Rant Self balancing Boards now ''illegal'' to use in public

Okay, so maybe I got carried away with 'murder', but.

People die using bathtubs too, should we ban those? Because I don't want to smell that world.

As for your electricity bill? Okay sure, I've not read your post lately. But you have alluded to how bad for the world cars are, and not just in road-deaths.

Okay, tell you what, if you want to find me a pit garage for permanent rent at Goodwood, Silverstone, Brands Hatch, Donnington, and so on, then please do. Yes they have vehicle storage facilities, but they are not for permanent rent - Or at least not by us mere mortals.

I've also only just seen your edit earlier on about WRC/companies/etc - A lot of the amateur sports require cars competing in their events to be taxed and MOT'd as they're driven between stages on public roadways. Or so I understand it, anyway.

As for the Focus RS for lease - Good luck with that panning out. 11,500 (if you count the RS500 run) made, 4,000~ made it to the UK, a number of them have been crashed, and there don't seem to be many for sale at any one time. Although there's a bit of a surge in sales now the Mk3 is heading towards launching. I can see about 19 for sale presently, across RS-Direct and private ads on the RSOC.

Audi RS, not specifically rally - In fact, I don't recall the last time I saw a rally Audi. IIRC, RS for them is RennSport (Racing Sport). Their RS and S ranges, as far as I know, are not limited production items - Like the BMW M ranges - And often cross multiple models inside the brand, so attainability for leases is much higher.

 

I'm not splitting your post up because I'm lazy, so instead, numbers!

1: Accidental drownings. Definitely.

2: I said alluded because I couldn't be arsed to go back and cite post it was that you'd said something like it.

3: See where I mentioned "NIMBY-ism" or planning permission? People tend to object to hundreds of garages or new race tracks being built.

4: Who's going to pay for that transport? Government? The driver/team? I'm sure they'll happily shoulder that burden. Oh, wait, no, I think it's already pretty expensive and they'd just stop doing it all together.

5: Finding someone who says they can do something isn't the same as finding someone who can actually do that something - And I must admit, I didn't realise when we first started this exchange that you were quite so car-Luddite-y that you wouldn't spot "Focus RS Mk1" in my signature, and should have expressly said "Ford RS", but there we are - I also explained the difference between the two models (And brands use of 'RS'!) you linked.

6: I did not, but paying VED (Or road tax as it's equally commonly known! The destination of the funds is irrelevant, you're being a pedant for pedantry's sake - I can't drive on the road without paying it) and being told no private cars on the road is not exactly a fun concept. Telling me to "Get a car with a smaller engine or an electric car" doesn't really help people who own classic cars, does it. Tell people who keep their cars standard for their own pleasure "Put an electric engine/smaller engine in, or pay to not be allowed to use it", pretty sure you'll get a punch in the teeth. I think the long and the short of this is, you see cars as a point-a to point-b tool and nothing else, so you don't seem to understand (And never will) what performance car enthusiasm is all about. Still, I've got nothing better to do than wind people up on the internet today.

 

Banning things is a lazy way of dealing with problems I think.

 

And you without a car or license. Talk about putting the expert in Expert Reviews.

 

Shared spaces have actually been shown work well in certain areas (usually town centres) and significantly reduce the number of accidents. They are becoming more and more common all over the world.

 

So you've never owned a discrete GPU or put one in a computer, tested one? used one?

 

1: Not really.

2: Yes, but new structures on existing grounds still require planning permission if they are not covered by existing planning permissions granted by the local council - Which can be opposed by the residents of that particular area when they are notified that planning permission has been applied for - And can, and often does, get blocked for any number of reasons. One of our customers is a car tuners/builders, they applied for planning permission to add six new storage garages and it took years to get approval because a neighbour (Who is about half a mile down the road) whinged at the council - Who like the resident more than the business apparently.

3: I believe I mentioned amateur and non-WRC too - There are quite a few non-WRC rallys in the UK.

4: Mine's a Mk1, the one you linked is a Mk2, and I very much doubt that leasing agent actually has that car. Checked with a couple of the RSOC chaps who know the Mk2 better than me, and they're not aware of any leasing firms that actually have the facilities to follow through on a Mk2 RS lease.

5: In that case, maybe they should introduce a tax related to gun ownership and tell you you can't use them anyway. tbfh, as much as I love guns I don't see why private citizens need them here anyway. Maybe they should be banned except for company owned hunting rifles.

6: Again: Cars > Handguns in pretty much every feasible level of practicality. Unless you're advocating the shooting of school run drivers, in which case I'm all for that.

7: No, they're not, but I suspect that you try bringing this up in person to a choice few and you'll get a punch.

8: Well, I think we could stand to take peoples license away permanently if they decide to drive under the influence of drugs/alcohol ever, rather than the "Oh you're a repeat offender" nonsense there currently is. Hell, I think speeding should be far more severely punished too. I don't think, if you lose your license for your conduct on the road, you should be allowed to have it back ever again, but there we are.

9: It really is, but I've got another 3.5 hours at work and this is passing the time quite well.

 

Well then, given your history in IT and the fact that you actually have used the technology and the fact that you apu has a graphics chip inside it, I say yes keep writing about GPUs

 

1: Yes, but none of them have hundreds, or thousands, of garages required to house the numerous enthusiast cars found around the country - They'd need to expand rather dramatically for that to be the case. Hence the need for planning permission! Or should there only be, what, ~300 (assuming there's 40 garages at Silverstone, thus also 40 at other major race tracks) performance cars in the UK at any one time?

2: They have other regulations too (Shock horror!) regarding safety, the road-legality of the vehicle is a separate thing entirely (See: msauk.org)

3: You can quote directly all you please! However, I thought we covered that. RS isn't a term that applies to all car manufacturers (I'd have thought, if you're covering car events, you'd know that at least..), admittedly I did "change the goal posts" by revising my point to mean Ford RS, not Audi RS (which, generally, are not limited number productions unlike the Ford RS models).

4: I was not aware the firearms certificates were annual fee things. Naively, I assumed once you'd paid through the rectum the first time around that was it bar club membership fees.

5: Fantastic, farmers can have shotguns and the rest are going in the bin.

6: That actually sounds pretty nifty. Maybe we go for amber instead, though, I hate that.

7: Dunno, ask the older classic car owners.

8: Duh. When else am I meant to post **** on forums about a topic that's totally moot?

 

Sure, but you have a history with computers and technology both as a hobby and professionally, the computer history museum, a personal collection of vintage computers(or at least you had one), used I'm assuming many kinds of operating systems, wrote a book on computers (maybe more than one) and are generally well versed and interested in technology. Which makes you a suitable candidate to write about technology.

If someone from a car mag came to write about computers having thought about buying one once when he was 17 and saw saw people use them a lot but hires someone to use one on his behalf whenever he needs some computing done, but really thinks they should be banned because people should get out more or whatever, then I would scoff just as equally.

I just think a writer should have a reasonable grounding on the area on which they are writing. They don't need to be expert, but a reasonable grounding. Is that an unreasonable thing to expect?

 

Maybe I'm a bit lost, but are we arguing about banning private ownership totally? or merely only for enthusiastic reasons?

 

Was lost about a dozen posts or so ago. Now what was the original thread about?

 

1: Best get in on the ground floor and get my garden classified as a race track and lease out garage space.

2: Two or three blokes? Dunno. I don't personally know ever amateur and semi-professional rally driver/team. Rally stages are all over the place, often through woodland, not really a "track" as such. You'd need to truck it from storage to stage every event.

3: You did link to that, I guess, but there we are. If I wasn't at work I'd call and find out if it's actually available.

4: Didn't see the edit.

5: I can't see it affecting me any way, to be honest.

6: I'm still thinking that's too tame. Paintballs wipe off, after all.

7: As you do in every day life!

8: Pff. Trees. It's the kids backpacks getting caught up on your driveshaft you need to worry about.