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Yep, in Belgium you get: http://imgur.com/7qAwh I'm surprised - I wonder if it's the same thing in other EU countries?
The Netherlands as well.
Then I believe Luxembourg blocks it, too...
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There is implicit context in every argument, which I made explicit in my previous comment. Arguing over the scope of the discussion instead of the substance is counterproductive to arriving at a meaningful conclusion. I bet you were loads of fun in your high school debate class.
You said, in this reply ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528076 ): >Example 2: a small town declares with pride that all streets controlled by the city finally have limits of 35MPH or slower, even though there are several roads capable of much higher speeds. Other relevat comments that set the discussion: >Or so simple as speeding when you drive? There are many laws which do not function as they should. and >By…
My other comment was in response to your assertion that speed limits are set by engineers. It was a simple proof by counterexample. I don't see a point coming out of all this, so I'll most likely withdraw from the discussion now.
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My God, this is entirely, entirely, wrong. When you speed, you're JUST as culpable of killing someone whether you actually kill them or not. This is an old ethics issue: you can imagine two scenarios, both of which you do exactly the same actions: speeding down a road. The difference is that in one of them, a pedestrian doesn't see you bearing down on him, and you kill him. The pedestrian may or may not be there, but…
I think you missed the entire point of the discussion. Where speed limits are set arbitrarily or cannot be set at a consistently appropriate level, there is no moral consequence of exceeding them. Thought experiment: A geriatric, possible senile driver runs his car into a traffic barrier at 5mph on a busy road. In my infinite wisdom I declare that 5mph is clearly too fast for geriatric, possible senile old men and se…
It's a waste of time. My suspicion is that we're arguing with a bunch of folks who spend a lot of time riding buses, and/or who don't even hold drivers' licenses.
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I can't speak for everyone, but when the US gov or the MPAA DDOS's a website they disagree with, I'm not angry because what they are doing is illegal, I'm angry about the hypocrisy in declaring something to be both legally and morally wrong, except when it serves their purposes.
When have they done that?
Repeatedly over the years. Media defender advertised DDOSing websites as a service to IP groups.
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Shit happens. Speeding makes it much worse when it does. Statistics repeatedly fail to bear out your assertion. Promised increases in death rates that accompany increased highway speed limits essentially never materialize. Modeling drivers as ideal gas particles whose collision rate is proportional to speed is simply wrong.
When in a hole, stop digging. > Statistics repeatedly fail to bear out your assertion. Except they don't: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1108.p... More interestingly: http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/157220.aspx I'll leave off the usual pedestrian fatality statistics here, because you seem not to be interested in that, and it's shooting fish in a barrel. > Promised increases in death rates that a…
When in a hole, stop digging.
Always good advice.
When the speed limit went up on
four stretches of road between Nephi and
Cedar City, accidents went down by 20 percent,
according to the three-year study by UDOT.