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stinkwheel wrote: | Walloper wrote: |
I think it very noble of you Stinkwheel to pit your wit against a University Professor on your exam paper in an attempt to pass. What if he is only looking for answers and not conjecture from a smart arse?
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conjecture
1. Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork.
2. A statement, opinion, or conclusion based on guesswork: The commentators made various conjectures about the outcome of the next election.
No, a university professor is never "only looking for answers". They are looking for you to provide reasoned argument to justify a point of view using either your own evidence or valid evidence of others to prove it within accepted scientific method. If you were to indulge in conjecture, you would certainly be marked down.
School teachers are still allowed the indulgance of telling someone "You are wrong" or to call them a "smart arse" because they don't agree with you or because your oppinions deviate from the rote learning laid down in the 'required syllabus'. University exam papers are only marked using ticks, never crosses.
In real life, most accepted 'facts' are far from black and white. The statistics of road traffic accidents in particular are a very muddy grey. Muddied further by external agendas. Scientific technique requires that you challenge and query a hypothesis at every oppertunity. This is the only way to ensure you don't get stuck in a rut with as you put it, conjecture and dogma.
If we didn't do this, the earth would still be flat and at the centre of the universe, god would have made the world in seven days in 4,000BC and Japanese motorcycles would only rev to 6,000rpm. |
You are completely correct in what you write stinkwheel.
But I maintain, we can only live by what we are told or decide through experience.
In some people's experience they learn too late to change their opinion in time.
Crash testing and accident investigation now is more scientific and more accurate than before, or did the performance and safety of modern motor vehicles just sort of happen?
I accept that there is a load of shite around using stats. as reason.
And that round stats can be hammered into square peg holes by smart statisticians.
As can books be fiddled by astute C.A.s
I don't always need a lesson in Eengleesh from my Vet either.
He's paid to digitise my pooch’s rectum and prescribe those 'Wee White Panacea-Like Tablets'
But your tutorage in this is accepted.
I know that there are exceptions to most rules.
Speed does kill.
It is a natural fact.
Look at trees.
They live longer than man does.
Why?
Coz they don't move very fast...
(That was an exceptional argument.) ____________________ W-ireless A-rtificial L-ifeform L-imited to O-bservation P-eacekeeping and E-fficient R-epair |
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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Posted: 23:28 - 16 May 2006 Post subject: |
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Walloper wrote: |
But I maintain, we can only live by what we are told or decide through experience.
In some people's experience they learn too late to change their opinion in time.
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I maintain that you are also foolish to believe everything you are told.
Quote: | I don't always need a lesson in Eengleesh from my Vet either.
He's paid to digitise my pooch’s rectum and prescribe those 'Wee White Panacea-Like Tablets'
But your tutorage in this is accepted. |
I was merely emphasising your use of a word that could be used to support either side of the argument , I'm sure you are fully aware of its meaning. Also worth bearing in mind that whilst I have a vocation, my degree is in science, thus by definition I studied philosophy. I wasn't taught pure facts, I was taught how to determine facts for myself.
Rectums aren't strictly digital in that they don't change state between either 1 or 0. They only have variations of the same state, o, 0 and O. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Posted: 23:51 - 16 May 2006 Post subject: |
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"Ah Grasshopper..." dont no wat thats on about but anyway...
"Only drive at a speed that it is safe to do so
Or in other word a speed that you can safely stop"
You got done for doing 35 in a 30, are you saying this 5mph would have effected your ability to stop THAT significantly???
If you pay more attention to the road around you, i put it to you that a careful rider paying attention at 35 is LESS of an accident risk than one not looking doing 30
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Posted: 23:53 - 16 May 2006 Post subject: Re: Three Points or do a Course |
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Kickstart wrote: | Hi
Seems either you are in max wind up mode, or have been brainwashed.
Walloper wrote: | At 30 you may kill some one if you hit them
At 35-40 you most probably will.
It was clear enuf to me and not really a con trick |
Very big con trick, because it is equating the speed you are travelling at with the impact speed. An aware driver at 35 will be going far slower at the point of impact that the asleep driver doing 30.
Walloper wrote: | All the shite we read about Scam cams is just that
There are strict government rules for camera schemes and one of them is that there needs to be two serious accidents at the location before a site is considered. |
They are routinely ignored and are merely guidelines which they are at liberty to ignore. There are famous fiddles they have done to justify a camera. Such as the suicide on the M4. Or the one on the other side of London where an accident on a bridge over a dual carraigeway was used to justify a camera on the dual carraigeway.
The speed camera sites are meant to be signposted as well. They get round that by putting signposts up everywhere.
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30mph gives an over all stopping distance of 75 feet.
that means: you see, think, react and stop,
within that chain of events you will have decelerated.
(providing the road is dry, in good condition, and the vehicle is road worthy)
Why do people assume that 30 is the speed you would hit someone at? ____________________ W-ireless A-rtificial L-ifeform L-imited to O-bservation P-eacekeeping and E-fficient R-epair |
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bostonshiredemon wrote: | "Ah Grasshopper..." dont no wat thats on about but anyway...
"Only drive at a speed that it is safe to do so
Or in other word a speed that you can safely stop"
You got done for doing 35 in a 30, are you saying this 5mph would have effected your ability to stop THAT significantly???
If you pay more attention to the road around you, i put it to you that a careful rider paying attention at 35 is LESS of an accident risk than one not looking doing 30
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Do the test.
Stand in front of a vehicle stopping from 30mph
and the same distance when stopping from 35mph.
Chicken?
Furthermore:
Surely then if we 'all' were more attentive, accidents would not happen?
The principle is that 'IF' there were to be an 'Accident' your chances of avoiding a fatal or 'life changing' injury are drastically reduced. ____________________ W-ireless A-rtificial L-ifeform L-imited to O-bservation P-eacekeeping and E-fficient R-epair |
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Posted: 00:11 - 17 May 2006 Post subject: |
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Walloper wrote: |
Do the test.
Stand in front of a vehicle stopping from 30mph
and the same distance when stopping from 35mph.
Chicken?
Furthermore:
Surely then if we 'all' were more attentive, accidents would not happen?
The principle is that 'IF' there were to be an 'Accident' your chances of avoiding a fatal or 'life changing' injury are drastically reduced. |
Your test is pointless and proves nothing against my argument, im not argueing that it would take a slightly greater distance to stop at higher speeds, that would be stupid, what I am argueing is that a rider paying attention at 35 has a greater chance of seeing you EARLIER and thus stopping than one not paying attention at 30, brakeing too late and hitting you.
And yes, for your point, i think it is certainly true that if everyone on the roads could anticipate what was about to happen by being more attentive, accidents would not happen regardless of the speed people were going. As i said before, the only way to stop accidents completely however is 2 ways: 1) nobody moves or b) everybody moves at a constant speed, no slowing down ect, both of which are ludicrus.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one lol ____________________ Eat well, Stay fit, Die anyway - By the time u make ends meet, they move the ends |
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Posted: 00:14 - 17 May 2006 Post subject: |
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Hands-up who's actually ever run someone over on a motorcycle (speeding or otherwise).
I did. Hit a lad while braking hard from 30mph. Kid ran out from behind a bus shelter without looking. He was uninjured, I had skinned knees and a buckled wheel.
If I'd been doing 40, he would have run out behind me. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Posted: 00:16 - 17 May 2006 Post subject: |
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On the contrary
I said it 1st.
I could counter almost every valid post you make but I know when the statement falls within the realms of reality.
But I could still pick at it.
But that would serve no purpose.
FYI
I fell off my f*cking bike last week.
My stopping distance was 6 feet.
My big arse was deployed skillfully for that.
I was doing 20 mph.
Only killed my NCD. ____________________ W-ireless A-rtificial L-ifeform L-imited to O-bservation P-eacekeeping and E-fficient R-epair |
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Do you not think that if you want to be a safer rider you would gain more from doing some (more if you have done) advanced training to be give your self a much lower chance of hitting someone in the first place?
Your comments about speed limits not having raised because there's a low experience boy racer driving, blah, blah... So then, it will be fine for me to exceed the speed limit lots as I ride a performance motorcycle with good tyres, don't listen to music and have upgraded brakes, never mind lots of experience braking very hard while racing? .
A stopping 'test' against John's 325i with ABS showed me stopping in almost half the distance. Maybe not the same for his M3, but especially as my bike weighs a lot less and is a lot skinnier, maybe I should go four times as fast to be similarly 'safe'?
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OK Siggi man.
Your rules for your world. ____________________ W-ireless A-rtificial L-ifeform L-imited to O-bservation P-eacekeeping and E-fficient R-epair |
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Walloper wrote: | I get my education from the Good Dr. Stinky on here thanks.
FYI
speed (spd)
n.
1. Physics The rate or a measure of the rate of motion, especially:
a. Distance traveled divided by the time of travel.
b. The limit of this quotient as the time of travel becomes vanishingly small; the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
c. The magnitude of a velocity.
bostonshiredemon you are a collective?
Interesting stand you are both making today. |
a) No i am not a collective, i am the one and only & b) are you now trying to argue that Speed = Time ? cus that wud just be plain mad ____________________ Eat well, Stay fit, Die anyway - By the time u make ends meet, they move the ends |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 17 years, 357 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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