Probably most everybody knows about this site by now, but Toolhaus's Negative/Neutral Feedback is indispensable if you're still on eBay. Any volume seller will have problem customers, but at least you can tell if the problems are consistent.
I really can't understand why so many people think that AAC is an Apple format... Is it the "A"s in it that makes everyone seem to assume it has something to do with Apple?
For me, yes, that's exactly what it was. I just assumed it was for "A"pple for three reasons:
I never cared enough to find out the real meaning (and never saw it written in full)
I only ever saw it in the context of Apple or iTunes (which is still the case, regardless of the "everything made these days" claims), and
Serious question: do you feel that if speed limits were raised, you'd say to yourself "oh, that's a logical and safe limit. I'll follow that." Or would you be like everybody else in the world, and go 10 over THAT speed?
Two points [with the disclaimer that I've worked for the police in multiple states/provinces in the US and Canada]:
In any case, not to get distracted from the subject at hand, I refute that speeding, as defined by going faster than a posted limit, is needlessly endangering lives. Those limits are decided by engineers who have NOT decided on the best speed. They've applied some rules of thumb, some rules of law, and some rules of common sense to arrive at a nice round number that is more correct than not. However, with cameras you're no longer talking more or less. You're talking exactly, atomically, right or wrong.
That's all true, except that every speed camera I've ever seen (and most manned speed traps) set the ticket limit to the top 15% of that road's normal traffic pattern. What that means is if the posted speed limit for a road is 60 mph, and "everybody" drives 70, you won't get a ticket for going 70. You'll get a ticket for really speeding, like doing 100 or something. I'm sure there will be anecdotes about "I was only doing 61 and I got a ticket," but that's extremely rare in practice.
Point two is short and sweet: I have zero tolerance for running red lights, and I don't see any grey area in that. There's a reason lights turn yellow, and it isn't so you can speed up and beat it through.
There was a long article in some magazine (Harper's? Atlantic? Can't remember...) many months ago, explaining the whole situation. It sounded really cool, actually. That'd be a neat place to hang out for a while.
That's interesting. I wonder how we could test this... I know! If some kind souls would write their numbers (19 or 20 digits) below this post, we can see if that's the case.
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Even editors don't read the ONE-LINE summary. (Yeah, I must be new here.)
"Perfect is the enemy of good." --Linus Torvalds
Pretty much summed up the whole situation.
Probably most everybody knows about this site by now, but Toolhaus's Negative/Neutral Feedback is indispensable if you're still on eBay. Any volume seller will have problem customers, but at least you can tell if the problems are consistent.
Yeah, but that link only rerouted 90% of the light. Here, try this one:
For me, yes, that's exactly what it was. I just assumed it was for "A"pple for three reasons:
Who's Gate?
Serious question: do you feel that if speed limits were raised, you'd say to yourself "oh, that's a logical and safe limit. I'll follow that." Or would you be like everybody else in the world, and go 10 over THAT speed?
Two points [with the disclaimer that I've worked for the police in multiple states/provinces in the US and Canada]:
In any case, not to get distracted from the subject at hand, I refute that speeding, as defined by going faster than a posted limit, is needlessly endangering lives. Those limits are decided by engineers who have NOT decided on the best speed. They've applied some rules of thumb, some rules of law, and some rules of common sense to arrive at a nice round number that is more correct than not. However, with cameras you're no longer talking more or less. You're talking exactly, atomically, right or wrong.
That's all true, except that every speed camera I've ever seen (and most manned speed traps) set the ticket limit to the top 15% of that road's normal traffic pattern. What that means is if the posted speed limit for a road is 60 mph, and "everybody" drives 70, you won't get a ticket for going 70. You'll get a ticket for really speeding, like doing 100 or something. I'm sure there will be anecdotes about "I was only doing 61 and I got a ticket," but that's extremely rare in practice.
Point two is short and sweet: I have zero tolerance for running red lights, and I don't see any grey area in that. There's a reason lights turn yellow, and it isn't so you can speed up and beat it through.
When you have more than one wife, all manner of madness is let loose.
Are you as awesome as your resume paints you to be?
I'm even awesomer! I left off all the parts about how I can play drums, my massive Spawn toy collection, and my mad pepper-growing skillz.
"May not be available for on-call next Monday..."
CRTs are inferior technology that have been surpassed.
Heh. Somebody's obviously not doing any graphics work.
There was a long article in some magazine (Harper's? Atlantic? Can't remember...) many months ago, explaining the whole situation. It sounded really cool, actually. That'd be a neat place to hang out for a while.
That's times more powerfull and flexible than CUDA.
I like how statistics are so meaningless we're not even putting the numbers in anymore.
That's interesting. I wonder how we could test this... I know! If some kind souls would write their numbers (19 or 20 digits) below this post, we can see if that's the case.
DO IT FOR SCIENCE, YOU FOOLS!
Only if it lands on a pissing cat.
He's in metric, and the sun's in imperial... or is it the other way around?
Parking tickets aren't even a criminal offense in most places, let alone a felony. Got a better example of a "little petty thing" that's a felony?
8 years of running the country. Duh.
Yeah, except Border Patrol is DHS, which is federal. Sorry.
Yeah, or something like this.
I know I'd go, if there were 999,9999 others willing to do the same thing.
And there you have modern America in a nutshell, folks.
Must be a lot of people doing that around here...