"I'm not to blame, I always vote for the guy that promises to be an honest regular Joe just like me!"

Sarcasm aside, I do sort of agree with you. I don't blame the voters for voting the guy in, they are ALL corrupt, and even if they weren't, it's not like there's any way we'd know until it's too late. They don't have any real need to commit to their promises and it's not like they're up front and tell us they're going to screw us over. Seriously, blaming people for not knowing the future is utter horse shit. You should be ashamed of yourself for believing what you're saying without giving it one ounce of thought.

What I do blame the voters for is we never, for lack of a better term, fire any of these people. Just imagine what a few recall elections would do.

When questioned about this metal ball hurtling through an unsuspecting person's house, Adam Savage would only reply with: 'No comment'.

Well that sucks, I was hoping for another Mythbusters mishap.

Wow.

There was a Dilbert cartoon where Wally printed off a document for the PHB and handed it to him. The boss said "Great, but I asked you to print these in color!" "Oh, well Black and White technically are colors so... oh... I see!"

In the last frame Dilbert asked Wally "and that satisfied his need to make unnecessary changes?" And Wally goes "Yep! The best part is while I was talking to the boss, the color copies were printing!"

One thing you should consider, though, is her supervisor will likely see how she's a team player . She may (and yes, reality doesn't always work this way I'll concede) end up getting a raise or avoiding a layoff.

Having your coworkers like you is a good thing.

Just to give you all a sense of scale, the Millineum Falcon would have to be 24 times faster to reach it!

You don't see how stopping traffic to let people through isn't a huge difference?

Because I don't want to hit one.

Yes, they do.

Nobody said 'causeless'. I can't believe the ignorance you're displaying here! Are you over-zealously defending your point or are you really so inexperienced at life that you don't understand this topic? I really hope it's the former.

Because the number of accidents is an integer and not a boolean.

Oh that's classic, man. Hahaha. Do you see the world 'preventable' all over the article you sent me? Think about it.

It means he wants a +3 Insightful next to his post.

No, I'm saying that mixing cars and bikes on the same road is dangerous.

What?

Of course it does. You wish it to be true, so you tried to find something that'd support that statement. I know a guy that believes aliens are skimming our planet and all of these reports of 'UFO activity" indicate to him that they're here. Same thing.

Projecting.

That's a funny way to ask "What do you mean?" Or were you trying to distract from just how stupid that statement really was? Clarify, please?

Ahhhh now we've reduced the scope to just the people in the cars! That's sneaky, dude. (The statement's still untrue.) That's actually worse than claiming what I see on a daily basis doesn't actually happen then denying cyclists are 'stupid ping pongs', too. I think you're starting to see that I'm right.

The answer is within your previous post. If that's not enough, then I'd like to know why life hasn't taught you this already. Have you not had a driver's license for very long? Are you still living with your parents and haven't been out in the real world for very long? Do you have a medical condition and all you know about life you get from reading the Internet? I just want to understand why you don't understand the phrase 'shit happens' before I spend any amount of time explaining to you what the word 'accident' means.

" And it was a bike in a bike lane riding past stopped cars who were in the adjacent car lanes who were stopped because of traffic. The jealousy of car drivers is insane, I agree, but I've not seen any car driver that didn't exhibit that trait."

You didn't let me down. The best bit was when you accused me of lying! It really is hard to take your comments too seriously when you expressly live in denial of 'shit happens'.

That's not true. Everybody I know doesn't do that.

"I don't see it, so it never happens anywhere."

That is a different statement from the one you used. That's also not a complete understanding of my point. If you could tell the difference between the two statements, you'd understand my view a lot better.

Wrong. A crosswalk is not a bike lane. A crosswalk, for example, stops traffic for the safety of pedestrians. The rest of the time, they walk on sidewalks. There's a reason for it!

You are so busy justifying your personal opinion that you haven't stopped to even consider anyone else might be right.

It doesn't surprise me at all. Notice you're only (again) speaking of drivers?

Wrong. WRONG. Wrong. Wrong.. Wrongity wrong from Wrongsville, Wrongsylvania. You do understand that collisions are called 'accidents', right? Seriously, this is bar-none one of the stupidest statements I've ever seen on this site and, amazingly, you disproved your own statement in the same post. Seriously dude, you are amazing me again.

I have not, actually. What's funny is the actual point I have been making you have been supporting with your own arguments. Can't wait to read your next work of fan-fiction!

Every day I drive by a flock of bikes not traveling at the same speed. Your statement doesn't apply to just me.

I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying I'm saying .... actually shouldn't you just ask for clarifications my views before ranting about lack of logic? Seriously, half of what you said here is a response to some fictional story you wrote.

No, that is not an argument that I have made. I didn't say anything about pedestrians and my opinion on them wasn't asked. But since we're all being snippy here, I'll just use your debate style, here.

"Apparently you think sidewalks shouldn't exist at all and all roads should just be flat from one end to another. Pedestrians, instead of walking on a raised surface designed specifically to handle their traffic and to offer a level of safety, should just walk in their own lane as explicitly defined by a line painted on the road. They'll be perfectly safe so long as drivers are 100% safe when they drive."

Amazing. I am seriously amazed.

Why is this conversation strictly about law-breakers? The whole point I've been making is that it's dangerous, not that it's dangerous because there are law-breakers. The very nature of it is dangerous for very obvious and observable reasons. You're throwing random stationary objects on the side of the road and the onus is completely on drivers to deal with it . If a city is designed for that, fine! I'd be surprised if even one city in the US was. Even in the area I live in, there are bike lines, and they're crammed with self-righteous dippies who still manage to bunch up traffic and narrowly avoid getting hit.

I'd love to see an instant replay of that. You've probably just seen an insane person, but I'm curious if you were seeing somebody violate traffic rules and not realize it. I've watched bicycle riders ride in between cars and become a hazard. I've seen them run red lights or stop signs because they don't give a shit about traffic rules. I've watched them ride in bike lines but cause a massive bunchup because they ride very close to the inner line and ... wobbly. A bunch of cars have to drift into the other lane to go around them because a.) The cyclist is going too slow and b.) They're worried he's going to fall on his side and get his head run over. In the US it's not very difficult to get a driver's license, and there are lots of dumb drivers out there as a result of it... and riding a bicycle on a road doesn't even have that minimum level of exclusivity!

Exactly! If bikes and cars don't cross paths, then the amount of energy, measured in any unit system you like, is ... ZERO! We actually agree on this.

Oh? Can you ride at 40mph? That's impressive, nobody where I live can.

You mean the other cars that the road was designed for.

Ah. I express my opinion and I'm greedy, but when somebody puts themselves in a dangerous situation and blames everybody but themselves.... Mmm hmm.

I'd like to point out two things: 1. The car drivers are the only side being blamed and 2. The actual physics of this discussion have been ignored by everybody who rides a bicycle. When smokers do this, it's cognitive dissonance.

Oh you angelic law abiding bicycle riders, cursed to eternity by the un-ritghteous. You do know that none of us actually want to hurt you, right? It'd be nice to actually see an admission of that, for once.

Doubt it. He said it in the first act instead of the last.