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@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@tiagom said in Non-IT News Thread:
Looked at some of the google maps pics.
I have one question.. Why the hell did you leave?
Its beautiful.
It is... lived a few hundred meters from the seas, so basically my summer was like getting home, get your bathing clothes, get into the sea. Beer with friends. But I was offered a very good job, in the south of Hamburg. And I didn't want to drive 50km one-way every single day.
Well, wouldn't that be like 10 minutes on the autobahn?
More like 1 hour+
Yeah, but mericans like to day dream about no-speed-limit roads.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tiagom said in Non-IT News Thread:
Looked at some of the google maps pics.
I have one question.. Why the hell did you leave?
Its beautiful.
It is... lived a few hundred meters from the seas, so basically my summer was like getting home, get your bathing clothes, get into the sea. Beer with friends. But I was offered a very good job, in the south of Hamburg. And I didn't want to drive 50km one-way every single day.
Well, wouldn't that be like 10 minutes on the autobahn?
More like 1 hour+
Yeah, but mericans like to day dream about no-speed-limit roads.
Haha, that's the theory... In reality, we Germans have in fact the most amount of traffic signs in the world. Speed limit nearly everywhere.
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@thwr Due to traffic?
I do 20 miles one way a day and it can easy take over a hour because of the damn traffic. Hate it
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@tiagom said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr Due to traffic?
I do 20 miles one way a day and it can easy take over a hour because of the damn traffic. Hate it
Traffic problems, I'll see your traffic problems and raise you the most ancient non-human powered transportation systems around.
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@tiagom said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr Due to traffic?
I do 20 miles one way a day and it can easy take over a hour because of the damn traffic. Hate it
Yes, traffic is a serious issue here at times. For example, I'm doing like 15km now and it can take up to an hour at times. Doing the 15km in 35 mins is pretty good.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tiagom said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr Due to traffic?
I do 20 miles one way a day and it can easy take over a hour because of the damn traffic. Hate it
Traffic problems, I'll see your traffic problems and raise you the most ancient non-human powered transportation systems around.
Who exactly was from Amish Country?
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@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tiagom said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr Due to traffic?
I do 20 miles one way a day and it can easy take over a hour because of the damn traffic. Hate it
Traffic problems, I'll see your traffic problems and raise you the most ancient non-human powered transportation systems around.
Who exactly was from Amish Country?
Well, you've got many who are from Amish Country around here, few of us are still around the area tho.
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hey no ML while driving.
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@tiagom said in Non-IT News Thread:
hey no ML while driving.
The horse knows the way home, when you've gotten plastered at the local bar all you have to do is unhitch the horse
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hahahaha. up vote for you sir
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I drive almost 40 km to work and it usually takes 25-30 minutes, also depends on what I'm sharing the road with.
At one point I was driving about 70km one way and occasionally had to contend with mining equipment (trucks with parts of excavators much bigger than the transport truck or the large mining vehicles).
Now it's farming equipment and slow pokes.
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@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:
Now it's farming equipment and slow pokes.
AND? The farm equipment are the fast ones?
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It does seem that way.
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@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:
I drive almost 40 km to work and it usually takes 25-30 minutes, also depends on what I'm sharing the road with.
At one point I was driving about 70km one way and occasionally had to contend with mining equipment (trucks with parts of excavators much bigger than the transport truck or the large mining vehicles).
Now it's farming equipment and slow pokes.
Sounds like upstate NY. I drive ~20 miles to work everyday and 4 out of 5 times I get stuck behind a car going 30-35 in a 55. Frustrating... and they don't have passing lanes where I live so no way to get around them.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:
I drive almost 40 km to work and it usually takes 25-30 minutes, also depends on what I'm sharing the road with.
At one point I was driving about 70km one way and occasionally had to contend with mining equipment (trucks with parts of excavators much bigger than the transport truck or the large mining vehicles).
Now it's farming equipment and slow pokes.
Sounds like upstate NY. I drive ~20 miles to work everyday and 4 out of 5 times I get stuck behind a car going 30-35 in a 55. Frustrating... and they don't have passing lanes where I live so no way to get around them.
You get that in the Texas cities. Upstate NY pokey drivers have nothing on the slow people here.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:
I drive almost 40 km to work and it usually takes 25-30 minutes, also depends on what I'm sharing the road with.
At one point I was driving about 70km one way and occasionally had to contend with mining equipment (trucks with parts of excavators much bigger than the transport truck or the large mining vehicles).
Now it's farming equipment and slow pokes.
Sounds like upstate NY. I drive ~20 miles to work everyday and 4 out of 5 times I get stuck behind a car going 30-35 in a 55. Frustrating... and they don't have passing lanes where I live so no way to get around them.
You get that in the Texas cities. Upstate NY pokey drivers have nothing on the slow people here.
This. This is so true. Oh, and NYers aren't terrified of rain...Texans? When it rains you'd think that it was a white out. I've seen NYers driving faster on city roads in the middle of a blizzard and being totally safe than Texans on the highway after it's been raining for HOURS because the ground is wet.
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So adding competition is bad for competition?
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@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:
I drive almost 40 km to work and it usually takes 25-30 minutes, also depends on what I'm sharing the road with.
At one point I was driving about 70km one way and occasionally had to contend with mining equipment (trucks with parts of excavators much bigger than the transport truck or the large mining vehicles).
Now it's farming equipment and slow pokes.
Sounds like upstate NY. I drive ~20 miles to work everyday and 4 out of 5 times I get stuck behind a car going 30-35 in a 55. Frustrating... and they don't have passing lanes where I live so no way to get around them.
You get that in the Texas cities. Upstate NY pokey drivers have nothing on the slow people here.
This. This is so true. Oh, and NYers aren't terrified of rain...Texans? When it rains you'd think that it was a white out. I've seen NYers driving faster on city roads in the middle of a blizzard and being totally safe than Texans on the highway after it's been raining for HOURS because the ground is wet.
Everyone in Atlanta turns instantly stupid when it rains... or when it looks like it might rain. And it rains here, with regularity.
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:
I drive almost 40 km to work and it usually takes 25-30 minutes, also depends on what I'm sharing the road with.
At one point I was driving about 70km one way and occasionally had to contend with mining equipment (trucks with parts of excavators much bigger than the transport truck or the large mining vehicles).
Now it's farming equipment and slow pokes.
Sounds like upstate NY. I drive ~20 miles to work everyday and 4 out of 5 times I get stuck behind a car going 30-35 in a 55. Frustrating... and they don't have passing lanes where I live so no way to get around them.
You get that in the Texas cities. Upstate NY pokey drivers have nothing on the slow people here.
This. This is so true. Oh, and NYers aren't terrified of rain...Texans? When it rains you'd think that it was a white out. I've seen NYers driving faster on city roads in the middle of a blizzard and being totally safe than Texans on the highway after it's been raining for HOURS because the ground is wet.
Everyone in Atlanta turns instantly stupid when it rains... or when it looks like it might rain. And it rains here, with regularity.
A lot of people here seem to think that their cars gain 500Kw when it rains. All kinds of stupid stuff. Cupcakes.
