Why not put a fucking cat5 jack in the back of every seat?
I wouldn't call this flamebait. I can see how someone would at least consider cat5 and an rj-45 connector on every seat. However I remember reviewing the Scotch Guard (tm) website some years back and in their faq they spoke of its use on aircraft and how they were asked to offer the weight of their product if applied to all the seats in a given aircraft. If they are concerned about the use of Scotch Guard on an aircraft then they would be likely to be just as critical of the weight of cat5 cable to an aircraft. I would strongly suspect that a wireless system would simply weigh far less than the cable and equipment required to network an aircraft. Also wireless is considered when it would be too costly to wire a space.
Would you want him to return the items and do some community service or actually serve a sentence?
I would not *want* the person to get off with only community service but I feel this would be a likely sentance for a first offence. But if they returned the items it would imply that they had a conscience and should reflect well in the eyes of a judge. However this would not even be an issue if there was only attempted breaking and entering. Again if this is a first offence I would think a slap on the wrist would be a likely sentance. Intent should reflect punishment of the crime commited. For example if they had a large moving van that should be taken into account. But they shouldn't be punished for a crime they didn't actually commit.
What I find hard to believe is the reality of something shown on Max Headroom. "Credit fraud, that is worse than murder!"
They take something good (VOIP), cross it with AOL users, and add completely arbitrary pricing
What is funny is the fact that a local call is pretty much arbitrary. You could be in Vancouver or Tokyo, order the service and say you are local to anywhere you damn well please.
The idea of the Europeans developing their own network had irked the US Department of Defense, which controls GPS, because of the potential of Galileo's signals interfering with those intended for use by the American military.
--TFA
In the past the DoD has saw fit to essentially turn off GPS to civilian receivers. While the DoD might have good reasons to do this the fact remains that its control remains in the hands of an American military department.
I don't know when this was, I imagine early 1990s. The correct question was, "What is a sound blaster". I believe the statement was phrased something like this is the first device to offer sound on a computer. Talk about major bias and bogus. I don't know my history but I would have thought the correct question would have to do with the people who first noticed that they could manipulate the EM interference and hear it via their radio. I.e. way before the 1980s.
Sure, it's not like the 1541 has cooling problems as it is, without MORE heat-producing hardware inside!
What was the cooling problem, was that with the controler, power supply, or the drive? IIRC you could replace the drives with the same bloody thing the PC uses. Not sure how easy it would be to replace the power supply.
Back in the 1970s, there was at least one universal ac adpater that offered blank AA batters that served as a bridge to the AC adapter. IIRC one AA battery had a 9v plug on it to accept power from the ac adapter, and a series of blank AAs to fill in the empty spaces. It was a NICE enough design, except as kids we would hookup 9v batteries and cause all sorts of problems. IIRC these were sold at stores that sold calculators.
I've not seen such a product in some time, but I haven't seen anything that didn't have an optional power plug on it in years. But it should be easy enough to make.
When you are gaming you can't pick up your mouse and move it to the other side of the pad or the other guy kills you.
I rather thought that in FPS game you set your mouse sensitivity relative to how far you want to move the mouse to do a 360. I guess this falls into personal taste. Some gamers prefer ball mice, others like trackballs. I must admit in the past I enjoyed the accuracy of the old sun optical mice with the reflective pad, this usb pad doesn't sound half bad in theory.
When a group of foreign students came out of Dallas airport, one of them exclaimed: "Look at this! There are so many foreigners here":)
I use to escort people at SeaTac airport sometime in the 1980s, mostly people in transit to Canada without visas for America (TWoV). Other countries' airports have international areas for people just going through were SeaTac does not so these people just get an escort. But from students from the Far East, they did comment on how it was different then they expected in the fact that everyone didn't have blond hair and blue eyes. I explained in simple terms that America's population is mixed and this city was 70% caucasian and about 30% something else.
So yea, I could see someone coming to America and be surprised at the number of foreigners, or rather people with non-european roots.
They were trying to do target advertising where you could scan a paper catalog and they would take you to a propreitery website with the information.
This meant that you had to do it from home, and you knew _their_ prices for the catalogs.
The whole Digital Convergence thing at its heart was a neat idea. Frankly barcodes have been part of our lives for decades. It was only common sense to actually make software that would take advantage of it.
As far as doing it from home, I'm sure someone wrote a driver for the palm, but I doubt DC thought above and beyond laptops as far as a portable solution. At the time wireless internet was pretty rare.
(they also had something where you could connect to the TV, if am not mistaken)
AudioCues. Sometimes you got a mono rca to 1/8th inch headphone jack from the places that offered USB cuecats. Radioshack sold them. Again this was a pretty neat idea being able to have embedded urls on audio broadcasts. This was the one technology DC had a patent on IIRC, the one technology that no one seemed to be all that interested in. But it required that the end user not only have a free rca audio out from the TV, but their PC close enough to the pc to make a cable even desirable. And people didn't want to fuck with moving their crap around.
WIFI is far more likely to make this dream of "do you want to know more press here" a reality.
Either way, their model failed because they were giving away a piece of hardware away for free.
I wouldn't go as far as saying that. I feel they bit off more then they could chew. Their business plan was to basically get millions of people using this thing in under a year without establishing a nitch base. If I were to get average people to use the product, I'd start with CD and book collectors. Hell readerware is still around; a company I believe was formed around making an application out of the free barcode reader. If DC failed anywhere it's because they had no application that people were interested in. Sure they can scan in a Campbels can of soup, and their software would take you to their webstite, but not do anything useful beyond keeping track of who likes Campbel's soup. The few people who were interested in the CueCat had no interest in Digital Convergence.
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What manufacturer/model do you recommend for a quality VCR?
I can not recommend a Sony because the warranty is only 3months on labor on VCRs. I have a few friends who bought DVD/VCRs with flakey DVD players. Their warranty has expired.
Been very happy with my JVC though. Mine is still going strong after 7 years.
And what the hell are DJs doing with a VCR?
Every DJ needs a mix tape to pop in while he takes a break. It's a fact of life and nature, it calls and you don't want to answer it in the booth. It's kinda rude, smelly and you might shock someone or be shocked your self. I know it was common place at one point for DJs I knew to use SVHS. But this was when CD-R drives were not an option and DAT recorders were a tad costly. Still someone who loves vinyl might prefer analog audio but not want to lug around a R2R deck.
To me, it just doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun, but I could care less about the subject matter.
I couldn't agree with you more. I can see such simulations being a valuable tool that would allow you average armchair historian to experience an important event from a first hand perspective. I wonder if people would have the same reaction if there was a simulation of John Wilkes Booth assonating President Lincoln at Ford's Theater. I'm sure such a simulation would be rather boring as it's been portrayed on television many a time. Is the TV version of JFK getting assonated less offensive?
Hmm...I wouldn't buy a cell phone that took 10 hours to recharge, the downtime would be too hurtful to its overall usefulness. Why on earth would anyone use a car that was out of commision for 10 hours, when one could go refill their hybrid in less than 5 minutes?
Drive to work, drive home, and charge. Exactly what people did with older mobile phones. One could argue that something that "fills" overnight when you are sleeping saves you 5min at the pumps once a week.
I'm not going to say that this is better than a gas powered car. The range of a gas powered car is limited only by tank size, and the availability of fuel pumps along your path of travel. But for a daily driver this would be more than acceptable, esp. among those two car households.
Where do you live that there aren't any emissions standards?
This is kind of off topic, but never the less I must point out that different countries, different states, cities and counties have different emission standards. For example in Washington there is no testing of vehicles older than 20 years or so. I forget the exact year but I know I sold my 1979 Toyota corolla last year, and I sold it after it was exempt from the testing requirement. Also only larger cities are required to test vehicles, rural areas are exempt.
That being said the beat-up pickup trucks that get less than 10mpg and spew thick black smoke the person spoke about could be from a state or country that has different standards for older vehicles, or perhaps vehicles used for agriculture or other off-road purpose. In my experience 12mpg is more typical of well maintained pickup trucks with 5.6l+ engines without electric ignition and fans where 14mpg is more typical with those improvements like for example the modern Ford Explorer which I believe has a 5.6l engine.
Um. No. Sorry. From the wiki link itself we see that the churches did not like the printing press at first -- mostly because it destroyed their near-monopoly on the written word.
I didn't say anything about the Christian religion:P
Better yet, kill two birds with one stone and mention that CD writers are now under $30. That way they can listen/play and *backup* too.
CD-writers are so 20th century. If I were to sell someone on the idea of writable music, I'd go DVD+/-R(w). About $80 for the drive, less on sale, and many a DVD player will play MP3 on DVD.
But that is a whole other ball of wax. Many people from the rotary phone age don't know how to access a basic directory structure. But the same generation is going to understand physical media. They won't even necessarily be comfortable playing their CDs from their computer. The best explanation I heard regarding this is someone coming home from "work" isn't going to want to look at "work" related equipment. While you and I may consider this to be odd, it's important to respect this attitude.
I can't believe ISP's still connect computers directly to the modem when installing broadband for the technically-challenged.
It's a double edged sword. Qwest 4 years go offered external modems pre-configured with Nat. This solved many problems except supporting the damn modems which as I'm sure you might imagine can be very tedious. The last MSN DSL modem I saw also had NAT enabled to allow only one PC attached to it. DirecPC offer their base cable modem with NAT enabled but I suspect it's mostly so they can sell addressable IPs for more money. The last time I looked the Arescom and DirecPC modems were not end user configurable.
Sure an ISP can offer a modem with NAT, but they run the risk of having to support it. After all they provided the damn modem. But if they offer direct access without NAT, they don't necessarily have to support anything that isn't connection related.
I'm sure this Thanksgiving I'll be asked about the broken CD player. While I'm sure it's remotely possible to fix such things my canned response is, "You know you can buy a DVD player for under $50." This is almost always followed by, "You know you can put CDs in a DVD player, it's not a problem". I'm sure I'll be asked about the broken DVD player, which again the canned response of, "You know you can buy a DVD player for under $50." I guess it may be different if they already have a cheep-o model that takes standard atapi drives.
When asked about people considering a Bose Wave CD/Radio my canned response is, "You know you can put CDs in a DVD player, it's not a problem." This is best for people with existing surround sound DVD players.
When telling the children I feel like a broken record, they ask, "What's that?"
No need to track the GUID across sessions in that scheme. Competitive coupons could be handed out for what's purchased in that isolated transaction.
Then how would they know what your habits are? How would they be able to do selected customer tailored marketed to your needs? And how the hell would they sell advertisement space if the system just spews out coupons based on what you didn't buy that day?
The vendors of today want solid assurance that their money spent is making a difference. The Sunday paper coupons just don't cut it anymore. They want bar graphs and pie charts that show the money they have spent actually caused someone to buy their product. They want a Coke drinker to buy a Pepsi once and a while. The only way to do this is to actually track the customer's buying habits. Otherwise they might be giving an incentive to a Pepsi drinker and we couldn't have that. Perhaps customer loyalty is the wrong term, customer turncoat rewards would be appropriate.
I'm fortunate enough to shop at a place that doesn't pull this crap. They do coupons which are also are designed to waste your time but for me clipping that half off milk coupon saves me a good $300+ yearly. Just as soon as a Trader Joes opens near me guess where I'll be buying my milk? If you're not familiar, Trader Joes doesn't do coupons or loyalty cards or anything designed to waste your time. They sell groceries, produce, and some specialty items at consistently low prices.
I's an odd thing... all these millions (are they into the billions yet?) of dollars spent to administer these programs, and I've yet to hear a single believable* justification for it.
The justification is very simple. They track what you buy and offer you coupons for competing products. This way they get money for advertising from both sides, and loyal customers to one product pay more on a consistent basis. It's a win win situation.
And since the American populace loves to drive and loves their cheap gass price, I don't think that the government will be able to do this successfully
It's not so much the fact that we love to drive. It's the fact that we lack useable public transportation. Many cities had fabulous rail and light rail systems 100 years ago but in our wisdom they tore up the tracks. For many of us, the car is the only option.
That being said, only a complete moron would even consider taxing a car that weighs in over 3000kg the same as a car that weighs in at 1100kg. To me this is total non-sense. I looked the article and saw that the Hummer, an off road vehicle, is taxed twice as much as an average sized car, which is taxed about twice as much as tiny sub average sized car. This to me is more than fair.
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Why not put a fucking cat5 jack in the back of every seat?
I wouldn't call this flamebait. I can see how someone would at least consider cat5 and an rj-45 connector on every seat. However I remember reviewing the Scotch Guard (tm) website some years back and in their faq they spoke of its use on aircraft and how they were asked to offer the weight of their product if applied to all the seats in a given aircraft. If they are concerned about the use of Scotch Guard on an aircraft then they would be likely to be just as critical of the weight of cat5 cable to an aircraft. I would strongly suspect that a wireless system would simply weigh far less than the cable and equipment required to network an aircraft. Also wireless is considered when it would be too costly to wire a space.
Would you want him to return the items and do some community service or actually serve a sentence?
I would not *want* the person to get off with only community service but I feel this would be a likely sentance for a first offence. But if they returned the items it would imply that they had a conscience and should reflect well in the eyes of a judge. However this would not even be an issue if there was only attempted breaking and entering. Again if this is a first offence I would think a slap on the wrist would be a likely sentance. Intent should reflect punishment of the crime commited. For example if they had a large moving van that should be taken into account. But they shouldn't be punished for a crime they didn't actually commit.
What I find hard to believe is the reality of something shown on Max Headroom. "Credit fraud, that is worse than murder!"
They take something good (VOIP), cross it with AOL users, and add completely arbitrary pricing
What is funny is the fact that a local call is pretty much arbitrary. You could be in Vancouver or Tokyo, order the service and say you are local to anywhere you damn well please.
Why would they put another one in ... It just seems like a waste to me.
Microsoft Messenger (TM)
Messenger Service of Windows (TM?)
MSN Mesanger (TM)
Windows Messenger (TM)
Microsoft Windows Messaging (TM)
Microsoft - Seems like a waste to me!
In the past the DoD has saw fit to essentially turn off GPS to civilian receivers. While the DoD might have good reasons to do this the fact remains that its control remains in the hands of an American military department.
Compare "Who is Bill Gates?" for maximum biasm.
I don't know when this was, I imagine early 1990s. The correct question was, "What is a sound blaster". I believe the statement was phrased something like this is the first device to offer sound on a computer. Talk about major bias and bogus. I don't know my history but I would have thought the correct question would have to do with the people who first noticed that they could manipulate the EM interference and hear it via their radio. I.e. way before the 1980s.
It has a cpu (6502), ram (4k) and some i/o ports to control the drive (which is not the same as a pc 5.25" drive either
Thanks for the info. At which point did commodore switch to using off the shelf drives?
Sorry my memory isn't accurate, I was not a Commodore user at the time. I got my C-64 information 2nd hand usually by people flaming the Atari.
Sure, it's not like the 1541 has cooling problems as it is, without MORE heat-producing hardware inside!
What was the cooling problem, was that with the controler, power supply, or the drive? IIRC you could replace the drives with the same bloody thing the PC uses. Not sure how easy it would be to replace the power supply.
Back in the 1970s, there was at least one universal ac adpater that offered blank AA batters that served as a bridge to the AC adapter. IIRC one AA battery had a 9v plug on it to accept power from the ac adapter, and a series of blank AAs to fill in the empty spaces. It was a NICE enough design, except as kids we would hookup 9v batteries and cause all sorts of problems. IIRC these were sold at stores that sold calculators.
I've not seen such a product in some time, but I haven't seen anything that didn't have an optional power plug on it in years. But it should be easy enough to make.
When you are gaming you can't pick up your mouse and move it to the other side of the pad or the other guy kills you.
I rather thought that in FPS game you set your mouse sensitivity relative to how far you want to move the mouse to do a 360. I guess this falls into personal taste. Some gamers prefer ball mice, others like trackballs. I must admit in the past I enjoyed the accuracy of the old sun optical mice with the reflective pad, this usb pad doesn't sound half bad in theory.
When a group of foreign students came out of Dallas airport, one of them exclaimed: "Look at this! There are so many foreigners here" :)
I use to escort people at SeaTac airport sometime in the 1980s, mostly people in transit to Canada without visas for America (TWoV). Other countries' airports have international areas for people just going through were SeaTac does not so these people just get an escort. But from students from the Far East, they did comment on how it was different then they expected in the fact that everyone didn't have blond hair and blue eyes. I explained in simple terms that America's population is mixed and this city was 70% caucasian and about 30% something else.
So yea, I could see someone coming to America and be surprised at the number of foreigners, or rather people with non-european roots.
They were trying to do target advertising where you could scan a paper catalog and they would take you to a propreitery website with the information.
This meant that you had to do it from home, and you knew _their_ prices for the catalogs.
The whole Digital Convergence thing at its heart was a neat idea. Frankly barcodes have been part of our lives for decades. It was only common sense to actually make software that would take advantage of it.
As far as doing it from home, I'm sure someone wrote a driver for the palm, but I doubt DC thought above and beyond laptops as far as a portable solution. At the time wireless internet was pretty rare.
(they also had something where you could connect to the TV, if am not mistaken)
AudioCues. Sometimes you got a mono rca to 1/8th inch headphone jack from the places that offered USB cuecats. Radioshack sold them. Again this was a pretty neat idea being able to have embedded urls on audio broadcasts. This was the one technology DC had a patent on IIRC, the one technology that no one seemed to be all that interested in. But it required that the end user not only have a free rca audio out from the TV, but their PC close enough to the pc to make a cable even desirable. And people didn't want to fuck with moving their crap around.
WIFI is far more likely to make this dream of "do you want to know more press here" a reality.
Either way, their model failed because they were giving away a piece of hardware away for free.
I wouldn't go as far as saying that. I feel they bit off more then they could chew. Their business plan was to basically get millions of people using this thing in under a year without establishing a nitch base. If I were to get average people to use the product, I'd start with CD and book collectors. Hell readerware is still around; a company I believe was formed around making an application out of the free barcode reader. If DC failed anywhere it's because they had no application that people were interested in. Sure they can scan in a Campbels can of soup, and their software would take you to their webstite, but not do anything useful beyond keeping track of who likes Campbel's soup. The few people who were interested in the CueCat had no interest in Digital Convergence.
What manufacturer/model do you recommend for a quality VCR?
I can not recommend a Sony because the warranty is only 3months on labor on VCRs. I have a few friends who bought DVD/VCRs with flakey DVD players. Their warranty has expired.
Been very happy with my JVC though. Mine is still going strong after 7 years.
And what the hell are DJs doing with a VCR?
Every DJ needs a mix tape to pop in while he takes a break. It's a fact of life and nature, it calls and you don't want to answer it in the booth. It's kinda rude, smelly and you might shock someone or be shocked your self. I know it was common place at one point for DJs I knew to use SVHS. But this was when CD-R drives were not an option and DAT recorders were a tad costly. Still someone who loves vinyl might prefer analog audio but not want to lug around a R2R deck.
To me, it just doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun, but I could care less about the subject matter.
I couldn't agree with you more. I can see such simulations being a valuable tool that would allow you average armchair historian to experience an important event from a first hand perspective. I wonder if people would have the same reaction if there was a simulation of John Wilkes Booth assonating President Lincoln at Ford's Theater. I'm sure such a simulation would be rather boring as it's been portrayed on television many a time. Is the TV version of JFK getting assonated less offensive?
Hmm...I wouldn't buy a cell phone that took 10 hours to recharge, the downtime would be too hurtful to its overall usefulness. Why on earth would anyone use a car that was out of commision for 10 hours, when one could go refill their hybrid in less than 5 minutes?
Drive to work, drive home, and charge. Exactly what people did with older mobile phones. One could argue that something that "fills" overnight when you are sleeping saves you 5min at the pumps once a week.
I'm not going to say that this is better than a gas powered car. The range of a gas powered car is limited only by tank size, and the availability of fuel pumps along your path of travel. But for a daily driver this would be more than acceptable, esp. among those two car households.
Where do you live that there aren't any emissions standards?
This is kind of off topic, but never the less I must point out that different countries, different states, cities and counties have different emission standards. For example in Washington there is no testing of vehicles older than 20 years or so. I forget the exact year but I know I sold my 1979 Toyota corolla last year, and I sold it after it was exempt from the testing requirement. Also only larger cities are required to test vehicles, rural areas are exempt.
That being said the beat-up pickup trucks that get less than 10mpg and spew thick black smoke the person spoke about could be from a state or country that has different standards for older vehicles, or perhaps vehicles used for agriculture or other off-road purpose. In my experience 12mpg is more typical of well maintained pickup trucks with 5.6l+ engines without electric ignition and fans where 14mpg is more typical with those improvements like for example the modern Ford Explorer which I believe has a 5.6l engine.
Haha, is there anything more harmful to it's environment than a military vehicle?
Several million soccer moms in Ford Explorers averaging 11-14mpg might qualify.
Um. No. Sorry. From the wiki link itself we see that the churches did not like the printing press at first -- mostly because it destroyed their near-monopoly on the written word.
:P
I didn't say anything about the Christian religion
Can anyone point to technology that religion embraced in its infancy? I really would be interested.
The Printing press
Better yet, kill two birds with one stone and mention that CD writers are now under $30. That way they can listen/play and *backup* too.
CD-writers are so 20th century. If I were to sell someone on the idea of writable music, I'd go DVD+/-R(w). About $80 for the drive, less on sale, and many a DVD player will play MP3 on DVD.
But that is a whole other ball of wax. Many people from the rotary phone age don't know how to access a basic directory structure. But the same generation is going to understand physical media. They won't even necessarily be comfortable playing their CDs from their computer. The best explanation I heard regarding this is someone coming home from "work" isn't going to want to look at "work" related equipment. While you and I may consider this to be odd, it's important to respect this attitude.
I can't believe ISP's still connect computers directly to the modem when installing broadband for the technically-challenged.
It's a double edged sword. Qwest 4 years go offered external modems pre-configured with Nat. This solved many problems except supporting the damn modems which as I'm sure you might imagine can be very tedious. The last MSN DSL modem I saw also had NAT enabled to allow only one PC attached to it. DirecPC offer their base cable modem with NAT enabled but I suspect it's mostly so they can sell addressable IPs for more money. The last time I looked the Arescom and DirecPC modems were not end user configurable.
Sure an ISP can offer a modem with NAT, but they run the risk of having to support it. After all they provided the damn modem. But if they offer direct access without NAT, they don't necessarily have to support anything that isn't connection related.
I'm sure this Thanksgiving I'll be asked about the broken CD player. While I'm sure it's remotely possible to fix such things my canned response is, "You know you can buy a DVD player for under $50." This is almost always followed by, "You know you can put CDs in a DVD player, it's not a problem". I'm sure I'll be asked about the broken DVD player, which again the canned response of, "You know you can buy a DVD player for under $50." I guess it may be different if they already have a cheep-o model that takes standard atapi drives.
When asked about people considering a Bose Wave CD/Radio my canned response is, "You know you can put CDs in a DVD player, it's not a problem." This is best for people with existing surround sound DVD players.
When telling the children I feel like a broken record, they ask, "What's that?"
No need to track the GUID across sessions in that scheme. Competitive coupons could be handed out for what's purchased in that isolated transaction.
Then how would they know what your habits are? How would they be able to do selected customer tailored marketed to your needs? And how the hell would they sell advertisement space if the system just spews out coupons based on what you didn't buy that day?
The vendors of today want solid assurance that their money spent is making a difference. The Sunday paper coupons just don't cut it anymore. They want bar graphs and pie charts that show the money they have spent actually caused someone to buy their product. They want a Coke drinker to buy a Pepsi once and a while. The only way to do this is to actually track the customer's buying habits. Otherwise they might be giving an incentive to a Pepsi drinker and we couldn't have that. Perhaps customer loyalty is the wrong term, customer turncoat rewards would be appropriate.
I'm fortunate enough to shop at a place that doesn't pull this crap. They do coupons which are also are designed to waste your time but for me clipping that half off milk coupon saves me a good $300+ yearly. Just as soon as a Trader Joes opens near me guess where I'll be buying my milk? If you're not familiar, Trader Joes doesn't do coupons or loyalty cards or anything designed to waste your time. They sell groceries, produce, and some specialty items at consistently low prices.
I's an odd thing... all these millions (are they into the billions yet?) of dollars spent to administer these programs, and I've yet to hear a single believable* justification for it.
The justification is very simple. They track what you buy and offer you coupons for competing products. This way they get money for advertising from both sides, and loyal customers to one product pay more on a consistent basis. It's a win win situation.
And since the American populace loves to drive and loves their cheap gass price, I don't think that the government will be able to do this successfully
It's not so much the fact that we love to drive. It's the fact that we lack useable public transportation. Many cities had fabulous rail and light rail systems 100 years ago but in our wisdom they tore up the tracks. For many of us, the car is the only option.
That being said, only a complete moron would even consider taxing a car that weighs in over 3000kg the same as a car that weighs in at 1100kg. To me this is total non-sense. I looked the article and saw that the Hummer, an off road vehicle, is taxed twice as much as an average sized car, which is taxed about twice as much as tiny sub average sized car. This to me is more than fair.