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byjim_v2000
023 @09:45PM
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Attached to: Reddit Communities With Millions of Followers Plan To Extend the Blackout Indefinitely
This comment doesn't make much sense. Are you thinking that Reddit, as a business, is immune from criticism and ought to ignore their customers?
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byjim_v2000
03, 2012 @12:41AM
(#41534831)
Attached to: To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets
If the helmet was severely damaged, or the person suffered head trauma even with the helmet, you can be fairly certain that the outcome without the helmet would have been much worse.
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byjim_v2000
03, 2012 @12:39AM
(#41534821)
Attached to: To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets
The US is absurd: you don't have to wear a helmet on a motorbike, but you need one on a pedal bike ?!?
There's no national law in the US regarding helmets. It's a state-by-state (and in some cases, city) issue, and most state's don't require that adults wear helmets. That said, I don't know where you get off saying "The US is absurd" when the thing you're calling absurd doesn't exist.
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byjim_v2000
03, 2012 @12:33AM
(#41534799)
Attached to: To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets
"Or could we maybe accept that life isn't a completely safe activity?"
Yes, and that's why some of us wear helmets.
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byjim_v2000
03, 2012 @12:29AM
(#41534785)
Attached to: To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets
I bought a mountain bike a few years ago, and yes, it's a heavy beast, but so am I. I figured it would be smart to lose the weight off myself before worrying about the weight of the bike. I've already lose about a bike or two's worth of flab.
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byjim_v2000
03, 2012 @12:27AM
(#41534775)
Attached to: To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets
This. I purchased a mountain bike a few years ago to use for commuting (yes, I know, a road bike is a smoother ride, blah blah. We have shitty roads and I wanted something more versatile). I had never really thought about it before, as I had always ridden garage sale mountain bikes since I was a kid, but I decided to see if there were road bike-ish tires for mountain bikes. Of course there are, so I bought a pair of all purpose tires. They were not road bike smooth, but they were also not knobby like mountain bike tires. The difference was amazing. It's so much easier with smoother tires, and they aren't even particularly expensive.
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byjim_v2000
03, 2012 @12:19AM
(#41534747)
Attached to: To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets
Who'd steal a helmet? According to this thread, no one wants to ride a bike with a helmet.
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byjim_v2000
03, 2012 @12:14AM
(#41534711)
Attached to: To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets
Is that really a problem? I'm in Oregon and there's no laws about wearing helmets here.
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byjim_v2000
2010 @01:11PM
(#33266140)
Attached to: 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email
That's not just as bad at all. If you didn't notice, people were getting their passwords stolen by using the same one everywhere, including the sketchy sites.
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byjim_v2000
2010 @01:09PM
(#33266106)
Attached to: Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad
You speak in jest, but I once got a call from a woman who's mother had gotten spyware on her machine and was getting all kinds of porn pop-ups. Her mother's solution was to unplug the computer and put a Bible on top of it.
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byjim_v2000
2010 @12:49PM
(#33265858)
Attached to: Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad
Is that a joke? See: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/207682680_b1bbabf6d9.jpg and http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3013/2862066384_7fedacb107.jpg?v=0
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byjim_v2000
2010 @12:47PM
(#33265842)
Attached to: "Dislike" Button Scam Hits Facebook Users
It wouldn't be possible if Facebook hadn't cluttered everything up with stupid apps.
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byjim_v2000
2010 @12:46PM
(#33265828)
Attached to: 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email
That's why I use three different passwords. One is for sites I don't care about...like registering for a forum that I only need once. The second is for things that I'd like to be more secure, like forums I visit often, Facebook, my person blog, etc. The third is for critical things like email, online banking, shopping sites like Newegg and Amazon, etc.
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byjim_v2000
2010 @10:09AM
(#33228444)
Attached to: EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal
>And having two giants acting like they can simply write legislature is balls to the walls wron
They didn't write any legislation. They wrote up some suggestions that the FCC and the Congress are free to use or discard. They have every right to do that.
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byjim_v2000
2010 @10:05AM
(#33228380)
Attached to: EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal
It's working pretty good so far, really. Are you having some kind of problem with your internet provider?
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