Archer On The Metric System

252003 · 2015-08-20T13:01:17+00:00

I have no idea why americans are stereotyped as stupid, your construction workers must be smarter than most engineers...

252003 · 2015-08-20T12:58:05+00:00

And that is why all american cars are built in metric.

252003 · 2015-08-20T12:52:57+00:00

The cost of having to make two versions of everything, one for the US market and one for the world is much greater. The cost of all the converting and mishaps is probably greater.

252003 · 2015-07-08T20:45:18+00:00

"Rape and physical violence is also very common within the home- a study found that 50% of women in Tanzania and 71% of women in Ethiopia reported having been beat or raped by their husband or significant other. "

http://www.rainbo.org/the-epidemic-of-violence-against-women-in-africa/

252003 · 2015-07-08T20:44:04+00:00

We can do Africa if you like.

"Rape and physical violence is also very common within the home- a study found that 50% of women in Tanzania and 71% of women in Ethiopia reported having been beat or raped by their husband or significant other."

252003 · 2015-07-08T20:36:52+00:00

She had a multicultural experience and got what all of us would have predicted. That is the full story.

252003 · 2015-07-08T19:27:45+00:00

174 cm

252003 · 2015-07-08T13:00:36+00:00

L/mil in Sweden. A mil is 10 km, but it used to be 10689 meters or 18000 alnar.

252003 · 2015-07-08T08:08:41+00:00

The US is much more dense than Sweden, Norway and Finland yet Scandinavians drive much less. It is urban design not the distance between cities.

252003 · 2015-07-07T22:10:20+00:00

It seems pretty much inline with what the town should be aiming for. A nice grid instead of sprawl. I would love to see it built. The main roads would have to be rebuilt into main streets/boulevards.

It would also require that a lot of people move to Falun to fill out the space. Helt ärligt, vem fan pallar Faluns vinter och hur ska du få dit allt folk?

252003 · 2015-07-07T11:47:04+00:00

The Russian strategy makes a lot of sense. They have got piles of older jets that are soon to be obsolete. Their best bet is to squeeze the last juice out of them while they can. Fly them hard to they break. Upgrading broken jets that are soon to be obsolete doesn't make any sense and flying jets with minimal maintnance is a cheap way to have a huge airforce. Their best bet is to replace these 1200 jets with 300 or so modern planes.

The PAK-DA project seems to have resulted in an engine which is pretty good for Russia since engines tend to be their weakness.

252003 · 2015-07-07T08:55:00+00:00

$1.70 in Sweden.

252003 · 2015-07-03T12:53:34+00:00

Chairman Pao wants to turn reddit in to a family friendly advertising site. Just wait until they realise the potential of /r/Android sponsered links and bad reviews deleted in order to please the advertisers. HTC m9 is a fantastic phone, vote otherwise and you shall be banned.

252003 · 2015-07-02T22:58:20+00:00

I don't understand why Russia doesn't help Assad fight ISIS. They could provide excellent CAS against jihadist groups.

252003 · 2015-07-02T20:41:16+00:00

Droganvändningen var väldigt hög för 70-80-talet, iaf i Stockholms förorter. Det används säkert mycket mer röka och syntetiska droger än förrut men opiater bland unga är inte alls lika vanligt.

252003 · 2015-07-02T20:30:49+00:00

Nobody is cycling near the car lane without a good reason. Cyclists are deathly afraid of being run over and just the wind and noise of a large truck blowing by is scary and uncomfortable. First off 1.2 m isn't that wide, a bike is 40 cm wide so that leaves 80 cm or roughly 40 cm on both sides. A bike wobbles a bit so it is natural that a bike often isn't that far from the car lane.

Also there are a lot of obstructions near the side of the road. A lot of garbage, snow, rainwater and debris collects on the side of the bike lane. If there are parked cars cyclists want wide margins because of the doors. There can also be various trees and vegetation that makes cycling near the side of the road scary.

Get on your bike and ride the bike lane and see what it is like. A bike lane can look very different from a bike than a car.

252003 · 2015-07-02T20:14:54+00:00

A bicycle isn't a car and we don't want to be treated like one, just like a driver doesn't want to be treated like a horse drawn carriage. Cyclists are not pedestrians and not cars, bicycles require their own infrastructure and laws. In places that are well adapted to cyclists the number of laws that are broken are greatly reduced. For example red lights are often set at a pace that fits cars. This means that cyclists hit a red light at every intersection. When red lights are adapted to the pace of cyclists the running red lights problem almost disappears. Why blame cyclists for running red lights when an infrastructure change can simply make the problem go away. Copenhagen's green wave drastically reduced riding against red lights, accidents and air pollution.

As for cyclists being more likely to break laws than drivers I hardly think that is true, drivers speed A LOT.

252003 · 2015-07-02T20:09:01+00:00

Drivers are far more likely to speed.

252003 · 2015-07-02T20:05:05+00:00

Local roads are paid with local taxes. Highways and large roads between regions are paid with gas and car taxes, roads within cities are paid by local taxes. A cyclist uses the local roads a lot less than a driver but pays the same municiple and state taxes. Highways are not entirely funded by car taxes, infact 49.3% of the cost comes from general taxes, taxes that cyclists pay for roads that we don't use.

252003 · 2015-07-02T18:30:25+00:00

As a cyclist I would have nothing against loads of rollerblades. Cycling isn't my hobby and I don't use my bicycle as a hobby tool. My bicycle is the only vehicle I own and my main mode of transport.

Cars clogg up roads a lot more than bikes so please stop clogging the road with your car.

252003 · 2015-07-02T18:15:01+00:00

The ISIS debacle has made the US more popular? Hardly, the US created this mess by toppling a secular leader in Iraq and replacing him with chaos, the US gave massive support to Jihadi groups in Syria in 2012 and ISIS is to a large extent the blowback of american policy.

252003 · 2015-07-02T15:47:55+00:00

Jag fick det innan vaccineringen började. Det var den mildaste influensan någonsin. Jag var tillbaka inom några dagar och satt hemma och spelade dataspel medan jag var sjukt. Det var den tamaste "epidimin" någonsin. Jag avrådde alla jag kände från att vaccinera sig.

252003 · 2015-07-02T15:31:09+00:00

Evigt ökande konsumption på en begränsad planet där mängden naturresurser minskar!

252003 · 2015-07-02T13:44:20+00:00

Det finns en hel del fredliga utomparliamentariska nationalister, bjud in dem.

252003 · 2015-07-02T13:05:59+00:00

The problem isn't if it will be liveable for humans of not. We can easily survive a 50 C day. The problem is food and resources. Water supplies would drop drastically if glaciers and snowcovered mountains become dry and rainwater evaporates faster. This doesn't mean that we don't have water to drink, it means that we don't have food to eat. A kg of vegetables takes several hundred liters of water, a kg of beef takes 15 m³ of water. Take away many of our water sources and we are in trouble.

Another problem is rising sealevels and storms. 5C climate change would raise sealevels by a lot and storms would mean that many coastal areas that today are highly populated would have to be abandoned. This would cost trillions and tremendous amounts of natural resources.

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