Where are these people? We all hear the stories of these people but has anyone actually met one? I sure some of these people exist, and they may even reply to my post, but I'm yet to meet one personally, and until the day happens I think this is all pie in the sky speculation stuff.
No, we wanted Alcohol because it made us feel good, rules had nothing to do with it. We also weren't allowed to murder people, but no-one I know went out and murdered someone just because it was prohibited.
For an alternative currency to become popular there has to be a reason to use it. I'm still waiting for that reason.
Really? I work in IT, have lots of IT, tech savvy friends, and pretty much most of them know nothing of it apart from the name. And precisely zero people I know own any. Out of regular friends and family, none of them have even heard of it, despite the odd story popping up in the regular press as a byline to the Silk Road press.
In fact if I didn't read Slashdot I'd be in the same boat. I can only assume it's big amongst the Slashdot crowd, but out there in the real world, not so much.
Simple, put some other pilots on the ground with remote control capability. There is no technical reason for the pilot to actually be on the plane these days.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, frankly I find that lot to be quite looney and not open to information that doesn't suit their story, but after 9/11 I tried many times to use my mobile phone on domestic flights, even when flying slow and low over well populated cities with saturation coverage in preparation for landing and could never get a call through ever. I don't believe any of the 9/11 truther BS, but the mobile phone calls mid-flight for me seems to be a bit hard to swallow.
Trivial problems that solutions already exist for. A led beam at the door will give you a reasonably accurate count, cameras can do accurate counts of people movement (I used to work for a place that did this specifically), or you just pick on mobile phone signals.
I used to live in Hong Kong where the us haves travel the same public transport as the great unwashed. I found it a lot easier and more civilised than anywhere else in the word where private transport dominates.
I don't think you've thought that through. What exactly is an unnecessary movement?The whole point pf is to get people moving as freely and as often as they want since this inevitablly improves everyone's lives, AND helps the overall economy. The cost will only rise to the real actual cost of moving people, and that will always be cheaper to do in bulk than some illusion of ubiquitous private transport.
Or here's something left field, how about make public transport free and just pay for it through a flat levy?
Oh noes! higher taxes! Yeah it won't sell politically, but really common sense tells you public transport benefits everyone so should be paid for out of the public purse. And think of how much more efficient you can make it when you don't have to bother with complicated ticketing systems.
If you like public transport it's a win, if you're a Canyonero fan then you also win (less other cars on the road to get in your way). Of course it'll never happen because the 2nd amendment or some other bullshit excuse.
I never read the book but always liked the movie. Hate to sound like one of those guys but I got it when I watched it, and spent my whole life explaining the real story to everyone else who didn't. On the surface it looks ridiculous, Beverly Hills 90210 in space, but there's some clever stuff going on there, and that exactly why it's so good.
That's the glory of what they're doing. They CAN make money off of you knowing that you bought work clothes at Goodwill and a sandwich at Char-hut. If you can't figure out how, you don't completely understand what they're actually doing.
I'm going to blow my mods by commenting:
You forgot the part about why I should care? Advertising is like the Jedi mind trick, it generally only works on those who are easily led. Google's business model is to sell Jedi mind tricks, so Jabba is unconcerned by such things...
The great thing about the movie was the truly alien feel of the entire movie. Sci-Fi these days all seems a bit too MTV and formula CGI, but I still remember the first time I saw Dune. Despite the story not making any sense, the characters and visuals really inspired the imagination which is what good sci-fi is all about. I like to leave a movie feeling inspired and slightly confused and Dune ticked that box. What I don't want is the Will Smith Disney version of Sci-fi where it's all dumbed down and explained to the nth degree. Cloud Atlas is the only movie I can think of in recent years that has had a similar effect.
Relying exclusively on mechanical technology introduces a single point of point of failure.
Relying on electronic and mechanical technology to work together seamlessly to prevent failure introduces a complexity that increases risk of failure.
There is no perfect world.
But overtaking people who are semi-conscious doing half the speed, and barely paying attention... no... that's going to be reckless.
I find it much safer on a bike because you have more road to move into should Sally start wandering (ie a bike can fully fit on the shoulder, whereas a car might not. And going much faster means you share the same amount of space for less time, and you can zip around them before they even know you're there. The biggest risk on a bike at speed is the person pulling out of a driveway or side street without looking, on a freeway this shouldn't be a problem.
I saw a doco a while back on hovercrafts, and the captain of the commercial hovercraft was asked if it was dangerous because he could do 80knots in a harbour while everyone else was doing less than thirty. His opinion was that it makes it safer because he can be past any other boats before they even know what's going on. I find this similar on a fast bike on a freeway.
It's just basic engineering physics. 60 mph is like falling off a 10- or 15-story building.
To clarify, you mean decelerating from 60mph to 0 mph in less than a tenth of a second is like falling off a 10 or 15 storey building. I crashed at 60mph+ with no seat belt once. The thing that saved me was no solid objects in my path. I slid off the road and into a paddock, stopped, caught my breath and carried on. Some roads can be designed to allow higher speeds by giving sufficient run off paths in case of such incidents.
So much for gun control. People don't seem to get the point that the laws only applies to law abiding citizens.
Depends how good your law enforcement is. I'm pretty sure the North Koreans have a tight implementation of their control measures. Maybe you're just doing it wrong?
So the same number of people die, you just don't get to read it on the front page of the national newspaper. Out of sight, out of mind?
3000 people died on 9/11, since then nearly 400,000 people have died on the roads, so yeah, some things get more visibility than others. And if you can't see the difference between bad guys shooting bad guys and crazy guys shooting innocent kids then fuck you.
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Where are these people? We all hear the stories of these people but has anyone actually met one? I sure some of these people exist, and they may even reply to my post, but I'm yet to meet one personally, and until the day happens I think this is all pie in the sky speculation stuff.
No, we wanted Alcohol because it made us feel good, rules had nothing to do with it. We also weren't allowed to murder people, but no-one I know went out and murdered someone just because it was prohibited. For an alternative currency to become popular there has to be a reason to use it. I'm still waiting for that reason.
Right now there is a great deal of enthusiasm,
Really? I work in IT, have lots of IT, tech savvy friends, and pretty much most of them know nothing of it apart from the name. And precisely zero people I know own any. Out of regular friends and family, none of them have even heard of it, despite the odd story popping up in the regular press as a byline to the Silk Road press. In fact if I didn't read Slashdot I'd be in the same boat. I can only assume it's big amongst the Slashdot crowd, but out there in the real world, not so much.
Simple, put some other pilots on the ground with remote control capability. There is no technical reason for the pilot to actually be on the plane these days.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, frankly I find that lot to be quite looney and not open to information that doesn't suit their story, but after 9/11 I tried many times to use my mobile phone on domestic flights, even when flying slow and low over well populated cities with saturation coverage in preparation for landing and could never get a call through ever. I don't believe any of the 9/11 truther BS, but the mobile phone calls mid-flight for me seems to be a bit hard to swallow.
Or not. Based on my experience with fear mongering, I'm willing to bet my house that it will be not very bad after all.
Ah, so much closer to the Nokia 8110 from the 90's then?
Trivial problems that solutions already exist for. A led beam at the door will give you a reasonably accurate count, cameras can do accurate counts of people movement (I used to work for a place that did this specifically), or you just pick on mobile phone signals.
I used to live in Hong Kong where the us haves travel the same public transport as the great unwashed. I found it a lot easier and more civilised than anywhere else in the word where private transport dominates.
I don't think you've thought that through. What exactly is an unnecessary movement?The whole point pf is to get people moving as freely and as often as they want since this inevitablly improves everyone's lives, AND helps the overall economy. The cost will only rise to the real actual cost of moving people, and that will always be cheaper to do in bulk than some illusion of ubiquitous private transport.
As a poker player, I never release my trump card early in the game.
Never? That would make you an easy read then and a pretty lousy poker player.
So this new iPhone will be exactly like the Samsung Galaxy Round then?
frankly they should have used a software system
Or here's something left field, how about make public transport free and just pay for it through a flat levy? Oh noes! higher taxes! Yeah it won't sell politically, but really common sense tells you public transport benefits everyone so should be paid for out of the public purse. And think of how much more efficient you can make it when you don't have to bother with complicated ticketing systems. If you like public transport it's a win, if you're a Canyonero fan then you also win (less other cars on the road to get in your way). Of course it'll never happen because the 2nd amendment or some other bullshit excuse.
I never read the book but always liked the movie. Hate to sound like one of those guys but I got it when I watched it, and spent my whole life explaining the real story to everyone else who didn't. On the surface it looks ridiculous, Beverly Hills 90210 in space, but there's some clever stuff going on there, and that exactly why it's so good.
That's the glory of what they're doing. They CAN make money off of you knowing that you bought work clothes at Goodwill and a sandwich at Char-hut. If you can't figure out how, you don't completely understand what they're actually doing.
I'm going to blow my mods by commenting: You forgot the part about why I should care? Advertising is like the Jedi mind trick, it generally only works on those who are easily led. Google's business model is to sell Jedi mind tricks, so Jabba is unconcerned by such things...
The great thing about the movie was the truly alien feel of the entire movie. Sci-Fi these days all seems a bit too MTV and formula CGI, but I still remember the first time I saw Dune. Despite the story not making any sense, the characters and visuals really inspired the imagination which is what good sci-fi is all about. I like to leave a movie feeling inspired and slightly confused and Dune ticked that box. What I don't want is the Will Smith Disney version of Sci-fi where it's all dumbed down and explained to the nth degree. Cloud Atlas is the only movie I can think of in recent years that has had a similar effect.
I have piles of empirical data and mountains of historical analysis. But people like you are immune to logic and reason.
What exactly is a "person like me"? That statement itself implies you cannot construct a coherent argument.
I have years of experience trying to make lefties see reason. I've given up. It's impossible.
Yet here we are. What was that you were saying about logic and reason?
Relying exclusively on mechanical technology introduces a single point of point of failure. Relying on electronic and mechanical technology to work together seamlessly to prevent failure introduces a complexity that increases risk of failure. There is no perfect world.
The car reeked of gas, that meant it had a leek.
I'm not sure how his choice of lunch is relevant here.
But overtaking people who are semi-conscious doing half the speed, and barely paying attention... no... that's going to be reckless.
I find it much safer on a bike because you have more road to move into should Sally start wandering (ie a bike can fully fit on the shoulder, whereas a car might not. And going much faster means you share the same amount of space for less time, and you can zip around them before they even know you're there. The biggest risk on a bike at speed is the person pulling out of a driveway or side street without looking, on a freeway this shouldn't be a problem. I saw a doco a while back on hovercrafts, and the captain of the commercial hovercraft was asked if it was dangerous because he could do 80knots in a harbour while everyone else was doing less than thirty. His opinion was that it makes it safer because he can be past any other boats before they even know what's going on. I find this similar on a fast bike on a freeway.
It's just basic engineering physics. 60 mph is like falling off a 10- or 15-story building.
To clarify, you mean decelerating from 60mph to 0 mph in less than a tenth of a second is like falling off a 10 or 15 storey building. I crashed at 60mph+ with no seat belt once. The thing that saved me was no solid objects in my path. I slid off the road and into a paddock, stopped, caught my breath and carried on. Some roads can be designed to allow higher speeds by giving sufficient run off paths in case of such incidents.
And no, I will not be gentle and reasonable on this subject.
Of course not, that is why the term gun nut was invented. You cannot argue a case reasonably or logically so you just get all angry.
You want the government to take away my rights?
I want the government to regulation society for the greater good, just like they have done since civilisation began.
So much for gun control. People don't seem to get the point that the laws only applies to law abiding citizens.
Depends how good your law enforcement is. I'm pretty sure the North Koreans have a tight implementation of their control measures. Maybe you're just doing it wrong?
So the same number of people die, you just don't get to read it on the front page of the national newspaper. Out of sight, out of mind?
3000 people died on 9/11, since then nearly 400,000 people have died on the roads, so yeah, some things get more visibility than others. And if you can't see the difference between bad guys shooting bad guys and crazy guys shooting innocent kids then fuck you.
People trying to squirm out from under the weight of the statist utopias they've built should provide guidance to others.
Cool story bro...