Let's see... Mechanical linkage brake failure, but magically works right after accident. Brake lights fail, but work fine after accident. Driver reports pushing hard on "brake", yet ECU reports throttle at full open. It is demonstrable that at highway speeds full throttle and full brake at the same time will slow and eventually stop the vehicle.
Pay-phone? Where do you find pay-phones these days? My daughter's brand new high school has no pay-phone anywhere on the premises. In fact, I can't remember the last pay-phone I saw. I work at a University, and there are no pay-phones in any building on campus.
Only the abominations that that they built post 82. (There was no 83 model year, only early 84s). The 82 (particularly the Collector's Edition) was the last Corvette that actually looked like a Corvette. It still had the high crown fenders and drop hood. Even the new Corvettes look just like every other sports car on the market. The newest ones (C6) do look marginally better than the overpriced junk from the late 80s and 90s, but the Corvette from the early 80s and late 70s are still way cool...
If the speed limit is 50, it was set there for a reason.
Suuuuuurrre it is. When Ohio changed it's Interstate speed limit from 55 to 65, I was driving a daily commute of 22 miles, mostly on Interstate. The VERY DAY BEFORE the limit changed (and everybody was waiting for it to change) the Highway Patrol set up a speed trap with two patrol cars on the section of highway that was to be raised by 10MPH the next morning. The friggin' signs were already installed and covered.
The next day and for months after, PoPo was nowhere to be seen. Everyone always drove 65 there anyway. They were just getting their last tap of the till. It had exactly nothing to do with public safety. You cannot argue that it was not safe at 65 one day and it was the next.
A road near my house has changed speed limits from 45 to 35 and recently from 35 up to 40. I was ticketed for driving 45 when it changed to 35 and I didn't notice. Which is the safe speed? 35? 40? 45? It depends on who bitches the loudest.
Your grandmother could have as easily been hit by someone going 55MPH.
Here in Ohio, traffic tickets are just a cost of doing business. I got in a wreck a few years back on black ice. I was one of four cars that wrecked in the same spot. The cop apologized to me for giving me the "failure to control" ticket, but explained that if he didn't, his boss would make him drive out to my house and issue it later. Everyone knows it is NOT about public safety, it's about money.
I have to admit. This was the best I'd seen in a while. I get a vivid mental picture of the invisible man bitch slapping a conference room table full of confused movie execs... Priceless.
Since clearly, American Standard English and The Queen's English have a common ancestor, does anyone know when/why the spelling differences evolved? I understand that automobile words may have been coined after the split, but there are lots of z/s spelling differences that should not have.
And by the way, you Brits bastardized perfectly good Germanic and French to invent this mutt of a language that we all speak.;-)
Besides, the article is common sense. If it is snowing hard, how did all that water get into the atmosphere? It was so cold that the water appeared in the sky?
I'd explain it was probably similar phenomona as the Great Blizzard of '78. Or was that due to global warming too? If I recall correctly, we were being taught in school at the time that the coming climate change was the next big Ice Age.
So, anybody that disagrees or argues against Global Warning doctrine is automatically to be modded down?
You moderators do realize that this is exactly the complaint that has been leveled by "deniers" everywhere. Proponents actively attempt to silence anyone who questions data, methods, or conclusions. Has climate change become that much a boogeyman of the new millenium?
I don't know about your kids, but mine sure don't care about Star Wars movies. They do not watch the cartoon shows. They certainly do play with "light sabers", as do all of the neighborhood kids, but don't collect action figures, lego sets or any of the like. They do watch and study other incomprehensible gibberish like Bakugan and Chaotic, which seems to be the hot fads in my area.
As for box office receipts, they marketed the shit out of the prequel movies. And the cost of a ticket was about half in 1977. Yet the episode 4 ranked #4 on your same list. I take the rankings with a grain of salt. I'd put it like this: If episode 1 was the first movie in the Star Wars franchise, there would be no Star Wars franchise. There would be no episode 2.
I was in junior high when the first movie was released. There are definitely some cringe moments in the original three movies, but nothing like the prequels. Episode 1 was an incomprehensible mess. It made no sense and despite Lucas' ham handed attempts, failed utterly to flow and fit with the original movies. There were more holes in the "plot" than Swiss cheese. There were glaring errors in common sense logic throughout. It wasn't just a bad Star Wars movie or a bad SciFi/Fantasy movie, I was just a plain bad movie.
The bulk of the CGI was pointless and inconsequential to the storyline. The hype surrounding its release only made the obvious more obvious.
Have I changed? Yes I have, but I still enjoy SciFi movies. I enjoy gee-whiz CGI movies. I paid twice to see Avatar. I still enjoy cheesy "B" movies too. But I stand by my opinion of Star Wars.
I was a huge fan of Star Wars until the abomination that was episode 1. I watched episode 2 at the theater we affectionately call "The Welfare Flicks", a second run theater. For the third, I just rented the DVD and that was just for closure. Now, I have no more interest in Star Wars. He f*cked up the originals, and I just don't even care anymore if he ever releases a decent DVD of the originals.
As for my kids, their only interest in Star Wars is a video game with little characters made out of Legos. They couldn't care less about the movies. If they run any of the movies on cable, their attention span is about 15 minutes.
There's this one road I go down -- 30kph speed limit, and yet every car behind me always seems to catch up and pass me rather quickly when I'm going along at 30kph
30kph? That's less than 20mph. Here in the US, 20mph is reserved for active school zones and parks. I can't remember ever seeing anything less than that unless it was a park road. Residential areas are almost universally either 25 or 30mph. Less dense residential areas are 35mph or sometimes higher. Maybe the reason you are being passed is that the speed limit is unreasonably low for normal, clear, dry travel.
But consider that lots of people like the expensive stuff. The mainstream superstars spend millions on studio time with extremely high end equipment, studios with expensively built acoustics, engineers and mic technicians and session musicians who charge professional rates.
Just because a "superstar" likes to piss away money on extravagant expenses, does not imply that it is required in order to produce quality music.
Sun Tzu says that it is a military axiom not to advance uphill against the enemy, nor to oppose him when he comes downhill. Fighting from an open 30' boat on open ocean against a freighter 100' off the water strikes me as an uphill advance if there ever was one. All other things being equal, I'd say the odds were against the pirates. So far, the pirates have succeeded because there has been no resistance. The result is that there are now 15 ships being held and huge paydays encouraging more piracy. If pirates murder the British couple as they have threatened (assuming they have not already), there is no more reason to surrender without resistance.
Just like 9/11 changed the rules of dealing with aircraft hijackers, the situation will not be sustainable in the long term.
I had one machine with Police Pro that I spent a shitload of time cleaning. The crap that it installed disabled Task Manager, disabled safe mode, modified shell classes, disabled regedit, and disabled anything that required administrator privileges. I had to boot from a Bart PE disk and clean the registry remotely by hand. Malwarebytes wouldn't install. And when I cleaned it up enough to install, it wouldn't run. By the time Malwarebytes would run, I had already mostly cleaned it. I'd like to cut the nuts off whoever wrote that junk.
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Let's see... Mechanical linkage brake failure, but magically works right after accident. Brake lights fail, but work fine after accident. Driver reports pushing hard on "brake", yet ECU reports throttle at full open. It is demonstrable that at highway speeds full throttle and full brake at the same time will slow and eventually stop the vehicle.
Yep, sounds like manufacturing problem...
Pay-phone? Where do you find pay-phones these days? My daughter's brand new high school has no pay-phone anywhere on the premises. In fact, I can't remember the last pay-phone I saw. I work at a University, and there are no pay-phones in any building on campus.
Only the abominations that that they built post 82. (There was no 83 model year, only early 84s). The 82 (particularly the Collector's Edition) was the last Corvette that actually looked like a Corvette. It still had the high crown fenders and drop hood. Even the new Corvettes look just like every other sports car on the market. The newest ones (C6) do look marginally better than the overpriced junk from the late 80s and 90s, but the Corvette from the early 80s and late 70s are still way cool...
How do those guys find pants to fit with balls that big?
And yet again, Microsoft is at the forefront of INNOVATION!
Doggie Pooper Scooper?
Suuuuuurrre it is. When Ohio changed it's Interstate speed limit from 55 to 65, I was driving a daily commute of 22 miles, mostly on Interstate. The VERY DAY BEFORE the limit changed (and everybody was waiting for it to change) the Highway Patrol set up a speed trap with two patrol cars on the section of highway that was to be raised by 10MPH the next morning. The friggin' signs were already installed and covered.
The next day and for months after, PoPo was nowhere to be seen. Everyone always drove 65 there anyway. They were just getting their last tap of the till. It had exactly nothing to do with public safety. You cannot argue that it was not safe at 65 one day and it was the next.
A road near my house has changed speed limits from 45 to 35 and recently from 35 up to 40. I was ticketed for driving 45 when it changed to 35 and I didn't notice. Which is the safe speed? 35? 40? 45? It depends on who bitches the loudest.
Your grandmother could have as easily been hit by someone going 55MPH.
INCONCEIVABLE!
Here in Ohio, traffic tickets are just a cost of doing business. I got in a wreck a few years back on black ice. I was one of four cars that wrecked in the same spot. The cop apologized to me for giving me the "failure to control" ticket, but explained that if he didn't, his boss would make him drive out to my house and issue it later. Everyone knows it is NOT about public safety, it's about money.
If he receives a summons, I can guarantee it will NOT be for theft/stealing. Try reading his post again.
I have to admit. This was the best I'd seen in a while. I get a vivid mental picture of the invisible man bitch slapping a conference room table full of confused movie execs... Priceless.
Since clearly, American Standard English and The Queen's English have a common ancestor, does anyone know when/why the spelling differences evolved? I understand that automobile words may have been coined after the split, but there are lots of z/s spelling differences that should not have.
;-)
And by the way, you Brits bastardized perfectly good Germanic and French to invent this mutt of a language that we all speak.
How about Toyota removing your air conditioner as a precondition to the accelerator pedal recall?
I'd explain it was probably similar phenomona as the Great Blizzard of '78. Or was that due to global warming too? If I recall correctly, we were being taught in school at the time that the coming climate change was the next big Ice Age.
Troll... Flamebait... Redundant...
So, anybody that disagrees or argues against Global Warning doctrine is automatically to be modded down?
You moderators do realize that this is exactly the complaint that has been leveled by "deniers" everywhere. Proponents actively attempt to silence anyone who questions data, methods, or conclusions. Has climate change become that much a boogeyman of the new millenium?
Watch the episode 1 review from this guy's You Tube videos. http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/17/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/ He gives it way better criticism than I can on a short Slashdot post. If you watch all 70 minutes of his review and still not see how bad the plot is, you can overlook more than I can.
I don't know about your kids, but mine sure don't care about Star Wars movies. They do not watch the cartoon shows. They certainly do play with "light sabers", as do all of the neighborhood kids, but don't collect action figures, lego sets or any of the like. They do watch and study other incomprehensible gibberish like Bakugan and Chaotic, which seems to be the hot fads in my area.
As for box office receipts, they marketed the shit out of the prequel movies. And the cost of a ticket was about half in 1977. Yet the episode 4 ranked #4 on your same list. I take the rankings with a grain of salt. I'd put it like this: If episode 1 was the first movie in the Star Wars franchise, there would be no Star Wars franchise. There would be no episode 2.
I was in junior high when the first movie was released. There are definitely some cringe moments in the original three movies, but nothing like the prequels. Episode 1 was an incomprehensible mess. It made no sense and despite Lucas' ham handed attempts, failed utterly to flow and fit with the original movies. There were more holes in the "plot" than Swiss cheese. There were glaring errors in common sense logic throughout. It wasn't just a bad Star Wars movie or a bad SciFi/Fantasy movie, I was just a plain bad movie.
The bulk of the CGI was pointless and inconsequential to the storyline. The hype surrounding its release only made the obvious more obvious.
Have I changed? Yes I have, but I still enjoy SciFi movies. I enjoy gee-whiz CGI movies. I paid twice to see Avatar. I still enjoy cheesy "B" movies too. But I stand by my opinion of Star Wars.
I was a huge fan of Star Wars until the abomination that was episode 1. I watched episode 2 at the theater we affectionately call "The Welfare Flicks", a second run theater. For the third, I just rented the DVD and that was just for closure. Now, I have no more interest in Star Wars. He f*cked up the originals, and I just don't even care anymore if he ever releases a decent DVD of the originals.
As for my kids, their only interest in Star Wars is a video game with little characters made out of Legos. They couldn't care less about the movies. If they run any of the movies on cable, their attention span is about 15 minutes.
George Lucas killed Star Wars.
All you need is a good source of Brownian Motion.
30kph? That's less than 20mph. Here in the US, 20mph is reserved for active school zones and parks. I can't remember ever seeing anything less than that unless it was a park road. Residential areas are almost universally either 25 or 30mph. Less dense residential areas are 35mph or sometimes higher. Maybe the reason you are being passed is that the speed limit is unreasonably low for normal, clear, dry travel.
But consider that lots of people like the expensive stuff. The mainstream superstars spend millions on studio time with extremely high end equipment, studios with expensively built acoustics, engineers and mic technicians and session musicians who charge professional rates.
Just because a "superstar" likes to piss away money on extravagant expenses, does not imply that it is required in order to produce quality music.
How much do think it costs to hire a 40 piece orchestra for a day?
Ask John Williams. He tends to use the London Philharmonic when he scores a movie...
Sun Tzu says that it is a military axiom not to advance uphill against the enemy, nor to oppose him when he comes downhill. Fighting from an open 30' boat on open ocean against a freighter 100' off the water strikes me as an uphill advance if there ever was one. All other things being equal, I'd say the odds were against the pirates. So far, the pirates have succeeded because there has been no resistance. The result is that there are now 15 ships being held and huge paydays encouraging more piracy. If pirates murder the British couple as they have threatened (assuming they have not already), there is no more reason to surrender without resistance.
Just like 9/11 changed the rules of dealing with aircraft hijackers, the situation will not be sustainable in the long term.
I had one machine with Police Pro that I spent a shitload of time cleaning. The crap that it installed disabled Task Manager, disabled safe mode, modified shell classes, disabled regedit, and disabled anything that required administrator privileges. I had to boot from a Bart PE disk and clean the registry remotely by hand. Malwarebytes wouldn't install. And when I cleaned it up enough to install, it wouldn't run. By the time Malwarebytes would run, I had already mostly cleaned it. I'd like to cut the nuts off whoever wrote that junk.
this ruling just results in more police time being wasted tailing suspects!
That's ok, they seem to have copious amounts of time to waste to catch a few speeders.
Don't confuse justice with business. It's all about the Benjamins...