You *could*, but that would just be pedantic, I mean nobody's ever been killed by a USB cable ;)

...or keep the laptop plugged in when you're just sitting on the couch instead of wearing out the battery.

Hey, we should talk about the availability of power outlets on the couch!! Where's the Ask Slashdot button?

I don't know if I'd put money on that assertion...

Sexes and races can't be on the same footing because my religion says they aren't and my religion has equal footing with your sex, race, and religion.

I strongly disagree. It doesn't matter what job you do, if you do it with extreme competence, I will have the utmost respect.

Eh, to be able to claim you were arrested for stealing your own identity? Totally worth it.

Oh yeah, forgot to include "return to sender"...

Y'know, I've gotten mail for past tenants. Every time I just write in "No longer resident" on the front and put it in the outgoing mail. It goes away and stops showing up pretty quick.

Also, your sandwich is under that ACM subscription renewal you've been ignoring for the last two weeks, along with your spare keys. You should really just get that form filled out.

Nailed it.

Cars change all the time. The limiting factor has been and always will be that the "average driver" is still just an average driver. On top of that, many of these roads with these slow speed limits GP complains about are not significantly changed in that time. Good driver in a new car with the road to themselves? Sure go nuts. Average driver in a regular car surrounded by more average drivers? God damn, slow that guy down!

And killing me is *way* worse than killing anybody else!

What it comes down to is observing what the signals do on your commute and use it as a guide - but you certainly can't make assumptions on how they work in other towns.

To the tailgater it makes you a jerk. To everybody else it makes you less likely to cause an accident. Thanks!

While the effect is the same, the reason big rigs leave gaps is because it takes them much longer to change speed. I can't quite fathom what goes on in the heads of folks who cut off big rigs in traffic... I always leave a gap for a couple of reasons:

- I'm often on a motorbike, and if I don't leave a gap, cars will oftentimes confuse *me* for a gap.
- It's far less stressful to give up that minute or so of driving time to not be constantly worried that somebody might *gasp* get ahead of me
- If I need to change lanes, it's far easier and less invasive to accelerate in my gap to get into a spot in another lane than it is to slow down.

No, this is what we call "armchair driving." We all know half of /. never leaves the basement.

You're right, it's just too bad that they have to deal with it at all.