TIL that in Finland, speeding ticket prices are calculated on the percentage of an individual's income. This results in millionaires facing exorbitant fees. One such case occurred in 2002 when a Nokia executive was fined $103,000 for going 45mph in a 30mph zone on his motorbike.

airmandan · 2016-09-19T23:57:40+00:00

This is a side effect of the 70s fuel shortage prompting a nationwide speed limit of 55 which wasn't repealed until the mid-90s. Prior to then, speed limits had been set according to safety. When the national maximum was imposed, municipalities realized they could take in cash busting speeders, and even after the repeal, limits were left absurdly low for this reason. This took place over two or three generations of Americans, so speed limits are no longer associated with "this is really as safe as you can travel on this road" but rather "look out for cops if you go faster than this."

So now our speed limits are paradoxically the minimum acceptable speed on the road (ever get stuck behind a slowpoke and think "at least do the speed limit!"?) and simultaneously the maximum allowable. And we're left with the absurd conflict of not wanting to increase the speed limit because then people might really go too fast for safety, because they're so used to going over the speed limit.

The vast majority of the interstate highway system can be safely navigated in a modern car at 120 MPH. It is largely a series of straightaways. If the patrols didn't have to waste resources setting up speed traps for when the 65 turns into a 55 on a downgrade, they might be able to actually save lives by catching drunks and grandmas doing 32 in the passing lane.

airmandan · 2016-09-19T16:22:04+00:00

I mean it already looks like a buttplug.

airmandan · 2016-09-19T00:27:17+00:00

Because switching to type a number or symbol prompts distinct sounds.

airmandan · 2016-09-18T23:17:52+00:00

My concern with this is that you can now audibly distinguish between what type of key was pressed. This makes it possible to reduce the complexity of a brute-forced password attack by several orders of magnitude simply by eavesdropping the keypresses.

airmandan · 2016-09-18T02:27:01+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately no it doesn't. I also get a "100+ unread modmails" alert on every page load too. I tried disabling the Notifier module but the settings don't save. :(

airmandan · 2016-09-18T00:07:44+00:00

In fact, they should probably switch to VDI and make those guys redundant too.

VDI is many things, but it's not a cost cutting tool.

airmandan · 2016-09-17T21:11:02+00:00

Ah, the aviation industry. You got fired because someone higher up the food chain did a fuckup and managed to point the finger at you.

airmandan · 2016-09-17T21:06:22+00:00

So, I'm getting the release announcement box in the bottom left on every page load in Safari for OS X. Any way to make that stop?

airmandan · 2016-09-17T03:22:02+00:00

Outstanding, thanks! One final question: will it violate the spirit of the project if the melody becomes a harmony and I take over the melody briefly through the fugue? I will of course return to the original melody by the final bars. I have something in mind, but I'll need to deviate from the score as-is to pull it off.

The nutshell is I want the original melody to fugue through the sections of the orchestra, with each section that just completed it joining a sweeping melodic narrative, with the original melody harmonious to it, that ultimately arrives back where it started.

The crowdsourced melody would never be lost, but it would take second seat to my own vision of it during this symphonic crescendo prior to the coda.

airmandan · 2016-09-17T03:02:08+00:00

I'd be happy to take a stab at it. Can you make a MIDI available so I have something to work with?

airmandan · 2016-09-16T21:12:20+00:00

I'm well aware that Warheads are still around, they're just hard to find, especially the extreme ones.

You can find them at CVS, oddly in a CVS-store-brand packaging.

airmandan · 2016-09-16T01:45:24+00:00

Chuckle at what?

airmandan · 2016-09-16T01:18:28+00:00

I know you may have conceptualized this as more of a contemporary pop piece with vocals, but if you re-imagine it in the context of a symphonic orchestra, the end lends itself very well to a fugue handed off from one instrument to the next.

airmandan · 2016-09-16T01:07:09+00:00

You didn't get 20+ phone calls a day. You were the one calling. If you pay your bills by exploiting people, you're a bad person.

airmandan · 2016-09-16T00:27:29+00:00

I was sold a bill of goods and wound up with a quarter million dollars of non-dischargeable private student loans. Debt collection isn't a career, it's not a job, it's fucking terrorism, and the people who do it are fundamentally immoral.

airmandan · 2016-09-15T18:56:09+00:00

Manking bankers even richer by making poor people terrified of their fucking phones isn't an important function in society. It's leeching.

airmandan · 2016-09-15T16:50:32+00:00

forced me to change my clock in time to the time on the schedule

Illegal. Report to the labor board.

airmandan · 2016-09-15T16:39:42+00:00

You ruin people's lives for a living, congratulations, you're a terrible person.

airmandan · 2016-09-15T16:34:23+00:00

That's a stupid question.

airmandan · 2016-09-15T00:00:34+00:00

That's not irony, it's a meme.

airmandan · 2016-09-14T23:40:55+00:00

Homophobic jokes are still homophobic. I'm afraid I've had to remove your comment.

airmandan · 2016-09-14T23:34:07+00:00

I saw one typo: eqperienced. Other than that it was fine.

airmandan · 2016-09-14T20:36:43+00:00

What am I missing?

airmandan · 2016-09-14T20:33:31+00:00

The point of EV is to validate the business is legit, not advertise that you've spent a bunch of money. The labor in the validation most EV issuers do can easily fit into $100 billable.

airmandan · 2016-09-14T20:16:55+00:00

Child support is not a bill, it is a judgment levied against you. Failing to comply with the terms of that judgment is a crime, that's why people get arrested for not paying it.

I don't know what the fuck is going on with that student loan case. That is egregious and I cannot figure any way in which it's legal.

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