If I'm thinking per annum, then perhaps I'm wrong. You're also wrong assuming it's based on the driving population. The article talks about an American's chances of dying due to the charted reasons. It never says "licensed" or "driving" population. IOW, it's based on the entire population, as are the rest of the listed causes of death.
Read it again yourself.
Happy motoring...
Actually, those fly-by-night 'recyclers' deserve an introduction to local law enforcement, because I'll guarantee any DIY efforts to recover the lead are going to break a few dozen environmental laws - Just for openers, what are they going to do with all the battery acid? Dump it down the sewer? Or the storm drains? Or just on the ground?
And if they burn them, they're going to let loose a ton of polyethylene particulates and acidic gases and lead vapors, and that is NOT going to be a good thing to live downwind from.
That kind of stuff is how Superfund Sites are born - make a quick buck and leave all the cleanup costs to government. Love Canal...
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: I'm saying nothing of the sort. You hinted that there was : a basis for your assertion. I'm asking you to let the other : shoe drop and tell us what that basis is. It wasn't I who : raised the issue; it was you.
You admit at the outset that your intent is to piss me off, and you expect me to play along? You aren't too flipping swift, are ya, spud?
No; I just doubt that you possess it. Why? Because people who have skills of the sort you allude to generally aren't the kind who'd advertise it, or have any need to. It's kinda like how the guys who got the most nookie back in high school were the ones who talked about it the least, you know? They had nothing to prove.
You know what I think? I think you're prattling out your patoot. And from what people have been saying, that's pretty much par for the course for you. Wankers such as yourself are a dime a dozen.
See if you can coax your mommy out from underneath that Republican and get her to show you how to use a text editor.
G'bai.
Geoff
-- "If it rains after a liberal washes his car, they say it's a right-wing dirty trick." -- Ann Coulter
Bye, Goeff.
Back on the weed JSB? BTW, where do you get it from?
I bike around 30 miles most days. That's how I get to work. I'm as careful as they come for the most part, but there are times when I'm forced, usually by cars going to fast and too agressively, to move closer to parked cars than I would like. As much as I try to watch each car as I pass, I'm also concentrating on the road pavement, which matters much more to bikes than cars, and to what the cars on the road are doing.
If I'm going all of 10 mph and someone flings a door open, I'm going to hit it. It is already illegal, at least in New York, to open a door without looking. I have NEVER seen it enforced.
The kid did nothing illegal. The woman did. She should go to jail.
I see your point, but unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world, where we can count on others to do as they should. It's everyone for themselves in the streets, like it or not.
If there *is* a law in place against opening doors without looking around, then I agree that the offender should be prosecuted. If there isn't, good luck. Well, you said it isn't even enforced where it *is* against the law.
Don't misunderstand me, I don't believe the woman in the story is innocent, but from a safety standpoint, I always try to anticipate the very stupidest thing someone will do. Then I prepare accordingly.
Natalie
Hey...by the way, don't forget to try that hard braking experiment I mentioned the other day. This will prevent you from looking silly next time you doubt how much force is at play when a biker hits a car door.
"JoeSpareBedroom" ...
You are just *begging* for the denuding fork.
Natalie
You're afraid to try the experiment and report back here with the HONEST results. :-)
"Geoff Miller" ..
*snipping funny Twitney signature*But I think he (she?) means looking for potholes, rocks, etc.
Face it - you're very vulnerable on a two-wheeled vehicle of any kind.
Natalie
Another goofy post from one of our lefty kook friends ROTFLOL
mike
Another goofy post from one of our lefty kook friends ROTFLOL
mike
Another goofy OT post from one of our lefty kook friends ROTFLOL
mike
Yes. Bicycles and physics are very political topics.
Another goofy OT post from one of our lefty kook friends ROTFLOL
We heard you the first time!
If everybody did that perhaps of our lefty kook friends would take their goofy OT post to another NG.
mike
I'm not sure why anyone would buy something at Wal-Mart and then expect it to be anything other than worthless, quite frankly.
-tom!
I returned one to Canadian Tire once. It took a bit of convincing the manager but I did do it.
The thing was faulty and I ened up buying an Optima from - ironically, Wal Mart while on the road. Given I'd returned a faulty charger the week before I think they were just sick of me and just wanted me out of the store :-)
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