neither :) he implies that the "only proper" way to enjoy a bike is up on one :)

democracy hasn't got to do with voting.

the main idea about democracy is that people DISCUSS the issues between themselves.

this is a point that is lost on almost everyone.

democracy is impossible when there are SO MANY PEOPLE in a community. That is why those who wrote the US constitution tried to offset this problem by creating the states. This idea draws HEAVILY from the achaean league http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaean_League which was the evolution of democracy, trying to offset the main proble of great populations

once again: it's not the voting that is of great importance. it is discussing the problems of the community. If that can't be done, it doesn't matter if you vote or not

i should have written "someone who is behind you *must* be at a safe distance to stop even if you somehow stop on the spot" but i decided not to at the last moment because

turns out, i should have. because it happened.

also: "Some might argue that I should have been far enough back to allow for even an instantaneous stop in front of me, but it's not really feasible to leave a gap that large during rush hour." I have yet to see rush hour traffic where you go fast enough that you can't stop in time. if traffic is fast enough so that you can't stop in time, it is not rush hour traffic. and yeah, if you want to be safe, you *will* keep on letting a gap big enough *even* with idiots getting in between. the alternative (approaching dangerously close) is not really a good option.

or you can pay attention two or three cars ahead of you

the kid/granny in front of you are not at fault. if you hit them you are at fault.

someone who is behind you *must* be at a safe distance to stop even if you perform emergency braking. if they hit you, they are at fault.

fill the rest yourself. in short you are just plain wrong. and dangerous.

you are the cause of the problems, then; not the TC.

screaming hell music? hmmm... do me a favor will you? can you tell me what her opinion is about music like... say... The Betrayal by Fleshgod Apocalypse. Or Vampire from Nazareth by Septic Flesh?

just curious

drugs are controlled with prescriptions, because otherwise people would scarf down whatever they wanted. Imagine people eating antibiotics like candy? Where would this lead? or antipsychotics? Oh i think i have $whatever let me get some promadiazepam or whatsitsname

needs it for sound

shouldn't be too hard to do encryption

There are motorcycles, mopeds and small engine motorcycles, not to mention public transit.

think about something else rather than your convenience for a change.

i read sometime/someplace about some dude (paraphrasing) "i will not give up one comfort that i have left, therefore i will go o doing 100miles each working day to and fro work".

comfort. that's what he was after. no, we are not here to "live comfortably". we are here to give effort and make this god forsaken place at least livable.

android is a bloody mess. just take a stroll at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list and look at the list of *defects* only. SMSs getting deleted en masse, delivery reports wrong, SD card corruption...

compared with my 10+ year old hp48gx which has a single digit number of bugs (all of which you are able to circumvent with one liners, say instead of XRECV use > ).

shoddy engineering. ... who the hell places the speakerphone on the REAR of the device? do i really want to project the sound *away* from me?

my *own* first PC was a celeron. the first computer i used was a grundy newbrain.

> When I look at Android Market I see Tucows, you know the ancient shareware site? I see a car store filled with go-faster stripes and furry dice. When people are young or a tech is new they tend to go wild and add all sorts of crap that is useless for the wow of it. Remember when marguee and the blink tag were the hot new thing? When every pixel of a webpage had to have an animated gif?

set aside most apps have spam in them.

that's why i have only one market program installed: acrobat reader.

wait, sorry: *had*. I swapped my sorry excuse for a cellphone motorola failstone for a $100 "featurephone".

yet it manages to not implement fucking SMS delivery notification properly, which is what a normal phone 10 years old could do. Set aside i don't trust it to send an sms to the proper receipient.

plus, no coordinates are transmitted. The GPS sats don't send coordinates... how could they know your location anyway? So no.

> identify any song you are currently hearing just by letting your phone listen too

was (and is) a standard feature of $100 featurephones.

Things you consider so amazing, i consider pointless gimmicks when the most basic things the PHONE should do, it doesn't do.

quit licking google's bumhole. I could run a fullblown linux distro on this kind of hardware, yet on the milestone i was scrambling to find the 'record call' button... which doesn't exist. So i went to find a way to enter a text note? there is no builtin text editing option (there's a 'facebook app' though!). So something i could do with *three* different ways when i had the 5 year old windoze 5 htc wizard (keep the list of groceries that was coming through the phone) was nigh impossible on the top-of-the-line milestone.

> Why on earth you'd want to do those things with a tiny screen

i can compile, assemble, debug dissassemble and decompile on my fucking calculator.

a device with three orders of magnitude more powerful should do these without even a question.

it's waste of hardware, at the very least.

Can they, now? i mentioned 4 things i could do on my first computer that i couldn't do on my milestone. I could make a bigger list, but it would be all for naught since you're not even reading.