No, he's partially right; he just neglected to mention that the same thing applies to lots of other ideologies as well.
...the problem is the US ideology that seeks to dominate
The real problem (which you ought to be able to figure out for yourself, if you're much brighter than the parent poster) is that the elite of the world have been playing everybody else off against each other since the beginning of time... and the vast majority of the populace anywhere are generally too stupid to see it. As my man Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said,
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Even in Texas, in one of the most conservative towns (where I live), people have nothing but respect for Muslims.
I live next door, in a very conservative town that only a normal person (i.e. not a Texan or an Okie) would even be able to tell apart from a "conservative Texas town"...and you can bet your anonymous ass that people (thanks to a combination of tee-vee and closet-homosexual preachers) fear and distrust Muslims... not that they'd know the difference; these people wouldn't know a Muslim if one crawled up their ass and made ham sandwiches...
The only one here spewing from the wrong orifice is you.
I'm all ears; let's see what you've got.
Handling has to deal with how tossable the car is...
It is definitely a major factor and for some, the only factor (such as for those whose ideal ride is a Miata).
...not whatever you think it's about.
So, being someone who prefers the handling offered by a heavier car with far greater amounts of lateral grip over that of a lighter, arguably more "tossable" machine... I'm just wrong (according to you, anyway).
Excessive vibration make the car less controllable, so that can actually decrease handling
Hence my use of the words "at least on smooth surfaces."
The suspension of a car is a system which includes the tires.
In practice, yes but ideally, no: tires are supposed to provide maximum grip and minimum rolling resistance while actually allowing the shock absorbers/vibration dampeners to do their job. Yes, there's a trade-off between sidewall stiffness and the ability to deform laterally (thereby conforming to the road surface) but again, that has a lot to do with the suspension; properly-fitted anti-sway bars will greatly offset the need for the tire to deform laterally to maintain a proper contact patch.
You are astoundingly pedantic
If I'd gone off beating a non-existent horse by focusing on his use of the word "traction," you might have a claim there. However, I did nothing of the sort: I pointed out the difference between "traction" and "grip," presumed that he in fact meant the latter concept... and proceeded accordingly.
Because a laboratory test that tests one material against another tells you dick about how the tire will behave in real-world conditions.
As an aside, I find it hard to read a sentence that begins with "Because" and still take the writer seriously, but I'll give it my best shot.;) Obviously the tire grip quotient (and corresponding rate of tire wear) is a laboratory-derived figure that doesn't necessarily portray the actual grip of a given tire in a variety of real-world situations. However, your implication that comparing grip is therefore pointless couldn't be farther from the truth: a tire (run-flat or otherwise) with a UTGQ of 160 is going to have far better "grip" (what the parent poster referred to as "traction") in most real-world conditions than another tire with a UTGQ of 300.
I never said run-flats don't have their disadvantages (I seem to recall actually mentioning those very same downsides, before you paraphrased them back at me as if I'd never mentioned them in the first place). I would certainly never fit run-flats to a "good car for tossers" (sic) such as a lightweight and underpowered Miata. However, fitted to the right vehicle (which in my case was a 3700lb, ~400hp all-wheel drive station wagon with a race suspension), the insane amount of sheer grip afforded by my Bridgestone Potenza RE050 run-flats regularly allowed me to pass far lighter, far more "tossable" cars on the inside lane. And results in this arena very much speak for themselves.
This 3-part documentary should go a long way towards dispelling the myth that "tossability" directly translates to increased handling performance:
Funny thing; I've heard Aussie women have a thing for us because (among other things) we're not as likely to beat them. However, I also have it on good authority that British women like us for the entirely opposite reason; British guys often tend to be too nice. How ironic...
Very small selection, all with bad handling and poor traction
I'm afraid you're talking out your ass: run-flat tires have generally poor ride quality due to their reinforced sidewalls... but those very same sidewalls provide increased resistance to lateral tire deformation, which provides... improved handling, at least on smooth surfaces. Mind you, the increased weight for a run-flat doesn't do anything to help unsprung weight or rotational mass, however, so it could be argued that (all other things being equal) a lighter tire will likely offer better handling on rougher surfaces and slightly reduced performance accelerating and decelerating.
As for your claim of "poor traction," that's entirely relative to the type of surface a given tire is designed for (after all, we don't expect a high-performance warm-weather tire to offer enhanced performance in deep mud). I therefore can only assume you were referring to "grip." Do you see that little number labeled "UTGQ" on the side of [just about any] passenger car tire? The lower that number, the higher the grip of the tire (race tires usually have a UTGQ of zero). Why don't you check out the UTGQ numbers on some run-flats and see if they truly offer the "poor traction" that you claim they do?
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Some of these fuckers actually belong there. No, I don't mean their wax likenesses; I mean them.
Why hasn't the NSA, CIA and or the Army been brought to bear on the nations 2nd largest terrorist organization?
Sneaky, I like it! Call in the wolves to deal with the foxes in the henhouse; they will not be expecting that! ;)
Sources report that terrorists left a box of organic, whole-wheat donuts at FBI headquarters last night...
The FTC orders today will put an end to their cyber spying
New! Regulatory hot-air with built-in enforcement!
Maybe there will be precipitation and rain will not be the only thing to fall.
You hoping for a golden rainshower? :p
I'm sure he'll be a shooting star.
Great, more brilliant proposals that he jump from the ISS. :p
I'm just wondering when someone's going to try a base jump from the ISS....
All that lateral velocity is bound to make the experience a real blast...
It was cheap, I admit it.
What a stupid post, you must be american.
No, he's partially right; he just neglected to mention that the same thing applies to lots of other ideologies as well.
...the problem is the US ideology that seeks to dominate
The real problem (which you ought to be able to figure out for yourself, if you're much brighter than the parent poster) is that the elite of the world have been playing everybody else off against each other since the beginning of time... and the vast majority of the populace anywhere are generally too stupid to see it. As my man Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said,
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
What am I missing?
That you're confusing the issue by mentioning facts. :p
Even in Texas, in one of the most conservative towns (where I live), people have nothing but respect for Muslims.
I live next door, in a very conservative town that only a normal person (i.e. not a Texan or an Okie) would even be able to tell apart from a "conservative Texas town" ...and you can bet your anonymous ass that people (thanks to a combination of tee-vee and closet-homosexual preachers) fear and distrust Muslims... not that they'd know the difference; these people wouldn't know a Muslim if one crawled up their ass and made ham sandwiches...
They're made into nutritional supplements that you can pick up in a rectangular bar form
With rounded corners?
A: Salad-shooter.
Americans eat *waaaaaay* more bread/cake/pasta/candy/soda than meat.
Don't worry, we eat too much meat, too. :p
Who modded your [awful] analogy insightful?! :p
How did he know I'm gay?
I'll tell you how he knew: his gadar is suspiciously accurate for a conservative... :p
Did you seriously just write that?
Waste words much? :)
The only one here spewing from the wrong orifice is you.
I'm all ears; let's see what you've got.
Handling has to deal with how tossable the car is...
It is definitely a major factor and for some, the only factor (such as for those whose ideal ride is a Miata).
...not whatever you think it's about.
So, being someone who prefers the handling offered by a heavier car with far greater amounts of lateral grip over that of a lighter, arguably more "tossable" machine... I'm just wrong (according to you, anyway).
Excessive vibration make the car less controllable, so that can actually decrease handling
Hence my use of the words "at least on smooth surfaces."
The suspension of a car is a system which includes the tires.
In practice, yes but ideally, no: tires are supposed to provide maximum grip and minimum rolling resistance while actually allowing the shock absorbers/vibration dampeners to do their job. Yes, there's a trade-off between sidewall stiffness and the ability to deform laterally (thereby conforming to the road surface) but again, that has a lot to do with the suspension; properly-fitted anti-sway bars will greatly offset the need for the tire to deform laterally to maintain a proper contact patch.
You are astoundingly pedantic
If I'd gone off beating a non-existent horse by focusing on his use of the word "traction," you might have a claim there. However, I did nothing of the sort: I pointed out the difference between "traction" and "grip," presumed that he in fact meant the latter concept... and proceeded accordingly.
Because a laboratory test that tests one material against another tells you dick about how the tire will behave in real-world conditions.
As an aside, I find it hard to read a sentence that begins with "Because" and still take the writer seriously, but I'll give it my best shot. ;) Obviously the tire grip quotient (and corresponding rate of tire wear) is a laboratory-derived figure that doesn't necessarily portray the actual grip of a given tire in a variety of real-world situations. However, your implication that comparing grip is therefore pointless couldn't be farther from the truth: a tire (run-flat or otherwise) with a UTGQ of 160 is going to have far better "grip" (what the parent poster referred to as "traction") in most real-world conditions than another tire with a UTGQ of 300.
I never said run-flats don't have their disadvantages (I seem to recall actually mentioning those very same downsides, before you paraphrased them back at me as if I'd never mentioned them in the first place). I would certainly never fit run-flats to a "good car for tossers" (sic) such as a lightweight and underpowered Miata. However, fitted to the right vehicle (which in my case was a 3700lb, ~400hp all-wheel drive station wagon with a race suspension), the insane amount of sheer grip afforded by my Bridgestone Potenza RE050 run-flats regularly allowed me to pass far lighter, far more "tossable" cars on the inside lane. And results in this arena very much speak for themselves.
This 3-part documentary should go a long way towards dispelling the myth that "tossability" directly translates to increased handling performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2kPs3C1NC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuxwR5i6Vlo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_NNdtDDxVw
Funny thing; I've heard Aussie women have a thing for us because (among other things) we're not as likely to beat them. However, I also have it on good authority that British women like us for the entirely opposite reason; British guys often tend to be too nice. How ironic...
and slightly reduced performance accelerating and decelerating.
This should have read "slightly improved acceleration and deceleration."
Very small selection, all with bad handling and poor traction
I'm afraid you're talking out your ass: run-flat tires have generally poor ride quality due to their reinforced sidewalls... but those very same sidewalls provide increased resistance to lateral tire deformation, which provides... improved handling, at least on smooth surfaces. Mind you, the increased weight for a run-flat doesn't do anything to help unsprung weight or rotational mass, however, so it could be argued that (all other things being equal) a lighter tire will likely offer better handling on rougher surfaces and slightly reduced performance accelerating and decelerating.
As for your claim of "poor traction," that's entirely relative to the type of surface a given tire is designed for (after all, we don't expect a high-performance warm-weather tire to offer enhanced performance in deep mud). I therefore can only assume you were referring to "grip." Do you see that little number labeled "UTGQ" on the side of [just about any] passenger car tire? The lower that number, the higher the grip of the tire (race tires usually have a UTGQ of zero). Why don't you check out the UTGQ numbers on some run-flats and see if they truly offer the "poor traction" that you claim they do?
...but anyone who calls himself Christian who "hates fags" is fooling himself...
What gave it away; was it the dudes hanging out with each other out in the desert, wearing nothing but flowing robes?
Frankly, I am not sure what to use that speed for.
Sounds like a solution in search of a problem...
How long that transfer speed would take to transfer one Library of Congress's worth of data all depends on who you ask.
Depends how much .jpg compression you use...
Try that shit on Guinness and not only will you defile it beyond repair
You mean even worse than drinking it warm? ;)
I wonder if 10hz is high enough to induce seizures...