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Last Second Swerve Prevents Car Accident (7 seconds)

joop says...

>> ^jwray:

This is why I don't pass anybody on 1-lane-per-direction roads.


Vast majority of outback roads are going to be 1 lane. It's not difficult to pass traffic safely, if you're stuck behind a big truck, most will flick their indicator on when it's safe to pull out into the other lane. From the look of the car, it's probably a tourist/hire van. Lots of backpackers pick up those cars in the cities then go traveling about.

Man invents machine to turn Plastic into Oil

joop says...

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^bmacs27:
My guess is that the issue is what would we do with the oil? If we were just going to make plastic with it again, it's probably cheaper to recycle by conventional means. Since we are still making plastic with virgin oil anyway, I see no reason to spend more energy turning plastic back into oil only to spend energy making plastic again. You might as well just melt it and pour it back into a mold.

The plastic, once turned into oil, can be refined in to Gasoline, Diesel, and Kerosene.
Anyway, keep this up, I'm quite enjoying reading this discussion.


But the plastic originally comes from oil... To turn it back into oil requires energy, which is typically the burning of other oil/petroleum products.

You'd surely end up with a net negative outcome from all this.

Man invents machine to turn Plastic into Oil

joop says...

You'd probably be spending more energy to go back to a petroleum product than in their original manufacture, otherwise this would have already been done before. And not by just one bloke.

Washing Machine Self Destructs

Female Snorlax Thinks WoW Is Serious Business

M83 - Safe

Incredible skateboarding by soon-to-be-famous Kilian Martin

Indonesian baby smokes 40 cigarettes a day

Carl Sagan Knows Something Americans Don't

Zen Coding - HTML done better

joop says...

>> ^NordlichReiter:

Sort of deprecated. You can just use a graphical interface, now days, to drag and drop elements.
I never liked that graphical drag and drop bullshit.


Real web developers don't use WYSIWYG/drag and drop IDE's, more hassle than they're worth when you know what you need to build.

This is kinda neat, but tbh, the good IDE's have prediction/completion on elements anyway, it seems like an effort to learn a whole and correctly type a new syntax to describe sets of elements.

High School Teachers Use Laptop Webcams to Spy on Students!

joop says...

monitoring the DESKTOP is one thing, but activating the webcam serves absolutely zero purpose and is a gross invasion of privacy.

"i always like mess with them and take a picture"

what a disgusting perv, that bloke should be castrated immediately.

whatever stance you take, surely everyone agrees it should never be used outside of the school.

Incredible piano recital by blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii

The most ridiculous water transportation device ever devised

joop says...

The thing is compared to a surf board or bike, you can just get back on it then and there and try again. With this you have to drag it all the way back to the pier to start over. Have fun with that.

I can't imagine this working very well in anything but perfectly calm water as well.

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