But for the cost of a high end rebuild on a 356 engine, you can convert them to electric. Same conversion should owrk on any model with the 200mm clutch - 356, 912, 914 - as well as later (post '64 IIRC) VW bugs and busses.
If you're going to do something like that, do it to some vehicle nobody actually cares about, like an old VW bug or bus, not a Porsche. Otherwise you just come off like a Philistine.
From the 'Be careful what you ask for' department: A friend told me a story once about a friend of his: Someone he knows wondered if the FBI had a file on him. So he called the FBI and asked them flat out, "Do you have a file on me?". Their reply was "We do now". I believe this 100% applies here; if you inquire as to whether they've spied on you in the past, you're probably guaranteeing that they're going to spy on you in the future, just because you drew attention to yourself.
Notice, nowhere in the definition of the word "boy" does it say anything regarding a racial slur. You're just an idiot and backpedaling at this point. Nice try. And, I'm about as anti-confederate flag as it gets. You think I'd be getting all over you about racism if I was a confederate flag waver? Are you really this dumb?
So, how does it feel to have false judgements and accusations shoved in your face? Did you enjoy it? Was it fun for you?
Please bugger off now. I'm done with you. Besides which you're just embarssing yourself.
(emphasis mine, on that last word) I'm a middle-aged white man and I'm criticising other men (and women, where applicable) in my same demographic, and that makes me racist, eh? I think not, I think I'm just 'telling it like it is', which to reiterate: There are people in my particular demographic (the aforementioned 'great white males') who would wish to return the world to the 1950's -- except without any blacks in it (to which they were referred to, historically speaking, as 'negroes') and without voting rights for women. (and since you're apparently such a SJW, how come you're not trying to pin 'sexist' on me as well, hmm?)
..oh, and as to the quote of you, above? That definitely sounds like you're assuming I'm a black man (and I am not) -- and in that case, you DARE to refer to me a 'boy'? Really? Sounds to me like I was right, YOU are the racist here.
Get correct. The world does not need more of your kind of person in it. Time for you to stop flying that Confederate flag, it amounts to hate-speech.
Gee, you sure get angry when someone doesn't agree with everything you say, don't you? Maybe you should seek some professional help for your anger and anal-retention issues, they must really interfere with your functioning in normal society -- which is probably why you get your panties in a bunch here on the Internet, which I'd imagine is the only place where you're even remotely tolerated: the one place where your diarrhea of the mouth doesn't have any real-world consequences, mister anonymous coward.
Wow, triggered much? Are you one of these 'social justice warriors' that I keep hearing about, or are you just another garden-variety Internet troll trying to stir shit up? Tough to decide. No matter, I'm not taking your bait, one way or another. On the off-chance you're neither SJW or troll, then you need to realize that 'race'-related issues are real, and they're a big problem, and sticking your head in the sand about them isn't going to solve them. Being squeamish about even the language necessary to discuss the issues at hand is as bad (if not worse) than just ignoring the problem entirely; trying to 'sanitize' the discussion by prettying-up the language used is disingenuous at best. You want to change hearts and minds on issues of race? Then everyone needs to experience how ugly and disgusting it actually is.
I hear you, and and I agree with you, and my solution to these problems is for there to be a full set of manual controls, and drivers continue to be educated, trained, tested, and licensed, just like always, and consider the 'autonomous' system to be mainly a very sophisticated form of cruise control, mainly to relieve driver fatigue on long drives. In fact, based on certain revelations I've had recently about the current state of driver training, driver education and training needs some serious reform to address various deficiencies in drivers' skill-sets.
You've been modded down to 'Troll' status, and that's wrong. We are being 'monitored' more and more, and it's making our world feel more like we're prisoners in a penitentiary than free citizens, and it does need to stop. You're far from alone in not wanting to be tracked and watched everywhere you go, 24/7/365, and don't you forget that for a moment. Keep fighting the good fight.
In the great likelihood that there is life elsewhere in our Universe there is also a great likelihood that any intelligent life that evolves would have societies of greatly diverse natures, so there's a high likelihood that an advanced civilization would be better 'citizens' (for lack of a better term) than Humans currently are. There's also been more than one great mind that has postulated that any advanced civilization that attained the capability for interstellar flight would also be above things like war. Excuse me for being optimistic!
How the actual fuck are you calling me 'racist' when it's blindingly obvious to anyone with at least two working brain cells that I have nothing but contempt and disgust for the kind of people to whom I am referring, and by the way the usage of the word 'negroes' is period-accurate for the 1950's? More likely you're the 'great white males' to whom I refer and your reaction to being called out for who and what you are is to throw rocks at ME. Get correct.
Many believe "military action is in order". I hope not, but I hear people say hings like that all the time.
Sure, and there are people out there who would like to return the United States to life in the 1950's, except without 'negroes' and no voting rights for women. They're the ones who need to be stamped out, not the rest of us. Luckily humans have a finite lifespan, and the 'great white male' is slowly but surely dying out.
Yeah no kidding. Take a step outside yourself for a moment and try to see us through extraterrestrial eyes: We treat our own kind like absolute crap. Under pressure, which is when you find out what someone is really like, you discover that we're still mostly animals. We kill each other for stupid reasons. There's a whole list of things I'm not even going to get into here, but the bottom line is, in my opinion, any extraterresttrial civilization that is more advanced than we are, probably is going to avoid us if possible because as a race we're a hot mess. We have lots of potential, but you'd need to come back in a few thousand years to see if we're even still around, and if we've grown out of this atavistic adolescent phase we're going through. Of course on the other hand, I'm not the first (or the last) person to suggest that the best thing that could happen to the human race right about now, would be to discover that there's massive amounts of highly advanced civilizations out there in our own galaxy, and that they've come to introduce themselves to us. Realizing how tiny a speck of dust the Earth is, and how tiny and insignificant the Human race is compared to everyone else out there in the Milky Way, might just scare us straight and make us clean up our respective acts. Or, it might just push us over the edge into apocalypse. Either way we'd get off the fence.
What I said came more from a 'having a professional reputation to protect' perspective (for the state-legalized brothels), and I'll admit that I may have been having a 'Firefly/Serenity' moment there ('companions' being a respectable profession) and as such qualifies as 'wishful thinking' on my part. As cynical as I can be, there still manages to be a small spark of hope for humanity that doesn't seem to ever die.. but I diverge. The hard cold reality is, as you allude to, that humans don't value other humans very much at all, and more often than we'd like to admit use them as a commodity. It would be nice to live in a world where, if a woman is involved in a sex-oriented profession, it's because she chooses to do so (ala-the Firefly/Serenity universe), but the hard cold reality is most often they're forced and trapped into it by one means or another, sometimes literally from birth, and the whole thing just makes me sick to my stomach. How much sicker can someone get, if they're not only abducting women and forcing them into the sex trade, but if/when they get pregnant, raising children into that world, such that they go through their lives not even knowing anything other than being used for sex? If there were, in fact, interstellar alien civilizations out there who have been visiting the Earth clandestinely, it's no wonder that they wouldn't contact us openly, seeing how we act so much like animals, instead of actual civilized, sentient beings like we do as a race. I enjoy and appreciate when individual humans and small groups of humans demonstrate that they can be higher minded and more inspired than the average, but then there's the teeming hordes of atavistic animals that seem to exist only to serve their own mouths and genitals. Makes me wonder sometimes if we, as a race, even deserve to survive. (there's me getting cynical again)
Well if it's the case here in the U.S. that drivers training instructors are teaching student drivers that saving a teaspoon of gasoline is more important than not creating a traffic hazard, then there needs to be some serious reform around here with regards to driver training in general. Nothing trumps physics, especially where human lives are concerned.
..grandparent..
Oh and by the way you
can leave off with that bullshit right now.
Someone else, above, said 'when you're in a hole, stop digging!', which is good advice -- unless your intention is to draw as much attention to yourself as possible. I'm still holding out for the idea that somehow this whole 'hacking' event was engineered and staged by Ashley Madison themselves, perhaps for generating large sums of money via blackmail, and to also generate as much interest in their business as possible, so when they 'rise from the ashes' of this incident, security ostensibly renovated and reinforced, they'll have an even larger client base than ever before, despite all the revelations of fraud. Before anyone objects: Do you really put anything past people who would run a business like this one? Seriously, it's only a half-step above running a brothel.
âoeIf he was Canadian-American or French-American, or he was from the U.K., would this have ever even got on the governmentâ(TM)s radar? I donâ(TM)t think so,â Mr. Zeidenberg said.
Is the above statement true? Yes. Our over-zealous, control-freak-infested FBI/CIA/NSA/DoJ came in with guns blazing, maybe imagining they'd uncovered a Chinese intelligence operative stealing American secrets. However, the above quote can be seen another way: If the Chinese government wasn't adversarial (on a good day) with the U.S., and downright hostile to it (on a bad day), and didn't perpetually demonstrate that they can't be trusted, then this wouldn't have happened, either. While I fervently believe that the Chinese populace is no different from people anywhere else in the world (they just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace!) and that they (if allowed to speak up!) have many, many very valid complaints about their government, I also know that it's not the Chinese people we have to worry about, it's their government, and I wouldn't put it past their government to play the long game to get a government-loyal scientist into the U.S., naturalized as a citizen, for the sole purpose of spying on us and stealing from us. Is this the case in this instance? Who knows. The evidence presented here points to it not being the case this time.
Don't be an asshole. It interrupts the productive discussion.
Expecting anonymous posters on the Internet to 'not be an asshole' is like the fox not expecting the scorpion to sting it once he's carried it to the other side of the river. There are several different circumstances in which you find out what people are really like, and the ability to post things anonymously on the Internet is definitely one of them: without the feedback loop of some sort of consequences for their actions, some people show no restraint whatsoever because unlike a mature and reasonable person, they have little or no internal feedback loop to self-regulate their actions, and they default to the lowest common denominator of behavior.
While credit card companies and payment companies like PayPal do have the right to decide who they will and will not do business with, a conspiracy between organizations like the MPAA, RIAA, and credit card companies to arbitrarily black-ball someone else's company smacks of anti-trust in my opinion. Without some sort of regulation, companies blackballed by this cabal of corporate giants would have only prohibitively expensive civil litigation to try to reverse the chilling effects it would have on their livelihood. This cadre of corporations could (and just might) use their combined power to destroy competition by branding them 'pirates'.
..OK, I sometimes, apparently, forget the Internet is world-wide. I'm in the U.S.; I'd expect driving habits/driver education and training to be different in other countries, but I'm specifically talking about drivers here in the U.S. Sorry for the confusion.
I don't know about any conspiracy-theory nonsense, unless you have facts to back that up, but otherwise I'm OK with this sort of technology -- so long as it actually works properly 100% of the time and doesn't do something stupid that actually gets you into an accident instead. Otherwise I've done fine without such things for 35 years of driving, I can do fine without it for however many more years, too.
While we're talking about driving.. what the hell are they teaching new drivers these days, that they don't know you're supposed to match velocities with the rest of the traffic when entering a freeway? I'm serious, they're getting on a freeway that's humming along at 70-75mph, and they're doing it at maybe 60mph. I see this every single day, too. Do they think they're going to break their cars or something, if they stomp the accelerator pedal?
..sideways, with a rusty chainsaw, vigorously, and with great prejudice. Their so-called 'mission' is to control everyone and everything, and to hell with 'civil rights' and any 'rights' in general. The 'terrorists' they claim to protect us from must be splitting their sides from laughing so hard at us, and celebrating their great victory over the West.
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But for the cost of a high end rebuild on a 356 engine, you can convert them to electric. Same conversion should owrk on any model with the 200mm clutch - 356, 912, 914 - as well as later (post '64 IIRC) VW bugs and busses.
If you're going to do something like that, do it to some vehicle nobody actually cares about, like an old VW bug or bus, not a Porsche. Otherwise you just come off like a Philistine.
From the 'Be careful what you ask for' department:
A friend told me a story once about a friend of his: Someone he knows wondered if the FBI had a file on him. So he called the FBI and asked them flat out, "Do you have a file on me?". Their reply was "We do now". I believe this 100% applies here; if you inquire as to whether they've spied on you in the past, you're probably guaranteeing that they're going to spy on you in the future, just because you drew attention to yourself.
Notice, nowhere in the definition of the word "boy" does it say anything regarding a racial slur. You're just an idiot and backpedaling at this point. Nice try. And, I'm about as anti-confederate flag as it gets. You think I'd be getting all over you about racism if I was a confederate flag waver? Are you really this dumb?
So, how does it feel to have false judgements and accusations shoved in your face? Did you enjoy it? Was it fun for you?
Please bugger off now. I'm done with you. Besides which you're just embarssing yourself.
.. you'll definitely get dealt with, boy.
(emphasis mine, on that last word)
I'm a middle-aged white man and I'm criticising other men (and women, where applicable) in my same demographic, and that makes me racist, eh? I think not, I think I'm just 'telling it like it is', which to reiterate: There are people in my particular demographic (the aforementioned 'great white males') who would wish to return the world to the 1950's -- except without any blacks in it (to which they were referred to, historically speaking, as 'negroes') and without voting rights for women.
(and since you're apparently such a SJW, how come you're not trying to pin 'sexist' on me as well, hmm?)
..oh, and as to the quote of you, above? That definitely sounds like you're assuming I'm a black man (and I am not) -- and in that case, you DARE to refer to me a 'boy'? Really? Sounds to me like I was right, YOU are the racist here.
Get correct. The world does not need more of your kind of person in it. Time for you to stop flying that Confederate flag, it amounts to hate-speech.
Gee, you sure get angry when someone doesn't agree with everything you say, don't you? Maybe you should seek some professional help for your anger and anal-retention issues, they must really interfere with your functioning in normal society -- which is probably why you get your panties in a bunch here on the Internet, which I'd imagine is the only place where you're even remotely tolerated: the one place where your diarrhea of the mouth doesn't have any real-world consequences, mister anonymous coward.
(Using the word 'faith' very loosely here, because after all it's a meme)
;-)
Good to hear on a Monday morning. Bonus points: Alabama! Can we get the rest of the southern states on board next?
Wow, triggered much? Are you one of these 'social justice warriors' that I keep hearing about, or are you just another garden-variety Internet troll trying to stir shit up? Tough to decide. No matter, I'm not taking your bait, one way or another. On the off-chance you're neither SJW or troll, then you need to realize that 'race'-related issues are real, and they're a big problem, and sticking your head in the sand about them isn't going to solve them. Being squeamish about even the language necessary to discuss the issues at hand is as bad (if not worse) than just ignoring the problem entirely; trying to 'sanitize' the discussion by prettying-up the language used is disingenuous at best. You want to change hearts and minds on issues of race? Then everyone needs to experience how ugly and disgusting it actually is.
I hear you, and and I agree with you, and my solution to these problems is for there to be a full set of manual controls, and drivers continue to be educated, trained, tested, and licensed, just like always, and consider the 'autonomous' system to be mainly a very sophisticated form of cruise control, mainly to relieve driver fatigue on long drives. In fact, based on certain revelations I've had recently about the current state of driver training, driver education and training needs some serious reform to address various deficiencies in drivers' skill-sets.
You've been modded down to 'Troll' status, and that's wrong. We are being 'monitored' more and more, and it's making our world feel more like we're prisoners in a penitentiary than free citizens, and it does need to stop. You're far from alone in not wanting to be tracked and watched everywhere you go, 24/7/365, and don't you forget that for a moment. Keep fighting the good fight.
In the great likelihood that there is life elsewhere in our Universe there is also a great likelihood that any intelligent life that evolves would have societies of greatly diverse natures, so there's a high likelihood that an advanced civilization would be better 'citizens' (for lack of a better term) than Humans currently are. There's also been more than one great mind that has postulated that any advanced civilization that attained the capability for interstellar flight would also be above things like war. Excuse me for being optimistic!
How the actual fuck are you calling me 'racist' when it's blindingly obvious to anyone with at least two working brain cells that I have nothing but contempt and disgust for the kind of people to whom I am referring, and by the way the usage of the word 'negroes' is period-accurate for the 1950's? More likely you're the 'great white males' to whom I refer and your reaction to being called out for who and what you are is to throw rocks at ME. Get correct.
Many believe "military action is in order". I hope not, but I hear people say hings like that all the time.
Sure, and there are people out there who would like to return the United States to life in the 1950's, except without 'negroes' and no voting rights for women. They're the ones who need to be stamped out, not the rest of us. Luckily humans have a finite lifespan, and the 'great white male' is slowly but surely dying out.
Yeah no kidding. Take a step outside yourself for a moment and try to see us through extraterrestrial eyes: We treat our own kind like absolute crap. Under pressure, which is when you find out what someone is really like, you discover that we're still mostly animals. We kill each other for stupid reasons. There's a whole list of things I'm not even going to get into here, but the bottom line is, in my opinion, any extraterresttrial civilization that is more advanced than we are, probably is going to avoid us if possible because as a race we're a hot mess. We have lots of potential, but you'd need to come back in a few thousand years to see if we're even still around, and if we've grown out of this atavistic adolescent phase we're going through. Of course on the other hand, I'm not the first (or the last) person to suggest that the best thing that could happen to the human race right about now, would be to discover that there's massive amounts of highly advanced civilizations out there in our own galaxy, and that they've come to introduce themselves to us. Realizing how tiny a speck of dust the Earth is, and how tiny and insignificant the Human race is compared to everyone else out there in the Milky Way, might just scare us straight and make us clean up our respective acts. Or, it might just push us over the edge into apocalypse. Either way we'd get off the fence.
What I said came more from a 'having a professional reputation to protect' perspective (for the state-legalized brothels), and I'll admit that I may have been having a 'Firefly/Serenity' moment there ('companions' being a respectable profession) and as such qualifies as 'wishful thinking' on my part. As cynical as I can be, there still manages to be a small spark of hope for humanity that doesn't seem to ever die.. but I diverge. The hard cold reality is, as you allude to, that humans don't value other humans very much at all, and more often than we'd like to admit use them as a commodity. It would be nice to live in a world where, if a woman is involved in a sex-oriented profession, it's because she chooses to do so (ala-the Firefly/Serenity universe), but the hard cold reality is most often they're forced and trapped into it by one means or another, sometimes literally from birth, and the whole thing just makes me sick to my stomach. How much sicker can someone get, if they're not only abducting women and forcing them into the sex trade, but if/when they get pregnant, raising children into that world, such that they go through their lives not even knowing anything other than being used for sex? If there were, in fact, interstellar alien civilizations out there who have been visiting the Earth clandestinely, it's no wonder that they wouldn't contact us openly, seeing how we act so much like animals, instead of actual civilized, sentient beings like we do as a race. I enjoy and appreciate when individual humans and small groups of humans demonstrate that they can be higher minded and more inspired than the average, but then there's the teeming hordes of atavistic animals that seem to exist only to serve their own mouths and genitals. Makes me wonder sometimes if we, as a race, even deserve to survive. (there's me getting cynical again)
..grandparent..
Oh and by the way you can leave off with that bullshit right now.
That's a totally different ballgame (so to speak). If it's 100% legal then there's no percentage in screwing over the customers (pun not intended).
A brothel is at least an honest business.
Please, tell me you're not that naive..
Someone else, above, said 'when you're in a hole, stop digging!', which is good advice -- unless your intention is to draw as much attention to yourself as possible. I'm still holding out for the idea that somehow this whole 'hacking' event was engineered and staged by Ashley Madison themselves, perhaps for generating large sums of money via blackmail, and to also generate as much interest in their business as possible, so when they 'rise from the ashes' of this incident, security ostensibly renovated and reinforced, they'll have an even larger client base than ever before, despite all the revelations of fraud. Before anyone objects: Do you really put anything past people who would run a business like this one? Seriously, it's only a half-step above running a brothel.
âoeIf he was Canadian-American or French-American, or he was from the U.K., would this have ever even got on the governmentâ(TM)s radar? I donâ(TM)t think so,â Mr. Zeidenberg said.
Is the above statement true? Yes. Our over-zealous, control-freak-infested FBI/CIA/NSA/DoJ came in with guns blazing, maybe imagining they'd uncovered a Chinese intelligence operative stealing American secrets. However, the above quote can be seen another way: If the Chinese government wasn't adversarial (on a good day) with the U.S., and downright hostile to it (on a bad day), and didn't perpetually demonstrate that they can't be trusted, then this wouldn't have happened, either. While I fervently believe that the Chinese populace is no different from people anywhere else in the world (they just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace!) and that they (if allowed to speak up!) have many, many very valid complaints about their government, I also know that it's not the Chinese people we have to worry about, it's their government, and I wouldn't put it past their government to play the long game to get a government-loyal scientist into the U.S., naturalized as a citizen, for the sole purpose of spying on us and stealing from us. Is this the case in this instance? Who knows. The evidence presented here points to it not being the case this time.
Don't be an asshole. It interrupts the productive discussion.
Expecting anonymous posters on the Internet to 'not be an asshole' is like the fox not expecting the scorpion to sting it once he's carried it to the other side of the river. There are several different circumstances in which you find out what people are really like, and the ability to post things anonymously on the Internet is definitely one of them: without the feedback loop of some sort of consequences for their actions, some people show no restraint whatsoever because unlike a mature and reasonable person, they have little or no internal feedback loop to self-regulate their actions, and they default to the lowest common denominator of behavior.
While credit card companies and payment companies like PayPal do have the right to decide who they will and will not do business with, a conspiracy between organizations like the MPAA, RIAA, and credit card companies to arbitrarily black-ball someone else's company smacks of anti-trust in my opinion. Without some sort of regulation, companies blackballed by this cabal of corporate giants would have only prohibitively expensive civil litigation to try to reverse the chilling effects it would have on their livelihood. This cadre of corporations could (and just might) use their combined power to destroy competition by branding them 'pirates'.
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..OK, I sometimes, apparently, forget the Internet is world-wide. I'm in the U.S.; I'd expect driving habits/driver education and training to be different in other countries, but I'm specifically talking about drivers here in the U.S. Sorry for the confusion.
I don't know about any conspiracy-theory nonsense, unless you have facts to back that up, but otherwise I'm OK with this sort of technology -- so long as it actually works properly 100% of the time and doesn't do something stupid that actually gets you into an accident instead. Otherwise I've done fine without such things for 35 years of driving, I can do fine without it for however many more years, too.
While we're talking about driving.. what the hell are they teaching new drivers these days, that they don't know you're supposed to match velocities with the rest of the traffic when entering a freeway? I'm serious, they're getting on a freeway that's humming along at 70-75mph, and they're doing it at maybe 60mph. I see this every single day, too. Do they think they're going to break their cars or something, if they stomp the accelerator pedal?
Y U SO MAD THO? XD XD XD
Really, kid, go back to 4chan. That's clearly where you belong. Or go do your homework or something.
..sideways, with a rusty chainsaw, vigorously, and with great prejudice . Their so-called 'mission' is to control everyone and everything, and to hell with 'civil rights' and any 'rights' in general. The 'terrorists' they claim to protect us from must be splitting their sides from laughing so hard at us, and celebrating their great victory over the West.