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i poste the same fucking shit 8 hours ago and NO VOTES, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4525973 WTF?
That's 6am PST.(where silicon valley is) Not a lot of people are up at that time here reading hacker news. Also, the new page tends to get overrun with new items quite quickly and sometimes an article does not get steam. But frankly your tone is not one that many here care for so please refrain. Also, please refrain from meta commentary; it's just noise.
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Care to elaborate? I'm not a driver myself, so I haven't had to experience speed limits first hand. What's the problem with just driving under the posted speed limit?
1. Speed limits are slow and people are impatient. 55 MPH on a highway feels quite pokey in clear conditions when 75 MPH is easily possible with no appreciable loss in safety. And 30 MPH on surface streets is positively crawling. They are designed low knowing that the average user will exceed them, similar to the MPAA's tax on blank recording media where the expectation of violating is built into the product. 2. Blen…
In the city, speed limits are not designed for revenue or assuming most people will exceed them. They are designed because that is the safest speed to drive. They assume several things here:
1. Non-ideal conditions with many traffic lights require slower speed limits.
2. Views are often blocked by building, landscaping etc.
3. There are many types of traffic that do not conform to our "car society" but are still legal users of roads. (bicycles, pedestrians, etc.)
The 55 MPH speed limit was also not a matter of safety, but of energy savings. That's a whole different issue, however.
You can think what you want, but I can assure you that speed limits inside cities are not some sort of conspiracy. It's far more likely that most people feel they are better drivers with quicker reaction times than they actually have.
EDIT: Quick elaboration. There's a saying in architecture, "You design a parking lot for a busy Saturday, not the day after Thanksgiving." Speed limits are a compromise. You likely can go faster often (though like I said, most people are not nearly as good drivers as they think they are), but you must consider the times when you cannot go faster when designing the road (night, rush hour, rain, etc.). Speed limits are designed to find a good compromise. Remember, if this were a conspiracy, you don't have to be speeding to get a ticket, you can be pulled over for "too fast for the conditions".
The thing to remember is that speed limits are not set by politicians, they are set by engineers.
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Or so simple as speeding when you drive? There are many laws which do not function as they should.
Care to elaborate? I'm not a driver myself, so I haven't had to experience speed limits first hand. What's the problem with just driving under the posted speed limit?
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any
government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes
impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
As a young driver, speed limits on open highways -- or simply the idea that an untrained, politically-appointed bureaucrat in Washington, DC has any insight into what's optimal for drivers on I-10 in West Texas -- were my very first encounter with the idea she's referring to.
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A firearm shop will sell you the gun, but they won't pull the trigger for you. What about the torrent applications like uTorrent, Transmission, rTorrent, etc? Are they equally as guilty in your eyes?
This have nothing to do with bittorrent, the bittorrent protocol and torrents came long before people started sharing illegal copies of software. It's a great technology and it's actually meant to make downloads faster.
Without the renegades, Lord knows where we'd be When it comes to heroes, Renegades are mine
They railed against the crown, Another rag tag band Declaring Independence
They laid their bodies down, won a bloody war, And liberty for their descendents
Thanks to the renegades, we're free today
Thanks to the renegades, we're free today
Thank god for the renegades, and the lives they lead Far ahead of their time
Without the renegades, Lord knows where we'd be
When it comes to heroes, Renegades are mine
Where are the renegades in the world today?
Who are the renegades in the world today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgo9aHnqHI
And I am strangely impelled to add this link:
http://pt.scribd.com/doc/3230/Robert-Crumb-The-Religious-Exp...
The Empire Never Ended!
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I disagree. Free software projects like the GNU foundation or the OpenBSD foundation are striving towards freedom. ThePirateBay.se et al are simply filling in on market demand created by the utter absurdity of treating digital data as if it was a can of tomatoes or a bag of crisps.
Sounds great. The big bad record companies can't treat music like a bag of crisps. Neither can independent artists. Neither can Notch, because a game is no more like a bag of crisps than a CD track.
The recent HN post about xx comes to mind. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504851
i poste the same fucking shit 8 hours ago and NO VOTES, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4525973 WTF?
Yes, I cannot believe that those guys are still running. Amazing.
The things that's truly amazing is just how inept the attempts at getting them blocked are. In the UK, the big ISPs initially at least blocked only a single IP, so TPB have changed IPs a few times. Each time to a new IP in the /24 network block registered to them . Why the entire /24 didn't get blocked in the first case is beyond me. Not that it'd have helped given the massive number of proxies, but it doesn't look l…