Re: OT: Cycling

2007-07-25 Thread Max Hyre
> On 16 Jul, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Am I the only one who grew up where the law was cyclists were to >> ride against the flow of traffic? Almost certainly. In the U.S., every state has adopted some form of the Uniform Traffic Code, one of whose clauses is equivalent to The r

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Kent West wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 16 Jul, Steve Lamb wrote: >> >>> William Pursell wrote: >>> If a cyclist is riding against the flow of traffic, >>> Am I the only one who grew up where th

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-19 Thread Michael Dominok
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 21:19 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:29:47AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: > > > > As for dedicated bicycle lanes, I've been very impressed by the ones in > > > Germany and Austria (usually half of the sidewalk). > > > > Well, it depends. If ther

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:29:47AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: > > As for dedicated bicycle lanes, I've been very impressed by the ones in > > Germany and Austria (usually half of the sidewalk). > > Well, it depends. If there's enough space and budget and will there > might be usable bicycle

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Dienstag, den 17.07.2007, 21:43 +0300 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > This was, and AFAIK still is, the rule for walking on a road without a > sidewalk in Romania. Bicycles have to obey same rules as cars. Nonsense. Cyclists don't have to obey the law. 8-) Riding up one-way-lanes the wrong direction

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:42:39AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I can't say I ever recall it being law, but I remember my grandparents > teaching me to walk against the flow of traffic, so that you can see the > driver and the driver can see you, and I grew up with the concept of doing This wa

RE: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Adrian Hall
(illegal but not enforced :o)Cheers,Ade.> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:15:23 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]> > Kent West wrote: > > I can

Re: OT: Cycling: [was: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?]

2007-07-17 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I can't say I ever recall it being law, but I remember my grandparents teaching me to walk against the flow of traffic, so that you can see the driver and the driver can see you, and I grew up with the concept of doing the same on a bike (I'm unsure if they taught me that, or i