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Automakers Try To Keep Repair Codes Secret
An anonymous reader writes "Can't get the trouble codes out of your car's computer? Congress wants to help. I think it's odd that they think it's your God-given right to reverse-engineer your car, but not your XBox. Why aren't the automakers bashing these third-party code readers over the head with the DMCA while they still can?" This debate has been going on for several years.
two for two?
What It Means to be a Liberal.
... in short, you support protecting the guilty and killing the innocent.
The other day I found myself very puzzled.
I know what I believe, why I believe it, the philosophical foundations of my beliefs. I've studied everything from Karl Marx to Ludwig von Mises, from Friedrich Hayek to FDR, from Edmund Burke to Bertrand Russell, from Aristotle to Ayn Rand.
I understand modern conservative thought. I understand libertarian thought. I understand classical liberalism. What I can't begin to comprehend is modern liberalism. Maybe you can help me. As near as I can tell, to be a liberal:
You have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.
IF there is a church that is valid, it has been pre-approved by the government.
You have to be against capital punishment but for abortion on demand
You have to believe that the same public school idiot who can't teach 4th graders how to read is qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
You have to believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and doctors are overpaid.
You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons in the hands of the Red Chinese.
You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the brilliance of the Sun, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being gay is natural.
You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature but pasty, fey activists who've never been outside Seattle do.
You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
You have to believe there was no art before federal funding.
You have to believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.
You have to believe the free market that gives us 500+ channels can't deliver the quality that PBS does.
You have to believe the NRA is bad, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution.
You have to believe that taxes are too low but ATM fees are too high.
You have to believe that Harriet Tubman, Cesar Chavez and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison.
You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.
You have to believe second-hand smoke is more dangerous than HIV.
You have to believe Hillary Clinton is really a lady and Rosie O'Donnell is not really a man who is jealous of Tom Selleck.
You have to believe conservatives are racists but that black people couldn't make it without your help.
You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
Looking back on my list, it seems shallow, muddled, contradictory, divorced of logic and a bit sadistic.
Well, then. If that doesn't describe the modern liberal, I don't know what does.
I know it is TOTALLY way off topic, and I do admit that the post was interesting - but cursing eight times in a 293 word post....just seemed a bit excessive to me. Anyone agree?
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A 500ci engine? How much gallons per mile do you get? :D
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I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
I honestly don't know why Americans complain so much about their fuel prices.
I have heard all this 'prices are over 2.00 a gallon". Whoop-dee-do. Here in Canada, my gas is 1.00 / litre now. That is over $4.00 USD / US gallon. At current exchange rates, that's over $2.90 / US gallon.
In London, from what I can find, it's currently around 0.90 / litre, which equates to over $6.50 USD / US gallon.
What's my point? That Americans pay by far one of the lowest retail prices in the world for gas, yet they still complain.
Do you also own the copy of MS Office that you may have? Assuming you paid for it (not insinuating that you didn't) what legal issues would you face if you openly admitted to, say MS lawyers, that you decided to reverse engineer it so you could inspect the "inside" of your owned copy of the program? What kind of legal ramifications would you suffer if you showed this code to people (who could 100% prove) who owned the exact same version of this program? Yea you may have have cd, the box. Yes you can sell it on eBay - but until you can twist it inside out and upside down *legally* do you really own it? I can trick out my car, and with the exception of some modifications (i.e. 5% tints, under carriage lights) I have committed no crime. If I tried opening the "hood" of many of my proggies, I will suffer some legal ramifications
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