* discuss with yourself the dynamics of bored children breaking rules with ad-hom?? Please? Getting tired of suffering the childish shit man-You're talking license and so is chicco-Tired of it. How about slowing-down and contributing more than simply booorish spit-pop? I know my own may seem that way to you and a few others but I make each and every comment here with a view to consciousness and not just hearing myself speak. I also like to write. Your own gremlin-ism? Of another flavor. Sophomoric, strained, waxing a tad unclever.

World's strongest man is usually well touted as such, seems like it's always on TV more or less, the heats are very big. Savickas is usually in WSM, but they don't often do world records - at least when it's televised here - because they don't want to strain or overdo anything during a succession of strength competitions, they want to be as strong as possible to just beat the competition in the next one!

From the time signature of the last few strains at 100mph, sounds like you'd need to be doing maybe 150 for it to sound like a proper WT Overture. Poor design or California's most insidious speed-trap?

@Payback-That's utterly insane and predictable of the most extreme versions of Californians. Who in fuck would complain if not a total prick? If you'll notice on that stretch, hardly any homes or businesses. Can almost guarantee that whomever the complainants were they're the types that willfully and consistently, fuck-up their own wet dreams.

And it seems so is what you say, false that is...
From what I've seen, the argument that 'golden rice' cures vitamin A deficiency is false. There's simply not enough vitamin A in it. It is useful as a supplement, as are many other things less dangerous to the food supply.
Yes, it is distributed to farmers for free, at first. Then, once other varieties are no longer available, they begin charging for it, and suing anyone that doesn't pay to grow their crop (the only one left to grow). Is that a difficult concept to understand? It's the same business plan crack, meth, and heroin dealers use, get you hooked for free, then charge you once you're hooked. They certainly did that with their corn.
She did not claim they do not produce higher yields, she said the science that claims they do is only produced by the companies that benefit. Those are different claims. When only the one benefiting from positive results does the science, it's not trustworthy, ever.
If 'golden rice' replaces the other multiple strains of non-gmo rice because it offers SOME vitamin A, then there's a disease that kills all 'golden rice' (as always happens when variety is homogenized for profit and convenience) then what? There's NO rice for anyone. That's what's happening with chickpeas, the staple food for a HUGE portion of the population. One strain was adopted for profit and convenience, and it's now failing world wide. Wild chickpeas, incredibly hard to find now, offer the only solution to the failing commercial chickpea, and it may be far too late. If we lose rice too, we'll lose a large portion of the population of the planet. Now, with that possible outcome, is it worth it to experiment with GMO rice and exclude other strains? (those who grow GMO rice are usually forced to grow ONLY GMO strains to 'avoid cross contamination'.)
Most vocal activists are NOT science deniers, they are people pushing for legitimate, responsible science where the populace is not the guinea pig for corporate experiments. That is NOT responsible science.
Most of what this girl advocates is labeling, which can not be legitimately argued against. Like others said, if GMO's were good, they would WANT you to know they're in there. If they could PROVE it was good, they would. The science isn't in on long term effects, or on short term collateral unintended effects, so the products should not be for sale, certainly not without a label warning those using it that they are experimental and unproven. At least that's how I see it.

The roads have a capacity.
~15 feet per car.

100 feet of road will fit about 6 or 7 cars, bumper to bumper.
Alternatively, 100 cars will require 1500 feet of distance to fit.

If a driver keeps 30 feet in front of him, at all times, even when stopped in traffic, then that takes the total per-car size up to 45 feet.
100 feet of road now fits 2 cars.
100 cars now require 4500 feet of distance to fit.

The greater the distance kept between cars, the bigger the strain on road capacity, and the farther back the traffic jam will stretch.



Traffic jams in massive commuter areas do not exist because people are driving too close.

They exist because the rate of people entering the highway exceeds the rate of people exiting the highway, for a long enough duration that the highway 'runs out of room' to fit the cars.

You can widen the roads to increase capacity, so the traffic jam doesn't go as far back.
You can increase highway speed limits, so that people can attempt to 'evacuate' the highway faster.

(Travel-capacity in terms of cars-per-second of any given section of road, is 'cars-per-second-per-lane x number-of-lanes'. Increasing either factor will improve travel.)

...But you can't eliminate the jam.

The rate of 'highway exit' is determined by the number of exits, and the capacity of the exit roads to absorb traffic from the highway.

When people exit from a highway, they usually go into local traffic, and are met by a light within 100 feet.
Between the lights, and other cars looking for parking spots, pedestrians, etc, local traffic is a dog.

Highway traffic can't diffuse out of the exits fast enough, and the traffic backs up on the exit ramps, and then backs up onto the highway. Once the traffic backs up onto the highway, exiting traffic consumes a lane for queuing, which forms a choke.


Basically, to avoid a jam, the rate of people entering the highway can not exceed the maximum possible rate of people exiting and diffusing into the destination city.

Because 'everyone goes to work at once', and local traffic is not geared to rapidly absorb exiting traffic, the jams are unavoidable.

Driving with a massive space in front, refusing to fill in the gap, only uses up the highway's buffering capacity more quickly.
That leads to the 'complete' jam happening sooner, where traffic is queued all the way from the destination, all down the highway, and onto the feeder roads miles away, blocking local traffic elsewhere.




IMO, if people really care abut stopping traffic jams, they should put a commuter parking lot at every exit at major commuter areas.

When you exit off of the highway, you would immediately wind your way through a parking lot, and at the other end of the lot you would exit into local traffic.

The parking lot acts as a buffer, allowing the highway exit lane to not get backed up, and prevents the queue from building up onto the highway.

That way the traffic on the highway can travel without chokes.

Although, this would just move the "parking lot" occurring on the highway, into a literal parking lot. You'd still be stuck waiting a while, as the rate of people exiting the parking lot into local traffic would still be limited by the rate at which local traffic can absorb the highway traffic.

Basically, to have literally no waiting, the city streets absorbing exiting highway traffic need the same uninterrupted cumulative bandwidth as the highway.

In the end, if you want to fix highway traffic jams, fix city streets.




You can make the argument that keeping more space in front will make people more comfortable with driving faster, and traffic will move faster.
But, that faster moving traffic will merely more quickly arrive at the same clogged exit, and queue with the same other cars waiting to get onto the local roads.

-scheherazade

Well maybe my skepticism is allayed somewhat. It seems they've got some guidance software to help with reversing. According to Volvo's site:

When reversing:
Perfect control without strain.
...

Furthermore, if you need to reverse long distances, here’s something new. The course stability is so great that you can reverse a truck and trailer more than a hundred metres without drifting off course.

Harrison Ford sounds... old. Seriously old. His deep timbre was instantly recognizable in the past. Maybe strained his voice? Getting over a cold?

Very very cool, but it seems to me that the structural integrity seems to be compromised at the back/seat joint. He uses quite massive blocks for the two. Sure its good for a sitting or two, but the strain of many seatings.. those small plugs, even combined with the armchair rest will not be massive, to say the least. I would have chosen cutout thick spikes in the back (Think of the back part with as a massive E, like "IIIIE" all in one part, with the spikes of the E going through three square holes in the seat.

Because nobody really cares about voting up or down OR, it's some unilateral criteria vs. concept dysfunction, gotta be one of the two.

I thought this offering profoundly dull and the listless strains left me uninspired yet voted it up for the obvious appreciation derived from it by its submitter.....It's yer basic golden rule scenario intrinsic in every healthy sentient and central in every world religion or operational societal precept. Humans being.

If it's true that separate people can design things which are similar, then we're done. Your point is invalid. Your analogy about 747s is irrelevant, but even if it wasn't, it still isn't an accurate analogy since two 747s are the exact same design. We're talking about similar designs, and there are many, many airplanes that have a design that's similar to a 747.

Evolution, though, isn't a designer. It's just a word we use to describe a process. That process results in some life looking similar to other life, which isn't surprising considering that many of the environments that have life are similar.

Your assertion about the hummingbird wing being independently developed straining credulity and probability is just a bare assertion. Similar things have happened many times. I don't understand why it's surprising that species in a similar environment would development similar solutions to similar problems. To say that they were designed by a force that you don't understand isn't reasonable. It's not even an explanation.

It's true that separate people can design things which are similar, however, let us say that you saw two 747s flying on different continents..would you assume that they were separately designed?

According to your beliefs, as some have pointed out, the hummingbird and hummingmoth were designed by the evolutionary process, so the observation would hold true; a common design does indicate a common designer. You may believe that designer is evolution, and the miracle of the hummingbird wing was independently developed in the hummingmoth, but that strains credulity and probability. It is more reasonable to believe that they were intelligently designed.

It would not be correct to say that I assume that there is a design. I know there is a design because I know there is a God.

It's not an assumption, it's an argument. And your anecdotal experiences are just that...anecdotal and do nothing to disprove it.

I'm just looking out for you is all. Four posts in over three years of being here. Half your posts are in this sift alone. Just don't you want to strain yourself. Your main account is probably a bit more broken in.

Watched the whole roast and the best segment came from Jeff Ross, who had the entire panel of comedians in-stitches with short, well-timed quips and a comfortable, un-strained delivery. Samberg's schtick was crude, overworked, manic, tiresome and dull....oh, and unnecessarily long, not unlike most of the tired skits from SNL nowadays.
Lorne Michaels should take him back. Oh. He's there now.....give him a permanent dressing room star then and keep him from polluting any future feature film offerings.

I've always considered his acting uni-dimensional and strained. He has very little depth and is most convincing in a role in which he portrays a desperate douche, which are the only roles he takes or is offered so, the Batman franchise is perfect for him....They should cast his wife Jennifer Garner innit as Elecktra and let Marvel once again, kick DC's ass.

A buddy of mine runs a collective and tries to get the highest CBD on certain strains. He said there's a lot of red tape involved in getting it properly tested and that there are several different CBD types, each targeting a different part of the body.