TEMM - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Speed Limits Change (Score 1) 859

by TEMM on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @02:22PM (#28028845) Attached to: Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices

Well see the thing is, and I am going to argue this from a completely legal perspective, if no one could drive OVER the speed limit, no one would have to pass anyone going AT the speed limit. I recall from my Drivers Ed years ago that passing a car in a passing zone was only legal if you didn't have to break the posted speed limit to accomplish the pass. If the car you are passing is going the speed limit you have NO legal reason to need to pass that vehicle. If the car is traveling enough below the speed limit to pass them without breaking the speed limit for a long enough period for the proposed limiter to kick in and reduce your speed to the posted limit. All that being said I think that speed limits are posted much lower than they need to be. But we do have to take into account that driving a car is not a right, and as such if you don't follow the rules put forth by governments you deserve to lose the your ability to drive.

Comment Re:City Dwellwers (Score 1) 511

by TEMM on Saturday January 19, 2008 @04:20PM (#22111480) Attached to: Cloverfield Discussion

Monster Movies are always in places that are hard to escape. Manhattan is the perfect example: once the man made structures like bridges and tunnels are blocked you have no way off besides trying to swim or finding a boat. Its kind of like being locked in a room with no doors or windows with something terrifying, only instead of a room its a whole city.

Blue Ring Around Uranus 269

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday April 08, 2006 @05:17PM from the too-many-hours-looking-through-a-telescope dept.

ZedNaught writes "The BBC is reporting that 'astronomers have discovered that the planet Uranus has a blue ring - only the second found in the Solar System. Like the blue ring of Saturn, it probably owes its existence to an accompanying small moon.' According to the April issue of Science, the blue ring is one of two new outer rings recently discovered around Uranus using the infrared Keck adaptive optics system. The rings are blue and red like Saturn's E and G rings. The blue ring around Saturn hosts the moon Enceladus while the Uranus ring contains the moon Mab."

It's Official Dell Acquired Alienware 361

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 22, 2006 @09:09PM from the you're-going-to-love-the-new-alien-kid dept.

robyn217 writes "Dell just confirmed today that it had acquired boutique PC vendor Alienware. Alienware's Nelson Gonzalez said that his company will continue on with its own brand, design, sales and marketing, and support, though, so Alienware isn't going anywhere just yet. Gonzalez also said that Alienware PCs would not carry a Dell logo, and that he would report directly to Jim Schneider, Dell's chief financial officer. "I think that you'll find it very hard to find the Dell name on the [Alienware] web site," he said." The rumor is now fact.

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