That sounds like an interesting setup. Not many people here could handle that kind of complexity. One of the advantages of South Florida is that all the roads are straight. East/West or North/South. No bends like Atlanta or just about anywhere else. As a result, drunks like it here. I really can't figure it out.
If everyone lost their Ayn Rand mentality and became a community of Americans instead of mindless consumers in fear of mindless terrorists, half the people could decide that they can get rid of their car and share one with the spouse/friends/even strangers.
That would cut the car population in half. Instead of 160 million, there's only 80 million to deal with. My younger brother started an internship in DC and, subsequently, has to use public transit. This is a guy that did some serious driving between 16 and 20. He has decided he will never own a car again. My colleague at Cyberista had the same epiphany while on an internship at the State Department a couple years earlier.
These aren't environmentalists or even idealists of any sort. They spent growing up partying around the American Ideal of a car. They were exposed to the alternative, realized they had more money in their pocket, realized they didn't lose one second of their social lives, realized that they were simply happier out of traffic.
Education and wallet pain/joy can truly change things. Maybe to the point of getting some of that land back. I'd like some of that asphalt to return to vegetation simply because more green means a more bearable summer. More light and heat is absorbed in green because that color makes up the bulk of the sun (and white in general) light. Different subject for a different time.
It later goes on to talk about 'cyclone season', so I guess you could safely add wind to that list. Watch the pringles cans fly off into the stratosphere!
Annoying Linux zealots get to watch their junk food get hijacked by real Penguins.
Northern Virginia/Washington D.C. area is probably a bit worse because of extreme seasonal differences wrecking the roads with potholes. The only city in Florida with road integrity problems is Tampa... sinkholes swallow entire intersections... it did once last year anyway... most of the time, when it happens, the ground swallows houses instead of roads.
Didn't he fall off? I'm all for that but perhaps giving a massive tax credit to people that get a bike and get rid of the car would be better. That might not work in Florida weather but maybe it will. The weather doesn't stop students from riding their bikes in college towns like Gainesville and Tallahassee.
Considering that free = 0, I tend not to count that as a paid part of a tiered system. Perhaps you would have been happier with "paid two-tiered system"?
obviously, you don't live in a metropolitan area. Road building is not the answer. Palm Beach County did a study 10 years ago before all the highway development and the conclusion was this:
Build smarter, not more.
If 95 was widened to accommodate people, it would be 45 lanes wide. That's not an exaggeration. That's a sober conclusion of government based on growth rates.
Market forces can seriously help here.
Seriously... price increases are a normal part of market forces. I didn't accept that until I saw the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in 92. To make sure that supply runs smoothly and near-infinitely, price must match demand. With that in mind, they should have a two-tiered system to minimize the economic impact... premium, standard and free.
I like my cell phone. It saves numbers and puts calls through. That's all I want it to do. For a couple years, I managed without a residential phone. Cable provided Internet access. I understand that the lead developer needs to be evangelical about his little software agent but I don't think it will help his chances of success. Microsoft has etched instability and random BSODs into everyone's mind and nobody will trust this.
Well said. There is a high level of safety in individuality and distance as long as we don't abdicate our responsibilities to be moral, ethical, charitable and compassionate. When the government does stuff for you, it encourages sloth and disrespect. The fact that our government is willing and able to be a lightning rod for our discontent makes us nicer to each other. Gets too deep for/. from here. Later.
I'm with the parent poster. IMO, all commercial music has two problems: 1) music by committee and 2) music for promotion. If they want to sell ads, that's great. They just won't get it from me. Look no further than f'n FUBU to see that music is explicitly intended to sell crap. That makes it an advertisement. I can easily do without them.
This is America, brother. There are *plenty* of alternatives for entertainment besides mass produced crap noise. You aren't asking the correct question. You are essentially asking how the man avoids spending money on music. It's fundamentally flawed. How about no question at all? How about just a statement?
Jesus... people don't have to be AC with me.
Nobody buckled. Not me, not them. It was as much of a war of words as you can get. I lined up politicians through letter writing, they further entrenched their position. Ultimately, they tried to get the DA involved because I refused to even defend it in court. I could finish this great story but you are AC. Just go click my bio and find the article in the portfolio on my resume.
Cops don't care... a couple years ago, I got a ticket for parking in a disabled spot.
I am in a wheelchair. I drive a conversion van with equipment that makes absolute no mistake about the kind of person that drives the vehicle.
It was a hot day. I went with some friends to the mall. I had to move from driver's seat to my wheelchair quickly because of the sun shining down. Anyway, I dropped the disabled placard. It landed on the passengers seat in plain view. I decided, incorrectly, that was sufficient.
Came back to a $100 ticket. As a columnist in the local paper, I didn't help myself by starting a political war instead of negotiating my way out.
Bottom line: it shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Go check my bio link here at/. so you know I'm not kidding about how stupid this situation was.
You could try lurking around the anthropology pages at the University of Florida, www.ufl.edu. My information comes from 1999 and, since it made it to a relatively large class (400 people), the information is probably well-established and older than 99. I loved my biological anthropology class but, apparently, I took the toughest professor available before I realized I was screwed. The tests were insane. Widespread failure. Massive curving. The professor is a regular on all the learning networks with anthropology shows. She was a leader in her field but I suspect she thought that students were an inferior breed of human that deserved to be eradicated.
I recall in a biological anthropology class that, as far as intelligence is concerned, there's no relation in the size of the brain but there seems to be a significant relation with shape. Animals that we consider to be intelligent just happen to have a similar brain shape to our own while sizes vary significantly.
My thought doesn't come from some neo-Luddite philosophy... quite the opposite... I spent all of my college years like my peers--downloading massive amounts of music. Even with classical, a live performance blows away even the best recording. I suppose I place more value on live performance because I can't get it by typing on the magic keyboard. I have to make an effort to get what I want. As to your other point, I think it's pretty obvious that somebody must listen and study recorded music. There's nothing wrong with that. What I find interesting is that several responses pointed out that I should stick to my preferences. Avoiding first person is just one element of my writing style. With this particular post, I'm obviously going out of my way to make sure that my position is understood. I wouldn't want to confuse anybody about what I am trying to say.
Yeah, but it's a niche. Aren't those channels extra? Some people might get bothered by my position but the concerts have no equal--especially in sunny South Florida. Boots are where it's at on P2P. Phish makes great use of their performance recordings.
I go to listen to the music, see the performers up close (some closer than others), get it on with hot chicks, and do some drinking.
Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you're missing.
Are you denying that there isn't pressure in performance? I might go to NASCAR with the expressed hope of ball and flames but that doesn't apply to anything else, including my post.
I don't understand your manical rambling in the final paragraph. Are you 12?
We all have our war stories but I'm sure that none compare to yours. Please enlighten/., by telling everyone about all the girls you've fscked before.
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That sounds like an interesting setup. Not many people here could handle that kind of complexity. One of the advantages of South Florida is that all the roads are straight. East/West or North/South. No bends like Atlanta or just about anywhere else. As a result, drunks like it here. I really can't figure it out. If everyone lost their Ayn Rand mentality and became a community of Americans instead of mindless consumers in fear of mindless terrorists, half the people could decide that they can get rid of their car and share one with the spouse/friends/even strangers. That would cut the car population in half. Instead of 160 million, there's only 80 million to deal with. My younger brother started an internship in DC and, subsequently, has to use public transit. This is a guy that did some serious driving between 16 and 20. He has decided he will never own a car again. My colleague at Cyberista had the same epiphany while on an internship at the State Department a couple years earlier. These aren't environmentalists or even idealists of any sort. They spent growing up partying around the American Ideal of a car. They were exposed to the alternative, realized they had more money in their pocket, realized they didn't lose one second of their social lives, realized that they were simply happier out of traffic. Education and wallet pain/joy can truly change things. Maybe to the point of getting some of that land back. I'd like some of that asphalt to return to vegetation simply because more green means a more bearable summer. More light and heat is absorbed in green because that color makes up the bulk of the sun (and white in general) light. Different subject for a different time.
Yeah... like Magneto.
Annoying Linux zealots get to watch their junk food get hijacked by real Penguins.
:) Yeah, I fscked that up. All apologies. Thank you for publishing the correct link.
It's not enough to make you throw out windows but it is a step in the right direction... try Mutant Storm. Beautiful game and incredibly addictive.
Northern Virginia/Washington D.C. area is probably a bit worse because of extreme seasonal differences wrecking the roads with potholes. The only city in Florida with road integrity problems is Tampa... sinkholes swallow entire intersections... it did once last year anyway... most of the time, when it happens, the ground swallows houses instead of roads.
Didn't he fall off? I'm all for that but perhaps giving a massive tax credit to people that get a bike and get rid of the car would be better. That might not work in Florida weather but maybe it will. The weather doesn't stop students from riding their bikes in college towns like Gainesville and Tallahassee.
Considering that free = 0, I tend not to count that as a paid part of a tiered system. Perhaps you would have been happier with "paid two-tiered system"?
obviously, you don't live in a metropolitan area. Road building is not the answer. Palm Beach County did a study 10 years ago before all the highway development and the conclusion was this: Build smarter, not more. If 95 was widened to accommodate people, it would be 45 lanes wide. That's not an exaggeration. That's a sober conclusion of government based on growth rates. Market forces can seriously help here.
Seriously... price increases are a normal part of market forces. I didn't accept that until I saw the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in 92. To make sure that supply runs smoothly and near-infinitely, price must match demand. With that in mind, they should have a two-tiered system to minimize the economic impact... premium, standard and free.
I think this could work for the east coast and interstate 95 as well and force people to find the side roads. South Florida traffic is madness 24/7.
I like my cell phone. It saves numbers and puts calls through. That's all I want it to do. For a couple years, I managed without a residential phone. Cable provided Internet access. I understand that the lead developer needs to be evangelical about his little software agent but I don't think it will help his chances of success. Microsoft has etched instability and random BSODs into everyone's mind and nobody will trust this.
Mod to + 5 for effort alone... and it's still funny.
Well said. There is a high level of safety in individuality and distance as long as we don't abdicate our responsibilities to be moral, ethical, charitable and compassionate. When the government does stuff for you, it encourages sloth and disrespect. The fact that our government is willing and able to be a lightning rod for our discontent makes us nicer to each other. Gets too deep for /. from here. Later.
My first thought was, "why the hell is this neat?"
This phone has moved to the upper region of my DO NOT BUY list.
I'm with the parent poster. IMO, all commercial music has two problems: 1) music by committee and 2) music for promotion. If they want to sell ads, that's great. They just won't get it from me. Look no further than f'n FUBU to see that music is explicitly intended to sell crap. That makes it an advertisement. I can easily do without them.
This is America, brother. There are *plenty* of alternatives for entertainment besides mass produced crap noise. You aren't asking the correct question. You are essentially asking how the man avoids spending money on music. It's fundamentally flawed. How about no question at all? How about just a statement?
Like, "I'm going to do something else."
Jesus... people don't have to be AC with me. Nobody buckled. Not me, not them. It was as much of a war of words as you can get. I lined up politicians through letter writing, they further entrenched their position. Ultimately, they tried to get the DA involved because I refused to even defend it in court. I could finish this great story but you are AC. Just go click my bio and find the article in the portfolio on my resume.
I admitted as much in my post. College, young, arrogant. Bad combination for dealing with cops.
Cops don't care... a couple years ago, I got a ticket for parking in a disabled spot. I am in a wheelchair. I drive a conversion van with equipment that makes absolute no mistake about the kind of person that drives the vehicle. It was a hot day. I went with some friends to the mall. I had to move from driver's seat to my wheelchair quickly because of the sun shining down. Anyway, I dropped the disabled placard. It landed on the passengers seat in plain view. I decided, incorrectly, that was sufficient. Came back to a $100 ticket. As a columnist in the local paper, I didn't help myself by starting a political war instead of negotiating my way out. Bottom line: it shouldn't have happened in the first place. Go check my bio link here at /. so you know I'm not kidding about how stupid this situation was.
You could try lurking around the anthropology pages at the University of Florida, www.ufl.edu. My information comes from 1999 and, since it made it to a relatively large class (400 people), the information is probably well-established and older than 99. I loved my biological anthropology class but, apparently, I took the toughest professor available before I realized I was screwed. The tests were insane. Widespread failure. Massive curving. The professor is a regular on all the learning networks with anthropology shows. She was a leader in her field but I suspect she thought that students were an inferior breed of human that deserved to be eradicated.
I recall in a biological anthropology class that, as far as intelligence is concerned, there's no relation in the size of the brain but there seems to be a significant relation with shape. Animals that we consider to be intelligent just happen to have a similar brain shape to our own while sizes vary significantly.
My thought doesn't come from some neo-Luddite philosophy... quite the opposite... I spent all of my college years like my peers--downloading massive amounts of music. Even with classical, a live performance blows away even the best recording. I suppose I place more value on live performance because I can't get it by typing on the magic keyboard. I have to make an effort to get what I want. As to your other point, I think it's pretty obvious that somebody must listen and study recorded music. There's nothing wrong with that. What I find interesting is that several responses pointed out that I should stick to my preferences. Avoiding first person is just one element of my writing style. With this particular post, I'm obviously going out of my way to make sure that my position is understood. I wouldn't want to confuse anybody about what I am trying to say.
Yeah, but it's a niche. Aren't those channels extra? Some people might get bothered by my position but the concerts have no equal--especially in sunny South Florida. Boots are where it's at on P2P. Phish makes great use of their performance recordings.
Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you're missing.
Are you denying that there isn't pressure in performance? I might go to NASCAR with the expressed hope of ball and flames but that doesn't apply to anything else, including my post.
I don't understand your manical rambling in the final paragraph. Are you 12?
We all have our war stories but I'm sure that none compare to yours. Please enlighten /., by telling everyone about all the girls you've fscked before.
An AC made me laugh. That was funny. Wish you used your real name. Anyway, you know who you are. Thanks. :)