I try only to comment when I have something thoughtful to add, but decided I had to comment despite myself this time. You summed it up nicely.
Those advertiser scum could barely be any worse. These is some of those most obtrusive, obscene and despicable ideas yet. They might as well video record me taking a shit and use the colour and texture of my faeces to determine which food or vitamin pills they're going to force down my gullet when I next pause between breathing.
Breathtakingly despairing.
Half of "people" don't - according to the summary, half of "university students" click anything. There's a fair difference if you ask me. The irony of a clickbait article about impulse clicking...
"I don't take precautions because they make me complacent." I'm glad that the idiots in that article aren't the ones making any decisions in the computer security industry. Note how the CEO of MalwareBytes is the exception in that article - that's the person who's worked with exploits and viruses. Kudos for not having your head in the sand.
After successfully updating Adobe Reader on a customer's laptop, Windows 10 politely informed me that the "default PDF handler was corrupted". It was not. Windows 10 then automatically set the default PDF reader to Edge. Real change happens in the courts, then a few years later is forgotten.
It's not the servers, it's the client-side load placed on the Component-Based Servicing sub-system as a result of the burgeoning dependency/obsolescense trees.
I'd just like to say I am going to save your comment and send it to my Matriarch, who has been plagued by junk calls for some time. Your expletive-laden rant is, and I mean this genuinely, expressing the very same sentiment she feels as a fellow victim. And I'm 100% with you, too.
I thought you might get a chuckle when it turned out to be a bicycle:-D
That day/evening/night, I saw no working cars once I got off the main road. Even a Land Rover had been abandoned, which is what happens when you go out in snow and ice with freakin' road tyres on your Land Rover. I suspect if you were there with your rig you'd be able to drive with complete impunity, be it road, hedgerow or river. Reminds me of the day I was out with friends 4x4ing and came across a ruined grocery van. I'll dig up the video. We had to help tow out the "tow truck".
I don't have a set of car keys so we're on other sides of the pond and other sides of the road but still waving at each other. Wait, is that you waving or giving me the bird?!
Well christ on a stick, I feel I should print your post out and read it on the can to make sure I give it the attention it deserves. Dad always did his best reading when enthroned and I follow in his, er, footsteps.
I too have been on the road in snowy conditions. One could distantly argue it was reckless to boot - I was out solely as an excuse to be on the road in snowy conditions. It's difficult to find snow chains to fit my vehicle as there's not a big market for it, and currently the industry is heading towards the "weight weenie" goalpost, rather than concentrating on reliable machines. Anyone I took the first version of my home-made snow equipment for a careful, nay ginger, blast around the block. Upon return I realised that most of my efforts had been shed, so I had to backtrack on foot and undo my littering. Typical that all the parts I left in the white were...white.
Undeterred by this outcome - because science considers a fail to be winning - I decided to take the project to the next level, and headed to the local DIY outlet. On foot, I hasten to add. I don't want to risk killing myself before I get a chance to kill myself properly. I browse the available supplies in the store which will, in years to come, turn into a supermarket. I leave with a heavy rucksack of chains. I take steps away from the goal posts of so many of my kin. Weight bedamned.
Once I'm safely ensconced back indoors I begin the lashing and the first design used far too much chain, causing weight to genuinely be a problem. The rope I'd used to weave the chain around the wheels seemed redundant, too. Science once again triumphs in its failure and my second lacing method is much more efficient - a comparable surface area of chain with a fraction of the length of chain. I mirror my efforts to all of the wheels and venture out. I ventured out like a badass.
Those chains were quite a sight. And a sound. And they were actually pretty good! With noticeable traction on snow and ice I ventured out a few miles and came back with a plan. The plan was "This is brilliant, now I'll try it 250 miles away from home on uninhabited back roads by myself!"
If you struggle to see where the road is going and find the sensory overload overwhelming (which I find is exacerbated by unnecessary clutter) then you slow down.
The UK's New Forest National Park has had the same idea for our ponies. I just wish the country would switch to enforcing road laws! We'll end up with everything sprayed brightly and then the idiot road users who cause these problems won't be able to see a thing:-P
I find many of my fellow cyclists also blast down shared paths in ways they really shouldn't. I wonder if the same psychology applies because their route has a picture of a bicycle on it. I pootle through one such local path at no more than 8mph under any conditions.
I find it a constant source of amazement that some motorists think that driving at a very slow speed is an inconceivable notion, and that everyone else should just stay out of their way at all times. The fact that such behaviour can endanger life and limb somehow bypasses their conscious thought, and it makes me sad that people can lose their humanity like that.
Thankfully the south of the UK doesn't get much proper weather (er, excluding yesterday:-) so I've not often used roads in truly bad weather conditions. All of the times I did I was going at a crawl for the whole distance, because of extremely low visibility. Didn't need lines then, either.
I assume you're alluding to the idea that white lines solve the problem of knowing where one's lane is. If white lines solve this problem, but then introduce a worse problem, then scrapping it is hardly "let's not fix any problems". Let's use science, even if it seems counter-intuitive.
I'm all for unusual or counter-intuitive solutions to problems as long as there is solid science behind them. From what I understand of some of the UK trials, there has been question on the long-term data, which is problematic IYAM.
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I try only to comment when I have something thoughtful to add, but decided I had to comment despite myself this time. You summed it up nicely. Those advertiser scum could barely be any worse. These is some of those most obtrusive, obscene and despicable ideas yet. They might as well video record me taking a shit and use the colour and texture of my faeces to determine which food or vitamin pills they're going to force down my gullet when I next pause between breathing. Breathtakingly despairing.
Until the horse is then ridden to death around a track for the entertainment of a civilised species.
Hans the Counting Horse convinced a lot of people, too :-)
AC baying for +1 Funny mod points, as always.
You wouldn't believe it!
Half of "people" don't - according to the summary, half of "university students" click anything. There's a fair difference if you ask me. The irony of a clickbait article about impulse clicking...
"I don't take precautions because they make me complacent." I'm glad that the idiots in that article aren't the ones making any decisions in the computer security industry. Note how the CEO of MalwareBytes is the exception in that article - that's the person who's worked with exploits and viruses. Kudos for not having your head in the sand.
That's not a fair statement. Come now.
They also push ads for Office upgrades and replace your specifically-chosen default programs with their own. So let's not sell them short.
Such as Google Chrome installing as default browser, Google Toolbar installing to IE?
I'm sure Werner Koch could get a giggle out of such a statement.
The mark of a good driver is one who tells themself off for a mistake and learns from it.
After successfully updating Adobe Reader on a customer's laptop, Windows 10 politely informed me that the "default PDF handler was corrupted". It was not. Windows 10 then automatically set the default PDF reader to Edge. Real change happens in the courts, then a few years later is forgotten.
It's not the servers, it's the client-side load placed on the Component-Based Servicing sub-system as a result of the burgeoning dependency/obsolescense trees.
Some still are. You just have to be picky who you give your money to.
I'd just like to say I am going to save your comment and send it to my Matriarch, who has been plagued by junk calls for some time. Your expletive-laden rant is, and I mean this genuinely, expressing the very same sentiment she feels as a fellow victim. And I'm 100% with you, too.
I thought you might get a chuckle when it turned out to be a bicycle :-D
That day/evening/night, I saw no working cars once I got off the main road. Even a Land Rover had been abandoned, which is what happens when you go out in snow and ice with freakin' road tyres on your Land Rover. I suspect if you were there with your rig you'd be able to drive with complete impunity, be it road, hedgerow or river. Reminds me of the day I was out with friends 4x4ing and came across a ruined grocery van. I'll dig up the video. We had to help tow out the "tow truck".
I don't have a set of car keys so we're on other sides of the pond and other sides of the road but still waving at each other. Wait, is that you waving or giving me the bird?!
Well christ on a stick, I feel I should print your post out and read it on the can to make sure I give it the attention it deserves. Dad always did his best reading when enthroned and I follow in his, er, footsteps.
I too have been on the road in snowy conditions. One could distantly argue it was reckless to boot - I was out solely as an excuse to be on the road in snowy conditions. It's difficult to find snow chains to fit my vehicle as there's not a big market for it, and currently the industry is heading towards the "weight weenie" goalpost, rather than concentrating on reliable machines. Anyone I took the first version of my home-made snow equipment for a careful, nay ginger, blast around the block. Upon return I realised that most of my efforts had been shed, so I had to backtrack on foot and undo my littering. Typical that all the parts I left in the white were...white.
Undeterred by this outcome - because science considers a fail to be winning - I decided to take the project to the next level, and headed to the local DIY outlet. On foot, I hasten to add. I don't want to risk killing myself before I get a chance to kill myself properly. I browse the available supplies in the store which will, in years to come, turn into a supermarket. I leave with a heavy rucksack of chains. I take steps away from the goal posts of so many of my kin. Weight bedamned.
Once I'm safely ensconced back indoors I begin the lashing and the first design used far too much chain, causing weight to genuinely be a problem. The rope I'd used to weave the chain around the wheels seemed redundant, too. Science once again triumphs in its failure and my second lacing method is much more efficient - a comparable surface area of chain with a fraction of the length of chain. I mirror my efforts to all of the wheels and venture out. I ventured out like a badass.
Those chains were quite a sight. And a sound. And they were actually pretty good! With noticeable traction on snow and ice I ventured out a few miles and came back with a plan. The plan was "This is brilliant, now I'll try it 250 miles away from home on uninhabited back roads by myself!"
Used in anger: http://simplypeachy.co.uk/journal/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/hardrock-snowchains.jpg
Write-up of most of the sordid affair: http://simplypeachy.co.uk/journal/tag/devon-bike-hike-winter-2010/?order=ASC
If you struggle to see where the road is going and find the sensory overload overwhelming (which I find is exacerbated by unnecessary clutter) then you slow down.
The UK's New Forest National Park has had the same idea for our ponies. I just wish the country would switch to enforcing road laws! We'll end up with everything sprayed brightly and then the idiot road users who cause these problems won't be able to see a thing :-P
I find many of my fellow cyclists also blast down shared paths in ways they really shouldn't. I wonder if the same psychology applies because their route has a picture of a bicycle on it. I pootle through one such local path at no more than 8mph under any conditions. I find it a constant source of amazement that some motorists think that driving at a very slow speed is an inconceivable notion, and that everyone else should just stay out of their way at all times. The fact that such behaviour can endanger life and limb somehow bypasses their conscious thought, and it makes me sad that people can lose their humanity like that.
Thankfully the south of the UK doesn't get much proper weather (er, excluding yesterday :-) so I've not often used roads in truly bad weather conditions. All of the times I did I was going at a crawl for the whole distance, because of extremely low visibility. Didn't need lines then, either.
I assume you're alluding to the idea that white lines solve the problem of knowing where one's lane is. If white lines solve this problem, but then introduce a worse problem, then scrapping it is hardly "let's not fix any problems". Let's use science, even if it seems counter-intuitive.
If you read the OP's post carefully, there may be a nuance in there that you and I missed initially. Re-read and assume tongue in cheek :-)
Hah, well spotted. I think I may have fallen foul of Poe's Law. Or you have. Or something.
I'm all for unusual or counter-intuitive solutions to problems as long as there is solid science behind them. From what I understand of some of the UK trials, there has been question on the long-term data, which is problematic IYAM.