Posts by Andrew Poodle

Deterrents and policing?

I've got anti-elephant devices planted around my garden to prevent elephants from destroying my vegetable patch.

They must work, I've not suffered an elephant attack ever.

Postgres an "alternative"?

I don't see Postgres as a direct alternative to MySQL. Sure, there's overlap, but MySQL has and always will have the edge in the web environment where speed and ease of use and installation has been it's strengths.

With so much more web technologies out there, and with the web "platform" becoming more widely used, and more flexible in what it can offer, I don't see MySQL's market being eroded by Postgres to any significant extent.

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I've seen far worse at legal speeds

Apart from the speed itself (which I would also dispute as being 189mph) That riding didn't appear particularly dangerous.

If you look in the reflection of the speedometer, you can even see him do a lifesaver over his left shoulder on the roundabout. He was obviously well aware of the traffic, and slowed when he approached other vehicles. The point regarding pedestrians is also somewhat irrelevant, as even at 70mph, any driver or rider would be unable to stop shoud a ped-lemming decided to cross a busy dual carriageway without looking properly.

People in this country need to stop blaming everything on speed, and look at driver education. I'm sure there are far more fatalities at legal speeds that are down to stupidity.