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Is that a train you're describing?
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Don't forget, this is written by a researcher in Washington state. The folks in that state are so in love with driving their own cars, that they prefer that over any more sensible option. Take a look at the I-5 bridge across the Columbia between Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR -- the only conclusion I can reach, is that they want to sit in their cars in heavily congested traffic.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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OMG,
I was there last year. They have STOP LIGHTS to get ON the Express way!?!
(Technically it is a Freeway. It was Free, and not very Express!)
I thought it was a prank!?
Then I saw the time it takes the bus to get somewhere (hoping I could use public transportation),
and realized it was all just very sad!
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I saw the same in San Diego California a few years ago. It actually worked quite well. The lights at the start of the ramp let cars on one at a time so they were spaced out enough to make merging easy (as long as you're comfortable driving in heavy traffic anyway - the stereotypical Kansas farmer would probably still have a heart attack) instead of ending up with a bunch of cars trapped stopped at the end of the ramp or driving on the shoulder.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It seems counterintuitive to have stop lights on the entrance ramps, but boy is it obvious how much worse things are when they are not there (sometimes they fail) -- they keep traffic on the freeway moving at a fair clip rather than turning into gridlock at every entrance ramp.. until you simply have too many cars.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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OK. It's official. Moffat's a genius. Clara best companion ever. TV can still make me cry.
Just needed to get that off my chest. I'm going to have a bath now to recover!
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You are Dalek Dave and I claim my five pounds!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sorry. Daleks have no emotions. You must search elsewhere. Run, you clever boy!
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I consider it a possible sign of mental health that I have no idea what you are talking about, but, I worry that may be a subtle form of narcissism.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Doctor Who: the latest series has been outstanding.
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I have not seen this week's episode yet.
However I thought last week's episode was an excellent metaphor for what the experience of grief can be like.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I have not seen this week's episode yet.
It was brilliant.
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Member 9082365 wrote: TV can still make me cry.
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Four and a half billion years of torture - that's love!
Pity River Song is coming back - she's just annoying!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: she's just annoying
 Wash your mouth out with soap and do 100 laps of the football field this instant you wretch!!!!
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Sorry, I didn't mean to say she was "just annoying".
I meant to say she is an extremely annoying, self-satisfied, smug pest!
If they had to bring back an old "companion" then why not bring back Rose?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Clara is my favorite as well. When she makes my soufflé rise it never falls.
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Nope. Nope-nope-nope. Nope-ity nope. IMHO.
Last week's episode was brilliant.
**********SPOILERS NOW **********
This week started off very well - The Doctor facing down the Rassilon / The High Council and effecting a coup without any weapons other than personal loyalty and a spoon. Oh and the attack eyebrows were deployed. Then, after centuries/eons (depending on how you view the timeline) of trying to get back to Gallifrey, The Doctor returns - and it swiftly becomes the Clara Oswald show once more. Clara should have stayed dead - instead she's functionally alive and functionally immortal (at least as long as she wants to be). What was a poignant death has been reversed, because Moffat can't stand dead characters and (I suspect) likes having the option of bringing back actors he's worked with. I also didn't like the who Diner TARDIS thing - I suspect this is intended to pander to an American audience, in a programme which trades on its quirky Britishness.
Certainly not the worst episode in this series - but a huge missed opportunity.
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Quote: Clara should have stayed dead
Why? She never has before. She's the Impossible Girl remember? Moffat is merely staying true to his meme, while cunningly setting us up with new questions about the true Hybrid. Is it the Doctor as he claimed? Ashildr? Or Ashildr/Ex-temporal Clara? And he's paying tribute to that historic line that suggests that Clara has literally become the Doctor.
Keith Barrow wrote: I suspect this is intended to pander to an American audience
Wake up! It's a knowing nod to the episode in which River 'kills' the Doctor which features the same diner and therefore entirely appropriate to this episode in which the Doctor who knows Clara also 'dies'. Moreover it's not American at all. It's a real cafe in Cardiff!
Too clever for you Moffat be?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Why?
For plot reasons, nothing to do with the "mechanics" of it - they've taken a well-written ending for a character and mucked it up.
Member 9082365 wrote: Wake up! It's a knowing nod to the episode in which River 'kills' the Doctor
It's not just a nod - it's the same diner, or at least a TARDIS Chameleon rendered version of it. But it's also pandering to USian audiences - or don't you think something can be two things at once?
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Appearing as the backdrop to a fraction of two episodes in 5 years does not smack of pandering to anyone! If you were pandering to the Americans surely you'd choose the first episode to do it, not the last. You'd have UNIT move to New York, Missy would be a Southern Belle, and the companions would all be high school cheerleaders. The Doctor would not speak in an accent which a lot of Americans find impenetrable and everybody would be seen with a tin of Coke in their hands at least once per episode. You might as well say that The Girl Who Died was pandering to the Vikings (or their descendants at least)! And didn't Missy greet Clara in a Spanish Piazza (or did I just make that up?) Pandering to the Americans, my arse! (Yes, that's right ... not ass!)
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For the first time in my two and a half decade career so far...
I wrote a base class named "Shape" and derived "Square", "Circle", "Triangle" and "Octagon" classes! 
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I hope you have success with your alternative to Visio.
/ravi
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