Ok...if you'd like to continue this discussion, let's try to do it
without political agendas. This topic has been debated a few times
before...check the archives. And next time, use topic tags, that's what
they are there for.

First warning.

Josh Koffman
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rad0 wrote:
>
> > The Left?  What the h*ll is the Left?
> >
> the Left is a self loathing, mankind hating, bunch of cry babies,
> who are always wrong, but never out of stupid ideas...but I digress.
> (left yourself open there chief...)
>
> > Anyway, I live in Southern California and there are TONS
> > of scooters being used here.  From the push kind to the
> > electric kind to the 2-stroke kind.  And people *are* using
> > them to commute.
>
> this is what I thought, --it's a scooter, and if scooters were going to
> catch on, they would have by now...
>
> Somebody likes the idea, but
> > obviously not you.
> (I don't like or dislike it, I just don't think it will work, meaning sell,
> and not sell in a big way, so I think it's stupid)
> (but I don't blame them for trying)
>
> The Segway is tres $$$, but that's the
> > price for the gyro technology I guess. I saw a Segway on
> > the street in Santa Monica, but was unable to run the guy
> > down to chat him up ;). The lines at COMDEX for the Segway
> > booth were HUGE. Last I heard, bicycles were popular too
> > (weather permitting).
>
> and here is a big problem, the weather, who wants to get their hair blown
> around, or wet from rain, or sweat in the heat, etc, etc...
>
> However, I think the thing might be great for airport terminals, if
> someone else pays for it, and charges me fifty cents to use it, and that's
> a big if....but not for the Left
> (had to tie it in...)

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