Has to be April Fool's Day for anyone to think an odd numbered Trek won't suck. OMG Poniez!
Duh, that's why they need to start the sequel right away. They need to get this forthcoming abomination out of the way so that they can cash in on the even numbered awesomeness!
In most cases, the timings HAVE been dinked with.
Call the city and complain. If they tell you to get lost, get out your stopwatch and gather proof and take it to the media.
...If you're in that intersection and it goes yellow, and you see that it's a camera monitored intersection, you'd better either be 1/2 or more the way through the intersection or you'll get the ticket period, even though a human would not have considered it a violation at that point in most cases.
Red light cameras only issue you a ticket if you ENTER the intersection when the light is red. They take two pictures. The first showing you about to enter with the light being red and the second shows that you have actually entered the intersection.
The problem is that the cop gives the alleged offender a criminal citation, and they have due process. The defendant can go to court and have a judge look at the situation, face their accuser, etc. Nobody's camera laws work like that.
Ummmm, if you think you didn't run that red light you can go before a judge and argue that the photo's of you running the red light don't exist. If you wish to face your accuser, that would be the prosecutor. I'm sure that if there is some kind of crazy extenuating circumstance, like you were fleeing from the shotgun toting father who just caught you banging his daughter, the judge and the rest of the courtroom will get a good laugh and they might even give you a reduced fine.
I know this goes against the general
Agreed. Leaving aside the accusations of cheating and underhandedness of the cities, my experience has been that most people who don't like the cameras don't like them because they know that they're the ones who speed or run red lights! They do it because in their minds the rules don't really apply to them. They will seize on any stupid talking point and argue till they're blue in the face because they know that they engage in bad driving behaviour and are now going to be caught.
I'm like you: it's a shame to have to babysit adults.
...They are red light cameras, taking pictures when the yellow light time was shorted below state and or federal times.
A couple of crooks in Italy get busted and suddenly everyones doing it... If you think the yellow has been tampered with, Call your traffic dpt or take it upon yourself to get out your stopwatch and gather proof and call the newspaper!
...if an overwhelming majority of people don't want red light cameras, I'd argue that the government doesn't have a right to use public money to install and operate them, regardless of any supposed benefits....
It's a fair argument, though, I'd hesitate to make it in front of the mothers who've had their children killed by fools running red lights.
In this case though, the cameras create more problems then they solve, which is why they shouldn't have been installed in the first place.
Well, I guess everyone is entitled to their OPINION.
Lenghtening yellow light times has been proven to decrease ALL accident types...
%100 correct!
And the fact it's gone this long without being noticed is even MORE frightening.
It certainly is sobering. Although, when one thinks about it, folks who THINK they know what they're doing are often way more dangerous than than the guy who doesn't have a clue (especially when you got a bunch of them on your hands!) and this is not just true with computers: Imagine all the people who thought they knew what they were doing when they took out that 40y, pay-what-you-want, no-downpayment-necessary mortgage on that 7 bed 7 bath mansion!
The power is cheap and will scale: Many European countries get the majority of their power from it
Many countries have had no choice but to attempt the nuclear route and would rather go another way. Many countries still face massive cost overruns building Nuclear plants. Additionally, where's the accounting for the expense of keeping the growing piles of waste potentially for a million years? Where's the accounting of the CO2 and other environmental damage from the mining and enrichment phase?
We have plenty of nuclear fuel: There won't ever be a nuclear fuel crisis because before we've used the enrichable uranium ore, and then reprocessed and reused all of the nuclear waste in our breeder reactors, the sun will be dead.
If you say so.
It's safe: If the only reason for not going for it is an accident 30 years ago when the technology was in its infancy that's great
the threat of Human error/stupidity/wilful sabotage is alway there. FYI, there are accidents of varying degrees of severity all the time. Besides, the longer we go without a Chernobyl type event the more lulled everybody becomes. Already Alberta is floating the idea of 12 never-built-before reactors to supply the energy to extract Oil from the Tar sands without the sarcophagus because these new plants theoretically can't melt down and darn it if building all those pesky safety features takes time and money.
It's available now: We cannot wait for the perfect power supply. We need to change over now. We've got the fuel, the tech, the experience. All we need is for the public to get their heads out of their asses and learn to accept compromise.
Wind, Solar, Solar Thermal, Geothermal ect. are also ready to go now. Nuclear still carries great risks whether you want to admit it or not.
You cant, and thats the problem with generation systems where you don't control the minute to minute generating capacity yourself. Wind and solar also cannot handle the increase in peak production required during certain events.
Geothermal. Solar Thermal.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
