Watching tv. Classic movies. I have never seen the Day The Earth Stood Still. ( Original of course) Got the the scene in the elevator and cable went out. Now THAT made jump. Took several months until I found it on again and got watch the ending.
"Audio" USB cables. Well Schiit, who makes DACS says do not use them. They can actually cause problems. Just get a good 1 Meter USB-2 certified cable. You mean a $3000 cable won't make my $99 DAC sound better? Now where is that pack of foil triangles...
I have never seen a UFO, but that does not mean they don't exist. All I know is the one comment my dad said about when he was stationed at W.P. in Foreign Technologies. He mentioned "Those folks across the hall in Blue Book had some really weird stuff going on" Personally I am not i a hurry to meet aliens. We have enough wierdo's here. I could tell you where but that would be political, though when I was visiting Berkley on TDY a few years ago, I did actually see a guy with a foil hat. Must have been to protect him from the ALS.
Some theories never die. One is that some guy invented the intermittent windshield wiper and Ford basically stole it. They even made a movie about it. Well everyone with an MG knows Lucas invented intermittent wipers. And lights, and starters...
"Audio" USB cables. Well Schiit, who makes DACS says do not use them. They can actually cause problems. Just get a good 1 Meter USB-2 certified cable. You mean a $3000 cable won't make my $99 DAC sound better? Now where is that pack of foil triangles...
I have never seen a UFO, but that does not mean they don't exist. All I know is the one comment my dad said about when he was stationed at W.P. in Foreign Technologies. He mentioned "Those folks across the hall in Blue Book had some really weird stuff going on" Personally I am not i a hurry to meet aliens. We have enough wierdo's here. I could tell you where but that would be political, though when I was visiting Berkley on TDY a few years ago, I did actually see a guy with a foil hat. Must have been to protect him from the ALS.
Some theories never die. One is that some guy invented the intermittent windshield wiper and Ford basically stole it. They even made a movie about it. Well everyone with an MG knows Lucas invented intermittent wipers. And lights, and starters...
The Day the Earth Stood Still scared the CRAP out of me as a little kid.
Do the Brits still use Lucas refrigerators to keep their beer warm? (can't beat the classics, heh)
Do the Brits still use Lucas refrigerators to keep their beer warm? (can't beat the classics, heh)
There are whole websites dedicated to 'Lucas, prince of darkness'. I particularly liked the ebay spoof ad for genuine replacement lucas wiring loom smoke.
I had one of those, in 750cc form...trust me, probably the poorest example of all the bikes I've had...vibrated horrifically, so much so, I tried a long distance tour (300+ miles?)...almost passed out at one gas-station (one of many). The power-band was so bad, a big headwind can drop you out of the power-band forcing a downshift, so there you are rowing up & down the gearbox at 62 MPH, the lack of torque...
The saying goes "never meet your heroes", you no doubt will be disappointed.
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Is that a triple cylinder 2 stroke?!?
Mine died, and I shoehorned a 750 triple cylinder two stroke into.the old 500cc frame.
Fine, as long as I I rode leaning over the front forks!
Most fun I had until a Yamaha VMax
Don’t get caught in Georgia behind the wheel w/a phone in either hand - first time is pretty big fine.
Cops, first responders, fireman, and by a couple of exceptions, utility eg phone or power. But I know for a fact, the phone and power companies don’t allow under ANY conditions. AT&T, subject to local practice, may or may NOT allow using Bluetooth/hands free to talk!
I agree w/ Georgia. I have a bike license but God still has plans for me @ 63 so I don’t ride.
I proposed an idea a long while ago about cellphone use in cars....
And, perhaps, it's a little bit rough, forced, but if designed right, would've possibly saved countless lives..
Automakers would have to be the ones involved in this...
You put the car in any gear, and it automatically blocks any cell service inside the car.
No incoming call interuptions either - you just concentrate on the road, sorry.
The only way it allows cell use is in park, or neutral.
The same goes for those "in the dash" fancy phone apps.
The only other exceptions would be for law enforcement or emergency vehicles.
Bottom line? - you pull the hell over and put the car in park,...... then make your call.
And, perhaps, it's a little bit rough, forced, but if designed right, would've possibly saved countless lives..
Automakers would have to be the ones involved in this...
You put the car in any gear, and it automatically blocks any cell service inside the car.
No incoming call interuptions either - you just concentrate on the road, sorry.
The only way it allows cell use is in park, or neutral.
The same goes for those "in the dash" fancy phone apps.
The only other exceptions would be for law enforcement or emergency vehicles.
Bottom line? - you pull the hell over and put the car in park,...... then make your call.
I have a feeling that the problem has a lot more to do with actually implementing it in a way that can't easily be bypassed. To do so would require really good cooperation between cell phone manufacturers and car manufacturers.
Then it will receiver MASSIVE pushback from the American public because it intrudes on their "freedoms". Or more accurately, that is the excuse they will make to get around something they don't like.
As an example, there's a group at my local university with a petition saying that a lockdown browser for online exams interferes with their "freedom". It shouldn't take a genius to see through that argument. Another example came this year when my university mandated multi-factor authentication for university accounts. I've never seen so many people so furious over something so small. It's a minor inconvenience, sure, but people were essentially protesting.
So it's not a bad idea, but it's not going to be an easy one to implement. There's also an engineering challenge: It ABSOLUTELY has to disable itself in the event of an accident. That suddenly falls into the complicated category of trying to get repeatability out of equipment that is being physically damaged.
Given that, on freeways in America I see people putting on makeup, shaving, eating, overtaking in any lane and considering use of indicators as a sign of weakness, that phone use is just one more on the list.
Those recent posts since my post #14329 are all testament to the fact that society has gotten far too adamant against listening and following rules.
Like stubborn, brattish children, who didn't get the candy they want.
I'm certainly not against freedoms, but when abuse of such things becomes an issue concerning others lives, some form of mandates, legislations are needed, regardless.
Like stubborn, brattish children, who didn't get the candy they want.
I'm certainly not against freedoms, but when abuse of such things becomes an issue concerning others lives, some form of mandates, legislations are needed, regardless.
How many people refused to wear seatbelts until it was law. And even then car manufacturers had to make 'auto belts' in some cases as people wouldn't.
People have not followed rules since rules were invented. You really need to take off the grumpy old man glasses on occasion.
People have not followed rules since rules were invented. You really need to take off the grumpy old man glasses on occasion.
Does this mean that a passenger should also never be allowed to make a call? Even to report a road hazard, accident or drunk driver? How would you distinguish between a phone being used by a driver vs. a passenger?
What about a conversation between the driver and passenger? Plenty of opportunity for distraction there. Is it any better (or worse) than using a hands-free phone interface built into the car?
How do you feel about changing a radio station on the fly? Or playing a radio at all? Does music keep you awake and alert on a long drive, or pull your attention away from the primary task of driving? I find either one of those can be the case, depending on distance, traffic and my personal state of fatigue. I prefer to have my wife change stations (or more often now albums from music stored on a USB stick) so that I can just drive. In heavy traffic I go radio silent and concentrate on the road.
I fully support prohibiting the use of hand-held devices while driving, but trying to eliminate every possible distraction goes down a rabbit hole quickly. The only solution to that becomes fully autonomous or centrally controlled operation for all vehicles on the road. We're still a long way from that.
What about a conversation between the driver and passenger? Plenty of opportunity for distraction there. Is it any better (or worse) than using a hands-free phone interface built into the car?
How do you feel about changing a radio station on the fly? Or playing a radio at all? Does music keep you awake and alert on a long drive, or pull your attention away from the primary task of driving? I find either one of those can be the case, depending on distance, traffic and my personal state of fatigue. I prefer to have my wife change stations (or more often now albums from music stored on a USB stick) so that I can just drive. In heavy traffic I go radio silent and concentrate on the road.
I fully support prohibiting the use of hand-held devices while driving, but trying to eliminate every possible distraction goes down a rabbit hole quickly. The only solution to that becomes fully autonomous or centrally controlled operation for all vehicles on the road. We're still a long way from that.
Let's put it this way....
People can act responsibly, or not, and suffer the consequences.
It's their freedom of choice of course.
Operating a potentially deadly vehicle is no less of a responsibility than holding a firearm in public.
A lot of this has to do with upbringing as well as social pressures.
And since it appears that a substantial portion of society has been getting "sloppy" in that department, I've no qualms with dealing with fighting fire with fire.
After all, the sloppy part of society has brought all this concern on in the first place, and unfortunatly the rest of us must also pay.
People can act responsibly, or not, and suffer the consequences.
It's their freedom of choice of course.
Operating a potentially deadly vehicle is no less of a responsibility than holding a firearm in public.
A lot of this has to do with upbringing as well as social pressures.
And since it appears that a substantial portion of society has been getting "sloppy" in that department, I've no qualms with dealing with fighting fire with fire.
After all, the sloppy part of society has brought all this concern on in the first place, and unfortunatly the rest of us must also pay.
Enough with the grumpy old man glasses already.
I'm well aware of society's fluidity concerning rules, you can't expect everyone to abide by them.
I hate seatbelts myself, they're uncomfortable, particularly on long trips.
But those careless drivers have effected us all.
Face it, those rule-breakers have caused all this mess, blame them, not me.
Yeah right. Your generation was just as sloppy. And the generation before that, and the generation before that.
I'm not going to insist that this is a generational thing.
Sure, crimes have been going on for centuries.
But for the sake of time, it's odd that say, back in the 1960's, we didn't have the monumental criminal activity as today.
People generally had more respect for others then.
Friend of mine in school had a triple; a 350 I think. He rarely rode it farther than he was willing to push it back home.
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