You think that's bad, you should see some of the roads in LA. Have you ever seen 5 or 6-street intersections? How about two roads running parallel, yet at one point trading places with each other? Then of course roads that turn from north/south to east/west and even worse once you get to the hills.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
the trading places thing can't happen in this area, because roads virtually never run parallel for more than a mile or so.
North-South to East-West .... yeah, we got that.
poly-intersections: Seven Corners, VA. is a bit bizarre, but it's less a single intersection and more about five acres of tangled intersection mess.
More complicated intersections in DC proper and in a lot of other places around here are handled with traffic circles, which is probably the best solution to a 7-way mess.
Beltways are present in major metropolitans(those goes east west, north-south then east west and north-south again). I am sure not that many people would complaint about that.
Back to the topic, roads should be designed and named to ensure efficient transportation. The Japanese block by block system isn't any more difficult to use. Read a map, not every foot path is named for your convenience, that's why we have coordinates and tech assisted GPS.
You mean roundabouts. Which are actually a bit more common in Europe. They're supposed to be more efficient than 4-way stops, too.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
As long as the traffic "self-regulate," it should be fine however it can creat a zone that some driver frequently get into fender bender. That said, I like roundabouts, a slow roundabouts is better because it works on a first come first serve basis.Originally Posted by Assertn
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They're insanely unfair when some roads are much busier than others though.
When that happens, we often see roundabouts get upgraded to traffic lights so you can actually get out of the smaller streets.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
If this science was true, wouldn't most priests and monks be ultra-aggressive?
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Are you saying that majority of priests and monks doesn't masturbate?
How likely is that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases
Plus what depthcharge said. It doesn't apply to sex, just masturbation.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
I was wondering about the differentiation. Is it ejaculation (via sexual intercourse) that contributes to decreased testosterone or the act of choking the chicken (the mental aspect/shame) that decreases testosterone levels?
One of the tenets of Christianity (probably most major religions) is that masturbation is a sin.
As far as the Catholic pedophiles go, let's not generalize and suggest all men of the cloth are pedos.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Yeah I was wondering that myself. The study doesn't clarify, but seems to make a distinction. The only other study about sexual activity is this Chinese one, that found that after 7 days of abstinence you have a testosterone spike, but after the 8th day it drops back down:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12659241
I wasn't generalizing at all, just pointing out a trend that refutes the notion that a man of the cloth is without sexual desire. To believe that is pretty naive.One of the tenets of Christianity (probably most major religions) is that masturbation is a sin.
As far as the Catholic pedophiles go, let's not generalize and suggest all men of the cloth are pedos.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
I know pro fighters will abstain from sex for weeks in advance of a fight, most likely for the added testosterone. So it's most likely ejaculation period (sex or masturbation).
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
or maybe it's to keep their man-parts from being overly sensitive to sweaty dick-punching.
...that using a mortar and pestle is really, really hard work.
At last, I have completed the processing of the cayenne peppers I have been growing since April. I have a few tablespoons of cayenne powder, and an equal amount of hot pepper flakes (seeds too of course).
The powder tastes amazing. Nice heat, good flavor. I've got plenty of seeds saved for next year.
I learned that commas are actually used as decimal points in some parts of the world. I have always ignored it as some quirk in font conversion.
Last edited by Buffalobiian; Wed, 10-27-2010 at 09:08 PM.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
A comma is always used as the decimal mark over here. A space is used as the thousands separator.
I reckon it might be hard to notice this variation since most publications in English and the English language part of the net tend to stick to the same format (dot as the decimal mark) to keep things understandable, no matter where the person might be from. If you browsed foreign web sites in their own languages, you'd see the differences.
At least you Europeans format dates properly. mm/dd/yyyy
Oh wait...
/me head explodes.
You got that right. The stupid mm/dd/yyyy order is something I never use, not even if the expected recipients were used to it, no matter where I type dates. Because it makes no sense whatsoever. With the decimal mark a dot is just as good as a comma; there's absolutely no difference in logical value. But in that mixed date order I fail to see any reason. It's either dd.mm.year or year.mm.dd (or whatever you use to separate them from each other, a dot is used over here - that variation doesn't really bother me at all). It's either from the smallest unit (day) to the largest (year) or from the largest to the smallest if better by year ordering is required (like in folder names).
We may be one the few countries to use it, but it isn't stupid. It's quite sensible when you think about it.
It's the more common way one verbalizes the date. 02/03/2010 becomes "February 3rd, 2010." The European way is, "The 3rd of February, 2010." It is rarer (and more formalized) to use the latter way in speech.
Likewise. I accidentally bought coffee beans instead of ground coffee so I have to hand grind with a mortar and pestle every morning (until this bag runs out). It's a pain in the ass, and I can't tell the difference in flavor anyway....that using a mortar and pestle is really, really hard work.
At last, I have completed the processing of the cayenne peppers I have been growing since April. I have a few tablespoons of cayenne powder, and an equal amount of hot pepper flakes (seeds too of course).
The powder tastes amazing. Nice heat, good flavor. I've got plenty of seeds saved for next year.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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