Random Thoughts Thread

[darsparx]

Well it just seems that to everyone else I've ever read stuff about that disney gave up on the project. Problem is though there's still that whole legal issue with ripping dvds so i can't make my own toon disney playlist for myself(since usually knowing my luck the minute I do it somehow I'd get in trouble that's usually how it goes...though on that note I'm just going to go ahead and say DXD sucks too, they should've just combined it's content with the regular disney a long time ago instead of having one channel for boys and one for girls especially in the day and age where you'd think there'd be a offended parent group about it). Kinda nice that they're releasing the episodes still on some shows but ehh it'd be nicer if they'd just put them on itunes/amazon/play. Or heck even netflix since I thought they just made a deal with them for movies, why not shows that everyone seems to want to watch?

Kinda seems like if you're not part of that tween demo they don't care what you want to watch, and that only boys want to watch cartoons of any sort with how dxd is...

[Pulsar_t]

[Luke]

Click it or Ticket.

Unless you ride a motorcycle.

Weird how abortion doesn't carry a fine, but if you take off your seat belt a few hundred feet before pulling into your driveway you can get a $250 fine. Apples and oranges, but shouldn't grown adults be able to make the decision if they wear a seat belt or not? Who are you hurting by not wearing one? You can legally conceal a gun in your car, but not wearing a seat belt results in a fine. I don't get it.

[Cronozilla]

Click it or Ticket.

Unless you ride a motorcycle.

Weird how abortion doesn't carry a fine, but if you take off your seat belt a few hundred feet before pulling into your driveway you can get a $250 fine. Apples and oranges, but shouldn't grown adults be able to make the decision if they wear a seat belt or not? Who are you hurting by not wearing one? You can legally conceal a gun in your car, but not wearing a seat belt results in a fine. I don't get it.

I think the primary reason is it's because of the extra cost to the public when someone whom isn't wearing a seat-belt gets into an accident vs someone whom is. As a whole, the number is a lot higher and getting judgments from the court system, or utilizing a hospital without insurance, etc, that all gets paid from public funds. (Thanks in no small part to several organizations working it out that way to their benefit.)

Those are all, also, different situations, and they're not defined by the basis of life is being lost. They're defined in how those decisions can effect others and how your personal rights are defined in regards to those decisions.

Firearms would be a completely different story if it wasn't in the Bill of Rights. It would likely be handled more like the operation of vehicles, which are defined as a privilege and not a right and are heavily regulated. (Because they kill people)

In addition to all of that, not wearing a seat-belt is a really easy way to create revenue for police forces, that have well funded militia programs, but as arms of society are very underfunded. Combine that with white-collar sociopathology that all of corporate America caught a case of, and you have a lot of practices that are going on today.

[stickem]

Seat belt fine here is 10 bucks then 25 each time after. 250? That's ridiculous.

[Luke]

I understand the reasoning and reasons for the law (context), and I'm not going all out libertarian (tone), I simply think a grown adult should be able to make the decision of wearing a seat belt or not.

A few years ago (well more like a decade ago) I was pulled over for not wearing a seat belt, when I was. It was odd. It was if the officer was trying to find something to ticket me for, but luckily he came up empty. I still wonder if I was pulled over because I had a boomin' system.

There's also a saying in the motorcycle circle that "the only reason there are helmet laws is that it keeps the brains in one place". That phrase always reminds me of Sewer Shark when ghost mentions scraping someone off the sewer walls.

Shoot the tubes dogmeat!

[Jmustang1968]

The motorcycle helmet saying is dumb. Yeah, if you go flying 50+ mph into a car or tree or direct head impact, helmet wont save you. However, it will protect you from debris, broken glass, or road rash on face or head if you go sliding.

[marurun]

The motorcycle helmet saying is dumb. Yeah, if you go flying 50+ mph into a car or tree or direct head impact, helmet wont save you. However, it will protect you from debris, broken glass, or road rash on face or head if you go sliding.

Yeah, helmet won't do a lot for highway speed problems, but most accidents happen at lower speeds, where a helmet might actually help. I knew a guy in library school who got into an accident (got cut off in work traffic). Took him over a year to recover enough to go back to work, and then he was clearly still somewhat impaired. It was frustrating because he knew he was not at 100% due to some brain damage. At the same time, the helmet saved his life, and he gets to see his adopted daughter grow up. And he's still able to work and be a provider.

[Luke]

The motorcycle helmet saying is dumb. Yeah, if you go flying 50+ mph into a car or tree or direct head impact, helmet wont save you. However, it will protect you from debris, broken glass, or road rash on face or head if you go sliding.

A lot of motorcycle talk is dumb, I'll give you that (context). But most the cyclists I know would rather die in a bike than in a cage (tone).

I would never ride without a helmet, even be it a hockey helmet.

[Cronozilla]

The motorcycle helmet saying is dumb. Yeah, if you go flying 50+ mph into a car or tree or direct head impact, helmet wont save you. However, it will protect you from debris, broken glass, or road rash on face or head if you go sliding.

Most all safety equipment isn't made to stop the extreme cases, as you're saying here, it's to mitigate the mundane and common ones.

Losing balance on a bike while stopped with a helmet is just annoying, maybe you hurt your wrist or shoulder, without one, though your head could have a hefty collision with the pavement and get a concussion, brain bleeding, or severe swelling. None are good, some can kill you. (Mixed with the current research into concussions being linked to brain diseases like dementia isn't too hot either)

There's been cases where people wearing their seat-belts incorrectly have the connection between the aorta and spinal column severed from a low speed impact.

They're very stupid ways to die.

Blaze of glory death is going to happen with or without a helmet or pretty much any type of safety equipment, that's true, (we don't have inertial dampeners quite yet, sadly) but dumb common BS deaths will absolutely be less likely to occur.