What's needed is something like that Terms of Service did not read, with easy bullet points telling you just how evil this app is, sure ToS and privacy policies aren't exactly the same thing. This was discussed on slashdot last week.
Apparently the full quote goes like this:
I joke often about how, if I were in power, I’d employ police marksmen to sit on motorway bridges picking off people who drive too slowly -- Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame)
If I was in power I would post laser dolphins targeting the ones who go to fast. Strange that no one has thought of that, oh wait...
Sorry no such law over here, I'm free to cycle in the car lane. I think it's an extremely dangerous law and I will fight hard not to get it over here for many reasons.
But also I'm not sure I want to share a road with you, you sound very aggressive and seem to think that you can decide when it's convenient for me to give room. You have no idea what it happening on my bike right now, so I think you should calm down... Well unless I'm going around in circles and giving you the finger, then maybe you can road rage me.
There's also the theory that the more cyclists on the road, the lower the accident *rate* (absolute numbers may go up) because car drivers are just more used to seeing them. Holland has probably the highest rate of regular cycling, probably the lowest rate of helmet wearing, and probably the lowest cycle accident rate.
A well maintained bicycle infrastructure may have had something to do with it. In Stockholm the amount of cyclist doubled, but the cycle network went from almost zero to ok (not as in the Netherlands), but the number of accidents are at the same level..
Most (near)accidents i have been in are bike-bike collisions because we ride them like mad men over here. As a matter of fact i'd suggest helmets for pedestrians over bicyclists.
The Australians solved it even better and recommended Car helments. Didn't take off...
Do you cycle much? For Commute? The article is about how there's a correlation between forcing helmets on cyclist and the attractiveness of cycling.
Around here ~70% of daily cycle commuters do use helmets so many people think like you, but on the other hand you are complete wrong about car the dangers of cycling is more about road conditions than cars (20% of reported cycle accidents here in Sweden involve cars).
mountain biking, 2 broken helmets, 3 bones, many many cm of skin lost.
Nice... I'm guessing you guys wear other protective gear as well?
Sadly most bicycle accidents only involve one person and are caused by bad roads and bad conditions. Single accidents here in Sweden were 70% of all accidents and just 20% involved some kind of car. Basically what might seem dangerous, city traffic, usually isn't, it can be hard to get used to the stress of a crowded street but it's very safe. What is dangerous are those bike paths that seem lovely and then just end abruptly because of bad maintenance.
Agreed, from what I've heard 12 years is old enough to have road sense and balance, over here you are mandated by law to have a helmet until you are 15.
I'm guessing it's not possible to require companies to have UK presence, given laws in EU. Even if it was allowed I must say it seems like a pretty feeble goal to set as well, there are always work around if you got money.
On Gnome 2 i.e. Ubuntu 10.04 you can not use alt-tab while dragging something, this is a fundamental design error in metacity. It's apparently fixed in Ubuntu/Fedora etc see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135056 I don't know when it was fixed.
Thank you for being more specific, sadly that $500M is still abstract, e.g. Wikipedia does the calculation "cost of the whole shuttle program/launches = $1.5 billion" So probably not off by that much as you say.
To put the cost of manned space travel into perspective, a single shuttle launch cost enough to completely fund about 1,500 PhDs to completion, or to fund about 200 DARPA advanced research projects. And that's just to get the ship into orbit, not counting the costs of the equipment for the mission, the training, the ground personnel, and so on.
Tell me more... While interesting factoids, do you think you might be off by an order of magnitude there, or maybe two? I'm just objecting to arbitrary numbers being thrown around it's like saying Columbus voyage could have been used to fund 1,500 people to be scholars instead..
I really have no facts on the subject but please watch: It Does Take a Rocket Scientist! Why Mars is Hard.
Apparently the guy posted a Youtube video stating "I'm armed and dangerous, and I will shoot to kill police officers if they try to take me out"..
I did some calculations on this a while back, and buying a moderatly cheap used car (~15000 USD) would cost me about 750 USD per month calculated over 10 years (if sold at an ok price).
So instead I bought a Cargo bike [wikipedia.org], it's fun fun fun. But I guess SF is abit more hilly..
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