[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

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Hit the squirrel, thats dinner.


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Don't let the squirrel run in front of you and cause you to hit a tree.
>
> Ron
>
>
> Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I am so glad I moved to North Carolina right now.  I believe I saw two
> >cows and a squirrel on my way in this morning...
> >
> >
> >--jer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There was a wreck on I-285 that required fire trucks, ambulance and
> >closing down 3 lanes next to the center divider. Of course traffic is
> >backed up for a few miles. As the emergency vehicles are approaching,
> >people were, in general, making NO APPARENT EFFORT to clear a path for
> >the emergency access. I could see the approaching lights and hear the
> >sirens a full 2 minutes before they were finally adjacent to my car.
> >Finally, as they were nearly adjacent, traffic began to ignore the lane
> >markers and spread apart to allow an envelope of open road to appear
> >just ahead of the emergency trucks.
> >>
> >> And then the most blatant example of selfishness I've ever seen
> >occurred. The car behind me had not made a single move to clear the way
> >for the ambulance. From my view, the cell phone call was far more
> >important than the road conditions. So when I was finally able to
> >squeeze left, along with the cars in front and the right side traffic
> >squeezing right, the car behind me took the new hole as an opportunity
> >to jump in front of the traffic that was making room for the ambulance
> >and fire rescue trucks.
> >>
> >> The driver actually impeded the flow of the emergency crew as she
> >finally tried to merge back into traffic but there was no room. So she
> >stopped moving, laid on the horn and looked like she was about to ram a
> >car out of they way when finally some serious other car packing allowed
> >her to clear the way.
> >>
> >> As a species, we are doomed if that mentality continues. I hope the
> >fire truck got her tag and she loses her license. We need to have urban
> >transportation that is not propelled by individual interest. The roads
> >are simply too crowded and people are too distracted to always be safe
> >drivers. We can't force people to be safe but we can remove
> >opportunities for people to be stupid and selfish. I like the idea of
> >being able to get to work/pub/friends/food without needing to sweat the
> >details of driving and still make it in less than 2 hours. I ESPECIALLY
> >want to hit my fav pubs and then get home without endangering anything
> >but my own liver.
> >>
> >> We are close to having the capability but we are light-years from
> >having the social will to make the leap.
> >>
> >> </rant>
> >>
> >> um. duh. The auto2 should have a hardened, real-time Linux system
> >brain.
> >>
> >> --
> >> --
> >> James P. Kinney III
> >>
> >> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
> >gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
> >own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> >> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
> >>
> >> http://electjimkinney.org
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