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My father had an '85 GT, and it was very cool. My wife now owns it. You can walk up to it, crumple in the door panel with your knee, and it'll pop right back out with no damage at all.

The other feature was their 'mill and drill' setup where all the holes for the body panels were drilled at once in a very accurate jig - that meant that you could easily replace the body panels with factory or aftermarket ones to change the style/color/layout of the body. Since they were not structural, you could do anything, really.

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France, US, Columbia, and Panama. Jungle diseases of workers was a huge problem at beginning.

What they dug the panama canal with:
http://www.corbisimages.com/im...

Modern version:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

See your mistake?

WTF? They dug the canal with rigs like this (posted in anther reply): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And to be true, the current equivalent is this beast: http://ritchiespecs.com/specif...

A pretty stark comparison but the Panama canal was not dug (the bulk of it anyway) by hand.

France, US, Columbia, and Panama. Jungle diseases of workers was a huge problem at beginning.

What they dug the panama canal with:
http://www.corbisimages.com/im...

Modern version:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

See your mistake?

> But then most protesters didn't. Your claims about "bulk anti-war left marching under the VC flag" is a flat out lie.

Rare was the big 'anti-war' protest without a few VC flags around. So riddle me this, why was that allowed? Now for a harder question, I know you won't answer honest but anyone else reading this will know it is the killing stroke against the argument you will make that "a couple of knuckleheads doesn't mean the movement was tainted."

Can you, with a straight face, tell me that the same 'a few knuckleheads' argument would have worked if the Tea Party protests of late had featured regular appearances by anything nearly so repellent; with NO denunciation from any of the leaders of the movement? Lets say a few rogue progressives like Nazis or the Klan or their more knuckledragging White Power associates. Oh wait, we KNOW how that worked out. It didn't happen as a general rule and the couple of times some idiot (usually tracable back to plants from lefty orgs) tried something like that the rest of the organization quickly dealt with the clowns. But the media and the progs (but I repeat myself) declared they were all racists anyway. So I'm pulling a page from Saul Alinsky and making you bastards live up to your own book of rules.

Oh, and Alinsky was a pro VC sort. Bill Ayers certainly was. And had he have been old enough it is a veritable certainty that Mr. "Gotta be sure to be seen with the campus Marxists lest I be thought a sellout" Obama would have been one.

Google gave me these in a matter of two tries, it ain't hard to find. It was the rare protest that didn't feature a VC flag. It was about as trendy as a Che t-shirt today, another celebration of a mass murdering communist thug. It never ends.

1. http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//BHC_ITN/1965/12/01/X01126501/#popUpCenter

2. http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/WL001929/antiwar-protester-raising-a-vietcong-flag

While the idea of using an Apple-like magnetic connector is cool, there are a lot of issues:

(1) Some of us do work where having strong magnets laying around on a desk is a bad idea. (2) The Apple MagSafe adapters have been highly unreliable, and Apple won't license to third-parties, so you're stuck buying another Apple adapter which will then fail. (3) There can be reports of metal fragments and other magnetic particles sticking to the plug and causing problems.

Citation needed.

#1 - compass calibrators

#2 - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-gadgeteer/apple-magsafe-failure-prevents-work-from-getting-done/276

#3 - http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/BE052647/huge-magnet-picking-up-scrap-metal/?ext=1

Getting the milk bottle for $8 instead of $9.50 is little comfort when your job is shipped overseas and you can't get another one.

It's also no comfort to hear that "you just aren't as competitive" when compared to the guy living on $100 a year dodging livestock riding his bicycle down a dirt path on the way to work.

Hearing that you lost your job because your industry just isn't "efficient" enough because it was paying a livable wage...also no comfort.

Economic /theory/ in general does nothing to relieve the real-world impact. Those impacted are the "hidden costs" not considered in the rosy picture of a more efficient world. The hidden cost is that the efficiency comes from crushing out the unwanted in the meantime. Of COURSE those unwanted aren't on board.

If crushing out inefficiency means that YOU have to suffer, then there's pretty much nothing you can say to convince that person that it's good news that their job is gone. When the global economy is reframed into the perspective of the individual, or a particular country, then general "efficiency" is NOT the goal. While the overall system is not a zero-sum game, when seen from a mortal lifespan, or more appropriately, the length of time the average unemployed can live off of their savings, then globalization is full of winners and losers in a zero-sum game. Hearing that other people are made better off while you made much worse off doesn't help. In such situations, I could hardly blame someone for wanting protectionism.

No.

This is not about bringing you comfort or relief your suffering. Not that I don't sympathize with the plight of people that are in pain right, but economics have nothing to do with.

Pretending to use protectionism as a solution is nothing more than delaying the inevitable. Automation, efficiency, and whether we like it or not, possible adjustment (reduction) of our annual income and changes to our spending habits and expectations, those are the long-term (and only viable) solutions against cheap oversea labor. Either that or we go bomb overseas people back to the pre-industrial ages so that we remain numero uno, with complete control of manufacturing of goods and thus command any livestyles we like.

Automation and efficiency, not protectionism, are the solution to the nation. That does not mean, however, the solution for everybody that is hurting now. Lots of people will hurt and possibly will never recover. But that's a reality of changing times, and no matter how bad times seem, at least they are very likely never to see their lives devolve into this:

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/153581F9-FC9D-498B-957F-1A26AFE9D348/IH183124.jpg

I can understand if none of this brings you comfort, but your comfort (or mine for that matter) is not the prerogative of this changing world.

as apposed to the arrests made on a member of anonymous?

Well, yes, as opposed to that. The quiet arrest of one or a few people has a different effect than images of brutality perpetrated on protesters 1 2 3.

Did you know that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were initially publicised with almost no public interest? It was not until the photos leaked that anybody cared.

When was the last time someone tried to sell you a picture of a shoe?

Today.

If you go all the way to Paris to see it, you might be disappointed. It is behind 3 inches of plastic and 20 feet of oriental tourists.

It will be the same with the Shutte.

the good news is I eventually realised that towing corporate lines wasn't for me

Unless you work on a tugboat, you're probably referring to "toeing the line" as in everybody get in formation and line up your toes... though these days that's in the metaphoric sense rather than the literal.