Physics is not accessible to mathematics, Mathematics is just a tool physics uses on formalized abstractions of physics.
Underlying this is an assumption that reality is not itself mathematical. This assumption isn't justified.
Furthermore, physics can indeed drive mathematics. For instance, see the invention of quantum logic and generalized probability theory.
The assumption that the Universe is mathematical isn't justified. The fact that math is physical is justified. All math we do exists in the Universe, whether we're using math to describe the Universe (what we can see and know of it) or whether we're wanking about with ridiculous shit like string theory. No amount of math can fully describe the Universe as no entity within a system can know the full nature of the system with certainty.
Math is a tool used to describe patterns. Physics is a model describing the Universe The Universe is everything The Turtle is standing on another Turtle
The above cannot be challenged in court. No court in the Universe holds jurisdiction over this. The contributor didn't sell you OpenSSL, he didn't force you to use it, it didn't tell you to use it, he didn't make any guarantees about its functionality, you have no contract, no warranty, no expectation for it to actually do anything, etc. You may as well sue someone after walking into their house uninvited, listening to them whistle while they're sitting on the toilet, and hearing a missed note.
Conan should've fought to jump into bed with Fox when they were mulling the idea over, affiliate issues be damned. It's not like it's a live show, let them air it whenever the fuck their news block ends. Fox is the only network that can actually harness his demo and generate ad revenue (via traditional broadcast ratings or "rich media integration" or whatever they call the internet today). He was dead at TBS before he started, just as we was in the earlier hour on The Tonight Show. NBC offering to push The Tonight Show back an hour and give him his old time slot back was actually very generous. But Conan wanted an ideal of The Tonight Show that didn't exist anymore. Anyone who watched Leno (or his audience) over the years would have known that.
If that's bankrupting you you likely don't have data worth replicating that much. Besides, the point is to spend $XXXX on RAID instead of $XXXXX on data recovery or $XXXXXX on lost business / court settlements.
I have OpenVPN installed on my portable devices, and it connects back to my VPN server, using my own CA. I have the devices set to use the VPN server as the gateway so when I'm doing any kind of data retrieval that I want to keep confidential, it's going through an encrypted tunnel. Yes, it does slow things down a bit, but I find most public WiFi sucks pretty serious donkey balls anyways.
Nothing is 100% secure, but I pretty much treat any public network; airport, airplane, hotel, restaurant, or the like as hostile territory.
That's all pointless. They've tapped your home connection too. Your ISP gives them anything they want on a silver platter.
So you experience includes tracking every person, looking for repeat behavior trending with time and gaining intimate knowledge of their home life?
Or, you are just wrong. I think I"m going to go with you are just wrong.
If his experience includes playing games, it's more experience than Jeffrey Lin has. He never actually analyzed player conduct, let alone player conduct in context of the game.
All Lin did was filter chat logs to people who said "report" and cross referenced that list with the list of report submitters where no action was taken. 2 week auto ban for anyone who said "report" in in-game chat and had a failed report. in game behavior of the reporter was not analyzed, nor was that of the reported, nor was the report or the people who evaluated them, nor were the actual chat logs, nor were any audio logs. (No MOBA I'm aware of stores or reviews voice chat, so if you want to troll your team you do it over voice chat because it's an unactionable haven while you attack move down mid lane to feed.)
There's tons of shit you can't legally do a car (both modification and maintenance) without certification depending on where you're from. The simplest and most routine example would be a smog check. In California you need an official smog check to register your vehicle. Repairs can only be performed by specially (and separately) licensed shops. Plenty of other states have similar regulations.
Taking your hazardous material to a disposal place and paying a fee? Let's be honest - no one fucking does that. Not for cooking oil, not for batteries, not for anything.
A lift would be the most obvious, then there's the equipment to properly read and reset the proprietary computers in the car which refuse to adhere to an industry standard for diagnostic codes, if you ever need to take the engine out you'll need a hoist, then there's the equipment needed to properly flush and fill various fluid lines, and I doubt you're installing tires and balancing your wheels by hand, you'll need a cheap ($$ - $$$) but unique tool just to be able to replace other parts - a compressor for work on shocks/struts, various long-head wrenches or security drivers, etc. That's ignoring any body or electrical work.
You can change your own oil and belts, but you're not the family mechanic anymore than you're the family lawyer, family doctor, etc. It's not affordable, not practical, and unless you're an ACTUAL mechanic, some of what the OP claimed to do (which is EVERYTHING) is not legal.
Spend 5 seconds to think about some AC's claim instead of taking it at face value. It's bullshit.
The first question should have been "Who are you and why should I care?". My only guess based on TFS is that he's the guy behind the "Code Monkey" song/video. Is that all it takes to be an "internet rock star"? What is an "internet rock star" anyway?
I'm not criticizing him, I'm criticizing the useless questions and lack of any introduction at all for this "interview". When Dicedot assumes I know about (and care about) Thing X and I have no idea wtf Thing X is or why I should care, it makes me less likely to come here as the site is clearly looking for a different audience.
This interview seems mainly concerned with asking a musician about his troubles with copyright, with a bonus dash of "OMG you're so creative" gushing and the obligatory "How can I be creative like you?" "Just be creative!" throwaway question and response at the end.
This sort of shit is why Ask Slashdot is a joke. Even if the subject is one of interest, nothing of worth is asked or answered because questions are hand picked by Dice employees who care more about securing future interviews (clicks) than they do about the quality of their content. I fucking hate Reddit, but their "Ask Me Anything" shit is infinitely better than Ask Slashdot because interesting and challenging questions can be posed and either answered or not. And at least when they're not answered, it's on-record that the person chose not to answer that question as opposed to merely not being asked the question at all.
There's no fucking reason for Ask Slashdot to continue the way it is. What you should fucking do is run the Ask Slashdot question collection article, archive it, and have the interviewee respond directly to the questions in the article after filtering the obvious trolls (GNAA/goatse/etc. are trolls, asking RMS what he ate off of his foot is not a troll as long as it remains unaddressed). Once the interviewee is done, post a new article that pulls in and formats the best questions and responses, along with a link to the full original article with ALL of the questions and responses. Unarchive the original article for the standard duration of a new article so people can discuss as usual. If you're worried about having 2 articles discussing the same thing, then simply add the edited interview (chosen questions and responses) to the body of the original Ask Slashdot article, unarchive it, and repost to the main page. Do NOT filter the original questions (or trolls). Only the article body - a selection of questions and responses from the original Ask Slashdot discussion - should have any editing done to it.
No, but I'm sure you'll end up having an idiot light blinking along with a voice recorder saying there's an issue. Then come time for inspections, you'll get a fail sticker because OBD II has picked up an error code on one of the cameras. This is all coming from a guy that fixes his own vehicles. Ya'll want to pay some monkey in a suit to hack away at a vehicle that you trust your loved ones in by all means go for it. Last time someone worked on one of my cars it was for an oil change and I lost a tire at 50 mph. 22 years later I still won't allow anyone to work on my vehicles.
I'm sure the majority on/. don't even pump their own gas. I just speak from my perspective as the guy that has to fix all this electronic shit.
There's absolutely no way you are certified to perform all regulated maintenance and inspections, properly dispose of hazardous materials, or invest tens of thousands of dollars into equipment you use once in a blue moon for your personal vehicles. Either you're being negligent with your vehicles and breaking the law with certain things (like emissions checks or whatever the fuck else is regulated in your area), or lying.
i can see streaming for shows, but not for live events. not enough bandwidth and it's dumb to stream live sports via TCP/IP when there is a better protocol being used
Multicast works perfectly for this. If cable companies transitioned to IPv6 they could easily and efficiently multicast a single live feed to all boxes, all boxes in a given market, whatever. It's workable with IPv4, but you've got fewer addresses and you'll be choking the pipe because it's more of an all or nothing approach.
I gave up cable television years ago. I'm currently running a fileserver serving a combination of my own ripped media (300 seasons of TV-on-DVD/Blu, 600 or so films, a handful of purchased digital content) and a ton of pirated stuff. I live in a jurisdiction where this isn't illegal, and if I lived in a jurisdiction where it was illegal, I'd use a proxy and pirate anyway. My fileserver streams to AppleTV2s in every room with a TV. Each is hacked to run on XBMC, and I use a python script to synchronize play information between them. I have python scripts that automatically move downloaded files to the appropriate folders, I use ShowRSS to automatically pirate my TV, and I use a python script to scrape new release films from Rotten Tomatoes and pirate this too. I occasionally subscribe to Netflix, but only as a discovery mechanism and my use is rare. My tech-illiterate retirement-aged mother can use my TV just fine because it has an intuitive UI.
I don't say this to brag. Anyone can pirate, it's nothing to be proud of. Quite the opposite. I mention it because anyone can pirate. If you want to give up cable and satellite, give up cable and satellite. Pay for what you want to, let the companies deal with the consequences. I've actually never heard of a satisfied cable customer. "From our cold dead hands"? Of course not. It's a buyer's--or pirate's--market. Do what you want to do.
"I live in a jurisdiction where this isn't illegal" - Bullshit. You just don't give a fuck.
"My fileserver streams to AppleTV2s in every room with a TV." - Bullshit. No pirate would use AppleTV to play shit because it can't handle a lot of the higher quality encodes out there.
"I use a python script to synchronize play information between them." - More bullshit. I'm not saying you can't I'm saying you wouldn't, because it's pointless.
"I have python scripts that automatically move downloaded files to the appropriate folders" - I'm not even sure what this actually means, but it's bullshit because it's impossible to normalize content titles out of release names and it's pointless if you're using XBMC - everything can just live in one fucking source folder.
"I use a python script to scrape new release films from Rotten Tomatoes and pirate this too." - More bullshit that doesn't even make any fucking sense. Why would you scrape against RT? Why wouldn't you just reverse your release name to content title script? Why would you be scraping against RT when you could get the releases weeks in advance?
has anyone other than the raspberry pi people ever seen or used this protocol? stop reinventing the fucking wheel for no other reason than the existing wheel isn't proprietary enough
CEC is trash. I often don't want commands passed to other devices.
On my parents' setup, sometimes the optical input mappings get switched. You try to watch TV but you get no sound, you try to watch some shit on the Roku but you get the audio from the cable box, etc.
There's no way to fix it with the remote without going through the menus, breaking the link, then playing each source, starting with bluray, so it can rebuild the mappings. If you use the input switching button on the receiver's remote, VieraLINK thinks you want to switch video inputs, so it switches video inputs and uses its last remembered audio input for that (which is wrong).
Pretty much solves the problem. Hook up an HD Home Run Prime, you get 3 recorders, ability to play any media you want, netflix, hulu, probably more but I don't use any of the other services.
One remote
One UI
No cable company box rental, (they have to give you ONE cable card at no cost if you don't use their crappy box).
Extenders to allow a shared DVR experience using Xbox 360.
The problem you keep running into is you're using devices from a specific content provider, of course they are going to do everything they can to make sure THEY get top billing. You have to use equipment from someone who doesn't sell you the content if you want to actually get something that doesn't suck and doesn't lock (or try very hard) you into one content provider.
TiVo is another such example, though I don't know how well it integrates netflix and the like as I haven't used one since the first model was produced.
-- BitZtream
CableCARDs don't have to be free, they have to be provided at a "nominal" cost, which is $0 - $8 per month in my experience. Furthermore, you likely won't get access to on demand, pay-per-view, or premium channels because cable companies don't have to support the 2-way communication shit. Sports stuff can also be affected , I believe.
A VW Jetta TDI gets far better MPG and is a lot more fun to drive. Similar with a Mazda 2.
There is one and only good thing about a SMART car. It is very easy to park. If someone lives in a place other than Paris, NYC, Chicago, Boston, DC, or other large metro area, this advantage is mitigated by the fact that the SMART car will bounce around like a top when struck in a wreck, possibly causing secondary collisions (which the owner/driver of the SMART car will be legally responsible for.)
Plus, with an ad campaign of:
"German Engineering Swiss Innovation American Nothing"
it is no wonder why the vehicle isn't appreciated on US shores.
I thought you added the "American Nothing" bit yourself. Nope. It's legit. http://i.imgur.com/2GJFYQD.jpg Looks like they brought the hate on themselves.
Dear poster.. read your own post. At the expensive cost of the car owners? That means these assholes caused damage... what? damage? Then yes, it is OBVIOUSLY a crime.
A little thinking goes a long way.
A little reading does, too.
"Is it a crime of opportunity or another page in the current chapter of Anti-Tech movement in San Francisco?" TFS states that it is a crime. It is asking if the crime was done just because some idiots were bored and saw some smart cars, or if it was done because some idiots specifically want to fuck with San Francisco techster types.
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Underlying this is an assumption that reality is not itself mathematical. This assumption isn't justified.
Furthermore, physics can indeed drive mathematics. For instance, see the invention of quantum logic and generalized probability theory.
The assumption that the Universe is mathematical isn't justified.
The fact that math is physical is justified. All math we do exists in the Universe, whether we're using math to describe the Universe (what we can see and know of it) or whether we're wanking about with ridiculous shit like string theory.
No amount of math can fully describe the Universe as no entity within a system can know the full nature of the system with certainty.
Math is a tool used to describe patterns.
Physics is a model describing the Universe
The Universe is everything
The Turtle is standing on another Turtle
- "why there is something rather than nothing?"
- "What do you mean by 'why'?"
- "What does "you" mean?"
Let's just cut to the chase.
What?
Self-loathing nerds, clearly.
The above cannot be challenged in court. No court in the Universe holds jurisdiction over this. The contributor didn't sell you OpenSSL, he didn't force you to use it, it didn't tell you to use it, he didn't make any guarantees about its functionality, you have no contract, no warranty, no expectation for it to actually do anything, etc.
You may as well sue someone after walking into their house uninvited, listening to them whistle while they're sitting on the toilet, and hearing a missed note.
Meanwhile at CONACO:http://conanhuman.ytmnd.com/
Conan should've fought to jump into bed with Fox when they were mulling the idea over, affiliate issues be damned. It's not like it's a live show, let them air it whenever the fuck their news block ends. Fox is the only network that can actually harness his demo and generate ad revenue (via traditional broadcast ratings or "rich media integration" or whatever they call the internet today).
He was dead at TBS before he started, just as we was in the earlier hour on The Tonight Show. NBC offering to push The Tonight Show back an hour and give him his old time slot back was actually very generous. But Conan wanted an ideal of The Tonight Show that didn't exist anymore. Anyone who watched Leno (or his audience) over the years would have known that.
Please [diety], let this guy be watching bull riding.
He is, but in my opinion it makes the furious masturbation more disturbing, not less.
I see you have a fancy stove. You must be an excellent chef.
I see you have a fancy mouth...
If that's bankrupting you you likely don't have data worth replicating that much.
Besides, the point is to spend $XXXX on RAID instead of $XXXXX on data recovery or $XXXXXX on lost business / court settlements.
I have OpenVPN installed on my portable devices, and it connects back to my VPN server, using my own CA. I have the devices set to use the VPN server as the gateway so when I'm doing any kind of data retrieval that I want to keep confidential, it's going through an encrypted tunnel. Yes, it does slow things down a bit, but I find most public WiFi sucks pretty serious donkey balls anyways.
Nothing is 100% secure, but I pretty much treat any public network; airport, airplane, hotel, restaurant, or the like as hostile territory.
That's all pointless. They've tapped your home connection too. Your ISP gives them anything they want on a silver platter.
So you experience includes tracking every person, looking for repeat behavior trending with time and gaining intimate knowledge of their home life?
Or, you are just wrong. I think I"m going to go with you are just wrong.
If his experience includes playing games, it's more experience than Jeffrey Lin has. He never actually analyzed player conduct, let alone player conduct in context of the game.
All Lin did was filter chat logs to people who said "report" and cross referenced that list with the list of report submitters where no action was taken. 2 week auto ban for anyone who said "report" in in-game chat and had a failed report. in game behavior of the reporter was not analyzed, nor was that of the reported, nor was the report or the people who evaluated them, nor were the actual chat logs, nor were any audio logs. (No MOBA I'm aware of stores or reviews voice chat, so if you want to troll your team you do it over voice chat because it's an unactionable haven while you attack move down mid lane to feed.)
Says Mr. Pinkiedick.
We just say Dinkie.
There's tons of shit you can't legally do a car (both modification and maintenance) without certification depending on where you're from. The simplest and most routine example would be a smog check. In California you need an official smog check to register your vehicle. Repairs can only be performed by specially (and separately) licensed shops. Plenty of other states have similar regulations.
Taking your hazardous material to a disposal place and paying a fee? Let's be honest - no one fucking does that. Not for cooking oil, not for batteries, not for anything.
A lift would be the most obvious, then there's the equipment to properly read and reset the proprietary computers in the car which refuse to adhere to an industry standard for diagnostic codes, if you ever need to take the engine out you'll need a hoist, then there's the equipment needed to properly flush and fill various fluid lines, and I doubt you're installing tires and balancing your wheels by hand, you'll need a cheap ($$ - $$$) but unique tool just to be able to replace other parts - a compressor for work on shocks/struts, various long-head wrenches or security drivers, etc. That's ignoring any body or electrical work.
You can change your own oil and belts, but you're not the family mechanic anymore than you're the family lawyer, family doctor, etc. It's not affordable, not practical, and unless you're an ACTUAL mechanic, some of what the OP claimed to do (which is EVERYTHING) is not legal.
Spend 5 seconds to think about some AC's claim instead of taking it at face value. It's bullshit.
Professor Parkin work dealt mainly with spinning disks for data storage.
Parkin's son's work deals mostly with shaking.
The first question should have been "Who are you and why should I care?".
My only guess based on TFS is that he's the guy behind the "Code Monkey" song/video. Is that all it takes to be an "internet rock star"?
What is an "internet rock star" anyway?
I'm not criticizing him, I'm criticizing the useless questions and lack of any introduction at all for this "interview". When Dicedot assumes I know about (and care about) Thing X and I have no idea wtf Thing X is or why I should care, it makes me less likely to come here as the site is clearly looking for a different audience.
This interview seems mainly concerned with asking a musician about his troubles with copyright, with a bonus dash of "OMG you're so creative" gushing and the obligatory "How can I be creative like you?" "Just be creative!" throwaway question and response at the end.
This sort of shit is why Ask Slashdot is a joke. Even if the subject is one of interest, nothing of worth is asked or answered because questions are hand picked by Dice employees who care more about securing future interviews (clicks) than they do about the quality of their content. I fucking hate Reddit, but their "Ask Me Anything" shit is infinitely better than Ask Slashdot because interesting and challenging questions can be posed and either answered or not. And at least when they're not answered, it's on-record that the person chose not to answer that question as opposed to merely not being asked the question at all.
There's no fucking reason for Ask Slashdot to continue the way it is. What you should fucking do is run the Ask Slashdot question collection article, archive it, and have the interviewee respond directly to the questions in the article after filtering the obvious trolls (GNAA/goatse/etc. are trolls, asking RMS what he ate off of his foot is not a troll as long as it remains unaddressed). Once the interviewee is done, post a new article that pulls in and formats the best questions and responses, along with a link to the full original article with ALL of the questions and responses. Unarchive the original article for the standard duration of a new article so people can discuss as usual. If you're worried about having 2 articles discussing the same thing, then simply add the edited interview (chosen questions and responses) to the body of the original Ask Slashdot article, unarchive it, and repost to the main page. Do NOT filter the original questions (or trolls). Only the article body - a selection of questions and responses from the original Ask Slashdot discussion - should have any editing done to it.
OP here.
No, but I'm sure you'll end up having an idiot light blinking along with a voice recorder saying there's an issue. Then come time for inspections, you'll get a fail sticker because OBD II has picked up an error code on one of the cameras. This is all coming from a guy that fixes his own vehicles. Ya'll want to pay some monkey in a suit to hack away at a vehicle that you trust your loved ones in by all means go for it. Last time someone worked on one of my cars it was for an oil change and I lost a tire at 50 mph. 22 years later I still won't allow anyone to work on my vehicles.
I'm sure the majority on /. don't even pump their own gas. I just speak from my perspective as the guy that has to fix all this electronic shit.
There's absolutely no way you are certified to perform all regulated maintenance and inspections, properly dispose of hazardous materials, or invest tens of thousands of dollars into equipment you use once in a blue moon for your personal vehicles. Either you're being negligent with your vehicles and breaking the law with certain things (like emissions checks or whatever the fuck else is regulated in your area), or lying.
We need a VR version of goatse
Earth to you: Read what I was fucking responding to, dumbass.
means that Microsoft could very soon produce its own smartphones using the Windows Phone operating system
?
MS doesn't actually make the phones, you see. They make the OS and rely on OEMs to make hardware it runs on.
i can see streaming for shows, but not for live events. not enough bandwidth and it's dumb to stream live sports via TCP/IP when there is a better protocol being used
Multicast works perfectly for this.
If cable companies transitioned to IPv6 they could easily and efficiently multicast a single live feed to all boxes, all boxes in a given market, whatever.
It's workable with IPv4, but you've got fewer addresses and you'll be choking the pipe because it's more of an all or nothing approach.
Speak for yourself.
I gave up cable television years ago. I'm currently running a fileserver serving a combination of my own ripped media (300 seasons of TV-on-DVD/Blu, 600 or so films, a handful of purchased digital content) and a ton of pirated stuff. I live in a jurisdiction where this isn't illegal, and if I lived in a jurisdiction where it was illegal, I'd use a proxy and pirate anyway. My fileserver streams to AppleTV2s in every room with a TV. Each is hacked to run on XBMC, and I use a python script to synchronize play information between them. I have python scripts that automatically move downloaded files to the appropriate folders, I use ShowRSS to automatically pirate my TV, and I use a python script to scrape new release films from Rotten Tomatoes and pirate this too. I occasionally subscribe to Netflix, but only as a discovery mechanism and my use is rare. My tech-illiterate retirement-aged mother can use my TV just fine because it has an intuitive UI.
I don't say this to brag. Anyone can pirate, it's nothing to be proud of. Quite the opposite. I mention it because anyone can pirate. If you want to give up cable and satellite, give up cable and satellite. Pay for what you want to, let the companies deal with the consequences. I've actually never heard of a satisfied cable customer. "From our cold dead hands"? Of course not. It's a buyer's--or pirate's--market. Do what you want to do.
"I live in a jurisdiction where this isn't illegal" - Bullshit. You just don't give a fuck.
"My fileserver streams to AppleTV2s in every room with a TV." - Bullshit. No pirate would use AppleTV to play shit because it can't handle a lot of the higher quality encodes out there.
"I use a python script to synchronize play information between them." - More bullshit. I'm not saying you can't I'm saying you wouldn't, because it's pointless.
"I have python scripts that automatically move downloaded files to the appropriate folders" - I'm not even sure what this actually means, but it's bullshit because it's impossible to normalize content titles out of release names and it's pointless if you're using XBMC - everything can just live in one fucking source folder.
"I use a python script to scrape new release films from Rotten Tomatoes and pirate this too." - More bullshit that doesn't even make any fucking sense. Why would you scrape against RT? Why wouldn't you just reverse your release name to content title script? Why would you be scraping against RT when you could get the releases weeks in advance?
It's like it's 1994 and I'm on IRC again.
has anyone other than the raspberry pi people ever seen or used this protocol?
stop reinventing the fucking wheel for no other reason than the existing wheel isn't proprietary enough
CEC is trash. I often don't want commands passed to other devices.
On my parents' setup, sometimes the optical input mappings get switched. You try to watch TV but you get no sound, you try to watch some shit on the Roku but you get the audio from the cable box, etc.
There's no way to fix it with the remote without going through the menus, breaking the link, then playing each source, starting with bluray, so it can rebuild the mappings. If you use the input switching button on the receiver's remote, VieraLINK thinks you want to switch video inputs, so it switches video inputs and uses its last remembered audio input for that (which is wrong).
Pretty much solves the problem. Hook up an HD Home Run Prime, you get 3 recorders, ability to play any media you want, netflix, hulu, probably more but I don't use any of the other services.
One remote
One UI
No cable company box rental, (they have to give you ONE cable card at no cost if you don't use their crappy box).
Extenders to allow a shared DVR experience using Xbox 360.
The problem you keep running into is you're using devices from a specific content provider, of course they are going to do everything they can to make sure THEY get top billing. You have to use equipment from someone who doesn't sell you the content if you want to actually get something that doesn't suck and doesn't lock (or try very hard) you into one content provider.
TiVo is another such example, though I don't know how well it integrates netflix and the like as I haven't used one since the first model was produced.
-- BitZtream
CableCARDs don't have to be free, they have to be provided at a "nominal" cost, which is $0 - $8 per month in my experience.
Furthermore, you likely won't get access to on demand, pay-per-view, or premium channels because cable companies don't have to support the 2-way communication shit. Sports stuff can also be affected , I believe.
A VW Jetta TDI gets far better MPG and is a lot more fun to drive. Similar with a Mazda 2.
There is one and only good thing about a SMART car. It is very easy to park. If someone lives in a place other than Paris, NYC, Chicago, Boston, DC, or other large metro area, this advantage is mitigated by the fact that the SMART car will bounce around like a top when struck in a wreck, possibly causing secondary collisions (which the owner/driver of the SMART car will be legally responsible for.)
Plus, with an ad campaign of:
"German Engineering
Swiss Innovation
American Nothing"
it is no wonder why the vehicle isn't appreciated on US shores.
I thought you added the "American Nothing" bit yourself.
Nope. It's legit. http://i.imgur.com/2GJFYQD.jpg
Looks like they brought the hate on themselves.
Dear poster .. read your own post. At the expensive cost of the car owners? That means these assholes caused damage ... what? damage? Then yes, it is OBVIOUSLY a crime.
A little thinking goes a long way.
A little reading does, too.
"Is it a crime of opportunity or another page in the current chapter of Anti-Tech movement in San Francisco?"
TFS states that it is a crime. It is asking if the crime was done just because some idiots were bored and saw some smart cars, or if it was done because some idiots specifically want to fuck with San Francisco techster types.
They'll never find Meryl's codec number.