Without reading the parent post to yours, you shouldn't dismiss bicycling so quickly just because the fuel used largely comes/is transported by fossil fuels; the sticking point is how much energy is used.
When you are riding a bicycle, one needs only enough energy (regardless of source or fuel--be it food, electric assist, etc.) to transport the rider and 20-30 pounds of bicycle, plus maybe 10-30 pounds of cargo.
When driving a car, enough energy is required to haul many hundreds of pounds of machine in addition to the rider. This is not counting the space it occupies and the roads which must be built to accommodate all the cars, plus that the roads must have significant substructures to carry the weight of the cars/trucks/buses.
The thing is that in much of the U.S., if you are convicted of a felony, you lose the right to vote. So people who are branded "criminals" (even for things as silly as marijuana possession) are unable to fight back democratically.
Now that, if you ask me, is just crying for abuse.
That's actually not too far off from the "Naked Streets" movement, where removing traffic signs, signals, sidewalks and road paint force people to actually pay attention and think while driving, significantly reducing traffic and collisions: see video at http://www.maniacworld.com/no-street-lights-mean-fewer-accidents.html
Legislating behaviour is a way of outsourcing morality and common sense to the state, freeing up citizens' time for, say football and complaining about gas prices.
.dot is actually owned by the Department of Transport, and if you've ever waited in line at the DMV, you'll understand why that page is taking so long to load.
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Without reading the parent post to yours, you shouldn't dismiss bicycling so quickly just because the fuel used largely comes/is transported by fossil fuels; the sticking point is how much energy is used.
When you are riding a bicycle, one needs only enough energy (regardless of source or fuel--be it food, electric assist, etc.) to transport the rider and 20-30 pounds of bicycle, plus maybe 10-30 pounds of cargo.
When driving a car, enough energy is required to haul many hundreds of pounds of machine in addition to the rider. This is not counting the space it occupies and the roads which must be built to accommodate all the cars, plus that the roads must have significant substructures to carry the weight of the cars/trucks/buses.
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I don't believe so.
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Yes, but how did it taste?
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The more important question is: Is there any truth to the commonly held notion that SSD have fewer moving parts than HDD?
This will require vigorous scientific testing...
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What?
Vacuum tubes were not depleting our reserves. Vacuum reserves just got dirty; nothing a vacuum cleaner couldn't fix.
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Oh yeah? Well then how do you explain wholenium getting renamed to three-quartersium, then two-thirdsium, and now hafnium?
It's running out, I tells ya! Run for the hills!
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Oh, good. Maybe this will finally get them to make some more episodes of Matlock.
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You can use that key for other things if you are so inclined
I was quite disappointed that the linked article didn't explain how to remap the windows key to "porn".
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Sorry for replying to self--everybody 18 and over can vote in Canada.
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The thing is that in much of the U.S., if you are convicted of a felony, you lose the right to vote. So people who are branded "criminals" (even for things as silly as marijuana possession) are unable to fight back democratically.
Now that, if you ask me, is just crying for abuse.
(Up here in Canada, we've climbed off that slippery slope and everybody can vote--even those in prison and those without permanent addresses. See http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/elections/topics/1450/)
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Put another way, "The answers you get out of life depend on the questions you pose" (paraphrasing Margaret Atwood)
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Those might be rational justifications for Powell's actions, but one needs more than that to sell Powell to the electorate.
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I think he should run for both parties, would be funny...
Stephen Colbert tried to, and it was.
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And how, exacltly, does a particular piece of work get defined as a human's?
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"OLD IBM," eh?
While we're holding a grudge against IBM for decades-old transgressions, we'd might as well throw this one into the mix too.
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I don't think these people believe in geometry...
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That's actually not too far off from the "Naked Streets" movement, where removing traffic signs, signals, sidewalks and road paint force people to actually pay attention and think while driving, significantly reducing traffic and collisions: see video at http://www.maniacworld.com/no-street-lights-mean-fewer-accidents.html
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Legislating behaviour is a way of outsourcing morality and common sense to the state, freeing up citizens' time for, say football and complaining about gas prices.
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I wonder how these people survive. Are they actually smart enough to breathe on their own?
So long as they're not traveling too fast.
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Based on your comment and that of GP, I went and checked it out.
Warning to others who haven't seen it: DON'T WATCH IT. Doing so will make you dumber.
(I unfortunately couldn't find a similar comment to mod up)
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I thought the original version referred to "moccasins".
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It's not so much the honest people, or even the dishonest people that worry me. It's the fucking batshit insane ones.
Or the ones who seem sane, but then snap under extreme circumstances. (Analagous to drunk drivers, I guess)
That said, I don't like the State having a monopoly on force, because it leaves the people powerless to regain control of it when it gets out of hand.
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.dot is actually owned by the Department of Transport, and if you've ever waited in line at the DMV, you'll understand why that page is taking so long to load.
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