Off-topic Sidenote: I was nearly turned into roadkill yesterday while out for a run in my neighborhood. There's no sidewalk so I run facing oncoming traffic as far to the side as possible. The jackass driver was playing with his cellphone, and drifting toward the side of the road, right at me, and didn't swerve until the last second. I was within a second of making a dive for the side of the road."

as you are breaking a few laws yourself i strain to find the exclusive right to be angry at the driver....

" Maybe what we need are automatic tire spikes that rise when the light turns red.."

and when someone tries to run it and blows tires and is stuck there blocking the lane and intersection? how does changing the punishment alter the behavior?

" The problem is, there were two lanes, and if I had gone in front of "Mr Nice", I would have gotten clobbered by the car in the other lane that didn't stop!"

it's called pulling into the first lane and then merging over into the other lane... NOT crossing 5 lanes of traffic at once (or even two).

"No, have spikes that stick up and prevent cars from moving until the crosswalk is clear."

malfunctioning equipment or people trying to run the system couldn't possibly cause massive traffic jams everyday in cities across the globe.

go for it!

I was born and raised in california and lived here all my life, i have NEVER had any "traffic engineer" come tell me what the walk/don't walk/blinking/countdown etc means... let alone update me when "they" decide to change such things...

i guess ive lived this long by common intuition, is there supposed to be somewhere people "know" to get all this helpful info? Please don't say local traffic engineer.

"As for the summary (and I presume the FA it was quoted from), cars can't use the number to tell when the light is going red."

I know i have X seconds before i can assume it will go yellow or red, so i speed up accordingly if i can make the intersection with time to spare.

I don't see how it causes more accidents for me to do this as if the number is too low i slow down, enuf time i can speed up a couple of mph and make the crossing.. no one is crossing the intersection im going through...

why not give both as an option, let new users use the ribbon by default, switch to "classic" for old users. eventually the old users will die and you can support ribbon only.

dispersants don't cause massive flesh burns either... so the detergent in your bottle isn't the same as the stuff they pumped out for the BP oil spill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

vanishes? hell no it doesn't, ever run your hand under the fender or body of your car? hell even anywhere near the bottom along the sides after driving for any extended period of time?

that black filth is the rubber you speak of.. it gets washed down drains when people wash their cars...

Whales beaching themselves because they are too ill to continue and don't want to be shark food?

maybe you should have just not married at all, or reproduced since your kid will most likely be a sarcastic drain on life that you seem to be, not to mention unable to relate to you or your new trophy wife, as you will have a 30yr age gap... enjoy that chip on your shoulder now because soon you will be dead and your life's pursuits wasted away by your child.

and maybe update your profile since your website says

Shachar Shemesh
FORMER CEO of Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.

wow, one of your only 6 comments, 4 of which are vitriolically feminist... making a difference are we?

" I usually only get my guff up a few times a year. It sucks but that is my life and I am to blame for my problems. My only recourse is to work harder at making myself try harder."

You should look at it as a hard problem to solve... i found that when faced with something to figure out and eventually able to solve, problems become fascinating to me, and i think this in general is true for all "geeks".

So when it came to girls i did the same thing.. tried over and over, noting my mistakes and improving on them, to the point where i figured out "charming" and when i want to turn it on, comes quite easily to me... this was very satisfying when i finally figured it out and can be one of the most challenging problems "geeks" have to tackle, 3 phase brushless motors are quite easy by comparison...

so get up your guff, debug your last date and compile the next one until you get your program running so efficiently it spawns it's own code ;)

So im going to throw away my mod point on this point but oh well, i can't believe someone thinks this so i want to get some clarification...

"Just because one set of criminals gets off easier than they should, it does not follow that all other criminals should be treated leniently."

If two groups of "criminals" is judged and sentenced according to the damage and harm they have done, and one of them does less harm/damage that the other, it does not follow that the one who did less harm should have a lesser sentence?

OR

justice equals = all criminals should be punished harshly no matter what the severity of the crime, as long as the% of criminals who receive less harsh punishment is relatively low?

OR

Justice = punishment that is mitigated by influence, money, collusion and corruption.

i'm having a hard time following any of these "logical?" conclusions of your reasoning...

"He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive! "