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by squizzel 3688 days ago
Maybe cut out the "car" because what if a van or truck passes by?!
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zodPod 3688 days ago
And it really is more of a measurement device than a detector. The car is there one way or another, it's measuring the speed of it.

Maybe a "Linux Speed Measurer" however that starts to sound like it's related to measuring the speed of your OS.

Maybe "Linux-based External Object Speed Measurer"

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awqrre 3688 days ago
How about "Object speed measured by image processing (extracted from video input)" or osmbipefvi for short....
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fudged71 3688 days ago
This thread is so pedantic it hurts
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yoavm 3688 days ago
What about "YAM" - Yet Another Measurer?
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ptaipale 3688 days ago
Alas, that story about a bypassing Harrier locking its missiles to a speed radar is not true.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

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zodPod 3688 days ago
Wow. Reading that story annoyed me. Someone really wrote that with all of those obvious inaccuracies in it and someone actually believed it? THen I remember that people share shit 10x worse than this on FB and I got sad instead of annoyed.

Someone please educate someone. Please. lol

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ptaipale 3688 days ago
Well, at least that Harrier story was somehow good-natured, and not just uneducated filth like the glyphosate thing.
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zodPod 3688 days ago
That's true!
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ricardobeat 3688 days ago
Great timing: https://theintercept.com/2016/05/17/new-evidence-about-the-d...
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zodPod 3688 days ago
That said, the image I linked specifically named Glyphosate while the story you posted appears to be saying that it wasn't Glyphosate, it was the co-formulants that are a problem, unless I'm misunderstanding?
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zodPod 3688 days ago
lol shit I picked some random GMO related shareable. Guess I picked the wrong one..
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