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Cost and Benefit Analysis
Posted by Reality (more from Reality) on Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:32:26
In Reply to: Built in nav, BAH!, nwas, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:42
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I have been using GPS systems since 1997 . . . for a very simple reason: it saves time and gas, and allows me to arrive on time for business appointments at locations that I'm not familiar with. Before the age of Google and Microsoft provide birds eye views, and when GPS systems had to run off laptop hence not all that reliable, and during the housing boom when many new roads did not exist on maps, I used to pre-drive the routes for important business appointments after spending hours analysing routes and print out way-point maps, just to be safe . . . technology has made all that mostly superfluous.
I reckon, if I have to, I'm still young enough and can still go into the woods and bring a deer or a turkey/pheasant home for dinner. If, instead of banning all 20yr old tech like the GPS (handy in the woods too), all use of 160yr old tech were banned, bow-and-arrow hunting would be a little trickier especially if I have to make the bow itself from scratch wood and sinew/fish-glue; not sure my local area produces the natural tree variety that would allow a 50lb+ compound bow made without using any modern chemical compound, so may have to revert to ambushing/running down a dear and clubbing it to death. Compared to all that, trips to the grocery store and the freezer are just more cost-effective.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Making cars more connected, Noel, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:59:34
- Audio-in, USB,, 120V outlet, and flat dash with panel, Tim, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:48:40
- Re: Making cars more connected, ursaw, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:57:08
- Generally I am opposed to "connected" cars; however, MI-Roger
, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:16:46 - stay away from these cars, bic, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:17:41
- Not connected enough for my taste - so don't bother..., dmz789qqq, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:37:32
- Remember Car Phones? yeah. exactly. nm, Simon S, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:57:39
- Great point and the best reason for avoiding this crap, No Snaab, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:50:55
- Remember wooden wheels? Remember steering levers?, Justin VanAbrahams
, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:07:14- Just barely, No Snaab, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:50:12
- Re: Just barely, Justin VanAbrahams
, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:27:49- Built in nav, BAH!, nwas, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:50:42
- Cost and Benefit Analysis, Reality, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:32:26 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Built in nav, BAH!, Justin VanAbrahams
, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:21:46- All of you guys..., Justin VanAbrahams
, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:59:32 - Re: Built in nav, BAH!, Son of Saab, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:40:18
- Re: Built in nav, BAH!, nwas, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:57:16
- I'm a Luddite..., James, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:43:41
- Re: Built in nav, BAH!, TML
, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:13:07 - Bull cookies!, Noel, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:08:02
- Re: Built in nav, BAH!, kkelley, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:02:50
- Re: Making cars more connected, Eric Law, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:10:56
- And here's where I contradict myself..., Eric Law, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:51:50
- Gee, what a bunch of Luddites! Just kidding!, Noel, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:57:35
- I do not want my car hacked, sam, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:09:47
- Don't see a need for it, JerseySaab
, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:14:39
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