I've lived long enough in places that get lots of snow, ice & freezing rain to know that people grossly overestimate what their driving capabilities are.
You can get away with a lot of stupid stuff on dry pavement but wet, slippery or icy roads make organ donors out of both wannabe Cannonball Runners & otherwise prudent folk just trying to get home.
"Speed limits have been proven......" - to decrease stopping distance and damage on impact.
"and the speeding tickets are even worse" - if the cops are getting the cash from tickets for their budgets, then they have a strong incentive to game the system.
But let's put the money into infrastructure instead, fixing roads, bridges, sidewalks, streetlights.
The point of a fine is supposed to be a deterrent. A below-average Joe may have trouble paying a fine of several hundred dollars while a rich guy has options.
The fine may be trivial, impounding his car may not work as he may have more than one or renting one long term isn't financially onerous - or he can just buy another new out of pocket. Or he can hire a chauffeur or even risk driving without a license.
It's not about taking from "the makers", it's about not allowing rich assholes to flout the law just because they have more money.
When will we learn not to confuse trolls with facts?
I've wondered for a long time why unregistered ECC hasn't become the default on desktops while reserving buffered DIMMs for servers.Mass production would likely erase any price advantage of non-ECC memory.
If intel hadn't fucked over USB 3.0 by delaying chipset support for it for almost 4 years, hardly anyone would care about Thunderbolt.
Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
because there are too many of those already and look how they behave when in Europe.
Perhaps.
But depending on the system or product, that difference may not be large.
One vendor allowed us to run fully supported on a particular product version for 5+ yrs but now requires us to upgrade again, after only 2 years, by the end of 2015.
Upgrading this system affects about 5000 users & 35 external partners and required almost 4 months of preparation & co-ordination.
And that's how my team ended up supporting 10 - 25 yr old fossilized gear running all kinds of old, insecure shit that almost noone can remember what's the login or sometimes what's it for.
Left over from the death of the previous Universe and those heavier elements came from absorbing & digesting the young, tender clusters of our nascent cosmos and will one day swallow us ALL!!!
EXCELSIOR!
"Who was an asshole here? We'll never know. But I do assure, someone was"
In that case, let's mete out due punishment to all the likely assholes. The kid's suspension should stand, the other kid should also be suspended - and the school officials should be fired.
"You can't say you have a 2012 or 2013 car since they make changes every few months, often adding new features."
I have mixed feelings about that on the hardware level. Without some kind of breakpoint, it's impossible to know what you're getting. I've seen videos from Tesla owners where the location & length of the steering column levers have changed from the car they bought to the loaner they received.
Disclaimer: "These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be yours too." -- Dave Haynie
