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[jrandom]

Originally posted by 750Y
whats the use of knowing all the road rules when there's only a 1 in a million chance of actually winning the car?

Learning the road rules is free, assuming you already own a copy of the road code. If it costs nothing, a .000001 probability of winning a car is always better than a zero probability.

How many people buy a $5 Lotto ticket every week for an even smaller expected ROE?

Apart from the fact that I've just demonstrated the old truth that gambling is a tax on the mathematically illiterate (is that 'innumerate'? and does the preponderance of such individuals in society allow one to claim that the innumerate are innumerable? ) I'm not sure what I'm proving with the above, except that I'd probably fill out the scratch card if I was handed one. Which none of you probably care about anyway.

[Motoracer]

LOL, very good point 750Y

[Motoracer]

I think the angle of attack is similar to what was succesfull in schools. Why do most kids hate school work? Its boreing/no fun etc. Once they made school work fun, kids started doing better. Likewise I reckon this is their way of makeing people reallise some facts the "fun" way. I am not takeing their side but I think that would be the logic behind it.

[Lou Girardin]

Lets make driving fun! Make them all ride bikes.
At the least it'll teach the survivors good defensive driving skills.
Lou

[What?]

Originally posted by k14
I think that is the best example of people not knowing the road code. I go to uni in christchurch, which has lots of roundabouts. I always do it the way the road code says, but i fell like i am the only person who ever does it!!

You have unwittingly uncovered one of the major flaws, K14.

The road code talks of indicating right-hand turns through roundabouts, but this does not concur with the legal definition of a right-hand turn (crossing the centreline) and the design standards for roundabouts.

As a roundabout has its' centreline in the middle, it is only possible to do a legally defined right-hand turn if you drive onto the island.

No wonder everyone is confused.

[James Deuce]

Originally posted by jrandom
Learning the road rules is free, assuming you already own a copy of the road code. If it costs nothing, a .000001 probability of winning a car is always better than a zero probability.

How many people buy a $5 Lotto ticket every week for an even smaller expected ROE?

Apart from the fact that I've just demonstrated the old truth that gambling is a tax on the mathematically illiterate (is that 'innumerate'? and does the preponderance of such individuals in society allow one to claim that the innumerate are innumerable? ) I'm not sure what I'm proving with the above, except that I'd probably fill out the scratch card if I was handed one. Which none of you probably care about anyway.

Nice!! Not only literate, but nicely constructed and reasoned. Deeply impressed that there is an FXR150 rider with a brain that big, but then most motorbicyclists are over endowed in the cerebral regions.

Good point though. We have a government limiting the number pokies in pubs and publicly decrying the impact of gambling on society (while collecting the tax take from lotto quite happily) coming up with a gambling based solution to make the great unwashed feel happier about being taxed to buggery and told what and when to do things.

Something doesn't ring quite true somehow.

[Big Dog]

Not that this is likely to lead to people paying their registrations more regular ly just to get their gambling fix.

[jrandom]

Originally posted by Jim2
Deeply impressed that there is an FXR150 rider with a brain that big

Shoei Raid, size XL.

Are smart people supposed to ride big bikes, then? Damn. Hey, if someone stereotypes or discriminates based on engine displacement, does that make them a cubist?

Good point though. We have a government limiting the number pokies in pubs and publicly decrying the impact of gambling on society (while collecting the tax take from lotto quite happily) coming up with a gambling based solution to make the great unwashed feel happier about being taxed to buggery

Welcome to the Brave New World.

[Big Dog]

Shoei have specifically singled me out as someone they don't want in their helemets. Their basic shells' neck hole is to small to get one over my ears.

And I think the "cubist's" you refer to are basing their prejudice on penis envy.

Bigger aint always better. Have you ever tried to use a 20oz hammer to put in panel pins?

[750Y]

Originally posted by Jim2
Deeply impressed that there is an FXR150 rider with a brain that big, but then most motorbicyclists are over endowed in the cerebral regions.

lmao