On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 20:46:21 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/3/2017 8:31 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 17:12:41 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/3/2017 3:12 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:00:33 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:32:05 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:08:35 -0400, John H
wrote:

The news has already said that he purchased many from a local gun shop. That included a background check.

Personally, I couldn't care less if every gun transaction required a background check. I've yet to
see where the background checks would have prevented any of these mass shootings, and I disagree
with the 'saving even one life would make anything worth it' approach to regulation enactment. Look
how many lives would be saved if the minimum driving license age was 21.

Hey stop it.
You are not allowed to talk about cars when we are talking about
unnecessary deaths!
They are just "the rub of the green".
How many deaths and injuries would be prevented if cell phones were
totally disabled in a moving car or simply disabling those attention
grabbing dash board toys?
They won't even test drivers. (the ability to parallel park ain't it)
These are all off limits because it would be too inconvenient.

Maryland has strict cell phone/driving laws. Yet there is not a time when driving in Maryland I
don't see folks talking or texting on their cell phones. It shows that a law makes no difference if
it's not enforced.


Most of the time that these things are tested, demonstrates that
talking on a hands free phone is as distracting as using a hand held.
It is not your hands that are distracted, it is your mind.
I am really surprised that these "smart" dash boards are legal.
If you are trying to set the options on the in car computer, you might
as well be driving from the trunk. Even fiddling with a radio that you
have to see to set is plenty distracting. That is why they invented
the push button radio and the "wonder bar" in the first place.


Does your "wonder bar" still work? :-)


Seek still works on my radio if that is what you mean. It has been a
feature on most radios since they stopped having tuning knobs. (solid
state tuner)



Old car radios had some odd components that kids would find funny
now-a-days. I still remember vacuum tube car radios that had
"vibrators" in them. The vibrator converted the 6vdc and later 12vdc
battery power to chopped DC which could then be treated as AC and
transformed up and rectified to the operating voltages required for the
tubes. Killed batteries fast though if you weren't running the engine.


Yup I remember those. We converted a stock 53 chevy radio to
transistor and made it look stock if you did not look too closely. I
went from about 15 amps to more like 1 amp. I was still beat up for
desecrating a stock part like that.
I also converted a lot of old mechanical GM clocks to an MA1003 chip
(green fluorescent display). They didn't really look stock but they
told good time. The GM unit was a random number generator.