Good idea, except they would need a forklift to move them around. I guess if the engineers really applied themselves it could be as easy as driving over an automated pit. That would make refueling comparable to a fill-up with a gas car.
I think even a sign-up wall changes the category. Wen you are used to just clicking through, not really caring who the real-estate belongs to, and you are required to sign-up for a free or other account, the whole process comes to a grinding halt. I for one would have to need that information very badly to take time to register, let alone pay. There is always another, free/open source, and it is just a click or 2 down the information highway
Much the way the era of Bonnie & Clyde helped J. Edgar Hoover take over the country. States rights be Damned, there are criminals out there, we need more power.
That is because you are capable of intelligent, independent thought. Unfortunately the world seems to be headed toward an idiocracy. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
The authors I like write page turners, that cost me sleep & time I didn't intend to give to reading. I often try new authors mainly because I've read everything my favorites have written. If I find myself on week 2 with only a couple of chapters read, I pull my book mark and give it away. In this case I might not even be able to do that, and would end up with an expensive door stop.
I don't own a cell phone, mainly because they are an electronic leash. The police tracking you by it is just a natural extension of that. Not to say that they should have unfettered access that, but you know they will, one way or another eventually.
I'd never own a car with Onstar for similar reasons.
There are times I do wish I had a cell phone, but it 2 or 3 times a year for a minute or 2. Hardly enough to give up privacy on that scale, not to mention the expense.
My thoughts exactly. I know "lettered" folks who can't turn on a light switch. I know self taught geniuses who can do virtually anything. It is just more gate keeper crap, ability doesn't play into it, other than the ability to test well. I have extremely good instincts when it comes to tests, and can test out well above my ability, the most capable people I've met seem to be the opposite.
"For all the talk by some about just how evil Google's book scanning project is"
Maybe that should be was, as with all useful projects / technology, the gate keepers have broken it. It still works a little, but when you think of what might have been.....
Humanity as a whole could have benefited so much, at an admitted price to the gate keepers, but those 19th century folks need to move aside.
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And that is how it starts, the next thing you know the kernel on the OS cracks and off to the fix it guy.
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Chuck Who
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Electronic leash
I'd never own a car with Onstar for similar reasons.
There are times I do wish I had a cell phone, but it 2 or 3 times a year for a minute or 2. Hardly enough to give up privacy on that scale, not to mention the expense.
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Maybe that should be was, as with all useful projects / technology, the gate keepers have broken it. It still works a little, but when you think of what might have been.....
Humanity as a whole could have benefited so much, at an admitted price to the gate keepers, but those 19th century folks need to move aside.
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