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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7-Bx82xwY


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http://videosift.com/video/Bac-Bac-Matting-Fine-Weave-Matting-Rolls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DgtYjjL7tc

I suspect that for some cyclists that's actually part of the appeal.
If they couldn't weave through traffic laughing in the face of death there would be nothing in it for them.

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Cops should be able to kill with impunity? That's a pretty ridiculous statement, which I never said, in fact if I did, please quote me here.

Also, I never said what this cop did was right. But you have this general tendency to weave fanciful flights of hyperbole and ascribe them to me.

I'm only bringing up what I think are some other considerations. Of course, the cop had just a minute to decide, you have...how much time?

Have you ever gone to your local police department and read the daily log? Why don't you go down there and talk to some of these monsters, maybe you can talk some sense into them.

Also, I conceded many moons ago that there are many jobs more dangerous than being a cop. Construction is one job that is. My point was that cops put their lives on the line to protect innocent people, which makes their sacrifice a little more selfless.

i don't expect you to look up to cops, especially since you only observe from the sidelines...where it is nice and safe.

It's how weave always speleld it whair i cum from.

As long as I can be the driver. I'm like a really good driver. I can weave and dodge anything. Peds, cops, crack dealers trying to gank us. Let's do it -- and kill hookers!

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Enoch, I agree with you 100%.

In my defense, I am not defending bad behavior or bad cops. They make the rest of us (the majority) look bad.

All I'm trying to do is bring some light to the subject. I have inside knowledge of how things are. There is another side to every story, which is one of the first thing a cop learns.

But there are a lot of rabid cop-haters out there (or gathered together in a cave and surfing videosift) who will never accept anything I say or try to see it from another perspective.

Bad cops are the exception, not the rule, which is my focus in these discussions.

When I say that courts have ruled that cops can lie, it doesn't mean cops go around lying to everyone. It means that during an investigation or investigative stop, you can bluff someone to reveal criminal behavior. The courts will certainly let you know that lying in court will result in your termination, the loss of your pension, your whole career.

I agree with you that cops should be held to a higher standard. I don't like fat cops, rude cops, aggressive cops. My favorite co-workers are those with a good sense of humor, self-deprecation and a common-sense perspective.

But whenever I make a comment on here, people just weave these incredible fabrications of corruption and accusation...eventually I think, fuck it, what a waste of time.

Then I take a break and I try it again. What a fool I am!

I'm thinking maybe that tickets for moving violations on motorcycles should be stricter. If you're determined to consistently drive well above the speed of traffic, weaving around cars, you probably shouldn't have a motorcycle license.

Though they're certainly a minority amongst motorcycle riders generally, I still regularly see quite a few people (typically younger dudebros) driving in a way that makes a gruesome accident a statistical inevitability regardless of their skill level (that they likely overestimate, to make things worse).

I'm assuming this guy is the Prime Example of someone who should never have children. Not only is he off base with much of this, just the plain fact that these are the thoughts he has, labels him as someone not fit to mentor children.

And yes, I understand that much of this is shock, trolling and tongue-in-cheek humor but he is weaving some personal insights and bias in there as well.

Ok, i think i'll take your advice this time round I've not even read his reply so i think i'll not even bother.

At the moment, i'm sceptical that he's even got that qualification if that's what he's said. Even in a basket weaving subject, i'd expect a better ability to reason and identify bad sources from good. Sadly, because of subjects like that, we have a lot of highly qualified idiots who have been encouraged to speak their mind like experts.

I think your efforts are commendable, but doomed to fail. Trance is not interested in learning, and when you teach him something he can't find a crazed, wrong link to discount your knowledge with, he'll simply ignore it and move on to more and more infantile argument. He recently became my second ignore.
I am glad you called him out on his doctorate in underwater basket weaving, unfortunately for us all it does not help him understand science in the least, or the scientific method, but somehow convinces him that it does.
EDIT: Oh, "doctorate in Social 'science'", which he must mistakenly believe is a true science and not a misnomer.
I see he continues with his intentional miss-reading and/or miss-quoting, claiming you said purely consensus is the ONLY way science progresses, not that it's the way that progression is accepted by the scientific community. Me thinks this miss-understanding is an intentional miss-statement in order to continue his 'debate' by constantly changing either his own, or your stance on the subject.
I also noted the passive aggressive (and terrible English) statement " the manner in which I posted the links may not have been "fair," ", to me implying you just couldn't assimilate that much information, not conceding that it was all an attempt at an overwhelming avalanche of BS propaganda.
Kudos on your reasoned, patient approach. I ran out of patience with the kindergarten argument style and quit him.

My initial reaction was why not weave to the left side, I figure crashing into gravel is certainly better than between two sets of semi wheels. But its hard to notice how fast he may have been traveling and how little turning power he had with his current decelleration

The rider was going excessive speeds, weaving through traffic, and not paying attention to the conditions ahead of him. There were lots of bad decisions leading up to lane-splitting between semi trailers.

He didn't do a very good emergency stop, he should probably take a safety course... but those also tell you to look further ahead and not do most of the crap he was doing.

Ok, I'll bite. So, if carbon fiber is black, then why is this weaving a white textile...???