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Megway - New Competition For The Segway
mikep.maine writes "The personal mobility market is heating up. Witness this practical device featured by
Megway. I already have one, but it isn't cheap." Check Yahoo! personals for availability.
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OK, so now that the site has finally loaded, I can see that this is a [not very funny] joke site. Seriously, I see that Timothy put on the headline that it is from the lighten-up joke dept, but if you are going to post a fake site on a supposed news site, at least make sure you bandwidth test it before posting. You could've had 200 of your closest friends load the site and see how fast it loads... scale that up by 3 orders of magnitude and you can determine that a joke that takes 20 minutes to load isn't all that funny.
/., I'd prefer to keep the joke stories confined to Apr 1st.
Also, as a long-time reader of
IANAL, but I play one on
Some of your replies:
So what's the point? To make people look even more stupid that they do on a segway?
to the tremendous hype that was built around it. There was one good fallout from all the hype though. People started to think of alternatives. That I believe is the true value of the Segway and now the "MegWay"
If Lindows lost to MS, then Megway is certainly going to be sued by (and lose to) the Segway guys.
It's very similar to the Segway, certainly in the same market, and it's name only differs by one letter. Surely Segway's lawyers won't be happy.
Did anyone even read the article? Newsflash (with annoying scolling subtitle): Its a spoof.
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
News? Hardly. Google shows this foolishness was on the web in December 2001. It wasn't very funny then, and it is even less funny today.
Can we have a subject category for irrelevant, boring dupes?
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
Let's not pretend. Biking in the midst of the SUV arms race is definately a form of Darwinianism.
Which is why I 1. do not ride on the side of the road. (If you do you will experience a great number of near misses)
If the road doesn't have a clear safe shoulder - I ride on the left-hand side of middle
This forces the SUV to go all the way in the other lane to pass.
If you don't force the full - lane pass - they wil attempt the partial lane pass - this is where they squeeze through even if there is oncoming traffic.
Generally - you WANT somebody stuck behind you - then you know nobody is going to hit you going 70.
So they get pissed - So what. Its their lungs If saving too. - If they really cared they would vote for bike lanes - and if they don't care - i don't either.
So you have to go out there with the attitude that says you own the whole damn road (unless there is a good shoulder).
AIK