The easy low-cost fix is spring-loaded center punches.
Pedestrians should carry one in their pocket. When they see a stationary hybrid or RV, simply push it up against the windshield until it snaps and the windshield disintegrates.
The sucking sound of the air flow into the open windscreen will then provide an adequate warning sound.
This technique also works well SUVs and other annoyances.
EVs are annoying enough as it is. You're right that it would be a poor move to have them make some sound that would rapidly become known to all as 'the twit sound.'
Seriously, what happened to the libertarian Slashdot? This place has really gone left-of-center in a sort of scary way. Arguing in favor of government regulation of the media? Really surprising.
It's ten years later. The kids joining up here now were spoon-fed from early childhood by educators who went to college in the late 60's/early 70's. They have a rather warped perspective. I was an idiot in my youth, too. So I have great hopes for them.
Fox News is on cable. It doesn't use the airwaves. It is not regulated or licensed by the FCC. It would therefore not have been subject to the Fairness Doctrine.
Your point is valid right now, and I agree with it. However, and this is important to note, the whole 'Net Neutrality' movement poses the threat of changing this. Bringing the cable networks under government censorship (termed the 'Fairness Doctrine' for some reason) is one of the goals of these initiatives.
Little elves rolled out the coax for free. Because they were government elves. They didn't even need to be paid, they thrived on a diet of fairy dust and spider webs. The suppliers of the coax cable, mountain dwarves, spun the coax in their merry caves deep within the mountains. That has always been their way, and they, also, did not need to be paid.
You know, don't you, that to get connectivity to your new house, or the wire repaired that that windstorm knocked down, you need to fill out a "Form-2382" and hand deliver it (your net connection is down, remember?) to the big Federal building in the center of your closest big city. You can also send it by certified letter if that's more convenient.
It was not designed to be a bureaucrat steered enterprise.
Collaboration between freely competing companies is key to the Internet's existence.
If the Internet is reduced to a handful of quasi-independent 'companies' with the government's gun pointed at their heads, it's neither free nor competetive.
I'd agree if it weren't for the fact that these ISPs have monopolies in their areas. You address this, but the unfortunate reality is that's the situation we're stuck with.
You seriously think 'we are stuck with it' but that grandiose sounding rhetoric backed by more regulation by a Federal agency will be an improvement? Tear down the walls of regulation and eliminate the government-granted monopolies to carriers, and things will improve.
When you buy a Mac, you get the hardware plus OSX, iTunes, Time Machine, Mail, iChat, Safari, Front Row, GarageBand, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, etc....
I don't think anybody here is going to deny that due to the paucity of third party apps for their platform, Apple has felt obligated to provide an entire desktop stackup of apps to get people to buy their machine. It's good of them to not give people the 1984 Mac experience when MacPaint and MacWrite were about it. (and neither was a free bundle with the system)
I live in a semi-rural area, and I often go further out into the country to farm auctions.
Having a GPS to guide me there saves a heck of a lot of planning and shuffling around of maps. I used to use 'mapping' software on my PC for most of the same function, and I'd print out two or three scales of map to get me to the obscure locations.
I sort of pity people who only travel from big city to big city. They're sort of rushing past lots of interesting stuff. Though big cities can be interesting too.
The Tea Party folks are exactly the group within the Republicans who would get behind legalization.
You won't read about it much in the news, but part of the 'back to basics' about many of the Tea Partiers is to get over all the 'social conservative' bullshit and just get frickin' government off our backs.
The move to medicalize (is that a word?) marijuana will work against moves for industrial hemp. Cultivation will need to be taxed and controlled, just like alcohol. Part of the challenge for the government controllers is going to be that it's, well, a weed. Unlike tobacco, cultivation isn't confined to only a few special regions of land, and processing/curing isn't difficult either.
They're not going to want people growing hundreds of acres, even though growing operations of that scale would doubtless dilute the 'potency' anyway. It's just too easy for people to slip in a row or two of 'potent' weeds. It's too hard to control it and still allow cultivation on an industrial scale for fiber.
What we really need to figure out a use for is kudzu. Since that's pretty much all that we're going to be growing in whole regions before too long.
When 'the left' accuses someone of swiftboating many of us just chuckle.
Many of us believe the 'swiftboaters' were revealing John Kerry for what he is (a typical politician for whom the most dangerous thing you could do is get between him and a live camera, and one who viewed his time in Vietnam as a photo-op, which he jetted out of as soon as he had adequate footage)
Anyhow, for people who understand that about John Kerry, being accused of 'Swiftboating' is essentially being accused of exposing the truth about somebody.
So saying that 'Obama is being Swiftboated' for instance, means the claims being made about him are true.
Just thought that should be cleared up here where some of the kossite morons hang out and where they might have time to spread the word back to their cadre.
Uh, yeah. Citation needed. Why is it a struggle to rattle off a bunch of numbers like that and provide your source? Unless they were made up on-the-fly they came from somewhere.
How does it ever 'make sense' for adults to start having sex with children before they have reached puberty? It does not matter how short life expectancies are. Sex with children just isn't going to produce more children.
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The easy low-cost fix is spring-loaded center punches.
Pedestrians should carry one in their pocket. When they see a stationary hybrid or RV, simply push it up against the windshield until it snaps and the windshield disintegrates.
The sucking sound of the air flow into the open windscreen will then provide an adequate warning sound.
This technique also works well SUVs and other annoyances.
EVs are annoying enough as it is. You're right that it would be a poor move to have them make some sound that would rapidly become known to all as 'the twit sound.'
One of those Mattel 'Varoom' units that we used to bolt onto the frame of our bikes would do.
But they're probably highly collectible and hence out of the price range of most eBay bidders these days.
It says right in the summary that the dude is an EV fanboy.
He's a professor of Spanish
Let's be honest. He's a hybrid/EV fanboy.
It's essentially the same as a 'Linux is ready for the desktop' study by a fanboy.
No, real men program with a soldering iron, and a little wire cutters to occasionally snip diodes out of the array.
They're angry because they're established. Expensive suits. Exquisitely designed suites to work in.
It hurts when your whole business model is built on puff and people start figuring it out.
It's ten years later. The kids joining up here now were spoon-fed from early childhood by educators who went to college in the late 60's/early 70's. They have a rather warped perspective. I was an idiot in my youth, too. So I have great hopes for them.
Fox News is on cable. It doesn't use the airwaves. It is not regulated or licensed by the FCC. It would therefore not have been subject to the Fairness Doctrine.
Your point is valid right now, and I agree with it. However, and this is important to note, the whole 'Net Neutrality' movement poses the threat of changing this. Bringing the cable networks under government censorship (termed the 'Fairness Doctrine' for some reason) is one of the goals of these initiatives.
If it would get Al Franken out of Washington and back on the air, I'm all for it.
Little elves rolled out the coax for free. Because they were government elves. They didn't even need to be paid, they thrived on a diet of fairy dust and spider webs. The suppliers of the coax cable, mountain dwarves, spun the coax in their merry caves deep within the mountains. That has always been their way, and they, also, did not need to be paid.
You're kidding, right?
The problem isn't "Form-1891." It is "Form-2382."
You know, don't you, that to get connectivity to your new house, or the wire repaired that that windstorm knocked down, you need to fill out a "Form-2382" and hand deliver it (your net connection is down, remember?) to the big Federal building in the center of your closest big city. You can also send it by certified letter if that's more convenient.
It was not designed to be a bureaucrat steered enterprise.
Collaboration between freely competing companies is key to the Internet's existence.
If the Internet is reduced to a handful of quasi-independent 'companies' with the government's gun pointed at their heads, it's neither free nor competetive.
I'd agree if it weren't for the fact that these ISPs have monopolies in their areas. You address this, but the unfortunate reality is that's the situation we're stuck with.
You seriously think 'we are stuck with it' but that grandiose sounding rhetoric backed by more regulation by a Federal agency will be an improvement? Tear down the walls of regulation and eliminate the government-granted monopolies to carriers, and things will improve.
we leave regulation up to the internet
Whoops, your typo has the hidden answer in it.
Just tell the 'agencies' to butt out. No regulating needed.
To some of 'The Rest Of Us' he comes off as a smug marketing type.
Turtleneck dude KNOWS he is preaching to his choir.
It's good that you capitalized 'Designs' so we know you're using the word as a proper noun.
When you buy a Mac, you get the hardware plus OSX, iTunes, Time Machine, Mail, iChat, Safari, Front Row, GarageBand, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, etc....
I don't think anybody here is going to deny that due to the paucity of third party apps for their platform, Apple has felt obligated to provide an entire desktop stackup of apps to get people to buy their machine. It's good of them to not give people the 1984 Mac experience when MacPaint and MacWrite were about it. (and neither was a free bundle with the system)
I live in a semi-rural area, and I often go further out into the country to farm auctions.
Having a GPS to guide me there saves a heck of a lot of planning and shuffling around of maps. I used to use 'mapping' software on my PC for most of the same function, and I'd print out two or three scales of map to get me to the obscure locations.
I sort of pity people who only travel from big city to big city. They're sort of rushing past lots of interesting stuff. Though big cities can be interesting too.
The Tea Party folks are exactly the group within the Republicans who would get behind legalization.
You won't read about it much in the news, but part of the 'back to basics' about many of the Tea Partiers is to get over all the 'social conservative' bullshit and just get frickin' government off our backs.
The above is all the more reason to get working on rolling back the Interstate Commerce Clause.
Democracy works best when people are electing representatives close to home.
The move to medicalize (is that a word?) marijuana will work against moves for industrial hemp. Cultivation will need to be taxed and controlled, just like alcohol. Part of the challenge for the government controllers is going to be that it's, well, a weed. Unlike tobacco, cultivation isn't confined to only a few special regions of land, and processing/curing isn't difficult either.
They're not going to want people growing hundreds of acres, even though growing operations of that scale would doubtless dilute the 'potency' anyway. It's just too easy for people to slip in a row or two of 'potent' weeds. It's too hard to control it and still allow cultivation on an industrial scale for fiber.
What we really need to figure out a use for is kudzu. Since that's pretty much all that we're going to be growing in whole regions before too long.
When 'the left' accuses someone of swiftboating many of us just chuckle.
Many of us believe the 'swiftboaters' were revealing John Kerry for what he is (a typical politician for whom the most dangerous thing you could do is get between him and a live camera, and one who viewed his time in Vietnam as a photo-op, which he jetted out of as soon as he had adequate footage)
Anyhow, for people who understand that about John Kerry, being accused of 'Swiftboating' is essentially being accused of exposing the truth about somebody.
So saying that 'Obama is being Swiftboated' for instance, means the claims being made about him are true.
Just thought that should be cleared up here where some of the kossite morons hang out and where they might have time to spread the word back to their cadre.
She has demonstrated a complete lack of intelligence, the next most important quality of a leader.
WTF is a 'complete lack of intelligence' except for a rhetorical flourish. Please don't spam the discussions with meaningless hackneyed rhetoric.
Uh, yeah. Citation needed. Why is it a struggle to rattle off a bunch of numbers like that and provide your source? Unless they were made up on-the-fly they came from somewhere.
How does it ever 'make sense' for adults to start having sex with children before they have reached puberty? It does not matter how short life expectancies are. Sex with children just isn't going to produce more children.