That's nice.

Agent Orange didn't harm people because of the herbicides, which, as black3d has explained, have nothing to do with glyphosate. It was the TCDD dioxin, which was a contaminant resulting from the manufacturing process. The government was in fact warned about this, and they chose to spray it anyway.

The result is that cyclists sometimes effectively take up far more space than a car.

Setting aside the dubious claims there, cyclists aren't even on the road much of the time, and increasingly are using dedicated lane space when they are.

Passenger cars and unladen light pickups do no noticeable damage to the pavement.

Perhaps you live in an area where potholes aren't a real thing. Where i live, once weather has made inroads, passenger cars accelerate road damage rapidly, even on side streets untrafficked by heavy vehicles.

What you are overlooking is that the vast majority of cyclists own cars also. This means they're paying those registration fees right along with you. As for the gas taxes, the amount of gas tax not paid because of cycling is very small, because most cycling trips are short. For trips that require significant gas, most cyclists get in those cars they own.

Meanwhile, when they're not in their cars, cyclists are using up far less space on the road, and causing no damage to the road surface.

This, for the Piranha Brothers, was the turning point.

Too bad. I have one and i rather like it. It has limitations but for the price it is a nice device. Pros: very good battery life, peppy, nice display, some hardware buttons, can sideload apps, comes with a year of Prime (or extension), integrates well with Fire TV Stick. Cons: Amazon app store is missing many useful apps and lags versions, limited Google integration, could really use a back button (the back gesture ends up doing something else about 25% of the time).

Mind you, i got it for only $159 unlocked, and that includes a year of Prime, so effectively $60 for an unlocked smartphone with a decent processor and display is pretty sweet. For $60, it's a fantastic device, really.

Yeah, one that includes use of pesticides.

That is a common misconception. In fact, organic agriculture uses pesticides; it just has a more limited set of pesticides to work with because "synthetic" pesticides are excluded, except when they aren't because they're too practical, cf copper sulfate.

Indeed, and moreover, a lot of foods simply can't be grown locally for much of the year without deploying supplemental lighting and heating, which eat up lots of energy.

There's a reason oranges are grown in California and shipped to New York, rather than creating vast local enclosed greenhouses upstate and heating them year-round: it's way, way cheaper.

This sort of thing makes sense for produce that don't have a long shelf-life and don't require a lot of space to grow, so that an environment can be maintained for them at reasonable cost.

Why don't split keyboards simply duplicate the border columns on both sides? This is the main reason i haven't bothered to buy one.

in those Lincoln commercials.

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I think intermediate CA certificates issued to certificate vendors, ISPs, governments, should all have name constraints so that they can be used to sign only certificates for an appropriate part of the namespace.

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Fair enough—point taken.

Yes, i think that's commonly true, but it's true for pedestrians, runners, and cyclists, alike. I'm saying cyclists aren't second-class crosswalk users in this regard, which i think was implied, if unintentionally, by your earlier post. For legal purposes, they are pedestrians.

Yes, definitely be careful!

Cyclists and pedestrians should use caution at crosswalks. Generally, where cyclists are entitled to use sidewalks, however, they have the same rights as pedestrians on sidewalks and crosswalks, and do not need to yield the right of way any more than pedestrians do, except to actual pedestrians. So, yes, be cautious with speed (runners need to also), but don't accept relegation to second-class status.