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Brazen Bull. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull EDIT: I'm not picky. Let the murderers choose their own fate from this list: http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/

No, Al Gore was right... y'see he argues that global warming is not *just* warming, it's erratic temp fluctuations... So, when it's warm they can blame global warming, when it's cold they can blame global warming, and when it's in the middle they'll say it's between temperatures extremes.. and blame global warming.

Ok, winter, you've had your fun, now FUCK OFF. Up to 6" of snow predicted sunday night here. IT'S SPRING BREAK for fuck's sake.

I'm waiting for someone to produce a helmet with gopro guts inside it so we people can record rides/races/$1.85 without an external camera.

Cliffs: A camera and screen is not a viable substitute for a rear-view mirror for anything other than parking. There is a reason that car companies don't use cameras/screens in place of mirrors on any vehicle that could have a mirror... Semis, garbage tucks, RVS all use backup cameras, but those camera don't replace mirrors for driving. I have tried using cameras in place of mirrors. Doesn't work. The resolution is nowhere near good enough. My car has a custom backup camera that give me a horizontal view (not a 45deg downwards view like factory backup cameras) and I have it hooked up to a 7" screen in my dashboard. I've toyed with the idea of removing my rearview mirror to give me better forward visibility and rely on the rear-facing camera instead. It worked ok-ish for cars that are closer that 20', but further back and they're just little indistinct blobs. The problem is the way the human eye works. We have a sparse coverage of rods and cones through the backs of our eyes resulting in low resolution over the entire visual area except for the very center, where there is a massive cluster of tightly packed rods/cones, directly where you are focusing. That is why you cannot read a word that is even just 3" away fro the word you are focusing on - your peripheral vision - anything outside a 2" circle directly in front of you, is indistinct and only allows you to see blurry colors, shapes and movement. The thing that makes up for this is the fact that we can turns our eyes on whatever we want to in a heartbeat, and focus within a second or two. Static cameras don't have this ability - rather than having a area of low resolution overall and an area of high resolution in the middle, they have an single overall area of medium resolution. You eyes can move from object to object on the screen, but you will never get the high resolution that the center of your eyes are used to unless you use a lens that zooms in to the object that you want to look at. In order to achieve this, though, you lose the wide angle. You'd have to choose between a zoom lens that can show you what kind of car is 100' behind you but lose view of everything else other than that one car, or a wide angle view so you can see everything behind you but not have the ability to identify cars more than 20' behind you. And forget reading plates on that car until it's within about 10', at which point the fisheye effect distorts the car into a bubble shape. A mirror does not change the resolution that your eyes can see at - you can see the overall wide angle view at a glance, or choose to look more closely at an individual car or other object on the road. If the mirror is flat then your visual acuity rearwards is the same as forwards. You can read a license plate off a car behind you at the same range as a car in front of you, or pick out cars in the distance that are closing in quickly. These things would not be visible on a camera/screen setup until they got much closer. In order to replace the mirror in your car with a camera and screen the camera will need to display a wide angle HD image on the screen, detect what area of the screen you are looking at and have a separate camera zoom in on there and superimpose a 2" circle of HD resolution but zoomed in on the screen at that point. This would very closely mimic the operation of the human eye. That technology is not too far away, but is not here yet. Holy crap this turned out to be long.

Yes, based on a true story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam#Mount_Washington.2C_Kentucky.2C_incident

They have suspects. If they have the right suspects then give them the death penalty. /thread

This is me when someone is blocking the left lane in front of me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0cJBEMiN1c Accent is right too.

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Barry White! Hahahaha!

The title will have to be assigned in series to each of buyers since the dealership. They will all have to pay their taxes. Are they willing to do that? Probably not. I'd walk away. You'd be the 3rd owner of a 2011 bike? What's wrong with it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXLBuAj90E

http://kotaku.com/5991695/these-computer-graphics-are-so-incredible-its-kind-of-creepy

Just being a brat...

Wreckless driving is black&white. Driving without wrecking is something we should all strive for. Reckless driving, on the other hand, is a judgement call.

250mph would be more believable without the 130G turns.

I agree in concept with graduated licensing, but the biggest problem is that you'll be driving faster alongside entry-level drivers who are apt to change lanes without looking. Now, if you have dedicated high-speed lanes, like a HOV lane but with a 100mph limit, then maybe. Get caught using the high-speed lane without a high-speed endorsement on your license and your license gets suspended. Tailgate in the high-speed lane and you lose your high-speed endorsement. Lane-blocking would also be grounds for losing your HS endorsement unless you can justify the slower speed. I wish cars could detect bonehead moves and reduce their speed limiter by 1mph every time you break a driving law and 10mph every time you cut someone off. Keep on driving like a doofus and your car won't go above 35mph. You can earn that back 5mph at a time by driving for 1000 miles with no near-misses.

This is the bike I always wanted to own as a kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyFEcgMYT24

Not every person / car can handle that. Limits have to be set with the idiots in mind.

One company offered to move me to Boston, MA when they closed the Columbus office but their "move package" was actually a $6k expense account that I could submit receipts against. The 6% I'd have to pay the realtor to sell my house would be $18k alone, so $6k was an insult. I started to worry it was one of those cases where they offer you a move to some far-flung location without a move package, and when you refuse to go they call it a resignation so they don't have to pay unemployment. Heard of that happening. Instead, they paid the $6k out in cash if you stayed on until the closure date. I found a new job locally before then and jumped ship. I did check out Boston (Burlignton) and surrounding areas intending to move if they gave me a better move package, but I came up with a number of $45-50k and they refused. I figured $20k house sales expenses, flights to/from Boston and car rental for apartment hunting, overlap between ohio mortgage and boston apartment rental, closing costs on new mortgage, etc. My problem is my family is established in a house here and my wife earns almost as much as I do so she'd be leaving her job too. In the end it was too risky even if they gave us a good move package. Buddy of mine requested permission to work from home permanently so he could move to another state to be with his son while he was at college. They agreed, he sold his house here bought one in the new state. The first email he got when he logged on for his first day WFH in his new house was the announcement of a management change, and the new manager was rescinding all WFH. Company told him to report to the office the next day or quit. He flew back, stayed in a hotel long enough to find a new job in the new state then told the old crew to pound sand.

Saw on comment "People do 70-80 when the limit is 65, so when the limit is 70 they'll do 90-100!" The speed limit change won't affect me. I go at the speed I feel is the best compromise between traffic flow and safety - and that speed is different day-to-day, road-to-road and even moment-to-moment.

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Cops are like dogs - you run, they chase. It's in their psyche (and training). If you run from a cop expect to be chased down and cuffed while the figure out why. That is how it is the world over. Was he arrested or just detained? Handcuffs doesn't necessarily mean arrest. The "I'm about to ruin your day" comment was not called for, and is an unlawful threat of force/action against someone who has not broken any laws (that I can see). If the police felt his jump was legally actionable then take action - the filming is irrelevant. I'm not clear on what action they could take though. I'm sure they'd have every legal right to prevent the jump in the first place, or to stop any future jumps (tactical reasons - running at a cop without permission is a great way to get shot) but once the jump is over I'm not sure what actions could be taken as I don't believe any laws were broken. Tell him not to do it again as his rapid approach could have been mistaken for an assault. The footage is his and not illegal, as evidenced by the fact it was returned.

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I have one brother who is a police sergeant and another who is a paramedic. They both got dinged for speeding off-duty - no mercy given at all. Both are trained for high speed pursuit/rescue driving, and both can handle the speed, but both got the full penalty just like everyone else.