Up here in Quebec (Montreal), BK is renovating their stores, are able to provide a good wopper trio quickly, in a competitive price (compared to McD), and it can be tailored to your liking.
Five can dine at BK for what it costs to dine at McD.
Both claim their hamburgers are made of beef and no filler.
The McD quarter pounder used to be 4 oz of beef and then the bun and the dressing, Today it seems to be a total weight of 4 ounces, including the dressing and the bread. Smaller and more expensive McD vs BK when you have to feed 5 kids and two adults
Put an MBA in charge of a company and they simply chase the next big thing instead of innovating and creating the next big thing.
They do this because they are not innovators and creators, they are simply followers and maintainers.
It seems to be the plight of large companies to not want to take the risk of hiring an innovator. So they look for someone who "knows how to run a business." They get what the look for, stagnation.
Cheaper to buy than to build. Let others do the innovation. Then buy them out.
And fuck you if you're on your death bed, you're NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION. It's for your own good!
It's not just for your own good. We don't really know what these gene altering technologies will do-- either on a technical scientific level, or on a sociological level. Lots of technologies seem harmless enough at the outset, and people ask, "What could possibly go wrong?" Part of the problem is, the things that go wrong are often not things we even suspected might go wrong.
And if you mutate my genes / dna what will my descendents have for theirs, if my wife becomes pregnant? Or if her dna was modified before she got pregnant?
Slack is a bloated monstrosity that provides IRC and a few other things, using a combination of Node.js and Chromium to produce one of the largest and most memory-hungry desktop applications that you might ever need to run. Snap is Ubuntu's version of the old PC-BSD PBI installer, where each application comes with all of its dependencies and installs them in a directory so that the package maintainers don't have to worry about incompatible upgrades. The combination of the two allows Slack to consume even more resources, by not even sharing memory mappings for common libraries.
The goal of Slack is to minimise productivity, by consuming all available computing resources and all available attention. This combination allows it to consume even more resources, but unfortunately does nothing to increase the amount of time that people waste on Slack.
Wow, so now I have software that I can download and justify my purchase of a pair of 6 terrabyte drives. I just love to be able to run any software that actually brings along it's dynamic link libraries.
And how long will it take for those Maples to grow in Northern Ontario? Is the soil suitable? Here, maples prefer rich bottom land soil. Are there other tree species that can move north faster and/or adapt faster? Here, Alders are the primary pioneer species, not surprisingly as they can fix their own nitrogen. There's also the question of whether warming will cause more or less rainfall. The Maples around here love rain.
Quebec will become the maple syrup capital of Canada, possibly tied with Ontario and British Columbia.
Stop futzing around with less than necessary trivia. Keep IT SIMPLE Stupids, and keep it efficient. Efficient also means cpu memory footprint, and computer cycles.
The red state vs. blue state comparison is flawed because there are no purely red or blue states. What there is instead are urban and rural parts of the country. Urban areas are deeply blue and rural is deeply red.
To see the truth of this, just look at an election map by precinct for your state. Compare it to a map of urban vs. rural.
To truly compare, you need to cut across geographical boundaries. The Pew Research Center did that by correlating political party to food stamp usage. Democrats are TWICE as likely as Republicans to have taken food stamps.
This makes good common sense, too. Democrats in the urban core are obviously much more supportive of a large, active government, and Republicans in rural areas want smaller government.
Red States vs Blue States. Folly. Has anyone ever thought that one country with 50 states and Puerto Ricco would be better off if the country was divided into 4 regions, with each region being semi-atonomous. Within each region you could create laws that are needed by that region. Further more, the cost of doing government would drop sharply. The response time to get government action would be much less. The inter-region state-to-state trade would continue, as it does, its just realizing that congress is too large, the senate to large, and decisions take a long time and are not always equitable.
The 4 regions would have representatives to the United States Global house. I could see NY, NJ, Mass, Va and Connecticut forming one region. Another 12 states forming a second, etc. Consider the following: Every seven workers need one boss, every seven bosses need a super boss, ever seven superbosses need one boss. How high is the pyramid? Now look at the height of the pyramid for each region. Do the head count. Yes, its easier and faster to get things done if the USA was divided politically into regions of atleast 12 states per region. Everyone would still be American, only Washington could disappear as you know it.
In all likelihood Trump will not win in 2020. It is also likely that the tax benefit to individuals well begin to be clawed back next year, and very definitely for 2020, unless Republicans are fighting for their re-elections. Who is going to do the claw-back? Republicans. They are the ones that designed the clawback that fully wipes out the individual tax reduction for the mid 20's
Digital voting with paper backup. In order to vote, your ballot has a tear off bar code ticket on it. You mark your choice after you insert your ticket. There is no relationship between your listing on the rolls and the ticket number. The ticket prevents you from using the ticket to vote twice; It does not identify for whom who you voted. It also lets the invigilators to match their "ballot counts" with the tickets used. In does work for residents who vote, but invigilators could cheat the system if they issued more tickets than people on the rolls
At the end of the day, ticket counts match total number of votes, and match the invigilator's counts. Also, do not use touch screens, as fingerprints tell a story.
Not so. The states have a right to collect taxes on things you buy if you buy them in the state. Where you receive them is where you "buy" them. What is up for debate here is whether or not they collect the taxes from the merchant or the purchaser.
Merchants contend that they have no filing requirements for states they do not have presence in, but the consumers do. Individuals are supposed to report and pay Sales Tax on things they bought and didn't pay sales tax.
This is where enforcement should happen. Otherwise, e-tailers in Canada or other overseas places will have an edge over US e-tailers who will have to collect the tax. Also, once you pay sales tax, you cant deduct it. If your tax liability hits "0" on your income tax and you have deductions which are not refundable, then you lost out because of where the collection and reporting happens. If you report your purchases and pay the sales taxes yourselves, you may deduct more taxes since the number reported will be higher, and non-refundable deductions will lower your liability.
Besides, do we really want a system where every e-tailer has to collect, report, and pay taxes to every jurisdiction in every country? The US alone has thousands of jurisdictions for sales tax at the state, county, and even city level. This is one of the effects of globalization. Sales tax should be collected from purchasers, not from retailers.
In Canada, e-tailers do collect taxes. If the sale is for delivery in the same province as the vendor location, taxes are collected.
Coming soon, will be a VAT tax. The e-tailer will have to collect a combined rate for provincial and federal taxes. Regarding foreign sales, they will collect taxes for the USA if and only if the USA has a single global tax that combines the collection for federal and state governments.
All that can be audited, both by e-tailers on both sides of the border
PCs have mostly hit the 'good enough' point, there is no value in replacing them as frequently as in the past.
I guess you have never priced what a new CPU costs, or the DDR4 ram, or the GPU? Any decent Desktop computer today is around $1000 to $1200. GPU costs for mining (bitcoin, etc) are in the $400 range.
All money is in US Dollars. What happened to the desktop where ram was $25 for 4 gigs. Today, 8gigs fast ddr4 ram is around $150. The only saving grace is the fact that AMD has re-entered the market with very competitive offerings for motherboard, and CPU. Hopefully they will also bring to market a GPU that is under $200.
I'm not as young as I used to be, so 19 gals a day is plenty.
I was thinking the same thing, but then I started looking a little harder at this. I was a bit shocked to see that someone that takes a shower every day has already used around 17 gallons of water. Flush your toilet once and you've just used the last two gallons of your ration for the day!
Then there's all sorts of other household overhead like washing dishes and clothes, cooking, and more. And you still haven't drank even your first glass of water for the day. (half a gallon is recommended every day, but that can include beverages)
We use (waste?) a lot of water every day. I'd like to see reuse of "grey water" become commonplace or even required. Most water could be reused in the toilet for example. Most "washers" (be they people, clothes, dishes, etc) are used to flush away contaminants, but then we don't bother to filter and reuse the water, we just dump it just like it is right down the drain, which is a huge waste.
If you are in NY, you can waste water. However, raise the water tax or the meter rate (where water is metered), and you can get consumption reductions.
We have changed our shower heads to 2.6 litres per minute flow. thats under 3/4 gallons per minute. Our flush toilets are new ones that are about 2 litres (1/gallon) per flush. Where you records 87 gallons per person, we consume half of that for a family of 7 on most days. On laundry days, the water consumption goes up by 10 gallons per washday,
If Capetown fixed leaking watermains, and had replacement showerheads with the 2.6 litres/minute rating, and more efficient flush toilets, they could last through the drought
Maybe. Or perhaps the moral panic that the world is going to hell because teenagers are using technology to SOCIALIZE is just the predictable result of yet another generation reaching cranky geezerhood.
Meanwhile, until I see some objective evidence that mobile phones are really more harmful than TV or landlines (the targets of previous moral panics), I will decline to micromanage my kids social lives, and let them learn responsibility by making their own decisions.
Its worse. The cellphone-addiction problem means that kids do no sports, have problems with learning, and have reduced family bonding. Parents, Grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins are last place, compared internet friends. I see a full lack of social skills and responsibilities.
He is providing the 5mhz service at a fraction of the cost and at a better bandwidth than any American ISP (Put your top 10 names here).
Pretty soon, he will do the same in the USA, buying infrastructure from the top 10, and then wam bam bang, he will offer a service coast to coast to compete with V,C,A,G and whoever else.
What does one have to do to exploit the bug. Is it something that requires a kernel patch so that the patch can do it's thing? Is the bug so esoteric, that to make use of it would take hours or days of processing and trapping 64bit tlb values, in the hope that the hacking software catches enough info to break through?
In other words, are we using a sledge hammer to kill an ant.
A programmer is a programmer. Some are born to program, others are programming to implement an idea. Some look at the code as an atomaton, where others just look at code as a set of frequently travelled links, ignoring wrong (you should not do take those traversal states).
You can program badly in any language. If you report C or C++ has having the most errors, its for a few reasons vis:
Most used languages of all the languages is C and C++. As a percentage of bugs reported for number of lines of code, add a new measure, the dimension of programmer's skill, you should find no differences between them and frequency of errors.
C and C++ have advantages of portability, and minimal execution overhead. C and C++ are not going away soon. Rust is a new language which, if you do multi-tasking, has built-in safety / type / decendant call checks for variables that are constant and or mutable. But the number of github entries for Rust is insignificant, when compared to the C's.
I measure the quality of code by the skill of the programmer and inversely proportional to the number of lines in a module.
Its just a Disney world effect, pushed by Disney world lobbyists and paid for by Disney World Congressional contributions to Republican and Democrat parties.
Screw the public by Congress and Senate for election funding. That's the name of the game.
Which also takes us into arguments of age and experience. The youngest drivers usually have the best reaction time but may not necessarily make the best choices prior to needing to use that reaction time. The oldest drivers have the most experience with what traffic conditions are to be like but may have very poor reaction times. The sweet-spot is kind of hard to calculate but probably biases toward a youngish driver that has figured out traffic conditions but still has fast reaction times.
When I read the article summary it sounds like they want our cars to operate like trains, which all maintain the same distance (on account of mechanical coupling) and all go the exact same speed (again, mechanical coupling). Trouble is, with cars everyone has different destinations and therefore won't maintain the same speed. Cars slow to turn-off. Cars must enter the right-of-way. Not all drivers are driving for the same reason either, some enjoy driving performance vehicles, using that quick acceleration to get up to speed whenever they can, while others drive much more gently.
The argument for us all driving an exactly particular way rings of the spherical cows in a vacuum solution to a farming problem. Isn't going to work in real-world applications.
Around Montreal Quebec, its a problem with youth. Although the speed limit in residential streets is 40km (25mph), the youth insist on doing 60km (40mph). On the main thoroughfares add 20km/hr (or 15mph). Our city planners don't believe in synchronized traffic lights, and that lack of synchronization results in "Can I make it to the next light before it turns red" rush. The second problem is the over abundance of stop signs. In 1.6 kilometer drive(1 mile), there are a dozen stop signs at the dozen feeder streets. Taxi driver "slide throughs" are the after hours norms.
The above two factors are bad for health. There are more than 3000/cars per day at each stop sign. The polution is heavy, but the city admin does not care. They are all social science graduates (law, or services). The stopsign polution must affect both seniors and the youth. We seniors respect the stops, but the impatient youth just whizz by. We seniors do not race each other or the youth. The youth tend to race each other from the traffic lights. Yes, the city does not want to spend the money to modernize the lights for traffic flow, mainly because the traffic is thru-traffic. (One municipality sandwiched between source and destination).
I live in a SI country. The customary units for everything use whatever scale prefix makes the most sense.
Cans, bottles, and glasses are measured in millilitres (pronunced "mil" for short), and reservoirs are measured in megalitres. Road signs are in kilometres. Weather reports give air pressure in hectopascals. The energy content of food is measured in kilojoules.
We cope.
Weather pressure is in KiloPascals Eg. right now it is 102.6. Acres gets converted to hectors.
1 acre is around 0.4 hectors or, the other way, 1 hector is 2.47 acres. 60km/hr is around 50mph 1.6km = 1 mile.
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I second your comment!
What you are proposing is the law in other countries. It was the law in the USA.
For the 2018 election, I read where the KOCH brothers have allocated 400 million dollars to get their slaves in congess and the senate (re)elected.
The USA is a pseudo-democracy
Up here in Quebec (Montreal), BK is renovating their stores, are able to provide a good wopper trio quickly, in a competitive price (compared to McD), and it can be tailored to your liking.
Five can dine at BK for what it costs to dine at McD.
Both claim their hamburgers are made of beef and no filler.
The McD quarter pounder used to be 4 oz of beef and then the bun and the dressing,
Today it seems to be a total weight of 4 ounces, including the dressing and the bread. Smaller and more expensive McD vs BK when you have to feed 5 kids and two adults
Na, the previous CEO's were innovators.
The current CEO is an MBA.
Put an MBA in charge of a company and they simply chase the next big thing instead of innovating and creating the next big thing.
They do this because they are not innovators and creators, they are simply followers and maintainers.
It seems to be the plight of large companies to not want to take the risk of hiring an innovator. So they look for someone who "knows how to run a business." They get what the look for, stagnation.
Cheaper to buy than to build. Let others do the innovation. Then buy them out.
And fuck you if you're on your death bed, you're NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION. It's for your own good!
It's not just for your own good. We don't really know what these gene altering technologies will do-- either on a technical scientific level, or on a sociological level. Lots of technologies seem harmless enough at the outset, and people ask, "What could possibly go wrong?" Part of the problem is, the things that go wrong are often not things we even suspected might go wrong.
And if you mutate my genes / dna what will my descendents have for theirs, if my wife becomes pregnant? Or if her dna was modified before she got pregnant?
Slack is a bloated monstrosity that provides IRC and a few other things, using a combination of Node.js and Chromium to produce one of the largest and most memory-hungry desktop applications that you might ever need to run. Snap is Ubuntu's version of the old PC-BSD PBI installer, where each application comes with all of its dependencies and installs them in a directory so that the package maintainers don't have to worry about incompatible upgrades. The combination of the two allows Slack to consume even more resources, by not even sharing memory mappings for common libraries.
The goal of Slack is to minimise productivity, by consuming all available computing resources and all available attention. This combination allows it to consume even more resources, but unfortunately does nothing to increase the amount of time that people waste on Slack.
Wow, so now I have software that I can download and justify my purchase of a pair of 6 terrabyte drives. I just love to be able to run any software that actually brings along it's dynamic link libraries.
And how long will it take for those Maples to grow in Northern Ontario? Is the soil suitable? Here, maples prefer rich bottom land soil. Are there other tree species that can move north faster and/or adapt faster? Here, Alders are the primary pioneer species, not surprisingly as they can fix their own nitrogen.
There's also the question of whether warming will cause more or less rainfall. The Maples around here love rain.
Quebec will become the maple syrup capital of Canada, possibly tied with Ontario and British Columbia.
It brings in jobs, and the workers pay taxes. At least that's the theory.
Robots don't pay income taxes or taxes for meals and movies and other essentials (medicare) and luxuries.
Stop futzing around with less than necessary trivia. Keep IT SIMPLE Stupids, and keep it efficient.
Efficient also means cpu memory footprint, and computer cycles.
I guess that what you are saying is that the passenger compartment has to be better insulated against heat and cold.
The red state vs. blue state comparison is flawed because there are no purely red or blue states. What there is instead are urban and rural parts of the country. Urban areas are deeply blue and rural is deeply red.
To see the truth of this, just look at an election map by precinct for your state. Compare it to a map of urban vs. rural.
To truly compare, you need to cut across geographical boundaries. The Pew Research Center did that by correlating political party to food stamp usage. Democrats are TWICE as likely as Republicans to have taken food stamps.
Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
This makes good common sense, too. Democrats in the urban core are obviously much more supportive of a large, active government, and Republicans in rural areas want smaller government.
Red States vs Blue States. Folly. Has anyone ever thought that one country with 50 states and Puerto Ricco would be better off if the country was divided into 4 regions, with each region being semi-atonomous. Within each region you could create laws that are needed by that region. Further more, the cost of doing government would drop sharply. The response time to get government action would be much less. The inter-region state-to-state trade would continue, as it does, its just realizing that congress is too large, the senate to large, and decisions take a long time and are not always equitable.
The 4 regions would have representatives to the United States Global house. I could see NY, NJ, Mass, Va and Connecticut forming one region. Another 12 states forming a second, etc.
Consider the following: Every seven workers need one boss, every seven bosses need a super boss, ever seven superbosses need one boss. How high is the pyramid?
Now look at the height of the pyramid for each region. Do the head count. Yes, its easier and faster to get things done if the USA was divided politically into regions of atleast 12 states per region. Everyone would still be American, only Washington could disappear as you know it.
In all likelihood Trump will not win in 2020. It is also likely that the tax benefit to individuals well begin to be clawed back next year, and very definitely for 2020, unless Republicans are fighting for their re-elections. Who is going to do the claw-back? Republicans. They are the ones that designed the clawback that fully wipes out the individual tax reduction for the mid 20's
Digital voting with paper backup. In order to vote, your ballot has a tear off bar code ticket on it. You mark your choice after you insert your ticket. There is no relationship between your listing on the rolls and the ticket number. The ticket prevents you from using the ticket to vote twice; It does not identify for whom who you voted. It also lets the invigilators to match their "ballot counts" with the tickets used. In does work for residents who vote, but invigilators could cheat the system if they issued more tickets than people on the rolls
At the end of the day, ticket counts match total number of votes, and match the invigilator's counts.
Also, do not use touch screens, as fingerprints tell a story.
Thats my idea
Not so. The states have a right to collect taxes on things you buy if you buy them in the state. Where you receive them is where you "buy" them. What is up for debate here is whether or not they collect the taxes from the merchant or the purchaser.
Merchants contend that they have no filing requirements for states they do not have presence in, but the consumers do. Individuals are supposed to report and pay Sales Tax on things they bought and didn't pay sales tax.
This is where enforcement should happen. Otherwise, e-tailers in Canada or other overseas places will have an edge over US e-tailers who will have to collect the tax. Also, once you pay sales tax, you cant deduct it. If your tax liability hits "0" on your income tax and you have deductions which are not refundable, then you lost out because of where the collection and reporting happens. If you report your purchases and pay the sales taxes yourselves, you may deduct more taxes since the number reported will be higher, and non-refundable deductions will lower your liability.
Besides, do we really want a system where every e-tailer has to collect, report, and pay taxes to every jurisdiction in every country? The US alone has thousands of jurisdictions for sales tax at the state, county, and even city level. This is one of the effects of globalization. Sales tax should be collected from purchasers, not from retailers.
In Canada, e-tailers do collect taxes. If the sale is for delivery in the same province as the vendor location, taxes are collected.
Coming soon, will be a VAT tax. The e-tailer will have to collect a combined rate for provincial and federal taxes.
Regarding foreign sales, they will collect taxes for the USA if and only if the USA has a single global tax that combines the collection for federal and state governments.
All that can be audited, both by e-tailers on both sides of the border
PCs have mostly hit the 'good enough' point, there is no value in replacing them as frequently as in the past.
I guess you have never priced what a new CPU costs, or the DDR4 ram, or the GPU? Any decent Desktop computer today is around $1000 to $1200. GPU costs for mining (bitcoin, etc) are in the $400 range.
All money is in US Dollars. What happened to the desktop where ram was $25 for 4 gigs. Today, 8gigs fast ddr4 ram is around $150.
The only saving grace is the fact that AMD has re-entered the market with very competitive offerings for motherboard, and CPU. Hopefully they will also bring to market a GPU that is under $200.
I was thinking the same thing, but then I started looking a little harder at this. I was a bit shocked to see that someone that takes a shower every day has already used around 17 gallons of water. Flush your toilet once and you've just used the last two gallons of your ration for the day!
Then there's all sorts of other household overhead like washing dishes and clothes, cooking, and more. And you still haven't drank even your first glass of water for the day. (half a gallon is recommended every day, but that can include beverages)
We use (waste?) a lot of water every day. I'd like to see reuse of "grey water" become commonplace or even required. Most water could be reused in the toilet for example. Most "washers" (be they people, clothes, dishes, etc) are used to flush away contaminants, but then we don't bother to filter and reuse the water, we just dump it just like it is right down the drain, which is a huge waste.
If you are in NY, you can waste water. However, raise the water tax or the meter rate (where water is metered), and you can get consumption reductions.
We have changed our shower heads to 2.6 litres per minute flow. thats under 3/4 gallons per minute.
Our flush toilets are new ones that are about 2 litres (1/gallon) per flush.
Where you records 87 gallons per person, we consume half of that for a family of 7 on most days. On laundry days, the water consumption goes up by 10 gallons per washday,
If Capetown fixed leaking watermains, and had replacement showerheads with the 2.6 litres/minute rating, and more efficient flush toilets, they could last through the drought
That just means you're a bad parent.
Maybe. Or perhaps the moral panic that the world is going to hell because teenagers are using technology to SOCIALIZE is just the predictable result of yet another generation reaching cranky geezerhood.
Meanwhile, until I see some objective evidence that mobile phones are really more harmful than TV or landlines (the targets of previous moral panics), I will decline to micromanage my kids social lives, and let them learn responsibility by making their own decisions.
Its worse. The cellphone-addiction problem means that kids do no sports, have problems with learning, and have reduced family bonding. Parents, Grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins are last place, compared internet friends. I see a full lack of social skills and responsibilities.
Perhaps the parties that did create the gerrymandering maps should be fined to the level of bankrupsy.
He is providing the 5mhz service at a fraction of the cost and at a better bandwidth than any American ISP (Put your top 10 names here).
Pretty soon, he will do the same in the USA, buying infrastructure from the top 10, and then wam bam bang, he will offer a service coast to coast to compete with V,C,A,G and whoever else.
What does one have to do to exploit the bug. Is it something that requires a kernel patch so that the patch can do it's thing? Is the bug so esoteric, that to make use of it would take hours or days of processing and trapping 64bit tlb values, in the hope that the hacking software catches enough info to break through?
In other words, are we using a sledge hammer to kill an ant.
A programmer is a programmer. Some are born to program, others are programming to implement an idea. Some look at the code as an atomaton, where others just look at code as a set of frequently travelled links, ignoring wrong (you should not do take those traversal states).
You can program badly in any language. If you report C or C++ has having the most errors, its for a few reasons vis:
Most used languages of all the languages is C and C++. As a percentage of bugs reported for number of lines of code, add a new measure, the dimension of programmer's skill, you should find no differences between them and frequency of errors.
C and C++ have advantages of portability, and minimal execution overhead. C and C++ are not going away soon. Rust is a new language which, if you do multi-tasking, has built-in safety / type / decendant call checks for variables that are constant and or mutable. But the number of github entries for Rust is insignificant, when compared to the C's.
I measure the quality of code by the skill of the programmer and inversely proportional to the number of lines in a module.
Its just a Disney world effect, pushed by Disney world lobbyists and paid for by Disney World Congressional contributions to Republican and Democrat parties.
Screw the public by Congress and Senate for election funding. That's the name of the game.
The law firm name is misspelled, it is Dewee Cheetuman Howe". It is run by a lawyer and his wife.
Which also takes us into arguments of age and experience. The youngest drivers usually have the best reaction time but may not necessarily make the best choices prior to needing to use that reaction time. The oldest drivers have the most experience with what traffic conditions are to be like but may have very poor reaction times. The sweet-spot is kind of hard to calculate but probably biases toward a youngish driver that has figured out traffic conditions but still has fast reaction times.
When I read the article summary it sounds like they want our cars to operate like trains, which all maintain the same distance (on account of mechanical coupling) and all go the exact same speed (again, mechanical coupling). Trouble is, with cars everyone has different destinations and therefore won't maintain the same speed. Cars slow to turn-off. Cars must enter the right-of-way. Not all drivers are driving for the same reason either, some enjoy driving performance vehicles, using that quick acceleration to get up to speed whenever they can, while others drive much more gently.
The argument for us all driving an exactly particular way rings of the spherical cows in a vacuum solution to a farming problem. Isn't going to work in real-world applications.
Around Montreal Quebec, its a problem with youth. Although the speed limit in residential streets is 40km (25mph), the youth insist on doing 60km (40mph). On the main thoroughfares add 20km/hr (or 15mph). Our city planners don't believe in synchronized traffic lights, and that lack of synchronization results in "Can I make it to the next light before it turns red" rush.
The second problem is the over abundance of stop signs. In 1.6 kilometer drive(1 mile), there are a dozen stop signs at the
dozen feeder streets. Taxi driver "slide throughs" are the after hours norms.
The above two factors are bad for health. There are more than 3000/cars per day at each stop sign. The polution is heavy, but the city admin does not care. They are all social science graduates (law, or services). The stopsign polution must affect both seniors and the youth. We seniors respect the stops, but the impatient youth just whizz by. We seniors do not race each other or the youth. The youth tend to race each other from the traffic lights.
Yes, the city does not want to spend the money to modernize the lights for traffic flow, mainly because the traffic is thru-traffic. (One municipality sandwiched between source and destination).
I live in a SI country. The customary units for everything use whatever scale prefix makes the most sense.
Cans, bottles, and glasses are measured in millilitres (pronunced "mil" for short), and reservoirs are measured in megalitres. Road signs are in kilometres. Weather reports give air pressure in hectopascals. The energy content of food is measured in kilojoules.
We cope.
Weather pressure is in KiloPascals Eg. right now it is 102.6. Acres gets converted to hectors.
1 acre is around 0.4 hectors or, the other way, 1 hector is 2.47 acres.
60km/hr is around 50mph 1.6km = 1 mile.