It is much easier to judge how far away a motorcycle is if it is illuminated by street lights, rather than just being a single headlight bearing down on you as a car driver or pedestrian.
Carry a flashlight (torch). You will be a lot more visible to vehicles as a moving light source and it eliminates the shadows behind shrubs where streetlights can't reach.
Torches generally have a limited field of illumination, so it's harder to see approaching dangers (and I'm talking about things like holes in the road, not masked rapists).
Feeling safe is beneficial to your mental health. Except for all the internet tough guys here, who'd rather live under the stars with their trusty revolver under their pillow. Which is just a rolled up pair of jeans, not a girly feather pillow. Obviously.
Roundabouts are no solution -- I've nearly been hit head-on multiple times in roundabouts because people go the wrong way.
That must be due to unfamiliarity.
In the UK, which is roundabout heaven, you pretty much never have people going the wrong way. It's usually people pulling out and being rear-ended where they have misjudged the gap either through impatience, inexperience or alcohol.
I would like to see the evidence for that in the UK. I think most rapes take place indoors, and muggings in places where there is lighting, but its not very good.
I would imagine that most rapes take place indoors since they are by people the victim knows. It's the knife-wielding random maniac who attacks people outside.
Since we're not citing studies we remember, I remember one from just a few years ago that suggested the most cost-effective single measure we could take to save lives on our roads in the UK might be to fully light every mile of motorway (and possibly all high-speed roads, but I can't remember now whether the data supported going that far).
Makes sense, it is horrible when you leave a lit piece of motorway or proper A-road and go back to an unlit stretch. Travelling at high speed in the dark is simply not as safe as doing it during daylight or on lit roads. Your field of view with headlights is severely limited.
My wife and sister, in contrast, are now uncomfortable about things like getting a late train home and then walking back from the station in pitch black conditions..
Oh for fucks sake. What a bunch of cowards. If your too scared to be alive. Kill your self already. Being scared of the dark is something you grow out of when your 5. Does your wife need a night light? Do you have to check under the bed. How many alarms do you have. Chicken shit.
Fact: it has *never* been safer at any other time in all history! EVER.
If you really think that a city (or even town) with no street lighting at all would be a better place, then you're in a tiny minority.
It is not irrational to prefer walking home on streets that are reasonably well lit, it prevents accidents and discourages opportunistic crime. Or do you think we should just turn all the lights off and go back to the fucking Dark Ages? There is a reason why people invented street lighting in the first place, you know.
Should the gov't be saving money by making people feel unsafe?
Should some whiny people be costing the rest of us taxpayers money because they are lame, paranoid bitches, afraid to take personal responsibility for their own safety, and who are very likely the same people responsible for disarming the majority of the populace and making it a real problem to defend ourselves?
No. They should not.
Fuck off. Children walking home at night were never armed, you utter imbecile. Also, most people in Britain don't think of the Wild West as a perfect society to emulate.
"Or maybe you're just being pedantic about the definition of "upgrade"?"
Yes I am. I see an upgrade as getting something better than what you already have. A few new 'features', an unintuitive UI change, and a plethora of bugs in a new version of a lame OS is not an upgrade, but merely a change.
"Or going from IE6 to IE11 isn't an upgrade, but just a change?"
Correct. Going from IE6 to Firefox, for example, is an upgrade.
A conversation about the internet that is long, long overdue: Is what we *have* what we *want*, and if not, what can be done about it? What we HAVE is a global network that will never, ever let you forget that silly thing you did whilst young and drunk that everyone thought was so hilarious at the time. Is that really what we want?
Maybe not. But it's kinda meaningless to quibble about the negative side effects when it's obvious the positive effects are so huge there's no way we'll give up on it, nobody likes drive-by shooting but it's obvious we're not going to give up cars. Yes, we would like a free global information-sharing network.
The internet is not some version of an omnipotent God that we are forced to worship. Humans can do what they want with it, including turning part or all of it off.
I'll admit when i was a kid i did make some stupid posts, but all i had to do was email the site owners and just asked them to remove it. Ive done this a couple times, never had a problem, you'll be amazed how willing people are to help you out, no need to force them with ridiculous laws.
Good luck asking Facebook to do something out of the goodness of their hearts.
It wouldn't be that difficult to require Facebook to delete stuff at your request. There's not a lot you can do to stop it being copied, but that's not really going to affect most people's postings, which will just sit on Facebook's servers for ever.
Everyone knows you will NEVER be able to remove all copies of anything from The Internet. Britain's and Americans just need to get over their insane habit of stigmatizing normal human behavior.
I think you are assuming we're just talking about topless selfies or people getting drunk. There are plenty of other things people can publish as teenagers which are genuinely going to come back to haunt them, for example a homophobic, sexist or racist rant.
Lots of teenagers like saying shit because they think it's shocking, without realising the impact if adults (such as their friends later in life) read it.
Just spell out nigger here and see how you get moded down whatever the context is. It's like there are idiots that routinely search for term and dump mod point without reading. Niggers! Niggers everywhere!
That's because there are very few contexts in which using the word "nigger" does anything other than drag down a conversation to the level of idiocy of most racists. To the vast majority of people, racism is simply not acceptable any more.
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It is also worth noting that in England, towns typically shut down completely at around 5pm.
Well, the high street shops do, I suppose. But the pizza and kebab places and petrol stations and big supermarkets and pubs don't.
Motorcycles must have lights at all times.
It is much easier to judge how far away a motorcycle is if it is illuminated by street lights, rather than just being a single headlight bearing down on you as a car driver or pedestrian.
difficult for pedestrians
Carry a flashlight (torch). You will be a lot more visible to vehicles as a moving light source and it eliminates the shadows behind shrubs where streetlights can't reach.
Torches generally have a limited field of illumination, so it's harder to see approaching dangers (and I'm talking about things like holes in the road, not masked rapists).
Feeling safe is beneficial to your mental health. Except for all the internet tough guys here, who'd rather live under the stars with their trusty revolver under their pillow. Which is just a rolled up pair of jeans, not a girly feather pillow. Obviously.
This is the reason why burglary rates go up during gibbous and full moons.
You appear to have confused burglary with lycanthropy.
Roundabouts are no solution -- I've nearly been hit head-on multiple times in roundabouts because people go the wrong way.
That must be due to unfamiliarity.
In the UK, which is roundabout heaven, you pretty much never have people going the wrong way. It's usually people pulling out and being rear-ended where they have misjudged the gap either through impatience, inexperience or alcohol.
I would like to see the evidence for that in the UK. I think most rapes take place indoors, and muggings in places where there is lighting, but its not very good.
I would imagine that most rapes take place indoors since they are by people the victim knows. It's the knife-wielding random maniac who attacks people outside.
If I want to be able to see mountains or the sea every day, I'll live somewhere near mountains or the sea.
Since we're not citing studies we remember, I remember one from just a few years ago that suggested the most cost-effective single measure we could take to save lives on our roads in the UK might be to fully light every mile of motorway (and possibly all high-speed roads, but I can't remember now whether the data supported going that far).
Makes sense, it is horrible when you leave a lit piece of motorway or proper A-road and go back to an unlit stretch. Travelling at high speed in the dark is simply not as safe as doing it during daylight or on lit roads. Your field of view with headlights is severely limited.
The town I live in has 25,000 people and NO street lights. It is wonderful!
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My wife and sister, in contrast, are now uncomfortable about things like getting a late train home and then walking back from the station in pitch black conditions..
Oh for fucks sake. What a bunch of cowards. If your too scared to be alive. Kill your self already. Being scared of the dark is something you grow out of when your 5. Does your wife need a night light? Do you have to check under the bed. How many alarms do you have. Chicken shit. Fact: it has *never* been safer at any other time in all history! EVER.
If you really think that a city (or even town) with no street lighting at all would be a better place, then you're in a tiny minority.
>Light pollution can reduce the quality of sleep
Only if you can't afford curtains. .
That is a truly pathetic attempt at rationalization.
It is not irrational to prefer walking home on streets that are reasonably well lit, it prevents accidents and discourages opportunistic crime. Or do you think we should just turn all the lights off and go back to the fucking Dark Ages? There is a reason why people invented street lighting in the first place, you know.
Should some whiny people be costing the rest of us taxpayers money because they are lame, paranoid bitches, afraid to take personal responsibility for their own safety, and who are very likely the same people responsible for disarming the majority of the populace and making it a real problem to defend ourselves?
No. They should not.
Fuck off. Children walking home at night were never armed, you utter imbecile. Also, most people in Britain don't think of the Wild West as a perfect society to emulate.
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"Yes, we know it costs 20 times as much, but it's in officially approved camouflage colours."
Why didn't you just copy and paste the whole book? It would have been quicker and no one's going to read that wall of text anyway.
No serious techie uses 'cyber' in a sentence.
That is the term being used by politicians and the military, so (as with "hacker") techies will just have to get used to the popular usage.
Ah yes, the "courage" to attack without warning and then run away and hide.
It's only cowardly if the enemy or terrorists do it. If we do it, it's clever tactics.
W10 is so far not too awful.
Come on lads, break out the pitchforks and flaming torches, there's work to be done tonight.
"Or maybe you're just being pedantic about the definition of "upgrade"?" Yes I am. I see an upgrade as getting something better than what you already have. A few new 'features', an unintuitive UI change, and a plethora of bugs in a new version of a lame OS is not an upgrade, but merely a change. "Or going from IE6 to IE11 isn't an upgrade, but just a change?" Correct. Going from IE6 to Firefox, for example, is an upgrade.
Going from IE6 to Lynx is an upgrade.
A conversation about the internet that is long, long overdue: Is what we *have* what we *want*, and if not, what can be done about it? What we HAVE is a global network that will never, ever let you forget that silly thing you did whilst young and drunk that everyone thought was so hilarious at the time. Is that really what we want?
Maybe not. But it's kinda meaningless to quibble about the negative side effects when it's obvious the positive effects are so huge there's no way we'll give up on it, nobody likes drive-by shooting but it's obvious we're not going to give up cars. Yes, we would like a free global information-sharing network.
The internet is not some version of an omnipotent God that we are forced to worship. Humans can do what they want with it, including turning part or all of it off.
I'll admit when i was a kid i did make some stupid posts, but all i had to do was email the site owners and just asked them to remove it. Ive done this a couple times, never had a problem, you'll be amazed how willing people are to help you out, no need to force them with ridiculous laws.
Good luck asking Facebook to do something out of the goodness of their hearts.
It wouldn't be that difficult to require Facebook to delete stuff at your request. There's not a lot you can do to stop it being copied, but that's not really going to affect most people's postings, which will just sit on Facebook's servers for ever.
Everyone knows you will NEVER be able to remove all copies of anything from The Internet. Britain's and Americans just need to get over their insane habit of stigmatizing normal human behavior.
I think you are assuming we're just talking about topless selfies or people getting drunk. There are plenty of other things people can publish as teenagers which are genuinely going to come back to haunt them, for example a homophobic, sexist or racist rant.
Lots of teenagers like saying shit because they think it's shocking, without realising the impact if adults (such as their friends later in life) read it.
Just spell out nigger here and see how you get moded down whatever the context is. It's like there are idiots that routinely search for term and dump mod point without reading. Niggers! Niggers everywhere!
That's because there are very few contexts in which using the word "nigger" does anything other than drag down a conversation to the level of idiocy of most racists. To the vast majority of people, racism is simply not acceptable any more.