Comment Re:I keep mine ... (Score 1) 184
And by "gun" I mean gun.
Being from a country that speaks proper English, I always picture a fanny pack as something worn on a vagina.
And by "gun" I mean gun.
Being from a country that speaks proper English, I always picture a fanny pack as something worn on a vagina.
UV isn't ionizing either. Neither are microwaves. Prolonged exposure to either is... not a really bright idea.
So please, let's leave off the cargo cult science babble about "cell phones don't emit ionizing radiation". They emit energy, and that energy goes somewere. Nor do we need a mechanism when we have an established result.
Fuck me.
Nebulous "energy" is at the centre of most quackery and cargo cult science.
"Energy" is not descriptive enough to be able to say whether something is a risk or not. You need to define what the energy is, what it does and how this affects us (or whatever the subject of your experiment is). So whether radiation is ionising or not is entirely relevant, especially when drawing conclusions about long term health effects.
Simply saying that "energy" goes "somewhere" is completely useless and only lets bad science like "mobile phones cause cancer" exist.
Am I doing it right?
Only if you're 5 years old.
If you're an adult you only sound like a blithering idiot. English people are much more eloquent with their insults and dont need to rely on trying to shock people with haphazard displays of vulgarity.
Thankfully, I live in a country which, in theory, protects offensive speech.
if you bothered to keep up, he wasn't arrested for offensive speech, he was arrested for disobeying a lawful police instruction (you know that the powerpoints on these trains are locked, its not like he accidentally plugged it in). As far as I know, disobeying a lawful police instruction is illegal everywhere where there are laws and police.
Also if you bothered to watch any UK TV you'd notice how much more offensive language there is compared to American TV. Just look at how often the word "cock" gets dropped on Top Gear. The US has to censor the word "bugger" for crying out loud. As always, even the offensive language on UK TV is much more sophisticated than its contemporaries across the pond.
Seems your "protected" speech isn't as protected as ours. Toodles
Yes, we protect offensive speech...Unless you are stupid enough to try it to our trigger happy police and you are a minority.
In the UK if you mouth off to the police you get arrested for an hour and a charge that is dismissed in court.
In the US if you mouth off to the police you get tasered and pinned to the ground whilst the officer shouts "stop resisting".
That's what you get for being pissy with the police.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir/ma'am, I wasn't aware that this is strictly prohibited. No,it won't happen again. Thank you sir/ma'am."
The whole thing could have been defused with a simple "OK" and unplugging of the device.
No need to even be polite, although that isn't a bad thing to do anyway.
We were called to Camden Road London Overground station on Friday 10 July to a report of a man becoming aggressive when challenged by a PCSO about his use of a plug socket onboard an Overground train.
While arrest may have been an overreaction, the guy was using a socket clearly marked not for public use and then seems to have become aggressive when asked to unplug his phone. Maybe he needs to look at his own behaviour as well.
Yep, I'll bet it unfolded something like this:
Hobby Bobby asked him to unplug his phone, instead of unplugging his phone he decided to give the PCSO some lip and it became a battle of egos after that.
This could have been easily avoided by not having an attitude. The problem wasn't using a mere 10 pence of electricity, rather the antisocial behaviour that followed being asked to unplug his phone.
Under the United States MUTCD, a turn facing a green arrow is a "protected" left turn. Pedestrians have a "don't cross" signal during this phase. A turn facing a green disk is considered a "permitted" left turn, where oncoming traffic has the right of way.
In all defensive driving courses, a driver is trained that there is no such thing as a "protected" turn and always watch out for pedestrians (or suicyclists) and assume they will enter the roadway without right of way.
You can never assume someone else is going to follow the rules.
People aren't "deadbeats" or "not deadbeats".
In the credit card industry, a deadbeat is someone who has a credit card and doesn't use it (therefore not racking up interest or merchant service charges).
In short, he's a politician. I'm sure he'll manage.
The difference is Tsipras is Greek and in Greece.
The US is soft on its promise breaking politicians because by and large, everything keeps running as it was and there's no large scale disruption that affects everyone. Greece is not in this position with the level of austerity in Greece. Tsipras is not just fighting for his life politically, he's fighting for it literally. The Greek people wont hesitate to lynch him if they think it'll get them out of their current predicament, hell, they'll lynch him if they think he's not doing everything he can to get them out of their predicament. This is why Yanis Varoufakis (Tsipras' ex finance minister) got the hell out of dodge, he saw the writing on the wall.
Tsipras got elected because he promised to take a hard line against the EU on austerity. As unrealistic as this was it's what the Greek people wanted rather than another meek EU toady and it will turn out bad for Tsipras if he turns into one.
As a cyclist I'd like for motor vehicles to all have black boxes and to collect data. But that data should only be accessible to the police in the event of a crime an accident involving the car.
Be careful what you wish for.
As a motorist, cyclist one of the major reasons I have a dash cam. I've been cut off by a cyclist who never bothered to look behind them far too many times. The problem is that a cyclist will never admit to doing wrong and change their story when it's obvious that the motorists wont cop the blame (this is also why they're constantly campaigning to make motorists automatically at fault). In my city, cyclists are at fault in the majority of collisions.
Chiming in from NYC,
Cities with good public transport are an oddity. Places like London, NYC and Tokyo with functioning and useful PT systems are outnumbered by all the LA's, Sydney's and Manila's of the world.
Chiming in from Perth, Western Australia I can say that driving my massively fuel efficient turbo (12L per 100 KM) which requires the highest grade of petrol (its modified) with insurance (its a 2 door sports car, so not cheap), parking, maintenance, depreciation and all costs less than taking the bus to work as well as taking 1/3 the time and the bus which stops near my house also stops near my work.
Above all this, the public transport system in my city is subsided. The ticket price that is more expensive than driving doesn't cover the whole service.
Depends - does the public transport system suck less than driving a car?
Considering that driving does not suck at all, that would be impossible.
Taking public transport is only free if your time is free. There is a bus that goes from near my house to near my work, the drive takes 15 minutes on a bad day, the bus takes 45 minutes on a good day.
That's a full hour more per day that I spend sitting on a bus rather than doing what I like.
However at the moment, I only take public transport to work when I feel the need to take a form of transport that is more expensive than driving my car (fuel (RON 98), parking, insurance, depreciation, maint and all). The $8.80 per day the bus will cost me is more than it costs to run my car to and from work.
Even a 1st year comp. sci. persons knows that it is fastest to load the plane with LIFO.
The problem is a first year comp sci person doesn't get that people aren't rational and reasonable.
Last In, First Out (yes it helps to explain acronyms) requires all passengers to co-operate and understand what's going on as well as not trying to abuse the system for their own game. The problem is people in large groups can meet none of these criteria, which is why we end up with the current barely controlled cat herding that are current boarding procedures.
People aren't reasonable or even good at following instructions and this is for ordinary, polite individuals. Beyond them you've got the arseholes who think the world owes them and would happily push in and abuse the boarding system with no regard for others.
LIFO's big problem is that it only takes one person to break the entire system. One person to board out of sequence, one person to hold up the line talking on the phone, one person to waste time storing their stupidly oversized carry on.
Airline planners and operations managers are a hell of a lot smarter than your first year comp sci student. They've thought of this and found that it was unworkable, it would make boarding worse than it currently is because no-one would understand it and even if they did they would ignore it.
On existing airlines, why couldn't they have slightly larger/longer seats and charge say $15 more for them? It's either passenger level OR first class now, nothing in between.
In fact, they could also have slightly smaller seats for a $15 discount. Same total room in the end, just better allocation per body size.
A lot of airlines already have this, they call it "premium economy" and they charge a hell of a lot more than $15 for them.
That being said a decent airline's economy offerings are better than a bad airlines budget offerings. Singapore Airlines offers 19" wide seats in standard, Virgin Australia has 18.5" seats on their trans-pacific routes where as QANTAS only offers 17" seats.
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