Well, arguable, as a parent myself... while the toddler doesn't deserve that fate, it is probably better for the gene pool if those genes didn't carry on as the parent really fucked up if their kid is standing behind a car backing up.
Not the kids fault, entirely the parents, but its too late to prevent them from breeding at that point, isn't it.
I've 'raced' cars since before it was legal for me to drive, and by raced I mean in the most redneck illegal sense you can possibly come up with short of stealing the car itself. Some pretty hot cars mind you, all of our parents were gear heads, so we always had a good selection of nice rides around someones house, and after they were drunk enough... well, no one noticed that we borrowed them;)
Anyway, I've dealt with a far amount of skids without ABS, and know how to deal with it. You would never catch me in a car with ABS... until...
A particular moment where I was going WAY to fast down a single lane dirt road and watched my path become blocked by a cement truck pulling out from behind a treelike... immediately followed by my exit strategies (the ditch on each side of the road) turning into no option as well.
I admit, I panicked and stood on the brakes when I shouldn't have. I fucked up.
That car had ABS, and because of that I STILL was able to thread the car through a tiny little slit between the cement truck and the tree line.
I've never had a problem with ABS since then. Yea, I hate when it engages, but thats just another reminder that I'm NOT as good as a driver as I want to think.
I drive a little 2 seater ragtop for fun now, I'll go pull the fuse from the ABS, turn off TCS and have a blast on wet days at the local race track, but the rest of the time...
I'm happy to let the ABS cover my ass when I mess up.
Make no mistake, if the ABS kicks in, I messed up, but my pride left my body as I watched my life flash before my eyes and thought I had just killed my friend in the car with me because there was no way I was going to stop before plowing that cement truck and had I lost control the result would have been the same.
That's assuming people USE the backup camera. After all, don't we already have THREE MIRRORS?
Backup cameras allow you to see the ground directly behind your vehicle below where your mirrors can see because of the trunk/bed/rear-end of your vehicle.
You can easily put 3,4 or 5 people on the ground behind a car and you can't see them in any mirror. This is in a best case scenario like a pickup with the tailgate removed. It only gets worse from there.
I have a bridge over an ocean (yes, its ocean front too) in Arizona that I would love to sell you.
You should be pretty used to getting ripped off on a daily bases from the prices you're quoting.
Your costs are window sticker prices, not reality. Your costs are if you go to the dealer and bend over, drop your drawers and say 'please sir, use long dong silver with no lube'.
You're a moron who clearly has never driven a large vehicle.
You have absolutely no fucking clue just how useless mirrors are. I hope you don't make it to breeding.
Do you know what the fuck a blind spot is? Do you know that mirrors cover a tiny percentage of the rear view?
Do you even have a fucking license because something so fucking stupid could not have come out of someone who actually drives a car other than in high school drivers ed.
Hah, no what you're looking at is how much the dealer charges you for a 'upgraded feature', not what it actually costs.
The shitty satnav you paid $2000 for doesn't actually cost $2000 any more than the rear view system costs $300. For $300 I can put in a capacitive touch 7" monitor with a HD camera with both color and infrared for night time... and thats retail prices as a hobby, not when I'm being half a million a year of them on contract for the next 50 years.
When they have to put it on your car, they'll make sure the price is extremely low, I'd bet the entire system ends up two orders of magnitude cheaper than you claim, and yes, I'm being serious. If it costs them $20, I'd be blown away.
When reversing I use my mirrors almost exclusively. Turning your head only gives you a nice view of the roof pillars. For some idiotic reason they teach you that in drivers ed.
You are the idiotic reason they have to teach people to turn the fuck around.
Your mirrors cover a tiny portion of the view, when you turn around, you can move your head an inch to the left and see everything that was previously behind that roof pillar.
Panel trucks generally have mirrors 4 to 5 times that of even a standard large pickup or car.
Theres nothing you can fucking do with your mirror that makes the blind spots go away, and the fact that you don't know that is reason enough to take your fucking license away.
Ignorant fucks like you are why we have so many accidents. God you need your ass kicked and skull beat in for your ignorance and arrogance, you're going to kill someone with your stupidity.
My wife's car has one, it gets a glance at while she's turning around to look out the back window.
Of course, she's been driving for 20 years without a backup camera, so theres some habits formed, and the camera is actually an additional tool that helps.
Otherwise I agree with you 100%, people will be even more careless now.
You can not legally require me to take cash for a doubt. If your debt to me is 14 pigs, then you owe me 14 pigs. Period.
The statement you're reading means the GOVERNMENT will back its value, for all debts, public or private, it does not mean you have to accept cash.
There are plenty of businesses who do not accept cash for their services or goods. All the examples of places who use their own currency for micro transactions such as xbox live (formerly, they recently stopped).
There is also the matter of businesses who refuse cash and accept only credit or check.
Warp speed doesn't change the speed of the ship, it changes the size of space around the ship. Not really any big need for inertial compensation, you shrink 10 light years of space into a football field, then just walk to the other side. Thats what the WARP drive is. Seriously, google it.
Impulse on the other hand, would have needed some sort of inertial dampeners if you could create drives that powerful. Impulse was nothing more than standard ION engines. Its unlikely (not impossible at all) that we'll create that level of impulse drive.
Space most certainly does have a 'medium'. It is not a vacuum contrary to what you learned in elementary school, and there is even a sound, though you wouldn't be able to hear it with ears made for significantly more dense settings, and you wouldn't care probably since you'd be dealing with the issues that go along with 0 external pressure on a body that wasn't made to deal with a 1 atmosphere pressure differential between inside and out. We're not really 100% sure about whats out there beyond our galaxy, but every indication says its just more of the same, but less dense... a bunch of hydrogen, a little helium, and a tiny bit of the old stars that went nova.
Its cute that you try to pick it apart, and you're not entirely wrong from a practical perspective, but you are most certainly entirely wrong from a technical perspective.
You will be happy with the results, the penis becomes engorged far easier and a bunch of other things resulting in a pleasant surprise to the kind of guy who thinks having his member be a little larger is going to resolve his performance issues.
Likewise the woman's sex organs also fill with blood easier, making them more sensitive.
This is all documented by NASA and other space agencies.
The only thing I question is who they know some of the things they've documented without having a couple astronauts come back and say 'yea, we spanked it in space' or the married couple that went up on one of the shuttle missions really did have sex... probably while the crew members watched since there really isn't anywhere to be alone. They insist its never happened though...
Read the previous paid posts from bennett. He's a moron who doesn't understand why its not okay to tell people heres a bunch of open proxies you can use to get around restrictions in place on the LAN AT YOUR WORKPLACE. He thinks its absolutely ridiculous that a company not control its networks and that anyone and everyone should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want.
He's one of those idiots who thinks anarchy is the greatest thing ever... yet has never in his life actually dealt with anarchy and when he gets close... his typical response is to come to slashdot and cry about how the rest of us are beating his retarded idea into the ground.
He's an asshole who thinks the rules should only apply to others, and only when he wants them to.
I should add, the only people who think patents should be abolished are people who don't create anything.
Anyone who creates has a different opinion. I don't agree with current patent law and the situation, but ranting around about getting rid of them just makes you look ignorant.
Really? How many times are you going to spend years of your life creating something awesome... only to have someone else like Facebook or Zynga copy it, market it, and put you out of business?
I doubt you've looked past your own selfishness and actually seen the big picture, so its probably a good idea for you not to pretend to know what the authors of the constitution... which has nothing at all to say about patents, had in mind when they wrote it.
Right, because you're different... and by different I mean exactly the same except for the other team.
Give me a break. This retarded report says the world is going to end and theres absolutely nothing thats going to stop that no matter how hard we try.
Guess what, theres no point in me giving a shit then.
Next time you want to spread some FUD, at least have the intelligence to not spread so much bullshit as to shoot yourself in the foot in the process.
When you write ignorant reports like this, clearly politically motivated by the fact that their own data contradicts the report.... well, its pretty hard to get anyone to give a flying fuck what you have to say.
Theres a story you should check up on, something about a boy who cried wolf.
When you link to dailymail, you automatically make everyone assume you're wrong and an idiot. Just for reference. You may not be, but everyone stopped reading your post when they see the dailymail link.
Thats a great way to get your neck broken, which is EXACTLY WHY they DON'T work that way.
The ONLY (I REPEAT, ONLY) time airbags are even remotely 'safe' is when the alternative is a high speed impact with the dashboard, and then they are only helpful IF you are properly restrained by your seat belt. At no other time do you want an airbag going off because instead of having a 5mph impact with the dash, you'll have a 305 mph impact with an inflating airbag that smashes your face and breaks your neck because your kid accidentally put the car in neutral and you tried to stop before it rolled into your fence post.
Airbags are EXTREMELY dangerous devices and misfires DO kill people which is why they have so many safety interlocks to keep them from deploying.
Airbags are a safety feature of absolute last resort. They are there for when the alternative is 'certain death', in which case you have nothing to lose by an airbag hitting your face.
I know this because I just went through all the crap to create one, and compared the various options at my disposal.
Employees are still responsible for their actions.
If they make a honest mistake, the company can't dock their pay, but if they intentionally defraud the company, it most certainly can go after them in civil and criminal courts, as can anyone else who has a complaint against the employee or the company.
The distinguishing factor becomes intent. If I do something that I don't know is bad, because my boss told me to, I'm safe.
If I have aids and drain some blood into the food prep system on a daily basis, then there is no protection for me what so ever.
In all cases, no one can go after the share holders finances just because they are share holders (i.e. the owners) because the share holders themselves don't have to have any idea what was going on in the company. People who work at the company ARE supposed to know whats going on.
The CEO is by order of congress responsible for EVERY THING that happens, even if he had absolutely no idea because he's supposed to make sure no one can sneak shit by him or her.
What happens now days however, is he just resigns, takes his bonus and hides. Pays off a few people and moves on to his next scam/ceo job. The new CEO doesn't face any charges, the company pays out some sum of money thats 1,000s of times lower than what they would have spent had they done the job safely in the first place and everyone at the company makes out like bandits.
Fuck that shit.
Start taking CEOs out back and shooting them, without even a trial, no c-level at any company that size is innocent. you can't get that big without cheating because everyone else is cheating.
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Well, arguable, as a parent myself ... while the toddler doesn't deserve that fate, it is probably better for the gene pool if those genes didn't carry on as the parent really fucked up if their kid is standing behind a car backing up.
Not the kids fault, entirely the parents, but its too late to prevent them from breeding at that point, isn't it.
I've 'raced' cars since before it was legal for me to drive, and by raced I mean in the most redneck illegal sense you can possibly come up with short of stealing the car itself. Some pretty hot cars mind you, all of our parents were gear heads, so we always had a good selection of nice rides around someones house, and after they were drunk enough ... well, no one noticed that we borrowed them ;)
Anyway, I've dealt with a far amount of skids without ABS, and know how to deal with it. You would never catch me in a car with ABS ... until ...
A particular moment where I was going WAY to fast down a single lane dirt road and watched my path become blocked by a cement truck pulling out from behind a treelike ... immediately followed by my exit strategies (the ditch on each side of the road) turning into no option as well.
I admit, I panicked and stood on the brakes when I shouldn't have. I fucked up.
That car had ABS, and because of that I STILL was able to thread the car through a tiny little slit between the cement truck and the tree line.
I've never had a problem with ABS since then. Yea, I hate when it engages, but thats just another reminder that I'm NOT as good as a driver as I want to think.
I drive a little 2 seater ragtop for fun now, I'll go pull the fuse from the ABS, turn off TCS and have a blast on wet days at the local race track, but the rest of the time ...
I'm happy to let the ABS cover my ass when I mess up.
Make no mistake, if the ABS kicks in, I messed up, but my pride left my body as I watched my life flash before my eyes and thought I had just killed my friend in the car with me because there was no way I was going to stop before plowing that cement truck and had I lost control the result would have been the same.
You're an idiot that just keeps repeating the same moronic statement.
That's assuming people USE the backup camera. After all, don't we already have THREE MIRRORS?
Backup cameras allow you to see the ground directly behind your vehicle below where your mirrors can see because of the trunk/bed/rear-end of your vehicle.
You can easily put 3,4 or 5 people on the ground behind a car and you can't see them in any mirror. This is in a best case scenario like a pickup with the tailgate removed. It only gets worse from there.
I have a bridge over an ocean (yes, its ocean front too) in Arizona that I would love to sell you.
You should be pretty used to getting ripped off on a daily bases from the prices you're quoting.
Your costs are window sticker prices, not reality. Your costs are if you go to the dealer and bend over, drop your drawers and say 'please sir, use long dong silver with no lube'.
You're a moron who clearly has never driven a large vehicle.
You have absolutely no fucking clue just how useless mirrors are. I hope you don't make it to breeding.
Do you know what the fuck a blind spot is? Do you know that mirrors cover a tiny percentage of the rear view?
Do you even have a fucking license because something so fucking stupid could not have come out of someone who actually drives a car other than in high school drivers ed.
Hah, no what you're looking at is how much the dealer charges you for a 'upgraded feature', not what it actually costs.
The shitty satnav you paid $2000 for doesn't actually cost $2000 any more than the rear view system costs $300. For $300 I can put in a capacitive touch 7" monitor with a HD camera with both color and infrared for night time ... and thats retail prices as a hobby, not when I'm being half a million a year of them on contract for the next 50 years.
When they have to put it on your car, they'll make sure the price is extremely low, I'd bet the entire system ends up two orders of magnitude cheaper than you claim, and yes, I'm being serious. If it costs them $20, I'd be blown away.
When reversing I use my mirrors almost exclusively. Turning your head only gives you a nice view of the roof pillars. For some idiotic reason they teach you that in drivers ed.
You are the idiotic reason they have to teach people to turn the fuck around.
Your mirrors cover a tiny portion of the view, when you turn around, you can move your head an inch to the left and see everything that was previously behind that roof pillar.
Panel trucks generally have mirrors 4 to 5 times that of even a standard large pickup or car.
Theres nothing you can fucking do with your mirror that makes the blind spots go away, and the fact that you don't know that is reason enough to take your fucking license away.
Ignorant fucks like you are why we have so many accidents. God you need your ass kicked and skull beat in for your ignorance and arrogance, you're going to kill someone with your stupidity.
My wife's car has one, it gets a glance at while she's turning around to look out the back window.
Of course, she's been driving for 20 years without a backup camera, so theres some habits formed, and the camera is actually an additional tool that helps.
Otherwise I agree with you 100%, people will be even more careless now.
Water is not scares.
Gold has unique properties that in and of themselves are valuable, and to top it off, its rare.
Are you really that stupid?
Uhm, no, thats not what that means.
You can not legally require me to take cash for a doubt. If your debt to me is 14 pigs, then you owe me 14 pigs. Period.
The statement you're reading means the GOVERNMENT will back its value, for all debts, public or private, it does not mean you have to accept cash.
There are plenty of businesses who do not accept cash for their services or goods. All the examples of places who use their own currency for micro transactions such as xbox live (formerly, they recently stopped).
There is also the matter of businesses who refuse cash and accept only credit or check.
Warp speed doesn't change the speed of the ship, it changes the size of space around the ship. Not really any big need for inertial compensation, you shrink 10 light years of space into a football field, then just walk to the other side. Thats what the WARP drive is. Seriously, google it.
Impulse on the other hand, would have needed some sort of inertial dampeners if you could create drives that powerful. Impulse was nothing more than standard ION engines. Its unlikely (not impossible at all) that we'll create that level of impulse drive.
Space most certainly does have a 'medium'. It is not a vacuum contrary to what you learned in elementary school, and there is even a sound, though you wouldn't be able to hear it with ears made for significantly more dense settings, and you wouldn't care probably since you'd be dealing with the issues that go along with 0 external pressure on a body that wasn't made to deal with a 1 atmosphere pressure differential between inside and out. We're not really 100% sure about whats out there beyond our galaxy, but every indication says its just more of the same, but less dense ... a bunch of hydrogen, a little helium, and a tiny bit of the old stars that went nova.
Its cute that you try to pick it apart, and you're not entirely wrong from a practical perspective, but you are most certainly entirely wrong from a technical perspective.
The effects on the penis are documented.
You will be happy with the results, the penis becomes engorged far easier and a bunch of other things resulting in a pleasant surprise to the kind of guy who thinks having his member be a little larger is going to resolve his performance issues.
Likewise the woman's sex organs also fill with blood easier, making them more sensitive.
This is all documented by NASA and other space agencies.
The only thing I question is who they know some of the things they've documented without having a couple astronauts come back and say 'yea, we spanked it in space' or the married couple that went up on one of the shuttle missions really did have sex ... probably while the crew members watched since there really isn't anywhere to be alone. They insist its never happened though ...
Read the previous paid posts from bennett. He's a moron who doesn't understand why its not okay to tell people heres a bunch of open proxies you can use to get around restrictions in place on the LAN AT YOUR WORKPLACE. He thinks its absolutely ridiculous that a company not control its networks and that anyone and everyone should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want.
He's one of those idiots who thinks anarchy is the greatest thing ever ... yet has never in his life actually dealt with anarchy and when he gets close ... his typical response is to come to slashdot and cry about how the rest of us are beating his retarded idea into the ground.
He's an asshole who thinks the rules should only apply to others, and only when he wants them to.
I repeat: He's just an asshole.
So if everyone starts at zero ... who is the person with a non-zero balance, who's getting snowballed?
I should add, the only people who think patents should be abolished are people who don't create anything.
Anyone who creates has a different opinion. I don't agree with current patent law and the situation, but ranting around about getting rid of them just makes you look ignorant.
Really? How many times are you going to spend years of your life creating something awesome ... only to have someone else like Facebook or Zynga copy it, market it, and put you out of business?
I doubt you've looked past your own selfishness and actually seen the big picture, so its probably a good idea for you not to pretend to know what the authors of the constitution ... which has nothing at all to say about patents, had in mind when they wrote it.
Right, because you're different ... and by different I mean exactly the same except for the other team.
Give me a break. This retarded report says the world is going to end and theres absolutely nothing thats going to stop that no matter how hard we try.
Guess what, theres no point in me giving a shit then.
Next time you want to spread some FUD, at least have the intelligence to not spread so much bullshit as to shoot yourself in the foot in the process.
When you write ignorant reports like this, clearly politically motivated by the fact that their own data contradicts the report .... well, its pretty hard to get anyone to give a flying fuck what you have to say.
Theres a story you should check up on, something about a boy who cried wolf.
When you link to dailymail, you automatically make everyone assume you're wrong and an idiot. Just for reference. You may not be, but everyone stopped reading your post when they see the dailymail link.
The pinto gas tank is statistically less likely to be a problem than pretty much every other car on the road at the time.
You're making the same ignorant mistake that Tesla haters make. One or two loud mouthed lawyers do not a crisis make.
If you're going to bring up the pinto, at least have the story somewhat reasonably close to accurate.
Thats a great way to get your neck broken, which is EXACTLY WHY they DON'T work that way.
The ONLY (I REPEAT, ONLY) time airbags are even remotely 'safe' is when the alternative is a high speed impact with the dashboard, and then they are only helpful IF you are properly restrained by your seat belt. At no other time do you want an airbag going off because instead of having a 5mph impact with the dash, you'll have a 305 mph impact with an inflating airbag that smashes your face and breaks your neck because your kid accidentally put the car in neutral and you tried to stop before it rolled into your fence post.
Airbags are EXTREMELY dangerous devices and misfires DO kill people which is why they have so many safety interlocks to keep them from deploying.
Airbags are a safety feature of absolute last resort. They are there for when the alternative is 'certain death', in which case you have nothing to lose by an airbag hitting your face.
And yes, they do deploy at well over 300mph.
Nope, protects owners, specifically, share holders.
I know this because I just went through all the crap to create one, and compared the various options at my disposal.
Employees are still responsible for their actions.
If they make a honest mistake, the company can't dock their pay, but if they intentionally defraud the company, it most certainly can go after them in civil and criminal courts, as can anyone else who has a complaint against the employee or the company.
The distinguishing factor becomes intent. If I do something that I don't know is bad, because my boss told me to, I'm safe.
If I have aids and drain some blood into the food prep system on a daily basis, then there is no protection for me what so ever.
In all cases, no one can go after the share holders finances just because they are share holders (i.e. the owners) because the share holders themselves don't have to have any idea what was going on in the company. People who work at the company ARE supposed to know whats going on.
The CEO is by order of congress responsible for EVERY THING that happens, even if he had absolutely no idea because he's supposed to make sure no one can sneak shit by him or her.
What happens now days however, is he just resigns, takes his bonus and hides. Pays off a few people and moves on to his next scam/ceo job. The new CEO doesn't face any charges, the company pays out some sum of money thats 1,000s of times lower than what they would have spent had they done the job safely in the first place and everyone at the company makes out like bandits.
Fuck that shit.
Start taking CEOs out back and shooting them, without even a trial, no c-level at any company that size is innocent. you can't get that big without cheating because everyone else is cheating.
Delphi is GM. Its what they call their parts division.
So its okay for employees to have unions ... but not for businesses?
Hypocrisy at its greatest.
I'm probably willing to pay more than he is, so whats the charge for front page placement on slashdot?
I'm sorry if I'm being ignorant, but is there a price sheet online that I'm just not aware of, or do I have to call in or something to get it?