2479 pts ยท January 1, 2014
I have, a few times, managed to somehow push the gear shift into first from neutral without the clutch. I've never managed to do it reproducibly, and every time it instantly stalls the engine. (Granted this because usually when I've done this, it's while parked, so I was getting ready to put it in 1st for parking, have the P-brake pulled, *and* am lead-footing the regular brake.)
It could well have been a temporary/recoverable failure, but at that point, the driver had to commit to runaway ramp (after which it must be towed as circlebreaker mentioned - you definitely cannot just drive out of the runaway ramp even if the vehicle is fully functional), or else risk being a severe hazard to himself and others: note the 45mph warnings and the curve? A 90mph truck probably was going to understeer like hell and probably go careening off the side.
I'm not really sure about the "attacking the magic" thing myself, but I suppose one way to look at it is that with no flesh to cut or organs to pierce, the best way to damage the container of magic is breaking as many of the hard lengths of calcium as quickly as you can. 'Smash it with something big and heavy' may be simple and primitive, but if it isn't the most direct way to break a lot of bones I don't know what is.
On the one hand: yeah. The bus is absolutely unloading (assuming they're still anything like I remember from forever ago, that arm only deploys when the warning lights are activated by the driver AND the door is opened), and if the cops were going to do this they should've had one waiting at the Chevron to grab the van instead. On the other, odds are this is a known problem at this particular stop and the driver has or will warn the kids to watch out for the runners (the van, truck, AND cops).
States vary on when opposite-direction traffic is allowed to proceed past a school bus's STOP arm. Some states require certain number of lanes, some require a physical division (a median or other barrier), and some just don't allow it ever (might be the case for this, if a cop is pulling over the truck). Truckers that go across states definitely should make sure they know.
Example of a state variation: mine only requires that there are at least two lanes in each direction (center turn lane not required) for opposite-direction traffic to not need to stop. Traffic going the same direction must stop no matter how many lanes are between you and the bus.
The atmospheric one is probably most fitting - we see so very few starships in Trek that are even *capable* of going into atmosphere, never mind operating there for extended periods. Voyager was (partly) made to land and survey planets so...
It's possible the "subspace damage" was a secondary effect - quick read on memory alpha was that the primary advantage of the "variable geometry" was to let the engines be more efficient at high warp (higher center for the warp bubble I guess?) but drop to a lower position at impulse (flatter sublight profile? center of thrust position?) or atmospheric (aerodynamics? Not really something that comes to mind with the flying dustpan style UFP uses all the time but sure...).
That's a lot more moving parts than just the moving warp nacelles that Voyager used. And when I see moving parts on a starship I think... that's a great place to aim a photon torpedo!
A few thoughts here: from what I understand I'm not sure what - if anything - about how the deflector works even needs it to actually be out and exposed like it usually is. Even so, Voyager for example had a "secondary deflector" so it's possible this ship has such a one that is used at impulse and the "full beans deflector" is only needed at warp (with the streamlined sublight profile that's not even hard to imagine). That being said: [...]
I've seen this done with pieces of houses every once in a while. Seen TV shows about this concept, even. One thing always gets me. These things always look like they should absolutely need a LOT more truck to carry than what gets used. Maybe I'm just overestimating how heavy a whole-ass building is or underestimating how much one tractor can pull. I see what looks like two, maybe three trucks in this video (maybe one more in the blind corner), but I would have guessed you'd need like... twenty.
As a more technical issue: "trial by absentia" is intentionally very hard to do in this country and I'm not really sure where "being dead and deep underwater" falls on the very small list of reasons it can be done.
(And there are rare cases in some very large cities where the LEFT lane is an off-ramp - there's usually abundant signage warning about this, including express permission for trucks to be in the left lane - to use said exit - where normally they aren't allowed to prevent elephant racing.)
In the US, you would go to the right, and freeway etiquette is "travel in the right, pass in the left" (opposite from left-side countries like UK or Australia). That being said, in urban areas, a lot of times there will be 3 or 4 lanes and right-most 1 or 2 lanes will come and go like extended on/off-ramps. There's benefit to staying out of those and being in the lane that gets to the exit you want as soon as possible to avoid a last-second shift, but otherwise keep the leftmost for passing.
A rather small variant of a Trolley Problem, really. What's interesting is that Starfleet actually *expects* commanding officers to "throw the switch", though usually against much higher stakes (an entire ship full of people) than "the two people who became this one". Source: TNG "Thine Own Self" as Troi is being tested for command ability (sure could've used that in "Disaster" eh?), though I can't immediately think of any "real" situation where a commander had to give such an order on screen.
I think the thing that bugs me most about this episode, beyond the writers just pushing the "Janeway murder" button as a "quick fix status quo for the next episode and never speak of this again" rather than, I dunno, something actually having CONSEQUENCES more than once a season. I don't recall ANYBODY, at any point, advocated for Tuvix. Not one. Even the EMH only paid lip service to medical ethics. Poor guy just never had a chance, honestly.
Could be RNG manipulation? I think there's some involvement there related to how stuff moves on the world map and such. Small time losses in one level like this can lead to huge gains later due to random events going the way the run wants it to.
Instructions not clear, wound up with three seashells. What do I do with them?
There was indeed no term limits besides a sort of "gentlemen's agreement" that lasted until FDR got a 3rd (and 4th) term in the 40s. The 22nd amendment came about 3 years later, pretty much entirely because of that.
"No multiplication" - not quite entirely true. While a lot of these microprocessors didn't have a general multiply (or divide!) instruction, they did have left/right bit shift operators, which doubled as "multiply/divide by a power of 2". It's a *lot* easier to build up general multiply/divide routines from this. Also when you see instances of multiplying/dividing by a power of 2... now you know why.
Okay so. In *theory*, there are certain operations that need you to pass a function (an entire function) to them, which is used as a callback/filter/some other purpose. For C#, the entire LINQ library lives on this, for example. Except. You have lambdas: (x, y) => x == y. Or even just Boolean.Equals . (Not accounting for the inverted logic but that's easy enough to do if it was intentional.)
It's called a "judgement notwithstanding verdict", and in US criminal cases it can only be used to overturn a jury conviction. (Overturning an acquittal violates the defendant's 6th amendment right to trial by jury.)
99% of the time those "third" parties exist for no other purpose than to siphon off votes from one of the two main ones. Why else would they only show up for the POTUS race, and not... I dunno, literally anything else?
Hopefully: nothing and Harris becomes prez as normal. Darkest timeline: 20th amendment covers this: "If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice President-elect shall become President."
One conundrum I (as a day-walker) always wondered about those weekend night shifts. What the fork do you do about those two Sundays a year where the clock gets weird at 2 AM?
... Didn't Riker rather loudly object (and later Troi not quite as loudly) to simulating/using the likenesses of other officers?
The bigger question is how long it takes for said dust to settle. Like, how long would an actual nuclear exchange last? Thirty minutes? Thirty days? What becomes of civilization in the aftermath, especially in light of whatever bullcrap kicked off WW3 to start with? Or you could bunker down for half a year and wait all that crap out.
I have, a few times, managed to somehow push the gear shift into first from neutral without the clutch. I've never managed to do it reproducibly, and every time it instantly stalls the engine. (Granted this because usually when I've done this, it's while parked, so I was getting ready to put it in 1st for parking, have the P-brake pulled, *and* am lead-footing the regular brake.)
It could well have been a temporary/recoverable failure, but at that point, the driver had to commit to runaway ramp (after which it must be towed as circlebreaker mentioned - you definitely cannot just drive out of the runaway ramp even if the vehicle is fully functional), or else risk being a severe hazard to himself and others: note the 45mph warnings and the curve? A 90mph truck probably was going to understeer like hell and probably go careening off the side.
I'm not really sure about the "attacking the magic" thing myself, but I suppose one way to look at it is that with no flesh to cut or organs to pierce, the best way to damage the container of magic is breaking as many of the hard lengths of calcium as quickly as you can. 'Smash it with something big and heavy' may be simple and primitive, but if it isn't the most direct way to break a lot of bones I don't know what is.
On the one hand: yeah. The bus is absolutely unloading (assuming they're still anything like I remember from forever ago, that arm only deploys when the warning lights are activated by the driver AND the door is opened), and if the cops were going to do this they should've had one waiting at the Chevron to grab the van instead. On the other, odds are this is a known problem at this particular stop and the driver has or will warn the kids to watch out for the runners (the van, truck, AND cops).
States vary on when opposite-direction traffic is allowed to proceed past a school bus's STOP arm. Some states require certain number of lanes, some require a physical division (a median or other barrier), and some just don't allow it ever (might be the case for this, if a cop is pulling over the truck). Truckers that go across states definitely should make sure they know.
Example of a state variation: mine only requires that there are at least two lanes in each direction (center turn lane not required) for opposite-direction traffic to not need to stop. Traffic going the same direction must stop no matter how many lanes are between you and the bus.
The atmospheric one is probably most fitting - we see so very few starships in Trek that are even *capable* of going into atmosphere, never mind operating there for extended periods. Voyager was (partly) made to land and survey planets so...
It's possible the "subspace damage" was a secondary effect - quick read on memory alpha was that the primary advantage of the "variable geometry" was to let the engines be more efficient at high warp (higher center for the warp bubble I guess?) but drop to a lower position at impulse (flatter sublight profile? center of thrust position?) or atmospheric (aerodynamics? Not really something that comes to mind with the flying dustpan style UFP uses all the time but sure...).
That's a lot more moving parts than just the moving warp nacelles that Voyager used. And when I see moving parts on a starship I think... that's a great place to aim a photon torpedo!
A few thoughts here: from what I understand I'm not sure what - if anything - about how the deflector works even needs it to actually be out and exposed like it usually is. Even so, Voyager for example had a "secondary deflector" so it's possible this ship has such a one that is used at impulse and the "full beans deflector" is only needed at warp (with the streamlined sublight profile that's not even hard to imagine). That being said: [...]
I've seen this done with pieces of houses every once in a while. Seen TV shows about this concept, even. One thing always gets me. These things always look like they should absolutely need a LOT more truck to carry than what gets used. Maybe I'm just overestimating how heavy a whole-ass building is or underestimating how much one tractor can pull. I see what looks like two, maybe three trucks in this video (maybe one more in the blind corner), but I would have guessed you'd need like... twenty.
As a more technical issue: "trial by absentia" is intentionally very hard to do in this country and I'm not really sure where "being dead and deep underwater" falls on the very small list of reasons it can be done.
(And there are rare cases in some very large cities where the LEFT lane is an off-ramp - there's usually abundant signage warning about this, including express permission for trucks to be in the left lane - to use said exit - where normally they aren't allowed to prevent elephant racing.)
In the US, you would go to the right, and freeway etiquette is "travel in the right, pass in the left" (opposite from left-side countries like UK or Australia). That being said, in urban areas, a lot of times there will be 3 or 4 lanes and right-most 1 or 2 lanes will come and go like extended on/off-ramps. There's benefit to staying out of those and being in the lane that gets to the exit you want as soon as possible to avoid a last-second shift, but otherwise keep the leftmost for passing.
A rather small variant of a Trolley Problem, really. What's interesting is that Starfleet actually *expects* commanding officers to "throw the switch", though usually against much higher stakes (an entire ship full of people) than "the two people who became this one". Source: TNG "Thine Own Self" as Troi is being tested for command ability (sure could've used that in "Disaster" eh?), though I can't immediately think of any "real" situation where a commander had to give such an order on screen.
I think the thing that bugs me most about this episode, beyond the writers just pushing the "Janeway murder" button as a "quick fix status quo for the next episode and never speak of this again" rather than, I dunno, something actually having CONSEQUENCES more than once a season. I don't recall ANYBODY, at any point, advocated for Tuvix. Not one. Even the EMH only paid lip service to medical ethics. Poor guy just never had a chance, honestly.
Could be RNG manipulation? I think there's some involvement there related to how stuff moves on the world map and such. Small time losses in one level like this can lead to huge gains later due to random events going the way the run wants it to.
Instructions not clear, wound up with three seashells. What do I do with them?
There was indeed no term limits besides a sort of "gentlemen's agreement" that lasted until FDR got a 3rd (and 4th) term in the 40s. The 22nd amendment came about 3 years later, pretty much entirely because of that.
"No multiplication" - not quite entirely true. While a lot of these microprocessors didn't have a general multiply (or divide!) instruction, they did have left/right bit shift operators, which doubled as "multiply/divide by a power of 2". It's a *lot* easier to build up general multiply/divide routines from this. Also when you see instances of multiplying/dividing by a power of 2... now you know why.
Okay so. In *theory*, there are certain operations that need you to pass a function (an entire function) to them, which is used as a callback/filter/some other purpose. For C#, the entire LINQ library lives on this, for example. Except. You have lambdas: (x, y) => x == y. Or even just Boolean.Equals . (Not accounting for the inverted logic but that's easy enough to do if it was intentional.)
It's called a "judgement notwithstanding verdict", and in US criminal cases it can only be used to overturn a jury conviction. (Overturning an acquittal violates the defendant's 6th amendment right to trial by jury.)
99% of the time those "third" parties exist for no other purpose than to siphon off votes from one of the two main ones. Why else would they only show up for the POTUS race, and not... I dunno, literally anything else?
Hopefully: nothing and Harris becomes prez as normal. Darkest timeline: 20th amendment covers this: "If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice President-elect shall become President."
One conundrum I (as a day-walker) always wondered about those weekend night shifts. What the fork do you do about those two Sundays a year where the clock gets weird at 2 AM?
... Didn't Riker rather loudly object (and later Troi not quite as loudly) to simulating/using the likenesses of other officers?
The bigger question is how long it takes for said dust to settle. Like, how long would an actual nuclear exchange last? Thirty minutes? Thirty days? What becomes of civilization in the aftermath, especially in light of whatever bullcrap kicked off WW3 to start with? Or you could bunker down for half a year and wait all that crap out.