first, we do behave like every other animal - we are born, we eat, we grow, we fuck, we reproduce, we die. Everything else is just window dressing.
secondly, If you believe in fairytales like Adam and Eve, then, OBVIOUSLY, they were the first couple to COME, because they were the first couple to FUCK. And COMING is one of the best parts of FUCKING.
Stupid Xian Trolls don't even know when they're being funny.
Most EU govs are not big enough or concerned enough to go after everyone on their "internet", unlike the scum sucking commie fascists who run China. So, wouldn't this be a fairly simple thing to route around? I could imagine some country that is much more progressive, say, Finland, might say "heck - we don't care - route anything you want here...." and that might result in some conflicts (pr0n.com vs. pr0n.erg vs. pr0n.ylr vs. what ever funky suffices (suffae? suffi? suffixes?) they come up with for DNS) but I imagine it would get sorted out, and then ISPs in that country would stand to make a pile, as their servers would be universal, not just limited to the USA, or Italy, or China.
I know China has a Great Firewall worthy of the last Wall they built, but they are actively interested in keeping their people in the dark about their government's thuggery. Most European Governments aren't quite so interested or even very vigilant about such suppression tactics of their citizens.
So I wonder if any of this will really matter, as it would likely be easily worked around?
This means that the music will be encrypted/DRM'd at the microphone and then routed to your speaker, but only if you've paid the RIAA thier extortion. Circumventing it will fall under DMCA as a felony. And don't give me the hacker crap of "The speakers will be analogue, so we can tap the signal there" - sure - You Can Do That, and fuck up a really expensive set of speakers AND set yourself up for a felony under DMCA. If Polk/Bose/B&W/Dynaudio/Infinity/Sony/Panasonic/etc . all get on board with this, it WILL SUCK.
I've been predicting this all for years - I just didn't think it would come this soon...
may have been off on the timing of the official announcement, but in 1997 I was hearing about Avid reps telling all their customers that they had to move to NT. One friend of mine asked his Avid salesman about compatibility with the Mac, and was told "nobody has to be compatible with the Mac anymore". This customer replied: "YOU have to be compatible with your INSTALLED BASE, asshole."
1997? I don't think so. I was working at Macromedia and was brought into Apple to work with the FCP team from there on. I remember when FCP (back then called "Key Grip") was bought - it was Spring 1998, and I started at Apple around May 98. We announced ourselves at NAB in 1999 - april, IIRC. anyway - that was the same show where AVID announced their ditching the Mac Platform. There's an article on it HERE. The move to buy Key Grip/FCP from Macromedia started waaaay back - the scuttlebutt was talks started around Xmas 1997.
I *specifically* remember our team (FCP dev) being lectured/hectored by Mr Steve himself. we asked him if we were going to charge $10 - 20k for FCP, (presumabley packaged with a Targa card or somesuch) which would undercut AVID by more than $100,000 a shot, and he replied - "no- we're charging $999." The team almost shit our collective pants. I remember this almost verbatim: "I don't care if you people lose money. Your mission is to sell computers. Period."
I was there, chief. Seriously. FCP's development was a pro-active move by Apple. Apple/Steve saw an opportunity - with the advent of MiniDV, any shmoe could shoot some VERY high quality video, and the only app out there that was remotely affordable was Premiere, and it was a roiling turd. With the 350 mHz Yosemite and the G4 in the pipeline, it was clear that power wasn't the problem in editing DV - the problem was AVID's heinous pricing on the one end and Premiere's abyssmal quality on the other. Perfect placement: make it a *little* more expensive than Premiere but with the quality you expect from AVID. The result? Premiere lay in (much deserved) ruins, and AVID gets sawed off at the knees.
The strategy worked, but the problem is: Adobe and AVID are not passive actors - they have their own agenda, and it Does Not Include Apple (in the long term). As long as it is profitable for them to support the apple platform, they will make products for it, but as Apple continues to fumble the education market, its slice of the pie will continue to shrink, unless Steve has some brilliant idea as to how to bypass it all. Such an end run strategy would not surprise me, but I don't see the evidence. all I see is Apple going the way of SGI, only with cheaper boxen.
I *sincerely* hope that is not the case, but the evidence isn't there to dispute that.
FCP exists because Avid announced their intention to abandon the Mac platform.
Actually, you're incorrect. AVID annouced their abandonment of the Mac platform AFTER FCP was developed, and was in direct reaction to FCP. I remember this well, because I was at Apple working on FCP when this all went down. Apple developed FCP in order to sell Macintosh computers, much as the iTMS exists to sell iPods. How do I know this? Steve Said So, back in 1998.
Your point is well taken - but it misses what I'm pointing at. I completely agree with you and everyone else: Premiere is a ROILING TURD of an application, and only recently became "tolerable" as an editing environment. Of course, I haven't edited anything in it that's longer than 5 minutes because to this day I don't trust their ability to keep their shit in sync.
After FCP basically ATE Premiere's lunch (especially with the low end version of FCP which only sold for what - $300 or something?) Adobe had to re-appraise its position in the Mac market. They quickly figured out that they could milk AE for a while on the MAc - once again, as I said : People Use What They Learn, and AE was the only vaguely affordable game in town for quite a while, so AE was "It" on the Mac or othherwise. Once there was significant competition for AE and AE plug-ins, Adobe came up with a Long Term Strategy of moving their media apps off the Mac platform. With Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, they will have fewer reservations in flexing their muscles. Of course - that will make them a target for MS... and that's an idea that really makes me shudder...
True that Maya is the best 3D on the Mac, but the Mac is NOT the best platform for 3D, nor is Maya the best 3D app. And if you're doing industrial design or architecture, you're pretty well fucked - Autodesk and the PC is the only direction available.
You are correct: FCP ate Premiere's Lunch, and rightly so - Premiere 4 (which is where it was at the time of FCP 1) was a roiling turd. Avid was not inferior technology: just wildly overpriced.
The problem is this, and I've seen it happening on other fronts behind the scenes: It's very clear that Apple has the better OS. However, they keep insisting on eating their developers. IIRC, there was a search engine that was better than Sherlock, and Apple went and co-opted it, for example. There is a kind of lingering distrust and resentment. Pro level 3D apps are WAY too expensive to develop, and the market is WAY too small. And Apple can't seem to get the best and fastest video cards in their machines, which makes developing for the Apple Platform a "problem".
It's true that Apple is selling piles of gear for Maya, but it's a fraction of what moves on the Windows platform. Adobe is ALSO i nthe game to make money, and they're not just spiting the owner of the Apple RDF, they're seeding hundreds of art schools with the Adobe Video solution, which only runs on Windows. The net result? People use what they learn on...
Right now I am teaching at a mid-level art school and the pressure to conform is Great. It's not a pretty sight. Apple is beig cornered into the "Photoshop / Dreamweaver / Flash / InDesign" corner and while FCP rulez, our dept. is all AVID all the time and all PC...
I'm not saying Apple's days are numbered, but they really need to counter the movement in education. They used to rule the roost, but now it's not the case... And: people use what they learn on. That's what killed FreeHand, and what is killing Quark.
RS
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when they came up with Final Cut Pro.
The video monsters collected their strengths and are now slowly pulling the wings off of Apple. First Adobe cut Premiere off of Apple, and now their video suite is Windows only. Next thing, Autodesk buys Alias. Bye bye Maya. More will soon follow.
The future of Apple? SGI.
It doesn't have to be this way, but that's the way it's going. Bummer, 'cuz I love Apple machines.
RS
I think Kurzweil's a complete idiot, but for many different reasons. One thing that is completely beyond his argument and something he, and the rest of his techno-fetishist ilk, always miss is the Energy Side of the equation. EVEN IF we can make such machines (which I am firmly convinced we can't) we simply haven't got the energy to maintain a society sufficiently developed to keep such high technology going.
From what I can gather, we'll be lucky to avoid living in CAVES in 500 years. (I do think the Olduvai Theory can be avoided - but it'll take the likes of Kurzweil inventing sustainable technologies and a decimated human population to do it.)
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MSN and AOL team up? Yeah - there's a marriage made in heaven. How'd you like to be the poor stiff in Bangalore sorting out the crap that's certain to result?
Caller: Hi. I have MSN and my AOL account doesn't work. In fact nothing works.
Banglaore Tech: And sir did you turn the computer on sir?
Caller: Oh. right.
Bangalore Tech: Very good sir. Now kindly go fuck yourself sir. Thank you for calling MSN/AOL tech support, you knuckle dragging imperialist asswipe sir.
Seriously - DON'T ask permission! Just make the station and broadcast important information for your audience.
One thing I learned a LONG time ago is: it's easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission. NEVER ask permission. Just go and do what yo u have to do. If some one doesn't like it, then OH WELL - deal with it.
ANd when you're in a completely INSANE situation, like Nawlinz, I am QUITE certain tha the FCC will NOT be monitoring the situation. And if they are, and shut you down, the political reprecussions would FAR out weigh whatever limited gain these ass-munching freaks would benefit from shutting your ass down.
The classic Win95=Mac89 structure still holds. Apple innovates, Microsoft copies the idea and bungles it in its own uniquely retarded way.
I just spent 3 hours last night helping a friend put a new CD burner in his eMachines WinXP box. Fuckin' nightmare. Still doesn't work right. I put a new CD burner in an OSX box I have on my desk here at work this morning, and it only took 1/2 an hour - it works fine and dandy - and I took a few minutes in the middle of it all for an emergency bout of bodily waste excretion.
Steaming heap of hot buttered groat clusters...My MYYYyyyyyyy...
So, spend sleepless and often fruitless hours wrangling with the nightmare that is Windows, or, spend 1/2 an hour of simplicity itself, with enough time to take a good healthy shit and read the front page of the newspaper... I'll take the Bog - it might be full of shit, "but it's really great shit, Mrs Presky..."
I think New Orleans may be the first "National Sacrifice" area in the new Warmer Earth. Regardless of WHY the planet is warming, the fact is, IT IS, and places like New Orleans and Holland are going to get fucked.
So, DON'T LIVE THERE.
Especially as Energy increases in price, these kinds of disasters will become increasingly difficult to recover from. Since "New" Orleans can't be New New Orleans, maybe we can rebuilt it farther upstream and on higher ground, and call it something like "Big Easytown" or "Steaming Shithole for stupid alkies"... or something more whimsical like MardiGrasVille....
RS
Re:...the same features we delivered seven years a
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Another *huge* benefit is that you can do massive batch processes without depending on a GUI app supporting it. If I have a command line tool that converts TIFF -> PNG or whatever, I can do tiff2png *.tiff *.png and be done with it.
Or, you fire up Photoshop and run/build a script in it, changing the file types and names, and be done with it, without having to resort to some arcane outmoded notion of what constitutes a computing experience.
Yahoo and SBC are in bed together with their DSL package - sbcglobal. SBC supplies the phone lines, Yahoo supplies the net. Subverting the bread and butter of their partner would be sheer suicide.
Thus this future collision will actually help produce new spirals. It is considered possible that the rotation of the galaxy will wind up the spirals so much they will disappear over time.
That's not my understanding. What I've read and seen, is that the larger Andromeda Galaxy will plow through the MilkyWay, tearing both apart, with some of the galactic arms being shorn off and dismemebered and tossed into intergalactic space, with the two larger destroyed galaxies colliding again and then collapsing into a giant active galaxy, similar to M87.
What's left and flung out of the galactic collision would be of little consequence, as it would be stripped of most gas and not be able to do any second generation star formation.
Of course, that's all goign to happen in about 4 billion years, and only about 18 billion years after that the whole fucking shithouse is going to go to flinders thanks to the BIG RIP.
In regards to a similar article last week, I posted my own personal results on what I found when I did a search on Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva.
Google not only gave MORE results, it gave BETTER results. The only bad results were some hairsplitting (if largely well meant) from fellow/.ers... (I mentioned Tuva as a suburb of Mongolia, and while it IS a part of the Russian Federation, it is Much More Mongolian than Russian. And if the rising tide of neoNazi scum in Russia get their way, Tuva could easily be cut adrift into the Mongolian/Chinese orbit...but I digress...)
The essential point is: Which Does the Job Better For Me? Google. Therefore, I use Google. Assuming the Copernican position that I am not atypical, I would therefore extrapolate that this is very true for most other people as well. Which means that Yahoo has a LONG way to go and A LOT more work to do.
Well well well - looks like we have a first class fool here.
You posted this, and then I am fairly certain that you posted the follow-up below, even though it was under "Anonymous Coward" (which I think is a much more accurate assessment of what passes for your own personal integrity - but I digress...)
1. I am NOT a hippie. Never have been, never will be. Not even close - so kindly FUCK OFF, dickweed.
2. I said "Live the Future Now" and you went on some non-sequitor about Global Warming. Whatever. Hello- we're talking about resource consumption here this evening - not Global Warming - can we please keep your gnat-like attention focused on one topic for more than half a sentence? Thank you. I knon you can do it if you apply yourself.
3. You said "You seem to be a non driving type, enjoy your moped."
A moped is a gas powered vehicle - it's just a super light weight motorcycle. If I were a non-driving type, I wouldn't drive a moped, either, you stupid fuck.
4. Who's forcing WHOSE VIEWS on WHOM? Sure- you like to drive your third rate sports car and burn gobs of gas - but you have to realise: YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. You are not part of the solution. And when we slide down the other side of the oil peak, you will suffer. Badly. Because you will likely be living in a suburb where all basic facilities (food, clothing, work) are only accessible by motor vehicle. And Motor vehicles are going to very quickly become a thing of the past, and the only suburbs that will survive are those that are organised around train systems, and have viable downtowns near the train system.
There will be some vehicles - bio-diesel mopeds etc. but that's about it. Your Piece Of Crap Mitsubishi (don't EVEN go there - everyone on the planet knows what kind of CRAP the Eclipse is) and the lifestyle you here advocate will be seen as an excrescence, a cancerous growth, that was done away with.
Now kindly go get a life or something resembling it. I don't normally respond to flamebait like you, but I'm feelin' cheeeeeeky...
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secondly, If you believe in fairytales like Adam and Eve, then, OBVIOUSLY, they were the first couple to COME, because they were the first couple to FUCK. And COMING is one of the best parts of FUCKING.
Stupid Xian Trolls don't even know when they're being funny.
RS
I know China has a Great Firewall worthy of the last Wall they built, but they are actively interested in keeping their people in the dark about their government's thuggery. Most European Governments aren't quite so interested or even very vigilant about such suppression tactics of their citizens.
So I wonder if any of this will really matter, as it would likely be easily worked around?
Or am I missing something?
Cheers to all.
RS
I've been predicting this all for years - I just didn't think it would come this soon...
RS
may have been off on the timing of the official announcement, but in 1997 I was hearing about Avid reps telling all their customers that they had to move to NT. One friend of mine asked his Avid salesman about compatibility with the Mac, and was told "nobody has to be compatible with the Mac anymore". This customer replied: "YOU have to be compatible with your INSTALLED BASE, asshole."
1997? I don't think so. I was working at Macromedia and was brought into Apple to work with the FCP team from there on. I remember when FCP (back then called "Key Grip") was bought - it was Spring 1998, and I started at Apple around May 98. We announced ourselves at NAB in 1999 - april, IIRC. anyway - that was the same show where AVID announced their ditching the Mac Platform. There's an article on it HERE. The move to buy Key Grip/FCP from Macromedia started waaaay back - the scuttlebutt was talks started around Xmas 1997.
I *specifically* remember our team (FCP dev) being lectured/hectored by Mr Steve himself. we asked him if we were going to charge $10 - 20k for FCP, (presumabley packaged with a Targa card or somesuch) which would undercut AVID by more than $100,000 a shot, and he replied - "no- we're charging $999." The team almost shit our collective pants. I remember this almost verbatim: "I don't care if you people lose money. Your mission is to sell computers. Period."
I was there, chief. Seriously. FCP's development was a pro-active move by Apple. Apple/Steve saw an opportunity - with the advent of MiniDV, any shmoe could shoot some VERY high quality video, and the only app out there that was remotely affordable was Premiere, and it was a roiling turd. With the 350 mHz Yosemite and the G4 in the pipeline, it was clear that power wasn't the problem in editing DV - the problem was AVID's heinous pricing on the one end and Premiere's abyssmal quality on the other. Perfect placement: make it a *little* more expensive than Premiere but with the quality you expect from AVID. The result? Premiere lay in (much deserved) ruins, and AVID gets sawed off at the knees.
The strategy worked, but the problem is: Adobe and AVID are not passive actors - they have their own agenda, and it Does Not Include Apple (in the long term). As long as it is profitable for them to support the apple platform, they will make products for it, but as Apple continues to fumble the education market, its slice of the pie will continue to shrink, unless Steve has some brilliant idea as to how to bypass it all. Such an end run strategy would not surprise me, but I don't see the evidence. all I see is Apple going the way of SGI, only with cheaper boxen.
I *sincerely* hope that is not the case, but the evidence isn't there to dispute that.
cheers,
RS
FCP exists because Avid announced their intention to abandon the Mac platform.
Actually, you're incorrect. AVID annouced their abandonment of the Mac platform AFTER FCP was developed, and was in direct reaction to FCP. I remember this well, because I was at Apple working on FCP when this all went down. Apple developed FCP in order to sell Macintosh computers, much as the iTMS exists to sell iPods. How do I know this? Steve Said So, back in 1998.
RS
After FCP basically ATE Premiere's lunch (especially with the low end version of FCP which only sold for what - $300 or something?) Adobe had to re-appraise its position in the Mac market. They quickly figured out that they could milk AE for a while on the MAc - once again, as I said : People Use What They Learn, and AE was the only vaguely affordable game in town for quite a while, so AE was "It" on the Mac or othherwise. Once there was significant competition for AE and AE plug-ins, Adobe came up with a Long Term Strategy of moving their media apps off the Mac platform. With Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, they will have fewer reservations in flexing their muscles. Of course - that will make them a target for MS... and that's an idea that really makes me shudder...
True that Maya is the best 3D on the Mac, but the Mac is NOT the best platform for 3D, nor is Maya the best 3D app. And if you're doing industrial design or architecture, you're pretty well fucked - Autodesk and the PC is the only direction available.
Here's an idea: Apple should buy Autodesk!
=:-0
best,
RS
The problem is this, and I've seen it happening on other fronts behind the scenes: It's very clear that Apple has the better OS. However, they keep insisting on eating their developers. IIRC, there was a search engine that was better than Sherlock, and Apple went and co-opted it, for example. There is a kind of lingering distrust and resentment. Pro level 3D apps are WAY too expensive to develop, and the market is WAY too small. And Apple can't seem to get the best and fastest video cards in their machines, which makes developing for the Apple Platform a "problem".
It's true that Apple is selling piles of gear for Maya, but it's a fraction of what moves on the Windows platform. Adobe is ALSO i nthe game to make money, and they're not just spiting the owner of the Apple RDF, they're seeding hundreds of art schools with the Adobe Video solution, which only runs on Windows. The net result? People use what they learn on...
Right now I am teaching at a mid-level art school and the pressure to conform is Great. It's not a pretty sight. Apple is beig cornered into the "Photoshop / Dreamweaver / Flash / InDesign" corner and while FCP rulez, our dept. is all AVID all the time and all PC...
I'm not saying Apple's days are numbered, but they really need to counter the movement in education. They used to rule the roost, but now it's not the case... And: people use what they learn on. That's what killed FreeHand, and what is killing Quark.
RS
when they came up with Final Cut Pro. The video monsters collected their strengths and are now slowly pulling the wings off of Apple. First Adobe cut Premiere off of Apple, and now their video suite is Windows only. Next thing, Autodesk buys Alias. Bye bye Maya. More will soon follow. The future of Apple? SGI. It doesn't have to be this way, but that's the way it's going. Bummer, 'cuz I love Apple machines. RS
From what I can gather, we'll be lucky to avoid living in CAVES in 500 years. (I do think the Olduvai Theory can be avoided - but it'll take the likes of Kurzweil inventing sustainable technologies and a decimated human population to do it.)
RS
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Caller: Hi. I have MSN and my AOL account doesn't work. In fact nothing works.
Banglaore Tech: And sir did you turn the computer on sir?
Caller: Oh. right.
Bangalore Tech: Very good sir. Now kindly go fuck yourself sir. Thank you for calling MSN/AOL tech support, you knuckle dragging imperialist asswipe sir.
RS
RS
One thing I learned a LONG time ago is: it's easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission. NEVER ask permission. Just go and do what yo u have to do. If some one doesn't like it, then OH WELL - deal with it.
ANd when you're in a completely INSANE situation, like Nawlinz, I am QUITE certain tha the FCC will NOT be monitoring the situation. And if they are, and shut you down, the political reprecussions would FAR out weigh whatever limited gain these ass-munching freaks would benefit from shutting your ass down.
RS
Yeah - I think that's why.
RS
RS
Microsoft would lose its R&D department.
The classic Win95=Mac89 structure still holds. Apple innovates, Microsoft copies the idea and bungles it in its own uniquely retarded way.
I just spent 3 hours last night helping a friend put a new CD burner in his eMachines WinXP box. Fuckin' nightmare. Still doesn't work right. I put a new CD burner in an OSX box I have on my desk here at work this morning, and it only took 1/2 an hour - it works fine and dandy - and I took a few minutes in the middle of it all for an emergency bout of bodily waste excretion.
Steaming heap of hot buttered groat clusters...My MYYYyyyyyyy...
So, spend sleepless and often fruitless hours wrangling with the nightmare that is Windows, or, spend 1/2 an hour of simplicity itself, with enough time to take a good healthy shit and read the front page of the newspaper... I'll take the Bog - it might be full of shit, "but it's really great shit, Mrs Presky..."
RS
I think New Orleans may be the first "National Sacrifice" area in the new Warmer Earth. Regardless of WHY the planet is warming, the fact is, IT IS, and places like New Orleans and Holland are going to get fucked.
So, DON'T LIVE THERE.
Especially as Energy increases in price, these kinds of disasters will become increasingly difficult to recover from. Since "New" Orleans can't be New New Orleans, maybe we can rebuilt it farther upstream and on higher ground, and call it something like "Big Easytown" or "Steaming Shithole for stupid alkies"... or something more whimsical like MardiGrasVille....
RS
Another *huge* benefit is that you can do massive batch processes without depending on a GUI app supporting it. If I have a command line tool that converts TIFF -> PNG or whatever, I can do tiff2png *.tiff *.png and be done with it.
Or, you fire up Photoshop and run/build a script in it, changing the file types and names, and be done with it, without having to resort to some arcane outmoded notion of what constitutes a computing experience.
RS
Ain't. Gonna. Happen.
RS
That's not my understanding. What I've read and seen, is that the larger Andromeda Galaxy will plow through the MilkyWay, tearing both apart, with some of the galactic arms being shorn off and dismemebered and tossed into intergalactic space, with the two larger destroyed galaxies colliding again and then collapsing into a giant active galaxy, similar to M87.
Simulation HERE
What's left and flung out of the galactic collision would be of little consequence, as it would be stripped of most gas and not be able to do any second generation star formation.
Of course, that's all goign to happen in about 4 billion years, and only about 18 billion years after that the whole fucking shithouse is going to go to flinders thanks to the BIG RIP.
RS
HW
I recently designed a website that has a cross fading slide show. On IE it crossfades, in FF it just shows the images in sequence with no crossfade.
There's one feature for ya.
RS
Google not only gave MORE results, it gave BETTER results. The only bad results were some hairsplitting (if largely well meant) from fellow /.ers... (I mentioned Tuva as a suburb of Mongolia, and while it IS a part of the Russian Federation, it is Much More Mongolian than Russian. And if the rising tide of neoNazi scum in Russia get their way, Tuva could easily be cut adrift into the Mongolian/Chinese orbit...but I digress...)
The essential point is: Which Does the Job Better For Me? Google. Therefore, I use Google. Assuming the Copernican position that I am not atypical, I would therefore extrapolate that this is very true for most other people as well. Which means that Yahoo has a LONG way to go and A LOT more work to do.
RS
You posted this, and then I am fairly certain that you posted the follow-up below, even though it was under "Anonymous Coward" (which I think is a much more accurate assessment of what passes for your own personal integrity - but I digress...)
1. I am NOT a hippie. Never have been, never will be. Not even close - so kindly FUCK OFF, dickweed.
2. I said "Live the Future Now" and you went on some non-sequitor about Global Warming. Whatever. Hello- we're talking about resource consumption here this evening - not Global Warming - can we please keep your gnat-like attention focused on one topic for more than half a sentence? Thank you. I knon you can do it if you apply yourself.
3. You said "You seem to be a non driving type, enjoy your moped."
A moped is a gas powered vehicle - it's just a super light weight motorcycle. If I were a non-driving type, I wouldn't drive a moped, either, you stupid fuck.
4. Who's forcing WHOSE VIEWS on WHOM? Sure- you like to drive your third rate sports car and burn gobs of gas - but you have to realise: YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. You are not part of the solution. And when we slide down the other side of the oil peak, you will suffer. Badly. Because you will likely be living in a suburb where all basic facilities (food, clothing, work) are only accessible by motor vehicle. And Motor vehicles are going to very quickly become a thing of the past, and the only suburbs that will survive are those that are organised around train systems, and have viable downtowns near the train system.
There will be some vehicles - bio-diesel mopeds etc. but that's about it. Your Piece Of Crap Mitsubishi (don't EVEN go there - everyone on the planet knows what kind of CRAP the Eclipse is) and the lifestyle you here advocate will be seen as an excrescence, a cancerous growth, that was done away with.
Now kindly go get a life or something resembling it. I don't normally respond to flamebait like you, but I'm feelin' cheeeeeeky...
RS
I want that audio... I can think of some really crazy shit to do with it...
RS