Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Stewart,
If your host is pouring drinks for you, how do you monitor the alcohol content accurately?
If it's spirits, it's a lot more dicking around, for sure, you have to measure the actual spirits used. But for beer and wine, the actual amount is pretty indicative, and you can measure either by the amount poured or the amount left. It's one of the most useful things about drinking from bottles, that you know how much you've had.
Relying on people to 'err on the side of caution' isn't going to work for a fair %age of the population.
Yes, those calculations are predicated around making an actual effort to stay legal, and knowing what a safety margin is.
If you want more accuracy, personal breath-testers are pretty cheap and compact these days, for anyone who must push the limits. Mind you, even those generally aim to just break it down to "safe", "caution" and "danger" levels, with "danger" beginning at 0.05%. Otherwise, I guess, it encourages people to compete on how drunk they are. You'd be getting:
@buddies W00t just blew .2! cu dogz soon! -
Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Stewart,
The old "two drinks in the first hour and one every hour thereafter" is pretty safe for most of the population, if followed correctly*. Small people (as in, less than 45 kg) will be on or slightly over the limit, and should be more conservative (drop one of the drinks?), but average adult males will be hovering around 0.05 if they stick to that. I'm a little surprised to find that I could supposedly neck 5 beers and be under the limit 40 mins after the drinking commenced.
*A standard drink has to be actually standard for this to work ie it must have 18ml of alcohol in it, approximately.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Did they not have any going off over Albert Park?
Apparently not, which is why I headed over towards Sky Tower. But I left it a little late (hadn't factored in the dick-around-getting-onto-the-bike variable), and didn't really get to pick the best spot. But I was stoked about the final shot, especially since the fireworks mode on the camera doesn't just let you point and shoot, it's quite sensitive to you being steady and it getting focus.
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Matthew Poole,
By the time you’re at 0.8 you’re well past the point of being capable of deciding if you’re safe to drive.
It's quite high, for sure. For me, that's 5 cans of beer in one hour based on my weight. But I don't think I'd be so drunk that I couldn't count, which would be the main way of assessing whether I was legal or not. We can debate about whether legal is safe in this case, but what I'm saying is that being unable to even assess what your BAC is likely to be mostly factors around being somewhat careless in keeping a track on your consumption volume and time.
I'd say this is much more likely when drinking in public than at home, where the empty bottles can easily be counted. Also considerably more likely with wine and spirits, which are usually served inaccurately in glasses, and have highly variable alcohol content.
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Also, this one, the reflection of the branch burst in the ASB tower is kind of cool.
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OK, this one is kind of interesting, mostly on account of the curious hand movement. I had just jumped off my bike, after riding hard up Wellesley St. The show began before I was ready, dammit! Anyhoo, I think it's likely that the lines that look a little like a pulse scan are, in fact, exactly that! My heart was absolutely pounding, so the little bounce is most likely, IMHO, to be a heartbeat translating through my hands.
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Grand Fireworks Finale, Lantern Festival.
Seen through a curtain of lights, nearly directly below the Sky Tower. Of the 20 shots of the fireworks I took, only this one worked. So stoked that it was the actual finale. I wasn't quite in place when the display started, only halfway up Wellesley St on my bike. Basically, all the traffic stopped, everyone got out of their cars, and everyone just stared upward at the display. It was a pretty cool moment.
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Anyone going to be there tonight? I'll be there with my proper camera this time. All my phone cam shots from last night were weak. Some time around 8, I'd expect.
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Of course, someone fleeing police may not have any intent of injuring anyone, so treating that as murder kinda mucks up the rest of your position around intent.
Yes, I don't think there's anything wrong with there being a number of positions between accident and murder. Nor with murder having a gradation of punishment depending on factors relating to the heinousness of the crime. A deliberate, planned murder, where pains are taken to make sure that the victim is dead, is, IMHO, a much worse crime than killing someone on the spur of the moment, which is in turn worse than being reckless, resulting in death.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
What a mad but happy scene it is, so crowded our group was almost instantly separated and it would have been impossible to meet up at our suggested meeting place – the fountain. The fountain had been overtaken by swarms of teens hanging out with the dragons.
It sure was crowded, I was pretty amazed. There was so much noise coming from the fountain area I thought there was some special entertainment, but no, it was just teens in a state of high excitement.
It was, IMHO, much more interesting/entertaining/exciting than 31st December (the other New Year's).
That fountain shot is excellent. Is the white blur across the middle someone walking past?
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