Actually if you mostly get around the city by walking, biking, or public transit having cars around makes things horrible. Cars are tools, but like any tool there are good and bad uses. Private automobiles are better suited for rural and some suburban areas. Inner ring suburbs and cities would do better to create disincentives for automobile use. The issue here is given the number of people in NYC and the limited street space, at best cars will ever only serve a minority but they create big problems for everyone else. From a democratic standpoint, the convenience of a minority shouldn't trump the very real problems this convenience causes to everyone else. There's pollution, expensive space wasted for private car storage, traffic signals which delay cyclists/pedestrians, deaths/injuries to vulnerable street users.
Actually most of the vehicle miles and gas usage are outside of big cities. You can effectively ban cars from some of the large cities in the US but it will hardly make a dent in gas use. That said, the transition to electric vehicles is inevitable. Big oil only succeeded in delaying it, not stopping it. As for automakers, they're coming to realize there's good money in for hire fleet vehicles, and also possibly public transit vehicles. For all we know, GM might have a subsidiary making subway cars in a decade.
Read it a few days ago. Great article. We're basically going back to the past here, making cities as they were before automobiles took over.
Right now it's attach to a single nail in my deck railing (I've added numerous straps around it for the time being). I guess I could just use a lag bolt style hook but I wasn't sure if that was safe. In theory the fiber wire should be non-conductive but I don't know if by code (and safety) it's best to still attach cables to the house with an insulated service wire holder in the event of lightening or some other reason.
While we're talking cars, I drove 1169 miles in a 24 hour period starting yesterday at 7am in a rented minivan to get a used set of speakers from a guy on the eastern side of PA. I got home just after 3AM this morning.
Well, the price was right. They're not vintage, but I think they're special. 3 Seaton Sound Catalyst 12C speakers for my HT.
No, they're sitting in the garage.
(but I've started working on it again) I'm going to use two of them as my "workshop" speakers while I'm finishing the HT.44" tall in the boxes and 132lbs. There was no way to get 3 of them + the stands in the S4.
So my friend stopped by and all 3 are now in the basement. They're heavy... I have two of them on the stands and will get them wired up later when I'm home from work. I take a picture of my silly basement setup.
I started the HT while I was unemployed and I got so busy with my new job that I started a few months into it that I just didn't have any time or mental energy to work on it. I got less busy over time, but it sort of languished. Now I'm trying to get back on it. Though I was sidetracked for the past week and a half or so with my whole house fan project.
Presumably you mean Audiogon. It all depends on the speakers and how high end they are. There's Craigslist, ebay, Audiogon, the FS section of audio related forums, etc.
