Do you also care as much about all the people that lost their work when agricultural automation became wide spread? Do you cry for the thousands of workers that might have been tilling the land manually instead of just one guy riding a tractor - when you eat your morning cereals/bread/whatever?
I'm sure if he was alive in those times he would have had a right royal cry about it. Those evil factories, taking away a mans work, why do we need all those fancy metal things anyway or some other bollocks like that.
Some people cant see past the present. Manufacturing in the west as a method of mass employment is gone, we've been service oriented economies for over a decade now. Bringing back manufacturing as automation wont employ many people and bringing it back as a labour market will ensure the creation of a poor underclass. We need to focus on industries that cant be copied so easily, biotech and nanotech immediately spring to mind. Commercial Aircraft manufacturing has remained primarily in Europe and North America because it is so complex and requires such a high standard that it cant be done in China. Even with the new Comac regional jet, it uses GE engines, Honeywell avionics, essentially it's a US plane assembled in China. The same is true for a lot of "domestic" heavy industries, their locally made high speed trains are made from Korean and German parts. China simply dont have the knowledge or experience to compete so they buy it from other nations, stamp "made in China" on the side and pretend they did it themselves.
Correction, you DO have a right to drive. The constitution does not grant rights, it only delineates important ones. Read the 9th and 10th amendments.
Just because the constitution does not specifically mention a right does NOT mean you don't have it!
Wrong.
The constitution of the US does not grant rights. It only specifies which rights are inalienable (read, which ones cant be take away).
Driving is not mentioned among them and to be frank, a lot of drivers need to be taken off the roads.
I think in order to claim you can drive 202 mph, you should be able to drive at that speed for an hour. Otherwise you are really getting far less actual miles per hour when you have to stop every 5 minutes and charge for 10 hours.
Really, its speed is more like 202 miles/week.
Just a reminder, before you slam me, scan for sarcasm first.
Most cars wouldn't be able to maintain 300 KPH for 1 hour without refilling. Hell, most cars wont reach 200 KPH let alone maintain it.
Doing 300 KPH for 1 hour is nothing like doing 300 KM per week as:
1) You'll be doing 300 at lower speeds, thus using less fuel (gross oversimplification, but a vast improvement over the Parents analogy).
2) You'll also be stopping and starting a lot more.
I track my lightly modified DC5 and at 250 KPH I'd go through 50 litres of RON 98 in less than half an hour as I'm doing 8000 RPM in 6th gear (I can easily see my fuel economy being 100L/100KM). However in normal conditions 50L will last for 550 KM with an average speed of 56.5 KPH using approx 9.2L/100KM. The DC5 is a 2L 4 banger, Turbo's and 6cyl cars are even worse, your fuel economy at high RPM is crap, regardless of if it's petrol or electric.
Now if you wanted it to run for 300 KM at 60 KPH you might have a point. But top speed is not sustained cruising speed.
Yeah. The Brits are also making a car that will do 1,000 mph. They ought to make that run for an hour as well.
Of course, finding a straight track several thousand miles long might be a bit of a problem. I've heard that there's nothing in the middle of Australia...
We have rocks, Kangaroos, Wombats, Koala Drop Bears, land sharks and backpacker murders.
Everything on this fucking content is trying to kill you.
Just pointing out PC gaming accounts for nearly 1/3 of gaming revenue. The rest is shared between PS3, Xbox, Wii/Wii U and mobile. Also, the PC gaming segment is smaller, meaning that is is more profitable to make games for the PC.
Whilst the PC gaming market is not the majority of the PC market, it is no minor segment either. Definitely not one that can be ignored. Compared to a Word/Facebook user, a gamer will spend a lot more on hardware and software. Almost to the point of rivalling corporate spending.
In your science, mathematics and engineering classes, you're given facts, answers, knowledge, truth. Your professors say, 'This is how things are.' They give you certainty.
Humanist misunderstands what Science and the Scientific method are, tells us we need to be taught to question things, when the entire basis of the field is questioning things, and never believing anything to be fact, knowledge or truth.
So what you're saying is that 1st year Humanists need to take an engineering course?
Africa: There's a Chinese guy with a checkbook knocking at our door.
He's wearing a respirator, you'll have to listen carefully to hear his offer over the coughing and spluttering.
Chinese cities are beginning to suffer pollution problems hard as a direct result of no pollution controls. It's the same with the 2008 Chinese milk scandal where they were tainted with Melamine in order to fool tests. Inaction is just as bad.
No. Wrong. Ebooks didn't get started because of ipads, the ipad screen is the same as a laptop screen. If it were that easy to read books on a laptop screen nobody would have needed to invent ereaders. Whether or not ipad fans like it, the simple reality is that you can't read books or even lengthy texts as easily from a luminescent monitor as from an e-ink display. Mod me down all you like, claim otherwise based on anecdote, but you didn't have people selling their book collections when laptops became common. End of story.
It's not just Ipads, any highly luminescent screen has the same problem, so most backlit screens. Even though you can get e-readers for the same weight as a book E-Ink screens still have drawbacks in low and bright lighting conditions. I tend to do a lot of my reading on aircraft (where it can be quite dark, joys of redeye flights) so I prefer dead tree because they simply handle the contrast between a dark cabin and a flashlight (I've got a miner's light on a headband to avoid annoying other passengers). Eye Strain from luminescent screens is severely exacerbated in the same low light conditions.
I just got done with a garage sale and almost none of my (cheaply priced!) books sold, lots fewer than when I had a garage sale about five years ago.
I'd suppose more people who actually read are transitioning to e-readers. This might also account in general for why there are fewer visitors to B&N stores.
I'm buying more books than I did 5 years ago.
It's not lack of demand or foot traffic that's killing B&N, it's the fact I can go to thebookdepository.com (Amazon charges stupid amounts of shipping to Oz, and yes, I know TBD is owned by Amazon now... Shipping is still cheaper) search for exactly the book I want and buy it for less. In a physical book store, I have to pray they have it in stock, find it myself (because some apathetic staffer put half the Iain M Banks novels under M and the other half under B) wait in line and then pay twice as much for it.
B&N have simply priced themselves out of the market.
I haven't had an issue with Torx cam-out. my Husqvarna is held together mostly with torx fasteners, and I find that if the right size is used, it's not an issue.
i find that cam-out is only really useful tightening, it's undesirable when loosening.
I've never had an issue with torx either. But when I said a crapload of torque, I meant beyond what a human is capable of producing.
Aussies in general are reluctant to get involved in their own governance.
This is what is going to cause Australia to follow the rest of the world into economic, social and environmental disaster. Many people (Australians) I speak to feel that we need to change the government, but when you ask them why they have little to no idea what the government actually does or how it works. The government we have now has not done a great job, but they have done extremely well considering the global issues going on - but many Australians tend to care nothing about the rest of the world unless it's broadcast in prime time in a sitcom format.
This,
The Labor government hasn't done a terribly good job, but it was passable. However the Murdoch run press wants to paint it as the end of the world.
Really, I view the Murdoch press as a greater threat to Australia than all the politicians put together... Murdoch ultimately does not have to answer to the constituents.
Yep, it's rare for people to actually have to pay the fine, however we consistently get 90+% of voters turning up to a state/federal election which is a GoodThing(TM).
Not necessarily, how many donkey's are we getting per election.
Polly's viciously contest the coveted top spot on the ballot as a lot of people just go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I encourage highly apathetic people to start on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th box when they do this to try and introduce some randomness into this system. Fortunately the order on most ballot papers in Oz are randomly selected.
Aussies in general are reluctant to get involved in their own governance. I get a lot of people complaining about speed zone sign placements, many of them legit complaints (I.E. 5 changes in the space of 1 KM) but do you think one of them has even written the local council?
Actually, based on what has been happening in Australia lately this is a huge change of course, and probably a sign that the average citizen is getting a little sick of the shenanigans pulled by the current government, (sometimes pulled by only a minister here or there, without the consensus of his own party).
This is pretty much the story with every Australia-bashing political story on/.
Frank P. Frankston, Member for Frankston introduces hit pet bill into parliament. Seeing as no-one else wants it it doesn't pass.
No doubt the minister you're eluding to is our "honourable"* Mr Conroy, his pet project internet filter has consistently failed to gain any traction in parliament over the last 6 years. Its as dead as Sam Newman's career.
* Honourable is just a title, politicians are the most dishonourable people on the planet.
If you think the Japanese were ready to simply surrender, you have been getting bad history.
In April of 1945 the leaders of imperial Japan had no illusions that they were losing the war. They began to prepare for the allied invasion of the Japanese home islands. Naotake Sato, foreign minister went to Moscow to negotiate the Soviet Union's continued neutrality in the war. In July of 1945 Emperor Hirohito sent Prime Minister Prince Konoe to Moscow to sue for peace with the Allies. It was hoped that Stalin and the Soviet Union would negotiate on behalf of Japan with the US and Britain, Konoe had carte blanc to end the war before Japan suffered even more. As I said, by this point the Japanese Emperor had no illusions of victory and unlike Hitler, was willing to do something to change this.
Japan was willing to surrender, just not an unconditional surrender that the US and Britain wanted. Now the mistake the Japanese made was sending their envoy through the Soviet union, who did not want peace between the western allies and Japan. Stalin was convinced that the invasion of the Japanese home islands would weaken the US and Britain to the same state as the Soviet Union. At the point Stalin had no idea that the US had working nuclear weapons, so an invasion was the only possible scenario as long as they did not negotiate with the Japanese. As such, Stalin blocked all negotiations between the Japanese and the western allies.
If you think the Japanese weren't willing to surrender, you have been getting bad history.
Now the western allies had no idea at the time Japan was trying to surrender. So I dont second guess the bomb. It was not until years afterwards did the western allies learn the truth of what transpired between Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union and by then they were already scrotum deep in the cold war.
The license war he's talking about would proceed approximately as follows:
GPL: had BSD been licensed under the GPL (I know, word salad), then Sony would have been forced to release the modifications to the kernel, and we would be able to better mod the PS4/overall cost to society would be lower since all the improvements would be available to everyone
BSD: had BSD been licensed under the GPL, Sony would not have used the kernel, they would never upstream any changes, and the overall cost to society would be greater since they would have been forced to develop their own, in-house kernel.
I'm trying to be neutral here, but I'm probably just starting the flamewar. You probably can tell what my bias is, but whatever.
You must not be new here.
That was the oldenslashdot of yore. Such debates do not occur any more.
Now it's a bunch of rabid Apple/Sony/Microsoft fanboys who will mod down anyone who says anything remotely critical of Apple/Sony/Microsoft.
There aren't even many Linux Zealots left. Welcome to AppleDot, leave you sanity at the door.
How strange it is that Russia has become the bastion of human rights and the right to expose corruption. 30 years ago you'd be laughed out of a room if you'd suggest that 30 years later people would be fleeing the US for Russia and China for political freedoms and economic freedoms.
Times have sure changed.
He hasn't headed there for political freedom, he's headed there for political asylum.
A very different concept. He cant go back to his own country because they'll jail him for political reasons.
I'm sorry; I tried to follow your advice by reading the Pravda (English version; I can't read Russian), but I couldn't keep a straight face:
(...) Obama nervously looked over his notes as Putin spoke clearly from his memory and intelligence. At meetings end Obama then went on to try and slap a handshake. It was met with President Putin's stone hand which withered Obama's smile away. Putin's firm grip declared who's top dog in this world.
And this wasn't in the Opinions section!
So it's pretty much like Fox news... But uses bigger words.
However, in an experiment, a Dutch town removed basically all traffic signs and were considerably safer, because instead of relying upon signs and stoplights to tell them what to do, they had to instead actually pay attention to their surroundings. Believe it or not, we generally have strong instincts for self-preservation, and social mechanisms often work better than rules or legal mechanisms when no such system exists.
Correlation != Causation.
The Dutch and that part of Europe are much better drivers in general than most nations, especially the United states. There are strict requirements for getting a license and driving is considered a privilege, not a right. It's also quite easy to lose your license. Any speeding infringement over 30 KPH is an automatic 1 month suspension. This could easily be explained by the fact the Dutch are simply better drivers.
Now lets perform this experiment in nations without stringent driver standards or effective law enforcement. Lets try the Philippines... You dont even need to bother removing the signs as Filipino drivers ignore them anyway. Traffic there is chaos and deadly.
Lack of traffic control devices wont solve gridlock, in fact it will create more. Especially in nations where people already choose to ignore common sense whilst driving. Coincidentally, because of the lower speeds that gridlock results in there will be fewer pedestrian deaths.
Signalling for lane changes should be a sign of intent, not a warning or an afterthought. It usually isn't a signal for those you can see, it is for those you cannot. Some people act like it's divulging information to the enemy. My pet peeve is seeing drivers getting into the turn lane and then turning on your turn signal. Really? Never would have figured that out.
I have no idea why this is modded down, this is exactly what you use an indicator for. To demonstrate your intent.
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Do you also care as much about all the people that lost their work when agricultural automation became wide spread? Do you cry for the thousands of workers that might have been tilling the land manually instead of just one guy riding a tractor - when you eat your morning cereals/bread/whatever?
I'm sure if he was alive in those times he would have had a right royal cry about it. Those evil factories, taking away a mans work, why do we need all those fancy metal things anyway or some other bollocks like that.
Some people cant see past the present. Manufacturing in the west as a method of mass employment is gone, we've been service oriented economies for over a decade now. Bringing back manufacturing as automation wont employ many people and bringing it back as a labour market will ensure the creation of a poor underclass. We need to focus on industries that cant be copied so easily, biotech and nanotech immediately spring to mind. Commercial Aircraft manufacturing has remained primarily in Europe and North America because it is so complex and requires such a high standard that it cant be done in China. Even with the new Comac regional jet, it uses GE engines, Honeywell avionics, essentially it's a US plane assembled in China. The same is true for a lot of "domestic" heavy industries, their locally made high speed trains are made from Korean and German parts. China simply dont have the knowledge or experience to compete so they buy it from other nations, stamp "made in China" on the side and pretend they did it themselves.
Correction, you DO have a right to drive. The constitution does not grant rights, it only delineates important ones. Read the 9th and 10th amendments. Just because the constitution does not specifically mention a right does NOT mean you don't have it!
Wrong.
The constitution of the US does not grant rights. It only specifies which rights are inalienable (read, which ones cant be take away).
Driving is not mentioned among them and to be frank, a lot of drivers need to be taken off the roads.
I think in order to claim you can drive 202 mph, you should be able to drive at that speed for an hour. Otherwise you are really getting far less actual miles per hour when you have to stop every 5 minutes and charge for 10 hours.
Really, its speed is more like 202 miles/week.
Just a reminder, before you slam me, scan for sarcasm first.
Most cars wouldn't be able to maintain 300 KPH for 1 hour without refilling. Hell, most cars wont reach 200 KPH let alone maintain it.
Doing 300 KPH for 1 hour is nothing like doing 300 KM per week as:
1) You'll be doing 300 at lower speeds, thus using less fuel (gross oversimplification, but a vast improvement over the Parents analogy).
2) You'll also be stopping and starting a lot more.
I track my lightly modified DC5 and at 250 KPH I'd go through 50 litres of RON 98 in less than half an hour as I'm doing 8000 RPM in 6th gear (I can easily see my fuel economy being 100L/100KM). However in normal conditions 50L will last for 550 KM with an average speed of 56.5 KPH using approx 9.2L/100KM. The DC5 is a 2L 4 banger, Turbo's and 6cyl cars are even worse, your fuel economy at high RPM is crap, regardless of if it's petrol or electric.
Now if you wanted it to run for 300 KM at 60 KPH you might have a point. But top speed is not sustained cruising speed.
Yeah. The Brits are also making a car that will do 1,000 mph. They ought to make that run for an hour as well.
Of course, finding a straight track several thousand miles long might be a bit of a problem. I've heard that there's nothing in the middle of Australia...
We have rocks, Kangaroos, Wombats, Koala Drop Bears, land sharks and backpacker murders.
Everything on this fucking content is trying to kill you.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10796698.htm Estimates that the Games Industry is worth....$66Billion Revenue, but only $20Billion of that was from the PC gaming.
Just pointing out PC gaming accounts for nearly 1/3 of gaming revenue. The rest is shared between PS3, Xbox, Wii/Wii U and mobile. Also, the PC gaming segment is smaller, meaning that is is more profitable to make games for the PC.
Whilst the PC gaming market is not the majority of the PC market, it is no minor segment either. Definitely not one that can be ignored. Compared to a Word/Facebook user, a gamer will spend a lot more on hardware and software. Almost to the point of rivalling corporate spending.
In your science, mathematics and engineering classes, you're given facts, answers, knowledge, truth. Your professors say, 'This is how things are.' They give you certainty.
Humanist misunderstands what Science and the Scientific method are, tells us we need to be taught to question things, when the entire basis of the field is questioning things, and never believing anything to be fact, knowledge or truth.
So what you're saying is that 1st year Humanists need to take an engineering course?
I'd definitely agree with that.
Africa: There's a Chinese guy with a checkbook knocking at our door.
He's wearing a respirator, you'll have to listen carefully to hear his offer over the coughing and spluttering.
Chinese cities are beginning to suffer pollution problems hard as a direct result of no pollution controls. It's the same with the 2008 Chinese milk scandal where they were tainted with Melamine in order to fool tests. Inaction is just as bad.
I don't get a check from the IRS when I screw up my taxes. I don't understand how someone who supposedly supports capitalism is ok with externalities.
Then you dont understand capitalism.
Externalising costs is a cornerstone of capitalism.
They eyestrain worry is overstated.
No. Wrong. Ebooks didn't get started because of ipads, the ipad screen is the same as a laptop screen. If it were that easy to read books on a laptop screen nobody would have needed to invent ereaders. Whether or not ipad fans like it, the simple reality is that you can't read books or even lengthy texts as easily from a luminescent monitor as from an e-ink display. Mod me down all you like, claim otherwise based on anecdote, but you didn't have people selling their book collections when laptops became common. End of story.
It's not just Ipads, any highly luminescent screen has the same problem, so most backlit screens. Even though you can get e-readers for the same weight as a book E-Ink screens still have drawbacks in low and bright lighting conditions. I tend to do a lot of my reading on aircraft (where it can be quite dark, joys of redeye flights) so I prefer dead tree because they simply handle the contrast between a dark cabin and a flashlight (I've got a miner's light on a headband to avoid annoying other passengers). Eye Strain from luminescent screens is severely exacerbated in the same low light conditions.
I just got done with a garage sale and almost none of my (cheaply priced!) books sold, lots fewer than when I had a garage sale about five years ago.
I'd suppose more people who actually read are transitioning to e-readers. This might also account in general for why there are fewer visitors to B&N stores.
I'm buying more books than I did 5 years ago.
It's not lack of demand or foot traffic that's killing B&N, it's the fact I can go to thebookdepository.com (Amazon charges stupid amounts of shipping to Oz, and yes, I know TBD is owned by Amazon now... Shipping is still cheaper) search for exactly the book I want and buy it for less. In a physical book store, I have to pray they have it in stock, find it myself (because some apathetic staffer put half the Iain M Banks novels under M and the other half under B) wait in line and then pay twice as much for it.
B&N have simply priced themselves out of the market.
Why get this when you can soon get Xbox One? An honest question.
Why get an Xbox One when you can soon get a PS4? An rhetorical question.
Why get either when you could have a gaming PC?
Then spend $10+ less per game.
Just keep reading that statement until you figure out just how wrong it is.
I haven't had an issue with Torx cam-out. my Husqvarna is held together mostly with torx fasteners, and I find that if the right size is used, it's not an issue. i find that cam-out is only really useful tightening, it's undesirable when loosening.
I've never had an issue with torx either. But when I said a crapload of torque, I meant beyond what a human is capable of producing.
Aussies in general are reluctant to get involved in their own governance.
This is what is going to cause Australia to follow the rest of the world into economic, social and environmental disaster. Many people (Australians) I speak to feel that we need to change the government, but when you ask them why they have little to no idea what the government actually does or how it works. The government we have now has not done a great job, but they have done extremely well considering the global issues going on - but many Australians tend to care nothing about the rest of the world unless it's broadcast in prime time in a sitcom format.
This,
The Labor government hasn't done a terribly good job, but it was passable. However the Murdoch run press wants to paint it as the end of the world.
Really, I view the Murdoch press as a greater threat to Australia than all the politicians put together... Murdoch ultimately does not have to answer to the constituents.
The problem is most industries mis-use phillips heads. They are specifically designed to cam out.
Most people misuse Phillips heads.
They aren't meant to be tightened as hard as humanly possible then drilled some more.
People only damage the heads because they are over tightening or unscrewing over tightened screws.
Torx is a lot better with cam-out. But for applications that are going to have a crapload of torque to affix and unaffix, both are unsuitable.
Yep, it's rare for people to actually have to pay the fine, however we consistently get 90+% of voters turning up to a state/federal election which is a GoodThing(TM).
Not necessarily, how many donkey's are we getting per election.
Polly's viciously contest the coveted top spot on the ballot as a lot of people just go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I encourage highly apathetic people to start on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th box when they do this to try and introduce some randomness into this system. Fortunately the order on most ballot papers in Oz are randomly selected.
Aussies in general are reluctant to get involved in their own governance. I get a lot of people complaining about speed zone sign placements, many of them legit complaints (I.E. 5 changes in the space of 1 KM) but do you think one of them has even written the local council?
Actually, based on what has been happening in Australia lately this is a huge change of course, and probably a sign that the average citizen is getting a little sick of the shenanigans pulled by the current government, (sometimes pulled by only a minister here or there, without the consensus of his own party).
This is pretty much the story with every Australia-bashing political story on /.
Frank P. Frankston, Member for Frankston introduces hit pet bill into parliament. Seeing as no-one else wants it it doesn't pass.
No doubt the minister you're eluding to is our "honourable"* Mr Conroy, his pet project internet filter has consistently failed to gain any traction in parliament over the last 6 years. Its as dead as Sam Newman's career.
* Honourable is just a title, politicians are the most dishonourable people on the planet.
Are there any Sony fanboys here? I only see negative comments about them.
They're here, there just isn't many of them.
In April of 1945 the leaders of imperial Japan had no illusions that they were losing the war. They began to prepare for the allied invasion of the Japanese home islands. Naotake Sato, foreign minister went to Moscow to negotiate the Soviet Union's continued neutrality in the war. In July of 1945 Emperor Hirohito sent Prime Minister Prince Konoe to Moscow to sue for peace with the Allies. It was hoped that Stalin and the Soviet Union would negotiate on behalf of Japan with the US and Britain, Konoe had carte blanc to end the war before Japan suffered even more. As I said, by this point the Japanese Emperor had no illusions of victory and unlike Hitler, was willing to do something to change this.
Japan was willing to surrender, just not an unconditional surrender that the US and Britain wanted. Now the mistake the Japanese made was sending their envoy through the Soviet union, who did not want peace between the western allies and Japan. Stalin was convinced that the invasion of the Japanese home islands would weaken the US and Britain to the same state as the Soviet Union. At the point Stalin had no idea that the US had working nuclear weapons, so an invasion was the only possible scenario as long as they did not negotiate with the Japanese. As such, Stalin blocked all negotiations between the Japanese and the western allies.
If you think the Japanese weren't willing to surrender, you have been getting bad history.
Now the western allies had no idea at the time Japan was trying to surrender. So I dont second guess the bomb. It was not until years afterwards did the western allies learn the truth of what transpired between Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union and by then they were already scrotum deep in the cold war.
The license war he's talking about would proceed approximately as follows:
GPL: had BSD been licensed under the GPL (I know, word salad), then Sony would have been forced to release the modifications to the kernel, and we would be able to better mod the PS4/overall cost to society would be lower since all the improvements would be available to everyone
BSD: had BSD been licensed under the GPL, Sony would not have used the kernel, they would never upstream any changes, and the overall cost to society would be greater since they would have been forced to develop their own, in-house kernel.
I'm trying to be neutral here, but I'm probably just starting the flamewar. You probably can tell what my bias is, but whatever.
You must not be new here.
That was the oldenslashdot of yore. Such debates do not occur any more.
Now it's a bunch of rabid Apple/Sony/Microsoft fanboys who will mod down anyone who says anything remotely critical of Apple/Sony/Microsoft.
There aren't even many Linux Zealots left. Welcome to AppleDot, leave you sanity at the door.
This makes those 'In Soviet Russia' jokes somewhat more believable...
In Corporatocratic USA, NSA Whistleblows you!
Whistle blows you.
How strange it is that Russia has become the bastion of human rights and the right to expose corruption. 30 years ago you'd be laughed out of a room if you'd suggest that 30 years later people would be fleeing the US for Russia and China for political freedoms and economic freedoms.
Times have sure changed.
He hasn't headed there for political freedom, he's headed there for political asylum.
A very different concept. He cant go back to his own country because they'll jail him for political reasons.
I'm sorry; I tried to follow your advice by reading the Pravda (English version; I can't read Russian), but I couldn't keep a straight face:
(...) Obama nervously looked over his notes as Putin spoke clearly from his memory and intelligence. At meetings end Obama then went on to try and slap a handshake. It was met with President Putin's stone hand which withered Obama's smile away. Putin's firm grip declared who's top dog in this world.
And this wasn't in the Opinions section!
So it's pretty much like Fox news... But uses bigger words.
However, in an experiment, a Dutch town removed basically all traffic signs and were considerably safer, because instead of relying upon signs and stoplights to tell them what to do, they had to instead actually pay attention to their surroundings. Believe it or not, we generally have strong instincts for self-preservation, and social mechanisms often work better than rules or legal mechanisms when no such system exists.
Correlation != Causation.
The Dutch and that part of Europe are much better drivers in general than most nations, especially the United states. There are strict requirements for getting a license and driving is considered a privilege, not a right. It's also quite easy to lose your license. Any speeding infringement over 30 KPH is an automatic 1 month suspension. This could easily be explained by the fact the Dutch are simply better drivers.
Now lets perform this experiment in nations without stringent driver standards or effective law enforcement. Lets try the Philippines... You dont even need to bother removing the signs as Filipino drivers ignore them anyway. Traffic there is chaos and deadly.
Lack of traffic control devices wont solve gridlock, in fact it will create more. Especially in nations where people already choose to ignore common sense whilst driving. Coincidentally, because of the lower speeds that gridlock results in there will be fewer pedestrian deaths.
Signalling for lane changes should be a sign of intent, not a warning or an afterthought. It usually isn't a signal for those you can see, it is for those you cannot. Some people act like it's divulging information to the enemy. My pet peeve is seeing drivers getting into the turn lane and then turning on your turn signal. Really? Never would have figured that out.
I have no idea why this is modded down, this is exactly what you use an indicator for. To demonstrate your intent.