Bicyclist that don't obey the law piss me off, but if they're obeying, you've got no complaint, sorry.
I drove to lunch on the exact road I was thinking about, and there was a cyclist in the road at lunch. Technically, he's obeying the law, but I'll complain just as loudly as you might when a car passes him within inches at 40mph relative speed. He was a traffic hazard and a nuisance. I'm glad he wore a neon orange bandanna on his head so he was more visible, but just ten yards to his left was a perfectly safe and UNUSED sidewalk. No Pedestrians, and NO CARS.
The LAW states that the bike has a right to the whole lane from the INSIDE of the white line to the yellow line.
The LAW needs to change. It was almost certainly written back when cars drove at 15-20 mph standard. In my city, we have cyclists riding in the middle of roads with multiple lanes where the speed limit is 45, with hidden curves/dips. The commonly accepted speed (that police drive at) on that road is 50-55. There's an unused sidewalk right next to the street, and that's where cyclists should be riding. "Pedestrian versus cyclist" is a smaller difference compared to "car versus cyclist".
But bikes are the worst because they have that high and mighty moral swagger. "I'm just exercising and saving the environment." Yeah... and wasting my time, fucker.
The best part is by making a line of slow moving cars behind them, bicyclists reduce the fuel efficiency of those cars, so the environment doesn't factor unless they bike in a way to allow cars to pass them. And cyclists _always_ are slowing down at least one car on busy roads.
*everyone* was screaming about the oil companies, OPEC, and cutting all gas taxes to try to make gas more affordable.
People grumbled at the water coolers, and modified their fuel consumption behaviors. Granted, some of those behavior modifications were: "I have to quit my job because driving is too expensive" (I wonder how much high fuel costs contributed to our current economic woes). But, I didn't see anyone scream in person or on television. There was nothing close to a bloody riot, fuel rationing, or anything really bad.
pushing a technically complicated privacy nightmare will sail right through due to the "You've got nothing to hide" mentality of the majority in Congress.
Fixed that for you. The majority of people in the country don't want ubiquitous GPS tracking, but the majority in Congress right now thinks it's a great idea for everyone (government vehicles will somehow be exempt). Amongst the small portion of truly squeaky clean people, only an even smaller portion think they'd love to live in a world where BMV/DMV employees can abuse a system to follow their every move.
You let your children play games other than nethack?
I can't imagine the paranoia of a child raised on nethack, but I'll try:
"Don't go down the stairs carrying too much, Daddy, you'll DIE!"
"Don't pet the kitten, Daddy, it's not named. You'll DIE!"
"Don't drink anything until you've dipped an amethyst or unicorn horn in it or you'll DIE!"
ARTHUR: Right. How many words are there?
KNIGHT: Burner.
KNIGHT: FedEx.
ARTHUR: And DVD. That's five.
GALAHAD: Three, sir.
ARTHUR: Three. Three. And we'd better not risk another frontal accounting, that DVD's an acronym!
The power generated might be enough to run one headlight. But what would really be interesting is capturing some of the speed energy to help charge the battery. But with using wind.
I'll do you one better. Attach a sail to the car so that almost all of the "speed" energy is harvested. Fans harvesting electricity from the "wind" generated by the engine propelling the car is less efficient than the engine just making the electricity.
RTFS. They're transferring Microwaves! Stick the DVDs in the Microwaves and let them get delivered by the normal delivery guy. No need to fedEx. Just don't turn the Microwaves on while the DVDs are still inside.
So did Google pay Microsoft to make Bing, a la Microsoft and Apple?
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Sorry, just having a little fun.:)
I'd like to punch the moderator that modded your earlier post troll though. You make some good points that others weren't making.
Remember the 1980s when the US$ was skyrocketing to nearly EUR1,80?
No. Sorry, You're looking for Earth Prime. This is Earth One where the Euro wasn't envisioned until 1992, and wasn't in first use until 1998, and in first exclusive use until 2002. Please retune your dimensional transport system.
If the Euro has more buying power than the dollar (lets say it's double for ease of math), wouldn't the price of something be $10 in the US and €5 in Europe?
I guess so. Did your parents lock you in a cave as a kid or something?
He's a 7 digit, my friend. MJ hasn't made any new truly popular music for a long time, so GP has only seen the mutilated face, the pedophilia, and the baby-dangling.
Read a history book, kid. (yes, I recognize your 5-digits)
What if your Congressman's office refused to read all non-digitally signed emails? From our geek point of view, that would be great. From 98% of society though, maybe 1 or 2 percent would figure out how to use PGP/GPG and be bothered to use it properly. That cuts people out of representative government. While it is true that the Executive branch is not meant to be representative, it is asking for input, but only from the middle and upper class, and only the technically savvy (apples aside).
Should a video camera be the price of admission for participating in an open government discussion, especially when issues may hit those with lower incomes the hardest?
Yes.
I think we can tolerate the absence of people who can afford computers and not cellphone cameras.
And only land-owners should have the right to vote?
I know people that can afford a computer (at the public library), but who can not afford a cell phone (regular monthly expenses).
I think we should at least consider it. By any measure, Posner is one of the most impressive judges on the bench today-- and in my opinion, one of the only judges that really 'get' all the issues surrounding copyright and digital things in general.
If he's the one Judge who stands above all others in technical matters, then I want all Judges to go through five years of mandatory Computer Science courses. He's a #*%$^&#ing idiot. Posner, you're #*%%#@ stupid. You may be a legal genius, but please rely on technical advisors before thinking you know anything about technology.
Linking to something on the web is the exact equivalent to saying "Hey, look at that over there!" in meatspace. If people want to prevent someone from pointing at their FOO in meatspace, they make a wall and allow only the people the want in (either charging admission or inviting just their friends). Sometimes they even restrict cameras (although restricting printscreen on a https site can't happen). What gets me tickled about this is that the web in its current incarnation has had 15 years of fame (companies started regularly advertising websites in television commercials in 1994-1996). You'd think that the mentally competent among us would understand some of its basic concepts by now.
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Bicyclist that don't obey the law piss me off, but if they're obeying, you've got no complaint, sorry.
I drove to lunch on the exact road I was thinking about, and there was a cyclist in the road at lunch. Technically, he's obeying the law, but I'll complain just as loudly as you might when a car passes him within inches at 40mph relative speed. He was a traffic hazard and a nuisance. I'm glad he wore a neon orange bandanna on his head so he was more visible, but just ten yards to his left was a perfectly safe and UNUSED sidewalk. No Pedestrians, and NO CARS.
The LAW states that the bike has a right to the whole lane from the INSIDE of the white line to the yellow line.
The LAW needs to change. It was almost certainly written back when cars drove at 15-20 mph standard. In my city, we have cyclists riding in the middle of roads with multiple lanes where the speed limit is 45, with hidden curves/dips. The commonly accepted speed (that police drive at) on that road is 50-55. There's an unused sidewalk right next to the street, and that's where cyclists should be riding. "Pedestrian versus cyclist" is a smaller difference compared to "car versus cyclist".
But bikes are the worst because they have that high and mighty moral swagger. "I'm just exercising and saving the environment." Yeah... and wasting my time, fucker.
The best part is by making a line of slow moving cars behind them, bicyclists reduce the fuel efficiency of those cars, so the environment doesn't factor unless they bike in a way to allow cars to pass them. And cyclists _always_ are slowing down at least one car on busy roads.
That only stops the first few. Then the others waltz past their stuck brethren, using them as a barrier against the tape.
*everyone* was screaming about the oil companies, OPEC, and cutting all gas taxes to try to make gas more affordable.
People grumbled at the water coolers, and modified their fuel consumption behaviors. Granted, some of those behavior modifications were: "I have to quit my job because driving is too expensive" (I wonder how much high fuel costs contributed to our current economic woes). But, I didn't see anyone scream in person or on television. There was nothing close to a bloody riot, fuel rationing, or anything really bad.
Has /. been trolled?
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pushing a technically complicated privacy nightmare will sail right through due to the "You've got nothing to hide" mentality of the majority in Congress.
Fixed that for you. The majority of people in the country don't want ubiquitous GPS tracking, but the majority in Congress right now thinks it's a great idea for everyone (government vehicles will somehow be exempt). Amongst the small portion of truly squeaky clean people, only an even smaller portion think they'd love to live in a world where BMV/DMV employees can abuse a system to follow their every move.
You let your children play games other than nethack?
I can't imagine the paranoia of a child raised on nethack, but I'll try:
"Don't go down the stairs carrying too much, Daddy, you'll DIE!"
"Don't pet the kitten, Daddy, it's not named. You'll DIE!"
"Don't drink anything until you've dipped an amethyst or unicorn horn in it or you'll DIE!"
Do people actually use such constricted environments for actual chatting?
NAME
JOB
BYE
DVD burner, FedEx.
I'm no mathematician, but isn't that 3 words?
I see 5.
ARTHUR: Right. How many words are there?
KNIGHT: Burner.
KNIGHT: FedEx.
ARTHUR: And DVD. That's five.
GALAHAD: Three, sir.
ARTHUR: Three. Three. And we'd better not risk another frontal accounting, that DVD's an acronym!
The power generated might be enough to run one headlight. But what would really be interesting is capturing some of the speed energy to help charge the battery. But with using wind.
I'll do you one better. Attach a sail to the car so that almost all of the "speed" energy is harvested. Fans harvesting electricity from the "wind" generated by the engine propelling the car is less efficient than the engine just making the electricity.
RTFS. They're transferring Microwaves! Stick the DVDs in the Microwaves and let them get delivered by the normal delivery guy. No need to fedEx. Just don't turn the Microwaves on while the DVDs are still inside.
mission critical files ... microwave connection ... government
They use FTP? Hopefully only through ipsec or something.
Ah, so then you agree that it wasn't a chicken egg? ie Chicken came first (from non-chicken egg), then laid chicken egg.
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But, but... I almost had first post!
Sorry, just having a little fun. :)
I'd like to punch the moderator that modded your earlier post troll though. You make some good points that others weren't making.
Remember the 1980s when the US$ was skyrocketing to nearly EUR1,80?
No. Sorry, You're looking for Earth Prime. This is Earth One where the Euro wasn't envisioned until 1992, and wasn't in first use until 1998, and in first exclusive use until 2002. Please retune your dimensional transport system.
works, but Mic€soft looks funny
If the Euro has more buying power than the dollar (lets say it's double for ease of math), wouldn't the price of something be $10 in the US and €5 in Europe?
You had kids? I had to get my dog to type my homework, but he just kept eating it.
I guess so. Did your parents lock you in a cave as a kid or something?
He's a 7 digit, my friend. MJ hasn't made any new truly popular music for a long time, so GP has only seen the mutilated face, the pedophilia, and the baby-dangling.
Michael Jackson would've attacked YOU with "google news" queries!
I'm decades past MJ being interested, but still disturbed by the thought of him googling me.
Read a history book, kid. (yes, I recognize your 5-digits)
What if your Congressman's office refused to read all non-digitally signed emails? From our geek point of view, that would be great. From 98% of society though, maybe 1 or 2 percent would figure out how to use PGP/GPG and be bothered to use it properly. That cuts people out of representative government. While it is true that the Executive branch is not meant to be representative, it is asking for input, but only from the middle and upper class, and only the technically savvy (apples aside).
Should a video camera be the price of admission for participating in an open government discussion, especially when issues may hit those with lower incomes the hardest?
Yes. I think we can tolerate the absence of people who can afford computers and not cellphone cameras.
And only land-owners should have the right to vote?
I know people that can afford a computer (at the public library), but who can not afford a cell phone (regular monthly expenses).
I think we should at least consider it. By any measure, Posner is one of the most impressive judges on the bench today-- and in my opinion, one of the only judges that really 'get' all the issues surrounding copyright and digital things in general.
If he's the one Judge who stands above all others in technical matters, then I want all Judges to go through five years of mandatory Computer Science courses. He's a #*%$^&#ing idiot. Posner, you're #*%%#@ stupid. You may be a legal genius, but please rely on technical advisors before thinking you know anything about technology.
Linking to something on the web is the exact equivalent to saying "Hey, look at that over there!" in meatspace. If people want to prevent someone from pointing at their FOO in meatspace, they make a wall and allow only the people the want in (either charging admission or inviting just their friends). Sometimes they even restrict cameras (although restricting printscreen on a https site can't happen). What gets me tickled about this is that the web in its current incarnation has had 15 years of fame (companies started regularly advertising websites in television commercials in 1994-1996). You'd think that the mentally competent among us would understand some of its basic concepts by now.