Mad Stan

11 hours ago, BigFootsSocks said:

This thread is still going lmao

Well the forum moves about as fast as 290 construction.

When the green light last 15 seconds and it takes 5 seconds for the leader of the traffic column to react and put their foot on the go-pedal and another 5 seconds putter pass the lights.

That's a cool feeling.

When you have a person on a expressway/freeway/motorway who is oblivious to a vehicle approaching at a faster rate of speed on the far left lane and can't be bothered to move over as a column of cars pile on behind them.
That's a cool feeling.

Let's face it, the only solution to traffic is to remove these low threshold drivers with autonomous vehicles.

On 10/18/2017 at 1:30 PM, samagon said:

 

Taxes aren't increased to pay for roads you don't use. Tolls are collected on tollroads to help pay for new tollroads. You also have a choice to not take the tollroad. My taxes have not once gone up to pay for tollroads.

 

Now, to the point where you are lying...

 

I've been on 249, both before and after the tollroad was added. they absolutely did not add tolls to an already existing freeway as you suggest. Where the freeway ended is still where the freeway portion of the road ends, they added tolled lanes beyond where the freeway had always ended.

 

Simply put, 249 freeway always ended between Spring Cypress and Northpoint Blvd. The last free exit is currently after Spring Cypress, for Northpoint Blvd.

 

So you are lying when you say the people are now 'reduced' to some cheesy feeder. After Spring Cypress all that was available was a feeder road.

 

Traffic in the area is worse because there are more people living all over the place up there. Traffic in the area will continue to get worse because they are building more and more homes. 

 

Confirmation of your lie about what 249 was/is, and confirmation of new neighborhoods can both be seen on historic aerials.

 

You don't like tollways, that's fine, but you don't need to lie to try and bolster your argument that they are pure concentrated evil.

 

It may come as a surprise, but I don't like tollways either. I haven't been on a tollway in over 10 years since I moved away from beltway 8. I don't like them, but I do recognize and appreciate their value as a method of quickly increasing car mobility in a given area without raising taxes.

Sounds like the fella has more of a socio-econo-political axe to grind than any logical or practical solution to traffic.

The only solution is autonomous vehicles. Traffic is caused by drivers with the lowest threshold of skill.

On 11/8/2016 at 9:19 PM, august948 said:

 

What sort of games are you playing and which ones tax it the most?  Reason I ask is I bought the $500 refurb machine specifically to replace my old dead xp gaming pc.  So far, with some limited play, it's performed admirably but I'd like to really put it to the test. 

CoD, BF4.. pretty much the latest in PC gaming. I built my rig in 2013 and I can still play the latest games at high settings @ 1080p. 

On 10/23/2016 at 10:22 AM, HoustonMidtown said:

There are a lot of different "flavors" of Unix available (I'm assuming you are talking for PC use - not corporate/server).....the only one I am familiar with is Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com)

 

Check out their website and you can learn about it.

Unix is not Linux. Borrowed concepts but entirely it's own thing. Example: Linux cannot lock the doors on the Raptors.

On 11/1/2016 at 8:40 PM, Esther said:

I'm a totally tech-challenged noob to Linux and when you start getting all techy like that then you lose me. I know I'll learn all the technical jargon soon enough, but it's very frustrating in the beginning. 

Try Linux Mint. It's by far the most Windows-like Linux currently (as far as it's desktop graphic/user interface).

I game a lot so yes powerful CPU and GPU is a must. $1500 for a custom PC.

Well if  everyone learns that maintaining speed while turning your wheel 10 to 20 degrees isn't going to send you into a uncontrollable spin, through-put would improve and you wouldn't have these phantom congestion on the pierce.. Then you wouldn't have to spend 6 billion dollars to solve a human issue and I would be Happy Stan.

If they replace the DPS' Pez-license dispenser that would help. Replacing the current licensing with German-style licensing would improve driver quality by a billion percent. Then you wouldn't have dangerous intersections.

Had you just watched Fear of the Walking Dead?

This was a while ago. I use to drive past the building frequently to get to Navigation. Seen it when I was a kid when we'd go grocery shopping at Kim Hung in the early 90s. I've been using google street view to scope out warehouses in the area to convert into a garage/residential and chance upon it again. So I googled it and found some blurb about Kraft taking down the Maxwell House sign from a coffee plant in the East End. It mentioned the previous 2017 Preston warehouse.

And of course HAIF never fails me if I need to find out info about an old building.

I had a dream about this building. It was full of zombies. For the longest time I've always wondered about the history behind it. I'm glad they've decide to make use of it instead of turning it into parking space.

I went to the one located in Almeda Square. They had a movie rental for 50 cents.