I like this judge. Seems like sound reasoning to me all around, and the sentencing seems entirely fair.

Can we get this judge to come work in the US? Pretty please?

Sounds like a fun story. Care to share the details?

I never had any problems like that - but I'm sure a good part of that was, being a rural school, the 4 staff who knew anything about computers thought well of me.

I'll take a stab at it and mention... it sounds like you did not learn traditional typing (home row and all that). I do the same thing you do, and I find I can adapt quickly to impairment of any of my fingers without any thought. Those that I know who learned "proper" typing seem to have a harder time with that.

I should mention that typing doesn't really bother my hands at all, though I do get some forearm fatigue after an extended period of typing. What really bothers my hand(s) are mice. I switch hands, but I still end up with fatigue/aches when using the damn things.

(watching myself, I actually noticed that if I stop using my index finger, the "assignments" move over a finger. Meaning my middle finger takes over, and the ring finger picks up the slack).

I almost never use my ring or pinky while typing, on either side.

Just type so that it feels natural to you. Nothing forces you to use any specific fingers.

Because I learned to type in such a "natural" form, instead of learning home rows and specific zones for each finger, I find I can easily adapt to different typing positions and injuries. Eg, if my index finger on either hand had a cut on it, it only takes a few minutes for me to adjust and type at a near full speed without that finger.

While I'm not the -fastest- typer around, I still type pretty damn fast and with little fatigue.

This is insanely cool...

Seriously.

It's moving about 8km/s relatively, with a periapsis of about 27000km. Orbital speed at GEO is about 3km/s. It has a mass of 190000 metric tons.

You should be able to calculate the delta-V from all that.

Not really a problem, here. This is a retinal implant, not a hunk of plastic and metal attached to your face.

Just your standard issue Rick-Roll

Or landscape paperwork.

I'd give you a strange look only because I don't understand how you can tolerate seeing the pixel meshing.

I don't understand why, but why every LCD monitor I've had, when rotated 1/4 turn, suddenly the meshing becomes visible.

... I have to ask, why? Why would someone just decide to remove the video?

I've never understood why cars and the like don't have fuel cut-off mechanisms available to the driver.

The few boats I've been on had - they was a tag/cord you could yank, and when done it would physically block the fuel line.

I could see this as being one of the first things that could be done after a major accident. Yank the handle, chances of a fire shoot right down.

My driving class instructor explicitly called it the parking brake, and explained exactly why. You experience agrees :)

My car has the same wording in it's documentation.

Once I'm past 40mph, simply letting go of the gas causes more deceleration than the handbrake could. "stopping distance will increase greatly" is... an understatement.