How about this: The more consoles leech games away from Windows, the less attractive a PC is for gaming, the fewer reasons to stick with it.
Definately could happen, but only if you switch exclusively to playing on the console. Personally, I own a Gamecube and PS2, and I would only replace Windows if I:
A) Was not playing any Windows games at all, and had not done so for quite a long time.
B) Had been down to playing Solitare or some other extremely basic title for a very long time.
And even then, i'd still have to think long and hard about making the wipe, because there's a lot of non-game stuff I use that doesn't have acceptable Linux alternatives as well.
switched over about a year ago (dual boot at first then whole hog) and am glad to see the main games that I wanted to play being available on linux (doom3, ut2004, neverwinternights & now half life 2). The list however (not ending there) is still very small comparitivly to windows.
Yeah, that seems to be at least part of the problem right now. If you don't want to play FPS games or a few RPGs like NWN, you're pretty much SOL (yay acronyms!) as far as native games go.
Yes, obviously most people are clueless, but almost everyone has at least USED a computer, and more than likely it's been a Windows machine. So trying to reach someone expecting that they haven't seen any computer at all, and thus they'll be completely open to anything, is probably not going to work.
Ah. Yeah, put that way it makes more sense. I think it would depend a lot on the individual's resistance to change, though.
Trying to go for the people who don't know anything about computers probably isn't the best strategy. There is hardly anyone like that out there anymore
Haven't done any tech support or helpdesk work lately, have we?:)
Maybe you've been lucky enough to work somewhere where all the users are pretty savvy, but the clueless are still out there in droves.
Migration is only going to happen gradually as people get weaned of of win32 only applications one by one.
And don't forget about gaming. Until something major happens to bring Linux some big, big game support, you will have lots of people that will be right on the edge of switching or that will stick with dual-booting.
I'm guessing suprnova, but I couldn't see anything in the article.
Considering the "Police say the site had 10,000 users, all Finnish" quote in the article, and the fact that Suprnova is still up fine, i'm guessing not.
as usual with all the snide comments non-smokers seem to think they can make from their ivory towers, stepped away.
Yeah, acting all elitist because they had enough willpower and smarts to avoid getting addicted to a poisonous chemical....Those bastards!:)
I really wish you guys would stop wearing cologne and perfume - now that shit stinks, and I imagine is significantly more hazardous considering the chemicals involved.
I wonder, when was the last time a perfume/cologne directly caused cancer, emphysema, or any of the other fun tobacco use-related conditions when used normally?
You non-smokers are anal-retentive morons that love to criticize but don't think for yourselves very much - what's funny is the only reason most of you *don't smoke* is because this is the "new millenium", not hundreds of years prior to 1980 when smokers were the rule, not the exception.
I don't smoke because I, you know, don't want to shorten my lifespan. Having a grandmother that will probably die about 15 years earlier because she smoked for most of her adult life kinda helps too.
It is the same with NY and people with Cell Phones while driving they started talking and driving all the time getting into accidents so NY made it illegal to talk on a cell phone and drive at the same time.
Being in NY (Rochester) myself, I can say that nobody seems to care - I can't remember the last day I didn't see at least 2 people talking on their phones and driving. Not to mention all the times i've almost been sideswiped or t-boned by an obviously distracted person that I couldn't see clearly before getting out of the way.
If we're really serious about reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, our only serious option is nuclear energy. Given that France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear without any trouble, there's no reason that the rest of the world cannot do the same. Even the byproducts can be safely vitrified or recycled so that they pose no threat in the future.
You forget another big problem - all the unknowledgeable people out there that have instant negative (kneejerk) reactions to anything nuclear. If nuclear power is to get any sort of worldwide use, such people need to be educated.
The rest of the population does not like these just because most sites use them.
How do you know that? Isn't it a little hypocritical to get annoyed at me for making a generalization when you're doing the same thing yourself?
For the record, anyway, I believe that graphics/animation-haters are in the minority simply because of the prevelance of graphics and animation on the web. Try visiting albinoblacksheep.com, shockwave.com, addictinggames.com, homestarrunner.com or any number of other such sites sometime.
In general, it's just the whole "I don't find something valuable or useful, so there's no way anyone else could possibly feel different." attitude among many of the open-source advocates around here that's really at the root of my problem with people like the original poster.
And the Gameboy icon, reference to Gameboy Advance sales, and a mention of Gamesindustry.biz wouldn't clue you in that it might be a gaming-related story? C'mon now.
Nobody knows every acronym and gadget model number by heart.
News about the DS has been everywhere on gaming related sites, and Nintendo has been running TV commercials, magazine ads, contests, the works. The DS is a major new product from a huge international company, not a little niche gadget.
And as I said before, if you've somehow missed it all, you could have found out exactly what the DS was after about 5 seconds of clicking the article link or searching on Google. Unless you're just incredibly lazy or looking for something to complain about, like the whiners on this particular topic.
Are you sure about that? Do you honestly enjoy waiting an extra minute for a Flash intro to load when you visit a website to find some information?
Usually, there's a "skip intro" link to use, and if not, then i'm probably not coming back to that site anyway.
How does that 2 minute bit of eye-candy help you find the latest driver, or check the status of an order, or get a phone number?
Over all the time i've been using the web in my life, I could count the number of times i've been in such a situation on one hand.
And why do I have to wait for the entire.SWF to download and start playing BEFORE I can click on the "Skip Intro" link?
You shouldn't have to wait, a link to move on could be put in the page's HTML outside the Flash very easily. This comes back to the idea that Flash can be screwed up badly in the wrong hands, just like anything else, and you're condemming the medium instead of the lousy developer.
And what about people who have vision problems? What do you think they feel about Flash-based sites?
Yes, Flash has accesibility problems. I never said it didn't, nor did I say Flash was perfect.
Or people who, due to company policy, aren't allowed to have a Flash player installed on their PC? All they wind up with is a big empty page.
Assuming they need to access such a site for actual work purposes, no doubt it would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Every company is different.
But 99% of the Flash and 60% of all graphical content on websites I visit are wasted bandwidth and interfere with the purpose of my visit.
Not really sure what to say here other than that I don't agree. You've seen some bad stuff, and apparently decided that that means just about everything in that class is worthless.
A must have for firefox. I can't stand flash. I don't know why poeple put this crap on their pages.
As I just posted up above, just because some people suck at using Flash does not mean Flash is inherently bad. In the hands of someone that knows what they're doing, it can be amazing.
Judging from your attitude and your other posts, I have to wonder if the real problem is that you just hate graphical elements and animations in general, for some unknown reason. Sorry, but you're not in the majority.
Flash, as a website based format, is EVIL! I can't even count the number of times I've dismissed a site because it was flash based. Some are just really poorly done, and it shows, while some are just too computer intensive, and some just look silly.
Is Flash evil, or are the evil ones the people that haven't a clue how to use it properly and/or practice proper site design?
You'd be suprised just how nice some Flash stuff can look when it's created by somebody that actually has a clue about how to use it to the advantage of their users.
But wouldn't it be nice to speak clearly in the first place and save them the trouble. I agree with the parent to your post. Very sloppy editing.
Heaven forbid a submitter assumes someone reading the gaming section would know what one of the world's largest game companies is up to.
I mean, really...I bet it took you more time to make your post than it would have to do a quick Google search or actually click the article link. This whole idea of whining if the summary doesn't give a 100% clear idea of what the article's about is getting to be just plain silly.
Thanks much. I suppose I shouldn't have really gone off like that, but it felt good to get that out of my system. I'll be moving at the beginning of March, so one way or another I won't have to deal with it anymore.
Further, just like any other group, there's always some bad apples - rest assured that I know there's caring people like you out there as well:)
At any rate...I have pretty much no hope of changing my meat-eating ways, but i'm always looking for interesting new stuff to browse and learn about, so i'll take your sugesstion and do some reading in my spare time.
Some of these arguments have merit, maybe you should find more recent data, though - The latest date I see anything referenced from is 2002, and a few things from 1993-1997.
There's a lot of other sites out there that can provide counter-arguments better than I can, so I won't get into that.
Some estimates put the acreage requirements for a vegan diet at 1/12th those of an omnivorous diet.
First of all, my apologies, as i'm going to rant a bit here. If you are a vegan or vegetarian and you are actually rational+respectful to other people about it - I may not agree with you, but I have no problem at all with you personally. I have two relatives who follow such a lifestyle, and they are awesome people.
That said:
If a lot of other vegans weren't so dammned overbearing about following that lifestyle, it would be a lot more attractive.
The latest example i've encountered has been the guy living in the apartment upstairs from me - when he first moved in, he took issue with my grilling outside, claiming that he abhors meat and that meat smell was going to make him sick and ruin his furniture or something. Somehow, though, it's still perfectly acceptable to him that he smokes pot and cigarettes like a chimney, making anywhere he walks in the building reek of smoke for hours afterwards.
Anyway, that pretty much sets the tone. I start grilling out in the middle of the backyard to try and show some courtesy, but every single time he's outside...As soon as he sees me carry something out or the slightest meat smell becomes evident, he hightails it inside, doors and windows loudly slam, and so on.
This has been especially fun lately, when he's tried to justify his violations of the town noise ordinance (among other things) with the whole smell thing - claiming horrible abuse and generally feeling that subjecting him to the horrible meat is worse than anything he could possibly do.
That pretty much sums up the experiences i've had with 99% of the vegetarians/vegans i've ever met - disrespectful individuals that believe their views and lifestyle are vastly superior to anyone else's. It's gotten so that I can't even talk to my "buddy" here directly anymore, I have to ignore him or call the police if he crosses the line with something.
I find it especially annoying that gmail forwards me spam (albeit in my spam box) based on variants of "day.of.the.tentacle", eg dayofthe[whathaveyou]@gmail.com (yes, even without the dots between each word).
I can second that....GMail is shunting them right into the spam folder, but i'm still probably getting at least 20 such mails per day - same content in each one, but from random senders and sent to random variations on my GMail address.
Hopefully they add a filter option to just flat-out reject messages with certain patterns, not even putting them in the spam folder.
Why do you call ten minutes of UOP blocking (no MENU button, no TITLE button, no NEXT CHAPTER button, no FF button) after starting the disc "more convenient"?
Maybe I just don't watch the right kind of movies, but out of the probably 100-150 DVDs i've viewed in my life so far....I've never had one with "ten minutes of UOP blocking". More like a minute or two at most while the FBI warning and studio logo display.
Also, the larger the capacity the greater the troubles in ripping/modifying/burning the discs. If the discs hold 50GB you need a 100+GB HD to do any modifications to the movie before reburning it. By changing the formats you are less likely to have the hardware to burn that format and thereby lose the ability to do what you did with regular DVDs once the burner prices dropped well under $100.
I think it'll be somewhat like it is today: The smaller number of people with the space/time/hardware to rip+convert the discs will do the hard work, and then place the smaller files out there in a more universal format to be distributed.
I think it's more that they just attract those who exhibit "grammar death".
Depends where you go and who you talk with, too - plenty of boards out there where the l33t-speakers or "i just type really fast quit flamin me u jerk!!!1" people would be ridiculed and banned for life.
Think about how it got to be that you live so far from work.
Sure.
I could have easily found a place closer to downtown ( I live near Rochester, NY ), but I chose instead to sacrifice the closeness and live a bit farther out where I can at least have a small bit of nature - having a waterfront apartment is worth the extra driving for me, and the rent being only $600/month ( split ) + utilities isn't too shabby either.
You sound like it's always forced that people live beyond walking distance from work - just isn't always like that.
I never even suggested that the unfriendlyness towards walking was the sole reason for the "obesity epedemic" in the usa.
Well, you said:
It is truly sad that cars trump pedestrains in your culuture. Pherhaps this is why so many americans are fat asses?
That would seem to imply that you think American culture/cities are more friendly towards driving than walking, and then you ponder if that unfriendlyness is the reason many are "fat asses".
I hate to nitpick, but if that's not what you meant, then perhaps you should find a different way to express your point.
Victoria is a very pedestrian friendly city and the ability move around using ones own two feet is cherished and rightly so. It is truly sad that cars trump pedestrains in your culuture.
Sorry, but a lot of Americans have to go to someplace daily for work/school that is just simply too far away to travel to as a pedestrian. Maybe in some of the giant cities you'd have a point, but it doesn't apply to everyone.
Personally, I live ~20 miles from my place of work, so i'm forced to use a car everyday instead of walking. However, I still have many options for getting some exercise - I can ( for example ) do light exercising in my living room, I can go to my apartment complex's fitness center, I can go to the YMCA, or simply jog on the nature trail across the street.
Many people don't (or can't) take the time to do something like that, but that doesn't make the car use the automatic cause of their poor shape.
Pherhaps this is why so many americans are fat asses?
Perhaps instead of being a smartass, you could explain the mystery of how many Americans that don't live within walking distance of everything still manage to stay in shape somehow. Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
Walking along city streets is not the only form of exercise, and "not being able to walk everywhere" is not the reason for people's poor health. Perhaps being forced to walk everywhere would help the matter, but it's certainly not a primary cause - as I said above, it simply removes one avenue for exercise from a list of many.
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How about this: The more consoles leech games away from Windows, the less attractive a PC is for gaming, the fewer reasons to stick with it.
Definately could happen, but only if you switch exclusively to playing on the console. Personally, I own a Gamecube and PS2, and I would only replace Windows if I:
A) Was not playing any Windows games at all, and had not done so for quite a long time.
B) Had been down to playing Solitare or some other extremely basic title for a very long time.
And even then, i'd still have to think long and hard about making the wipe, because there's a lot of non-game stuff I use that doesn't have acceptable Linux alternatives as well.
switched over about a year ago (dual boot at first then whole hog) and am glad to see the main games that I wanted to play being available on linux (doom3, ut2004, neverwinternights & now half life 2). The list however (not ending there) is still very small comparitivly to windows.
Yeah, that seems to be at least part of the problem right now. If you don't want to play FPS games or a few RPGs like NWN, you're pretty much SOL (yay acronyms!) as far as native games go.
Yes, obviously most people are clueless, but almost everyone has at least USED a computer, and more than likely it's been a Windows machine. So trying to reach someone expecting that they haven't seen any computer at all, and thus they'll be completely open to anything, is probably not going to work.
Ah. Yeah, put that way it makes more sense. I think it would depend a lot on the individual's resistance to change, though.
Trying to go for the people who don't know anything about computers probably isn't the best strategy. There is hardly anyone like that out there anymore
:)
Haven't done any tech support or helpdesk work lately, have we?
Maybe you've been lucky enough to work somewhere where all the users are pretty savvy, but the clueless are still out there in droves.
Migration is only going to happen gradually as people get weaned of of win32 only applications one by one.
And don't forget about gaming. Until something major happens to bring Linux some big, big game support, you will have lots of people that will be right on the edge of switching or that will stick with dual-booting.
I'm guessing suprnova, but I couldn't see anything in the article.
Considering the "Police say the site had 10,000 users, all Finnish" quote in the article, and the fact that Suprnova is still up fine, i'm guessing not.
as usual with all the snide comments non-smokers seem to think they can make from their ivory towers, stepped away.
:)
Yeah, acting all elitist because they had enough willpower and smarts to avoid getting addicted to a poisonous chemical....Those bastards!
I really wish you guys would stop wearing cologne and perfume - now that shit stinks, and I imagine is significantly more hazardous considering the chemicals involved.
I wonder, when was the last time a perfume/cologne directly caused cancer, emphysema, or any of the other fun tobacco use-related conditions when used normally?
You non-smokers are anal-retentive morons that love to criticize but don't think for yourselves very much - what's funny is the only reason most of you *don't smoke* is because this is the "new millenium", not hundreds of years prior to 1980 when smokers were the rule, not the exception.
I don't smoke because I, you know, don't want to shorten my lifespan. Having a grandmother that will probably die about 15 years earlier because she smoked for most of her adult life kinda helps too.
It is the same with NY and people with Cell Phones while driving they started talking and driving all the time getting into accidents so NY made it illegal to talk on a cell phone and drive at the same time.
Being in NY (Rochester) myself, I can say that nobody seems to care - I can't remember the last day I didn't see at least 2 people talking on their phones and driving. Not to mention all the times i've almost been sideswiped or t-boned by an obviously distracted person that I couldn't see clearly before getting out of the way.
If we're really serious about reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, our only serious option is nuclear energy. Given that France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear without any trouble, there's no reason that the rest of the world cannot do the same. Even the byproducts can be safely vitrified or recycled so that they pose no threat in the future.
You forget another big problem - all the unknowledgeable people out there that have instant negative (kneejerk) reactions to anything nuclear. If nuclear power is to get any sort of worldwide use, such people need to be educated.
How do you know that?
Well:
The rest of the population does not like these just because most sites use them.
How do you know that? Isn't it a little hypocritical to get annoyed at me for making a generalization when you're doing the same thing yourself?
For the record, anyway, I believe that graphics/animation-haters are in the minority simply because of the prevelance of graphics and animation on the web. Try visiting albinoblacksheep.com, shockwave.com, addictinggames.com, homestarrunner.com or any number of other such sites sometime.
In general, it's just the whole "I don't find something valuable or useful, so there's no way anyone else could possibly feel different." attitude among many of the open-source advocates around here that's really at the root of my problem with people like the original poster.
The article was on the front page.
And the Gameboy icon, reference to Gameboy Advance sales, and a mention of Gamesindustry.biz wouldn't clue you in that it might be a gaming-related story? C'mon now.
Nobody knows every acronym and gadget model number by heart.
News about the DS has been everywhere on gaming related sites, and Nintendo has been running TV commercials, magazine ads, contests, the works. The DS is a major new product from a huge international company, not a little niche gadget.
And as I said before, if you've somehow missed it all, you could have found out exactly what the DS was after about 5 seconds of clicking the article link or searching on Google. Unless you're just incredibly lazy or looking for something to complain about, like the whiners on this particular topic.
Are you sure about that? Do you honestly enjoy waiting an extra minute for a Flash intro to load when you visit a website to find some information?
.SWF to download and start playing BEFORE I can click on the "Skip Intro" link?
Usually, there's a "skip intro" link to use, and if not, then i'm probably not coming back to that site anyway.
How does that 2 minute bit of eye-candy help you find the latest driver, or check the status of an order, or get a phone number?
Over all the time i've been using the web in my life, I could count the number of times i've been in such a situation on one hand.
And why do I have to wait for the entire
You shouldn't have to wait, a link to move on could be put in the page's HTML outside the Flash very easily. This comes back to the idea that Flash can be screwed up badly in the wrong hands, just like anything else, and you're condemming the medium instead of the lousy developer.
And what about people who have vision problems? What do you think they feel about Flash-based sites?
Yes, Flash has accesibility problems. I never said it didn't, nor did I say Flash was perfect.
Or people who, due to company policy, aren't allowed to have a Flash player installed on their PC? All they wind up with is a big empty page.
Assuming they need to access such a site for actual work purposes, no doubt it would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Every company is different.
But 99% of the Flash and 60% of all graphical content on websites I visit are wasted bandwidth and interfere with the purpose of my visit.
Not really sure what to say here other than that I don't agree. You've seen some bad stuff, and apparently decided that that means just about everything in that class is worthless.
A must have for firefox. I can't stand flash. I don't know why poeple put this crap on their pages.
As I just posted up above, just because some people suck at using Flash does not mean Flash is inherently bad. In the hands of someone that knows what they're doing, it can be amazing.
Judging from your attitude and your other posts, I have to wonder if the real problem is that you just hate graphical elements and animations in general, for some unknown reason. Sorry, but you're not in the majority.
Flash, as a website based format, is EVIL! I can't even count the number of times I've dismissed a site because it was flash based. Some are just really poorly done, and it shows, while some are just too computer intensive, and some just look silly.
Is Flash evil, or are the evil ones the people that haven't a clue how to use it properly and/or practice proper site design?
You'd be suprised just how nice some Flash stuff can look when it's created by somebody that actually has a clue about how to use it to the advantage of their users.
But wouldn't it be nice to speak clearly in the first place and save them the trouble. I agree with the parent to your post. Very sloppy editing.
Heaven forbid a submitter assumes someone reading the gaming section would know what one of the world's largest game companies is up to.
I mean, really...I bet it took you more time to make your post than it would have to do a quick Google search or actually click the article link. This whole idea of whining if the summary doesn't give a 100% clear idea of what the article's about is getting to be just plain silly.
Thanks much. I suppose I shouldn't have really gone off like that, but it felt good to get that out of my system. I'll be moving at the beginning of March, so one way or another I won't have to deal with it anymore.
:)
Further, just like any other group, there's always some bad apples - rest assured that I know there's caring people like you out there as well
At any rate...I have pretty much no hope of changing my meat-eating ways, but i'm always looking for interesting new stuff to browse and learn about, so i'll take your sugesstion and do some reading in my spare time.
From Why Vegan
Some of these arguments have merit, maybe you should find more recent data, though - The latest date I see anything referenced from is 2002, and a few things from 1993-1997.
There's a lot of other sites out there that can provide counter-arguments better than I can, so I won't get into that.
Some estimates put the acreage requirements for a vegan diet at 1/12th those of an omnivorous diet.
First of all, my apologies, as i'm going to rant a bit here. If you are a vegan or vegetarian and you are actually rational+respectful to other people about it - I may not agree with you, but I have no problem at all with you personally. I have two relatives who follow such a lifestyle, and they are awesome people.
That said:
If a lot of other vegans weren't so dammned overbearing about following that lifestyle, it would be a lot more attractive.
The latest example i've encountered has been the guy living in the apartment upstairs from me - when he first moved in, he took issue with my grilling outside, claiming that he abhors meat and that meat smell was going to make him sick and ruin his furniture or something. Somehow, though, it's still perfectly acceptable to him that he smokes pot and cigarettes like a chimney, making anywhere he walks in the building reek of smoke for hours afterwards.
Anyway, that pretty much sets the tone. I start grilling out in the middle of the backyard to try and show some courtesy, but every single time he's outside...As soon as he sees me carry something out or the slightest meat smell becomes evident, he hightails it inside, doors and windows loudly slam, and so on.
This has been especially fun lately, when he's tried to justify his violations of the town noise ordinance (among other things) with the whole smell thing - claiming horrible abuse and generally feeling that subjecting him to the horrible meat is worse than anything he could possibly do.
That pretty much sums up the experiences i've had with 99% of the vegetarians/vegans i've ever met - disrespectful individuals that believe their views and lifestyle are vastly superior to anyone else's. It's gotten so that I can't even talk to my "buddy" here directly anymore, I have to ignore him or call the police if he crosses the line with something.
I find it especially annoying that gmail forwards me spam (albeit in my spam box) based on variants of "day.of.the.tentacle", eg dayofthe[whathaveyou]@gmail.com (yes, even without the dots between each word).
I can second that....GMail is shunting them right into the spam folder, but i'm still probably getting at least 20 such mails per day - same content in each one, but from random senders and sent to random variations on my GMail address.
Hopefully they add a filter option to just flat-out reject messages with certain patterns, not even putting them in the spam folder.
Why do you call ten minutes of UOP blocking (no MENU button, no TITLE button, no NEXT CHAPTER button, no FF button) after starting the disc "more convenient"?
Maybe I just don't watch the right kind of movies, but out of the probably 100-150 DVDs i've viewed in my life so far....I've never had one with "ten minutes of UOP blocking". More like a minute or two at most while the FBI warning and studio logo display.
Also, the larger the capacity the greater the troubles in ripping/modifying/burning the discs. If the discs hold 50GB you need a 100+GB HD to do any modifications to the movie before reburning it. By changing the formats you are less likely to have the hardware to burn that format and thereby lose the ability to do what you did with regular DVDs once the burner prices dropped well under $100.
I think it'll be somewhat like it is today: The smaller number of people with the space/time/hardware to rip+convert the discs will do the hard work, and then place the smaller files out there in a more universal format to be distributed.
Argh, no mod points. Yay for Sealab quotes though.
Message boards and AIM are grammar death.
I think it's more that they just attract those who exhibit "grammar death".
Depends where you go and who you talk with, too - plenty of boards out there where the l33t-speakers or "i just type really fast quit flamin me u jerk!!!1" people would be ridiculed and banned for life.
Think about how it got to be that you live so far from work.
Sure.
I could have easily found a place closer to downtown ( I live near Rochester, NY ), but I chose instead to sacrifice the closeness and live a bit farther out where I can at least have a small bit of nature - having a waterfront apartment is worth the extra driving for me, and the rent being only $600/month ( split ) + utilities isn't too shabby either.
You sound like it's always forced that people live beyond walking distance from work - just isn't always like that.
I never even suggested that the unfriendlyness towards walking was the sole reason for the "obesity epedemic" in the usa.
Well, you said:
It is truly sad that cars trump pedestrains in your culuture. Pherhaps this is why so many americans are fat asses?
That would seem to imply that you think American culture/cities are more friendly towards driving than walking, and then you ponder if that unfriendlyness is the reason many are "fat asses".
I hate to nitpick, but if that's not what you meant, then perhaps you should find a different way to express your point.
At any rate, thank you for the reply.
Victoria is a very pedestrian friendly city and the ability move around using ones own two feet is cherished and rightly so. It is truly sad that cars trump pedestrains in your culuture.
Sorry, but a lot of Americans have to go to someplace daily for work/school that is just simply too far away to travel to as a pedestrian. Maybe in some of the giant cities you'd have a point, but it doesn't apply to everyone.
Personally, I live ~20 miles from my place of work, so i'm forced to use a car everyday instead of walking. However, I still have many options for getting some exercise - I can ( for example ) do light exercising in my living room, I can go to my apartment complex's fitness center, I can go to the YMCA, or simply jog on the nature trail across the street.
Many people don't (or can't) take the time to do something like that, but that doesn't make the car use the automatic cause of their poor shape.
Pherhaps this is why so many americans are fat asses?
Perhaps instead of being a smartass, you could explain the mystery of how many Americans that don't live within walking distance of everything still manage to stay in shape somehow. Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
Walking along city streets is not the only form of exercise, and "not being able to walk everywhere" is not the reason for people's poor health. Perhaps being forced to walk everywhere would help the matter, but it's certainly not a primary cause - as I said above, it simply removes one avenue for exercise from a list of many.