For some reason, I see this being less of a problem with new cars, as opposed to used cars.
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You should always remember a media business truism: "The public are morons". Media types will never say this out where you can hear them, but I have sat through enough conference room discussions to know where these folks land.
And these are the people who are struggling to make it in today's media. People don't like the we're-smarter-than-you attitude.
I attribute much of Fox News's sucess to an understanding this. The common man may not be a genius, but he does know when he's being talked down to, and he's a little fed up with it.
I work in radio, and yes, we have some real idiots who listen -- people who can't watch TV without moving their lips. But they're the exception, not the rule. But if you target directly to them, they'll be the only audience you have left.
Money that's taken by government inevitably has a sizable portion skimmed off the top to support bureaucracy. And there is little personal incentive in government for innovation and top performance.
So, the equations aren't equal.
Time and time again, the private sector has shown itself to be more efficient than the government (or any other monopoly, for that matter).
Even elements of government "run as businesses" don't function as efficiently as their private counterparts. If I have to get a package somewhere in two days, I'm not going to the US Postal Service -- I'm going to UPS or FedEx.
Spammers do realize this. Many of the mass-mailer worms do not have any mechanism for actually doing SMTP communication....they simply dump what would be a legit SMTP session to port 25 on the remote machine. Many simple web mailer scripts (these often are exploited, too) also do this. The Exim Manual has a good description of this under the smtp_enforce_sync option. Turning this on has stopped quite a bit of bulk e-mail on my host.
I have a Verizon customer who attempts to send my mail server around 1k emails per hour. I complained to Verizon three and a half months ago. They shut the host down for about a week, then let him back...same thing. Normally, I get between 17 - 22k blocked connection attempts from ipfilter _from this one host_ per day.
I complained again, and they didn't do anything. I really can't imagine the computer on the other end is at all usable, because it's so busy trying to send spam.
It's about the mistreatment of a corporate executive due to activity that his company prohibits. The right to have sex falls somewhere behind personal freedom to travel, IMO.
And suspend operations in India until this matter is resolved. If it is not resolved correctly, they, and other American companies should consider terminating all activties in India. I know I, as a consumer, will be hesitant to corporations who persist.......
Yes, yes, I know, there's little chance of an evil big corporation doing the right thing. But telling them what they ought to do is a good start to get them to move in the right direction.
And let's hope there's some hardcore diplomatic wrangling going on at the State Department to get this resolved.
Haha. Sendmail has the bugs worked out? Mmmmmkay, I'll take their word for it, and keep disabling it in rc.conf before I boot the machine.:-) I tend to use Exim4 with Exiscan on machines that serve Win32 clients (spam and virus scanning), and Qmail on unix-only hosts. And Sendmail is just nasty to deal with.:-D
LFS looks intriguing, and I think actually OSX uses LFS for its version of UFS. Still, it's not mainline for any of the BSD's. I've used XFS with Linux for awhile now, as well as with Irix, and come to appreciate it. As I said before, I think HFS+ would be an interesting choice if it's license-compatible (I haven't really dug into the APSL to see). It's been a nice stable filesystem on all the Macs I've used, and now supports case-sensitivity and journalling. The only times I've had problems with it were when hardware went bad (nasty IBM Deathstar in a machine at work...argh). It's also a nice, modern design, so it's worlds faster than linear filesystems. B-tree has only been around since 1986, and BSD still hasn't figured it out?:-)
As for the packagers, I actually like pkgsrc quite a bit, even more than Portage. It seems to have fewer packages than FreeBSD's ports, or Portage, but I've rarely missed something. And there's normally a binary package available, too, which isn't the case with Gentoy^Ho.
Man, someone else with the same view I have. The OMGFr33BSD trolls can't see the truth. FreeBSD 5.x is a dog. There's no other way to put it. [GIANT LOCKED]
My production stuff will remain on FBSD 4 until it gets to the point where a) I need new hardware for those particular machines, or b) I need to run new applications that refuse to work on 4.
New stuff going in is NetBSD, or Debian where NetBSD doesn't work (like on a machine of mine where 2.0 mysteriously crashes on heavy I/O....it's fine under Linux). When DragonFly finishes their experimentation and pronounces their kernel redesign "done," I will give it a look, too.
Still, BSD, and all the BSD's need a few things done....
1. Stable binary updates/packages for the things in the base system without moving to the next minor version number. (e.g. a backport of a binary ssh package when there's a vuln). 2. Removal from the base system of unnecessary elements. That Perl is not required to rebuild the system in FreeBSD and NetBSD is a good thing. Now, ditch sendmail and bind....especially sendmail. If you absolutely have to include an MTA in the base system, use Exim or Postfix. 3. Modern filesystem. I do notice a big difference between JFS or XFS and softupdated FFS on the same hardware. Linux's filesystems are much faster than BSD now, and the gap seems to widen every day. FFS2 does nothing to change the way FFS works -- it just allows larger partition sizes. Maybe they can do something with HFS+? Convince IBM, SGI, or Namesys to release one of their FS's under a BSD license?
I have a dead NeXTStation that I'm going to mod to fit an ITX board and three drives. I'm also hoping to figure out a way to maybe use something like a notebook DVD drive in place of the floppy port.
Actually modding these, though, is tougher than a standard PC case -- they're thick cast metal, which looks difficult to cut.
Next thing to do is find a monitor and keyboard that look like they belong with it. Or, I might just use it as a MythTV setup, as it'd look good beside a TV.
The Earth as an entire system (Gaia), does meet many of the criteria we ascribe to life, including the most important one of maintaining entropic balance. It's foolish to discount the possibility offhand.
And what science shows is that there is no balance. The history of Earth is varied, and tulmultous. Thinking it's reached a balance point, and will stay that way for eons is more foolish in light of the evidence.
As for Gaian sentience, again, it's plausible. Unfortunately, the discussion stops there for lack of investigative avenues.
You fail it! I have just asked a question of the planet, and it failed to respond to me. Therefore, your hypothesis is false. Or, did you miss the part about not being able to assert a hypothesis that cannot be adequately tested....sick from class that day, were we?
The true fools are those who, without proof, believe the Gaia theory to be true, or like you, believe it to be false.
In the absence of any hard evidence that supports it, it is totally rational to cast it as false (there is evidence against, as the planet is simply made of non-sentient parts....you can easily test small parts). But the people who promote the theories regarding Gaia are, as a whole, mystic hippies who really couldn't care less about the science involved. They simply want to control others' behaviour. In that sense, they're no better than other religious nutjobs.
It's not a nihilist approach -- you're merely treating an object as a fickle ruler. Next thing you know, you'll be writing "Sinners in the hands of an angry Gaia."
People who believe that kind of thing are just as looped as Christian fundamentalists who believe the earth is 6000 years old.
But the fundamental fear is the same -- unless I can control someone else's actions, everyone is going to die! Of course, it's simply shameful to live that way, but....
Basically there are huge gaping vulnerabilities in the US's defenses. Hundreds of tons of cocaine gets through EVERY year despite the billions spent in the war vs drugs.
The government can't keep drugs out of prisons, much less the country. The "War on Drugs" is a failure of monumental proportions.
The US can only close many of these vulnerablities at great cost to themselves (great impact on freedom and economy ) - e.g. by declaring martial law, curfews and such.
I agree completely. A missile defense system, while expensive, is not something we're devoting a large portion of the budget to. In fact, it's a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things. As a total percentage of the total budget, it's tiny. And it's a system that doesn't infringe on any civil liberties. Yet, the left opposes it reflexively. Why? Reagan supported it. Bush supports it. It must be bad, and not worth even trying.
If you know you can't win a no-holds-barred fight if an opponent chooses to attack your major weakness AND your weakness is common knowledge,
Or try to reduce that weakness before your enemies can well exploit it?
However it seems the US is going out of its way to pick fights. Makes me wonder why.
How, exactly, is working on missile defense picking a fight? In fact, it could be argued that missile defense is totally contrary to the "Bush Docterine" of pre-emption abroad. It's a defensive system, employed within the confines of the United States.
Glad to see you've got your Kerry4Pres propaganda e-mails in your gmail account to search easily.
Meanwhile, the thousands of cargo containers entering American ports everyday are rarely inspected.
If you believe it's physically and fiscally possible to inspect every single container, I wish you luck. You'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams, and I have a bridge you can buy with the proceeds. Perhaps you missed the stories about the month-long backlog at the Port of Los Angeles due to container inspections. Inspecting them all would only exacerbate that problem. So, build more ports! Haha. Not bloody likely.
Meanwhile, tons of radioactive materials are left unsecured in the former USSR.
It's nowhere near the problem it was eight, ten years ago. Russia has most of the materials secured.
And more nations are pursuing nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip to keep the U.S. from invading their countries.
Like Pakistan? Oh, wait, I thought that Pakistan developed them to fend off an attack from _India_. Like Isreal? Who developed them to fight off attacks from Iraq and Iran. Like North Korea, who are just desperate? That's a very thin argument. Very thin.
Someone want to educate the current administration on asymmetrical warfare?
I'm sure that with your vast knowledge of international affairs, you're well-equipped. Send them a resume?
And how the next threat is likely to be immune to missile interceptors.
It's not a question of _the_ next threat. There are multiple next threats. It is naive to think that the threats that existed before al Qaeda attacked the US and Spain have magically withered away -- they're still there. To place a singular focus on it is foolish at best, suicidal at worst. Remember the "Axis of Evil?" The two remaining members have nuclear capabilities, and North Korea may have sub-launchible missiles. If they get close enough to the West Coast....
Depends upon your definition of "efficiently." No, it's not a modern SMP implementation -- it's a big-lock system much like FreeBSD 4.x. (Or FreeBSD 5 if you don't have the three pieces of blessed hardware....do a dmesg and see how much stuff is GIANT-LOCKED)
That said, it works fine for most things. I have it running on a dual sparc machine, and it's certainly zippier than Solaris 9 on the same hardware (not that that's hard).
I also had it up on a 4x400 Alpha, and it seemed to work fine there, too.
You can find this stuff pretty easily from NOAA if you take a look around. I'm a broadcaster, and I look at these every day when I'm preparing my forecasts. We get prepared weather from a commercial provider, but I find it to be severely lacking, because the community my station serves has weather that can be quite different, depending upon where you are. During the winter, you can go from just rain to a foot of snow within 40 miles.
Here's the site I visit every day. Take a look at things like the "Area Forecast Discussions." While they're a bit cryptic to read, they give you a better picture than the limited local forecast.
mkdir bad_music cd bad_music/ ln -s ~/music/mp3/murray_head/"Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok.mp3" bangkok.mp3 ln -s ~/music/mp3/cw_mccall/"C.W. McCall - convoy.mp3" convoy.mp3 ln -s ~/music/mp3/william_shatner/"Common People.mp3" common_people.mp3 ln -s ~/music/mp3/slim_whitman/"Love Song of the Waterfall.mp3" waterfall.mp3...and so on. You could probably do it faster in Nautilus.
And the congestion on the Autobahn has forced the government to restrict speeds in many places. Last time I was there, there were more 120kph zones than unrestricted zones, and in places, limits dropped as low as 80kph (near Heillbron?).
But my point remains valid -- most people in Europe don't have a commute that takes them on a freeway for more than a few minutes, if at all. That's just not the case in the US, especially if you live in a suburb of a large city. My own commute, after I get out of my neighborhood (around two blocks), the speed limit is never under 35, and the vast majority of it is 55.
If I lived in a city in Europe (something I did for six years), I probably would consider not even owning a car. However, I live in the US, in an area where public transportation is virutally nil (a rather bad bus system that I'd have to walk three miles to get to a stop is all), and have a 35 mile commute to work (through two tunnels). I can't hop on the tram and be there in 20 minutes. Much of America is like this, and yes, there's some stupid urban planning to blame (in most places, there are no mixed commerical/residential buildings built after around 1950). But it is what it is, and you can't assume everywhere's like the UK.
Perhaps in Europe, but not in the US. Where I live, speed limits under 35mph are confined to residential areas. Most in-city streets are 40 or 45, and the highways' traffic flows somewhere between 60 and 70, depending on the time of day. One of these roller skates wouldn't be able to keep up.
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If you choose expert, or expert26 at boot, it'll let you skip dhcp. Even so, the normal way, it doesn't take very long.
It also does a lookup from your DHCP server when you manually input your IP and DNS addresses....and it correctly sets the hostname.
For some reason, I see this being less of a problem with new cars, as opposed to used cars.
You should always remember a media business truism: "The public are morons". Media types will never say this out where you can hear them, but I have sat through enough conference room discussions to know where these folks land.
And these are the people who are struggling to make it in today's media. People don't like the we're-smarter-than-you attitude.
I attribute much of Fox News's sucess to an understanding this. The common man may not be a genius, but he does know when he's being talked down to, and he's a little fed up with it.
I work in radio, and yes, we have some real idiots who listen -- people who can't watch TV without moving their lips. But they're the exception, not the rule. But if you target directly to them, they'll be the only audience you have left.
I can beat that....in my home town (not in texas), there's retirement home -> funeral home -> cemetary. No hearse necessary.
Money that's taken by government inevitably has a sizable portion skimmed off the top to support bureaucracy. And there is little personal incentive in government for innovation and top performance.
So, the equations aren't equal.
Time and time again, the private sector has shown itself to be more efficient than the government (or any other monopoly, for that matter).
Even elements of government "run as businesses" don't function as efficiently as their private counterparts. If I have to get a package somewhere in two days, I'm not going to the US Postal Service -- I'm going to UPS or FedEx.
Spammers do realize this. Many of the mass-mailer worms do not have any mechanism for actually doing SMTP communication....they simply dump what would be a legit SMTP session to port 25 on the remote machine. Many simple web mailer scripts (these often are exploited, too) also do this. The Exim Manual has a good description of this under the smtp_enforce_sync option. Turning this on has stopped quite a bit of bulk e-mail on my host.
I have a Verizon customer who attempts to send my mail server around 1k emails per hour. I complained to Verizon three and a half months ago. They shut the host down for about a week, then let him back...same thing. Normally, I get between 17 - 22k blocked connection attempts from ipfilter _from this one host_ per day.
I complained again, and they didn't do anything. I really can't imagine the computer on the other end is at all usable, because it's so busy trying to send spam.
How much can you miss the mark?
This isn't about the tape.
It's about the mistreatment of a corporate executive due to activity that his company prohibits. The right to have sex falls somewhere behind personal freedom to travel, IMO.
And suspend operations in India until this matter is resolved. If it is not resolved correctly, they, and other American companies should consider terminating all activties in India. I know I, as a consumer, will be hesitant to corporations who persist.......
Yes, yes, I know, there's little chance of an evil big corporation doing the right thing. But telling them what they ought to do is a good start to get them to move in the right direction.
And let's hope there's some hardcore diplomatic wrangling going on at the State Department to get this resolved.
Haha. Sendmail has the bugs worked out? Mmmmmkay, I'll take their word for it, and keep disabling it in rc.conf before I boot the machine. :-) I tend to use Exim4 with Exiscan on machines that serve Win32 clients (spam and virus scanning), and Qmail on unix-only hosts. And Sendmail is just nasty to deal with. :-D
:-)
LFS looks intriguing, and I think actually OSX uses LFS for its version of UFS. Still, it's not mainline for any of the BSD's. I've used XFS with Linux for awhile now, as well as with Irix, and come to appreciate it. As I said before, I think HFS+ would be an interesting choice if it's license-compatible (I haven't really dug into the APSL to see). It's been a nice stable filesystem on all the Macs I've used, and now supports case-sensitivity and journalling. The only times I've had problems with it were when hardware went bad (nasty IBM Deathstar in a machine at work...argh). It's also a nice, modern design, so it's worlds faster than linear filesystems. B-tree has only been around since 1986, and BSD still hasn't figured it out?
As for the packagers, I actually like pkgsrc quite a bit, even more than Portage. It seems to have fewer packages than FreeBSD's ports, or Portage, but I've rarely missed something. And there's normally a binary package available, too, which isn't the case with Gentoy^Ho.
Man, someone else with the same view I have. The OMGFr33BSD trolls can't see the truth. FreeBSD 5.x is a dog. There's no other way to put it. [GIANT LOCKED]
My production stuff will remain on FBSD 4 until it gets to the point where a) I need new hardware for those particular machines, or b) I need to run new applications that refuse to work on 4.
New stuff going in is NetBSD, or Debian where NetBSD doesn't work (like on a machine of mine where 2.0 mysteriously crashes on heavy I/O....it's fine under Linux). When DragonFly finishes their experimentation and pronounces their kernel redesign "done," I will give it a look, too.
Still, BSD, and all the BSD's need a few things done....
1. Stable binary updates/packages for the things in the base system without moving to the next minor version number. (e.g. a backport of a binary ssh package when there's a vuln).
2. Removal from the base system of unnecessary elements. That Perl is not required to rebuild the system in FreeBSD and NetBSD is a good thing. Now, ditch sendmail and bind....especially sendmail. If you absolutely have to include an MTA in the base system, use Exim or Postfix.
3. Modern filesystem. I do notice a big difference between JFS or XFS and softupdated FFS on the same hardware. Linux's filesystems are much faster than BSD now, and the gap seems to widen every day. FFS2 does nothing to change the way FFS works -- it just allows larger partition sizes. Maybe they can do something with HFS+? Convince IBM, SGI, or Namesys to release one of their FS's under a BSD license?
I have a dead NeXTStation that I'm going to mod to fit an ITX board and three drives. I'm also hoping to figure out a way to maybe use something like a notebook DVD drive in place of the floppy port.
Actually modding these, though, is tougher than a standard PC case -- they're thick cast metal, which looks difficult to cut.
Next thing to do is find a monitor and keyboard that look like they belong with it. Or, I might just use it as a MythTV setup, as it'd look good beside a TV.
The Earth as an entire system (Gaia), does meet many of the criteria we ascribe to life, including the most important one of maintaining entropic balance. It's foolish to discount the possibility offhand.
And what science shows is that there is no balance. The history of Earth is varied, and tulmultous. Thinking it's reached a balance point, and will stay that way for eons is more foolish in light of the evidence.
As for Gaian sentience, again, it's plausible. Unfortunately, the discussion stops there for lack of investigative avenues.
You fail it! I have just asked a question of the planet, and it failed to respond to me. Therefore, your hypothesis is false. Or, did you miss the part about not being able to assert a hypothesis that cannot be adequately tested....sick from class that day, were we?
The true fools are those who, without proof, believe the Gaia theory to be true, or like you, believe it to be false.
In the absence of any hard evidence that supports it, it is totally rational to cast it as false (there is evidence against, as the planet is simply made of non-sentient parts....you can easily test small parts). But the people who promote the theories regarding Gaia are, as a whole, mystic hippies who really couldn't care less about the science involved. They simply want to control others' behaviour. In that sense, they're no better than other religious nutjobs.
It's not a nihilist approach -- you're merely treating an object as a fickle ruler. Next thing you know, you'll be writing "Sinners in the hands of an angry Gaia."
People who believe that kind of thing are just as looped as Christian fundamentalists who believe the earth is 6000 years old.
But the fundamental fear is the same -- unless I can control someone else's actions, everyone is going to die! Of course, it's simply shameful to live that way, but....
Basically there are huge gaping vulnerabilities in the US's defenses. Hundreds of tons of cocaine gets through EVERY year despite the billions spent in the war vs drugs.
The government can't keep drugs out of prisons, much less the country. The "War on Drugs" is a failure of monumental proportions.
The US can only close many of these vulnerablities at great cost to themselves (great impact on freedom and economy ) - e.g. by declaring martial law, curfews and such.
I agree completely. A missile defense system, while expensive, is not something we're devoting a large portion of the budget to. In fact, it's a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things. As a total percentage of the total budget, it's tiny. And it's a system that doesn't infringe on any civil liberties. Yet, the left opposes it reflexively. Why? Reagan supported it. Bush supports it. It must be bad, and not worth even trying.
If you know you can't win a no-holds-barred fight if an opponent chooses to attack your major weakness AND your weakness is common knowledge,
Or try to reduce that weakness before your enemies can well exploit it?
However it seems the US is going out of its way to pick fights. Makes me wonder why.
How, exactly, is working on missile defense picking a fight? In fact, it could be argued that missile defense is totally contrary to the "Bush Docterine" of pre-emption abroad. It's a defensive system, employed within the confines of the United States.
Glad to see you've got your Kerry4Pres propaganda e-mails in your gmail account to search easily.
Meanwhile, the thousands of cargo containers entering American ports everyday are rarely inspected.
If you believe it's physically and fiscally possible to inspect every single container, I wish you luck. You'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams, and I have a bridge you can buy with the proceeds. Perhaps you missed the stories about the month-long backlog at the Port of Los Angeles due to container inspections. Inspecting them all would only exacerbate that problem. So, build more ports! Haha. Not bloody likely.
Meanwhile, tons of radioactive materials are left unsecured in the former USSR.
It's nowhere near the problem it was eight, ten years ago. Russia has most of the materials secured.
And more nations are pursuing nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip to keep the U.S. from invading their countries.
Like Pakistan? Oh, wait, I thought that Pakistan developed them to fend off an attack from _India_. Like Isreal? Who developed them to fight off attacks from Iraq and Iran. Like North Korea, who are just desperate? That's a very thin argument. Very thin.
Someone want to educate the current administration on asymmetrical warfare?
I'm sure that with your vast knowledge of international affairs, you're well-equipped. Send them a resume?
And how the next threat is likely to be immune to missile interceptors.
It's not a question of _the_ next threat. There are multiple next threats. It is naive to think that the threats that existed before al Qaeda attacked the US and Spain have magically withered away -- they're still there. To place a singular focus on it is foolish at best, suicidal at worst. Remember the "Axis of Evil?" The two remaining members have nuclear capabilities, and North Korea may have sub-launchible missiles. If they get close enough to the West Coast....
Depends upon your definition of "efficiently." No, it's not a modern SMP implementation -- it's a big-lock system much like FreeBSD 4.x. (Or FreeBSD 5 if you don't have the three pieces of blessed hardware....do a dmesg and see how much stuff is GIANT-LOCKED)
That said, it works fine for most things. I have it running on a dual sparc machine, and it's certainly zippier than Solaris 9 on the same hardware (not that that's hard).
I also had it up on a 4x400 Alpha, and it seemed to work fine there, too.
And then he goes home at night and bones a woman 20 years his junior
More like 35, 40 years his junior, knowing Hollywood these days.
Indiana Jones and the Quest for Young Poon. Starring Harrison Ford and Natalie Portman (no grits).
Haha....no, Eastern Virginia, but the principle is the same -- proximity to the water. No rain at the beach, all snow inland.
You can find this stuff pretty easily from NOAA if you take a look around. I'm a broadcaster, and I look at these every day when I'm preparing my forecasts. We get prepared weather from a commercial provider, but I find it to be severely lacking, because the community my station serves has weather that can be quite different, depending upon where you are. During the winter, you can go from just rain to a foot of snow within 40 miles.
Here's the site I visit every day. Take a look at things like the "Area Forecast Discussions." While they're a bit cryptic to read, they give you a better picture than the limited local forecast.
mkdir bad_music ...and so on. You could probably do it faster in Nautilus.
cd bad_music/
ln -s ~/music/mp3/murray_head/"Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok.mp3" bangkok.mp3
ln -s ~/music/mp3/cw_mccall/"C.W. McCall - convoy.mp3" convoy.mp3
ln -s ~/music/mp3/william_shatner/"Common People.mp3" common_people.mp3
ln -s ~/music/mp3/slim_whitman/"Love Song of the Waterfall.mp3" waterfall.mp3
(Sadly, I have most of these tunes....)
I didn't say there was a lack of planning -- I said there was stupid planning.
And the congestion on the Autobahn has forced the government to restrict speeds in many places. Last time I was there, there were more 120kph zones than unrestricted zones, and in places, limits dropped as low as 80kph (near Heillbron?).
But my point remains valid -- most people in Europe don't have a commute that takes them on a freeway for more than a few minutes, if at all. That's just not the case in the US, especially if you live in a suburb of a large city. My own commute, after I get out of my neighborhood (around two blocks), the speed limit is never under 35, and the vast majority of it is 55.
If I lived in a city in Europe (something I did for six years), I probably would consider not even owning a car. However, I live in the US, in an area where public transportation is virutally nil (a rather bad bus system that I'd have to walk three miles to get to a stop is all), and have a 35 mile commute to work (through two tunnels). I can't hop on the tram and be there in 20 minutes. Much of America is like this, and yes, there's some stupid urban planning to blame (in most places, there are no mixed commerical/residential buildings built after around 1950). But it is what it is, and you can't assume everywhere's like the UK.
Perhaps in Europe, but not in the US. Where I live, speed limits under 35mph are confined to residential areas. Most in-city streets are 40 or 45, and the highways' traffic flows somewhere between 60 and 70, depending on the time of day. One of these roller skates wouldn't be able to keep up.