Snowrunner

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• Commented on Stealthy anti-whaling powerboat
  I thought for a while that the Sea Sheperd organization is actually doing good, that was mostly based on seeing "Shark Water". After watching the first two seasons of "Whale Wars" though my opinion has completely changed. Yes, one day...
• Commented on Lost paper trail allows borrower to ignore $460,000 mortgage debt
  I think it would help everybody if people would realize that they do not buy a house when they get a Mortgage, they essentially get the right to pay someone else to live in a house that eventually will be...
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  It is "funny", he sort of confirms my observation that people who come out of a "bad" background either: 1. Turn into complete A$$holes, living by the "me me me" meme as if the world owes them for coming from...
• Commented on Appreciation for a forgotten typewriter
  I recently went back to use a typewriter, I found an old Selectric II on Craigslist for $50 and after getting it serviced and the clutch replaced it is now used on a daily basis. The cool thing about it...
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  Definitely a topic worthy of discussion, but there does seem to be a bit of the "Things Used To Be Better" sentiment, which always puts up flags. Not everything was better, but a lot of things were DESIGNED better and...
• Commented on Kodachrome finally taken away
  Kodachrome is a very unusual film. It's black and white film, with three different layers of emulsion, each of which is responsible for a different color. The dyes, I believe, are in the film already, but are only activated when...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @Samsam: Would Takuan and the other anti-gov't regulations folks be happy with an amendment to the law? How about Bicyclists are free not to wear a helmet, so long as the state is completely exempt from paying for any injuries...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @Ansanter The argument for having the right to not wear a helmet is like the argument for not having to wear your seat belt. Actually no. A seatbelt, by and large, works because it has a very limited function in...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @SamSAm Errr... you do realized that you completely ignored what was written in the quote you quoted, right? Actually not at all. They phrase that on purpose rather "confusing". They claim that most people hit the ground at 10 mph...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @MICHIEL Re: falling, try being a bike messenger: you'll see. A busy city is quite difficult to get through at high speed, since most people don't actually watch where they're going. When I was in my early 20s I did...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @GREGLONDON Just so you know, your nutjob conspiracy theories? They're not working on me. "Nutjob Conspiracy Theories"? Come again? Where's my conspiracy here? a.) I am wrong, Bike Helmets and Motorcycle Helmets are tested by the same standard. b.) I...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @GREGLONDON You know what medics call motorcyclists without a helmet? Organ donor. That's funny. As the majority of motorcycle accidents happen within the city at speeds below 50kph I wonder why a bike helmet is so differently constructed and rated?...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @TDAWWG But this small increase is dwarfed by the many lives that are saved by bicycle helmets. Science and statistics, not ideology, please. The problem with those statistics is though that they aren't really all that accurate. Or rather, it...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @Michael If I hadn't been wearing a helmet every single time, I'd have had concussions so bad I wouldn't be able to tell up from down by now. Huh? I quote the helmet advocates and I the one with the...
• Commented on Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets
  @Apoxia I'll go out on a limb to say that every time I see a rider without a helmet I consider them to be ignorant and an idiot. Although helmets under certain circumstances can be useful for the majority of...
• Favorited Bike helmets that look like hats on Boing Boing
• Commented on Carbs kill cells that regulate appetite
  Why does it get time on BB? Cory was (is?) a fan of Atkins, guess that's why it's on here. This one popped up in my Twitter feed and just reading the headline I knew who'd posted it....
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  @69 On the other hand, Snowrunner is arguing explicitly that wearing helmets does not improve safety. That, I believe, is what has people (myself included) riled up. I wouldn't want others to base their personal decisions on his unchallenged opinions...
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  I think you're misunderstanding (and possibly misrepresenting) the scientific method, in much the same way that the Intelligent Design camp presents Darwinism as just a "theory," and hence not well established: presenting a tested hypothesis as "guesswork" and reducing the...
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  @50 Done a long time ago, figured once I am gone I have no use of the parts anymore. @58 I see two problems with this: 1. The Study was done back in 89, the helmets have changed quite a...
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  Seamusandrewmuprhy, I do ride lots, I had close calls too, but I am always riding under the assumption that every one out there is out to get me. The helmet may be a "last defense", but against a truck or...
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  And a last clarification here, my objection to the usefulness of helmets is limited to bike helmets in the context of riding a bike. Not about helmets in general, nor do I think that other modes of transport (e.g. inline...
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  @29, I had a few concussions, one was when I sat up on an incline chest press and hit my head at the bar, the other one was in a car accident where my head hit the B-Pillar and knocked...
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  @28 Ipsivey, I did not come across those, but I would like to notice: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety states that "helmet use has been estimated to reduce head injury risk by 85 percent," They are guessing. I have...
• Commented on Bike helmets that look like hats
  BC has a province wide helmet law and they can ticket you for $39 if you don't wear one. IMO this law is utterly retarded, the way most crashes happen a bike helmet is of limited use, a full (motorcycle...
• Commented on Perineum-crushing bike seats give cycle cops "penile numbness" and erectile dysfunction
  As others have pointed out, the bike fit is probably more of an issue than the sattle itself. I have several bikes and easily can put a few hundred km on it in a week and aren't aware of any...
• Commented on Grand Theft Are You Fcking Kidding Me
  Here's a post from Feministing about prostitution. The comments are more substantive than the post, but most commenters take an unbiased approach, along the lines of "it's screwed up as it exists, could it exist in a non-screwed up way?"...
• Commented on Grand Theft Are You Fcking Kidding Me
  So what do you have to say about the cause? Or was that just a way of silencing critics. Because, when you say that people should talk about the cause rather than the symptoms, and then you don't talk about...
• Commented on Grand Theft Are You Fcking Kidding Me
  @87 Then there's the feminists (myself included) who want to see an honest discussion of the violence toward women in the game and what the social implications of that are. Sorry, but this discussion is simply barking up the wrong...
• Commented on Engagement ring floats away
  And now his girlfriend apparently won't talk to him until he gets another ring. Sounds like he got off cheap....