July 9, 2011 at 2:54 pm
If I would have to stop on a highway (or Autobahn as we call it over here) other than because of a traffic jam, I'd immediately run and jump behind the crash barrier.
There are cars driving at 200mph on the road...
July 9, 2011 at 2:55 pm
I don't have any links to support this, but I remember having read that Naples is second only to Cairo as far as traffic, drivers' attitude and accidents rate.
You just have to drive a few minutes there to realize that it's so or, at least, nearly so.
-- Gianluca Sartori
July 9, 2011 at 4:35 pm
LutzM (7/9/2011)
If I would have to stop on a highway (or Autobahn as we call it over here) other than because of a traffic jam, I'd immediately run and jump behind the crash barrier.There are cars driving at 200mph on the road...
Highway speed limit here is 120 km/h (76mph). At that speed there is little justification for driving into a clearly marked stationary vehicle in broad daylight. If the taxi had been trying to stop or swerve it would be different. Apparently it did neither. Tells me driver was either not paying attention or asleep.
I've before now come around a bend in the highway while travelling at highway speed and found an accident/stationary vehicle/roadworks close enough to be a potential incident. Never hit the obstruction once.
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July 11, 2011 at 3:32 am
ALZDBA (7/9/2011)
General rule of thumb for driving Belgian style: "There's only I and the rest is a bunch of stupid egoists. They must make way."
Nah, Belgian style is more like this:
"My car is bigger than yours, so I have priority here."
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July 11, 2011 at 3:33 am
LutzM (7/9/2011)
If I would have to stop on a highway (or Autobahn as we call it over here) other than because of a traffic jam, I'd immediately run and jump behind the crash barrier.There are cars driving at 200mph on the road...
Those crazy limits in Germany 🙂
I was once driving 180 kilometers an hour (not mph, that would be crazy) there, and still cars passed by me so easily...
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July 11, 2011 at 5:11 am
Koen Verbeeck (7/11/2011)
LutzM (7/9/2011)
If I would have to stop on a highway (or Autobahn as we call it over here) other than because of a traffic jam, I'd immediately run and jump behind the crash barrier.There are cars driving at 200mph on the road...
Those crazy limits in Germany 🙂
I was once driving 180 kilometers an hour (not mph, that would be crazy) there, and still cars passed by me so easily...
event at 180 mph... I wouldn't stay in the left lane!
July 11, 2011 at 5:18 am
Craig Farrell (7/8/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (7/8/2011)
GilaMonster (7/8/2011)
Craig Farrell (7/8/2011)Saturday's article: Why some DBAs are Nincompoops. Sunday's article: Retraction of previous article with editing: Why ALL DBAs are Nincompoops.
Monday's article: Why some clients need to be fired repeatedly, because once is just not enough.
"And the client came back,
the very next day.
Yes, the client came back,
they thought he was a goner.
But the client came back,
He just wouldn't stay aaah-waaaaaaay."
For some reason I keep singing that to myself in the tune of 'The Hat Came Back'.
Actually, the original song is "The Cat Came Back," but it's the same idea.
July 11, 2011 at 6:20 am
SQLkiwi (7/8/2011)
--- never mind ---
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July 11, 2011 at 6:22 am
GSquared (7/11/2011)
SQLkiwi (7/8/2011)
--- never mind ---Neverminding.
You should turn this into an article.
For once you'd get your 25$ worth of work 😀
July 11, 2011 at 2:49 pm
I bet PayPal hates to hear this:
Regions Bank Introduces Personal Pay to Send and Receive Electronic, Person-to-Person Payments
New Payment System, powered by ZashPay(TM) from Fiserv, allows customers to pay friends, family and others using an email address or mobile phone number
But now you can all set up SSC tip jars before Steve gets back! :w00t:
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking
July 11, 2011 at 3:07 pm
mtillman-921105 (7/11/2011)
I bet PayPal hates to hear this:Regions Bank Introduces Personal Pay to Send and Receive Electronic, Person-to-Person Payments
New Payment System, powered by ZashPay(TM) from Fiserv, allows customers to pay friends, family and others using an email address or mobile phone number
But now you can all set up SSC tip jars before Steve gets back! :w00t:
Visa is also venturing down that very same road.
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July 11, 2011 at 3:15 pm
SQLRNNR (7/11/2011)
Visa is also venturing down that very same road.
That's not too surprising. I imagine that banks have looked at PayPal and similar services and raised their eyebrows. It was only a matter of time (and it's about time).
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking
July 11, 2011 at 4:39 pm
mtillman-921105 (7/11/2011)
SQLRNNR (7/11/2011)
Visa is also venturing down that very same road.That's not too surprising. I imagine that banks have looked at PayPal and similar services and raised their eyebrows. It was only a matter of time (and it's about time).
I disagree.
I think that the best banks tend to offer better services, better terms than PayPal, and other services (mostly un-PayPal-like) tend to offer better services than even the best banks for some things.
Both PayPal and most of the banks have provided very much inferior services to the best of the banks and of other non-bank providers for a very long time, as anyone who has had to work in multiple currencies will have observed.
Maybe none of the bsst banks are US based? ?? ???
Tom
July 11, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Tom.Thomson (7/11/2011)
mtillman-921105 (7/11/2011)
SQLRNNR (7/11/2011)
Visa is also venturing down that very same road.That's not too surprising. I imagine that banks have looked at PayPal and similar services and raised their eyebrows. It was only a matter of time (and it's about time).
I disagree.
I think that the best banks tend to offer better services, better terms than PayPal, and other services (mostly un-PayPal-like) tend to offer better services than even the best banks for some things.
Both PayPal and most of the banks have provided very much inferior services to the best of the banks and of other non-bank providers for a very long time, as anyone who has had to work in multiple currencies will have observed.
Maybe none of the bsst banks are US based? ?? ???
I don't know if none of the best banks are US based, but most of the worst banks are US based.
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July 11, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Stefan Krzywicki (7/11/2011)
I don't know if none of the best banks are US based, but most of the worst banks are US based.
Do 'best banks' exist? Seems to me that all of them are evil personified.
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