There’s a train station a mile from my house and two blocks away from my job, but Google estimates the commute by train at 3 hours each way. If I were to time my commute so that I was driving during the worst traffic possible, my commute by car would still be 50% faster than it would be by train.

I’ve known that for years now, but look at the quote I was responding to:

I’ve known that for years now, but I didn’t know that as a kid growing up in a world without Google.

The reason I made the correction was because of the wording used:

I can’t help but point out that although it’s called the Black Sox Scandal, the players involved in the scandal played for the White Sox.

We’re not talking about high-performance cars here; we’re talking about the kind of driver who says:

Many projectors are moving to LEDs instead of traditional lamps. LEDs last much, much longer and generate less heat.

Sure, marketing costs a lot of money, but I have trouble believing that leaks had any negative impact on Epic’s marketing campaign whatsoever. I mean really, is there even one person out there who saw the picture of the map and thought, “well, now that I’ve seen that I don’t need to play the game now”? I can…

They actually had a similar problem way back in Daggerfall. If you bought a house on the game and tried to put items inside of cabinets, the items would permanently disappear once you closed the inventory window.

Out of curiosity, where do those stats come from? I found a site that also documents lifetime odds of dying to particular causes, and ended up with different numbers from the National Safety Council:

Good call! Now that you mention it, there does appear to be sawdust on the ground in the first picture.

I hadn’t seen that passenger-side picture at the time of typing up my post. That definitely changes everything. The driver-side photos show enough logs of similar length ending right at the end of the trailer that I assumed the whole load was intended to be like that.

Agreed. Plus, even if the log truck could somehow stop quickly, that would just encourage the logs to shift forward on the trailer, not rearward. It looks to me as if the driver was distracted and hit the trailer. Especially if the log truck was accelerating at the time, the impact could have dislodged some of the…

It varies. Very short clips (less than 1 second) can precisely measure speed, but only if the frames/distances are accurately counted/measured. Longer clips are less precise, but in a way that benefits the driver if their speed was variable. Longer clips present an average, so if the speed averaged out to 80mph, that…

The sound doesn’t support that. Even disregarding the high pitched sound of high rpms, there are too many shifts for cruising at 50mph.

If that were the case, opposing traffic would have appeared to be moving much faster.

Blizzard chose to make it their problem by punishing three people for the actions of one. If they had simply ignored the original statement—TOS violation or not—they would not be in this mess. After all, I have a lot of trouble believing Blizzard’s reputation would have been harmed by a single person’s brief opinion…

This is the price Blizzard pays for violating their own TOS. This isn’t happening because one player made a political statement. This is happening because Blizzard as a company implicitly made a political statement by sanctioning that player and two other people caught in the crossfire, thus bringing disrepute to…

There’s a stupidly simple solution to this. Simply stop calling them minivans. Lump them in with SUVs, and it’s no longer possible to categorically dismiss them. Save the minivan name for vehicles like the Transit Connect.

Unless they can somehow make PhotoShop-resistant models, changing the models is going to be a losing battle for Blizzard.