My perfect car would look a lot like a 4-wheeled motorbike. Picture one of those off-road personal 4x4's but with a peppier engine, better tires, good seats, seatbelts, roll cage, and optional winter enclosure.
Open-air cruising in summer, with only a roll cage over your head, and in winter you bolt on sides, doors, etc. Four wheels, so it's stable enough to be driven in winter, great fuel economy because it's light and has a small yet potent engine, and best of all, PLENTY OF PEP!!! You'd be able to SMOKE everyone else's econobox off the line, while still getting waaaaaaay better mileage!
...and hopefully no helmet required, because hopefully with the roll cage it'll qualify as a small car!
So PLEASE, any major automaker... PLEASE PLEASE MAKE ME ONE!!!!!
The really scary thing, for me anyways, is that ZeroKnowledge is located in Canada.
Which means - if the US has really pressured them to shut it down - that Canada's economic and social policies are even more influenced by the US than I ever believed them to be...
Right now, free speech is getting it's ass kicked around in the states, and it's starting to leach over into my little country!
I don't like this one bit.
On the other hand, ZeroKnowledge has been struggling financially for some time now, so maybe the events of Sept 11 just provided a good excuse for them to shut down their money-losing anonymizing service without raising too much of a furor.
also, has anyone ever looked inside a SNES? those seem pretty portable...
Actually, I have hacked up a SNES in an attempt to make it portable. Years and years ago, My friend and I got a hacksaw, a handheld TV, and some batteries and gave it a try.
Upon opening the case, we found that the circuit board is literally as large as the case. There's really no conceivable way to cut it down and keep it working. (At least none that the two of us could finagle).
The circuit board wound up in a shoebox with a slot in the top (for games) and liberal wrapping of duct tape.
To sum up, the circuit board is really as big as the system. PLUS the sound card is on a seperate (smaller) board! If you rip off the sound board, games still function, but sound is gone.
So portable-izing one of these would be quite a task.
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Car with emotions? What crap!
My perfect car would look a lot like a 4-wheeled motorbike. Picture one of those off-road personal 4x4's but with a peppier engine, better tires, good seats, seatbelts, roll cage, and optional winter enclosure.
Open-air cruising in summer, with only a roll cage over your head, and in winter you bolt on sides, doors, etc. Four wheels, so it's stable enough to be driven in winter, great fuel economy because it's light and has a small yet potent engine, and best of all, PLENTY OF PEP!!! You'd be able to SMOKE everyone else's econobox off the line, while still getting waaaaaaay better mileage!
...and hopefully no helmet required, because hopefully with the roll cage it'll qualify as a small car!
So PLEASE, any major automaker... PLEASE PLEASE MAKE ME ONE!!!!!
Thanks.
--R
Map of the Microwave Background (nasa.gov)
View of galaxies toward the great Attractor (nasa.gov)
These images are from nasa's astronomy picture of the day, indexed here!
--R
The really scary thing, for me anyways, is that ZeroKnowledge is located in Canada.
Which means - if the US has really pressured them to shut it down - that Canada's economic and social policies are even more influenced by the US than I ever believed them to be...
Right now, free speech is getting it's ass kicked around in the states, and it's starting to leach over into my little country!
I don't like this one bit.
On the other hand, ZeroKnowledge has been struggling financially for some time now, so maybe the events of Sept 11 just provided a good excuse for them to shut down their money-losing anonymizing service without raising too much of a furor.
--R
Actually, I have hacked up a SNES in an attempt to make it portable. Years and years ago, My friend and I got a hacksaw, a handheld TV, and some batteries and gave it a try.
Upon opening the case, we found that the circuit board is literally as large as the case. There's really no conceivable way to cut it down and keep it working. (At least none that the two of us could finagle).
The circuit board wound up in a shoebox with a slot in the top (for games) and liberal wrapping of duct tape.
To sum up, the circuit board is really as big as the system. PLUS the sound card is on a seperate (smaller) board! If you rip off the sound board, games still function, but sound is gone.
So portable-izing one of these would be quite a task.
Good luck to you, though, if you try it.
--R