The problem though, is that 90% of the Matrix's appeal to the shallow-thinking mass-market was "Bullet Time". Nothing more than that.
Bullet Time has been ripped off since then in everything from Charlies Angels, to Batman Beyond, to Scary Movie, to the Simpsons. It has lost it's impact and it's uniqueness. The visual guys are going to have to come up with a better gimmick than that.
I understand that the ORIGINAL premise was that in order for the machines to replicate, and move forward, consciousness-wise, they needed to keep the humans alive and drain their essence or souls.
The machines realized that they were finite, material beings, and somehow found a way to use the humans to trascend that state. . .
It was deemed (by the investors) to be too complicated a concept for American audiences, so they simplified it to "electricity".
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Of course, this was all party chit-chat by some pothead from LA. ..
1-3) Maybe the second law of thermodynamics is something "they" teach you to hide the truth of the Matrix and how it works. Are you likely to accept this battery notion if you're holding onto the lie that is the 2nd law of thermodynamics? (for that to work though, we must REALLY be in the Matrix, right?)
4) The AI's have control over the Matrix, but perhaps they didn't bother to engineer in a back door into the abstraction, or perhaps there's a level of complexity that's computationally too intense to deal with - without some trade offs (ie. interfere with data integrity "outside of the rules", and you run the risk of destroying the illusion for millions of humans, and therefore, lose some power generation; remember, they said that early on, they made the Matrix a perfect world, and humans rejected it, they lost entire crops, so obviously, the rules-structure is very important in maintaining the whole thing).
5) EMP may have been the only EFFECTIVE weapon. Maybe they do have gun turrets, lasers, etc. but the AI's have good defenses against them - on the other hand, it's probably relatively trivial to shield against an EMP. . .
I don't think that the story was all that crappy. It was okay. Definately overrated - mostly by people who weren't already familliar with existentialism. (ie. dropout philosophy majors). Personally, I didn't think Dark City was all that great - well mostly I was pissed off at the totally over the top crap acting job by Sutherland. (Get a life, you HACK!)
Conversely, I've noticed that some of the martial arts/stunt work going on in two of my favorite "switch off your brain and drool" shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Xena - the first couple of seasons, the stuntwork was pretty obviously stupid, but in the later seasons, both Lucy Lawless, and Sarah Michelle Gellar have vastly improved (at least in the scenes where they aren't using a stunt double). Not to mention, the fight choreographers are starting to think more lately - I guess even they get sick of doing the same old fight scenes over and over, and occasionally have been pretty imaginative lately. . .
(Who else thinks they should cancel Angel, and give Oz his own show?)
I think what most people are complaining about is pretty much the same as what they're complaining about with the whole Napster thing.
PPV charges are often obscenely high. Viewing a movie at a theater is similarly pretty high, but at a second run theater, approaches the realm of reasonable. Is it really worth 8 bucks? How about the $40 or more people pay to watch a big fight or other sporting event on TV - without having the luxury of actually BEING there!
Right now, I think most people equate the annoyance of having to watch 25 minutes of commercials for every 35 minutes of Friends as roughly equal to twenty-five cents. But the big bad networks disagree. So they're going to lock down the content, and make you pay $8.00 for an episode of Friends. Maybe $10 for an episode of X-Files ($15 if it's not a MOTW episode, or if Scully wears a miniskirt).
Well, that's all academic, who knows how much they'll charge? Lame ass statements from Sony execs were to the effect of "music downloads for $5.00/single". Fact is, if they have it locked down as tight as THEY THINK they will, they, in theory, can charge whatever the fuck they want. We consumers can live in fear that, no matter how much they charge, there will be a segment of society out there with enough bucks and enough stupidity to pay for it. Perhaps they'll have to reach an equilibrium point somewhere - but there's a lot of rich stupid people out there - so maybe the price will settle somewhere around where only 10% of the population can afford to see it. The rest are have-nots. And the networks make just as much money off of that 10% as they would off of the 50% that could afford it if they lowered the price.
Eventually, the stupid rich people will no longer be rich, (except for the Network Execs), and nobody will be able to afford the content anymore, and they'll have to lower the prices.
But the fact is, sometimes you just want to have a collection of all the Simpsons, or whatever. You can't access that from the networks no matter how much you pay them. Some days, you just want to pull out a tape and watch the Rear Window episode. Well, we watched the commercials once - hell, so FUCK them if they want to make us watch commercials, while they're charging us to watch, and want to make us pay for watching the same commercials AGAIN.
And what I can't figure out is- music videos. Originally, they were promotional spots for Pop bands. Then, MTV made them into entertainment. Okay, so the CONTENT itself is actually a commercial. You had to PAY the cable company extra for MTV, it wasn't included in basic service, so how twisted was that? People were fucking PAYING for nothing but commercials! So what happened? That was totally fucking sweet - why don't they play videos anymore? I don't get it.
I have DISH network, and so far, I'm very impressed with the signal quality. The decoder box they sold me also has a lot of TiVo like features - it's a HD recorder. Plus it has a "skip 30 seconds" button (that my TiVo did not had) - they charge an extra $10 a month to enable the "recording" service - but then they pipe high-quality digital content to my home, and give me tools to skip commercials (I now almost can't stand to watch live TV anymore - the commercials just drive me nuts. BTW - they're running 15-30% of the time length of MOST programming - you notice that when you can watch a half-hour TV episode in 20 minutes). I can also permanently archive to tape, any program, and I can use the skip button to rough-edit commercials out as I record. (a comparable experience to anyone watching while another person is operating the remote).
I love this service, it's far superior to anything any cable company ever offered. And I'm quite certain that DISH Network loves providing this service to me for my money. (I don't view PPV content).
So when ALL HDTV's come out with this copy protection, I'm quite sure DISH network will be happy to sell me an HDTV set that works fine with their box. THey have an incentive to provide systems that work for people who will pay. - and when their PPV content and charges get too obnoxious, of course they'll feel it in their bottom line.
nope - still stand by what I said. Those cars are all crap.
Except the 5.0 Mustang, whose memory is now totally tainted by the turd they stamp the Mustang badge on today.
You said it best, the Fiero is an economy car. It WOULD have been cool if it wasn't a cheap piece of plastic junk. How does one restore a Fiero anyway? You can pound out dents and weld in replacement panels in sheet metal. Fieros will just dust away once all the OEM plastic panels dry up.
And as far as the grand national goes, that 3.8l Buick engine was one of the least reliable engines GM ever produced. Also one of the most used. Wonder why GM (Chevy/Buick/Olds) is no longer #1? I blame that engine.
In 30 years, when I see someone park a fully-restored Aztec at a classic car show, I will laugh my ass off - it's a worthless piece of crap now, and 30 years does not make a car a classic.
Probably an operator will not be involved, at least not in the plane.
When intercepting ICBMs, there is a very narrow window of time where it will be feasible (considering the potential limited range the weapon will have).
This plane will likely be part of a large system, connected to ground computers, and radar stations all over the world. When the SYSTEM detects a missile, and determines what it is, and where it's headed, and calculates which flying laser platform would be in the best position, THEN it will order the laser to fire, probably within a time window of a few seconds. It's not likely a human will be involved in any decision making process other than initially turning the system on.
There's already a refueling jet based off of the DC-10, I think it's designated the KC-10.
Doesn't matter if they have similar radar fingerprints, passenger jets get shot down all the time, mistaken identity (that Iranian jet in the 80's) or not (KAL 007).
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This will not only be an excellent missile defense weapon (except for the fact that we'll have to keep at least several in the air 24x7 to make sure it's effective) - it will also be a great antisatellite weapon, as well as a very long range antiaircraft weapon, potentially untraceable.
Watch for mysterious air crashes of commercial jets carrying high-level officials from other countrys soon. . .
What would be more likely would be a partnership with the likes of Sony to build a closed device for AOL access - my guess would be sort of a cross between WebTV and 3com's ill-fated Audrey.
Today, CNN reports that AOL is "the greatest internet provider of all time".
In a survey of several dozen Atlanta residents, AOL soundly trounced other internet providers in terms of customer satisfaction. Almost unanimously, none of the survey's respondents actually used anything other than AOL.
some quotes:
"I signed up for Earthlink but I couldn't figure out how to get that My Connection doohickey to work, so the very next day, I got an AOL CD in the mail, I popped it up, and a few hours later, when the phone dialed in, I was connected! It was great!" -Jimbob Peachtree
"I'm often ridiculed by elitist hackers on the internet when they find out I have AOL. They think there (misspelling intentional guys - it's part of the joke!) so smart, but they don't even know what they're missing, all that Bugs Bunny stuff, and Instant Messenger. I bet all they got is email, no chat I bet." - Peggy Sue Corndoggie
"As soon as I bought my first new computer, I knew I made the right choice, because when I turned it on - BAM! it said Microsoft Windows! That was great man. I only buy the best, after all. My computer has a 4 gig disk of RAM bytes too. It's so fast. So when I saw them two icons on the screen, Sign up for AOL, and Sign up for MSN, I said I was going to sign up with AOL because all of my friends are on it, and I want to be on their buddy-lists - so I signed up and I IM my buddies every day now." - "Cooter"
In other news, the last DSL connection was switched off today, as competition with Cable has forced all DSL providers out of the broadband market. It was said that the inability of people with DSL to download streaming Bugs Bunny movies due to a technical glitch, drove customers to Cable.
AOL and Microsoft are teaming up to develop a new, hacker-proof protocol to run on the internet with Windows computers, that will replace the 30 year old TCP/IP protocol, that is said to be plauged with security holes and bugs, and is due to run out of addresses later this year.
that sounds like the libertarian arugment. Which is funny, because if everyone else was driving a polluting car, and it was causing me problems, I think I could set aside something like a few thousand dollars to pay a lawyer to sue everyone(?!) and then what - I'd have to PROVE in a court of law (without the aid of government-funded studies) that my air supply is damaged - that my health is endangered. . . yeah, right.
I have taken the tour. The building is most impressive. Nothing is going to break or collapse, even in a very strong quake. Then my wife took a geology course at the local community college. The one fault that caused the controversey isn't the only local fault. There are several others. Most of them minor. We're a fairly geolocially stable region here, (compared to the rest of California).
Anyway, the plant is going to be shut down in something like 2012. That's a buttload of money to spend on a plant that only operates for like 20 years. Couldn't they have found someplace else?
It's also a PROVEN FACT (wish I had a link) that a person who owns a car that is 30 years old is saving energy; instead of buying a new car every 2 to 5 years, keeping the old car running keeps the auto industry from building a new car, and all the energy consumption and pollution that entails.
nuff said - crushing the old cars would be a STUPID law. I know a person (www.kgcna.org) who owns a 1958 VW Karmann Ghia, that, though the car is exempt from emissions, has no catalytic converter, no fuel injection, mechanical ignition system, STILL passes modern California emissions.
It's not OLD cars that cause pollution, it's OLD cars that are not properly maintained (-er, and the huge oversized monster fucking gas guzzling drag racing muscle cars from the 1970's).
oh yeah, and rust is mainly a problem in the snow belt because of the unnecessary practice of salting roads.
Sand? Cinders?
Salt kills plants and trees, it's non-renewable, it essentially DOUBLES the cost of car ownership for people living in areas where roads are salted (cars last on average half to a third as long as they would otherwise for a given climate). There are alternatives that are safer, cheaper, and more environmentally sound, but the politicians are too wrapped up. It was actually an argument FOR salt to say that it increased economic activity by dissolving people's cars, and giving detroit auto workers jobs.
This law will never pass in California without a loophole for historical or vintage cars. There are WAY too many vintage car nuts out here. My home town has 3 car shows every summer.
Pretty much any car made after 1980 shouldn't be included in the loophole though. Anyone who wants to restore a car made after 1980 ought to have their head examined, because they're all crap (not IMO - it's just a fact). (except maybe Mazda RX-7, or any Porsche).
um - if you don't like that absolute Gem of a city, why don't you move someplace else, like Orlando?
In Orlando, the strippers can't even strip.
(they tried to skirt that law by exploiting the "artistic performance" loophole, so at all the strip joints, for a while last year, every Thursday was "Shakespeare night". I shit you not.)
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The problem though, is that 90% of the Matrix's appeal to the shallow-thinking mass-market was "Bullet Time". Nothing more than that.
Bullet Time has been ripped off since then in everything from Charlies Angels, to Batman Beyond, to Scary Movie, to the Simpsons. It has lost it's impact and it's uniqueness. The visual guys are going to have to come up with a better gimmick than that.
I understand that the ORIGINAL premise was that in order for the machines to replicate, and move forward, consciousness-wise, they needed to keep the humans alive and drain their essence or souls.
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The machines realized that they were finite, material beings, and somehow found a way to use the humans to trascend that state. . .
It was deemed (by the investors) to be too complicated a concept for American audiences, so they simplified it to "electricity".
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Of course, this was all party chit-chat by some pothead from LA. .
uh, now that I think about it, Brandon Lee would have made a MUCH better Neo than Keanu Reeves. . .
1-3) Maybe the second law of thermodynamics is something "they" teach you to hide the truth of the Matrix and how it works. Are you likely to accept this battery notion if you're holding onto the lie that is the 2nd law of thermodynamics? (for that to work though, we must REALLY be in the Matrix, right?)
4) The AI's have control over the Matrix, but perhaps they didn't bother to engineer in a back door into the abstraction, or perhaps there's a level of complexity that's computationally too intense to deal with - without some trade offs (ie. interfere with data integrity "outside of the rules", and you run the risk of destroying the illusion for millions of humans, and therefore, lose some power generation; remember, they said that early on, they made the Matrix a perfect world, and humans rejected it, they lost entire crops, so obviously, the rules-structure is very important in maintaining the whole thing).
5) EMP may have been the only EFFECTIVE weapon. Maybe they do have gun turrets, lasers, etc. but the AI's have good defenses against them - on the other hand, it's probably relatively trivial to shield against an EMP. . .
I don't think that the story was all that crappy. It was okay. Definately overrated - mostly by people who weren't already familliar with existentialism. (ie. dropout philosophy majors). Personally, I didn't think Dark City was all that great - well mostly I was pissed off at the totally over the top crap acting job by Sutherland. (Get a life, you HACK!)
I'll lighten up when they stop charging $8 to see it.
I'll lighten up when they say it's okay for me to make a copy.
Conversely, I've noticed that some of the martial arts/stunt work going on in two of my favorite "switch off your brain and drool" shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Xena - the first couple of seasons, the stuntwork was pretty obviously stupid, but in the later seasons, both Lucy Lawless, and Sarah Michelle Gellar have vastly improved (at least in the scenes where they aren't using a stunt double). Not to mention, the fight choreographers are starting to think more lately - I guess even they get sick of doing the same old fight scenes over and over, and occasionally have been pretty imaginative lately. . .
(Who else thinks they should cancel Angel, and give Oz his own show?)
I think what most people are complaining about is pretty much the same as what they're complaining about with the whole Napster thing.
PPV charges are often obscenely high. Viewing a movie at a theater is similarly pretty high, but at a second run theater, approaches the realm of reasonable. Is it really worth 8 bucks? How about the $40 or more people pay to watch a big fight or other sporting event on TV - without having the luxury of actually BEING there!
Right now, I think most people equate the annoyance of having to watch 25 minutes of commercials for every 35 minutes of Friends as roughly equal to twenty-five cents. But the big bad networks disagree. So they're going to lock down the content, and make you pay $8.00 for an episode of Friends. Maybe $10 for an episode of X-Files ($15 if it's not a MOTW episode, or if Scully wears a miniskirt).
Well, that's all academic, who knows how much they'll charge? Lame ass statements from Sony execs were to the effect of "music downloads for $5.00/single". Fact is, if they have it locked down as tight as THEY THINK they will, they, in theory, can charge whatever the fuck they want. We consumers can live in fear that, no matter how much they charge, there will be a segment of society out there with enough bucks and enough stupidity to pay for it. Perhaps they'll have to reach an equilibrium point somewhere - but there's a lot of rich stupid people out there - so maybe the price will settle somewhere around where only 10% of the population can afford to see it. The rest are have-nots. And the networks make just as much money off of that 10% as they would off of the 50% that could afford it if they lowered the price.
Eventually, the stupid rich people will no longer be rich, (except for the Network Execs), and nobody will be able to afford the content anymore, and they'll have to lower the prices.
But the fact is, sometimes you just want to have a collection of all the Simpsons, or whatever. You can't access that from the networks no matter how much you pay them. Some days, you just want to pull out a tape and watch the Rear Window episode. Well, we watched the commercials once - hell, so FUCK them if they want to make us watch commercials, while they're charging us to watch, and want to make us pay for watching the same commercials AGAIN.
And what I can't figure out is- music videos. Originally, they were promotional spots for Pop bands. Then, MTV made them into entertainment. Okay, so the CONTENT itself is actually a commercial. You had to PAY the cable company extra for MTV, it wasn't included in basic service, so how twisted was that? People were fucking PAYING for nothing but commercials! So what happened? That was totally fucking sweet - why don't they play videos anymore? I don't get it.
It's what Rand-ites call the "invisible hand".
And what I call the "invisible hand-job".
I have DISH network, and so far, I'm very impressed with the signal quality. The decoder box they sold me also has a lot of TiVo like features - it's a HD recorder. Plus it has a "skip 30 seconds" button (that my TiVo did not had) - they charge an extra $10 a month to enable the "recording" service - but then they pipe high-quality digital content to my home, and give me tools to skip commercials (I now almost can't stand to watch live TV anymore - the commercials just drive me nuts. BTW - they're running 15-30% of the time length of MOST programming - you notice that when you can watch a half-hour TV episode in 20 minutes). I can also permanently archive to tape, any program, and I can use the skip button to rough-edit commercials out as I record. (a comparable experience to anyone watching while another person is operating the remote).
I love this service, it's far superior to anything any cable company ever offered. And I'm quite certain that DISH Network loves providing this service to me for my money. (I don't view PPV content).
So when ALL HDTV's come out with this copy protection, I'm quite sure DISH network will be happy to sell me an HDTV set that works fine with their box. THey have an incentive to provide systems that work for people who will pay. - and when their PPV content and charges get too obnoxious, of course they'll feel it in their bottom line.
not a Wizard. A Dremel. Wizard is the CHEAP ASS PIECE OF CRAP IMITATION.
hey, I'll join FROG and help raid Buckingham Palace! That sounds like a good time!
nope - still stand by what I said. Those cars are all crap.
Except the 5.0 Mustang, whose memory is now totally tainted by the turd they stamp the Mustang badge on today.
You said it best, the Fiero is an economy car. It WOULD have been cool if it wasn't a cheap piece of plastic junk. How does one restore a Fiero anyway? You can pound out dents and weld in replacement panels in sheet metal. Fieros will just dust away once all the OEM plastic panels dry up.
And as far as the grand national goes, that 3.8l Buick engine was one of the least reliable engines GM ever produced. Also one of the most used. Wonder why GM (Chevy/Buick/Olds) is no longer #1? I blame that engine.
In 30 years, when I see someone park a fully-restored Aztec at a classic car show, I will laugh my ass off - it's a worthless piece of crap now, and 30 years does not make a car a classic.
So..... I'm just curious, if a laser will still damage a reflective surface, then how does the targeting mirror AIM the laser? Hm?
Probably an operator will not be involved, at least not in the plane.
When intercepting ICBMs, there is a very narrow window of time where it will be feasible (considering the potential limited range the weapon will have).
This plane will likely be part of a large system, connected to ground computers, and radar stations all over the world. When the SYSTEM detects a missile, and determines what it is, and where it's headed, and calculates which flying laser platform would be in the best position, THEN it will order the laser to fire, probably within a time window of a few seconds. It's not likely a human will be involved in any decision making process other than initially turning the system on.
been there, done that.
There's already a refueling jet based off of the DC-10, I think it's designated the KC-10.
Doesn't matter if they have similar radar fingerprints, passenger jets get shot down all the time, mistaken identity (that Iranian jet in the 80's) or not (KAL 007).
This will not only be an excellent missile defense weapon (except for the fact that we'll have to keep at least several in the air 24x7 to make sure it's effective) - it will also be a great antisatellite weapon, as well as a very long range antiaircraft weapon, potentially untraceable.
Watch for mysterious air crashes of commercial jets carrying high-level officials from other countrys soon. . .
please don't hold your breath waiting for people to get more technically savvy.
It's just not going to happen. Ever.
I spent an hour arguing with a 13 year old last night about why AOL sucks. She just wanted to have her friends on her buddy list.
What would be more likely would be a partnership with the likes of Sony to build a closed device for AOL access - my guess would be sort of a cross between WebTV and 3com's ill-fated Audrey.
Today, CNN reports that AOL is "the greatest internet provider of all time".
In a survey of several dozen Atlanta residents, AOL soundly trounced other internet providers in terms of customer satisfaction. Almost unanimously, none of the survey's respondents actually used anything other than AOL.
some quotes:
"I signed up for Earthlink but I couldn't figure out how to get that My Connection doohickey to work, so the very next day, I got an AOL CD in the mail, I popped it up, and a few hours later, when the phone dialed in, I was connected! It was great!" -Jimbob Peachtree
"I'm often ridiculed by elitist hackers on the internet when they find out I have AOL. They think there (misspelling intentional guys - it's part of the joke!) so smart, but they don't even know what they're missing, all that Bugs Bunny stuff, and Instant Messenger. I bet all they got is email, no chat I bet." - Peggy Sue Corndoggie
"As soon as I bought my first new computer, I knew I made the right choice, because when I turned it on - BAM! it said Microsoft Windows! That was great man. I only buy the best, after all. My computer has a 4 gig disk of RAM bytes too. It's so fast. So when I saw them two icons on the screen, Sign up for AOL, and Sign up for MSN, I said I was going to sign up with AOL because all of my friends are on it, and I want to be on their buddy-lists - so I signed up and I IM my buddies every day now." - "Cooter"
In other news, the last DSL connection was switched off today, as competition with Cable has forced all DSL providers out of the broadband market. It was said that the inability of people with DSL to download streaming Bugs Bunny movies due to a technical glitch, drove customers to Cable.
AOL and Microsoft are teaming up to develop a new, hacker-proof protocol to run on the internet with Windows computers, that will replace the 30 year old TCP/IP protocol, that is said to be plauged with security holes and bugs, and is due to run out of addresses later this year.
that sounds like the libertarian arugment. Which is funny, because if everyone else was driving a polluting car, and it was causing me problems, I think I could set aside something like a few thousand dollars to pay a lawyer to sue everyone(?!) and then what - I'd have to PROVE in a court of law (without the aid of government-funded studies) that my air supply is damaged - that my health is endangered. . . yeah, right.
Diablo Canyon is in "my backyard".
I have taken the tour. The building is most impressive. Nothing is going to break or collapse, even in a very strong quake. Then my wife took a geology course at the local community college. The one fault that caused the controversey isn't the only local fault. There are several others. Most of them minor. We're a fairly geolocially stable region here, (compared to the rest of California).
Anyway, the plant is going to be shut down in something like 2012. That's a buttload of money to spend on a plant that only operates for like 20 years. Couldn't they have found someplace else?
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It's also a PROVEN FACT (wish I had a link) that a person who owns a car that is 30 years old is saving energy; instead of buying a new car every 2 to 5 years, keeping the old car running keeps the auto industry from building a new car, and all the energy consumption and pollution that entails.
nuff said - crushing the old cars would be a STUPID law. I know a person (www.kgcna.org) who owns a 1958 VW Karmann Ghia, that, though the car is exempt from emissions, has no catalytic converter, no fuel injection, mechanical ignition system, STILL passes modern California emissions.
It's not OLD cars that cause pollution, it's OLD cars that are not properly maintained (-er, and the huge oversized monster fucking gas guzzling drag racing muscle cars from the 1970's).
oh yeah, and rust is mainly a problem in the snow belt because of the unnecessary practice of salting roads.
Sand? Cinders?
Salt kills plants and trees, it's non-renewable, it essentially DOUBLES the cost of car ownership for people living in areas where roads are salted (cars last on average half to a third as long as they would otherwise for a given climate). There are alternatives that are safer, cheaper, and more environmentally sound, but the politicians are too wrapped up. It was actually an argument FOR salt to say that it increased economic activity by dissolving people's cars, and giving detroit auto workers jobs.
This law will never pass in California without a loophole for historical or vintage cars. There are WAY too many vintage car nuts out here. My home town has 3 car shows every summer.
Pretty much any car made after 1980 shouldn't be included in the loophole though. Anyone who wants to restore a car made after 1980 ought to have their head examined, because they're all crap (not IMO - it's just a fact). (except maybe Mazda RX-7, or any Porsche).
um - if you don't like that absolute Gem of a city, why don't you move someplace else, like Orlando?
In Orlando, the strippers can't even strip.
(they tried to skirt that law by exploiting the "artistic performance" loophole, so at all the strip joints, for a while last year, every Thursday was "Shakespeare night". I shit you not.)