THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
blinker on as I enter a roundabout
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@zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I hate those. Just leave the left blinker on as I enter a roundabout.
Don't turn off the right blinker if I lean left before backing into a parking spot on the right side. Garbl!Why not just put the whole lot into emergency mode? Like that nobody will have any idea what you're up to, and (in theory) will let you do whatever you want.
Except the police. They might want to check your blood alcohol level.
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@scholrlea said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Posting on fora. Any fora. Especially this one.
Will some please kill me?
Suicide by forum? Please don't.
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@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I hate those. Just leave the left blinker on as I enter a roundabout.
Don't turn off the right blinker if I lean left before backing into a parking spot on the right side. Garbl!Why not just put the whole lot into emergency mode? Like that nobody will have any idea what you're up to, and (in theory) will let you do whatever you want.
Except the police. They might want to check your blood alcohol level.
Yeah, it's funny when someone randomly puts on hazard lights only to turn them off four minutes later like nothing was wrong. And not actually taking any action either. Jerks.
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@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Why not just put the whole lot into emergency mode?
I honestly don't know what you mean by this.
Edit: scratch that. I see you mean turning on the four blinkers / hazard lights / whatever they're called.
Yeah, no. I actually pay attention to how I use my turn signals because I know how annoying it is when other people don't.
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@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I hate those. Just leave the left blinker on as I enter a roundabout.
Don't turn off the right blinker if I lean left before backing into a parking spot on the right side. Garbl!Why not just put the whole lot into emergency mode? Like that nobody will have any idea what you're up to, and (in theory) will let you do whatever you want.
Except the police. They might want to check your blood alcohol level.
Yeah, it's funny when someone randomly puts on hazard lights only to turn them off four minutes later like nothing was wrong. And not actually taking any action either. Jerks.
If they're stopped in the middle of the road where they shoudn't, you might call it a hazard to other drivers, so they are not entirely wrong.
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@obeselymorbid said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I hate those. Just leave the left blinker on as I enter a roundabout.
Don't turn off the right blinker if I lean left before backing into a parking spot on the right side. Garbl!Why not just put the whole lot into emergency mode? Like that nobody will have any idea what you're up to, and (in theory) will let you do whatever you want.
Except the police. They might want to check your blood alcohol level.
Yeah, it's funny when someone randomly puts on hazard lights only to turn them off four minutes later like nothing was wrong. And not actually taking any action either. Jerks.
If they're stopped in the middle of the road where they shoudn't, you might call it a hazard to other drivers, so they are not entirely wrong.
Um, what? There seems to be a reading comprehension error.
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@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I hate those. Just leave the left blinker on as I enter a roundabout.
Don't turn off the right blinker if I lean left before backing into a parking spot on the right side. Garbl!Why not just put the whole lot into emergency mode? Like that nobody will have any idea what you're up to, and (in theory) will let you do whatever you want.
Except the police. They might want to check your blood alcohol level.
Yeah, it's funny when someone randomly puts on hazard lights only to turn them off four minutes later like nothing was wrong. And not actually taking any action either. Jerks.
If they're stopped in the middle of the road where they shoudn't, you might call it a hazard to other drivers, so they are not entirely wrong.
Um, what? There seems to be a reading comprehension error.
I comprehended that you were complaining about people who park where it's not allowed, put on their hazard lights and then after four minutes drive away. Did I comprehend incorrectly?
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@obeselymorbid It's bad that people park incorrectly. But if they will do it anyway, I'd rather they did turn on their hazard lights because it makes it more readily apparent that there's something out of the ordinary on the road.
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@obeselymorbid said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@zecc said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I hate those. Just leave the left blinker on as I enter a roundabout.
Don't turn off the right blinker if I lean left before backing into a parking spot on the right side. Garbl!Why not just put the whole lot into emergency mode? Like that nobody will have any idea what you're up to, and (in theory) will let you do whatever you want.
Except the police. They might want to check your blood alcohol level.
Yeah, it's funny when someone randomly puts on hazard lights only to turn them off four minutes later like nothing was wrong. And not actually taking any action either. Jerks.
If they're stopped in the middle of the road where they shoudn't, you might call it a hazard to other drivers, so they are not entirely wrong.
Um, what? There seems to be a reading comprehension error.
I comprehended that you were complaining about people who park where it's not allowed, put on their hazard lights and then after four minutes drive away. Did I comprehend incorrectly?
No, I was complaining about idiots on the freeway in lane two at speed turning them on, maintaining speed and lane for minutes, and then just turning the lights back off.
But that other thing is annoying of only slightly justified almost.
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@hardwaregeek said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@blakeyrat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
You know if you tap the signal, it'll blink 3-4 times then turn itself off without ever locking in place...
What the hell kind of shitty car do you drive that doesn't have that feature?I've been driving for ~40 years, and I've never had a car that did that. I've driven rental cars that probably did that, but I've never used that feature, because I didn't know it existed. Hold without locking in place, yes, but tap, no.
My 2015 Subaru does. The 2006 before that didn't.
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Bad idea:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i nullsrc=s=16000x9000 -filter_complex "geq=random(1)*255:random(1)*255:random(1)*255" -t 5 -r 2 sixteen-nine.mkv
Took several minutes just to render the 10 frames, and then suddenly my system was frozen for a solid minute, and then I could move the mouse cursor every few seconds. Then it finished and dumped a 1.24 GB file. I tried uploading it to YouTube just for fun, it's still at 0%. VLC can't display it either.
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@scholrlea said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Sovereign Citizen or Drunk Ass Basic Bitch (why not both)? You make the call!
To be fair, there's no law that says you have to listen to police. Otherwise, a lot more deaf people would be in jail.
Also there's no law that says you have to obey the law.
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@lb_ said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad idea:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i nullsrc=s=16000x9000 -filter_complex "geq=random(1)*255:random(1)*255:random(1)*255" -t 5 -r 2 sixteen-nine.mkv
Took several minutes just to render the 10 frames, and then suddenly my system was frozen for a solid minute, and then I could move the mouse cursor every few seconds. Then it finished and dumped a 1.24 GB file. I tried uploading it to YouTube just for fun, it's still at 0%. VLC can't display it either.Mind explaining all those ffmpeg options, for those of us who don't have them memorized?
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@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
there's no law that says you have to listen to police. Otherwise, a lot more deaf people would be in jail.
Deaf people they just shoot. Then the cops tell the press they thought they were flashing gang signs.
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@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
To be fair, there's no law that says you have to listen to police. Otherwise, a lot more deaf people would be in jail.
Actually there is, with a caveat: you have to obey lawful orders that they give. This implies that you do have to at least listen to them. Deaf people just listen differently (i.e. with their eyes, usually) and police are supposed to accommodate for this when giving orders to them.
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@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@lb_ said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad idea:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i nullsrc=s=16000x9000 -filter_complex "geq=random(1)*255:random(1)*255:random(1)*255" -t 5 -r 2 sixteen-nine.mkv
Took several minutes just to render the 10 frames, and then suddenly my system was frozen for a solid minute, and then I could move the mouse cursor every few seconds. Then it finished and dumped a 1.24 GB file. I tried uploading it to YouTube just for fun, it's still at 0%. VLC can't display it either.Mind explaining all those ffmpeg options, for those of us who don't have them memorized?
-f lavfi
selecting the optuput format. dunno what codec the lavfi codec is but that's teh codec it selects
-i nullsrc=s=16000x9000
sets input to be a null source ax 16000x9000px
-filter_complex "geq=random(1)*255:random(1)*255:random(1)*255"
filters the null pixels by setting them to a random RGB color, this will make the video basically uncompressible
-t 5
encode 5 seconds
-r 2
set the encode at 2FPSSource: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
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@accalia what specifically does
geq
stand for? The only acronym that comes to mind is "Greater or EQual", and that doesn't make any sense.I mean, that's what I thought it was probably doing -- basically the only part that made me confuzzled was the filter.
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@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@accalia what specifically does geq stand for?
NFC mate. it's not listed in the man pages. I assume it's something like
Graphics EQual
or something. also might be abusing a greater than clause (since the null pixels will be 0x000000 any other color will be grater than that, and if they happen to be the same we don't care which one wins)to be honest the only reason i know what it is doing is that it created a 1.3GB file for ten frames of video, and i mad ehte asumption that the codec in use wasn't the passthrough codec so that means the data needed to be basically incompressible which in turn meant taht that weird filter had to be creating random noise.
so i logiced what it did from the output. NFC how it did.
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@anotherusername https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#geq
no idea what it stands for but it appears to allow some potentially fun effects to be put together
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@japonicus said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
no idea what it stands for
I guess the
g
is for something like “generate”. Not sure about the rest; the docs are… rather more gnostic than usual there.
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@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@lb_ said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Bad idea:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i nullsrc=s=16000x9000 -filter_complex "geq=random(1)*255:random(1)*255:random(1)*255" -t 5 -r 2 sixteen-nine.mkv
Took several minutes just to render the 10 frames, and then suddenly my system was frozen for a solid minute, and then I could move the mouse cursor every few seconds. Then it finished and dumped a 1.24 GB file. I tried uploading it to YouTube just for fun, it's still at 0%. VLC can't display it either.Mind explaining all those ffmpeg options, for those of us who don't have them memorized?
I based it on this SO post:
@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@accalia what specifically does
geq
stand for? The only anagram that comes to mind is "Greater or EQual", and that doesn't make any sense.I mean, that's what I thought it was probably doing -- basically the only part that made me confuzzled was the filter.
Probably "General EQuation" although that doesn't make enough sense either.
EDIT: the SO post says it means "Generic EQuation" - so I was close.
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@blakeyrat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A (biological) man wearing women's clothes and makeup generally looks like a woman.
No, not really.
A (biological) woman wearing men's clothes and makeup generally looks like a man.
Men's makeup ???
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@blakeyrat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
You know if you tap the signal, it'll blink 3-4 times then turn itself off without ever locking in place. Which is what you're supposed to be doing for lane changes, instead of turning it fully on and then fully off.
What the hell kind of shitty car do you drive that doesn't have that feature?Wait... that's supposed to be a feature?!? Ugh, I hate that glitch! It means that if I hit the stick ever-so-slightly too hard when canceling the turn signal, it will flash the other direction 3-4 times!
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A (biological) woman wearing men's clothes and makeup generally looks like a man.
Men's makeup ???
A beer in hand
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@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
If that's really a problem, try something intended for people who are blind; they usually run much faster than for the sighted. (Fast enough that I for one can't cope at all. OTOH, I read extremely quickly…)
Truth. I have a friend who's blind, and loves playing around with tech stuff. Andanytimeshe'sgotherphonereadingstuff,italwayssoundslikethisandIcanbarelymakeouteverythirdwordorso. But she has no trouble understanding it.
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
If that's really a problem, try something intended for people who are blind; they usually run much faster than for the sighted. (Fast enough that I for one can't cope at all. OTOH, I read extremely quickly…)
Truth. I have a friend who's blind, and loves playing around with tech stuff. Andanytimeshe'sgotherphonereadingstuff,italwayssoundslikethisandIcanbarelymakeouteverythirdwordorso. But she has no trouble understanding it.
You should try listening with your eyes closed. In theory it should free up processing units to deal with the increased auto glyph rates.
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@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
No, I was complaining about idiots on the freeway in lane two at speed turning them on, maintaining speed and lane for minutes, and then just turning the lights back off.
If the guy in front of you does this, it probably means you're tailgating him. Back off and he'll stop. Usually.
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@masonwheeler Pfff, amateur work. The way to surprise a tailgater is to use the handbrake. He'll never see it coming!
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@jbert This isn't meant to "surprise" them; it's meant as a (generally) well-understood way to tell them to back off before you start applying brakes.
As a general rule of thumb, anything you do that constitutes surprising another driver is .
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@jbert This isn't meant to "surprise" them; it's meant as a (generally) well-understood way to tell them to back off before you start applying brakes.
As a general rule of thumb, anything you do that constitutes surprising another driver is .
I learned the 'back off tailgater' signal is flashing your braking lights. Which is annoying if you're on cruise control.
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@pleegwat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I learned the 'back off tailgater' signal is flashing your braking lights.
That's what I do. Once, maybe twice if in a good mood.
Then, if they don't back off, slam the brakes hard !!!
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@lb_ So, was it supposed to be 1600x900? That was the other thing that made me go .
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@tsaukpaetra said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
No, I was complaining about idiots on the freeway in lane two at speed turning them on, maintaining speed and lane for minutes, and then just turning the lights back off.
If the guy in front of you does this, it probably means you're tailgating him. Back off and he'll stop. Usually.
If the guy behind you does that, it probably means you're driving too slowly in the left lane. Speed up or move over and he'll stop. Usually.
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@blakeyrat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A (biological) man wearing women's clothes and makeup generally looks like a woman.
No, not really.
A (biological) woman wearing men's clothes and makeup generally looks like a man.
Men's makeup ???
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@boomzilla said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@blakeyrat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
A (biological) man wearing women's clothes and makeup generally looks like a woman.
No, not really.
A (biological) woman wearing men's clothes and makeup generally looks like a man.
Men's makeup ???
Nah. That's markup.
This is makeup
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@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@lb_ So, was it supposed to be 1600x900? That was the other thing that made me go .
No, I intentionally wanted extremely high resolution static just for fun. I didn't expect it to take so much system commit, though.
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@pleegwat said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I learned the 'back off tailgater' signal is flashing your braking lights. Which is annoying if you're on cruise control.
Not only is it annoying for cruise control, it's also very difficult to do without actually applying the brakes. So this should generally be Step 2 if they don't respond to your hazard lights.
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@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
If the guy behind you does that, it probably means you're driving too slowly in the left lane. Speed up or move over and he'll stop. Usually.
I've been tailgated in any and every lane, and it doesn't matter how fast you're going; tailgating is dangerous and illegal. You are never under any obligation to speed up unless there's a minimum speed limit in place. (Which does happen in some jurisdictions.)
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
You are never under any obligation to speed up unless there's a minimum speed limit in place. (Which does happen in some jurisdictions.)
Here in Quebec, highways have a minimum speed of 60 km/h (around 37 mph)
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@lb_ said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@lb_ So, was it supposed to be 1600x900? That was the other thing that made me go .
No, I intentionally wanted extremely high resolution static just for fun. I didn't expect it to take so much system commit, though.
It probably would've been better to just use an uncompressed video format, then.
By my back of the envelope calculations, each frame -- if it's 24-bit color -- would require almost 412 MB of space. And it's also essentially incompressible, so it's going to be chugging away at it for a while trying to compress that much data all while failing to significantly compress it. And since there is 0% correlation between adjacent frames, the next frame won't compress either. So for 10 frames, you're looking at around 4 GB worth of data... even just dumping that to disk uncompressed is going to take quite a long while. The amount of data that you're encoding and compressing is basically the equivalent of a 4 GB DVD, unless the encoder just gives up and throws away most of the information in order to keep the bitrate from being sky-high.
edit: good luck getting that yuge file to read and decode in anything close to real time, though.
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
If the guy behind you does that, it probably means you're driving too slowly in the left lane. Speed up or move over and he'll stop. Usually.
I've been tailgated in any and every lane, and it doesn't matter how fast you're going; tailgating is dangerous and illegal. You are never under any obligation to speed up unless there's a minimum speed limit in place. (Which does happen in some jurisdictions.)
Driving in the left lane of the highway when you're not passing or making a left exit is also dangerous and illegal. And so is impeding the flow of traffic.
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@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Driving in the left lane of the highway when you're not passing or making a left exit is also dangerous and illegal.
Not in general, only where specifically applicable, such as with a sign posted saying "keep right except to pass."
Sure, it sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice, highways often enough tend to be full enough that trying to exclude an entire lane from normal travel operation is simply a pants-on-head retarded idea, and everyone on the road knows it.
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dkf said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
If that's really a problem, try something intended for people who are blind; they usually run much faster than for the sighted. (Fast enough that I for one can't cope at all. OTOH, I read extremely quickly…)
Truth. I have a friend who's blind, and loves playing around with tech stuff. Andanytimeshe'sgotherphonereadingstuff,italwayssoundslikethisandIcanbarelymakeouteverythirdwordorso. But she has no trouble understanding it.
I watch a lot of videos at double speed - I have no trouble understanding them, and I waste half as much time.
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@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@lb_ So, was it supposed to be 1600x900? That was the other thing that made me go .
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Not in general, only where specifically applicable, such as with a sign posted saying "keep right except to pass."
A few states permit use of the left lane only for passing or turning left. These have "yes" in the "keep right" column. Some states require drivers to move right if they are blocking traffic in the left lane. These have "yield" in the "keep right" column. Most states follow the Uniform Vehicle Code and require drivers to keep right if they are going slower than the normal speed of traffic (regardless of the speed limit; see below). These are listed as "slower". A few states either do not require vehicles to keep right ("no"), or permit vehicles moving at the speed limit to drive in the left lane regardless of traffic conditions ("< SL").
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@masonwheeler said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Not in general, only where specifically applicable, such as with a sign posted saying "keep right except to pass."
Or in some jurisdictions.
[EDIT]: Reading the whole thread before replying is a to saying anything. Damnit.
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@dkf talking about traffic laws in general terms is hard, because there's way more variance than with a lot of other laws. Even between States of the US there's a lot of difference.
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@anotherusername said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ben_lubar said in THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
To be fair, there's no law that says you have to listen to police. Otherwise, a lot more deaf people would be in jail.
Actually there is, with a caveat: you have to obey lawful orders that they give. This implies that you do have to at least listen to them. Deaf people just listen differently (i.e. with their eyes, usually) and police are supposed to accommodate for this when giving orders to them.
Let's say I plug my ears and through random chance do what the police officer is asking me to do. Have I committed a crime by doing that?