Stop or roll for emergency responder?
Friday, July 03, 2009
Allow me to set a scenario: You're driving down a 2 lane street (one lane each direction). The speed limit is 25 MPH. There is no on-coming traffic, but there is a cop car rapidly approaching from behind, lights and sirens. Do you get as far over as you can and stop or slow down to 10 MPH so that you're still moving as the cop to passes you?
Yesterday, outside my workplace, 3 drivers within 100 yards of each other chose the latter. Apparently, it was so important that all 3 get to their destination ASAP that they could be bothered to stop for the cop responding to a call.
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coyote1284

changes
Friday, February 22, 2008
The social disruption that we see today is certainly not the
result of mere chance. It can only be a result fo the conditions of
life that the system imposes on people. (We have argued that the most
important of these conditions is disruption of the power process.) If
the systems succeeds in imposing sufficient control over human
behavior to assure itw own survival, a new watershed in human history
will have passed. Whereas formerly the limits of human endurance have
imposed limits on the development of societies (as we explained in
paragraphs 143, 144), industrial-technological society will be able to
pass those limits by modifying human beings, whether by psychological
methods or biological methods or both. In the future, social systems
will not be adjusted to suit the needs of human beings. Instead, human
being will be adjusted to suit the needs of the system.
[27] 152. Generally speaking, technological control over human
behavior will probably not be introduced with a totalitarian intention
or even through a conscious desire to restrict human freedom. [28]
Each new step in the assertion of control over the human mind will be
taken as a rational response to a problem that faces society, such as
curing alcoholism, reducing the crime rate or inducing young people to
study science and engineering. In many cases, there will be
humanitarian justification. For example, when a psychiatrist
prescribes an anti-depressant for a depressed patient, he is clearly
doing that individual a favor. It would be inhumane to withhold the
drug from someone who needs it. When parents send their children to
Sylvan Learning Centers to have them manipulated into becoming
enthusiastic about their studies, they do so from concern for their
children's welfare. It may be that some of these parents wish that one
didn't have to have specialized training to get a job and that their
kid didn't have to be brainwashed into becoming a computer nerd. But
what can they do? They can't change society, and their child may be
unemployable if he doesn't have certain skills. So they send him to
Sylvan.
153. Thus control over human behavior will be introduced not by a
calculated decision of the authorities but through a process of social
evolution (RAPID evolution, however). The process will be impossible
to resist, because each advance, considered by itself, will appear to
be beneficial, or at least the evil involved in making the advance
will appear to be beneficial, or at least the evil involved in making
the advance will seem to be less than that which would result from not
making it (see paragraph 127). Propaganda for example is used for many
good purposes, such as discouraging child abuse or race hatred. [14]
Sex education is obviously useful, yet the effect of sex education (to
the extent that it is successful) is to take the shaping of sexual
attitudes away from the family and put it into the hands of the state
as represented by the public school system.
154. Suppose a biological trait is discovered that increases the
likelihood that a child will grow up to be a criminal and suppose some
sort of gene therapy can remove this trait. [29] Of course most
parents whose children possess the trait will have them undergo the
therapy. It would be inhumane to do otherwise, since the child would
probably have a miserable life if he grew up to be a criminal. But
many or most primitive societies have a low crime rate in comparison
with that of our society, even though they have neither high-tech
methods of child-rearing nor harsh systems of punishment. Since there
is no reason to suppose that more modern men than primitive men have
innate predatory tendencies, the high crime rate of our society must
be due to the pressures that modern conditions put on people, to which
many cannot or will not adjust. Thus a treatment designed to remove
potential criminal tendencies is at least in part a way of
re-engineering people so that they suit the requirements of the
system.
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jiminj

Strange
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
As I was running this morning, a white Honda SUV entered a parking lot through a driveway while I was still in it, and hit my arm. Taking a bit of stock, I found myself uninjured, so I kept running.
The gentleman stopped his car, sped out of the parking lot drove the wrong way down the street to find me still running, where he stopped his car next to me. I stopped running (more out of fright than anything).
He said, "You hit my car."
With a bit of incredulity, I said "I hit your car?" I found it unusual that a one-ton SUV would suffer damage at the hand of a 245 lb. jogger.
"Oh yes you did. Don't you ever fucking touch my car."
"Sir, you hit me driving in!"
He started, "I waited for you --"
"You did not! You drove in!" I said.
"-- you'd ... you'd just better watch it! Don't you lay a fucking hand on my car!"
I started to wise up. "Sir, what's your name?" I read the number off his parking permit. "5144?"
He jumped in the car and drove off. I later returned to the parking lot, where, presumably, he is employed somewhere in the building. I walked around his car, and found a luggage tag showing from out the window:
And the rest I will keep for myself guess who would have gotten the ticket?
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jiminj

Slow down in the snow
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
How many of you drive FASTER when it snows. Explain why.
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jiminj

drunks and such
Monday, February 04, 2008
jiminj

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
17th & South Streets, Lincoln Friday afternoon July 13. I was backing an 18 wheeler across 17th to the unloading lift at Sunmart. The store people tell me someone in an SUV was blowing his horn all the time I was backing across the street.
To the SUV driver:
1. I was backing slowly because nobody was stopping traffic for me. Backing any faster could cause an accident because there are always people that try to make it at the last second. It's difficult to back much faster when you have to get within 3 to 5 inches of the store wall in order to be square with the lift.
2. That's my job! What's your hurry? How many seconds did you lose?
3. I found out Friday 16th Street is now open across South St. Now I can go up the alley, but still will have to pull across 17th Street to square up to the lift, but can wait for a break in the traffic.
4. With the window down I can't hear your wimpy horn with the refrigeration unit running. If I had, I would have stopped to get a good look at the idiot that was blowing his horn.
5. I hope your juvenile display made you feel better. The people in the building across the alley are willing to comfort you and talk to you (the Mental Health Center).
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bob99

Check yourself.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
To the Counciltuckian in the teal Chevy Silverado who was weaving, speeding, tailgating, and behaving like an ass on Sorenson Parkway Tuesday evening, please note that your actions are not only heinous in terms of the safety of others, but particularly dangerous to you, since you're doing all this in 'da hood...and that's not your part of town.
A word to the wise...
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checkyourselfb4uwreckyourself

20-B046
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
This lady was speeding down HYW 75 from Cass county to Sarpy county. Tailgating, not paying attention. She almost ran in to me and the car in front of me. IF YOU SEE HER STAY AWAY and CALL 911. Get her off the road
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qapla

PLT 389
Friday, December 29, 2006
This Red Dodge Ram that is seen on Superior street at 33rd every morning is a mental unstable driver. I do know his first name is Scott. It comes from Airpark every day so be aware of this dangerous driver.
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jiminj

stolen plates
Thursday, December 28, 2006
day before xmas eve at my apartment complex my plates were stolen and had to get new one. Police werent on duty to take my report so I had to drive around with no plates for the entire weekend and finally on Tuesday several days after I reported the incident they finally called to take my report.
They were supposed to get back to me in 36 hours but apartently there was a donut and bagel coffe sale going on during that time.
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buunymom
