"It also includes what they can see from the street through an open door. It also includes a closed window without blinds. And today, with cameras that can see through walls, it includes everything in your home through a $300 thermal camera.

By the way, that's also been held up in court multiple times."
    Not any more, the supreme court ruled otherwise 11+ years ago:

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=99-8508

James Doohan ("Scotty", but hand in your geek card if you didn't know that) Married his wife of 30 years when he was 54 and she was 18.
   

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227753
      Though the reviews are not so hot.

Mycroft

four car lengths gives you 0.616 seconds to react at 60 mph, needless to say any sudden reduction in the lead cars speed (mechanical fault, animal on road, ANY) results in a collision.
    The recommendation is 2 seconds minimum distance, this gives you (assuming average reflexes and good alertness) just enough time to spot the problem get your foot moved to the break and begin breaking.
    Sadly trying to give 176' gap for safety usually results in it getting filled.

Mycroft

Haven't seen 'flash to pass' printed on a high beam switch in ages. Old car?
      That does NOT mean flash to ask the guy in front of you to speed up or get over.
      The rule used to be flash to signal your intent to pass and was for passing on two lane roads where you would be briefly entering the on coming lane to go around a motorist moving under the speed limit.
      It's no longer advised as newer lights are bright enough that doing that close enough to signal properly floods the front car with light significantly reducing the drivers night vision. This is why you can get in trouble for doing it, it creates a potentially bad situation.

Mycroft

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp

If your riding up behind someone doing the speed limit or more pulling that idiot crap YOUR the one endangering lives (and the police WILL pull you over for road rage with the blinking lights idiocy around here). And yes a smart person will slow down when being tailgated. I have idiots ride my ass in any lane flashing brights when I'm doing the limit to 5 over.

Mycroft

Yep real good for launching grains and such from the lunar colonies, as long as you have a decent computer to run the whole thing.
      Though if you use convict labor things could get interesting.

Mycroft

Technically your number 3 is correct, but the sort of cognitive errors (such as in your number 2) by failure to accept reality, even in a limited fashion, would seem to have to potential to limit them.
      Plate tectonics cannot be "put in a lab" either and require significant time scales also. Yet you put macro evolution (the instantiation of new species from previous species) which has been observed and measured also, in a different category.
    Simply because it disagrees with an irrational (not based in observed reality with logical and critical thought applied) view you fail to even realize you apply a different thought process to it(or so I read into your post).
      The vast amounts of evidence supporting evolution (both micro and macro) makes operating with any other assumption illogical and irrational without equally substantial and solid evidence.

Mcyroft

And me without mod points.
I would mod up, but here's my thought:
      Right principles as he puts it can be derived from likely outcomes statistically.
      Yes a specific outcome can be hard to predict, but typical outcomes can be figured out.
      Deciding actions based on multiply translated dogma tens of centuries old without any attempt to think them through logically and adapt them to modern culture and society is mental laziness at best.
It's akin to driving while staring straight ahead only with one eye closed and the other in a squint.
    It's certainly not moral or ethical except by chance.

Mycroft

I think I see what you're trying to say, but I'd like to nitpick a tad.
      Having a child does not destroy your life, it transforms it by giving it purpose and validation.
        Much more so if thought out and planned.

Just my opinion.

Mycroft

Most lights here (Missouri, USA) have sensors in the road at or near (sometimes overlapping) the white line, you can them as long rectangular patches in the road that look like they've been cut out and replaced.
    If you're not mostly over them the system thinks there is no traffic in that lane and will take much longer to give you (and everyone stuck behind you) a green signal.
      This extra distance and time for more cars to pile up behind you really hurts those trying to enter the turn lane if you're in the right most lane contributing to the idiots driving on the shoulder(not that that excuses their stupidity).
      Your best bet to stop over these sensors unless it creates a real safety hazard.

Mycroft

That only works when you have more than one to choose from. Where I am at you have the cable monopoly and AT&T who couldn't even keep dial-tone service working 3 days in a row let alone dsl (which caps out at 128 up 768 down!).

Mycroft