Watch Radioactive Wolves of Chernobyl. You may enjoy it. I even dug you out a link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Contrariwise show me a form of telecommunication that does *not* involve computers. Even plain old telephone service. Even if you discount the digital switching equipment, the PBXs at business locations are computers.

Japan is not so busy lately and they likely have some medical experiments to conduct. I can see this working out in the end.

The overriding principle in any encounter between vehicles should be safety; after that efficiency. A cyclist should make way for a motorist to pass , but *only when doing so poses no hazard*. The biggest hazard presented by operation of any kind of vehicle is unpredictability. For a bike this is swerving in and out of a lane a car presents the greatest danger to himself and others on the road.

The correct, safe, and courteous thing to do is look for the earliest opportunity where it is safe to make enough room for the car to pass, move to the side, then signal the driver it is OK to pass. Note this doesn't mean *instantaneously* moving to the side, which might lead to an equally precipitous move *back* into the lane.

Bikes are just one of the many things you need to deal with in the city, and if the ten or fifteen seconds you're waiting to put the accelerator down is making you late for where you're going then you probably should leave a few minutes earlier, because in city driving if it's not one thing it'll be another. In any case if you look at the video the driver was not being significantly delayed by the cyclist, and even if that is so that is no excuse for driving in an unsafe manner, although in his defense he probably doesn't know how to handle the encounter with the cyclist correctly.

The cyclist of course ought to know how to handle an encounter with a car though, and for that reason it's up to the cyclist to manage an encounter with a car to the greatest degree possible. He should have more experience and a lot more situational awareness. I this case the cyclist's mistake was that he was sorta-kinda to one side in the lane, leaving enough room so the driver thought he was supposed to squeeze past him. The cyclist ought to have clearly claimed the entire lane, acknowledging the presence of the car; that way when he moves to the side it's a clear to the driver it's time to pass.

My last and new BMW are both RWD and detect road conditions and adjust their ESC accordingly. I, of course, turn that silly stuff off and put it in sport mode though the new one is a manual shift. That is, after all, why I bought a RWD vehicle in the first place. There is not much that is more fun than doing the Axl Rose Shuffle out on an deserted snow-covered road. Another treat is to go out and plow out your neighbors. I bought an old, in fine condition, tow truck earlier this year - I plan on having loads of fun with it and pulling people out of ditches for amusement. But... Umm... Wait... What was the topic again?

Do something combining the two... Something with driving and software - take your experience with one and parlay it into a job with Google or someone else in the field.

I never held my Class A in the civilian world but I drove many large, multi-axle, rigs with trailers (sometimes with a water bowl attached even). It is kind of scary when you have wrestled it into reverse and you are still going forward. There but by the grace of god go I...

Seriously, try to combine the two. Even if you have no degree you are a professional driver. Send your resume to Google - the worst they can do is tell you no. Take the State's test (if you have one) and apply for their IT department. They are often looking for dual skilled/multi skilled persons.

In the United States any road with a route number (and many are but do not have signs - states try to push the costs to the towns over time) is either a federal or state road and, as such, is not paid for out of the general fund but is paid for by taxes on gasoline and on-road diesel. The answer is not more bikes. The answer is fewer stupid people.

His car is bought, paid for, and mined. There is no way a new car's efficiency - no matter how good - can recoup the ecological costs of mining new material.

Citation needed. The majority of road wear and tear is from weather even in "stable" climates. I don't want to appeal to authority but, yeah, I am going to... I *am* an authority on the subject by extension. Unless you have something factual to say, then...

I was breaking the law but then someone else broke the law and they are bad people. ;)

Perhaps you might know... What if I wanted to move the vino vnc server up in the boot order so that it was available at the log-on screen? Would systemd help with that? Using LinuxMint and, frankly, I am just motivated by laziness but I have spent more energy on this than I would have spent just going down the stairs and logging myself back in after rebooting. Now, however, it is a mission.

Things have improved greatly but not enough. The WHO decision to allow DDT use again was probably the most important factor while waiting for the vaccine. (There are some fairly unknown skeletons in the DDT closet, they are probably not what most think.) My most recent trip, Nigeria, was actually a lot tamer than it once was. Things are looking up there and this is a good thing. I am of African decent, partially at least, and I do donate what seems reasonable but a lot of that goes to waste as it ends up being wasted on graft or material goods end up on the black market.

When I had less money, and was a bit more of an idealist, I bought a whole bunch (as in spent nearly a month's salary equivalent) of the OLPC devices for them to donate. I even got a couple during the Give One Get One campaign. It turns out that, really, they have not made much of a difference at all. I understand they are going to be doing a tablet next and I will, again, donate though I will be in a position to donate more. I feel like I am throwing money down a black hole though but I am not one to give up.

An interesting thing that I have noticed... I am not sure how this applies, really. If you notice and draw attention to a problem people seem to automatically believe you have a solution in mind (and are ready to argue it, but that is another point entirely) but I honestly do not have a solution for the mess that is Africa. I certainly have no solutions for sub-Saharan Africa or West Africa. Hell, I do not even have any suggestions for East Africa and those are not exactly great places. Truly, I have no idea how to fix anything there or even if we should keep meddling.

In the spirit of digression, perhaps... Really?

Well, no... I have ideas but, frankly, I do not think they would ever be implemented. The only "solution" that I keep pondering is; How about if we keep our hands out of the entire area and maybe encourage them to not emulate the west but to return to an agrarian society and hunter gatherers? How about they lock down their borders and work on just being Africa - concentrating on their natural beauty, rich history, and a future that does not need to mesh with Western culture or economies? I am not even sure if that could work and I really have been unable to fine-tune the idea so that it could even be possible to consider it in the first place.

So, I see and acknowledge the problems, better than some I think, and I do what seems likely to be beneficial. I understand that the OLPC mission was a bit of a failure, that the devices were stolen and ended up on the black market or in the hands of the more wealthy (comparatively speaking), and that it is not a popular program any more. (I still have one kicking about. I am not sure where it is though and that is unfortunate.) I donate to Heifer International, Red Cross, etc... I go and buy items and spend tourist dollars. But, I am a single person and I am not sure that it would actually, truly, help if everyone did that. We can not force them into a new lifestyle and I am not so certain that we should be trying.

I am perfectly free to make my own choices but, as a bit of a lark, I am going to have my lawyer take a look. I buy a lot of land but it is usually unimproved land. I have just recently closed on a chunk of property that was sold by the holdings company that retains some of the International Paper property. I have a shameful amount of land but, in my defense, I buy it so that it remains open for access and so that it will always remain that way. Other than a "small piece" it all goes into a trust which will be maintained by that trust in perpetuity. The number is high enough that, quite frankly, it is embarrassing. However, my altruism is real.

Anyhow, I have a daughter in that area. Her graduation present was a piece of property with a small house on it. A nice starter house, really. I think her and her spouse would make excellent care-takers of such a property and it might give them an additional leg up. I do make it easy for my kids but I do not make it so that they do not have to work if they want to have nice things. I sold my business (our HQ was in Winston-Salem by the way) and made an absurd amount of money from the sale, both in cash and in stocks in the parent company. After thinking, long and hard too, I realized that I could easily make it so that my children would never have to work a day in their life. Then I thought about the repercussions of that and decided to try to give them motivation to be productive in a capacity that suited their desires. So they both have small trusts, as will their children. They can be wise with that and do great things with that or they can live at not much higher than a comfortable middle-class level. Hell, it would be lower middle-class really. So far, so good.

I have sent off a copy of the page and a link to this thread. You never know, it may just happen. Going by the property values in the neighborhood and viewing property as it should be - as a long-term investment even if the goal is to rent it out, then I have sent a suggestion that he consider a 10% increase of the listed value at Zillow to be a fair starting point. You could consider an agent but I think that premature at this point. Also, I have a liar on retainer just for such things because, as I mentioned, I have a bit of an addiction to property ownership. He serves to keep me sane, as well, I used to drink - a lot.

Anyhow, my email is valid. I can certainly see your point. It is much easier to own a rental property that is close to you. Otherwise you have all sorts of potential issues and may end up needing a property management company to deal with it and that, frankly, eats profits when one can simply do many things on their own with little real effort and contract the rest out for less than a property management company charges. I wish I could attribute my success to great skill and hard work (not that both are not applicable) but it was mostly luck and being in a position to take advantage of situations that arose. Being able to do interesting things, like this, is an added bonus. Every day is interesting. If I can pass that 'luck' along then all the better - it is not like I'd be losing money.

Genuinely curious, do you have a citation where this has been true on a large scale and is actually directly, factually, attributed to multiculturalism?

Good catch. I kind of sort of blame spell check - I am a horrific speller. It would appear I am not a good reader either.