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A couple of rural places have some weird examples of where they have close junctions with a train track dividing them. You could still put the train track through the middle of the peanut and have good room to stop traffic safely while still making it a useful junction, I would think.
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Oh, and did I mention that probate courts in that place are directly elected in a partisan vote?
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Some of the judges he has had to deal with are abysmally corrupt too. One judge even gave parties notice of like two hours to show up for vital hearings even if their witnesses lived 2000 km away, as a way of encouraging them to settle and not defend their legal rights they are supposed to have.
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It would also substantially improve the freedom of the people of Iran, especially women and anyone with an IQ exceeding his.
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They become the Supreme Litre of Iran
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I was thinking about these being useful ways to cheaply help with safety in the vast expanse over here, twice the size of Europe with 5% of its population. Roundabouts should be able to handle the junctions between the major roads that don't use a vorrangsplein (or an interchange or flyover)
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I meant having the cyclist have this kind of angle vs riding in a perpendicular direction to the motor lanes, not whether they should have a median in general.
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I thought you didn't like the annular model for roundabouts and preferred the kind David Hembrow discussed.
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It has 80 electrons, one more than gold. They actually go fast enough that Einstein's relativity comes into play and the atom gets denser. Also, it's electron shells are full in a way that makes it form weak bonds, and only with itself, so it is easy to flow around at low temperatures.
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I meant why you think it is a liquid above that temperature when to melt something like iron or even lead takes heating it up hundreds of degrees Celsius above the boiling point of water.
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When you press the button to detonate them but they don't go off.
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I also add that it makes transit priority signalling more of a headache. My city is adopting trams, but better (more consistent priority signals and 100% segregated lanes, spacing 800-2500 m apart), and giving them a signal to proceed takes more time than they should which wears out their brakes.
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Yup. The SAT test American universities use had the wrong answer in 1982. Some 17 year old told them they were wrong and proved it. The question was voided that year.
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I read another disaster at a Kansas hotel where they switched the bolts without checking their maths. Hyatt Regency. Made the bolt, IE screw threads, responsible for all the weight below them and not mery their own floor