What amuses me is people who think that voting for Party B will make any difference in how the candidate acts after the election. You don't pick your candidates, people. The parties do. And the parties are a bunch of political inbreds who have their own agendas and don't really care what you think. They know each other, they live with each other, and you're some faraway 1/5,000,000 vote share.
Once you get an electorate past a certain size, there's no way a large group of people can have any real control over the elected, or for that matter understanding of. The highly motivated insider has the information, the spare time, and the resources to manipulate events, and frankly, you don't.
And neither does Mickey Moore. Or Alex Jones. Or anybody else who stands outside and says "Oooooh! Oooooh! Look at the corruption!" Just about everyone has more important fish to fry in their own lives, which means they can't spend all their waking hours on politics, which means the politicians (and the movers and shakers behind them) can do pretty much whatever they want.
As to voting for Party B, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The only difference is Party B seems to pass more domestic legislation than Party A, so while the world stage may improve slightly (or not) the local stage will stink.
Ultimately, the only answer is political decentralization, but even if you did achieve that, the first master manipulator to come along could wreck it in a month. Other than that, don't know what to do.
But hey, don't listen to me, I'm neither an establishment player or a media darling. By a long shot.
People with roadsters don't eat? Or they all own four cars? What kind of sense does that make? Maybe you happen to like roadsters, so you don't buy the Crossfire. That's all.
As to "each his own", at least I don't imply people who drive automatics are bad people. Sheesh. Talk about attitude.
As to availability, go to your Dodge/Chrysler dealership and ask what they have with a manual transmission. That isn't a base model. Cadillac just produced its first-ever manual, Chevy and Pontiac- small cars and base models only. Buick - don't even go there.
Well, as to your views on Europe, at least you could buy an Aston. They're brilliant.:)
As to emergency brakes, you've just shocked me. It's kind of like someone who has been using computers for years discovering what the backspace key does. I'm not sure what the blue blazes ABS has to do with e-brakes, but I can tell you don't either, so that's okay. The purpose is to back up the main brake system in case of failure. Mind you, brake failure is rare, but if that one in a million chance happens to you, I hope as you leap through the windshield (well, most of you) toward that tree, you think of this conversation.
As to the utility of footbrakes in that situation, I can think of several scenarios where locked brakes that you can't release without fumbling under the dash have a very high penalty vector. Most involving logging trucks.
And yes, I did once have a brake failure (in a Volvo no less) and stopped the car with the emergency brake.
You seem to have this complex thought process that turns anything you don't appreciate or understand into a "criminal" or "reckless" thing. Why is that, do you think?
Why yes, you are stupid. Thank you for noticing. Probably don't drive either, or you'd know the difference between a keyboard and a car. Apart from the momentum.
And so we leave Mr. Anonymous careening down a twisty mountain road with a failed pressure fitting on his brake line installed by a cheeseball mechanic and one of those foot-pedal parking brakes. Never to be seen again.
The pig-ignorant are with us... everywhere.
And yes, I know he's a Troll. But I had pity and fed him anyway...
My problem with Locally Made Cars is cheapness. Not low price, I like that. Cheapness.
Anyone here check out a Cadillac lately? Doesn't it just reek of Chevy? Cheap plastics, ringy body panels with the wrong kind of or inadequate insulation, buttons, knobs and levers that are not only in the wrong or confusing places but feel like they're going to fall off.
I think someone needs to learn how to make a car before they make a super-nanotech-alien-killing-machine car.
I mean, foot handbrakes? What is this, 1970? I can't use that emergency brake in an emergency because my feet are busy DRIVING!!! It's a parking-only brake. At least they finally found a manual transmission.
You'd think Chrysler would learn something from Daimler. Nope. Check out the trunk on the Crossfire. You practically have to unload groceries from bags before you can get them in the car! How is nanotech going to help that? "Hey, it's 30% stronger!" "Yeah, but I still can't put a suitcase in it!"
Maybe they'll finally come up with paint that doesn't fade and peel quickly, and if good interior materials are cheap maybe they'll start using them. Won't tell them where to put things, however.
Doesn't solve reason #1 why I've basically given up on American cars - the manual transmission. Generally Not Offered. Nanotech won't help that, probably make slushboxes smaller, though. Wait, Volvo already did that. And didn't send us the manual S80. GRRRRRRR.
The gas pumping law says that the reason is "safety" but everyone knows the reason is "employing the unemployable."
That's not to say that everyone who pumps gas in Oregon is a moron or anything. Just a lot of them. Everytime I go to Oregon I have to get out of the car anyway, to watch in case the pumper slides the nozzle along my paint, or to clean the gas cap after they put it inside-down on a pile of muddy dust on the pump.
And to the person who said it doesn't add anything to the cost of gas... we knew Portlanders smoked that stuff!!!
Basically the Oregon and Portland governments can't decide whether they're Arizona or San Francisco.
Careful if you're buying a rural spread, Linus. The state may decide to call it "farmland" and forbid you to live on it!!!
On-topic: What is it with the stupid names! Always with the stupid names! Sempron! Opteron! VW Touareg! An economy station wagon called Matrix! Nasal CROM! Semprini! I know it's hard to find names, but criminy!
Off-topic: If there were a real-life meeting of Kuro5hin.org posters, I would want to know so I could be somewhere else. In comparison,/. is a bastion of fraternal love and kindness. Even on bad days.
Here's your grenade, step through this door please.
And read the post next time, because you were obviously thinking of something other than what I wrote. Or you were using "Racializer" software to translate the page so that it looked like I was making racist statements so you could get your daily adrenaline rush.
Oh, well. The instructions are on the bottom of the boot. Good luck.
I vote we take everybody who wants to frame all their relations with other people based on what happened before they were born, and everyone who wants to punish someone else for something their ancestor did, and everyone who wants reparations for events which involve no one who is alive today, and we put them all in a BIIIIG room.
And we give each one of them a grenade.
And we close the door.
And pour concrete over it.
How's that for a solution to the twin problems of overpopulation and regional/racial hatred?
No, it's not just you. But there's more than one cause. You mentioned one; each new generation of politicians (not just the "right", they swap places on issues all the time) has to appear more "tough on crime" than their predecessors to get elected (in some elections).
Add to that that the "News Cycle" demands new threats to hype, which then become election issues.
Then add what Margaret Thatcher called "the Ratchet Effect" of legislation. "Liberal" governments propose stupid laws and punishments, and are allowed to pass them because no one believes they will be enforced. Then a "Conservative" government is elected and enforces all the bad laws to the gills. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
To anyone older than 20, it's pretty obvious what the result is. 40 years ago the penalty for a fistfight at a bar was almost always a short cooling off period, in a cell if it was a bad fight, and then charges (if any) are dropped.
Today? Expect a violent misdemeanor or felony for all parties, regardless of fault, and with that the near certainty of conviction (prosecutors have become VERY good at their jobs), crippled employment potential, and basically a life on the bottom of the ladder.
Now, if you believe what I'm saying here, you might just look it up. And find out that it's true. And then you might just get a little paranoid about how you interact with others. Feel threatened. And vote for politicians who promise to protect you since protecting yourself will land you in jail.
It's not just Zaurus, it would be really, REALLY nice to have a browser alternative for handhelds that doesn't require switching OSs (frequently a mess since there are so many differences, both ROM and hardware) or abandoning all your software and trying to find handheld-capable Linux alternatives.
Oil from coal is not a new process. Some of the methods are more efficient than others... in a box in the garage somewhere is a wonderful article comparing the methods, but I can't even find the info I'm looking for with Google, by Jiminy!
If I stumble across it today I'll amend this post, but I guess I'm just trying to add that even if "oil" runs out (and the Biogenic theory turns out to be right), theres a Texas ****load of oil to be removed from the coal while we're figuring out what to do next.
Heck, if we get hot fusion working properly, we might be able to recombine a lot of the output from HC burning. Or not, who knows.
Yes, some low-grade retard politician got a law passed about using cell phones at gas stations.
Recently some sheep customer at a gas station came up to me and warned me that I had to turn off my cell phone or I might blow up the gas station.
I told him "I'm more likely to be struck by lightning WHILE having my leg bit off by a shark." He went off to complain to the station personnel that I was a terrorist or something. I don't think they cared.
I don't mind stupid people, per se. It's the fact that they don't KNOW they're stupid.
And yes, if you think my Nokia is going to blow up a gas station, you are stupid. I don't often "attack the messenger" that way, but this message requires that you be a dupe.
I wouldn't be so mad, but some jackwad passed a LAW. How can I have hope for the future of representative government when crap like this (and the "free air pumps at gas stations" law in California) gets passed.
I think the "4 insightful" is almost funnier than post. I wonder what the religion centered around "public transportation" is?
Obviously a sect of Communitarianism, but what? BusDriverStrikeism? WaitingForTheBusism? ControlFreakism?
If you want to ride a bus, go ride a bus. Leave the rest of us alone, because You Just Don't Get It.
As to the guy with 25% tax, what, do you have eight kids or something? State & Fed takes closer to 40% from me. And what do I get? Roads, fire departments, and hundreds of public-fund academics trying to drive me off the former. Whee.
Half-life 2 is delayed, Doom 3 is delayed, the new Skyline GT-R is put off 2 years, and now I have to wait 20 years for this cool pill?
I guess they're all trying to teach us delayed gratification.
And it will probably cost $1000 is 2004 dollars, or $12342 2025 dollars. Though the first public doses will probably be available only through a Pepsi sweepstakes.
...at all the "Sputtering rage" going on here. None of you people have any fscking idea what happened to the library, who did it, or how many times it happened.
But, as usual, it's damn the ignorance, full speed ahead! Especially when it comes to any mention of religion (especially Christan sects) here on./, the volume goes up and the signal disappears in the noise.
All we really know about Alexandia is the library is gone and everybody points their finger at their favorite villain.
I hope you people realize that these pissing contests are just armchair versions of the ones that topple civilizations, like Rome, and lead to the messes that inevitably follow?
The fact that nobody can shut up for a minute, admit they don't have all the answers and just get a little perspective on a problem is why the Middle East is a bloodbath today. It will stay a bloodbath, no matter who invades or stays out, until there are some major changes in the way people deal with their own damned ideas.
Enjoy the bloodbath while it's still on TV for most of you.
'cause if people don't get it through their thick heads that everyone doesn't have to do agree, they won't be getting much else.
I'm shocked no one has posted this yet: This could be a self-funding program!
Webcam! Live amateur skinny-dippers! Sign on with your Verisign ID at parksandrecreation.gov...
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Fundamentally, any system that takes control away from the driver is extremely dangerous, not to mention rude.
1) Accident avoidance. Yes, I have avoided being hit by using acceleration. Numerous times. Usually slowing down would only guarantee a collision (the problem is behind you, more cars are behind you).
2) Yeah, I've got someone with arterial bleeding in the passenger seat, I'm going to call the hospital and arrange for a waiver. They're going to die. Sorry.
3) Any system that relies on signals to the vehicle will be hijacked. Get ready for 5mph speed limits at random intervals. Or someone sending shutoff signals from overpasses as a joke. Or car thieves targeting a specific car, shutting it down, and stealing it. Ad nauseum.
4) You can barely find a neighborhood where you can buy a house and actually own it (i.e. choose the color, change the drapes, park in your own driveway). Now someone wants to override the controls in my car. You want to drive my car, buy it from me. I've had enough of that, thank you.
As a follow-up, ANYTHING that overrides a driver's control is dangerous. The driver may be good or bad, but they know current road conditions better than an engineer (or more likely a lawyer) at a car factory. I test drove a BMW 323 with traction control. Darned thing shuts down acceleration in a corner. Know what happens when you lift the gas in a corner? Weight transfer to the front, off the rear. Tailhappy days! Good thing there was plenty of room.
Just because some people don't want to expend the effort required to exercise good judgement (and face the consequences) doesn't mean the rest of us need to be handicapped. If you want a system like that, put it on your car and leave me alone. Just remember to pull over and let the rest of us by when a PFY changes your limit to 5mph.
Basic choice, people. Ya wanna be free, and work at it? Or ya wanna be lazy, and pay for it?
This all depends on a lot of factors, road surface, vehicle weight, tire design. I've aquaplaned at 55 on a freeway (oddly enough I didn't stop to measure the water depth in the middle lane), and I've gone rock-solid through 1/2" water at similar speeds.
If you drive a 3800 lb car with 6" tires, you will have a hard time aquaplaning (but may slide off dry roads during cornering). If you drive a 1300lb car with 10" tires, better bring water wings.
Sorry if the units are too hard for people who grew up only needing to know the 10s table.:)
Partial correction - independent reports (in US and UK at least) say _casual_ speeding (5-10-15 overt, depending on limits) does not increase frequency or apprently severity of accidents.
> Mojave Airport is the nearest place with a commercial spaceport licence.
Hey, thanks! I'll check it out. If I can just get to New Vegas on Mars, ol' Jinji will be able to get me passage to Wolf 359, and the Arkelians should be able to fix this problem.
Right wing means whatever you want it to mean, which is why right/left is basically meaningless. In a sense I was just trying to be more specific.
As an example, most "Right Wingers" consider Libertarians to be "left", most "Left Wingers" consider Libertarians to be "right". Libertaians are not between the two. There's more than one political scale.
The "Far Right" is Definintely Not establishment, look to the John Birchers and protestant fundamentalists for examples.
And, at its core, the Establishment doesn't give a horse biscuit about the rhetoric, social causes, or public positions of either wing. As long as neither wing has any real control.:)
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What amuses me is people who think that voting for Party B will make any difference in how the candidate acts after the election. You don't pick your candidates, people. The parties do. And the parties are a bunch of political inbreds who have their own agendas and don't really care what you think. They know each other, they live with each other, and you're some faraway 1/5,000,000 vote share.
Once you get an electorate past a certain size, there's no way a large group of people can have any real control over the elected, or for that matter understanding of. The highly motivated insider has the information, the spare time, and the resources to manipulate events, and frankly, you don't.
And neither does Mickey Moore. Or Alex Jones. Or anybody else who stands outside and says "Oooooh! Oooooh! Look at the corruption!" Just about everyone has more important fish to fry in their own lives, which means they can't spend all their waking hours on politics, which means the politicians (and the movers and shakers behind them) can do pretty much whatever they want.
As to voting for Party B, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The only difference is Party B seems to pass more domestic legislation than Party A, so while the world stage may improve slightly (or not) the local stage will stink.
Ultimately, the only answer is political decentralization, but even if you did achieve that, the first master manipulator to come along could wreck it in a month. Other than that, don't know what to do.
But hey, don't listen to me, I'm neither an establishment player or a media darling. By a long shot.
People with roadsters don't eat? Or they all own four cars? What kind of sense does that make? Maybe you happen to like roadsters, so you don't buy the Crossfire. That's all.
:)
As to "each his own", at least I don't imply people who drive automatics are bad people. Sheesh. Talk about attitude.
As to availability, go to your Dodge/Chrysler dealership and ask what they have with a manual transmission. That isn't a base model. Cadillac just produced its first-ever manual, Chevy and Pontiac- small cars and base models only. Buick - don't even go there.
Well, as to your views on Europe, at least you could buy an Aston. They're brilliant.
As to emergency brakes, you've just shocked me. It's kind of like someone who has been using computers for years discovering what the backspace key does. I'm not sure what the blue blazes ABS has to do with e-brakes, but I can tell you don't either, so that's okay. The purpose is to back up the main brake system in case of failure. Mind you, brake failure is rare, but if that one in a million chance happens to you, I hope as you leap through the windshield (well, most of you) toward that tree, you think of this conversation.
As to the utility of footbrakes in that situation, I can think of several scenarios where locked brakes that you can't release without fumbling under the dash have a very high penalty vector. Most involving logging trucks.
And yes, I did once have a brake failure (in a Volvo no less) and stopped the car with the emergency brake.
You seem to have this complex thought process that turns anything you don't appreciate or understand into a "criminal" or "reckless" thing. Why is that, do you think?
Why yes, you are stupid. Thank you for noticing. Probably don't drive either, or you'd know the difference between a keyboard and a car. Apart from the momentum.
And so we leave Mr. Anonymous careening down a twisty mountain road with a failed pressure fitting on his brake line installed by a cheeseball mechanic and one of those foot-pedal parking brakes. Never to be seen again.
The pig-ignorant are with us... everywhere.
And yes, I know he's a Troll. But I had pity and fed him anyway...
My problem with Locally Made Cars is cheapness. Not low price, I like that. Cheapness.
Anyone here check out a Cadillac lately? Doesn't it just reek of Chevy? Cheap plastics, ringy body panels with the wrong kind of or inadequate insulation, buttons, knobs and levers that are not only in the wrong or confusing places but feel like they're going to fall off.
I think someone needs to learn how to make a car before they make a super-nanotech-alien-killing-machine car.
I mean, foot handbrakes? What is this, 1970? I can't use that emergency brake in an emergency because my feet are busy DRIVING!!! It's a parking-only brake. At least they finally found a manual transmission.
You'd think Chrysler would learn something from Daimler. Nope. Check out the trunk on the Crossfire. You practically have to unload groceries from bags before you can get them in the car! How is nanotech going to help that? "Hey, it's 30% stronger!" "Yeah, but I still can't put a suitcase in it!"
Maybe they'll finally come up with paint that doesn't fade and peel quickly, and if good interior materials are cheap maybe they'll start using them. Won't tell them where to put things, however.
Doesn't solve reason #1 why I've basically given up on American cars - the manual transmission. Generally Not Offered. Nanotech won't help that, probably make slushboxes smaller, though. Wait, Volvo already did that. And didn't send us the manual S80. GRRRRRRR.
Walk before you run, people. Walk before you run.
The gas pumping law says that the reason is "safety" but everyone knows the reason is "employing the unemployable."
That's not to say that everyone who pumps gas in Oregon is a moron or anything. Just a lot of them. Everytime I go to Oregon I have to get out of the car anyway, to watch in case the pumper slides the nozzle along my paint, or to clean the gas cap after they put it inside-down on a pile of muddy dust on the pump.
And to the person who said it doesn't add anything to the cost of gas... we knew Portlanders smoked that stuff!!!
Basically the Oregon and Portland governments can't decide whether they're Arizona or San Francisco.
Careful if you're buying a rural spread, Linus. The state may decide to call it "farmland" and forbid you to live on it!!!
On-topic: What is it with the stupid names! Always with the stupid names! Sempron! Opteron! VW Touareg! An economy station wagon called Matrix! Nasal CROM! Semprini! I know it's hard to find names, but criminy!
/. is a bastion of fraternal love and kindness. Even on bad days.
Off-topic: If there were a real-life meeting of Kuro5hin.org posters, I would want to know so I could be somewhere else. In comparison,
"Both platforms are "fast enough" for now."
No matter how many times I read it, I don't get it.
Here's your grenade, step through this door please.
And read the post next time, because you were obviously thinking of something other than what I wrote. Or you were using "Racializer" software to translate the page so that it looked like I was making racist statements so you could get your daily adrenaline rush.
Oh, well. The instructions are on the bottom of the boot. Good luck.
I vote we take everybody who wants to frame all their relations with other people based on what happened before they were born, and everyone who wants to punish someone else for something their ancestor did, and everyone who wants reparations for events which involve no one who is alive today, and we put them all in a BIIIIG room.
And we give each one of them a grenade.
And we close the door.
And pour concrete over it.
How's that for a solution to the twin problems of overpopulation and regional/racial hatred?
No, it's not just you. But there's more than one cause. You mentioned one; each new generation of politicians (not just the "right", they swap places on issues all the time) has to appear more "tough on crime" than their predecessors to get elected (in some elections).
Add to that that the "News Cycle" demands new threats to hype, which then become election issues.
Then add what Margaret Thatcher called "the Ratchet Effect" of legislation. "Liberal" governments propose stupid laws and punishments, and are allowed to pass them because no one believes they will be enforced. Then a "Conservative" government is elected and enforces all the bad laws to the gills. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
To anyone older than 20, it's pretty obvious what the result is. 40 years ago the penalty for a fistfight at a bar was almost always a short cooling off period, in a cell if it was a bad fight, and then charges (if any) are dropped.
Today? Expect a violent misdemeanor or felony for all parties, regardless of fault, and with that the near certainty of conviction (prosecutors have become VERY good at their jobs), crippled employment potential, and basically a life on the bottom of the ladder.
Now, if you believe what I'm saying here, you might just look it up. And find out that it's true. And then you might just get a little paranoid about how you interact with others. Feel threatened. And vote for politicians who promise to protect you since protecting yourself will land you in jail.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
It's not just Zaurus, it would be really, REALLY nice to have a browser alternative for handhelds that doesn't require switching OSs (frequently a mess since there are so many differences, both ROM and hardware) or abandoning all your software and trying to find handheld-capable Linux alternatives.
It Would Be Nice, Wouldn't It?
Oil from coal is not a new process. Some of the methods are more efficient than others... in a box in the garage somewhere is a wonderful article comparing the methods, but I can't even find the info I'm looking for with Google, by Jiminy!
If I stumble across it today I'll amend this post, but I guess I'm just trying to add that even if "oil" runs out (and the Biogenic theory turns out to be right), theres a Texas ****load of oil to be removed from the coal while we're figuring out what to do next.
Heck, if we get hot fusion working properly, we might be able to recombine a lot of the output from HC burning. Or not, who knows.
Yes, some low-grade retard politician got a law passed about using cell phones at gas stations.
Recently some sheep customer at a gas station came up to me and warned me that I had to turn off my cell phone or I might blow up the gas station.
I told him "I'm more likely to be struck by lightning WHILE having my leg bit off by a shark." He went off to complain to the station personnel that I was a terrorist or something. I don't think they cared.
I don't mind stupid people, per se. It's the fact that they don't KNOW they're stupid.
And yes, if you think my Nokia is going to blow up a gas station, you are stupid. I don't often "attack the messenger" that way, but this message requires that you be a dupe.
I wouldn't be so mad, but some jackwad passed a LAW. How can I have hope for the future of representative government when crap like this (and the "free air pumps at gas stations" law in California) gets passed.
Grrr...
I think the "4 insightful" is almost funnier than post. I wonder what the religion centered around "public transportation" is?
Obviously a sect of Communitarianism, but what? BusDriverStrikeism? WaitingForTheBusism? ControlFreakism?
If you want to ride a bus, go ride a bus. Leave the rest of us alone, because You Just Don't Get It.
As to the guy with 25% tax, what, do you have eight kids or something? State & Fed takes closer to 40% from me. And what do I get? Roads, fire departments, and hundreds of public-fund academics trying to drive me off the former. Whee.
Half-life 2 is delayed, Doom 3 is delayed, the new Skyline GT-R is put off 2 years, and now I have to wait 20 years for this cool pill?
I guess they're all trying to teach us delayed gratification.
And it will probably cost $1000 is 2004 dollars, or $12342 2025 dollars. Though the first public doses will probably be available only through a Pepsi sweepstakes.
...at all the "Sputtering rage" going on here. None of you people have any fscking idea what happened to the library, who did it, or how many times it happened.
./, the volume goes up and the signal disappears in the noise.
But, as usual, it's damn the ignorance, full speed ahead! Especially when it comes to any mention of religion (especially Christan sects) here on
All we really know about Alexandia is the library is gone and everybody points their finger at their favorite villain.
I hope you people realize that these pissing contests are just armchair versions of the ones that topple civilizations, like Rome, and lead to the messes that inevitably follow?
The fact that nobody can shut up for a minute, admit they don't have all the answers and just get a little perspective on a problem is why the Middle East is a bloodbath today. It will stay a bloodbath, no matter who invades or stays out, until there are some major changes in the way people deal with their own damned ideas.
Enjoy the bloodbath while it's still on TV for most of you.
'cause if people don't get it through their thick heads that everyone doesn't have to do agree, they won't be getting much else.
So when I'm hiking in the wilds, fording a muddy stream, and something heavy grabs my leg...
Well, I'll react exactly they way I would have had I not read the story, but at least now I know who to send the pieces and check to.
I'm shocked no one has posted this yet: This could be a self-funding program!
Webcam! Live amateur skinny-dippers! Sign on with your Verisign ID at parksandrecreation.gov...
Fundamentally, any system that takes control away from the driver is extremely dangerous, not to mention rude.
1) Accident avoidance. Yes, I have avoided being hit by using acceleration. Numerous times. Usually slowing down would only guarantee a collision (the problem is behind you, more cars are behind you).
2) Yeah, I've got someone with arterial bleeding in the passenger seat, I'm going to call the hospital and arrange for a waiver. They're going to die. Sorry.
3) Any system that relies on signals to the vehicle will be hijacked. Get ready for 5mph speed limits at random intervals. Or someone sending shutoff signals from overpasses as a joke. Or car thieves targeting a specific car, shutting it down, and stealing it. Ad nauseum.
4) You can barely find a neighborhood where you can buy a house and actually own it (i.e. choose the color, change the drapes, park in your own driveway). Now someone wants to override the controls in my car. You want to drive my car, buy it from me. I've had enough of that, thank you.
As a follow-up, ANYTHING that overrides a driver's control is dangerous. The driver may be good or bad, but they know current road conditions better than an engineer (or more likely a lawyer) at a car factory. I test drove a BMW 323 with traction control. Darned thing shuts down acceleration in a corner. Know what happens when you lift the gas in a corner? Weight transfer to the front, off the rear. Tailhappy days! Good thing there was plenty of room.
Just because some people don't want to expend the effort required to exercise good judgement (and face the consequences) doesn't mean the rest of us need to be handicapped. If you want a system like that, put it on your car and leave me alone. Just remember to pull over and let the rest of us by when a PFY changes your limit to 5mph.
Basic choice, people. Ya wanna be free, and work at it? Or ya wanna be lazy, and pay for it?
This all depends on a lot of factors, road surface, vehicle weight, tire design. I've aquaplaned at 55 on a freeway (oddly enough I didn't stop to measure the water depth in the middle lane), and I've gone rock-solid through 1/2" water at similar speeds.
:)
If you drive a 3800 lb car with 6" tires, you will have a hard time aquaplaning (but may slide off dry roads during cornering). If you drive a 1300lb car with 10" tires, better bring water wings.
Sorry if the units are too hard for people who grew up only needing to know the 10s table.
Partial correction - independent reports (in US and UK at least) say _casual_ speeding (5-10-15 overt, depending on limits) does not increase frequency or apprently severity of accidents.
:)
Doing 120 in a 25 does, however.
I'm sure that's what you meant.
I don't know enough to make an informed decision yet.
:)
Hey, I'm just saying what everybody's thinking.
Call me Billy Bob, I'll just go light a candle and read some Aristotle. Maybe hijack some UHF in the mornin, afore I feed the cattle.
> Mojave Airport is the nearest place with a commercial spaceport licence.
Hey, thanks! I'll check it out. If I can just get to New Vegas on Mars, ol' Jinji will be able to get me passage to Wolf 359, and the Arkelians should be able to fix this problem.
I knew Slashdotters could solve my problem!
Right wing means whatever you want it to mean, which is why right/left is basically meaningless. In a sense I was just trying to be more specific.
As an example, most "Right Wingers" consider Libertarians to be "left", most "Left Wingers" consider Libertarians to be "right". Libertaians are not between the two. There's more than one political scale.
The "Far Right" is Definintely Not establishment, look to the John Birchers and protestant fundamentalists for examples.
And, at its core, the Establishment doesn't give a horse biscuit about the rhetoric, social causes, or public positions of either wing. As long as neither wing has any real control.