Stealing is morality. Killing is morality. We legislate all of those things.
That's what makes this something of an intellectual puzzle to me. I agree with the idea that illustrations, no matter how realistic, don't harm anyone directly. But sex and children are an indefensible combination in any way, shape or form. I don't know that I can say even pictures of children in a sexual context made and seen only by their creator are ever ok. Trafficking in them just guarantees its immoral.
The solution there is to unfuck those apps, not to goof around with weird screen-splitting ideas.
Yeah, but it's a reasonable one-size-fits-all solution to do screen splitting versus trying to unfuck a lot of applications which will never be unfucked.
Windowing is great, but somewhere down the road window management got lost. Manually sizing and positioning windows is tedious and the Windows UI provides very little in terms of tools for managing windows. Snapping is of limited value and not configurable AFAIK.
Making regions of a single display act like separate monitors may be a kludge, but it's a kludge that goes a long way towards making window positioning and sizing more manageable.
I think blaming for-profit healthcare is certainly possible, but in this case I think it's too overbroad of a critique.
It's reasonable to believe that the profit motive may actually have been a positive motivation -- the hospital makes money from ordinary health care issues, not life-threatening hemorrhagic fevers imported from Africa. Even a mini "outbreak" like this will have everyone who can avoid this hospital going someplace else, and the people with any choice in the matter have good insurance that pays well or are paying for elective procedures themselves. The customers they have left will be people without choice who pay less or not at all.
I'd like to see native virtual monitor display splitting. Large, high-resolution displays often beg to be subdivided into smaller displays but treated as if there were separate monitors. I feel like a lot of screen space is wasted with wide displays, especially with applications and web sites that don't take advantage of it well.
I've tried several utilities that do this, but none were all that usable or useful. Display Fusion will do it well, but only even divisions. Uneven splits are coming but it's been several months since they said they would add it. And I'm not sure it will allow for things like 3 way splits (ie, one portrait with two landscape next to it).
I'd also like to see the opposite, display combining, treating a subset of monitors as a single monitor. Even though the bezel is an irritant, there are times where it would be nice to treat more than one monitor as a single display but not be forced to accept it across all displays.
Being able to scale virtual displays would be nice, too, the way you can with RDP. It'd be nice to take a keep-track logging or status window that really needs a big window to be used but could be scaled into a smaller window to be just kept an eye on, even if it wasn't totally usable.
It should be said that most of the mistakes here were by the hospital in Texas, not the CDC.
That's just endless buck-passing. The reality is that the kind of fuck ups that could happen, did happen, like a storyline from some cheap zombie/biothriller novel.
The CDC protocols were flawed and the CDC wasn't there to advise and observe and if they did they screwed that up. Worse, I think the CDC invited complacency with its don't-panic focus. The whole mess in Texas might have been avoided if they had taken a slightly more danger-focused mindset,
I see a lot of 50+ year old wooden runabouts getting used on the big lake near here. I think they require maintenance but have generally figured out how to build them.
If you assume that the women who were influenced by 1980s pop culture stereotypes were 10-20 years old, they're now in their 40s or older now. That might explain the dearth of women in more senior IT positions, but what about women entering IT now, ie, women who were too young to be influenced in the 1980s?
Despite the fact that most young women have smartphones and are heavily influenced by their own peers to use them, there's probably some other narrative that tries to explain away women's lack of involvement in IT.
So let me get this straight, their new detection technology is designed to protect us from determined and highly sophisticated people who want to kill the President of the United States?
The construction zone that runs basically from Rockford into downtown is like 45 MPH the whole way, despite the road being two lanes and the construction nearly complete.
I drove it last week and it was agonizing AND the State Police were actively pulling people over.
I thought they could have set the limit to 55 MPH very reasonably; there were only a couple of places where I thought it realistically should have been 45 MPH.
I'd like to know about the plastic barrels, chambers, firing pins and other sundry parts designed to handle existing ammunition. Is there a printable plastic that is strong and light enough to print a firearm that can be fired more than once without using ANY metal?
I can see some kind of plastic blunderbuss made heavy enough to handle a low-power shotgun shell a handful of times before melting or cracking but I'm not sure you could make a plastic firing pin that would trigger the primer. But now you're basically talking about a zip gun made with ABS pipe (whether you "print" it or not).
IMHO, this is all hype, no different than when Glock introduced their first gun. It was all "OMG, think of the children, these don't show up on metal detectors!!111" when the reality was that the barrel, firing pin and much of the lockwork was metal, more than enough to show up on a metal detector.
The city builds the streets but for the most part doesn't provide the services that use the streets.
I don't see why municipal networks need to be any different -- they can let third parties sell networking services from Internet to TV to site-site connectivity. They could even let out bids for infrastructure management of the physical network.
Since government is government, you'll end up with something like public transportation, a low-cost subsidized Internet access but I would think that would be just as much a threat to private service providers as the city bus is to most carmakers.
I always wondered how something like photo-realistic drawings of pedophilia should be handled. Cartoons have an obvious lack of reality that makes it easy (or easier) to say "it's just a drawing" but what about high-quality rendered images that are almost impossible to differentiate from photographs?
Is the sole justifiable argument against pedophilia photographs that a child was sexually abused creating the photographs, or are their legitimate arguments to be made against them on grounds that sex involving children is inherently immoral?
Is there any science that demonstrates that exposure to this imagery reduces or decreases acting out on pedophilic impulses?
I can't say I find a USB dongle to be really what I would call "production quality" since it uses the same low-end equipment they would sell you at the cell phone store for use with your laptop.
I was thinking more along the lines of a device either purpose-built for this with a LTE modem built-in or some kind of a WIC card like you'd use in a Cisco router. Something you might use in an ATM, security system or in a networking environment like a construction site where wired internet wasn't an option but reliability was a high priority..
By LTE bridge, I mean some device that can take a SIM and that has an Ethernet port for connecting your own wireless router? Something designed to be used in a "production" setting where reliability of the LAN side of connectivity needs to be high.
I've not used a MiFi(TM) or other portable hotspot, but on every iPhone with tethering I've used (up to 5S) the wireless portion of it leaves something to be desired. No wireless signal showing up without toggling tethering on/off a second time, loss of wireless with inactivity and of course the signal range leaves something to be desired due to the limited antenna of a cell phone.
And then there's the general lack of configurability relative to even the dumbest wireless router.
I figure somebody must make something like this for industrial/commercial use.
I won't comment on the inherent limits of relative to data caps, since that will get beat to death here but that's the other side of the coin.
Some providers used to or maybe still do make them available to people with coverage problems. I looked into them a couple of years ago with the idea that I could pick one up and use it at various client locations where i had good internet access but no cellular coverage. Information was kind of scarce, but supposedly they needed GPS signaling (to control power output/frequency based on real cell towers?) and buy-in from your cell provider to manage it. And it also isn't clear if they do or ever will make LTE versions of them.
I know there are a bunch of ways to get voice service via IP only, I know, but a $200 box that did IP and made cell phone(s) work seemed a simpler solution than buying into a VOIP service I could use on my cell phone and dealing with redirecting or porting my cell number.
What are the RF management issues with small/indoor base stations? Is it a huge problem if they proliferated (like wifi pollution)? Or is there some other network issue with the carriers' ability to accept small-scale backhaul via the public Internet? In some ways it almost seems like carriers would benefit, taking weak(er) signals and their utilization off the big towers and network.
Even better would be the carriers working with handset makers to enable internet-based VoIP so cell phones would work in wifi-only environments to eliminate the cell aspect of it. I'm kind of curious how iPads can now answer calls sent to iPhones.
Did they always need more gambling to achieve some baseline satisfaction or have they just gotten habituated to gambling and it merely takes more stimulus for them to achieve the same effect? Have they developed a tolerance through frequent gambling or have they always needed more gambling since they started?
I would think since lots of experiences become less appealing after a while and need to be done in more intense ways to get the same "fun" out of them that pathological gamblers may be reacting in the same way.
Yet maybe some people are ALWAYS that way, no experience is intense enough unless it's done in some extreme way -- your so-called adrenaline junkies. It's not enough to ski down a mountain, you have to heli-ski into some mountainous backcountry in Kazakhstan riding an avalanche the last half of the run. Maybe gambling just isn't enough, they have to play for big stakes on money borrowed from a loanshark or embezzled from their employer.
I kind of curious about the dislike of gambling. I have nothing against gambling morally, but I just can't do it even though some of the games like craps can be fun as games and have odds that are about as favorable as they come in most casinos. Yet I like most other adrenaline activities.
I think this is so true, and to a large extent I think it's what helps drive the growing wealth gap.
Capitalism and technology over the last 40 years have gotten so good at delivering high quality consumer goods at low prices it has become much more difficult for the wealthy to differentiate themselves with material goods.
In order to do so, they have to pursue quantity and quality of goods at extremes beyond I think what was historically necessary. To do so requires a lot of money and I think shafting the middle class to get it both serves to finance their material gains as well as elimininate what little competition was being offered.
I don't doubt there are density scenerios where they make sense, especially in some kind of purpose built farm where you can get major benefits from reduced cabling (although 10G ethernet works to the advantage of standalone servers, too).
But in so many installs I've seen there hasn't been a full-density buildout, ever. It's always piecemeal and always leads to head scratching and downtime to sort out port mapping and other issues.
I had a client with older HP blade center not getting the port mapping he wanted (10G mez cards not mapping to 10G switch modules) and his HP vendor was just like "just reset all the switches and you can probably map them anyway you want" because they didn't know, either.
I've worked for a Dell partner and we literally got lucky and found a Dell document that detailed port mapping scenerios, but it was a hard document to come by. I hate to put on my tinfoil hat, but part of me believes they want it complex so people buy a lot more switching modules than they might need and get sunk into an investment they can't get out of.
The point was, at the time they remodeled the kitchen they had a windfall that allowed them to pay cash for the work. The houses in our neighborhood date from the 1950s and their kitchen hadn't ever been remodeled -- newer appliances, but the cabinets dated from the 1950s. The ROI for a kitchen remodel when you sell an older house is often huge. The same floorplan in the same condition in our neighborhood went for a significant discount because the kitchen was 1950s vintage.
Since everything from office buildings to warehouses to shopping malls have been converted to data centers, why not prisons? They already offer a ton of security and the cells would be kind of perfect for those customers that buy those little fenced off spaces of multiple racks. The water lines for the sinks might be repurposable for some knd of cooling loop.
The other conversion option is a secure place for containing Ebola, or perhaps as safe havens FROM Ebola..
I'll accept the idea that somewhere somebody has so many servers and so little space that a blade center was the only way they could achieve the density they needed.
Except I've never seen it -- all the blade centers I've ever seen have been partially full and the equivilent 1U and 2U servers probably would have fit in the same or less space than the blade chasis was occupying.
And almost always there's a mongolian clusterfuck when they decide to add blades to the chasis -- which they inevitably do, because they have so much money sunk into the blades that there's no way out from under it.
The mongolian clusterfuck is the result of the byzantine cofiguration rules each vendor has for determining a blade's NIC or FC mapping with the blade center's (overpriced) internal switch bays. Half or full height? LoM or mezzanine slot? Which mez slot? Which blade slot? Oh, you want an extra NIC on that blade? Sorry, the mapping requires an additional switching module which will cost you more than any decent L3 48 port gig switch.
Whatever the savings from the blade center (and maybe in some metered situation there is power savings of couple hundred watts) is easily lost in hours of troubleshooting when trying to do something different.
Blade centers always look like some kind of pre-virtualization version of server consolidation that became obsolete once 24U of servers could easily be run on 8U or less of VM host and SAN. They would be a lot more interesting if their mapping regeimes weren't hard wired -- blade advocates give me blahblah "point of failure" about a switchable/configurable backplane.
Cars are nothing more than a tool for enhancing criminal behavior.
The allow criminals a wider geographic scope over which to engage in criminal behavior. They allow them to steal more things than they can physically carry. They allow them to escape and evade capture via rapid movement over wide geographies.
But not for reasons of economics, but because of social dynamics.
The rich don't care about the poor -- their superiority over the poor is obvious, axiomatic and unquestioned.
What the rich care about is their superiority over the middle class. Historically there was no middle class so this really wasn't a problem. As the middle class arose, the rich needed to use material goods as symbols of their superiority, since the traditional symbols such as education and social habits made the rich's superiority over the middle class less certain.
This worked when material goods were relatively expensive. However, material goods have become increasingly common and high quality and available at lower prices. This serves to dilute the social superiority of the rich, forcing them to seek ever more elaborate and expensive material goods to retain their social position.
This leads to the huge increases in income inequality -- you now need to amass large amounts of money in order to obtain the material goods of sufficient importance that your social superiority remains secure. Undermining the middle class via wage stagnation and unemployment is an ideal way to pay for this increased financial need. It doesn't require large amounts of growth and it serves as a double-edged sword, since an undermined middle class is less able to obtain the material goods which serve to challenge the rich's social standing and superiority.
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But that's what we do, legislate morality.
Stealing is morality. Killing is morality. We legislate all of those things.
That's what makes this something of an intellectual puzzle to me. I agree with the idea that illustrations, no matter how realistic, don't harm anyone directly. But sex and children are an indefensible combination in any way, shape or form. I don't know that I can say even pictures of children in a sexual context made and seen only by their creator are ever ok. Trafficking in them just guarantees its immoral.
The CDC cannot be everywhere.
I don't want them everywhere -- I do want them in the very few places that have Ebola patients, though.
The solution there is to unfuck those apps, not to goof around with weird screen-splitting ideas.
Yeah, but it's a reasonable one-size-fits-all solution to do screen splitting versus trying to unfuck a lot of applications which will never be unfucked.
Windowing is great, but somewhere down the road window management got lost. Manually sizing and positioning windows is tedious and the Windows UI provides very little in terms of tools for managing windows. Snapping is of limited value and not configurable AFAIK.
Making regions of a single display act like separate monitors may be a kludge, but it's a kludge that goes a long way towards making window positioning and sizing more manageable.
I think blaming for-profit healthcare is certainly possible, but in this case I think it's too overbroad of a critique.
It's reasonable to believe that the profit motive may actually have been a positive motivation -- the hospital makes money from ordinary health care issues, not life-threatening hemorrhagic fevers imported from Africa. Even a mini "outbreak" like this will have everyone who can avoid this hospital going someplace else, and the people with any choice in the matter have good insurance that pays well or are paying for elective procedures themselves. The customers they have left will be people without choice who pay less or not at all.
I'd like to see native virtual monitor display splitting. Large, high-resolution displays often beg to be subdivided into smaller displays but treated as if there were separate monitors. I feel like a lot of screen space is wasted with wide displays, especially with applications and web sites that don't take advantage of it well.
I've tried several utilities that do this, but none were all that usable or useful. Display Fusion will do it well, but only even divisions. Uneven splits are coming but it's been several months since they said they would add it. And I'm not sure it will allow for things like 3 way splits (ie, one portrait with two landscape next to it).
I'd also like to see the opposite, display combining, treating a subset of monitors as a single monitor. Even though the bezel is an irritant, there are times where it would be nice to treat more than one monitor as a single display but not be forced to accept it across all displays.
Being able to scale virtual displays would be nice, too, the way you can with RDP. It'd be nice to take a keep-track logging or status window that really needs a big window to be used but could be scaled into a smaller window to be just kept an eye on, even if it wasn't totally usable.
It should be said that most of the mistakes here were by the hospital in Texas, not the CDC.
That's just endless buck-passing. The reality is that the kind of fuck ups that could happen, did happen, like a storyline from some cheap zombie/biothriller novel.
The CDC protocols were flawed and the CDC wasn't there to advise and observe and if they did they screwed that up. Worse, I think the CDC invited complacency with its don't-panic focus. The whole mess in Texas might have been avoided if they had taken a slightly more danger-focused mindset,
I see a lot of 50+ year old wooden runabouts getting used on the big lake near here. I think they require maintenance but have generally figured out how to build them.
I've used or installed a dozen or more 840 SSDs and never had a problem with any of them, including the 470 model I'm using now.
Is what's being fixed a widespread problem or a corner case of specific uses?
How many women are entering the IT field TODAY?
If you assume that the women who were influenced by 1980s pop culture stereotypes were 10-20 years old, they're now in their 40s or older now. That might explain the dearth of women in more senior IT positions, but what about women entering IT now, ie, women who were too young to be influenced in the 1980s?
Despite the fact that most young women have smartphones and are heavily influenced by their own peers to use them, there's probably some other narrative that tries to explain away women's lack of involvement in IT.
So let me get this straight, their new detection technology is designed to protect us from determined and highly sophisticated people who want to kill the President of the United States?
The construction zone that runs basically from Rockford into downtown is like 45 MPH the whole way, despite the road being two lanes and the construction nearly complete.
I drove it last week and it was agonizing AND the State Police were actively pulling people over.
I thought they could have set the limit to 55 MPH very reasonably; there were only a couple of places where I thought it realistically should have been 45 MPH.
I'd like to know about the plastic barrels, chambers, firing pins and other sundry parts designed to handle existing ammunition. Is there a printable plastic that is strong and light enough to print a firearm that can be fired more than once without using ANY metal?
I can see some kind of plastic blunderbuss made heavy enough to handle a low-power shotgun shell a handful of times before melting or cracking but I'm not sure you could make a plastic firing pin that would trigger the primer. But now you're basically talking about a zip gun made with ABS pipe (whether you "print" it or not).
IMHO, this is all hype, no different than when Glock introduced their first gun. It was all "OMG, think of the children, these don't show up on metal detectors!!111" when the reality was that the barrel, firing pin and much of the lockwork was metal, more than enough to show up on a metal detector.
The city builds the streets but for the most part doesn't provide the services that use the streets.
I don't see why municipal networks need to be any different -- they can let third parties sell networking services from Internet to TV to site-site connectivity. They could even let out bids for infrastructure management of the physical network.
Since government is government, you'll end up with something like public transportation, a low-cost subsidized Internet access but I would think that would be just as much a threat to private service providers as the city bus is to most carmakers.
I always wondered how something like photo-realistic drawings of pedophilia should be handled. Cartoons have an obvious lack of reality that makes it easy (or easier) to say "it's just a drawing" but what about high-quality rendered images that are almost impossible to differentiate from photographs?
Is the sole justifiable argument against pedophilia photographs that a child was sexually abused creating the photographs, or are their legitimate arguments to be made against them on grounds that sex involving children is inherently immoral?
Is there any science that demonstrates that exposure to this imagery reduces or decreases acting out on pedophilic impulses?
I can't say I find a USB dongle to be really what I would call "production quality" since it uses the same low-end equipment they would sell you at the cell phone store for use with your laptop.
I was thinking more along the lines of a device either purpose-built for this with a LTE modem built-in or some kind of a WIC card like you'd use in a Cisco router. Something you might use in an ATM, security system or in a networking environment like a construction site where wired internet wasn't an option but reliability was a high priority..
By LTE bridge, I mean some device that can take a SIM and that has an Ethernet port for connecting your own wireless router? Something designed to be used in a "production" setting where reliability of the LAN side of connectivity needs to be high.
I've not used a MiFi(TM) or other portable hotspot, but on every iPhone with tethering I've used (up to 5S) the wireless portion of it leaves something to be desired. No wireless signal showing up without toggling tethering on/off a second time, loss of wireless with inactivity and of course the signal range leaves something to be desired due to the limited antenna of a cell phone.
And then there's the general lack of configurability relative to even the dumbest wireless router.
I figure somebody must make something like this for industrial/commercial use.
I won't comment on the inherent limits of relative to data caps, since that will get beat to death here but that's the other side of the coin.
Some providers used to or maybe still do make them available to people with coverage problems. I looked into them a couple of years ago with the idea that I could pick one up and use it at various client locations where i had good internet access but no cellular coverage. Information was kind of scarce, but supposedly they needed GPS signaling (to control power output/frequency based on real cell towers?) and buy-in from your cell provider to manage it. And it also isn't clear if they do or ever will make LTE versions of them.
I know there are a bunch of ways to get voice service via IP only, I know, but a $200 box that did IP and made cell phone(s) work seemed a simpler solution than buying into a VOIP service I could use on my cell phone and dealing with redirecting or porting my cell number.
What are the RF management issues with small/indoor base stations? Is it a huge problem if they proliferated (like wifi pollution)? Or is there some other network issue with the carriers' ability to accept small-scale backhaul via the public Internet? In some ways it almost seems like carriers would benefit, taking weak(er) signals and their utilization off the big towers and network.
Even better would be the carriers working with handset makers to enable internet-based VoIP so cell phones would work in wifi-only environments to eliminate the cell aspect of it. I'm kind of curious how iPads can now answer calls sent to iPhones.
Did they always need more gambling to achieve some baseline satisfaction or have they just gotten habituated to gambling and it merely takes more stimulus for them to achieve the same effect? Have they developed a tolerance through frequent gambling or have they always needed more gambling since they started?
I would think since lots of experiences become less appealing after a while and need to be done in more intense ways to get the same "fun" out of them that pathological gamblers may be reacting in the same way.
Yet maybe some people are ALWAYS that way, no experience is intense enough unless it's done in some extreme way -- your so-called adrenaline junkies. It's not enough to ski down a mountain, you have to heli-ski into some mountainous backcountry in Kazakhstan riding an avalanche the last half of the run. Maybe gambling just isn't enough, they have to play for big stakes on money borrowed from a loanshark or embezzled from their employer.
I kind of curious about the dislike of gambling. I have nothing against gambling morally, but I just can't do it even though some of the games like craps can be fun as games and have odds that are about as favorable as they come in most casinos. Yet I like most other adrenaline activities.
I think this is so true, and to a large extent I think it's what helps drive the growing wealth gap.
Capitalism and technology over the last 40 years have gotten so good at delivering high quality consumer goods at low prices it has become much more difficult for the wealthy to differentiate themselves with material goods.
In order to do so, they have to pursue quantity and quality of goods at extremes beyond I think what was historically necessary. To do so requires a lot of money and I think shafting the middle class to get it both serves to finance their material gains as well as elimininate what little competition was being offered.
I don't doubt there are density scenerios where they make sense, especially in some kind of purpose built farm where you can get major benefits from reduced cabling (although 10G ethernet works to the advantage of standalone servers, too).
But in so many installs I've seen there hasn't been a full-density buildout, ever. It's always piecemeal and always leads to head scratching and downtime to sort out port mapping and other issues.
I had a client with older HP blade center not getting the port mapping he wanted (10G mez cards not mapping to 10G switch modules) and his HP vendor was just like "just reset all the switches and you can probably map them anyway you want" because they didn't know, either.
I've worked for a Dell partner and we literally got lucky and found a Dell document that detailed port mapping scenerios, but it was a hard document to come by. I hate to put on my tinfoil hat, but part of me believes they want it complex so people buy a lot more switching modules than they might need and get sunk into an investment they can't get out of.
The point was, at the time they remodeled the kitchen they had a windfall that allowed them to pay cash for the work. The houses in our neighborhood date from the 1950s and their kitchen hadn't ever been remodeled -- newer appliances, but the cabinets dated from the 1950s. The ROI for a kitchen remodel when you sell an older house is often huge. The same floorplan in the same condition in our neighborhood went for a significant discount because the kitchen was 1950s vintage.
Since everything from office buildings to warehouses to shopping malls have been converted to data centers, why not prisons? They already offer a ton of security and the cells would be kind of perfect for those customers that buy those little fenced off spaces of multiple racks. The water lines for the sinks might be repurposable for some knd of cooling loop.
The other conversion option is a secure place for containing Ebola, or perhaps as safe havens FROM Ebola..
I'll accept the idea that somewhere somebody has so many servers and so little space that a blade center was the only way they could achieve the density they needed.
Except I've never seen it -- all the blade centers I've ever seen have been partially full and the equivilent 1U and 2U servers probably would have fit in the same or less space than the blade chasis was occupying.
And almost always there's a mongolian clusterfuck when they decide to add blades to the chasis -- which they inevitably do, because they have so much money sunk into the blades that there's no way out from under it.
The mongolian clusterfuck is the result of the byzantine cofiguration rules each vendor has for determining a blade's NIC or FC mapping with the blade center's (overpriced) internal switch bays. Half or full height? LoM or mezzanine slot? Which mez slot? Which blade slot? Oh, you want an extra NIC on that blade? Sorry, the mapping requires an additional switching module which will cost you more than any decent L3 48 port gig switch.
Whatever the savings from the blade center (and maybe in some metered situation there is power savings of couple hundred watts) is easily lost in hours of troubleshooting when trying to do something different.
Blade centers always look like some kind of pre-virtualization version of server consolidation that became obsolete once 24U of servers could easily be run on 8U or less of VM host and SAN. They would be a lot more interesting if their mapping regeimes weren't hard wired -- blade advocates give me blahblah "point of failure" about a switchable/configurable backplane.
Cars are nothing more than a tool for enhancing criminal behavior.
The allow criminals a wider geographic scope over which to engage in criminal behavior. They allow them to steal more things than they can physically carry. They allow them to escape and evade capture via rapid movement over wide geographies.
Clearly, we must limit cars.
But not for reasons of economics, but because of social dynamics.
The rich don't care about the poor -- their superiority over the poor is obvious, axiomatic and unquestioned.
What the rich care about is their superiority over the middle class. Historically there was no middle class so this really wasn't a problem. As the middle class arose, the rich needed to use material goods as symbols of their superiority, since the traditional symbols such as education and social habits made the rich's superiority over the middle class less certain.
This worked when material goods were relatively expensive. However, material goods have become increasingly common and high quality and available at lower prices. This serves to dilute the social superiority of the rich, forcing them to seek ever more elaborate and expensive material goods to retain their social position.
This leads to the huge increases in income inequality -- you now need to amass large amounts of money in order to obtain the material goods of sufficient importance that your social superiority remains secure. Undermining the middle class via wage stagnation and unemployment is an ideal way to pay for this increased financial need. It doesn't require large amounts of growth and it serves as a double-edged sword, since an undermined middle class is less able to obtain the material goods which serve to challenge the rich's social standing and superiority.