I thought that was so obvious it didn't need to be said.
if the intersection has left and right turn lanes that don't currently exist
Sorry, either I'm dense or you're not being clear.
then slowing down too soon prevents people from entering those lanes
That's their problem. They shouldn't be so cloise behind me. I'm not going to waste my gas because they want to follow too close.
Although it doesn't help either fuel economy or your own ability to keep a steady speed, sometimes conditions demand that you accelerate away from a light and get to the next one "too soon", in order to keep jams to a minimum.
Jams are the traffic engineers' problem, not mine. They need to time their lights better. However, if the light at the next intersection turns green right when yours does, then an extra bit of gas will save gas.
For many roads with closely-packed lights, this can lead to backups into the previous intersection.
The law here in Illinois says it's illegal to enter an intersection unless you can get through it.
Well, I speak BASIC, assembly, Javascript, dBase, Nomad, English, Spanish, Thai, Redneck, and Ebonics, but legalese is beyond my comprehension. Laws might as well be written in Latin or Greek.
I liked that! But you know I meant that when I brake I'm deliberately wasting momentum to heat, a preventable waste. And that my goal is saving my hard earned money that I squander on booze and whores.
I keep thinking about that episode of "My Name Is Earl" where they did the parody of "Cops", the guy and a hooker steal a police car with the cameraman still in it, and have him film them having sex in the police car.
I bet it's just a matter of time before police start mounting cameras on their patrol cars as a means to identify illegal behavior that the officers in the car might miss
I disagree. What is "inappropriate"? If you're tasked to look for lawbreaking, than reporting any illegal behavior is "appropriate".
If criticizing the government is against the law, then watching and snitching on someone who speaks out against government abuse is appropriate, right?
"Dystopian" is relative. Compared to my youth, yes. Compared to my Grandpa's youth and all times before, no.
Since mankind's past is dystopian, why shouldn't the future be?
But wait - we already live a utopian future, at least most of us in an industrial country. We have pleasures and gadgets and things kings of old couldn't even dream of! 100kph surface travel, flight, far fewer deadly diseases, refrigeration, television, telephones, you name it.
We don't burn people at the stake, most civiliced nations don't execute anyone, etc.
Yes, there is a struggle between those who want libetry and privacy, and those who want to amass personal wealth and power, but the second group hasn't yet won. Thet struggle has probably been going on since before we became homo sapiens.
Compared to generations before mine we live in utopia. To quote Max Yasgur at Woodstock, "we must be in heaven, man!"
As to Google maps, I agree with you and don't see how still pictures are going to invade your privacy unless one of these cameras catches you picking your nose or scratching your balls. A bigget threat to your privacy is the cameras that are everywhere now - red light cameras, ATM cameras, hell there's some Orwell style cameras on 5th street here in Springfield to keep people from pissing in the alleyways, sans the "big brother is watching" signs.
It's a little late to worry about Google street, here in Springfield anyway.
'Every public school teacher in the state's K-12 school system shall have the affirmative right and freedom to objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views regarding biological and chemical evolution in connection with teaching any prescribed curriculum regarding chemical or biological origins
doesn't sound to me like they can say any damned thing they please. Although I believe that evolution is God's tool (in a sense, ID) it isn't science and doesn't belong in a science class. ID and creationism may be hypotheses, but they are not falsifiable so cannot be called theories.
I just can't see why, from the info in the summary, anyone thinks that this legalizes teaching ID or creationism.
Religion (and philosophy) and science ask different questions. The people pushing ID and creationism as "science" are not doing themselves any favors.
AFAIK nobody ever got a ticket for tailgating unless he rearended the car in front of him, or tailgated a cop. But I, too would like to see drivers ticketed for it.
Here they don't even ticket you for running a red light unless there's a wreck or you're driving a car made in the 20th century or you're young or you're black; well, the Springfield cops won't, the Sherrriffs Dept and State Police will.
I'm a 55 year old white guy driving an '02, I never get pulled over.
Well of course you're going to need your brakes. The point is using them as little as possible. If the light ahead is red, take your foot off the gas! The idiots who live here race from red light to red light. I'm always amused when some moron zooms past me as I coast along, only to pass him as he's starting from a dead stop at the now green light.
That as well as maintaining a reasonable following distance, traffic permitting.
Your post gave me visions of Frank Drebin hitting trash cans as he pulled up to a curb.
I live in MN where people like to complain about how easy it is to live off welfare forever.
Those people are ignorant. They changed that in 1996. Welfare as it used to be no longer exists. There is no monthly check. AFDC was abolished in 1996 and TANF replaced it. You can only get it for two years at a time, five year lifetime limit, and you have to be actively looking for work.
I don't know what the requirements are for food stamps, but you have to be pretty damned poor (or working "under the table" for cash so you can look pretty damned poor) to get them. You have to be WELL under middle class to get the tax credits as well.
Someone with six kids (or with fake documentation showing six kids that don't really exist) making minimum wage (or simply working for unreported cash) is eligible. They won't even let them be called "illegal", the politically correct term is "undocumented".
Don't you need a social security number to get tax returns?
From the linked journal:
Tami told me she'd cracked the door to tell him "go away" and he'd pushed his way in. She told him she didn't know anything about any documents and yelled at him about the whore he'd been fucking. "I have work in the morning" I told him calmly. "I think you'd better leave."
"You gonna die!" he yelled.
"Everybody dies" I replied calmly. "Now get the hell out of my house!"
"I not leaving until I get my document!" he repeated. I asked "what document?" Tami said "Documents. I think he's talking about his passport and shit." She turned to her husband. "Look motherfucker, the only documents I have are your goddamned fake social security number papers and god damn it cocksucker I'm using them to send your sorry ass back to Peru!"
Make enough trips through the Chicago area and anybody should be able to figure this out. That's why I started keeping a good distance between myself and the car in front of me
How in the hell do you manage that???? Here in Springfield where traffic isn't nearly as bad as up there if you try to keep a 5 car length distance on the highway (you should have 6.5 car lengths, one for every 10mph) three cars will get between you and the guy in front of you!
When are we going to get idiot lights on our dashes that light up when you're too damned close? Would idiots even heed them?
posting AC because some errant mods have been going through my history to mod me down long after the fact
We all get bad downmods; although at least one downmod I got a couple of days ago was understandable. The post was inaccurate even if it did make the point I was trying to make.
But I just looked at your recent comment history because of that fact; there seem to be some mods who will downmod you for no reason whatever. I've been getting a lot of posts modded "overrated" (yet still manage to garner a 5. Hmm.) But I see:
(Score:-1, Flamebait) Hi, I'm the self-important liberal who think he's saving the earth by driving a slightly-more fuel-efficient car to his giant home in suburbia.
Often it's not what you say, but how you say it. To a self-proclaimed liberal, your post IS flamebait. In the same post you did pretty much the same to conservatives, slashdotters, and everyone. I wouldn't have modded the post itself at all, but if I see it metamodding I'll likely mod the mod as "fair".
This one had one mod moderate it as "overrated" while one guy modded it back up with "underrated". In that case the "overrated" most likely came because one would have to know Japanese for the comment to make any sense.
(Score:-1, Troll) WAIT! Quick, environmentalists, rationalize how it's not good enough!
Come on, man, I did a journal about this topic a few weeks ago titled "This Journal is a Troll", but from the top few comments of yours I can see how your karma went down the flusher. Had the last one I mentioned where you bashed environmentalists left off the part I quoted it would have almost certainly been modded well.
Also, you might want to check out this list. You seem to have pissed off a LOT of people. Like I said, often it's not what you say buy how you say it.
A 33-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence and marijuana possession after her van hit a utility pole early Saturday in the 800 block of East Stanford Avenue, police said.
Shannon M. Jackson of the 2200 block of South 12th Street was treated at Memorial Medical Center for a cut on her head before she was jailed.
The accident occurred about 1:30 a.m.
Jackson told police she was driving a 1998 Dodge Caravan west on Stanford when she "passed out and wrecked her vehicle," an accident report said.
Police said it appeared Jackson had crossed oncoming traffic in the eastbound lane before her van hit the pole on the northeast corner.
Jackson also was ticketed with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, improper lane usage and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.
A City Water, Light and Power line crew responded to repair the damaged pole.
The M25 they mention isn't a perfect circle, which is a shame and most non-android drivers studiously ignore the speed restrictions until everything grinds to a halt. Its either 80 or nothing on the road and all the science in the world won't help. -- If he's the Walrus then can I be a penguin please?
All the reasoning ability won't help either, because if brains were dynamite most people wouldn't have enough to blow their noses. Most people here in Springfield, anyway.
"And now it's time for your radio to explode. BOOM! "Well what's on the telly then?" "Looks like a penguin to me."
I have respect for my fellow drivers, and only use the gas pedal. Breaking is for pussies.
I only have a buck sixty seven in my pocket. Are you calling me a pussy? Them's fightin' words, boy!
Of course, wait a minute, if you never brake you probably break frequently (every time you crash). So you say YOU'RE the pussy?
Ok in that case you're lucky. Watch it next time, son. This is slashdot, where men are men and women are women (where? where?) and small furry creatures from alpha centauri are small furry creatures from alpha centauri.
I try to stay far enough behind the car ahead of me so that when he brakes, I merely have to remove my foot from the accelerator so I don't convert my kinetic energy to heat. Of course, some dipshit always sees the three car length hole in the thirty mph traffic (you're supposed to maintain 1 car length for every 10mph anyway but none of the fucktards in Springfield do) and fills it in.
If people maintained a reaonable distance (the 1 car lenhgth for each 10 mph) you wouldn't have this effect, or if it occurred it wouldn't be so bad.
Every time you touch your brake for any reason whatever you throw fuel away as waste heat.
<jk>(global warming comes from the hot air blowing out of the world's capitols)</jk>
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Somebody please mod that funny!
He was probably looking for an excuse to search your car for drugs.
adjust your driving to fit the situation.
I thought that was so obvious it didn't need to be said.
if the intersection has left and right turn lanes that don't currently exist
Sorry, either I'm dense or you're not being clear.
then slowing down too soon prevents people from entering those lanes
That's their problem. They shouldn't be so cloise behind me. I'm not going to waste my gas because they want to follow too close.
Although it doesn't help either fuel economy or your own ability to keep a steady speed, sometimes conditions demand that you accelerate away from a light and get to the next one "too soon", in order to keep jams to a minimum.
Jams are the traffic engineers' problem, not mine. They need to time their lights better. However, if the light at the next intersection turns green right when yours does, then an extra bit of gas will save gas.
For many roads with closely-packed lights, this can lead to backups into the previous intersection.
The law here in Illinois says it's illegal to enter an intersection unless you can get through it.
*You should do this with every law
Well, I speak BASIC, assembly, Javascript, dBase, Nomad, English, Spanish, Thai, Redneck, and Ebonics, but legalese is beyond my comprehension. Laws might as well be written in Latin or Greek.
Sure isn't like that on the overpass at Stanford. The speed limit going east drops from 45 to 30 right after the crest, but nobody slows down.
This is Springfield though. People here are wierd.
Crap, I have to RTFA? =(
I liked that! But you know I meant that when I brake I'm deliberately wasting momentum to heat, a preventable waste. And that my goal is saving my hard earned money that I squander on booze and whores.
No, I'm far more paranoid than that. My paranoia says that this is being touted as a threat to distract you from the real threats -- like ATM cameras, store cameras, red light cameras, cameras that are on the street just to be there, cameras in bars (one bar owner was asking my help in putting one in his bar just yesterday), let alone the police searching your property without a warrant.
IMO if you live half century without becoming paranoid, you've led a sheltered life.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I keep thinking about that episode of "My Name Is Earl" where they did the parody of "Cops", the guy and a hooker steal a police car with the cameraman still in it, and have him film them having sex in the police car.
I actually know people that stupid.
-mcgrew
I bet it's just a matter of time before police start mounting cameras on their patrol cars as a means to identify illegal behavior that the officers in the car might miss
Too late, they already are.
I disagree. What is "inappropriate"? If you're tasked to look for lawbreaking, than reporting any illegal behavior is "appropriate".
If criticizing the government is against the law, then watching and snitching on someone who speaks out against government abuse is appropriate, right?
Two words: Ben Franklin.
God only knows we are living in dystopian times
"Dystopian" is relative. Compared to my youth, yes. Compared to my Grandpa's youth and all times before, no.
Since mankind's past is dystopian, why shouldn't the future be?
But wait - we already live a utopian future, at least most of us in an industrial country. We have pleasures and gadgets and things kings of old couldn't even dream of! 100kph surface travel, flight, far fewer deadly diseases, refrigeration, television, telephones, you name it.
We don't burn people at the stake, most civiliced nations don't execute anyone, etc.
Yes, there is a struggle between those who want libetry and privacy, and those who want to amass personal wealth and power, but the second group hasn't yet won. Thet struggle has probably been going on since before we became homo sapiens.
Compared to generations before mine we live in utopia. To quote Max Yasgur at Woodstock, "we must be in heaven, man!"
As to Google maps, I agree with you and don't see how still pictures are going to invade your privacy unless one of these cameras catches you picking your nose or scratching your balls. A bigget threat to your privacy is the cameras that are everywhere now - red light cameras, ATM cameras, hell there's some Orwell style cameras on 5th street here in Springfield to keep people from pissing in the alleyways, sans the "big brother is watching" signs.
It's a little late to worry about Google street, here in Springfield anyway.
-mcgrew
PS- I was an art major, you insensitive clod!
I just can't see why, from the info in the summary, anyone thinks that this legalizes teaching ID or creationism.
Religion (and philosophy) and science ask different questions. The people pushing ID and creationism as "science" are not doing themselves any favors.
AFAIK nobody ever got a ticket for tailgating unless he rearended the car in front of him, or tailgated a cop. But I, too would like to see drivers ticketed for it.
Here they don't even ticket you for running a red light unless there's a wreck or you're driving a car made in the 20th century or you're young or you're black; well, the Springfield cops won't, the Sherrriffs Dept and State Police will.
I'm a 55 year old white guy driving an '02, I never get pulled over.
That's likely. But why do they tailgate on the interstate where there are no lights?
Well of course you're going to need your brakes. The point is using them as little as possible. If the light ahead is red, take your foot off the gas! The idiots who live here race from red light to red light. I'm always amused when some moron zooms past me as I coast along, only to pass him as he's starting from a dead stop at the now green light.
That as well as maintaining a reasonable following distance, traffic permitting.
Your post gave me visions of Frank Drebin hitting trash cans as he pulled up to a curb.
Yeah, I would think the ball bearing thing on a motorcycle would be as dangerous as driving the thing drunk. Maybe worse!
Those people are ignorant. They changed that in 1996. Welfare as it used to be no longer exists. There is no monthly check. AFDC was abolished in 1996 and TANF replaced it. You can only get it for two years at a time, five year lifetime limit, and you have to be actively looking for work.
I don't know what the requirements are for food stamps, but you have to be pretty damned poor (or working "under the table" for cash so you can look pretty damned poor) to get them. You have to be WELL under middle class to get the tax credits as well.
Someone with six kids (or with fake documentation showing six kids that don't really exist) making minimum wage (or simply working for unreported cash) is eligible. They won't even let them be called "illegal", the politically correct term is "undocumented".
Don't you need a social security number to get tax returns?
From the linked journal:
Make enough trips through the Chicago area and anybody should be able to figure this out. That's why I started keeping a good distance between myself and the car in front of me
How in the hell do you manage that???? Here in Springfield where traffic isn't nearly as bad as up there if you try to keep a 5 car length distance on the highway (you should have 6.5 car lengths, one for every 10mph) three cars will get between you and the guy in front of you!
When are we going to get idiot lights on our dashes that light up when you're too damned close? Would idiots even heed them?
posting AC because some errant mods have been going through my history to mod me down long after the fact
We all get bad downmods; although at least one downmod I got a couple of days ago was understandable. The post was inaccurate even if it did make the point I was trying to make.
But I just looked at your recent comment history because of that fact; there seem to be some mods who will downmod you for no reason whatever. I've been getting a lot of posts modded "overrated" (yet still manage to garner a 5. Hmm.) But I see:
(Score:-1, Flamebait) Hi, I'm the self-important liberal who think he's saving the earth by driving a slightly-more fuel-efficient car to his giant home in suburbia.
Often it's not what you say, but how you say it. To a self-proclaimed liberal, your post IS flamebait. In the same post you did pretty much the same to conservatives, slashdotters, and everyone. I wouldn't have modded the post itself at all, but if I see it metamodding I'll likely mod the mod as "fair".
This one had one mod moderate it as "overrated" while one guy modded it back up with "underrated". In that case the "overrated" most likely came because one would have to know Japanese for the comment to make any sense.
(Score:-1, Troll) WAIT! Quick, environmentalists, rationalize how it's not good enough!
Come on, man, I did a journal about this topic a few weeks ago titled "This Journal is a Troll", but from the top few comments of yours I can see how your karma went down the flusher. Had the last one I mentioned where you bashed environmentalists left off the part I quoted it would have almost certainly been modded well.
Also, you might want to check out this list. You seem to have pissed off a LOT of people. Like I said, often it's not what you say buy how you say it.
-mcgrew
Bloody? I think that's a different reason for traffic jams!
Homer Simpson was quoted as saying "Doh!" Springfield Alderman Simpson did not comment.
The M25 they mention isn't a perfect circle, which is a shame and most non-android drivers studiously ignore the speed restrictions until everything grinds to a halt. Its either 80 or nothing on the road and all the science in the world won't help.
--
If he's the Walrus then can I be a penguin please?
All the reasoning ability won't help either, because if brains were dynamite most people wouldn't have enough to blow their noses. Most people here in Springfield, anyway.
"And now it's time for your radio to explode.
BOOM!
"Well what's on the telly then?"
"Looks like a penguin to me."
I have respect for my fellow drivers, and only use the gas pedal. Breaking is for pussies.
I only have a buck sixty seven in my pocket. Are you calling me a pussy? Them's fightin' words, boy!
Of course, wait a minute, if you never brake you probably break frequently (every time you crash). So you say YOU'RE the pussy?
Ok in that case you're lucky. Watch it next time, son. This is slashdot, where men are men and women are women (where? where?) and small furry creatures from alpha centauri are small furry creatures from alpha centauri.
Ewe muss knot bee knew hear.
Tailgating is THE problem.
I try to stay far enough behind the car ahead of me so that when he brakes, I merely have to remove my foot from the accelerator so I don't convert my kinetic energy to heat. Of course, some dipshit always sees the three car length hole in the thirty mph traffic (you're supposed to maintain 1 car length for every 10mph anyway but none of the fucktards in Springfield do) and fills it in.
If people maintained a reaonable distance (the 1 car lenhgth for each 10 mph) you wouldn't have this effect, or if it occurred it wouldn't be so bad.
Every time you touch your brake for any reason whatever you throw fuel away as waste heat.
<jk>(global warming comes from the hot air blowing out of the world's capitols)</jk>
-mcgrew
the Bush administration called them off and let MS off the hook
BINGO! They have the power. If I own your boss, I defeat you in anyendeavor that includes him. There is no way to fight something like that.