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Just another example of how driving is getting worse with the introduction of modern technology. "I don't need to worry, as the car will take care of everything".
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A car salesman was trying to flog me a new car and the selling points - "It has lane departure warning that means if you drift towards the outside of your lane an alarm will sound and if you are at risk of a collision the brakes will automatically apply."
My thoughts - anyone who needs this technology is not safe in a car, if you need to depend on lane departure warnings you should definitely not be awarded a driving license.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Impossible. Women are nurturers.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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And the cyclist is more worried about whether their bike is ok.
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A while back an old lady knocked over my parked motorbike doing £700 of damage to it.
She got out of the car, looked at her car and drove off.
Fortunately an eyewitness was present who, outraged at the old lady's behaviour, noted everything down and volunteered as a police witness.
The police quite simply did nothing - Cambridge police, I hasten to add, who struggle at the best of times, probably largely due to under-funding in the UK police force.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 16-Feb-18 3:30am.
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Don't get me started on cyclists. I'm still pissed at some joker on a bike, a few years ago, approach a 4-way stop in the opposite direction from me, signaling his intent to make a left (thus crossing over the opposite lane), but never even slowing down at the stop sign, while I had already come to a full stop for a few seconds and got going again as he was still a few feet away from his stop line.
Then he had the nerve of giving me "that look" when he realized I was taking off as he was getting right in front of me...
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There are two types of people in the world: Those who believe that there are three types of people in the world and those who don't.
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and I am one of them
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I am probably at least 2.75 of them.
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I keep all options open and want to be 3/4 of each of them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Does prepare mean blossom on a fruit tree?
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Only in the world where a premise is a little girl.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Welcome to the internet; where men are men, women are men, and premises are FBI agents.
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OriginalGriff wrote: premises are FBI agents.
I don't recommend using an FBI agent as the basis of an argument (in logic or law), and certainly not as the foundation of a building. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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OriginalGriff wrote: where men are men
In some cases by loose definition.
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I thought Alaska was the place where men are men and the women are too!?!?
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Yup. Just like prefab is when you are too early!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I thought it was before you put your make-up on, dahling!
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I think that's preface
and there is prefix, when the guy tells the girl she is already beautiful hoping she spends less time applying the war paint so they can get going, and less time later taking it off so they can sooner get going at it.
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That is bud one branch of reasoning. Unless you're just pollen our leg, the core issue is the root of the problem.
Puree from my perspective, of course.
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We recently hired a few new people, and one of them has considerable experience in the main third party product we are using. Over lunch, said person asked me about how the product is integrated in to our other services, and I volunteered to show him my little corner of the world, which consists mainly of writing middleware libraries that take requests from the third party app, packages the request for consumption by various web services and responds with the results and/or errors. In return, Marc got some really good knowledge about the third party product which he has never formally received an overview/training in, even though he's been there for over a year.
His manager, upon noticing the 2 hours we spent together (ironically, which when I was stepping through a project with a known bug that I hadn't worked out resulted in figuring out what the bug was), had this to say to the new hire (it's logged in a chat message, which is good):
"Marc works only 3 days a week so his time is very constrained and he eats that stuff up [refering to "integrations"] so he'll probably never tell you that he's too busy."
Let's make the following assumptions:
Marc is a professional with 30+ years experience and can manage his own time.
Marc was in a lull (of which there are many) and had some free time.
Marc has previously demonstrated his ability to cross departmental silos to the benefit of all teams.
Given said manager's direct message to the new hire, what, if anything should Marc do?
Would you take this just as a failed attempt by the manager at humor?
Would you ignore it, keep your head down, and not do anything like this again, even though the company's "employee conduct" manual expressly has Dilbertesque phrases about team building, communication, etc.
Would you write a complaint?
Other?
Thanks ahead of time, I'm actually really bothered by the manager's comment, so looking for advice.
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Marc Clifton wrote: His manager, upon noticing the 2 hours we spent together
His manager ? what about your manager ?
I would simply shrug it off.
Passing technical information between staff is essential in any company.
Max.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I've had this situation once. I told the manager he was wrong. After that, this manager tried to make my life a nightmare for the year-and-half I kept working for the company (always questionning my skills, passive/aggressive remarks during meetings, etc.).
If I would be placed in the same situation, I would react exactly the same way, though.
And I kept contact with the *new* developper, we're now friends and I consider him as a quite skilled one.
I've been told recently the manager has been fired for lack of managerial competences.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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Managers exist to be ignored and circumnavigated. Managers come and go while the workhorses are more or less always the same.
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