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neonbregna posted:Yellow means proceed with caution Ha, ha. No. On traffic signals as part of the operation in the US, it means clear the intersection. If you are approaching the intersection and have time to slow down and stop, do it.
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Neutrino posted:Ha, ha. No. On traffic signals as part of the operation in the US, it means clear the intersection. If you are approaching the intersection and have time to slow down and stop, do it. Yeah, flashing yellow is more proceed with caution/yield. Solid yellow means stop if safe
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Where I live there's a flashing green light at some intersections and every non-local is confused as poo poo the first time they drive here. Pedestrian controlled traffic light - it will always flash green unless a ped hits the crossing button.
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Prav posted:huh i wonder what kind of a substance pentaborane is quote:Above 30 °C it can form explosive concentration of vapors with air. Its vapors are heavier than air. It is pyrophoric—can ignite spontaneously in contact with air, when even slightly impure. It can also readily form shock sensitive explosive compounds, and reacts violently with some fire suppressants, notably with halocarbons and water. It is highly toxic and symptoms of lower-level exposure may occur with up to 48 hours delay. Its acute toxicity is comparable to some nerve agents. 
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I still don't understand the Austrian rules on traffic lights. Lights go in the order green -> flashing green (couple seconds) -> yellow (couple seconds) -> red Green means go. Flashing greens mean "stop if at all able, go if unable to stop" (so the same as the meaning of yellow in all sane countries) Yellow means stop (it is illegal to cross at this time) Red means stop (it is equally illegal to cross at this time). The only reason they seem to have yellow is to have an extra light for the short amount of time between the point the intersection is cleared and the other road gets green. And while that might be useful for traffic planners to know, it has no separate legal status whatsoever and it doesn't give any useful information to anyone waiting for the light. Austria introduced a fourth state for no good reason whatsoever and while doing so, they redefined yellow to mean something else than in every other country.
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I like that the Wikipedia page calls out that they made 1900 pounds of the stuff in the 60s/70s to see if it'd make good rocket fuel (it didn't) and couldn't dispose of it until 2000 because someone had to invent a way to do it safely
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That seems very strange and unnecessary indeed.
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i decided to support these stupid dead forums a little more  : nfpa :will be very handy for this thread, pyf chemistry thread, horrible mechanical failures, schadenfreude, etc
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Sagebrush posted:i decided to support these stupid dead forums a little more
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Carbon dioxide posted:I still don't understand the Austrian rules on traffic lights. There's an intersection i cross on way to work doing something new, it's an LED signal and when on red it strobes white/red super fast. It may be broken or something, but it sure does catch your attention because the white LED on those things are blindingly bright (it also drat near gives you a seizure).
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this is fantastic.
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is awesome.Baronjutter posted:My wife worked auto-claims in an insurance company. I'm worried that my cousin is going to be the rich stupid parent in one of those 20-something-is-entitled-idiot stories. He paid off his kid's several-thousand-dollar fine for driving while stupid with no real consequences for the 18-year-old. I also figured out your wife's area included Fort McMurray by the end of the two-trucks-one-fire-and-one-frozen-lake story. There needs to be a thread somewhere that's just people telling stories about Fort McMurray. From what I've been told the place has really calmed down, but anybody who was there between about 2001 and 2010 has some great stories. Baronjutter posted:Not to accuse anyone of anything, but these were both oil workers driving home at like 4am after a night on the town after payday using a bypass off the main road that had drunk driving checkpoints set up. It's stories like that I want to see in the Fort Mac thread. Is there a Fort Mac thread already? And I still want to see the "I am an insurance adjuster. You are now hosed." thread. Dillbag posted:Where I live there's a flashing green light at some intersections and every non-local is confused as poo poo the first time they drive here. Flashing green lights at most interesections in Eastern Canada mean "advance left turn" - you can turn left because oncoming traffic, directly across the intersection, is facing a red light. This is an old signal and has been replaced with green arrows that don't flash in many places, but small towns still have them and I know of one here in Quebec city, population 500 000.
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What it really needs is a patch of duct tape across the crack. also I gotta say how much I love the emote.
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Budgie posted:We have both average speed cameras and instantaneous speed cameras. Also the police have speed cameras. Also some roadworks have speed cameras too. And red light cameras. These are just the road related cameras in the most surveilled country in the world. Wow. I knew kind of vaguely the there were a ton of cameras in the UK, but that's so excessive it's unsettling.
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owns Sagebrush posted:i decided to support these stupid dead forums a little more extra owns
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You know what? Tire blowouts just aren't dangerous enough and I know just how to improve that!
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Taerkar posted:You know what? Tire blowouts just aren't dangerous enough and I know just how to improve that! This is exactly what I thought of, that's going to be some wicked shrapnel.
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MF_James posted:This is exactly what I thought of, that's going to be some wicked shrapnel. Tire towards enemy
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Sagebrush posted:i decided to support these stupid dead forums a little more i love you both
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Azhais posted:I like that the Wikipedia page calls out that they made 1900 pounds of the stuff in the 60s/70s to see if it'd make good rocket fuel (it didn't) and couldn't dispose of it until 2000 because someone had to invent a way to do it safely  part.Wikipedia posted:The propellant mix that would produce the greatest specific impulse for a rocket motor is sometimes given as oxygen difluoride and pentaborane[citation needed].
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 Australian police investigating a suspicious woodchipper accident.
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Sagebrush posted:i decided to support these stupid dead forums a little more We got the mech failure thread back?!
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Proteus Jones posted:That's the rating for "move to another continent", right? "If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
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Synthbuttrange posted:
Serious question: How do you deal with the, um, extra entropy when investigating something like this?
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Little pink flags
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VanSandman posted:Serious question: How do you deal with the, um, extra entropy when investigating something like this? You pause the simulation
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Wasabi the J posted:We got the mech failure thread back?! I was thinking of this one https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3222431 A good read for people in this thread who haven't seen it yet
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Well the paint seems pretty worn- so at least they're
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It's okay, we got this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIq9khF-axs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksLAHRWE9DQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxWvPTtJKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU9MB5XPsp4
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chitoryu12 posted:It's okay, we got this. "Hey Bill! Run to your truck and grab your lock pick kit! Hurry!"
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Well the paint seems pretty worn- so at least they're Not pictured: the burned corpse who spent his/her last moments trying to hulk the padlock off the fire extinguisher box.
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Honestly though, if you don't have time to unlock the padlock on the fire extinguisher box, you probably shouldn't be trying to fight it with a fire extinguisher either.
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Jabor posted:Honestly though, if you don't have time to unlock the padlock on the fire extinguisher box, you probably shouldn't be trying to fight it with a fire extinguisher either. Why even have fire extinguishers. Why not let fire just do whatever fire wants to do, why mess with nature?
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Azhais posted:Yeah, flashing yellow is more proceed with caution/yield. Solid yellow means stop if safe In Texas (at least Austin) we are starting to get these flashing yellow arrow signals, replacing the simple traditional green light (which means left turns allowed but you must yield to oncoming traffic). I guess people became too dumb to follow the "yield" part. Are these yellow arrow things common elsewhere?  Edit: the first time I saw one of these, I was fighting 30 years of driving experience which programmed me that "yellow means I can still go" and having an actual arrow means it's a protected turn and I DON"T need to yield. Number_6 fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Feb 9, 2018 |
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