in the future

[icecreamemperor]

In the future-and-therefore-also-past event of inventing a time machine, having first done my duty as a Hegelian Empiricist and murdered Hitler, I will then proceed in functionally-instantaneous progression to also kill the founder of Harley Davidson motors and the inventor of the car alarm. By then I will be quite an expert on time-travel-murder,

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[taxi]

Realizing I am not the one to offer credible sympathy: The world needs to acknowledge the fact that the car-alarm experiment has failed. It deters nothing and nobody ever believes it has anything to do with a car being stolen, because it never does. (Or maybe the world has acknowledged this, but there's still a ton of old alarmed cars out on the road?)

[icecreamemperor]

No, new cars all have car alarms, as far as I can tell -- it's not even an option you pay for. And ever since someone got the extra-foolish idea of wiring the alarm to the horn, rather than having to pay for some different-sounding thing, it's extra terrible because now the sound of a car horn is suffering the same evacuation-of-meaning as the car alarm itself. You hear a car horn and it's like 'well, either there is an immediate danger in traffic, demanding my full attention orrrr... someone locked their car.' As a cyclist this drives me insane, above and beyond the association with honky car alarms.

I certainly was thinking 'well I should put some sort of caveat in here about NOISE ART' but it seemed unnecessary to complicate the rant -- but suffice to say there is nothing unnecessary or gratuitous about ART whereas there certainly is about motorcycles specifically designed to make extra noise.