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Comment Re:How can they be certain no one survived? (Score 1) 491

Would't there be a beacon of some sort from the plane or the escape equipment? A controlled landing in the ocean could possibly reduce the amount of debris, but the plane will sink at some point. Either way you are going to have a debris field of some size be it plane parts or people with life vests.

Comment Re:Obama (Score 1) 187

You win the removal of the Clover leaf (if the work is done right). One of the worst concepts to infest the highway system in this country. The only reason they are present is because 1: its cheap and 2: it was designed when 5 cars on the freeway was a high usage day. Many hours a day are spent with people trying to do the weave and then the slow speeds to go around it. Lets not forget the accidents that happen and clog the thing up in all directions.

Comment Re:Doesn't fix the problem (Score 1) 166

The problem with 2 wheeled transportation alternatives is the clothing

There, fixed.

"There is no such thing as inappropriate weather, only inappropriate clothing". Really, the weather is not offten the most limiting factor. It is the gear selection.

Bikes are unusable on ice or snow.covered roads

Skinny tires sink through the snow. Knobbies grip on top of the snow. Studded tires work great on ice, and have knobs for snow. Studded are the most expensive at $50 a tire, but only needed in winter and last for years.

You'd freeze when theres a wind chill of 20 below 0

Clothes, wear them please. Yes 20 below is a really cold windchill. It does stop me, but that is because I don't have wind blocking gear. You can find plenty of blogs of bike commuters that do it daily though.

You'd get soaked in the rain

What, you don't take a shower? Once again, there is gear to address that. I'm a lucky person with showers at work, but I don't cycle in my work cloths. Even for short errands, I may drop a clean shirt in my bag for a quick change when I get to where I'm going.

Too hot in the summer

Meh, I'll give you that, but that depends on your conditioning. Heat indexes over 105F can be dangerous but that only happens for at most 1 week a year for myself. So I take the motorcycle, which isn't far from being a electric bike.

Comment Re:Dealers are (mostly) rip off artists (Score 1) 387

Agreed, car sales people are the worst which is why I'm going no haggle in the future (if possible). The last car I bought was new, but I went to a no haggle shop which was a great experience. I was extended test driving a car from a bigger guy that gave me the run around "take it or leave it" price when all I wanted to know what the employee price was (since my father in law is a GM retire) when I went to to the no haggle place. I asked the sales person why the cars where as cheap and she gave me the 3 discounts why right off the bat. I told her what I was looking for and in 15 minutes she located the exact car we wanted 300 miles away, and they arranged a trade. The perks where great too, tires for life vs "personal assistant" (riiiiiight). The other place called me and asked what I thought about the test drive, then they parked a car with some of the features and wrong color at the door I would use to try to get me to buy it. I handed them the keys and told them no thanks, wrong color.

It was a sad day when that bigger guy bought out our dealership....service prices doubled and no more tires perk.

Comment What stops them playing the tools? (Score 1) 213

So we have tools to keep the ISP in check, but what keeps the ISP from playing the tools? Like the synthetic benchmarks for computer hardware and companies creating special cases for them, the ISP will do it too. Take for example a current tool, speedtest.net, it downloads and uploads a small file. However, Time Warner does a speed boost for the first Xmb( or seconds ) after which the speed drops. This does benefit to small amounts of data like email and webpages, but notice how it seems to handle that speedtest file quite well?

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