Let me rephrase that. It needs to be more expensive to cover the cost of yearly training and testing. I'm talking track testing and if you fail you have to go to training again that year.
Two tier drivers license. 1 for city, 1 for highway. you have to pay $300.00 to get trained at high speed driving and have to retake that test yearly. or you dont get to drive in the interstates.
Plus, getting a ticket loses your ability to drive on the interstates.
now, remove the speed limits from the interstates EXCEPT for when they are inside cities with a lot of exits and on ramps.
Let me do 120mph between Lansing and Ann Arbor, those that dont want to pay the privilege to drive high speed by getting training yearly can drive the old highway system at 55mph.
THAT is what I mean by more expensive. Driving at 120mph is not easy, in fact it's stressful as hell. At least on a track I know the other guys are competent, on a public roadway I can be 100% accurate by assuming that everyone around me is incompetent. Eliminate that, allow only skilled drivers at no speed limits, safety goes way up, the whiners that claim that speed limits are for only tickets shut up, and the state get's a hefty boost to the coffers by giving giant fines to people that dont have a highway license on the highway.
My motorcycle endorsement costs me $12.00 a year plus I add a $50.00 yearly cost to attend a "ride like a pro" class every spring. I am in the top 3% of all motorcycle riders because of it. I personally wish it would be required for all motorcyclists.
And that cuts both ways; by which I mean that I routinely encounter idiots who endanger me by driving too defensively as well as those who do so by driving too aggressively.
you know how many of the idiots on the roads don't do something simple like looking ahead? almost every time I see an accident happen I get over and some idiot will always get mad I went into his lane and get over and floor it only to panic 30 seconds later when they encounter the accident I was able to plainly see and I know they could see it as well.
Drivers licenses should be harder to get and keep as well as be far more expensive.
One of those fantastic drivers was doing 60mph in a school zone and splattered a 6 year old all over the pavement, His family was on tv talking about how he did not have any tickets.
Honestly if you speed in residential zones you are a complete fucking idiot and people need to smack you because of it.
Like the lady that could not understand why I was flipping her off for riding literally 1 foot from my rear fender on the highway.
she was visibly upset that I flipped her the bird. Yes she was close enough I could easily see her face in the rear view mirror. I love motorcycles, the other drivers cant miss it when you flip them off.
I now understand friend that ride with a pocket full of pennies to simply drop on the pavement and cause paint chips all over the idiots cars. They also tend to back off very rapidly when you do that.
Once you total up gas costs, parking fees, aggravation from driving down there... the train makes a hell of a lot more sense.
I agree! in Chicago I use the train almost exclusively. The problem is that most people from around here freak when I say that.. One mother of a friend of my daughters said, "The train? and have to be around all those icky poor people?"
Most people here in the USA are bred to be against public transportation. They think it's "icky" and they see them belching black smoke so it's "dirty"...
It's heavy training from TV that you must own the biggest car you can get, and that public transportation is BAD!. Hell the Tv show Seinfeld. They lived in New York, What idiot drives everywhere in New york? Most people in reality use public transportation in NYC. you NEVER saw them on a subway, always in jerry's or kramers car.
At least public roads are directly funded by those who use them (drivers). If you don't drive, then you don't pay the "use fee" collected at the pumps.
you know NOTHING about how roads are funded.
Road getting paved? we will slap a tax assessment on your property because the road runs in front of it, dont worry, you can take a few years to pay it off.
Road getting repaired? Have another tax assessment.
Gas tax goes into a mystery fund for the state to maintain and improve major highways. yet 90% of the roads in a state are not Highways.
You hit it on the nose, your post is pretty much flamebait.
How you went to wild comparisons is really bizzare, But I'll respond anyways.
Most governments and violent groups don't give a shit about hitting a city half a planet away. They are about blowing up a target that is not far away. my "toy" can easily be scaled up to take out a building. that same toy can easily be scaled up to take out an aircraft or ship.
Just because you are incapable of comprehending it does not mean that others can't. but then you must also believe that you cant blow up a tank with an improvised land mine.
Go spend some time in the middle east and see how someone can use outdated low grade tech to do things that you are not capable of doing.
Exactly! even "green/renewable" companies and buildings are HOSTILE to electric cars. I work at the GVSU renewable energy building in west michigan. Is there a place for me to plug in my electric car? nope. They have solar, a microturbine and a natural gas fuel cell that can power a small town... they wont let me plug in and charge my electric. it's against "building policy"
It will require forcing building owners to stop being jerks as well.
Yup and everyone I see with a PSP2000 drools over my old PSP1000 because I get 3X the battery life (5200Mah battery in the stock location) Sound is better and louder, the UMD slot is far better built instead of the plastic foil door. I dont have some of the failures of the power switch.... etc....
Sony makes them smaller to make their profit margin higher. the PSP1000 is the best built of the line... I have not touched a PSP go yet, but I'm betting the sliding part has a major failure point waiting to happen.
What do you mean... Microsoft has innovated! I saw bill Gates on TV talking about playing virtual golf or virtual tennis at home by swinging your hands and holding a controller!
This is pure innovation! Microsoft will do something that Nintendo cant do!
Oh jeebus. Building a missile, bomb or anything that kills people is NOT HARD. I can get the relevant documents needed for anyone with a mild training in electronics to build a guidance system for a missile or a homing system for a rocket.
If you think there is something magical and wondrous in military hardware that makes it "special" you are watching way too much TV.
Hell I have made ground launched model rockets that would home in on a ground target, and I did not use GPS to get within a 50 foot radius from a 1500 foot apogee point. This was with very basic electronics and almost no processing power plus parts from a hobby shop for helicopter and RC plane flying.
I only needed 1-29/240 size engine to lift that payload. This was back in college for my EE degree, with todays stuff I could make the accuracy far better and use off the shelf GPS for long range AND would not need to lift as much as servos are smaller and lighter and the avaionics payload would be far lighter.
From being inside that industry long ago... It's cheaper to buy them from walmart than Ingram micro or other distributors if you only have 20-30 copies to buy.
This is why you can go to walmart and buy their entire stock and open a DVD rental store. you USED to have to buy the $250.00 a copy VHS tapes for rental, but the movie industry lost a lawsuit and now you dont have to pay for special rental movies.
Not so funny to those of us who have endured a DVD-resolution feature-length film on the big screen.
On crappy hardware that does not have a good scaler and a good projector. The local Imax can show a DVD on the big screen and it looks Fan-Fracking-Tastic. as good of picture as any movie made in the 80's on 35mm film.
Harder to rip? Takes LONGER to rip but not harder for me.
ripbot + anyDVDHD I have yet to find a bluray I cant rip without much effort.
I do agree it's more effort than my auto script that uses Handbrake and AnyDVD. That's insert into drive and when it ejects the rip is done. I have to click on a few options on the blurays.
mostly because blurays are incredibly random compared to DVD's in design I cant do auto scripting with ripbot wither.
Most people dont buy a blu ray because they cant see a difference. Why? because that 50" plasma is mounted above the fireplace and they sit 12 feet from it. They cant see the difference between HD content and SD content.
Actually hard reset is needed.. and some handsets like the Samsung Blackjack. you need to let the phone "rest" without a battery in it for a couple of days to get rid of strangeness like refusing to let go of out of range cell towers, going automatically to speakerphone when you answer and you cant get out of it without removing the battery..
Both I experienced with the BlackJack II with the WM6
WM5 NEVER gave me those problems. It just simply never did a consistant Email pull. I had to manually pull at times.
I switched to a symbian smartphone and gained all I wanted after flashing the phone with the stock firmware instead of the screwed up one from AT&T/Cingular.
Also Windows Mobile is NOT going to stay "open" Microsoft has announced they will add features that carriers are requesting... which means locking up some of the features to increase revinues.
I choose the one that will install on the hardware I own. or the one that has the most pro user functions and anti carrier functions...
I.E. mp3 ringtones that are not locked out. Backgrounds can be any file I choose to upload to it, same as themes. Give me a way to design and upload a look change without makign the carrier rich.
All features enabled and systems in place that keep the carrier from disabling features in the phone or forcing an update to my phone that is crippled.
Allows me to use a voip client at a wifi hotspot to circumvent airtime charges.
there are features on my S60 phone that I dont see anywhere else. If I press end on a ringing call it will SMS that person with a "I'm really busy right now, I'll call you back as soon as I can" That is a ROCKING feature that I dont see on any of these phones.
Finally scripting. I want scripting on my phone. a sequence to happen when number xx-xxx-xxxx calls me.
So I choose whatever empowers me and works on my hardware.
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You nailed it, he must have not looked very hard first as Damn small linux is some of the first hits when you search for small linux.
Slackware also works great on old hardware, if you still have floppy drives I believe you can even still make the floppies!
Let me rephrase that. It needs to be more expensive to cover the cost of yearly training and testing. I'm talking track testing and if you fail you have to go to training again that year.
Two tier drivers license. 1 for city, 1 for highway. you have to pay $300.00 to get trained at high speed driving and have to retake that test yearly. or you dont get to drive in the interstates.
Plus, getting a ticket loses your ability to drive on the interstates.
now, remove the speed limits from the interstates EXCEPT for when they are inside cities with a lot of exits and on ramps.
Let me do 120mph between Lansing and Ann Arbor, those that dont want to pay the privilege to drive high speed by getting training yearly can drive the old highway system at 55mph.
THAT is what I mean by more expensive. Driving at 120mph is not easy, in fact it's stressful as hell. At least on a track I know the other guys are competent, on a public roadway I can be 100% accurate by assuming that everyone around me is incompetent. Eliminate that, allow only skilled drivers at no speed limits, safety goes way up, the whiners that claim that speed limits are for only tickets shut up, and the state get's a hefty boost to the coffers by giving giant fines to people that dont have a highway license on the highway.
My motorcycle endorsement costs me $12.00 a year plus I add a $50.00 yearly cost to attend a "ride like a pro" class every spring. I am in the top 3% of all motorcycle riders because of it. I personally wish it would be required for all motorcyclists.
And that cuts both ways; by which I mean that I routinely encounter idiots who endanger me by driving too defensively as well as those who do so by driving too aggressively.
you know how many of the idiots on the roads don't do something simple like looking ahead? almost every time I see an accident happen I get over and some idiot will always get mad I went into his lane and get over and floor it only to panic 30 seconds later when they encounter the accident I was able to plainly see and I know they could see it as well.
Drivers licenses should be harder to get and keep as well as be far more expensive.
One of those fantastic drivers was doing 60mph in a school zone and splattered a 6 year old all over the pavement, His family was on tv talking about how he did not have any tickets.
Honestly if you speed in residential zones you are a complete fucking idiot and people need to smack you because of it.
Like the lady that could not understand why I was flipping her off for riding literally 1 foot from my rear fender on the highway.
she was visibly upset that I flipped her the bird. Yes she was close enough I could easily see her face in the rear view mirror. I love motorcycles, the other drivers cant miss it when you flip them off.
I now understand friend that ride with a pocket full of pennies to simply drop on the pavement and cause paint chips all over the idiots cars. They also tend to back off very rapidly when you do that.
Once you total up gas costs, parking fees, aggravation from driving down there... the train makes a hell of a lot more sense.
I agree! in Chicago I use the train almost exclusively. The problem is that most people from around here freak when I say that.. One mother of a friend of my daughters said, "The train? and have to be around all those icky poor people?"
Most people here in the USA are bred to be against public transportation. They think it's "icky" and they see them belching black smoke so it's "dirty"...
It's heavy training from TV that you must own the biggest car you can get, and that public transportation is BAD!. Hell the Tv show Seinfeld. They lived in New York, What idiot drives everywhere in New york? Most people in reality use public transportation in NYC. you NEVER saw them on a subway, always in jerry's or kramers car.
At least public roads are directly funded by those who use them (drivers). If you don't drive, then you don't pay the "use fee" collected at the pumps.
you know NOTHING about how roads are funded.
Road getting paved? we will slap a tax assessment on your property because the road runs in front of it, dont worry, you can take a few years to pay it off.
Road getting repaired? Have another tax assessment.
Gas tax goes into a mystery fund for the state to maintain and improve major highways. yet 90% of the roads in a state are not Highways.
Judges dont do that. They tend to ignore what companies do and let them profit from breaking the law.
You hit it on the nose, your post is pretty much flamebait.
How you went to wild comparisons is really bizzare, But I'll respond anyways.
Most governments and violent groups don't give a shit about hitting a city half a planet away. They are about blowing up a target that is not far away. my "toy" can easily be scaled up to take out a building. that same toy can easily be scaled up to take out an aircraft or ship.
Just because you are incapable of comprehending it does not mean that others can't. but then you must also believe that you cant blow up a tank with an improvised land mine.
Go spend some time in the middle east and see how someone can use outdated low grade tech to do things that you are not capable of doing.
Or buy a lotus elise and have the same car with more performance and can be refueled at any gas station for 1/2 the money.
I wouldn't. local driving is far harder on a car than a long distance drive.
I'd buy a car with 200,000miles of nothing but highway miles before a 45,000mile car that was all city driving.
The engine and car in general will be in far better shape on the highway miles car.
Exactly! even "green/renewable" companies and buildings are HOSTILE to electric cars. I work at the GVSU renewable energy building in west michigan. Is there a place for me to plug in my electric car? nope. They have solar, a microturbine and a natural gas fuel cell that can power a small town... they wont let me plug in and charge my electric. it's against "building policy"
It will require forcing building owners to stop being jerks as well.
not really. go find a copy of "rub rabbits" that one will freak you out and make you wonder what the hell is wrong with Japan as a whole.
http://reviews.cnet.com/ds-games/the-rub-rabbits-ds/4505-10068_7-31481766.html
It is completely freaky and nothing like anything I have ever played.
Yup and everyone I see with a PSP2000 drools over my old PSP1000 because I get 3X the battery life (5200Mah battery in the stock location) Sound is better and louder, the UMD slot is far better built instead of the plastic foil door. I dont have some of the failures of the power switch.... etc....
Sony makes them smaller to make their profit margin higher. the PSP1000 is the best built of the line... I have not touched a PSP go yet, but I'm betting the sliding part has a major failure point waiting to happen.
What do you mean... Microsoft has innovated! I saw bill Gates on TV talking about playing virtual golf or virtual tennis at home by swinging your hands and holding a controller!
This is pure innovation! Microsoft will do something that Nintendo cant do!
Oh jeebus. Building a missile, bomb or anything that kills people is NOT HARD. I can get the relevant documents needed for anyone with a mild training in electronics to build a guidance system for a missile or a homing system for a rocket.
If you think there is something magical and wondrous in military hardware that makes it "special" you are watching way too much TV.
Hell I have made ground launched model rockets that would home in on a ground target, and I did not use GPS to get within a 50 foot radius from a 1500 foot apogee point. This was with very basic electronics and almost no processing power plus parts from a hobby shop for helicopter and RC plane flying.
I only needed 1-29/240 size engine to lift that payload. This was back in college for my EE degree, with todays stuff I could make the accuracy far better and use off the shelf GPS for long range AND would not need to lift as much as servos are smaller and lighter and the avaionics payload would be far lighter.
Note: you can even buy UAV kits today.
From being inside that industry long ago... It's cheaper to buy them from walmart than Ingram micro or other distributors if you only have 20-30 copies to buy.
The studios tried that. They lost in court.
This is why you can go to walmart and buy their entire stock and open a DVD rental store. you USED to have to buy the $250.00 a copy VHS tapes for rental, but the movie industry lost a lawsuit and now you dont have to pay for special rental movies.
Not so funny to those of us who have endured a DVD-resolution feature-length film on the big screen.
On crappy hardware that does not have a good scaler and a good projector. The local Imax can show a DVD on the big screen and it looks Fan-Fracking-Tastic. as good of picture as any movie made in the 80's on 35mm film.
Harder to rip? Takes LONGER to rip but not harder for me.
ripbot + anyDVDHD I have yet to find a bluray I cant rip without much effort.
I do agree it's more effort than my auto script that uses Handbrake and AnyDVD. That's insert into drive and when it ejects the rip is done. I have to click on a few options on the blurays.
mostly because blurays are incredibly random compared to DVD's in design I cant do auto scripting with ripbot wither.
Most people dont buy a blu ray because they cant see a difference. Why? because that 50" plasma is mounted above the fireplace and they sit 12 feet from it. They cant see the difference between HD content and SD content.
you need to correct yourself.
Waiting will not entice you to buy a really crappy movie you did not go to see in the theater anyways.
90% of the DVD releases are utter garbage, this wait will not change that fact.
get the N810 and a nice cellphone to go with it because the N810 cant make or receive phone calls. It's not a cellphone.
Actually hard reset is needed.. and some handsets like the Samsung Blackjack. you need to let the phone "rest" without a battery in it for a couple of days to get rid of strangeness like refusing to let go of out of range cell towers, going automatically to speakerphone when you answer and you cant get out of it without removing the battery..
Both I experienced with the BlackJack II with the WM6
WM5 NEVER gave me those problems. It just simply never did a consistant Email pull. I had to manually pull at times.
I switched to a symbian smartphone and gained all I wanted after flashing the phone with the stock firmware instead of the screwed up one from AT&T/Cingular.
Also Windows Mobile is NOT going to stay "open" Microsoft has announced they will add features that carriers are requesting... which means locking up some of the features to increase revinues.
I choose the one that will install on the hardware I own. or the one that has the most pro user functions and anti carrier functions...
I.E. mp3 ringtones that are not locked out.
Backgrounds can be any file I choose to upload to it, same as themes. Give me a way to design and upload a look change without makign the carrier rich.
All features enabled and systems in place that keep the carrier from disabling features in the phone or forcing an update to my phone that is crippled.
Allows me to use a voip client at a wifi hotspot to circumvent airtime charges.
there are features on my S60 phone that I dont see anywhere else. If I press end on a ringing call it will SMS that person with a "I'm really busy right now, I'll call you back as soon as I can" That is a ROCKING feature that I dont see on any of these phones.
Finally scripting. I want scripting on my phone. a sequence to happen when number xx-xxx-xxxx calls me.
So I choose whatever empowers me and works on my hardware.