In a world where people thing eating body parts of animals brings good luck and potentcy, wage war, give Brittney Spears a Grammy, do we seriously consider preserving Tiger populations?
I think we expect too much of ourselves when stopping and taking a good hard look at the majority of our priorities are.
I don't think we are getting smarter collectively anymore, if anything we've turned on the stupid and are drinking deep from the spiggot.
Web Site Operators: Make sure to convert all images that are uploaded and embed a stenographic message of "This image has been processed by (web site name here)"
Result: The Encoded torrent info is destroyed due to the subsequent stenography applied to the image.
I expect that code to be in drupal and damn near every CMS within the next month to avoid the MAFIAA.
A: Major Release, violates backwards compatability
B: Feature Add Increment. Indicates new features from prior release
C: Bug Fix Release Increment.
D: Build Identifier usually YEARMONTHDATE
e.g. 1.1.0.080215 1.2.12.090714 (12th minor update to feature set 2 for release 1 built on July 14th 2009) 1.3.1.091224 (First minor update for feature set 3 built on Dec 24th 2009.)
Since most software tends to follow quarterly or monthly release schedules you rarely get more then 18 minor revisions if they are building weekly on a quarterly schedule or more then 4 on a monthly schedule.
You do realize the whole reason for the "My 2 Cents" is a play on words for sense, as in common sense.. My 2 Euros defeats the whole purpose of the saying...
Let us not forget that FreeNX and NX in general appears to use SSH as it's only needed port allowing not only normal SSH terminal activity but also NX connectivity using only 1 port with default SSH encrypted packets so they cannot easily reconstruct the transmitted data in the event of an interception.
For those who are concerned about backing up large amounts of data. Please call your local data storage company. Yes they do exist, but I'll skip naming names as I don't like to shill for free.
Simply ask them about external storage devices you can use. They'll often lease you the equipment for a small fee in return for a yearly contract.
For 3 years I simply had a $30 a month fee for a weekly backup to DLT tape (No limit on space, and I used a lot back then.). They gave me a nice SCSI card and the tape drive with 10 tapes in a container that I could then drop off locally on my way to work. Did encrypted backups and had 2 months (8 week) rotations with a monthly full backup. With the lower cost LTO drives that came out a few years the costs should be minimal. Can't wait till all this FiOS stuff is deployed. I'm hoping to start a data storage facility.
If you have your own backup software and media don't forget to check with your local bank for TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED SAFTEY DEPOSIT BOXES. Yes banks do have some location with temperature sensitive storage. Some of those vaults can take up to 2k degrees for short periods of time without cooking in the interior content.
Where I currently am the NetOps is kind enough to provide me some shelf space in the server room for my external 1TB backup drive that I store my monthlys on. I have 3 externals giving me 3 full monthly backups (sans the OS files since I have orignal CDs\DVDs in the bank)
For home brewed off site I suggest a parent or sibling in a basement but elevated. I used a sister's unfinished basement up in the floor joist inside an empty coleman lunchbox (annual backups).
Now a days with my friends having sick disk space also we tend to just RSYNC our system backups to one another in a ring A -> B -> C -> D -> A with full backups each node syncing to the next on separate days during the day when we are not home.
PSEUDO CODE =========== CHECK IF I AM "IT" IF SO SSH TO TARGET NODE CAT CURRENT TIME INTO STARTING.TXT RSYNC BACKUPS FOLDER TO TARGET CAT CURRENT TIME INTO FINISHED.TXT TELL TARGET "TAG YOUR IT"
BACKUPS\
A_BACKUPS\
B_BACKUPS\...
Put each node's backup folders under a quota if needed to ensure no hoarding of space.
To really crunch the space you could try and pull off doing a delta save of A's backup such that B's backup is the delta of A diffed to the subsequent nodes (Might be important for full disk backups such that a lot of the data is common between the systems).
Which is my observation but being foul mouthed towards complete strangers places you in a class with adolescent children and I will waste no more time with a child. Get help.
You are looking at total volume numbers. You need to look at the month to month and over a year for growth. a 2% growth rate, in general isn't growth. Inflation eats a certain % of new players. Given a 3% rate of inflation you need to clear at least 1.5% subscription growth per year just to cover inflation. So on a chart the first 1.5% is wiped out (inflation adujsted).
So lets say we have 100,000 subscribers for something in January. The next month we have 101,000 subscribers. That is 1% growth. The chart investors and executives look at shows +1000. They could care less about the total volume on a month-to-month report. Now for Febuary we have a total of 101,500 subscriptions. The chart now shows +500 (50% reductino in new enrollment). The next month we see 102,000. Again +500 (0% change).
That is the longevity of an MMO. The month to month change. What happened with EQ, Shadowbane,... , DAOC, Warhammer, and AOC is that the month to month growth eventually tapers and hits 0 (no loss, no gain.) They dump the expansion and temporarily for the first 3 months or so they get +20,000, +15,000, +10,000 but rapidly decline back to 0. Then the problems start. the normal non-expansion month to months start to drop even more rapidly. Instead of +500, +480, +320, and such you get +500, +250, +80, -20, - 60.
Then you have to dump another expansion and Get +12,000, +8000, +250, -120, and so on.
The highs get lower and lower and the rate of decline faster and faster. After about the 4th expansion so far based on observation and analysis, you are litterally in the hole at all times save the expansions. There amount of content is too vast for new players to get in and STAY in.
Eventually the annual report comes out and your only up, say, 4% of the population.
Operation costs went up 6% and the mandate comes down to cut costs by 3% to bring it back to parity cost wise.
Devlopers then have to try and augment newer players with an easier experience in an effort to better control retention which alienates long term players more often then not (easy mode) which causes more of the long term month-to-month players to drop (they'll show up at the end of the year.)
Rentention number are important, just as much as new enrollment but the enrollment numbers tend to be inversly proportional to the volume of content. Too much and you don't get new players to hold on more then 3 months (They get lost in the content.)
Expansions breath new life in to a game that has become a grind for a large number of EXISTING players.
So either you don't play or you just lack any deep insight on what is occurring.
Neither. It's called statistical analysis based on their reported population and account numbers across all servers using regression analysis (specifically we used Autoregressive integrated moving averages [ARIMA]) using expansion release dates, reported populations, sales figures, and information provided in shareholder conference calls as well as quarterly reports as regessors.
I have no interest in insight or speculation, I'm interested in analysis.
I still remember the hell they went through just to get helmets working. Big World is looking better and better as is Unreal's engine....
Keyloggers don't care
on
R.I.P. FTP
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· Score: 5, Insightful
SSH, SFTP, SCP, FTP, ZMODEM, KERMIT, AND ALL THAT CRAP MEANS NOTHING!
Why? because moron employees surfing for p0rn at work will get a keylogger by accident installed and grab more information then packet sniffers EVER will. Regardless of how well the encryption is the keylogger and malware will trump all measure if employees are careless.
You can get a silent VNC session going and lockout the physical keyboard and mouse and by the time they figure out what has happened you have enough control to grab what you need.
Hell just track the next time they go to amazon.com or any onther online site. Who gives a rats ass about SSL when you are seeing them type in their info?!
FTP vulnerable? No more then your home phone line or cell phone. The problem is and always will be PEOPLE. One they have control of the physical machine all bets are off for ANY security measure.
Arguing protocols being secure or not is like arguing which unloaded gun is more dangerous....
Great more content that 80% of the players will never see. I still have friends that still haven't seen Molten Core, Naxx, or any other raid instance. The irony is when you release an expansion, none of the established players go tot he old content anymore (as a whole) which means new players coming in never see any of the old content because no one runs them anymore. I recently ran a new player through UBRS (Upper Blackrock Spire) and he never knew there were any other instanced dungeons outside of Outlands (He was a new player and started post-burning crusade.)
When Lich King came out the only Outland instances anyone ran anymore were heroics. New players coming in would never get to actually do those instances because, frankly the established players were at the point that only heroic mode was worth their time.
As plotted: Take the month to month changes in population (rather then total volume) and compare the data. Every MMO with an expansion gets a 3 month spike in uptake but every time the annual trend goes down every expansion.
Expansions are great for $$$ but bad for longevity. It becomes a drug addict's exercise in "Chasing the Dragon". Eventually you have to start churning out expansions quicker and quicker to maintain the high but ultimately you lockout new players and hit "the point of no return" on the decline.
For those that missed it the Gamebryo engine is a middleware piece (platform if you will) for game design. It was the front end for several MMOs, Civ4, and several other titles.
While we often think of the Unreal and Quake engines for FPS games Gamebryo is the more well rounded, less insaine sister of those two and actually puts out without being on drugs or booze!
The race for realism in a game strikes me as such:
People do not liek their own reality and seek to create a new one. Thus the more realistic the graphics the closer to their new reality they are.
When graphics are less realistic (I am not talking about quality) then the direction seems to strike me as an escape from reality rather then an attempt to invent a new reality.
You will hear code words like "immersion" and "experience" used rather then "entertain" or "enjoy".
We wary, there are plenty of people that would gladly exchange their material world for a virtual world to their own tastes. People it seems in growing numbers find the real world much to their disliking.
The public should have a right to view the proceedings of the court. As risk of judicial bias, due to party affiliation and political contributions; in addition to the high profile nature of the case, the additional access and disclousure is necessary to secure the confidence of the population at large.
"The More You Give The Players The Less They Try" - Do not overcompensate people, they get indulgent and lazy. Free coffee at work is one thing, free cappacinos is another.
"Never have a fight with more then 5 opponents at once. The logistics of managing it far outweight the adventure of it." - Throwing more bodies at a situation doesn't make the situation better by default. Too many people means you spend more time managing peopel the getting the task done.
"Never have the players fight a dragon. It will always be either too powerful and kill them or too weak and boring." Do not use deadlines and milestones as be-all end all measures of success. They'll either blow them out of the water and become paranoid of missing them and thus take shortcuts that will put the whole event at risk. Throwing a giant uber project at them isn't needed. The PM should give them what they need to know so they don't get overwhelmed.
"Beat the crap out of the players, they'll enjoy it more then being an invincible force." - Challenge people or they'll get bored. Keep them busy and keep the work flowing so they always have things left unfinished for the next day.
"Always scale the challenge to their level or they'll get bored." Promote people and keep them challenged in their career, not just their daily work.
"Take time away from the role playing and give them opportunities to just have fun with the mechanics of it." Give people te opportunity to break out from their work routine periodically. Cross train, volunteer work, and inter-department knowledge sharing.
I coudl go on but I am officially bored writing this:)
Learn UML Study Design Docs Understand Use Case Learn to work WITH marketing, rather then against Understand Literary Composition NETWORK WITH PEOPLE
Sadly 99% of game industry (AAA) is a who you know network of people much like hollywood is now. Ouside of indie games, it now about who on the inside you know.
In a large programming shop designers rarely code but rather structure and 'shape' development. Most developers I've worked with have never touched a line of actual code but rather have spend most of their time working on Design Documentation (Architecural Reviews, Design and Implementation Docs, Use Case Scenarios, etc.)
To be a game designer (or any software designer for that matter) sit down and document what game you want to make. To be a game programmer sit down and try and program a game.
If you want to be both, grab a copy of DIKU or ROM and run a text based MUD.
This is just one more way they want to try and force everyone who moved out of ghettos and slums to the suburbs (taking their money with them) back into the inner cities so we can get shot at again by drug dealers and thugs.
This has little to do with roads, there are hundreds of ways, just here on slashdot alone, that could get them additional revenue to support roads. This is pure social engineering nothing more.
This just goes back to use tax arguments that will never get resolved.
Tolls are far more effective IMHO then mileage tax. Limited private operated expressways may also be in order. More HOV lanes and expressPasses are better solutions. Tax credits on alternative fuel vechicles are better solutions.
Yeah but there is a cavet to your suggestions (a good one none the less): Urbanites would pay a larger amount of the tax due to tire damage.
Data from places like Tires Plus and Discount Tires shows that there is considerable more tire damage in the urban areas from nails, glass, etc then in rural areas. A flat tire doesn't mean you wore the tire out.
The best solution I can find is simply when it is time for your tabs to be renewed you go in, get your mileage read and taxed based on the mileage you drove since your last renewal.
Everyone, SUV, or EV has to have their tabs renewed. A quick drive through solution (like many states did for emissions testing) would handle that.
NO I think we should do it so someone who victimized THOUSANDS of people. I think we should do it to someone who has under his belt people starving because the charities can't stock the food shelf anymore. I think we should do it to someone who has two death to his name. I think we should do it to someone who has inflicted massive amounts of pain on people.
Talk face to face with one of his victims. I have, he deserves the worst.
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In a world where people thing eating body parts of animals brings good luck and potentcy, wage war, give Brittney Spears a Grammy, do we seriously consider preserving Tiger populations?
I think we expect too much of ourselves when stopping and taking a good hard look at the majority of our priorities are.
I don't think we are getting smarter collectively anymore, if anything we've turned on the stupid and are drinking deep from the spiggot.
typo on my part
Blizzard uses this:
Wrath of the Lich King
3.1.3 (Build 9447) but rather then using the date it appears to be just a build revision.
MAFIAA: We'll sue torrent hosters.
Web Site Operators: Make sure to convert all images that are uploaded and embed a stenographic message of "This image has been processed by (web site name here)"
Result: The Encoded torrent info is destroyed due to the subsequent stenography applied to the image.
I expect that code to be in drupal and damn near every CMS within the next month to avoid the MAFIAA.
A.B.C.D
A: Major Release, violates backwards compatability
B: Feature Add Increment. Indicates new features from prior release
C: Bug Fix Release Increment.
D: Build Identifier usually YEARMONTHDATE
e.g.
1.1.0.080215
1.2.12.090714 (12th minor update to feature set 2 for release 1 built on July 14th 2009)
1.3.1.091224 (First minor update for feature set 3 built on Dec 24th 2009.)
Since most software tends to follow quarterly or monthly release schedules you rarely get more then 18 minor revisions if they are building weekly on a quarterly schedule or more then 4 on a monthly schedule.
My 2 Euros.
You do realize the whole reason for the "My 2 Cents" is a play on words for sense, as in common sense.. My 2 Euros defeats the whole purpose of the saying...
Let us not forget that FreeNX and NX in general appears to use SSH as it's only needed port allowing not only normal SSH terminal activity but also NX connectivity using only 1 port with default SSH encrypted packets so they cannot easily reconstruct the transmitted data in the event of an interception.
For those who are concerned about backing up large amounts of data. Please call your local data storage company. Yes they do exist, but I'll skip naming names as I don't like to shill for free.
Simply ask them about external storage devices you can use. They'll often lease you the equipment for a small fee in return for a yearly contract.
For 3 years I simply had a $30 a month fee for a weekly backup to DLT tape (No limit on space, and I used a lot back then.). They gave me a nice SCSI card and the tape drive with 10 tapes in a container that I could then drop off locally on my way to work. Did encrypted backups and had 2 months (8 week) rotations with a monthly full backup. With the lower cost LTO drives that came out a few years the costs should be minimal. Can't wait till all this FiOS stuff is deployed. I'm hoping to start a data storage facility.
If you have your own backup software and media don't forget to check with your local bank for TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED SAFTEY DEPOSIT BOXES. Yes banks do have some location with temperature sensitive storage. Some of those vaults can take up to 2k degrees for short periods of time without cooking in the interior content.
Where I currently am the NetOps is kind enough to provide me some shelf space in the server room for my external 1TB backup drive that I store my monthlys on. I have 3 externals giving me 3 full monthly backups (sans the OS files since I have orignal CDs\DVDs in the bank)
For home brewed off site I suggest a parent or sibling in a basement but elevated. I used a sister's unfinished basement up in the floor joist inside an empty coleman lunchbox (annual backups).
Now a days with my friends having sick disk space also we tend to just RSYNC our system backups to one another in a ring A -> B -> C -> D -> A with full backups each node syncing to the next on separate days during the day when we are not home.
PSEUDO CODE
===========
CHECK IF I AM "IT" IF SO
SSH TO TARGET NODE
CAT CURRENT TIME INTO STARTING.TXT
RSYNC BACKUPS FOLDER TO TARGET
CAT CURRENT TIME INTO FINISHED.TXT
TELL TARGET "TAG YOUR IT"
BACKUPS\ ...
A_BACKUPS\
B_BACKUPS\
Put each node's backup folders under a quota if needed to ensure no hoarding of space.
To really crunch the space you could try and pull off doing a delta save of A's backup such that B's backup is the delta of A diffed to the subsequent nodes (Might be important for full disk backups such that a lot of the data is common between the systems).
Which is my observation but being foul mouthed towards complete strangers places you in a class with adolescent children and I will waste no more time with a child. Get help.
Fuck you and your defeatist attitude
Get help, you need anger management.
http://www.apa.org/topics/controlanger.html#manage
its very easy to blame the lusers
That's because they are the largest contributor to an insecure system.
your post means nothing
My post means that you are better off spending more time training people then finding new technological ways to make things stupid-proof.
You are looking at total volume numbers. You need to look at the month to month and over a year for growth. a 2% growth rate, in general isn't growth. Inflation eats a certain % of new players. Given a 3% rate of inflation you need to clear at least 1.5% subscription growth per year just to cover inflation. So on a chart the first 1.5% is wiped out (inflation adujsted).
So lets say we have 100,000 subscribers for something in January. The next month we have 101,000 subscribers. That is 1% growth. The chart investors and executives look at shows +1000. They could care less about the total volume on a month-to-month report. Now for Febuary we have a total of 101,500 subscriptions. The chart now shows +500 (50% reductino in new enrollment). The next month we see 102,000. Again +500 (0% change).
That is the longevity of an MMO. The month to month change. What happened with EQ, Shadowbane, ... , DAOC, Warhammer, and AOC is that the month to month growth eventually tapers and hits 0 (no loss, no gain.) They dump the expansion and temporarily for the first 3 months or so they get +20,000, +15,000, +10,000 but rapidly decline back to 0. Then the problems start. the normal non-expansion month to months start to drop even more rapidly. Instead of +500, +480, +320, and such you get +500, +250, +80, -20, - 60.
Then you have to dump another expansion and Get +12,000, +8000, +250, -120, and so on.
The highs get lower and lower and the rate of decline faster and faster. After about the 4th expansion so far based on observation and analysis, you are litterally in the hole at all times save the expansions. There amount of content is too vast for new players to get in and STAY in.
Eventually the annual report comes out and your only up, say, 4% of the population.
Operation costs went up 6% and the mandate comes down to cut costs by 3% to bring it back to parity cost wise.
Devlopers then have to try and augment newer players with an easier experience in an effort to better control retention which alienates long term players more often then not (easy mode) which causes more of the long term month-to-month players to drop (they'll show up at the end of the year.)
Rentention number are important, just as much as new enrollment but the enrollment numbers tend to be inversly proportional to the volume of content. Too much and you don't get new players to hold on more then 3 months (They get lost in the content.)
Expansions breath new life in to a game that has become a grind for a large number of EXISTING players.
So either you don't play or you just lack any deep insight on what is occurring.
Neither. It's called statistical analysis based on their reported population and account numbers across all servers using regression analysis (specifically we used Autoregressive integrated moving averages [ARIMA]) using expansion release dates, reported populations, sales figures, and information provided in shareholder conference calls as well as quarterly reports as regessors.
I have no interest in insight or speculation, I'm interested in analysis.
I still remember the hell they went through just to get helmets working. Big World is looking better and better as is Unreal's engine....
SSH, SFTP, SCP, FTP, ZMODEM, KERMIT, AND ALL THAT CRAP MEANS NOTHING!
Why? because moron employees surfing for p0rn at work will get a keylogger by accident installed and grab more information then packet sniffers EVER will. Regardless of how well the encryption is the keylogger and malware will trump all measure if employees are careless.
You can get a silent VNC session going and lockout the physical keyboard and mouse and by the time they figure out what has happened you have enough control to grab what you need.
Hell just track the next time they go to amazon.com or any onther online site. Who gives a rats ass about SSL when you are seeing them type in their info?!
FTP vulnerable? No more then your home phone line or cell phone. The problem is and always will be PEOPLE. One they have control of the physical machine all bets are off for ANY security measure.
Arguing protocols being secure or not is like arguing which unloaded gun is more dangerous....
Back in the day there was some issue with Zmodem (or was it kermit... it was a while ago) that downloading a text file with +++ATZ^MATH1 would cause you to disconnect. Ironically I used that for years as a password. The funny thing was when people would try and download a password.txt file for bruteforce they always got disconnected. Now I tend to use passwords that you can't even type the characters normally â-'â-'â-"707âoeâ"â© was a good one to use. Go head and keylog that, damn bot would likely thing the password is 176177178707189190201 discarding the alt code
Great more content that 80% of the players will never see. I still have friends that still haven't seen Molten Core, Naxx, or any other raid instance. The irony is when you release an expansion, none of the established players go tot he old content anymore (as a whole) which means new players coming in never see any of the old content because no one runs them anymore. I recently ran a new player through UBRS (Upper Blackrock Spire) and he never knew there were any other instanced dungeons outside of Outlands (He was a new player and started post-burning crusade.)
When Lich King came out the only Outland instances anyone ran anymore were heroics. New players coming in would never get to actually do those instances because, frankly the established players were at the point that only heroic mode was worth their time.
As plotted: Take the month to month changes in population (rather then total volume) and compare the data. Every MMO with an expansion gets a 3 month spike in uptake but every time the annual trend goes down every expansion.
Expansions are great for $$$ but bad for longevity. It becomes a drug addict's exercise in "Chasing the Dragon". Eventually you have to start churning out expansions quicker and quicker to maintain the high but ultimately you lockout new players and hit "the point of no return" on the decline.
For those that missed it the Gamebryo engine is a middleware piece (platform if you will) for game design. It was the front end for several MMOs, Civ4, and several other titles.
While we often think of the Unreal and Quake engines for FPS games Gamebryo is the more well rounded, less insaine sister of those two and actually puts out without being on drugs or booze!
The race for realism in a game strikes me as such:
People do not liek their own reality and seek to create a new one. Thus the more realistic the graphics the closer to their new reality they are.
When graphics are less realistic (I am not talking about quality) then the direction seems to strike me as an escape from reality rather then an attempt to invent a new reality.
You will hear code words like "immersion" and "experience" used rather then "entertain" or "enjoy".
We wary, there are plenty of people that would gladly exchange their material world for a virtual world to their own tastes. People it seems in growing numbers find the real world much to their disliking.
The public should have a right to view the proceedings of the court. As risk of judicial bias, due to party affiliation and political contributions; in addition to the high profile nature of the case, the additional access and disclousure is necessary to secure the confidence of the population at large.
"The More You Give The Players The Less They Try" - Do not overcompensate people, they get indulgent and lazy. Free coffee at work is one thing, free cappacinos is another.
"Never have a fight with more then 5 opponents at once. The logistics of managing it far outweight the adventure of it." - Throwing more bodies at a situation doesn't make the situation better by default. Too many people means you spend more time managing peopel the getting the task done.
"Never have the players fight a dragon. It will always be either too powerful and kill them or too weak and boring." Do not use deadlines and milestones as be-all end all measures of success. They'll either blow them out of the water and become paranoid of missing them and thus take shortcuts that will put the whole event at risk. Throwing a giant uber project at them isn't needed. The PM should give them what they need to know so they don't get overwhelmed.
"Beat the crap out of the players, they'll enjoy it more then being an invincible force." - Challenge people or they'll get bored. Keep them busy and keep the work flowing so they always have things left unfinished for the next day.
"Always scale the challenge to their level or they'll get bored." Promote people and keep them challenged in their career, not just their daily work.
"Take time away from the role playing and give them opportunities to just have fun with the mechanics of it." Give people te opportunity to break out from their work routine periodically. Cross train, volunteer work, and inter-department knowledge sharing.
I coudl go on but I am officially bored writing this :)
why not just release a new edition and change the MB into a ZB and that will buy you another 20 years of impressive.
Game Designer != Programmer
Learn UML
Study Design Docs
Understand Use Case
Learn to work WITH marketing, rather then against
Understand Literary Composition
NETWORK WITH PEOPLE
Sadly 99% of game industry (AAA) is a who you know network of people much like hollywood is now. Ouside of indie games, it now about who on the inside you know.
In a large programming shop designers rarely code but rather structure and 'shape' development. Most developers I've worked with have never touched a line of actual code but rather have spend most of their time working on Design Documentation (Architecural Reviews, Design and Implementation Docs, Use Case Scenarios, etc.)
To be a game designer (or any software designer for that matter) sit down and document what game you want to make. To be a game programmer sit down and try and program a game.
If you want to be both, grab a copy of DIKU or ROM and run a text based MUD.
Here is my slant on this:
This is just one more way they want to try and force everyone who moved out of ghettos and slums to the suburbs (taking their money with them) back into the inner cities so we can get shot at again by drug dealers and thugs.
This has little to do with roads, there are hundreds of ways, just here on slashdot alone, that could get them additional revenue to support roads. This is pure social engineering nothing more.
This just goes back to use tax arguments that will never get resolved.
Tolls are far more effective IMHO then mileage tax. Limited private operated expressways may also be in order. More HOV lanes and expressPasses are better solutions. Tax credits on alternative fuel vechicles are better solutions.
This is domestic spying, plain and simple.
Yeah but there is a cavet to your suggestions (a good one none the less): Urbanites would pay a larger amount of the tax due to tire damage.
Data from places like Tires Plus and Discount Tires shows that there is considerable more tire damage in the urban areas from nails, glass, etc then in rural areas. A flat tire doesn't mean you wore the tire out.
The best solution I can find is simply when it is time for your tabs to be renewed you go in, get your mileage read and taxed based on the mileage you drove since your last renewal.
Everyone, SUV, or EV has to have their tabs renewed. A quick drive through solution (like many states did for emissions testing) would handle that.
NO I think we should do it so someone who victimized THOUSANDS of people. I think we should do it to someone who has under his belt people starving because the charities can't stock the food shelf anymore. I think we should do it to someone who has two death to his name. I think we should do it to someone who has inflicted massive amounts of pain on people.
Talk face to face with one of his victims. I have, he deserves the worst.