There's little danger of that since Mom just bought a new PC with MS Vista installed on it and is now totally flummoxed and can hardly turn the fricken thing on. Its doubtful that Quicken even runs on the cussed thing.
The problem with flying cars is they present way too many problems to ever get off the drawing board. Geez, where to even start??
I'm not even talking about technical issues-- you could suppose for the argument that all of the technical issues are solved, and we have the AeroCar-2150 sitting in the showroom ready to fly away for $19,500 on a 5-year loan...
That's simply not the issue--
When was the last time you took a trip around the beltway (or the highway or wherever for you non-DC'ers) ??? How many "Hoopties" did you see out there? Cars so ragged you can't help but wonder how soon it will be before they roll over and heave their last (or worse, roll over on YOU)...??? How about all those cars with dents in the fenders and scuffs on the paint? You want them flying around? It'd be like having a swarm of flying lawn-mowers buzzing about.
And how do you keep those cars on the right track? What's to stop some kids from hopping in one and joy-riding (flying) around the neighborhood, buzzing houses and little old ladies? (Or egging same, or worse...)? What's to stop those weekend Wally's from opening 'er up and tinkering around inside? Do you really trust your next door neighbor's aero-engineering skills? Or how about that fat guy down the street in his shorts scratching his belly with one hand, sucking on a brewski with the other while maintaining that 2-inch ash on the end of the dangling cigarette in his mouth? (Hey Dude!)
What about drunk-flyers? Do we now have to start worrying in 3D? I'm only asking 'cause I'm still coming to grips with 2D concerns... And how do the cops pull over someone for FUI anyway? And what exactly do they walk on when they give the field sobriety test (and will they have to rename it since they're probably 1,000 feet above the nearest field??)
What about running out of gas? How do you stop that? Its not like coasting to a stop and having to get out and push to the nearest gas station. And at low altitudes, parachutes aren't gonna be practical. So what if you have a sensor that automatically lands the thing if the fuel gets low-- how do you make sure its working? How many people continue to drive their regular cars around long after various sensors and safety systems break, expire or become faulty? Why are flying cars going to be different? Do you really think people are going to magically wise-up just because they're airborne??? (I'm thinking about that guy who strapped however many weather balloons it was to his lawn chair...)
Are there gonna be speed limits? Why (or why not) ??
How about traffic jams-- what happens if you run into gridlock at 1,000 feet (and at 900 feet and 800 feet and 1,100 feet...???
These are just the issues I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure with more thought there are plenty of others. I think some of these items are show-stoppers. I don't mean to be a buzz-kill or anything, but there are lots of problems implicit in the idea of flying cars. As cool as they seem, and as much as I would personally like to have one, I'm not sure how, as a society, it can ever be practical enough to work for real.
Internet Radio (and Radio) broadcasters should just STOP playing music that's owned (or controlled) by the RIAA. Let all those other performers and artists that have just been dying for air time to get their 15 minutes of fame. There's bound to be some other good music out there that the RIAA-scum-sucking-dirt-bags don't have their vampire-teeth stuck into.
But, and this is not to be unkind, as a "sample size of one", you don't know how you would have turned out if you had not drunk the cokes. So while I am inclined to agree with you from general experience, your statement / self-referential experiment cannot be substantiated.
I have a program that I installed as a trial which now that I'm done with it and want it to go away says "Insufficient Priviledges must be Admin". Which is all well and good except that I _am_ the admin... (cue thunder-crash, lightning bolts and wild demonic laughter). Doesn't work right-click, left-click or any kind of click-- just won't un-install. But I did finally say fuck it and blew away its directories. Now I just have the stupid registry entries to contend with. (sigh) I hate windows. Linux is better, but its not there yet for a day-to-day desktop. [And I can say that, I've been a die-hard linux advocate and daily primary user of it since the early 90's] I wish the big-boys would port the windows apps over to linux. This ain't a troll. I'm just sick and tired of the MS shit and would love to have a real alternative. Linux, imo, is the best hope on the horizon and it keeps getting better and better-- but it lacks the one thing MS has and does well-- a bottom line which focuses and drives even the little boring shit that is necessary to finish up and polish an OS. Instead of having 14 half-done apps that you can probably use to get stuff done with overall, would't it be nice-- just once-- to have a single _finished_ app that just did the job? I think that's my major complaint with open-source in general. As much as I like it and use it everyday, I really wish sometimes that I could just sit down and not have to worry about which combination of stuff I'm going to have to cobble together to get something done. (And I'm a good cobbler-- just blowing off some steam I guess:)
Its not impossible. That's how it got started in the first place. There are other ways to do it, they just require cooperation. And there, I'm afraid, is much of the rub.
Have you seen the price of gas lately? Or the increased property taxes? Or the latest toll hikes to supposedly fund new roads (like that's ever going to happen), or the increased cost of food, fuel, hvac, and evetything else.... who has a quarter?
The RIAA itself violates copyrights in its search for alleged violators. They claim they have investigators who snooop through potential violators systems and actually LISTEN to music / media files found on that system. THEY THEMSELVES are guilty of copyright violation for EVERY INSTANCE of viewing or listening to a song or media file they do NOT have copy rights (ownership or stewardship) over. If they listen to ONE family sing-along, or watch ONE family vacation outing, the RIAA and its investigators are IMMEDIATELY guilty of what they are alledging of others. One wonders if it would be possible to tell the RIAA to go SUE itself...??
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How can we opt-out congress and the Bushit Administration???
Voting doesn't seem to work...
I think that is a very good question / observation and someone should mod you up.
So let me get this straight... you're saying that the answer to global warming is this fish poison???
Does Al Gore know about this???
(Did he invent the stuff???)
That's because your countries aren't run by moronic, egotistical, ego maniacal, jack-booted pussies.
There's little danger of that since Mom just bought a new PC with MS Vista installed on it and is now totally flummoxed and can hardly turn the fricken thing on. Its doubtful that Quicken even runs on the cussed thing.
Not insane-- I think "STUPID" is the word you were searching for.
Wow. Interesting point. Someone should mod you up.
Yeah, okay-- but seriously, its difficult for an ordinary person to walk into a retail store these days to buy a computer and NOT get Vista.
Of course in the end she proved her savvy.... Hasta la Vista baby!
The problem with flying cars is they present way too many problems to ever get off the drawing board. Geez, where to even start??
I'm not even talking about technical issues-- you could suppose for the argument that all of the technical issues are solved, and we have the AeroCar-2150 sitting in the showroom ready to fly away for $19,500 on a 5-year loan...
That's simply not the issue--
When was the last time you took a trip around the beltway (or the highway or wherever for you non-DC'ers) ??? How many "Hoopties" did you see out there? Cars so ragged you can't help but wonder how soon it will be before they roll over and heave their last (or worse, roll over on YOU)...??? How about all those cars with dents in the fenders and scuffs on the paint? You want them flying around? It'd be like having a swarm of flying lawn-mowers buzzing about.
And how do you keep those cars on the right track? What's to stop some kids from hopping in one and joy-riding (flying) around the neighborhood, buzzing houses and little old ladies? (Or egging same, or worse...)? What's to stop those weekend Wally's from opening 'er up and tinkering around inside? Do you really trust your next door neighbor's aero-engineering skills? Or how about that fat guy down the street in his shorts scratching his belly with one hand, sucking on a brewski with the other while maintaining that 2-inch ash on the end of the dangling cigarette in his mouth? (Hey Dude!)
What about drunk-flyers? Do we now have to start worrying in 3D? I'm only asking 'cause I'm still coming to grips with 2D concerns... And how do the cops pull over someone for FUI anyway? And what exactly do they walk on when they give the field sobriety test (and will they have to rename it since they're probably 1,000 feet above the nearest field??)
What about running out of gas? How do you stop that? Its not like coasting to a stop and having to get out and push to the nearest gas station. And at low altitudes, parachutes aren't gonna be practical. So what if you have a sensor that automatically lands the thing if the fuel gets low-- how do you make sure its working? How many people continue to drive their regular cars around long after various sensors and safety systems break, expire or become faulty? Why are flying cars going to be different? Do you really think people are going to magically wise-up just because they're airborne??? (I'm thinking about that guy who strapped however many weather balloons it was to his lawn chair...)
Are there gonna be speed limits? Why (or why not) ??
How about traffic jams-- what happens if you run into gridlock at 1,000 feet (and at 900 feet and 800 feet and 1,100 feet...???
These are just the issues I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure with more thought there are plenty of others. I think some of these items are show-stoppers. I don't mean to be a buzz-kill or anything, but there are lots of problems implicit in the idea of flying cars. As cool as they seem, and as much as I would personally like to have one, I'm not sure how, as a society, it can ever be practical enough to work for real.
Well DUUUUH! The cable was BROKEN.
So where can you get one of these new, improved LINUX iPhones? And will they work on Verizon's CDMA network? That's what I want to know.
Internet Radio (and Radio) broadcasters should just STOP playing music that's owned (or controlled) by the RIAA. Let all those other performers and artists that have just been dying for air time to get their 15 minutes of fame. There's bound to be some other good music out there that the RIAA-scum-sucking-dirt-bags don't have their vampire-teeth stuck into.
So if that's the case how will politicians get any air time now?
When asked about the new policy, Dick Cheney said "Fuck You".
But, and this is not to be unkind, as a "sample size of one", you don't know how you would have turned out if you had not drunk the cokes. So while I am inclined to agree with you from general experience, your statement / self-referential experiment cannot be substantiated.
I have a program that I installed as a trial which now that I'm done with it and want it to go away says "Insufficient Priviledges must be Admin". Which is all well and good except that I _am_ the admin... (cue thunder-crash, lightning bolts and wild demonic laughter). Doesn't work right-click, left-click or any kind of click-- just won't un-install. But I did finally say fuck it and blew away its directories. Now I just have the stupid registry entries to contend with. (sigh) I hate windows. Linux is better, but its not there yet for a day-to-day desktop. [And I can say that, I've been a die-hard linux advocate and daily primary user of it since the early 90's] I wish the big-boys would port the windows apps over to linux. This ain't a troll. I'm just sick and tired of the MS shit and would love to have a real alternative. Linux, imo, is the best hope on the horizon and it keeps getting better and better-- but it lacks the one thing MS has and does well-- a bottom line which focuses and drives even the little boring shit that is necessary to finish up and polish an OS. Instead of having 14 half-done apps that you can probably use to get stuff done with overall, would't it be nice-- just once-- to have a single _finished_ app that just did the job? I think that's my major complaint with open-source in general. As much as I like it and use it everyday, I really wish sometimes that I could just sit down and not have to worry about which combination of stuff I'm going to have to cobble together to get something done. (And I'm a good cobbler-- just blowing off some steam I guess
Forget force-feed gloves... what the world REALLY needs is a good force-feed condom!
Well, it won't really be film will it? More like Boobievision.
Its not impossible. That's how it got started in the first place. There are other ways to do it, they just require cooperation. And there, I'm afraid, is much of the rub.
Have you seen the price of gas lately? Or the increased property taxes? Or the latest toll hikes to supposedly fund new roads (like that's ever going to happen), or the increased cost of food, fuel, hvac, and evetything else.... who has a quarter?
It could cause some serious havok if the cart happened to stop rolling right in front of a car that had only slowed down to let it pass.
The Aliens Lived.
They're now serving in Congress and the Bush Whitehouse.
A couple of them went a different direction and started Fox News
3D Porn.... you just _knew_ it was coming, didn't ya???
They're too busy trying to survive.
There was the Fantastic Fuse.
The RIAA itself violates copyrights in its search for alleged violators. They claim they have investigators who snooop through potential violators systems and actually LISTEN to music / media files found on that system. THEY THEMSELVES are guilty of copyright violation for EVERY INSTANCE of viewing or listening to a song or media file they do NOT have copy rights (ownership or stewardship) over. If they listen to ONE family sing-along, or watch ONE family vacation outing, the RIAA and its investigators are IMMEDIATELY guilty of what they are alledging of others. One wonders if it would be possible to tell the RIAA to go SUE itself...??