Author Topic: "Useless information" (Read 1807 times)

J_A_B · « **Reply #75 on:** June 30, 2005, 01:03:40 PM »

Mickey--That essentially means that it's okay to continue under the red light when there's no other traffic around, but if there's a crash, the driver with the light that turned red will generally be at fault (assumming the other participant in the crash didn't do something incorrectly). It's a useful tool for punishing people who try to "beat" the light and wind up causing a crash who then try to whine "but it was still yellow when I went under it!".

Ohio law has a LOT of flexibility, and whether an action is legal or not often depends more on the particular judges in your area than on what the book specifically says.

J_A_B

megadud · « **Reply #76 on:** June 30, 2005, 01:08:56 PM »

i like macaroni and cheese

Suave · « **Reply #77 on:** June 30, 2005, 01:11:59 PM »

Salamanders can regrow severed eyes.

Chairboy · « **Reply #78 on:** June 30, 2005, 01:12:43 PM »

Begin is a DOS based tactical starship combat simulator from the 1980s that has recently started growing in popularity again. http://hallert.net/misc/begin/begin.html

Suave · « **Reply #79 on:** June 30, 2005, 01:16:31 PM »

You can package and store ferilized eggs of some animals and never need to freeze them. Then add water to them years later and they will hatch into living animals.

Essentially animal seeds.

vorticon · « **Reply #80 on:** June 30, 2005, 01:20:38 PM »

a certain brand of bottled water is just filtered calgary tap water

megadud · « **Reply #81 on:** June 30, 2005, 01:38:31 PM »

the cincinnati bengals suck

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #82 on:** June 30, 2005, 02:18:48 PM »

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Originally posted by J_A_B
Mickey--That essentially means that it's okay to continue under the red light when there's no other traffic around....J_A_B

Which was my point. It is not illegal to be in an intersection when the light turns red.

eagl · « **Reply #83 on:** June 30, 2005, 06:17:00 PM »

If you place an inverting set of mirrors and prisms in front of your eyes then walk around and do your normal activities like that, eventually your brain will re-flip the image and it will look normal again.

SMIDSY · « **Reply #84 on:** June 30, 2005, 06:35:18 PM »

the main source of methane in the atmosphere is cow flatulence.

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #85 on:** June 30, 2005, 07:28:41 PM »

not on any day that I partake in beans.

Lizking · « **Reply #86 on:** June 30, 2005, 08:40:03 PM »

Portland cement is shipped in 94 pound bags so that it will equal 1 cubic foot by volume.

A five gallon bucket, filled to the top ring(not the brim) is 1 cubic foot of volume.

A concrete block standard nominal size is 8"x8"x16" (Women Have Legs:Width/Height/Length). This is a modular size, based upon the biggest stone a single man could lay by himself(60-70 pounds). The actual face dimensions were based on the golden ratio.

To fill the cores of 4-8x8x16 block requires one cubic foot of material.

A six cubic foot wheelbarrow will only carry 2 cubic feet of concrete.

A cubic yard of sand weighs 2800 pounds, and you, Mr. Homeowner, can NOT carry 2 yards in your Toyota Tacoma.

Hangtime · « **Reply #87 on:** June 30, 2005, 09:16:34 PM »

'The whole 9 yards' is a nautical term..

A 3 masted square rigger has 3 yards across each mast.

Under full sail, she is said to be using 'the whole 9 yards'.

Lizking · « **Reply #88 on:** June 30, 2005, 09:20:42 PM »

They are called "yardarms", and a schooner, no matter how many masts, generally only has 1 of them, though some do have 2.

Lizking · « **Reply #89 on:** June 30, 2005, 09:24:36 PM »

Doh!, I inserted the word "schooner" in there, my bad. You may be correct about the square riggers.