[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

[Jerald Sheets]

Squirrel pancakes, Ron... Squirrel pancakes....



On Jan 11, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Don't let the squirrel run in front of you and cause you to hit a tree.
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
> Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am so glad I moved to North Carolina right now.  I believe I saw two
>> cows and a squirrel on my way in this morning...
>> 
>> 
>> --jer
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> There was a wreck on I-285 that required fire trucks, ambulance and
>> closing down 3 lanes next to the center divider. Of course traffic is
>> backed up for a few miles. As the emergency vehicles are approaching,
>> people were, in general, making NO APPARENT EFFORT to clear a path for
>> the emergency access. I could see the approaching lights and hear the
>> sirens a full 2 minutes before they were finally adjacent to my car.
>> Finally, as they were nearly adjacent, traffic began to ignore the lane
>> markers and spread apart to allow an envelope of open road to appear
>> just ahead of the emergency trucks. 
>>> 
>>> And then the most blatant example of selfishness I've ever seen
>> occurred. The car behind me had not made a single move to clear the way
>> for the ambulance. From my view, the cell phone call was far more
>> important than the road conditions. So when I was finally able to
>> squeeze left, along with the cars in front and the right side traffic
>> squeezing right, the car behind me took the new hole as an opportunity
>> to jump in front of the traffic that was making room for the ambulance
>> and fire rescue trucks. 
>>> 
>>> The driver actually impeded the flow of the emergency crew as she
>> finally tried to merge back into traffic but there was no room. So she
>> stopped moving, laid on the horn and looked like she was about to ram a
>> car out of they way when finally some serious other car packing allowed
>> her to clear the way.
>>> 
>>> As a species, we are doomed if that mentality continues. I hope the
>> fire truck got her tag and she loses her license. We need to have urban
>> transportation that is not propelled by individual interest. The roads
>> are simply too crowded and people are too distracted to always be safe
>> drivers. We can't force people to be safe but we can remove
>> opportunities for people to be stupid and selfish. I like the idea of
>> being able to get to work/pub/friends/food without needing to sweat the
>> details of driving and still make it in less than 2 hours. I ESPECIALLY
>> want to hit my fav pubs and then get home without endangering anything
>> but my own liver.
>>> 
>>> We are close to having the capability but we are light-years from
>> having the social will to make the leap.
>>> 
>>> </rant>
>>> 
>>> um. duh. The auto2 should have a hardened, real-time Linux system
>> brain. 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> -- 
>>> James P. Kinney III
>>> 
>>> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
>> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
>> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
>>> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
>>> 
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