It has been solved, it's just that most people don't bother using the solution. If everyone used gmail, there would be no spam as it wouldn't be worth sending it.
So if every time you left the house, someone followed you around everywhere you went, constantly taking pictures of you, and put them up on the internet, you'd be OK with that? What if it was your young daughter being followed around by a paedophile?
I highly doubt that there are no other jobs within a hundred miles of your current job. Moving closer to your current job usually means moving closer to dozens of other jobs as well.
I work in a factory. I don't want to live next to an industrial estate. And no there are no jobs available nearer to where I live that offers the same money.
If you and your wife have chosen to structure your lives so that you each have a hundred mile commute in opposite directions, then it's very likely you've done something amazingly stupid.
Yes, when you meet someone, one of you should quit your job and work somewhere else. What a brilliant way to live.
Waterproof clothing is available and can protect your body in all but the worst rainshowers.
It doesn't work, keeps out light drizzle but nothing else. No use in a storm. And it's more time at each end putting it on/taking if off. Work takes enough time out of your day, why let it take out even more?
Rather than showering before getting in the car, shower after getting off the bike, at work.
So what do I do during the day before work? Just stink?
With 40 minutes good aerobic exercise a day why would you need to go to the gym?
Because light aerobic exercise is worthless. I used to cycle to work, 40 minutes each way. Even after I year I was still a fat slob. Maybe you have to weird bike which exercises your whole body rather than about two muscles, and gets you there in ten cycles (the optimum amount).
At an average 12 mph, though, on a mild day you shouldn't be breaking into a sweat over a 4 mile trip.
Mild day? What is a mild day? I've never seen one. 12mph, no chance. Obviously you live in an area with no hills or roadworks. My car gets me to work at 50mph, and no wrestling into/out of clothes each day. Now I don't cycle to work anymore, I save myself at least an hour each day. Maybe you don't value your time as much as I do, but I'd rather spend five hours a week doing something I want to rather than something I don't.
The problem is that unlike Europe, most of the United States doesn't have a viable public transportation system.
I technically live in Europe, and I don't have a viable public transportation. The only busses that are available to me only take me in the opposite direction to my route to work, and only at times that are no use to me. Long live cars.
If it only takes you 8.5 minutes to drive to work, you should be riding your bike.
Why? So instead of getting to work in 8.5 minutes, he can get there in 45? Or so instead of getting to work dry, he can get there either drenched in rain or sweat, and covered in mud? Or so he can take things like briefcases, shopping, gym gear etc? Or so he can go to other places after work, rather have having to go straight back home? Or so he can fix punctures in the rain, rather than just getting there trouble free? Or so when he gets to work, instead of just walking in and having a cup of coffee, he can chain his bike up, wrestle his way out of all his drenched clothes, find somewhere to dry them, have a shower, dry off and put on his work clothes, which are now crumbled off through being squashed into his bag? Or so he can do that whole thing again in reverse on the way home, provided his clothes have dried and haven't been stolen? Or so he can be splashed by puddles, have cigarettes thrown at him, or almost run over going through roadworks which reduce the road to one side, but are long enough so he can't go through quick enough before the lights change, so he's going against traffic? So he can spend his spare time, washing, oiling, changing innertubes on his bike, instead of relaxing? So he has to carry a bag full of a spare set of clothes, waterproofs, shoes, tools, batteries etc, instead of nothing? So instead of having powerful headlights, he can have a little LED light, that can't cut through the fog or rain? So he can be blown about in the wind, possibly into traffic? So he can slide about in snow and ice?
Funny enough, people here who prefer the car do it out of snobbery and wanting to show off they can afford it. Which pretty much is the truth:
Um, no. How can owning a car be snobbery when pretty much everyone has one? I own a car because my route to work isn't served by public transport. At all. When there was a bus that went anywhere near where I worked, it was quicker to walk than to get the bus. That's when busses are actually running.
I can't go shopping on the bus. I can't work shifts on the bus. I can't go to the gym on the bus. I can't go to the football on the bus. Public transport turns simple ten minute journey's into hour-long ordeals.
Why do you live 100 miles from where you work, why not live 5 miles, or ten miles? genuinely curious.
OK, so what happens when you move 100 miles towards your workplace, then you're fired? Or what if your wife works 100 miles in the other direction, now she has to commute 200 miles to work. You haven't really thought this through. Maybe you're single and are willing to live like a gypsy moving around following work, other people would rather have more stability in their lives.
If Americans drive further, why do they choose less efficient cars? You'd think that if you're driving 100 miles to buy a newspaper you'd get the most efficient car possible.
No, you pay a token amount of tax. The amount you pay doesn't come close to the true costs of that oil. Take the costs of the defence budget for the middle east, plus the cost of the environmental damage from the gas being used in America, and divide that by the amount of gas sold in America in gallons, and you have the amount you need to tax gas per gallon. Then oil would pay for itself.
I've never had a car puncture, I'd had dozens on bikes. And having a spare doesn't mean a lot if it punctures when putting it in. Or if you're run over whilst changing it.
it won't be too long before a stick shift will be like vinyl records: the only people who will use them will be snobs and old fuddy-duddies.
Doubt it. Automatics have been around for decades and they're still not catching on outside of America (where they're crap at driving anyway). I don't see the point of automatic cars, how can it know which gear I want to be in?
Your metabolism shoots up all day when you exercise in the morning, you have more energy all day.
It also means you're drenched in sweat all day. Or rain. I can't imagine it's much fun cycling 10 miles to work in the mid-day heat just to arrive in a boiling-hot workplace, or going home at 11pm in the dark and fog, in heavy wind and rain.
Oh and don't forget the punctures. Have fun pushing a bike home ten miles in the rain dodging cars.
You are aware that the BBC, in practice, is independant of government influence?
I think you should read up on the Hutton Report.
Having said that, if it came to war with scientology everyone would back it.
Would they? The government hates the BBC, most people hate paying the licence fee, everyone hates their complacency and arrogance, a lot of people would love to see the BBC get a beatdown.
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Guinness doesn't taste bitter. In fact it doesn't really have any flavour at all.
And you're basing this conclusion on numbers you've completely made up?
It has been solved, it's just that most people don't bother using the solution. If everyone used gmail, there would be no spam as it wouldn't be worth sending it.
So if every time you left the house, someone followed you around everywhere you went, constantly taking pictures of you, and put them up on the internet, you'd be OK with that? What if it was your young daughter being followed around by a paedophile?
OK, you're obviously a fucking nutjob. I hate it when zealots try to force their hobby onto people.
Why? So instead of getting to work in 8.5 minutes, he can get there in 45? Or so instead of getting to work dry, he can get there either drenched in rain or sweat, and covered in mud? Or so he can take things like briefcases, shopping, gym gear etc? Or so he can go to other places after work, rather have having to go straight back home? Or so he can fix punctures in the rain, rather than just getting there trouble free? Or so when he gets to work, instead of just walking in and having a cup of coffee, he can chain his bike up, wrestle his way out of all his drenched clothes, find somewhere to dry them, have a shower, dry off and put on his work clothes, which are now crumbled off through being squashed into his bag? Or so he can do that whole thing again in reverse on the way home, provided his clothes have dried and haven't been stolen? Or so he can be splashed by puddles, have cigarettes thrown at him, or almost run over going through roadworks which reduce the road to one side, but are long enough so he can't go through quick enough before the lights change, so he's going against traffic? So he can spend his spare time, washing, oiling, changing innertubes on his bike, instead of relaxing? So he has to carry a bag full of a spare set of clothes, waterproofs, shoes, tools, batteries etc, instead of nothing? So instead of having powerful headlights, he can have a little LED light, that can't cut through the fog or rain? So he can be blown about in the wind, possibly into traffic? So he can slide about in snow and ice?
I say all this as a recovering cyclist.
I can't go shopping on the bus. I can't work shifts on the bus. I can't go to the gym on the bus. I can't go to the football on the bus. Public transport turns simple ten minute journey's into hour-long ordeals.
I think what he means is, people will drive over the border, fill up, then go back. It happens on the Irish border.
If Americans drive further, why do they choose less efficient cars? You'd think that if you're driving 100 miles to buy a newspaper you'd get the most efficient car possible.
Youporn shits all over pornotube. Sometimes quite literally.
If obesity is due to genetics, why were there no fat people in concentration camps?
Cycling isn't a very intense form of exercise. Half an hour on the treadmill is better than an afternoon of cycling.
I've never had a car puncture, I'd had dozens on bikes. And having a spare doesn't mean a lot if it punctures when putting it in. Or if you're run over whilst changing it.
Oh and don't forget the punctures. Have fun pushing a bike home ten miles in the rain dodging cars.
But in most cases they won't be able to play the latest games on their laptops, or any other PCs.
Graphics cards are all too expensive anyway. You shouldn't have to pay more than the actual processor just to draw pictures on the screen.