Re: [CGUYS] Risk Aversion [was: Ars- Future of Driving]

2008-10-19 Thread b_s-wilk
We are actually very, very close to eliminating the individually-operated automobile. The GPS stuff works and is rapidly improving. (So glad that MS does not make a GPS!) Collision avoidance still has a way to go. Today we do use cruise control with no collision avoidance. (Is that a good idea?

Re: [CGUYS] delayed posts

2008-10-19 Thread Eric S. Sande
Why are some of the posts delayed. Yesterday I received a lot of them dated October 14 and a few dated October 15. Today I received a lot dated October 15. I've also received posts dated October 17, 18, as well as today, but I have not received the post I sent out yesterday concerning these

Re: [CGUYS] delayed posts

2008-10-19 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
Best guess is that your mail provider is slowing things down. Could be spam filters not looking kindly on things like list serves. I've had no problem on gmail with delays. I would try an experiment by starting a subscription to this list to something like a gmail account and comparing the resul

[CGUYS] delayed posts

2008-10-19 Thread Stephen Brownfield
Why are some of the posts delayed. Yesterday I received a lot of them dated October 14 and a few dated October 15. Today I received a lot dated October 15. I've also received posts dated October 17, 18, as well as today, but I have not received the post I sent out yesterday concerning these

Re: [CGUYS] Risk Aversion [was: Ars- Future of Driving]

2008-10-19 Thread Steve Rigby
On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Almost everything you list are things that would make life better. Less government intrusion. Who said that government would NOT run these automated transport systems? I merely asked the question of who would. I did not suggest that g

Re: [CGUYS] Windows Media Player question

2008-10-19 Thread Stephen Brownfield
My friend also has a hearing problem. Maybe instead of trying slow the file down, we can play with the tone adjustments. I'll let you know if that works. Steve Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: That is a good point. I have hearing problems, and I have a hard time hearing certain ranges of voic

Re: [CGUYS] Ballmer on What's Wrong With Macs

2008-10-19 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
A link to an apropos comic from todays out of town funnies. http://www.gocomics.com/ziggy/2008/10/19 Now that is a user surely computer experience. On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331368,00.asp > > Ballmer ticks off

Re: [CGUYS] DC voting (was: MS-tastic)

2008-10-19 Thread Eric S. Sande
What the hell does this thread have to do with "MS-tastic?" Don't know but it is entertaining. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at htt

Re: [CGUYS] Risk Aversion [was: Ars- Future of Driving]

2008-10-19 Thread Tom Piwowar
Almost everything you list are things that would make life better. Less government intrusion. Fewer accidents, pain, and death. No more getting ripped off by insurance companies. Less need for police to waste time on minor stuff. The ability to live life drunk all the time. Etc. This would lowe

Re: [CGUYS] Risk Aversion [was: Ars- Future of Driving]

2008-10-19 Thread Steve Rigby
On Oct 19, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Gosh, you are right. This is obviously a huge Communist plot to destroy life as we know it. This is even worse than the time when all the sanitation workers who scooped up manure lost their jobs. I was actually trying to be a bit serious, n

Re: [CGUYS] DC voting (was: MS-tastic)

2008-10-19 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Limited budget, my foot. >The DC school system has about the highest per student expenditure in >the US. The DC Mayor got control of the schools and installed the new super last year. She found the system rife with abuse and fraud. She fired lots of administrators. School performance is gettin

Re: [CGUYS] Risk Aversion [was: Ars- Future of Driving]

2008-10-19 Thread Tom Piwowar
Gosh, you are right. This is obviously a huge Communist plot to destroy life as we know it. This is even worse than the time when all the sanitation workers who scooped up manure lost their jobs. > All this talk of computers operating the car instead of a driver >brings me to some obvious q

Re: [CGUYS] Eleanor Holmes Norton

2008-10-19 Thread Chris Dunford
> She represents the best of the best. I happen to disagree with her > on some issues but I totally respect her efforts and service. > > >Do they think it is a birth rite [sic]? > > No, she worked her ass off to get where she is, as we did. More importantly, she is the only Congressperson this

[CGUYS] Eleanor Holmes Norton

2008-10-19 Thread Eric S. Sande
I thought dynastic rule ended with the abolishing of the Monarchy. Well, America doesn't have a nobility per se but it does have a ruling class. Why is it some names constantly turn up generation after generation? Well, that's a hard one. My Mother and Father attended Antioch College and th

Re: [CGUYS] DC voting (was: MS-tastic)

2008-10-19 Thread Eric S. Sande
You don't even support her move to exempt DC residents from Federal taxes? Should we not at least get the same terms as other non-voting US colonies? Assume that I do support some of her positions. I believe I said that she is an effective representative. *