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Overpopulation
""Tēm ShermĒn °_° --"" wrote in message ... The current world population is unsustainable, as evidenced by increasing ecological system breakdowns and natural resource depletion. The hominid population *will* be reduced. The only question is will it be done by reduced birthrates, or by mass disease and starvation? -- debunked alien invasion |
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Bicyclist Fatalities in AZ 2009
"Dan O" wrote in message ... I was walking down the two carpeted steps to the garage yesterday, when my big toe got caught in the other pajama pantleg. Damn! I forgot to put my heljmet on!! (Fortunately, my wife was right there with me, giving me someone to lean on :-) (Actually, with my heljmet on it would strike the doorway to the steps unless I duck down a bit - even in bare feet.) The roads here at this moment are not fit for vehicular travel sans studs. If I do go out for a ride, I *will* wear my heljmet. now I will have to run out and get one thanks for letting me know |
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Bicyclist Fatalities in AZ 2009
"Peter Cole" wrote in message ... On 11/22/2010 7:31 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: And yet, there have been people who have posted here, saying that cycling is obviously dangerous because there are more fatalities per mile for cycling than for riding in a car. At this point, I don't remember exactly who made that argument and whether you were in the discussion. But can I assume, then, that you'd discount any such claim that cycling was more dangerous than motoring? There are also more fatalities per trip. of you'd prefer that. About 3x for cycling and walking vs. motoring, whereas the per mile are roughly 11x & 30x respectively (US). I don't think it makes much of a case for cycling just to compare it to motoring. I consider motoring to not be particularly safe either. We've just come to tolerate the carnage. If there's been any propaganda campaign conducted it's been one that's equated motoring to personal freedom -- that's sacred in the US. compare it to firing employees I m scheduled to pop number two employee on Monday This is the one I am dreading |
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Bicyclist Fatalities in AZ 2009
"Dan O" wrote in message ... I don't really give a flying fig about numbers (except those like dropout spacing). I only know that I was just soaking my paronychia in a Sponge Bob cup of magnesium sulfate while hosing walnut slime off the driveway with the other hand :-) I recently came from a holiday party where the hosts had us play blackjack for real cash after the turkey dinner. We played with Sponge Bob cards. Apparently 6 and 9 look the same under water sink or swim |
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OT - Medical Costs
Per Ala:
I read about this a long time ago and may be misremembering it. I seem to remember that the no call list is actually owned by AT&T and that by adding your name to it you've only given marketers more information about live contacts Not the case in Pennsylvania. Although both state and federal no-call lists seem tb heading for irrelevance in the light of offshore boiler rooms spoofing phone numbers via Skype, Penna's actually had some teeth a few years back. I say this because I even got a check from the Attorney General's office for twenty-some dollars - my share of the settlement in which the prosecuted somebody named in one of my complaints. -- PeteCresswell |
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Bicyclist Fatalities in AZ 2009
On Dec 18, 10:42*pm, RobertH wrote:
Hold on there. There is no evidence that correlates experience with lane position, and no evidence that correlates differences of a few feet in lane position with visibility. http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/...e-positioning/ In the absence of evidence, all you have is the unsupported assertion that a cyclist can change their likelihood of being noticed by an approaching driver "a considerable amount" just by altering their lane position a small amount. I don't buy it, to put it mildly. http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/...gplotchart.jpg There is no evidence to support the core VC assertions about lane position and visibility, and no evidence to justify VC's hypocritical rearward fixation on "dangerous passes." There is however plenty of evidence showing that the visibility-enhancing powers of assertive lane position are highly fallible. Your definition of "no evidence" is different from mine. So, Peter, where do _you_ ride in a 10' lane when an 8.5' truck is approaching from behind? - Frank Krygowski |
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Bicyclist Fatalities in AZ 2009
On Dec 18, 4:56*pm, RobertH wrote:
On Dec 18, 2:37 pm, Frank Krygowski wrote: I think that may be the case with some, including Robert. *That's why I asked the question about being passed by an 8.5' truck in a 10' lane. To my surprise, some people were very resistant to saying they would ride away from the road edge. It Depends. On a narrow twisty road like that described by Jay Beattie, with blind corners, I might be over at the edge to start with. "Timidly" -- hell yeah, in that situation. Interesting. On a road where it's more difficult for the trucker to see you, you make yourself even less visible. Despite the fact that, if it's narrow and twisty, his closing speed will be lower. And if he does accept your invitation to pass, despite oncoming traffic keeping him in the narrow lane? I suppose you use your bike ninja skills to steer super-precisely and never flinch as your left shoulder polishes the truck's right side? - Frank Krygowski |
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Bicyclist Fatalities in AZ 2009
On Dec 18, 10:42*pm, RobertH wrote:
Hold on there. There is...no evidence that correlates differences of a few feet in lane position with visibility. http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/...e-positioning/ In the absence of evidence, all you have is the unsupported assertion that a cyclist can change their likelihood of being noticed by an approaching driver "a considerable amount" just by altering their lane position a small amount. http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/...gplotchart.jpg Your definition of "no evidence" is different from mine. - Frank Krygowski |
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Bicyclist Fatalities in AZ 2009
On Dec 19, 2:15*am, James wrote:
Just imagine you need to move around a hole or debris as they skim passed. *6 inches could be the difference between no problem and clipped handlebars and a nasty fall - or worse. So, when I'm in a narrow lane, I ride close enough to lane center to discourage unsafe passing. They don't "skim passed." If they did move only partially into the next lane and come too close to me as they passed (an extremely rare event) I'd have far more than 6" room to my right to use to my advantage. - Frank Krygowski |
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OT - Medical Costs
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"Ala" wrote: "(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message ... Per Tim McNamara: As Dick Cheney said, deficits don't matter. We live that way in the private sector as well as in the public sector. Once it was apparent that Reagan was successful in pandering to that segment of the electorate, I figured the handwriting was on the wall. Cheney put the cap on it. I would say that people on pensions without a COLA and with, say, 10 years life left in them are doomed to dying in poverty at this point. Maybe people with COLAs too - since the government is, with a straight face, claiming there was almost no inflation this year..... -- President Reagan's son Ron is supposed to be coming out in the near future with a biography that is supposed to have some wow moments about the president http://www.theliberaloc.com/2010/12/...e-mr-moorlach/ You're A Mean One Mr. Moorlach December 16, 2010 By Chris Prevatt "The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will review its annual Strategic Financial Plan. Our county has been doing 10-year fiscal projections since our embarrassing bankruptcy protection filing in 1994. It is an excellent management tool. However, this year it tells us that the County of Orange is going to hit a wall. Why? Because our defined benefit pension plan is demanding ever higher annual contributions." Moorlach goes on with this misleading argument against defined benefit retirement plans. "In the private sector, unsustainable traditional defined-benefit pension plans (employer guarantees benefits) have been frozen and converted to defined-contribution pension plans (the employee contributes and reaps the compounding benefits). Municipalities in California may not have this management tool at their disposal and cannot impose changes to existing pension plans." What Moorlach leaves out is that the change from defined benefit to defined contribution plans in the private sector is due to the fact that most of the industries that offered defined benefit plans, such as manufacturing, have been moved out of the country, where the profits are greater, and responsibilities to their workforce less. The drop in prevelance of defined benefit plans is not due to their sustainability, it is due to corporate greed. Pensions that have failed have done so primarily because the corporations managed to raid their plans of their value According to Milton Friedman, the economic god of conservative politicians, "There is one and only one social responsibility of business*to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." Never mind that deception and fraud are now cherished parts of capitalism these days. Greed rules. -- Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe. |
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