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| colonelcrisp |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
You mean side country roads that aren't used.
The 401 which I drive regularly - was redone so ty after it was resurfaced there were body sized bumps in the "fast lane". That is good engineering for you?
Highway 11 has a whole long stretch of camel hump roadway that causes cars and trucks to shake for KMs if you arn't in the know that is trans canada north.
Most major highways cut through cities - instead of around them - sane designers would have a turn off into the community not have the major roadway connect to the downtown or main streets of the towns.
Sane designers do not time lights on major streets in an urban area to turn red every time while driving the speed limit.
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the reason why highways connect to the downtown core is that it is the most efficient ways to move people and goods from concentrated population areas to other concentrated population areas. it is standard practice and theory around the world. moreover if you do build a bypass (ring road) around an urban center, the development will infill around it anyways since as far as land access goes, freeways are much more efficient at moving large volumes of people over longer distances hence why suburbs usually develop around freeway connections.
as far as traffic lights go. you are an idiot. do you have any idea how much modeling goes into designing a traffic network? signal timing and coordination is fine tuned constantly in larger cities to maximize level of service for all intersections. they are not necessarily designed to give green lights all the way for drivers. they are designed to make traffic flow efficiently.
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This is innovation for you. First off you can build two alternate roadways - you know build a second new road instead of digging up the old one. Then you can cycle as you say ever 15 years (which isn't true atleast in the recent past on this as the roads that are being redone were still in good shape, and only needed filling in a couple places. Instead they tore up and slowed down traffic on very long stretches of highway that disrupted summer travel causing hours of delays.
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build two roads? aren't you the environmentalist..... not only would that be a stupid waste of money, there is the extra land, and the environmental impact of building a road on top of it. this is the stupidest idea i have heard in years. right up there with the concept of flying cars, congratulations, you are now dumber than my 7 yr old cousin.
the filling you are talking about is probably to fix an underlying problem in the road subgrade. in ontario especially we experience a phenomena called frost heave. this occurs because of the deep frost line we experience here that causes water trapped in clay to freeze and form ice lenses that heave the roadway. the only way to prevent this freeze thaw cycle from destroying the roadway is to identify where they are happening and excavate below the frost line and back fill with granular. these problems are impossible to predict so you fix them as they become apparent. its part of a regular maintenance program on the roads.
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You are a nut if you think that it "really" costs that much. There are plently of cheap technologies, that if the government didn't buy from private vendors would be incredibly less expensive. Thing is they contract out to companies that do crappy work and benefit from it needing to be redone in 5 years.
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you're really an idiot because i actually know exactly what the real costs are. you have zero practical experience in this field, nor do you have any in depth knowledge into the industry beyond speculation and conjecture. Fact, Asphalt cement (the black tar stuff used to make asphalt pavement) now costs over 900$ a ton due to a new refining process that can turn the once cheap refining byproduct into diesel fuel. This has driven the price of asphalt pavement from around 50$ a ton to over 200$ a ton. Also fact, increase in the cost of diesel fuel has drastically driven up the cost of everything else in heavy civil construction since pretty much everything is tied into diesel fuel costs. the quarry's predominantly operate all their equipment on diesel generators so that means excavators, crushers, screens etc.
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I've driven a lot of roads in North America - and Ontario has some of the worst stretches of roads I've seen, and have some of the worst and longest construction zones.
Crack sealing ain't what I was seen in last year. It was huge rebuilding programs on roads I had driven previously - in some cases such as the 401 road quality got worse after the work.
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the 401 could have a much better ride quality if for each rehab project we shut down the entire highway. but since we have to maintain flow of goods and traffic, you have to do it in pieces. such as life. but remember the 401 was built in the 50's to coincide with the seaway project, its 50 years old for christs sake, yeah it requires alot of work but it also is the busiest corridor in north america as well as the busiest trade route in north america. i think its something rediculous like 40% of all canada US trade travels along the 401 corridor. no roadway in the world serves the demand that the 401 does.
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Why tear them up and rebuild them then?
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when pavement reaches the end of its service life, it can not be rehabilitated and most problems seen at the surface are reflective of problems that start deep in the base of the road structure.
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Dude as I said road planning isn't something that takes brainpower.
I could do your job better than you being blind with my eyes tied behind my back.
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id love to see you try..........
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The term is sick. Where do you get your paycheck? Is it the government? |
yes the government pays my company for services we provide to them(all three levels of government as well as private sector clients). the difference is, i work for my paycheck, and i don't take handouts. |
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| Moral Hazard |
c0r version of above...
| quote: | Originally posted by colonelcrisp
you are an idiot. |
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| leph555 |
| this is the most ridiculous thread of all time |
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| colonelcrisp |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
c0r version of above... |
Its people like Ashley that really makes me thankful for Roe V Wade..... i just wish more women (like Wills mom) would take advantage of their right to choose......
edit - i imagine even the noise the vacuum at the abortion clinic makes probably sounds better than anything ******** has ever produced...... |
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| Chris Crossland |
| quote: | Originally posted by leph555
this is the most ridiculous thread of all time |
Tell me about it. I can't stand reading w-ashleys posts anymore, I feel I've gone retarded. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by colonelcrisp
edit - i imagine even the noise the vacuum at the abortion clinic makes probably sounds better than anything ******** has ever produced...... |
Nice.
All of his productions, to me, have sounded like they took twenty minutes and two ounces of pot to make. He used to spam the hell out of the Music Producer's Promotion forum with songs he must have finished in less than a day. Horrible stuff, really. |
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| david.michael |
Whoa!
Looks like he "cut his ing hair" way before people starting harassing him about it. |
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| Chris Crossland |
| What the is wrong with your neck?! LMAO Are you listening to your shoulder? Is it telling you to do bad things? |
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| colonelcrisp |
holy ...... i just found the psycho manifesto.... from washley's U W site.... apparently the system ed him over a pack of smokes.....
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I'd like to say off the top I do know how to write proper english but it isn't how I think.
I've attended UW for 4 terms now and will be entering my fifth, although my third term was spent in part in Quebec and was more or less a write off. I enjoy cultural and historic studies, and music, but am a very bad academic, and currently only have satisfactory standing, and each term could be my last term. Check out my coursework link for more specific information on the courses I've taken at Waterloo. To summarize, didn't do much with my life until middle school, when I became very lightly involved in some activities. My slight involvement continued until about grade 10 when I abruptly stopped going to school because I was a zombie - basically poor life influences atleast in respect to what the status quo may term - encouraging life activities. I was fat, right up until quiting school, and had a variety of minor health issues, likely related to my lack of physical activity and nutritional balance. My parents, both working class -security and customer service, forced me to start working as soon as I was asked to leave school for truancy. I found myself working at my Mom's place of employment but not the same shifts or even location. My Mom still says I was doing drugs when I was asked to leave school, but this isn't the truth, actually we were far from the drug crowd, or atleast most of the people I hung out with were, although I think we probably would have had better Role Playing Sessions if we were high come to think of it, but frankly we were clean, ironically. I enjoyed music and it was my pride and joy from middle school on. I was dumbfounded when I got runner up for the middle school music award, however this shining almost prodigy, started to not be so great by grade 10, when he was mearly mediocre. Oh well, I still liked music and was in band. I found myself in what I might deem the geeky groups, but I wasn't nearly clued in enough to be a geek, chess club, debate club, philosophy club, student rep, etc.. but man was I clueless - mostly happy but clueless, and really not involved in everything I should have been. I sort of regret not getting involved in sports, and getting healthy, and I sort of regret not joining choir. I moved a lot as a child and got use to being the kid out. It has shaped a lot of how I interact with people today, I can both be the ice breaker, but sadly I'm really a cold but very loyal person. Anyway to make a long story short after a few years in the work force, that really ended up being work and party, I had a breakdown, that had slowly been building up for a while. Basically I got yelled at, at work for a faulty creamer - the nozzle was loose and it caused a huge mess. Really sucked, but the good thing that came out of it, was that I broke free from mindless non progressive wage slavery, that really didn't do anything for me. It is a good thing it happened looking back, although there is really no telling. My hobby was music since leaving highschool, and I have wasted so much time with it, and oddly still can sit down and make a song like my dad might play a game of solitaire or hearts.
So I quit, and took time to totally waste my time veging out. I blame the first computer I bought with my own money and the internet for sucking me into countless hours of stupidity, learning about artificial intelligence, and networking, etc.. This was even less progressive than working, and without money the partying dwindled more. Oh well I was burnt out I suppose. Where non progression stopped, self realization kicked in. I wasn't depressed but AI, Philosphy and Occult Kabbalah led me to clue into logic well enough to get the triviality and chaos that life is short of faith. I finally hit my teenage angst point and was infuriated with God, harshly rejecting any diety that would lock me into a stimulus response world where none of my hopes and dreams could be realized. About this time 911 happened, and I went back to school. I didn't have it totally easy on my path to my diploma, but nearly got my diploma fast tracked with maturity credits. I was now an "adult" though it wasn't the same, the age gap started to present itself, something that has only become worse as time has progressed, surrounded by younger and younger people, in comparison to my own age. First a couple years, then four or five, to what is now almost ten in University. I had a couple arrest situations, the first was the most drawn out, and involved a 9 month long court process, that I was self representative in, that totally trashed any beleif in the system being truthful, as I was wrongly convicted, on false grounds, and in a trial that was purgered by the witness and victim. They said I pushed the victim, but I didn't. It was a stupid situation but I still see it as people being stupid, and not just me. The reason is that it was over the purchase of a pack of cigarettes, which at the time one only needed to look 19 to purchase, and the clerk stated twice she thought I was 23, but she still refused the sale. This is the same clerk I had previously bought a pack of cigarettes from. To say the least what i went through has me now despise the way the justice system functions both policing and the court process, it is designed to attack people not to assist in peaceful society. I still feel wronged by what happened to me, and I don't see how I can ever forgive them for what they did to me as long as the memories exist, they are few of the people I truely hate, and don't see how I ever cannot because what they stand for is limitation and ruin of freewill even when it doesn't effect their own life, but rather the other person's choice for their own, and that sort of manipulation is unforgiveable, especially for an adult, in a so called free society. I didn't give up after the court process with landed me arrested two more times, the first for protesting the court process at the courthouse, and the second for someones interpretation of a letter being "threatening". Both of the subsiquent arrest were dropped after my life was damaged more, and my social record both mental health and personal interests were tarnished and deprived of me. More or less putting me into a different class of persons. My life was effectively wholely ruined at that point, and I had 0% chance of resuming normalcy, or a willingness to resume normalcy after being so disrespected.
I generally just consider the people in the second and third arrests to be idiots, and selfish, for the most part, simply put the gap existed enough that I saw them for their reasons but saw how bad they were. To say the least I was misjudged, and I don't expect any changes, frankly after I was released and the charges were dropped the second time, I simply abandoned the system. Although from time to time I've integrated it hasn't been by forthought but rather simply a calling, and it has continued that way. I have next to no ambition in life. I have money from the government enough to support myself monthly. I school funded on loans that if I don't find gainful employment could simply be write offs. Simply put I'm attempting to be progressive but I realize now, I'm old, and there isn't anything in Canada I really want to do. My hopes and dreams, which arn't sought after are to leave Canada, but it is more so an waiting game, I get older, more of my time is wasted because the world is one of limitation and ownership. You don't have money you can't make choices, you don't have skills that people are seeking you don't have anything. For me it is really a situation of living because it is the right thing to do, not because I really enjoy it. I'm content with life, but it is blatantly banal and largely non progressive, and not what I'd like to be doing. The way it plays out is either school ends because I flunk out, and then I do pretty much nothing, or I finish school and do pretty much nothing. In both cases this is dependant on what is going on, but I'm budget and when the money train ends, I'm back to the curb - free but older, and at the same point I was at when I was arrested the first time - leaving my life behind - it just happened the first time I was stopped I decided to be free. Now I'm waiting until my propulsion stops, I hate it, but hell it is life, and it ain't that bad, actually it is easy. I'm a total bum, with no life goals, and after being so screwed over by the system, I honestly could care less. In that respect I'm damaged goods, I'm a good person but growing colder and more desensitized by the day. I really do idealize who I was in 2003, it was my high point of morality and humanism. I can never go back because I already hit the wall. I know where I'm at now, and I am humbled, but realize that will alone doesn't bring freedom. An absence of struggle brings an option to devote yourself to a cause, or to free yourself from obligation. I have a cause, and I prefer that over freedom from obligation - life is like that.
It grows, it dies, it changes, and I breath. Life is what it is. I'm formed, my world very much in my mind, it is my life, and it ain't the one the people of the world are telling me, there is more to life than science, money, and materialism, and society - that is 99% of what the world is saying, and I reject it all. Science is a theory not real, money is a tool not a god, materialism is only one part of life, and society is as much you as it is them. I forgot God, god is god. I think we as individuals have as much union with god as anything, ulitmately our lives are the way they are because it is the way they are. It is madness to decompose reality to anything logically more than a logical explaination of sequence and basic composition, sentiment or feeling, ideas, and thoughts,sensation. There is nothing more ideal than love of life, love of living. To say life reduces to cause and effect is part of it, to know what it is you do and why and see results from that is always reassuring. But to make a long story short, it is what it is, and in a world of change, just because it means one thing today, doesn't mean it will mean the same thing tommorrow, tommorrow may not even mean the same thing, time itself beyond memory, of which mine is in question from time to time, is left to systematics and self reassurance, and reassurance. My basic philosophy is enjoy life, it is the one you got, and we are going to make the choices we make for the reasons we realize. Hell maybe one day I'll die, until then I live to enjoy life, and to make a better world. I can hope to forget the hate but the memories are still there, until I can see the good behind the evil in my mind, I'm left in that same place, a purgatory waiting for death while living. I blessed and cursed by being apathetic, and seeing so much in the world as mediocre and droll. OK that is my bio, hopefully you don't take it at face value. I really do care, but could care less about so many things. The clock is ticking. I've done more in life, but I'm quite tired of explaining, I'm geussing you'll just be repesenting the same old story, science, money, and materialism, society, and god; if you have something else to say let me know, and if it is the same old story, by all means introduce yourself just don't expect the prompted response to be the same one as the last person. |
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| colonelcrisp |
| he kinda looks like a crazy version of billy corgan with a neck injury |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by colonelcrisp
he kinda looks like a crazy version of billy corgan with a neck injury |
Wow, he really does look a lot like Billy Corgan. |
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