Do you commonly ride with your handlebars within an inch or so of the car fender? If so, you're the idiot, and that's how close you have to be to be in my blind spot.
If you have a blind spot your mirrors are adjusted wrong. Every Drivers Education course teaches students to adjust the mirrors so that the driver can see the side of the car, but unless you're worried about a quarter-panel falling off and not noticing it you really don't need to see your own car. The mirrors should be adjusted outwards so that you need to move your head at least 6"/20 cm to the right or left before you see the side of the car. Once you've done that drive slowly past a parked car and you'll see that the car appears in your peripheral vision just before it goes out of view in the mirror.
I think that would be an instinctive aversion to foul-smelling, ridiculously-aggressive things with big teeth. Ever met a wolverine? Holy crap. I remember watching a nature program when I was little that followed a bear around for a while. A wolf pack had killed a deer, the bear showed up and chased them off the kill. The wolves sat around watching, waiting to get back to their dinner. Then a wolverine showed up, smacked the bear in the nose, sprayed all over the carcass, and bear, wolves and photographer all left.
It can be. I knew several practicing Wiccans who nightly observed the the moon phases (well, as 'nightly' as one can get in Seattle). After a couple of months their cycles somehow got synched to around the time of the full moon, and stayed that way until I moved out of town and lost contact with them a year or so later. None were on any artificial birth control and all were vegetarians or almost-vegetarians who cooked almost everything at home. A couple of them lived in the same house for a time (women living together will sometime synchronize their cycles), but the rest never did.
I've never seen any seemingly instinctive fear of insects among humans. Cultural and socially-generated fears, sure, but instinctive? Not even to snakes or mushrooms, much less insects.
Are you sure you've got the decimal in the right place? It used to be 0.10 %, or 1 tenth of one percent. Not sure when it would have changed that dramatically.
That was because prior to Windows NT pressing Ctl+Alt+Del would reboot the system. If you did a three finger salute in DOS you've just lost whatever you were working on because that was an immediate restart. No graceful shutdown, no saving anything, it was just one step up from yanking the power cord.
Asbestos was a problem because it was ubiquitous. Houses were sided with it, attics were insulated with it, pipes were wrapped in it, entire skyscrapers were fireproofed with it, electric motors were covered with it, car firewalls were built of it. CPUs and RAM? Don't see an issue.
BSA always did that, and expelled any scouts or scoutmasters who were ever outed. At one time I believe they tried to take away merit badges previously earned as well. I'm not sure when they started actively excluding atheists as well, but it was always a Christian church-based organization so any atheists who were involved were probably pretty well in the closet until the 1970s.
It's expensive and time consuming to push something like that all the way to the Supreme Court, which is where it would have to be decided. The expensive criminal lawyers specialize on getting their clients released on technicalities or having evidence/testimony thrown out. The cheap criminal lawyers specialize on plea bargaining their clients' cases to lower the penalty. There hasn't been the interest, up to this point.
Now that marijuana has been legalized in Washington and Colorado we may see someone willing to take the principled stand and spend the time/money to fight it. I'm hoping so, anyway.
Since SCADA, X10, etc. was originally designed with serial connections in mind and no security at all it's high time for something new. I like their idea, although I don't know enough about the people involved to know whether they're competent or trustable to be given the responsibility.
Bolivia is suing the US in the International Court and other Latin American countries are expected to join. Not that the US gives a flying fuck about international law, but some people are going to have to be careful about where they travel.
They should let a private company buy a bunch of these things, connect them to a simulator, and rent out time on the system (with pre-programmed fail safes in place.) Wouldn't be quite the same as flying an F-16 yourself, but damn it would be fun.
When Krakatoa blew up and humans were finally able to visit the shattered remains of the island the only living thing they saw was a spider in a web, apparently newly arrived.
Fuel is only one use for petroleum. If you want to spend 30 seconds thinking about it you will probably realize that there are a number of other uses for long-chain carbon compounds.
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Do you commonly ride with your handlebars within an inch or so of the car fender? If so, you're the idiot, and that's how close you have to be to be in my blind spot.
If there's a bicyclist on the freeway they have more problems than whether there's a blind spot 12 inches wide next to my fender.
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If you have a blind spot your mirrors are adjusted wrong. Every Drivers Education course teaches students to adjust the mirrors so that the driver can see the side of the car, but unless you're worried about a quarter-panel falling off and not noticing it you really don't need to see your own car. The mirrors should be adjusted outwards so that you need to move your head at least 6"/20 cm to the right or left before you see the side of the car. Once you've done that drive slowly past a parked car and you'll see that the car appears in your peripheral vision just before it goes out of view in the mirror.
Hell, in Miami they still drive.
I think that would be an instinctive aversion to foul-smelling, ridiculously-aggressive things with big teeth. Ever met a wolverine? Holy crap. I remember watching a nature program when I was little that followed a bear around for a while. A wolf pack had killed a deer, the bear showed up and chased them off the kill. The wolves sat around watching, waiting to get back to their dinner. Then a wolverine showed up, smacked the bear in the nose, sprayed all over the carcass, and bear, wolves and photographer all left.
It can be. I knew several practicing Wiccans who nightly observed the the moon phases (well, as 'nightly' as one can get in Seattle). After a couple of months their cycles somehow got synched to around the time of the full moon, and stayed that way until I moved out of town and lost contact with them a year or so later. None were on any artificial birth control and all were vegetarians or almost-vegetarians who cooked almost everything at home. A couple of them lived in the same house for a time (women living together will sometime synchronize their cycles), but the rest never did.
He's already a vegetarian, moron.
I've never seen any seemingly instinctive fear of insects among humans. Cultural and socially-generated fears, sure, but instinctive? Not even to snakes or mushrooms, much less insects.
Receiving texts the day after they were sent is a little pathetic.
I got used to that when my employer changed to Sprint for cell service. Sometimes got voice mails as much as a week after they were left.
Just sent myself a Word document. Attached it as normal. I'm using the free consumer version, not sure if that makes a difference.
Since when? I sent my friend some photos of our anniversary party just yesterday, and it worked fine.
Are you sure you've got the decimal in the right place? It used to be 0.10 %, or 1 tenth of one percent. Not sure when it would have changed that dramatically.
That was because prior to Windows NT pressing Ctl+Alt+Del would reboot the system. If you did a three finger salute in DOS you've just lost whatever you were working on because that was an immediate restart. No graceful shutdown, no saving anything, it was just one step up from yanking the power cord.
Horrific? Please.
Asbestos was a problem because it was ubiquitous. Houses were sided with it, attics were insulated with it, pipes were wrapped in it, entire skyscrapers were fireproofed with it, electric motors were covered with it, car firewalls were built of it. CPUs and RAM? Don't see an issue.
I take it you've never worked with end users.
BSA always did that, and expelled any scouts or scoutmasters who were ever outed. At one time I believe they tried to take away merit badges previously earned as well. I'm not sure when they started actively excluding atheists as well, but it was always a Christian church-based organization so any atheists who were involved were probably pretty well in the closet until the 1970s.
If Comcast is doing the routing, Oregon.
Over a million in Central Park didn't do anything for nuclear disarmament. A couple million people across the country didn't stop the Iraq invasion.
It's expensive and time consuming to push something like that all the way to the Supreme Court, which is where it would have to be decided. The expensive criminal lawyers specialize on getting their clients released on technicalities or having evidence/testimony thrown out. The cheap criminal lawyers specialize on plea bargaining their clients' cases to lower the penalty. There hasn't been the interest, up to this point.
Now that marijuana has been legalized in Washington and Colorado we may see someone willing to take the principled stand and spend the time/money to fight it. I'm hoping so, anyway.
Since SCADA, X10, etc. was originally designed with serial connections in mind and no security at all it's high time for something new. I like their idea, although I don't know enough about the people involved to know whether they're competent or trustable to be given the responsibility.
Bolivia is suing the US in the International Court and other Latin American countries are expected to join. Not that the US gives a flying fuck about international law, but some people are going to have to be careful about where they travel.
They should let a private company buy a bunch of these things, connect them to a simulator, and rent out time on the system (with pre-programmed fail safes in place.) Wouldn't be quite the same as flying an F-16 yourself, but damn it would be fun.
When Krakatoa blew up and humans were finally able to visit the shattered remains of the island the only living thing they saw was a spider in a web, apparently newly arrived.
Cheaper to transport the car to Titan, right?
Fuel is only one use for petroleum. If you want to spend 30 seconds thinking about it you will probably realize that there are a number of other uses for long-chain carbon compounds.