I see this crap at least once a week driving home. There's a section of the highway where you're driving south and it merges with an east/west highway. To go east, you must exit on the right (west) side and to go west you must exit on the left (east) side. The signs informing you of the upcoming interchange begin about 2 miles out. At one mile out the highway widens 4 lanes with double white lines dividing the exit lanes. Every time I go through this area, there is always some dumb ass not paying attention, realizing at the last minute that they're in the wrong lane and shooting across 4 lanes of traffic to get to their exit. There's at least one wreck at this spot every week.

>> ^gwiz665:

@NetRunner you may be right, I just think the white line following his hair is suspicious. I doubt he'd really paint himself though, so eh. Big old tan.


Well, hair does block sunlight too...

In other news, I actually got an e-mail from your @ invocation.

@NetRunner you may be right, I just think the white line following his hair is suspicious. I doubt he'd really paint himself though, so eh. Big old tan.

I never said the parked-upon sheet could get stolen, I said it would still have problems with wind since it could just blow up the edges that don't have any car sitting on them. I'm saying the illusion would be broken by the wind, not the wind would blow it away.

I hadn't considered peter venkman.. that's another problem entirely

>> ^dannym3141:

Hmm? You contradicted yourself, how are they gonna steal something that a car is parked upon? You said yourself it has the roady bit. So the car is sat on some 6ft by 10ft sheet of perspex(?) with white lines round the edges - how is that going to blow away or get stolen?
Unless peter venkman appears out of nowhere and whips it from under the car, announcing "The car is still standing!"

>> ^residue:

Just need something sticky or heavy. Unless someone is watching you, I don't think many people would think to try to steal painted lines off the road. Wind is just as much of a problem even with 2 giant sheets unless you manage to park directly on the white lines

Hmm? You contradicted yourself, how are they gonna steal something that a car is parked upon? You said yourself it has the roady bit. So the car is sat on some 6ft by 10ft sheet of perspex(?) with white lines round the edges - how is that going to blow away or get stolen?

Unless peter venkman appears out of nowhere and whips it from under the car, announcing "The car is still standing!"

Just need something sticky or heavy. Unless someone is watching you, I don't think many people would think to try to steal painted lines off the road. Wind is just as much of a problem even with 2 giant sheets unless you manage to park directly on the white lines

>> ^bigbikeman:

Um...wind, or having someone steal it are the first two reasons that immediately spring to mind.
>> ^residue:
Would be a little more efficient to just roll out the white boundaries AFTER you park the car... not sure why you need the road-colored part

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It hasn't been a problem yet. I think the guidelines are clear. There's always somebody that wants to ride the line. White lines. Ticket to ride, white line highway. Tell all your friends they can go my way. Pay your toll, sell your soul. Pound for pound costs more than gold.

er...where was I? Oh yea. So hasn't been much of a problem. Somebody either decided to see how close they could get or they really thought that because it came from a site that we normally post from, that it'd be ok to post. Well, it upset dag, he's the boss let's just call it and move on. If you guys want to make it more of a community decision. You can make a hidden *porn invocation which sends it to discussion, blocks anybody under silver star from seeing it, and allows a discussion to take place, just like everything else. That way, you don't have to worry about new members or non members accidentally stumbling upon it and turning them off to the site while the video is up for debate.

If discussions are too democratic, then you can just deal with it by being the leader of this site. Not every decision you make is going to be loved by everyone, but in the end if you think it's best for YOUR site, then do it.

>> ^jimnms:
>> ^dannym3141:
For me, it made sense: She was blind, so she would only have a vague idea of what the outside world had turned into, anyone with sight would have had more questions still - what's that big metal thing with wheels that moves, what's this smooth surface with white lines on it? It was still fraught with danger from her perspective, and it kept the village confined and intact. Yes they sent a frailer person to get supplies, but that was the risk and sacrifice to keep the village contained.
Made sense to me like i say, but i'm sure you could tear it apart with overanalysis. But i think you could do that with most stuff.

I'm saying, why didn't one of the adults, who knew the truth of the outside world sneak out one night and get the medical supplies? But like I said, that wouldn't have made a very good movie that way. A lot of movies are like that if you stop and think about it after watching them.


Ah, my explanation wasn't thorough enough.

How i figured it, was that they were committed to this idea, most of them wouldn't want to go and the only one who MIGHT want to go is the father of the girl, who was the ultimate leader of the town and i imagine couldn't realistically leave the town for a while and come back and not have everyone be just a little bit suspicious - she might go for her true love, more foolish things have been done in the name of love, but if he demonstrates that even he's too scared to go, then that cements the apparent danger to the knowlessmen.

And let's face it, she wasn't really in much danger, she was a very capable person even being blind, the path through the forest wasn't very difficult (they may not have known about the road, i suppose getting hit by a car could have been a concern), the only difficulty appeared because the mental handicapped guy escaped and chased her.

>> ^dannym3141:
For me, it made sense: She was blind, so she would only have a vague idea of what the outside world had turned into, anyone with sight would have had more questions still - what's that big metal thing with wheels that moves, what's this smooth surface with white lines on it? It was still fraught with danger from her perspective, and it kept the village confined and intact. Yes they sent a frailer person to get supplies, but that was the risk and sacrifice to keep the village contained.
Made sense to me like i say, but i'm sure you could tear it apart with overanalysis. But i think you could do that with most stuff.


I'm saying, why didn't one of the adults, who knew the truth of the outside world sneak out one night and get the medical supplies? But like I said, that wouldn't have made a very good movie that way. A lot of movies are like that if you stop and think about it after watching them.

>> ^jimnms:
>> ^dag:
Am I the only one who actually liked The Village?
I liked The Village while I watched it. Then later after thinking about it, I was like WTF? They knew the monsters weren't real and they sent a fucking blind girl out in the woods to get medical supplies so they could save that guy. If they knew, why didn't one of them just sneak out one night and get it themselves? I guess that wouldn't have made a very good movie that way.


For me, it made sense: She was blind, so she would only have a vague idea of what the outside world had turned into, anyone with sight would have had more questions still - what's that big metal thing with wheels that moves, what's this smooth surface with white lines on it? It was still fraught with danger from her perspective, and it kept the village confined and intact. Yes they sent a frailer person to get supplies, but that was the risk and sacrifice to keep the village contained.

Made sense to me like i say, but i'm sure you could tear it apart with overanalysis. But i think you could do that with most stuff.

To rewind, I actually tried clicking on the guy painting the white line progress bar. It didn't work.

I thought most of what he was doing was pretty safe. around the 7:00 mark he was probably pushing the speed a bit.

Some people call it "white-lining". It's illegal in some states, legal in others. I believe bicycles are always allowed to do it, but then again bicycles aren't allowed on freeways...

This is not half as scary as some of the scooter traffic in Asia. But those countries also design the roads for mixed car/scooter traffic. I think if L.A. did the same, a lot more people would use scooters.

Interesting, and it's true that $100 million is a drop in the bucket, but it's also not even remotely the central proposal from Obama to address the deficit.

To vastly oversimplify, he wants the white line to move left, and the blue line to move right.

To picture what changed between Clinton and Bush, the blue line was to the right of the edge of the table, and Bush moved the blue line left, the white line right, and then added more pennies to the right.

It's a big mess, and every little bit helps.