light if they hadn't had to wait for you. Or, if the light is already red, they're hoping to get to the in-pavement sensor in time to trigger their green light during this cycle instead of having to wait for the next one.
An old granny who just checks her email from time to time is an ideal customer for the ISP.
She's also an ideal target for marketing that promises her the exact same service for far less money (since she's that much less a load and therefore taxes the system less anyway).
This, of course, is all predicated on the idea that ISPs are charged strictly by the GB by their own upstream providers, which I have yet to see verified.
I thought it worked fine -- you started your parenthetical sentence, sensibly enough, by typing the parentheses, then arrowing back to type your sentence. Getting cut off, of course, simply inserted the obligatory "NO CARRIER" where you were.
(How getting cut off presses the "Submit" button, or, for that matter, what kind of Slashdotter still runs dialup, is left as an exercise to the reader.)
"Gun control" doesn't simply mean declaring that guns are illegal and hoping people comply. It means doing your level best to get the guns off the street too -- up to and including crushing the Mob. And that's what's not happening.
We should not regulate or ban things just because they have potential destructive uses.
Beware absolute unlimited statements. Following your assertion, nuclear bombs should be available at the corner store. For that matter, driver's licenses (and headlights, and driving on the right, and...) would disappear and we would all just be trusted to figure it out.
Hey, no problem. Let people have whatever weapons they want -- as long as they were honorably discharged by the military after having been trained in the use of said arms. And no one else.
It the clause doesn't mean anything, why did they put it in? The Founding Fathers were not big on slinging around a lot of meaningless decoration when it came to laws.
It makes you wonder why TV shows still do live interviews via geosynchronous satellite link. They're constantly running into this egregious delay problem (exacerbated by their processing on either end). Why don't they get with the times and Internet it?
Maybe this will finally reverse that stupid shift that took place in the early 1980s where every girl's name that ends with an -ee sound was changed to -i. (E.g., Debbie --> Debbi, Cindy --> Cindi, Tammy --> Tammi, etc.)
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Because I'll never remember it. And I don't want to bookmark it, either -- out of sight, out of mind.
I bet setting fire to dogs and cats would piss them right off. Is that "doing something right"?
This feeling that the article, and most of the top-modded posts in this thread, are concern-trolling so sincerely that the writers themselves almost believe it.
Being from a small (but not that small) town in California's Central Valley, I just want to say: I coulda tole ya that fer free.
"Envirowhacko cartel", check..."safety Nazis", check...Warp 9 as a car speed, check...engines that clean dirty air, check...all cars the size of a "breadbox" (I assume this is something somewhat larger than a typical loaf of bread, never having seen one in real life), check...
Ok, I think that qualifies you for entry into this year's contest in the Most Rabid Hyperbole In A Slashdot Post category.
Only half? You're being charitable. (And don't forget commuting for an hour with a 40% duty cycle of idling in stop-and-go backups.)
Alternate interpretation: they would have made the light if they hadn't had to wait for you. Or, if the light is already red, they're hoping to get to the in-pavement sensor in time to trigger their green light during this cycle instead of having to wait for the next one.
Of course, none of this does anything to address why such a large segment of SUV-drivers are women, who are rarely over 6 feet in any country.
(My own theory is just more of the same: compensation for lack of penis.)
Ah HA!! I knew it!
She's also an ideal target for marketing that promises her the exact same service for far less money (since she's that much less a load and therefore taxes the system less anyway).
This, of course, is all predicated on the idea that ISPs are charged strictly by the GB by their own upstream providers, which I have yet to see verified.
He didn't use the word "subject" at all!
(Now I dare you to figure out whether I'm doing it too...)
I thought it worked fine -- you started your parenthetical sentence, sensibly enough, by typing the parentheses, then arrowing back to type your sentence. Getting cut off, of course, simply inserted the obligatory "NO CARRIER" where you were.
(How getting cut off presses the "Submit" button, or, for that matter, what kind of Slashdotter still runs dialup, is left as an exercise to the reader.)
I say we take them at their word. I have a twenty right here, can I get my 8-fold increase in bandwidth now, plzkthxbai.
I'll go you one better than that: http://jcooney.net/archive/2007/02/01/42999.aspx
...Boston cops, reacting in a pants-wetting manner to the witchcraft of technology...hmmm.
"Gun control" doesn't simply mean declaring that guns are illegal and hoping people comply. It means doing your level best to get the guns off the street too -- up to and including crushing the Mob. And that's what's not happening.
You hate reasonableness? This explains much.
Beware absolute unlimited statements. Following your assertion, nuclear bombs should be available at the corner store. For that matter, driver's licenses (and headlights, and driving on the right, and...) would disappear and we would all just be trusted to figure it out.
O RLY?
I think what you meant to say was that their understanding of the 2nd Amendment differs from yours and is therefore invalid.
Hey, no problem. Let people have whatever weapons they want -- as long as they were honorably discharged by the military after having been trained in the use of said arms. And no one else.
This would, of course, cut most of the right wing nuts right out.
(Also, this might make those same right wingers straighten right the fuck out on their shameful treatment of our veterans.)
It the clause doesn't mean anything, why did they put it in? The Founding Fathers were not big on slinging around a lot of meaningless decoration when it came to laws.
Who are you kidding? Russia is run by the Mob, and they're not big on gun control.
It makes you wonder why TV shows still do live interviews via geosynchronous satellite link. They're constantly running into this egregious delay problem (exacerbated by their processing on either end). Why don't they get with the times and Internet it?
I like acronyms. How about we call it Fast And Really Tiny? All you FARTers will love FARTing on each other!
Insist on pronouncing it "siffie". Also, snicker a bit afterward.
Maybe this will finally reverse that stupid shift that took place in the early 1980s where every girl's name that ends with an -ee sound was changed to -i. (E.g., Debbie --> Debbi, Cindy --> Cindi, Tammy --> Tammi, etc.)