It's less the "whacking things with a club" element I question, but rather the use of the term "hunting" when referring to the practice of literally walking up to an animal and killing it, because it wasn't afraid of you. "To hunt" implies at least some sort of challenge.
What OP is referring to is more accurately described as a slaughter.
Betcha won't though. Posting "I'm considering leaving" on Slashdot is the internet equivalent of a passive-aggressive note on an office fridge. You won't do anything and we all know it.
Not to mention, being a pussy and fleeing doesn't fix anything. Look at how the US and NZ governments colluded to spy on and share information about Kim Dotcom, for allegedly violating copyright. If you think that running and hiding will somehow free you from the authoritarian grip of the terrorist organization known as the US government, you're a fucking imbecile.
There's only one way to fix this, and that's to fight it, any and every way we can think of.
The guy's Indian, and to your average dimwitted, racist TSA goon that's just another variety of "terr'ist sand-nigger." They're not even smart enough to be racist properly.
You, sirrah, have made my morning, and I thank you for it!
I don't know about the Hylux, but a few years ago I considered having an R34 Skyline imported, especially since Japan requires cars to be retired at somewhere around 30-40K miles (can't remember the exact figure).
Anyway, from what I read it would have been at least $30,000 to import the car itself, and another $30K to have the emissions converted to the USA standard. I figured that, as much as I love the R34 styling, if I was going to drop 60 large on an all-wheel-drive beastmobile, I might as well get a GTR.
Braking systems have become so effective that, for the average driver, response time negates any difference between passenger vehicles.
As a mechanic, I'm curious as to what you mean by that.
FWIW, the first time you crest a hill on the interstate at speed, only to find a complete blockage less than 50 yards from your current position, you'll eat those words (and hopefully nothing else).
I don't think I've seen a car made in the past decade or so that had a 0-60 time slower than 8 seconds
Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic.
2013 Toyota Corolla S 0-60 mph 8.5 (barely over 8)
I looked up Civics, and was surprised to see that pretty much every model on the chart was slower than the Corolla. That was moderately unexpected, considering the "ricer" angle.
Smart Fortwo
Aw, c'mon - that's not a car, it's a glorified golf cart.
Well, maybe not forever, but at least for a couple thousand years, that would be nice. I also would like the option of killing myself in an event that I consider my current circumstances to be worse than death. Though complete immortality (like Captain Jack from Doctor Who) would still be preferable to death.
That's something I've never understood about people; while I understand lacking a desire to end your own life early, what's so terrifying about the inevitable conclusion that is death?
complete immortality (like Captain Jack from Doctor Who) would still be preferable to death.
That's easy enough to say for someone who hasn't had to deal with 10 billion years of other lifeforms and their bullshit.
- postal equipment is a niche market, and doesn't directly affect the lives of the ignorant masses.
- You didn't introduce the equipment by claiming that people are too stupid to sort mail.
Like I said, it's human nature to resist change - especially if those pushing for the change are being unbearable pricks about it, which is rather common among the pro-auto-car crowd.
Tell most people that they shouldn't be allowed manual control of their vehicle because you believe they aren't smart enough to operate it correctly, and I'd guess 8 times out of 10 the response you get is somewhere along the lines of "go fuck yourself," with possible variations of "who died and made you king of driving, dickhead?"
FWIW, I reside in a rural area, far outside the US's Constitution-Free Zone, and attitudes seem to be a bit different around these parts than what you see in coastal population centers. Auto-cars might end up being the next big whiz-bang thing for NY and LA, but I doubt it'll get us off our tractors.
just pretend he said canadian charter or rights and freedoms
thank goodness its a private contractor or the government likely would have invested millions into research and invented some sort of stealthed beach mobile to do the task
For some reason, when I read this the first image that popped into my head was a Canuck with his hockey stick hiding inside a giant, camouflage beach ball...
The actual answer to his question was given in the summary, the Tesla outscored every single car in every single category. Your question only makes sense if you ONLY care about safety ratings when buying a car, which would be just as dumb as ignoring them completely.
Yea I thought that was pretty clear when I said it. Guess I should have been meaner in my choice of words.
The REAL question you should be asking is, "If I'm going to buy a $100k car, why would I buy anything but the best?" This is why Tesla is giving BMW/Audi/etc. a run for their money.
"Best" is subjective. To me, the "best" luxury performance car doesn't have more than 2 seats, nor does it take 8 hours to fill the tank from empty.
Wrong question; what you should be asking is, "why spend 100K, when I can buy a car with an almost equivalent safety rating for leas than half that price?
You can buy a car with a 5 star safety rating AND which performs like a Tesla for half the money? Where can I find this incredible vehicle?
Nobody buys a car just for the safety rating. Your argument is a strawman.
No, you just moved the goalposts by adding "performs like a Tesla." I never said dick about performance.
If safety is the concern, you should be far more worried about the 60-0 time than the inverse.
I don't think I've seen a car made in the past decade or so that had a 0-60 time slower than 8 seconds, and FWIW, one could argue that if everyone's car had 0-60 times in the teens, the roads would be even safer.
A link in TFA directs to another Consumer Reports blog post in which the author lavishes praise on the Tesla by comparing it to a $30K Volvo. That's the only reason I made the comparison.
so if he were to replace his truck with a Tesla (bit far fetched since he actually needs the truck for truck things),
Just wanted to say - thanks for acknowledging that some of us drive trucks because we use them.
Personally, I've considered getting a dinky little EV for short trips and any local driving where I'm not hauling stuff, but the ROI just isn't there, and I'm not a fan of feeling like I'm traveling down the road in a sardine can.
The only long term advantage to an apartment is the elimination of the risk and rewards associated with home ownership - there is no possibility of accumulating any equity, but if the housing market crashes and suddenly your apartment block is worth half what it was a year ago, that is completely not your problem.
Roof leaks? Termite problems? Shoddy work by contractors (near-universal in anything built during the bubble)? Completely not my problem.
Appliance dies? Call the landlord, new fridge in 2 days.
How nice it must be to have never, ever had to deal with a slum lord...
FWIW, I once went for 2 weeks (the legal limit) without a working heater. In January. Because the utility company red-flagged it for leaking so much CO into the apartment that my wife and pets almost died. Why was it exhausting into the residence? Because the idiot landlord had secured the vent pipe with a bit of coat-hanger.
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It's less the "whacking things with a club" element I question, but rather the use of the term "hunting" when referring to the practice of literally walking up to an animal and killing it, because it wasn't afraid of you. "To hunt" implies at least some sort of challenge.
What OP is referring to is more accurately described as a slaughter.
He doesn't fail to understand, he refuses to acknowledge that he's a thief. Cognitive dissonance via mental gymnastics.
How do you figure it is morally wrong to take a copy of something without permission?
I figured the whole "without permission" part kind of made that obvious.
At least, obvious to anyone who isn't a moron and/or thief.
Minor bitch:
Reign in the NSA? Should be our top priority.
Rein, not Reign (w/ the g it means "to rule over")
That's all, have a great weekend - hope it doesn't rain.
I'm considering leaving the country.
Betcha won't though. Posting "I'm considering leaving" on Slashdot is the internet equivalent of a passive-aggressive note on an office fridge. You won't do anything and we all know it.
Not to mention, being a pussy and fleeing doesn't fix anything. Look at how the US and NZ governments colluded to spy on and share information about Kim Dotcom, for allegedly violating copyright. If you think that running and hiding will somehow free you from the authoritarian grip of the terrorist organization known as the US government, you're a fucking imbecile.
There's only one way to fix this, and that's to fight it, any and every way we can think of.
The guy's Indian, and to your average dimwitted, racist TSA goon that's just another variety of "terr'ist sand-nigger." They're not even smart enough to be racist properly.
You, sirrah, have made my morning, and I thank you for it!
I don't know about the Hylux, but a few years ago I considered having an R34 Skyline imported, especially since Japan requires cars to be retired at somewhere around 30-40K miles (can't remember the exact figure).
Anyway, from what I read it would have been at least $30,000 to import the car itself, and another $30K to have the emissions converted to the USA standard. I figured that, as much as I love the R34 styling, if I was going to drop 60 large on an all-wheel-drive beastmobile, I might as well get a GTR.
Commercialization and demand for profitability - the 2 fastest ways to fuck up a good idea.
Maybe everyone is just snubbing you because you're a douchebag.
Just a thought.
Nice example of what psychologists refer to as "transference."
But the wording of your post clearly implies that the only reason to pay more than $50k for any car would be to get a higher crash test rating,
Only if the individual fits the caveat: " ...if you're the sort who cares for safety ratings when making purchasing decisions."
I never stated, nor implied anything in such general terms as you are presuming.
Braking systems have become so effective that, for the average driver, response time negates any difference between passenger vehicles.
As a mechanic, I'm curious as to what you mean by that.
FWIW, the first time you crest a hill on the interstate at speed, only to find a complete blockage less than 50 yards from your current position, you'll eat those words (and hopefully nothing else).
I don't think I've seen a car made in the past decade or so that had a 0-60 time slower than 8 seconds
Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic.
2013 Toyota Corolla S 0-60 mph 8.5 (barely over 8)
I looked up Civics, and was surprised to see that pretty much every model on the chart was slower than the Corolla. That was moderately unexpected, considering the "ricer" angle.
Smart Fortwo
Aw, c'mon - that's not a car, it's a glorified golf cart.
Well, maybe not forever, but at least for a couple thousand years, that would be nice. I also would like the option of killing myself in an event that I consider my current circumstances to be worse than death. Though complete immortality (like Captain Jack from Doctor Who) would still be preferable to death.
That's something I've never understood about people; while I understand lacking a desire to end your own life early, what's so terrifying about the inevitable conclusion that is death?
complete immortality (like Captain Jack from Doctor Who) would still be preferable to death.
That's easy enough to say for someone who hasn't had to deal with 10 billion years of other lifeforms and their bullshit.
It also means that any privacy violations (or HIPAA violations, as mentioned above), go live without anyone having a chance to review beforehand.
This sword, it has 2 edges.
This is all about not creating evidence that could cost the government money.
I think you mean loaned Chinese and Global Banking Cartel money, because that's who foots the bill.
FTFY. Our government hasn't been able to cover their tab with just taxes for a long, long time.
Couple of differences:
- postal equipment is a niche market, and doesn't directly affect the lives of the ignorant masses.
- You didn't introduce the equipment by claiming that people are too stupid to sort mail.
Like I said, it's human nature to resist change - especially if those pushing for the change are being unbearable pricks about it, which is rather common among the pro-auto-car crowd.
Tell most people that they shouldn't be allowed manual control of their vehicle because you believe they aren't smart enough to operate it correctly, and I'd guess 8 times out of 10 the response you get is somewhere along the lines of "go fuck yourself," with possible variations of "who died and made you king of driving, dickhead?"
FWIW, I reside in a rural area, far outside the US's Constitution-Free Zone, and attitudes seem to be a bit different around these parts than what you see in coastal population centers. Auto-cars might end up being the next big whiz-bang thing for NY and LA, but I doubt it'll get us off our tractors.
I'd love to hunt these things (they're so unafraid of humans now that you could whack them with a club).
That's a an odd definition of the word, 'hunt,' you have there.
Somewhere they occasionally fit in "attacking some random person for not giving them breadcrumbs."
just pretend he said canadian charter or rights and freedoms
thank goodness its a private contractor or the government likely would have invested millions into research and invented some sort of stealthed beach mobile to do the task
For some reason, when I read this the first image that popped into my head was a Canuck with his hockey stick hiding inside a giant, camouflage beach ball...
The actual answer to his question was given in the summary, the Tesla outscored every single car in every single category. Your question only makes sense if you ONLY care about safety ratings when buying a car, which would be just as dumb as ignoring them completely.
Yea I thought that was pretty clear when I said it. Guess I should have been meaner in my choice of words.
The REAL question you should be asking is, "If I'm going to buy a $100k car, why would I buy anything but the best?" This is why Tesla is giving BMW/Audi/etc. a run for their money.
"Best" is subjective. To me, the "best" luxury performance car doesn't have more than 2 seats, nor does it take 8 hours to fill the tank from empty.
Wrong question; what you should be asking is, "why spend 100K, when I can buy a car with an almost equivalent safety rating for leas than half that price?
You can buy a car with a 5 star safety rating AND which performs like a Tesla for half the money? Where can I find this incredible vehicle?
Nobody buys a car just for the safety rating. Your argument is a strawman.
No, you just moved the goalposts by adding "performs like a Tesla." I never said dick about performance.
If safety is the concern, you should be far more worried about the 60-0 time than the inverse.
I don't think I've seen a car made in the past decade or so that had a 0-60 time slower than 8 seconds, and FWIW, one could argue that if everyone's car had 0-60 times in the teens, the roads would be even safer.
Hummers are dangerous to other people. The Model S isn't.
I'm sorry, what? One inanimate object is inherently dangerous, but an extremely similar inanimate object isn't?
Please clarify.
FWIW, 32K is close enough to 30K.
A link in TFA directs to another Consumer Reports blog post in which the author lavishes praise on the Tesla by comparing it to a $30K Volvo. That's the only reason I made the comparison.
so if he were to replace his truck with a Tesla (bit far fetched since he actually needs the truck for truck things),
Just wanted to say - thanks for acknowledging that some of us drive trucks because we use them.
Personally, I've considered getting a dinky little EV for short trips and any local driving where I'm not hauling stuff, but the ROI just isn't there, and I'm not a fan of feeling like I'm traveling down the road in a sardine can.
The only long term advantage to an apartment is the elimination of the risk and rewards associated with home ownership - there is no possibility of accumulating any equity, but if the housing market crashes and suddenly your apartment block is worth half what it was a year ago, that is completely not your problem.
Roof leaks? Termite problems? Shoddy work by contractors (near-universal in anything built during the bubble)? Completely not my problem.
Appliance dies? Call the landlord, new fridge in 2 days.
How nice it must be to have never, ever had to deal with a slum lord...
FWIW, I once went for 2 weeks (the legal limit) without a working heater. In January. Because the utility company red-flagged it for leaking so much CO into the apartment that my wife and pets almost died. Why was it exhausting into the residence? Because the idiot landlord had secured the vent pipe with a bit of coat-hanger.
Fuck renting.