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Usenix Takes Stand Against ATA and SSSCA
Davin writes: "The Usenix Board of Directors has emailed all Usenix members,
suggesting that they contact their Representatives to oppose
ATA and SSSCA." And I've said it before, but lick a stamp. Representatives aren't tapped into the wired quite yet (Hello ... Navi)
Heh heh heh... I like your response. To answer your question, no, I don't think it's cool to be a faggot and have a Honda with a bunch of shit on it that just makes you want to beat the [sensored] out of it with a baseball bat.
Some might wonder why I think rice burners suck. Well, to start off, there are muscle cars (or hot rods, depending on your background). These cars are built for performance. Case in point: they haul ass. Well one day, about 3 or 4 years ago, I was leaving a math class when I heard this luser say, "and then I got bigger exhaust so I beat him, and then he got bigger exhaust so he beat me, so now I'm gonna get bigger exhaust and beat him again." Obviously, a rice boy. Every owner of a fine muscle car knows that exhaust does NOTHING for performance. (Actually, I take that back. The size and shape of your exhaust does make a small difference in performance. Replace manifolds with headers and you'll get a tiny performance improvement, because there will be slightly less back-pressure on the piston during the exhaust stroke (meaning the motor wastes less energy on keeping itself running). Or replacing headers with equal-length headers (they look like they're tied in a knot) is supposed to improve balance between the cylinders. It could be the difference between a 13.0 and a 12.9, for example. (Rice burners, on the other hand, are lucky to run low 17's.) Contrary to clever marketing, however, the difference is minimal. But the idiot rice boys (or girls) think the car is powered by the exhaust (as if the car is propelled by the exhaust leaving the pipe or something). What they don't know is that beyond the minimal improvement gained by the correct exhaust, any changes either do nothing (except cost you money) or actually degrade performance (so I've heard) (but again, this is so minimal it will hardly be noticed). I mean shit, if you really want to improve your exhaust, modifying the valves or cam will make a much larger difference--but again, the wrong change will degrade performance so you better know what you're doing. (And if the exhaust is a bottleneck, you're probably running way too rich, in which case you can gain enormous performance and increase gas mileage by adjusting your distributor, which won't cost you jack shit. (Unless you fsck up your firing order or something impossible like that.)) In short, if you want to go fast, you need to understand a lot of mechanical shit, and then you have to build the car appropriately. For example, drop in a 5.0 and a new trans. Or, if you're into the recent Camaros (those guys aren't too bright either--but I do admit, those cars are quick), you can just pop your hood and replace a computer chip, gaining something like 300 horsepower. (Isn't it amazing what's under the hood of those things? You open the hood and all you see is electronics! The first time I saw one of those, I asked, "Is there actually a motor in there?!") Rice boys are a bunch of dumb asses (much worse than Camaro guys, who at least drive American), so they think spending a shitload of money on shiny chrome will improve performance.) Ok, where was I? Oh yeah, so I think rice burners suck because the stupid shit people put on those cars costs a shitload of money and does nothing for performance. But that's not the real reason. You see, that's just human stupidity. The real reason I hate rice burners is this: five years ago, my girlfriend dumped my ass and went for a rice boy! Fsck that!
(By the way, the Camaro comments are said with a friendly-competition kind of tone. Mustang guys and Camaro guys have always had that "sibling rivalry" behavior towards each other, but we all know the real enemies are the rice boys: because of them, we only get about half as many runs on race day. Besides, you'll see Mustang guys and Camaro guys hanging out together at the bar, but you'll never see a muscle car guy hanging out with a rice boy!)