Also, consider how much money the governments will lose
Ah yes, the infamous "losing" of money. Just as the MPAA/RIAA claim to "lose" gazillions on every pirated MP3, warez, etc. because those college kids would have paid full price for everything. Name one year the government "lost" money in taxes, where it was less than the previous year. It doesn't happen. The government just wants more and more every year, and then some.
The brick and mortar business are paying for roads, police and fire departments, local city improvements, etc with their taxes.
And some yocal selling stuff out of their home doesn't pay property tax? I can't imagine how this country ran before 1995 without an Internet tax. I mean, without roads, police, fire dept, etc, they were crippled! We self employed types get to pay about 30% in taxes to the feds as well. So don't try claiming they're hurting either. Ah to be Amish, they are the last of the truely free.
This is the same logic as what New York fell into. They are starting to see a decrease in sales of cigarettes because they have so many taxes on them. For some crazy reason beyond any of their lawmaker's grasp, having $4 in taxes per pack isn't enough to fund what they had slated to do with it. Now all these smokers won't get treatment for their decision, schools won't get upgraded, blah, blah, blah. They "expect" a certain level of taxes, and the people go and change their habits. How dare they!! You damn New Yorkers better start buying thousands of packs, or you will kill every poor, innocent smoker because they can't control themselves or pay for what they choose to do.
If they charge the tax rate of the city the company is in, we end up with the wealthiest cities charging internet companies almost no taxes to lure them there
Oh dear, we cannot have competition getting in the way of our beloved taxes! That would be so unfair. Boohoo! I also hereby declare that no business engage in the evil practice of "sales." It is unfair to expect a "mom and pop" store to compete with WalMart. Therefore, I will lobby Congress to come out with a nice, fair, balanced list of acceptable prices for cheese, milk, and motherboards. Why should we stop there? Smaller business cannot afford to pay what Microsoft or RedHat can pay their employees. This list shall also contain acceptable price ranges for all employees. Ranges will be used for diversity, but not to exceed more than 3.25%. This way people won't think it's Communism or anything. The federal governement should also curtail the number of people in all forms of jobs via the Census. We cannot have too many lawyers, so starting today, at birth every child will be assigned a job title. They will be expected to study in this field and ready to enter it no latter than their 30th birthday. This gives them plenty of time for "freedom." Well, until a new law is passed shortening this period. Thirty years is a long time, you didn't really expect it to stay at that number, did you?
Not to mention the burden is already on the companies to actually pay the sales tax to the state. So we already have this evil competition going on. And look what it's doing to the country. Screw fairness, I say!
I just ordered one of those Apex DVD's from Circuit City. Since they operate in just about every state, they added sales tax to the transaction. This 6.25% (Illinois) plus the 10% shipping fee definately could curb many people's shopping habits. I know with computer parts the difference between local shops, BestBuy type stores and the Internet shops on PriceWatch isn't often less than 16.25%. So, it would no longer make much sense to get that DIMM off the Internet, except for those times I'm too lazy to go outside.
What about UPS/FedEx? Suddenly they will be cut out of the equation as masses of people visit WalMarts and Targets all over the US. I shall start a lobby to tax physical stores 10% on all purchases to feed/clothe/house the masses of UPS drivers that will be laid off. It's the only fair thing to do. How can they compete with stores where people do the driving to and from??
W3C, what do they know bout the 'Web? Microsoft is the one that's innovatin' here.
Speaking of which, you seen that commercial MS is running with Bill talking about how they will always "innovate?" Guess they are just now starting the anti-DOJ PR campaign.
Phillip-Morris causes people to get lung cancer. Smith-Wesson cause people to get killed by bullets. People want to sue Orkin to pay for their broken TV over this commercial (one women threw a motorcycle helmet at the TV, maybe the helmet maker should be responsible for having too hard a helmet). Why doesn't iD (any game makers) cause people to be violent? I mean, this case follows all the other rules, blame someone else. This seems perfectly made for our judicial system.
This isn't 1940 anymore either. I'm failing to see your side. Are you saying nothing has changed over the years, everyone is still ambivolent about racism? Maybe it's just the people I associate with, but I don't know people that are this way. There's blacks living in the neighborhoods of friends/family. I see people getting along just fine. Has living among non-racists poisoned me to what's "really" going on? Or is your position, since it happened in 1940, it is happening forever?
Shouting "bigot" has a different meaning today that it did in 1940's South. I am talking about compaigning today as well. In my life and travels, the normal people FAR outnumber the bigots. So, my idea was to use that to accomplish what you want for this cause. This is more what America is about, not "Eh I'll let them politicians pass a law. That'll take care of them bigots." As others have stated, laws won't change the people's minds.
The machine(s) weren't down completely. I was able to get ping responses from them. They're still running Apache 1.3.6, so I doubt it was to upgrade to the latest. Perhaps they were upgrade slashcode to 1.0 or something.
That, or they were taken over by aliens to spread their propaganda prior to arrival so we do not rebel against them when the do arrive here.
See, you miss the point of political correctness (in America at least) today. Tolerance means, "You will do (behave, believe, etc) what I say." Most often, it is the left side that you must agree with or you are killing children (but only those who are completely born), senior citizens, and minorities that apply to any given situation. If you don't agree with any given left group, you should die. That is tolerance in America.
The market does not punish those who discriminate according to popular prejudice.
That is just a matter of getting people to care about it. Look, here around Peoria, IL three overweight women were fired from a Casey's story (small gas station/convenient store) for eating candy on the job and not paying for it. Now they were able to get on the local news broadcasts and had at least 10 people marching in front of the store with signs. Hell, if that can get people motivated, then the same can be done with racism. Despite the work of Al Sharpton types, I don't find every white person to be an inherent racist. If you have a store that is booting blacks (or whichever group) out, you could easily get far more people to picket. Who's going to go in when people are shouting "bigot" and stuff in front of the store? This would be the "punish by market" process working.
People love protesting, from the WTO thing in Seattle, to the thugs in Decatur, to everyone around Elian Gonzalez's house. The thing we need to do is channel a tiny portion of that energy to other causes.
Don't forget that he "discovered" the nuclear waste in Love Canal when there were House meetings on it two years before he got there.
Somewhere around the RNC's GoreFiles section they had a whole list of his "accomplishments" like this. It's a funny read even if you're not Republican.
I can assure you as a long-time gun owner that nobody in his right mind ever gets in the habit of sticking his face in front of the barrel when adjusting the sling. Or just about any other time. Ironically, Mr. Gore could benefit from the excellent NRA gun safety training classes.
Or a little military training. I'm sure people may have rushed through BASIC training back during Vietnam, but I doubt they skipped the weapon saftey training. Heck, back then they were allowed to punch you and stuff to get the message into your head.:)
Just imagine what you could do with a (working) pair of 1GHz PentiumIIIs
Fry a steak? Heck, I don't have enough to keep my little Athlon/550 busy. It spits back kernels to me in 4+ minutes. Hardly enough time to fix a sandwich. Besides, you know the 1G P3's will start at least $1500. I've got a list of better things to have for $3k.
Any bets on whether we'll see 1G P3's or Dual-Athlon systems out first?
It still pales in comparison to an early release of a Linux kernel. Between an NDA for a beta program (I've done a few for Windows games), and the EULA for the product itself, you basically aren't allowed to say anything about it to anyone. This is the current corporate mindset that drives companies that operate in closed source and Windows worlds. They don't want any bad press, or a leak of their sacred intellectual property.
Back in the days before Windows 95, I knew of a fellow who had some dinky web site about it on his ISP account. He didn't trash it, or anything too bad (in my opinion), but still got letters from MS, the ISP, etc to remove it. So, I use language like "sell your soul" to describe this behavior, because it prevents you from doing what comes naturally, talking. It is over the top, even absurd, as you don't literally sell your soul to them. But as Mr. Limbaugh says, it's "pointing out absurdity by being absurd."
Please, please, please, please don't go looking at any kernel.org mirrors. We need such insightful comments as yours, and no one wants that to stop by actually visiting the mirrors and seeing 2.4 as it exists currently. "Vaporware" refers to something not existing for users to view, commonly just a list of features in press releases. So we can't have you seeing that it has existed for nearly a year.
I bought an HP C200 not so long ago, and it comes with a serial connector. It's cheap, takes nice enough pictures for me, and works with gphoto. I'm no "photog" by any means, maybe more expensive ones only have USB. But there are some still left out there that work just fine in Linux.
Ok, you can try Linux 2.4 legally anytime. You can get yourself on lists to beta test software for Windows and the like, but you must sell your soul to them first (NDA). You can download it from IRC, newsgroups, etc, but at any given moment MS can sick the feds on you and take everything you own as "evidence." The chances of it happening, probably low if you don't give it to others or use it in your business (they like making examples of those sort of cases). But it is the law, and if you do it, you accept the consequences. When my truck could go over the speed limit, I did so accepting that if I were caught, I'd pay the $100 (or whatever) fine. With the risk comes responsibility.
Even if I cared about trying Windows early, to me, it's just not worth the hassle of jail for a few days, years in court, hundred-thousand dollar fines, having to perform community service, etc. They always go overboard with those sort of trials.:)
The thing about Linux though, is one piece can go to hell, and leave the rest of the kernel running. There have been times when working with a sound driver or something and it craps out. I can't rmmod it because it's marked as used. The end result, sound is gone but everything else is still working. The kernel is still IP Masq'ing, I'm surfin the web, etc. Compare this to kernel integrations in Windows, and any one piece will bring down the entire machine. So, let them integrate simple daemons like this, not only can I choose to not install it, but if it goes to hell, I know it doesn't (necessarily) bring the entire thing down.
Well, unlike any commercial software, you can go ahead and run 2.4 long before it's final version is out. If you wish to rely on others to test it and work bugs out, well, then you're stuck waiting for them to declare it done. Since May 14, 1999, (kernel 2.3.1 started) you could see what was going on in the kernel for v2.4. So, this hasn't been "vaporware" for nearly a year. It has existed.
That said, dates in Open Source projects are at best a guess. It depends on far too many developers to be very exact. You want it sooner, go to your favored mirror and download it. Try this with Microsoft or other corporations and their products.
Thank you. I hate it when people go and read the first couple of paragraphs of an article before asking their questions here. What, are they too good for those of us who react on impulse? Who died and made them king? Keep up the good work, my friend. Don't let The Man keep force you to read something before responding.
I know it won't be included in the kernel for 2.4, but is there a version of it ported to 2.3.x? I took the available patches and tried applying them, but too much of the kernel fs internals have changed. So, before I sit down for several hours trying to understand everything about filesystems in the kernel, has anyone already done it? I really want to try 2.4, but I just can't go back to ext2. Once you've tasted it, there is no other.;)
The problem there is there are folks (often younger people) who get a laugh taunting, cursing, etc at everyone on "chat rooms." If some folks want it better, great. They can have their servers and all. If you want to curse out people for no particular reason, there's still 4.2 billion EFNet (and the like) servers. As the Internet gets bigger and bigger, more and more jerks come out of the woodwork. This whole scheme is voluntary, it's not like this TalkCity is the only chat service on the market (yet).
my browser doesn't uncontrollably stop showing the web page and force me to view adds
Ah, but some are getting the hang of just this idea. cdmag.com is one where I noticed it first. Click on a handful of reviews and articles, every so many it brings up a large picture ad right in the center with a link at the bottom and something like, "click here to go on to the article." I've also seen it a few other places, but they weren't ones I frequent so I forgot 'em. What's most disgusting is they do this on top of their constantly-refreshing banner ads at the top. Eek.
If you want a "clean" sort of IRC, hack the server code to boot, ban IPs, etc anyone saying bad words repeatedly. Then have a bunch of people on hand for users to report abuses to, etc. etc. It certainly is possible, without resorting to banner-ad schemes.
I'm getting a dog one day soon. I figure by the time I take it out for walks, I'll have to have a leash with banner ads going down it. There's no end to where these mopes will put advertising.
Nah, this www.petsbymail.com thing was pretty cute, and it got some animal-lovers mailling lists. It was made legitimate by alleged radio commercials, and today we see it was brought to us by KDWB (wherever that is). Ah radio, the infallable medium. Makes me wonder how many people want to go to Spatula City during Rush's broadcasts.
I don't see any links to the old page, but it said something like, "Nearly all of our animals survive the shipping process. If yours arrives dead or injured, simply return the carcass and receive a full refund." And the usual, "opening April 1."
Sure you can. Start at midnight GMT, but wherever it is 2am. Go from north to south cleaning that timezone for one hour, then move to the next. Since this process takes 24 hours, might as well go timezone-by-timezone (roughly). This could easily be accomplished with PHP or Python.
As others have said, the problem is you rely entirely on the lead car's radar to see deer and the like. But the other down side is you must have only one car type. Every one in the convoy must have the same brakes et al so they can stop simultaneously. I'm sure the MPAA would love to branch into the car bidness, but it's not for me.
Sure you can have 43,572 sensors for every little screw/nut in the car, but something will inevitably happen to that lead car (airplane or UFO falls out of the sky) and then everyone is screwed.
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Also, consider how much money the governments will lose
Ah yes, the infamous "losing" of money. Just as the MPAA/RIAA claim to "lose" gazillions on every pirated MP3, warez, etc. because those college kids would have paid full price for everything. Name one year the government "lost" money in taxes, where it was less than the previous year. It doesn't happen. The government just wants more and more every year, and then some.
The brick and mortar business are paying for roads, police and fire departments, local city improvements, etc with their taxes.
And some yocal selling stuff out of their home doesn't pay property tax? I can't imagine how this country ran before 1995 without an Internet tax. I mean, without roads, police, fire dept, etc, they were crippled! We self employed types get to pay about 30% in taxes to the feds as well. So don't try claiming they're hurting either. Ah to be Amish, they are the last of the truely free.
This is the same logic as what New York fell into. They are starting to see a decrease in sales of cigarettes because they have so many taxes on them. For some crazy reason beyond any of their lawmaker's grasp, having $4 in taxes per pack isn't enough to fund what they had slated to do with it. Now all these smokers won't get treatment for their decision, schools won't get upgraded, blah, blah, blah. They "expect" a certain level of taxes, and the people go and change their habits. How dare they!! You damn New Yorkers better start buying thousands of packs, or you will kill every poor, innocent smoker because they can't control themselves or pay for what they choose to do.
If they charge the tax rate of the city the company is in, we end up with the wealthiest cities charging internet companies almost no taxes to lure them there
Oh dear, we cannot have competition getting in the way of our beloved taxes! That would be so unfair. Boohoo! I also hereby declare that no business engage in the evil practice of "sales." It is unfair to expect a "mom and pop" store to compete with WalMart. Therefore, I will lobby Congress to come out with a nice, fair, balanced list of acceptable prices for cheese, milk, and motherboards. Why should we stop there? Smaller business cannot afford to pay what Microsoft or RedHat can pay their employees. This list shall also contain acceptable price ranges for all employees. Ranges will be used for diversity, but not to exceed more than 3.25%. This way people won't think it's Communism or anything. The federal governement should also curtail the number of people in all forms of jobs via the Census. We cannot have too many lawyers, so starting today, at birth every child will be assigned a job title. They will be expected to study in this field and ready to enter it no latter than their 30th birthday. This gives them plenty of time for "freedom." Well, until a new law is passed shortening this period. Thirty years is a long time, you didn't really expect it to stay at that number, did you?
Not to mention the burden is already on the companies to actually pay the sales tax to the state. So we already have this evil competition going on. And look what it's doing to the country. Screw fairness, I say!
Hippies piss me off.
I just ordered one of those Apex DVD's from Circuit City. Since they operate in just about every state, they added sales tax to the transaction. This 6.25% (Illinois) plus the 10% shipping fee definately could curb many people's shopping habits. I know with computer parts the difference between local shops, BestBuy type stores and the Internet shops on PriceWatch isn't often less than 16.25%. So, it would no longer make much sense to get that DIMM off the Internet, except for those times I'm too lazy to go outside.
What about UPS/FedEx? Suddenly they will be cut out of the equation as masses of people visit WalMarts and Targets all over the US. I shall start a lobby to tax physical stores 10% on all purchases to feed/clothe/house the masses of UPS drivers that will be laid off. It's the only fair thing to do. How can they compete with stores where people do the driving to and from??
W3C, what do they know bout the 'Web? Microsoft is the one that's innovatin' here.
Speaking of which, you seen that commercial MS is running with Bill talking about how they will always "innovate?" Guess they are just now starting the anti-DOJ PR campaign.
Phillip-Morris causes people to get lung cancer. Smith-Wesson cause people to get killed by bullets. People want to sue Orkin to pay for their broken TV over this commercial (one women threw a motorcycle helmet at the TV, maybe the helmet maker should be responsible for having too hard a helmet). Why doesn't iD (any game makers) cause people to be violent? I mean, this case follows all the other rules, blame someone else. This seems perfectly made for our judicial system.
:)
Am I missing something?
This isn't 1940 anymore either. I'm failing to see your side. Are you saying nothing has changed over the years, everyone is still ambivolent about racism? Maybe it's just the people I associate with, but I don't know people that are this way. There's blacks living in the neighborhoods of friends/family. I see people getting along just fine. Has living among non-racists poisoned me to what's "really" going on? Or is your position, since it happened in 1940, it is happening forever?
Shouting "bigot" has a different meaning today that it did in 1940's South. I am talking about compaigning today as well. In my life and travels, the normal people FAR outnumber the bigots. So, my idea was to use that to accomplish what you want for this cause. This is more what America is about, not "Eh I'll let them politicians pass a law. That'll take care of them bigots." As others have stated, laws won't change the people's minds.
The machine(s) weren't down completely. I was able to get ping responses from them. They're still running Apache 1.3.6, so I doubt it was to upgrade to the latest. Perhaps they were upgrade slashcode to 1.0 or something.
That, or they were taken over by aliens to spread their propaganda prior to arrival so we do not rebel against them when the do arrive here.
How about some *real* tolerance for a change?
See, you miss the point of political correctness (in America at least) today. Tolerance means, "You will do (behave, believe, etc) what I say." Most often, it is the left side that you must agree with or you are killing children (but only those who are completely born), senior citizens, and minorities that apply to any given situation. If you don't agree with any given left group, you should die. That is tolerance in America.
The market does not punish those who discriminate according to popular prejudice.
That is just a matter of getting people to care about it. Look, here around Peoria, IL three overweight women were fired from a Casey's story (small gas station/convenient store) for eating candy on the job and not paying for it. Now they were able to get on the local news broadcasts and had at least 10 people marching in front of the store with signs. Hell, if that can get people motivated, then the same can be done with racism. Despite the work of Al Sharpton types, I don't find every white person to be an inherent racist. If you have a store that is booting blacks (or whichever group) out, you could easily get far more people to picket. Who's going to go in when people are shouting "bigot" and stuff in front of the store? This would be the "punish by market" process working.
People love protesting, from the WTO thing in Seattle, to the thugs in Decatur, to everyone around Elian Gonzalez's house. The thing we need to do is channel a tiny portion of that energy to other causes.
Don't forget that he "discovered" the nuclear waste in Love Canal when there were House meetings on it two years before he got there.
Somewhere around the RNC's GoreFiles section they had a whole list of his "accomplishments" like this. It's a funny read even if you're not Republican.
I can assure you as a long-time gun owner that nobody in his right mind ever gets in the habit of sticking his face in front of the barrel when adjusting the sling. Or just about any other time. Ironically, Mr. Gore could benefit from the excellent NRA gun safety training classes.
:)
Or a little military training. I'm sure people may have rushed through BASIC training back during Vietnam, but I doubt they skipped the weapon saftey training. Heck, back then they were allowed to punch you and stuff to get the message into your head.
Just imagine what you could do with a (working) pair of 1GHz PentiumIIIs
Fry a steak? Heck, I don't have enough to keep my little Athlon/550 busy. It spits back kernels to me in 4+ minutes. Hardly enough time to fix a sandwich. Besides, you know the 1G P3's will start at least $1500. I've got a list of better things to have for $3k.
Any bets on whether we'll see 1G P3's or Dual-Athlon systems out first?
It still pales in comparison to an early release of a Linux kernel. Between an NDA for a beta program (I've done a few for Windows games), and the EULA for the product itself, you basically aren't allowed to say anything about it to anyone. This is the current corporate mindset that drives companies that operate in closed source and Windows worlds. They don't want any bad press, or a leak of their sacred intellectual property.
Back in the days before Windows 95, I knew of a fellow who had some dinky web site about it on his ISP account. He didn't trash it, or anything too bad (in my opinion), but still got letters from MS, the ISP, etc to remove it. So, I use language like "sell your soul" to describe this behavior, because it prevents you from doing what comes naturally, talking. It is over the top, even absurd, as you don't literally sell your soul to them. But as Mr. Limbaugh says, it's "pointing out absurdity by being absurd."
Please, please, please, please don't go looking at any kernel.org mirrors. We need such insightful comments as yours, and no one wants that to stop by actually visiting the mirrors and seeing 2.4 as it exists currently. "Vaporware" refers to something not existing for users to view, commonly just a list of features in press releases. So we can't have you seeing that it has existed for nearly a year.
Thank you, and good day.
I bought an HP C200 not so long ago, and it comes with a serial connector. It's cheap, takes nice enough pictures for me, and works with gphoto. I'm no "photog" by any means, maybe more expensive ones only have USB. But there are some still left out there that work just fine in Linux.
Ok, you can try Linux 2.4 legally anytime. You can get yourself on lists to beta test software for Windows and the like, but you must sell your soul to them first (NDA). You can download it from IRC, newsgroups, etc, but at any given moment MS can sick the feds on you and take everything you own as "evidence." The chances of it happening, probably low if you don't give it to others or use it in your business (they like making examples of those sort of cases). But it is the law, and if you do it, you accept the consequences. When my truck could go over the speed limit, I did so accepting that if I were caught, I'd pay the $100 (or whatever) fine. With the risk comes responsibility.
:)
Even if I cared about trying Windows early, to me, it's just not worth the hassle of jail for a few days, years in court, hundred-thousand dollar fines, having to perform community service, etc. They always go overboard with those sort of trials.
The thing about Linux though, is one piece can go to hell, and leave the rest of the kernel running. There have been times when working with a sound driver or something and it craps out. I can't rmmod it because it's marked as used. The end result, sound is gone but everything else is still working. The kernel is still IP Masq'ing, I'm surfin the web, etc. Compare this to kernel integrations in Windows, and any one piece will bring down the entire machine. So, let them integrate simple daemons like this, not only can I choose to not install it, but if it goes to hell, I know it doesn't (necessarily) bring the entire thing down.
Well, unlike any commercial software, you can go ahead and run 2.4 long before it's final version is out. If you wish to rely on others to test it and work bugs out, well, then you're stuck waiting for them to declare it done. Since May 14, 1999, (kernel 2.3.1 started) you could see what was going on in the kernel for v2.4. So, this hasn't been "vaporware" for nearly a year. It has existed.
That said, dates in Open Source projects are at best a guess. It depends on far too many developers to be very exact. You want it sooner, go to your favored mirror and download it. Try this with Microsoft or other corporations and their products.
Thank you. I hate it when people go and read the first couple of paragraphs of an article before asking their questions here. What, are they too good for those of us who react on impulse? Who died and made them king? Keep up the good work, my friend. Don't let The Man keep force you to read something before responding.
I know it won't be included in the kernel for 2.4, but is there a version of it ported to 2.3.x? I took the available patches and tried applying them, but too much of the kernel fs internals have changed. So, before I sit down for several hours trying to understand everything about filesystems in the kernel, has anyone already done it? I really want to try 2.4, but I just can't go back to ext2. Once you've tasted it, there is no other. ;)
The problem there is there are folks (often younger people) who get a laugh taunting, cursing, etc at everyone on "chat rooms." If some folks want it better, great. They can have their servers and all. If you want to curse out people for no particular reason, there's still 4.2 billion EFNet (and the like) servers. As the Internet gets bigger and bigger, more and more jerks come out of the woodwork. This whole scheme is voluntary, it's not like this TalkCity is the only chat service on the market (yet).
my browser doesn't uncontrollably stop showing
the web page and force me to view adds
Ah, but some are getting the hang of just this idea. cdmag.com is one where I noticed it first. Click on a handful of reviews and articles, every so many it brings up a large picture ad right in the center with a link at the bottom and something like, "click here to go on to the article." I've also seen it a few other places, but they weren't ones I frequent so I forgot 'em. What's most disgusting is they do this on top of their constantly-refreshing banner ads at the top. Eek.
If you want a "clean" sort of IRC, hack the server code to boot, ban IPs, etc anyone saying bad words repeatedly. Then have a bunch of people on hand for users to report abuses to, etc. etc. It certainly is possible, without resorting to banner-ad schemes.
I'm getting a dog one day soon. I figure by the time I take it out for walks, I'll have to have a leash with banner ads going down it. There's no end to where these mopes will put advertising.
Nah, this www.petsbymail.com thing was pretty cute, and it got some animal-lovers mailling lists. It was made legitimate by alleged radio commercials, and today we see it was brought to us by KDWB (wherever that is). Ah radio, the infallable medium. Makes me wonder how many people want to go to Spatula City during Rush's broadcasts.
I don't see any links to the old page, but it said something like, "Nearly all of our animals survive the shipping process. If yours arrives dead or injured, simply return the carcass and receive a full refund." And the usual, "opening April 1."
Sure you can. Start at midnight GMT, but wherever it is 2am. Go from north to south cleaning that timezone for one hour, then move to the next. Since this process takes 24 hours, might as well go timezone-by-timezone (roughly). This could easily be accomplished with PHP or Python.
Welcome to Standard Paranoia Time.
As others have said, the problem is you rely entirely on the lead car's radar to see deer and the like. But the other down side is you must have only one car type. Every one in the convoy must have the same brakes et al so they can stop simultaneously. I'm sure the MPAA would love to branch into the car bidness, but it's not for me.
Sure you can have 43,572 sensors for every little screw/nut in the car, but something will inevitably happen to that lead car (airplane or UFO falls out of the sky) and then everyone is screwed.