Comment Re:Simple way to improve intersection safety (Score 1) 499
Sounds like a candidate for a part time signal controlled roundabout then. Only activate the signals at busy times like when there's an event at your arena.
Sounds like a candidate for a part time signal controlled roundabout then. Only activate the signals at busy times like when there's an event at your arena.
Roundabouts.
They also improve traffic flow and eliminate the need for 4-lanes in each direction to store stopped idling cars.
Nut roast is a good substitute for turkey and a lot easier to cook. And no animals were harmed in the making of it.
From TFA:
"These hunting events involve capturing or breeding pigeons in cages, and releasing a large number of birds from cages to immediately be shot or wounded by hunters."
So it's okay to be cruel to animals as long as there are bigger problems in the world? Who are you? Jeffrey Dahmer?
If you eat the animals...that's a pretty damn good reason for killing it.
When was the last time you ate a live animal?
Didn't realise pigeons were a delicacy in Pennsylvania. Quoth TFA:
"These hunting events involve capturing or breeding pigeons in cages, and releasing a large number of birds from cages to immediately be shot or wounded by hunters."
If I thought this was going on on private land or public land I'd still say that there are some sickos out there.
So.....you think OJ didn't do it?
Now now. We want to be very careful what we say about OJ Simpson. After all, he killed his wife and is a very nasty bloke.
Who gives a toss? When I'm reading my non-back-lit ePaper Nook I just touch the screen and the next page in the book appears. When I'm reading my eBook I'm engrossed in what's going on in the story. The last thing I'm interested in is some bells and whistles and crumpled paper sound effects and other distracting shit. Apple can do what they like.
This sounds like a rudimentary version of the robot avatars in the movie Surrogates.
...or in the novel Blue Remembered Earth.
Hope!
Continued Gitmo!
And coming soon: War: Iran! With israel as a special guest (not on the battlefield, you silly. But they'll be there when everybody is dead for the spoils and land)
I know. Would have been so much better if the budget could have been balanced by killing Big Bird, women's body parts became subject to the Christian equivalent of Sharia, defense spending could have been raised way above what the Pentagon wants or the country needs, and relations with the outside world could have been restored to their Bush-era levels.
Most things are worse when the government does it.
Such as road building? Defense? Health? Fire departments?
(Let the flame war begin)
I was a skeptic about e-readers for a while. I thought the Kindle was a bit overpriced when it first came out, I didn't understand why they weren't selling them at a loss to encourage more book sales. I also kinda liked the concept of the printed page and the traditional look and feel of it. But lately my curiosity got the better of me and I got the Kindle app for my phone and was blown away by the convenience of being able to download a book and start reading right away. Then I ended up getting a Nook.
Man, my view of books has changed overnight! I've been reading books at a rate of knots compared to before. It's just so damn convenient to carry this little thing around with an entire library stored in it, and it's way more robust than the printed page in terms of being resistant to dog ears and the like. (I wouldn't like to drop it, but still...) I've taken delight in taking the train to work even though it takes twice as long because it gives me an opportunity to indulge in novels. The convenience of being able to instantly download any book you feel like getting/buying makes the shipping of printed books look like pigeon post. My shelves full of books are now starting to look like my old CD collection: obsolete, wasteful and space-consuming. And the e-ink is very easy on the eye.
Now I'm a believer!
Exactly. No dictator has ever held on to power without some sort of support. Monarchs of old England could never govern without the support of the nobles around the country. Parliament evolved from the talking shops of the royal court, and sufferage gradually increased as time wore on. That's why I roll my eyes every time I hear Americans talking as if they're the only democracy in the world, or as if they invented the concept a century ago. Hell, the English civil war advanced the cause of democracy and put parliament on top centuries before the colonial revolt.
Private polls conducted by the campaign. "Click here to indicate that you voted for Obama." Nothing illegal about it.
... the data crunchers with the help of the spying on Americans and MSM entertainment control were able to figure out exactly how to manipulate many things to achieve the goal of what they were hired to do. To cause the voters to believe they actually voted the way it was said to have.
Fact is voter turnout was the lowest it has been at least as far back as prior to 1948 election perhaps further back.
Obama trailed at roughly under 1 million for most of the tally and then was approx 1.5 million behind Romney in popular vote when declared the winner.
So with less that 50% of eligible voters voting
This was not a sports event!
Given the political bias I have seen on slashdot.... I do expect this to be moderated troll.... But that not like our election voting.... is it?
So what are you saying? A non-voter should count as a Romney voter? Obama lost?
Take your beating like a man, you self-pitying twerp.
Yes, we Americans should get a much more logical political system, like the British. Maybe if we had a House of Lords and a royal family, we'd finally enter the 18th century.
The Queen has a very limited constitutional role that very seldom comes into play. If she did anything outrageous it'd be the end of the monarchy's popularity and the end of the monarchy (the Prime Minister can demand an abdication), so she has to follow the public mood.
The House of Lords can only delay legislation and send it back to the Commons, and its track record of providing corrective feedback and constructive improvements to bills is actually pretty good.
House of Commons Select Committees scrutinize every bit of legislation line-by-line before it can proceed. Is there a similar system in the US Capitol or is it true that most of the people voting on bills in the house don't actually read them?
Members of the British cabinet have to be elected to Parliament, not simply appointed. Nobody gets to be Prime Minister without years of fighting his (or her) way to the front benches, so whoever makes it to the front has a pretty good idea of how the system works by the time they get there.
Since the executive branch is taken from the legislative branch, a government with a decent sized mandate can actually get stuff done. And then of course there's Prime Minister's questions every Wednesday, where the PM gets a good solid grilling. Could you have imagined Dubya surviving for five minutes in a pit like that?
Since the head of state (the monarch) is a different person from the executive leader of the country (the Prime Minister) then people can honour the head of state and be as patriotic as they like while treating their political leaders with utter contempt and ousting them when they put a foot wrong. None of this "don't dare criticise the President in a time of war" nonsense. And if the government really does screw up badly enough then a vote of confidence in the Commons can force an election at any time, no staring at the clock waiting for a 4-year term to finish. And if you do happen to get a decent PM then he (or she) gets to stay in office for as long as the people are content for that government to remain, not be ousted at the end of an arbitrary term limit.
The parliamentary system isn't perfect (what system is?) but it sure as shit has a lot going for it. And since the UK had a female PM before a lot of people on
Carry on.
The system was down for backups from 5am to 10am last Saturday.
