My experience in college has been that I don't learn anything in class. It has been the most expensive msitake of my life. Don't learn a darn thing and they charge you enough to buy a McMansion by the time the screw you over with money grab after money grab. Then you have all the minorities who are heavily subsidized (maybe 10%-15% of classes) and are wasting my money by being there and getting nothing from it. The class is always brought down to the dumbest common denominator, which means the rest of us can't learn. Every now and again you find a person with a mental disability in the class, they're probably heavily subsidized as well and they are nothing but a disruption and distraction, not to mention they davalue my degree. Then there's all the rich kids whose parents pay for their $40k+/yr tuition and just make a big party out of it, not even trying to learn anything. If I either got fired or quit from my current job, went job hunting and one of these idiots or mentally handicapped folks interviewed before me, I guarantee they wouldn't take me seriously since the retard they just interviewed has the same degree from the same school.
All that aside, I always have my laptop with me in every class. In most classes it's required for various shenanigans. Labs or codesod that needs writing, essentially mindless busy work. It's also useful to have slides or notes open to page forward or back for reference. I admit I rarely pay attention since the professors don't teach much I don't already know, but I always follow along with slides and material on my notebook. Usually while getting real work done, for work. In the rare event a professor is talking about something I don't know much about, I can quickly scan over the relevant slides, compare to previous slides as needed, aand google for a proper and more detailed explanation to learn what I really need to know about the topic. The small amount htat I have learned could have been done far cheaper, more effectively, and more thoroughly in my own time.
College amounts to a cruel joke. It's just a big scam to make some people rich. The joke is on all the fools like me who were told all through childhood "Go to school and get a degree, it's worth any cost". So that's what I did, and it was not worth any cost. It really wasn't worth a damn at all. I expected to learn a lot of useful things to use at work. I haven't learned anything relevant to my career, and not have been scammed out of a small fortune and left with nothing. College is the biggest scam there is and it has nothing to do with using laptops in class.
In a free country with a free market, that's irrelevant. Shame no such thing exists anymore.
But think of it this way, a vehicle with minimal emissions controls that gets an additional 15-20 MPG uses less fuel. Less pollution from manufacturing and transporting that fuel. Perhaps more parts per million come out the exhaust, but there are fewer millions coming out the exhaust per mile traveled, and thus potentially less net pollution per mile than a lower emission vehicle that gets relatively poor fuel mileage.
Factor in a few extra starters over the life of the vehicle at anywhere from $75-$150/each and those savings in fuel economy might actually cost you money.
Flawed logic. The monetary savings from small increases in MPG are significantly larger when dealing with vehicles that get low MPG. For example, pulling my trailer with my truck (Total about 11,000 lbs) I can get about 10 MPG in hilly terrain at 70 MPH. If you gave me another 2 MPG I would notice it. For example, let's look at cost per mile and savings per mile given a 2 MPG increase. For comparison sake, and since I'm curious, I'll use my truck towing (10 MPG) vs. my motorcylce (42 MPG). Fuel used in each is 93 octane. I don't recall what it costs but I seem to remember seeing a sign for $3.20/gal recently.
10 MPG: $.32/mi
12 MPG: $.27/mi
Savings: $.05/mi
42 MPG: $.076/mi
44 MPG: $.073
Savings: $.003/mi
To put these in perspective, for my instance, to save $100 in gas, I would have to drive only 2000 miles in the truck while pulling my trailer. So in my case I'd save about $100/yr. with a 2 MPG increase in towing MPG in the truck.
To save $100 with a 2 MPG increase on the bike, it would take 33,333 miles. Assuming about 4000 miles/yr on the bike, it would take over 8 years to save $100 from a 2 MPG increase, or alternatively I'd save $12/yr.
Assuming a different scenario, driving each vehicle exclusively for a year that an average American supposedly drive 12,000 miles. A 2 MPG increase on a 10 MPG vehicle would save $600. A 2 MPG increase on a 42 MPG vehicle would save $36. The numbers speak for themselves.
I sold a '67 Ford that had about 325,000 miles on the original 289 and FMX transmission, though it blew oil out the dipstick if you were on the highway for long enough. Rings were worn but it still ran smooth. Actually sold it because I had a nicer '68 Ford and didn't need two cars.
Generally though I keep vehicles forever. It's cheaper to rebuild an engine or transmission than to buy a new car. It's also cheaper to replace a rusted body panel than buy a new car. Also to replace weather stripping, a windshield, etc. I buy vehicles with the intent to keep them pretty much forever, since you can't buy a decent new car anymore.
Wrong. The EPA and NHTSA will not allow those cars made for European markets in the States.They do not meet ridiculous US safety mandates (free market and customer choice be damned) and they do not meet EPA emissions mandates. To modify the vehicles to meet safety and emissions standards would be ridiculously expensive. The emissions part wouldn't be terrible, a few tweaks here and there, lose 10-20 MPG, and emissions are met, but safety involves extensive redesign if the vehicle wasn't originally designed with both markets in mind.
Basically, the the time the car would be legal for sale in the States, it would no longer make sense. It would be a ridiculously expensive subcompact that gets mediocre mileage... Basically waht we have plenty of now.
For comparison, a compact car from the early 60s, a Falcon with a 144 cubic inch six cylinder and 3 speed manual could get over 30 MPG on the highway. I know, I used to have one. That car was large by current econobox standards, and had a large engine by current econobox standards, but without all the safety and emissions mandates it was possible to make a cheap and simple car that delivered great fuel economy and was reliable and easy to maintain. How come we don't see any new cars in that price range and size getting significantly better MPG? Thank the EPA and NHTSA for that.
I have never once had a problem at self checkout,...
and my home improvement purchases, I swear by self checkout.
Purchasing a few 2x12's, which have tags on most now at the home improvement store I sometimes use. "Please place the item in the bagging area" Yeah, I fucking can't, it's 2"x12"x10'! Proceed to wait for clerk to make error disappear. Then try to scan some fasteners, most of which are tagged. Have to scan each individually, wait to register on computer, place in bagging area, then scan next identical item. At which point some will not have tags, yet are identical to previous fasteners. Okay, So I pull one out of bagging area to scan, at which point the system flips out because I pulled an item out of the bagging area before paying. It's insanity.
If I go to the local hardware store and grab a whole whack of fasteners I get no hassle. I just walk up with a fist full of fasteners or my pockets full of them and say "16 at $.14, 6 at $.80,..." bam, done. In and out no problem no hassle no aggravation. Moral of the story, some high school kid getting $5/hr or whatever is a lot more efficient and intelligent than these self serve lines at the big name stores.
These searches are a flagrant vilation of our Fourth Amendment rights. Furthermore, TSA does not have up to date information on which airports have these porno scanners. So if you go to an airport not listed as having porno scanners, decide you don't want to be blasted with radiation, have naked pictures taken, or groped, you cannot leave without being jailed and slapped with an $11,000+ fine.
Want to know why 9/11 happened? Why those planes were able to be flown into those buildings? It happened because your government disarmed every honest person on those planes.
Simple solution, leave airline security to the airlines. I'll fly the airline that treats me with the msot respect as a customer and allows me to carry what I'd like onboard. until then, I do not fly anymore.
Simple solution is to eliminate all entitlement and welfare programs. Lazy moochers aren't a problem, and anyone who wants such things as health care, a place to live, or food will work for it if they want it bad enough, or seek help from some entity other than government who may be sympathetic toward them.
I would say it would more more tied to a sadism gene than an empathy gene. It's sadistic to steal, at gunpoint, from those who earn and give to those who don't. It's also sadistic to trample the natural rights of man.
They aren't stealing from you. Most of them pay taxes and few of them actually get any government services. The jobs that they take are ones that even now in this economy are going unfilled in terms of legal workers.
The UFW has been trying to get people to come take those jobs, and it's been tough going, few people are desperate enough to take the jobs.
Simple solution, stop redistributing my money. I'm poor, get taxed insanely high both on income, sales, and all the hidden taxes our government imposes on us. I don't want to pay anyone else's way and I don't want anyone else to pay my way. End unemployment handouts, welfare handouts, etc. and people will take those jobs. People out of work won't take them now because they are getting a paycheck (maybe more than those jobs pay) to sit around and do nothing all day. If the choice is clean bathrooms, pick vegetables, clear tables, work in a factory, etc or STARVE, people will work those jobs while doing what it takes to find something better.
I'll take the alternative, legalize all these victimless crimes. Rips the carpet right out from under the drug lords, gangs, cartels, etc. Also creates another source of tax revenue... Tax these other things just like anything else or as a "sin tax" if you are the messed up type that wishes to force your morals on others.
Highly doubtful this fellow was carrying any automatic weapon at a bar and around on the street. While it is a Constitutionally protected right to do so, it is illegal in many states to open carry automatic firearms. More than likely he used some sort of 1911 based pistol which he was probably legally carrying until the point of intoxication, at which point he should have no longer been carrying.
I used to game when there was no DRM and if I wanted to pirate it was as simple as copying floppies. I bought a game every months or two and rarely pirated.
I carried this thorugh the CD check era and simply used no-CD cracks. When no CD cracks limited me from running the latest cersion of some games or palying online, I stopped buying games. Anymore it's rare that I buy new games. I deal with the DRM in Steam for HL2 because I only play it online with DoD mod. That's really the only game I play anymore. It's cheaper since I don't need to upgrade my computer or buy new games, and easier because I don't sweat having to circumvent the latest DRM so I can enjoy my games how I want to play them.
I now waste a lot less time on video games and spend more time doing fun active things, so in a way DRM has improved my life by pushing me away from wasting time and money on video games and computer upgrades.
They shouldn't have had kids in the first place, but be that as it may they can get loans and go further into debt to get their kids a basic education, or provide the best they can at home. If this fails, well, if we stop coddling criminals and encouraging lethargy with our current unemployment and welfare systems these folks will either starve, get locked up/executed depending on their crime, shot by someone in self defense, or maybe, just maybe teach themselves a skill and get a job.
It may seem harsh, but I have no sympathy for those who sit around collecting their "bennies" on my dime and choose not to work for a living.
The problem when you do something like that is you get even more of what we have now, a ineffective school system which teaches government mandated tests and does not teach useful valuable information that may be either intellectually satisfying or flat out practical in life. There's no time for that, as the kids are basically in one big braindump.
I believe a better solution is to make parents pay for their children's school, non-parents don't pay. Also give them the option of taking their tax dolalrs that would go inot the local public school to another public school if they wish to send their children there, or take their tax dollars and put them towards a private school instead of any public school. Give people the choice to vote with their money and their feet and schools will shape up or go under. Bottom line is it would not allow underperforming schools to sit and be content providing the status quo.
These unions need to stop whining and get on with something productive. I can tell whether a teacher has tenure after a brief conversation. It's so obvious in their attitude, it's like once they get tenure and know they can't be fired (unless they screw up really bad) it's like someone flipped the 'give a damn' switch to off.
As for the rankings, it's not conclusive but there surely is some correlation. I'd like to know simply because I subsidize these schools and pay the teacher's salaries (which are rather high in most cases). I deserve to know what the money forcibly taken from me to pay for things I do not use or condone is doing.
Competition wil lcorrect the messed up situation with tenured teachers. You can tell the change in attitude the day they get tenure. If they had no tenure, combined with only taxing those with children for schools, the situation would improve.
Where competition comes in, is should a parent decide they don't like the local public school they should be able to take their child AND their money to a private school, or even another public school. Parents who don't want their kids going to urban gang training centers still have to subsidize them, and those with no kid ssubsidize them as well. A better solution is to directly bill the parents. It would lower costs and introduce competition. There also wouldn't be absurd costs like in my town where they spent a fortune to astroturf a perfectly good little league field along with other small fortunes on the sports teams while not offering a good education to the kids who are stuck going there.
I agree, rural areas should not be subsidized, but don't make me subsidize your backwards gang training centers... Oh, I mean schools. Regardless, subsidization of anything is bad. It allows those who fail to continue to fail and do poorly as you reward them for it and lower the cost to encourage people to buy into whatever the good or service may be.
No, cut subsidies of all forms of transportation and do not tax them at all, reduce regulation. Let them each win of their own merit.
Personally I prefer rail simply because the cronies from the government only trample my rights a little bit on rail. Eliminate the TSA and let the airlines and railroads use their own security or lack thereof as a selling point.
This is just punishment not prevention. The real sad thing is DUI is like becoming a sex offender, it can happen to anyone for any reason. If the gestapo are in a bad mood or want to harass you more on some unconstitutional fishing expedition all they have to do is say "I smelled alcohol on his breath" They'll hammer you with DUI, and many folks will plead guilty to misdemeanor DUI over wahtever other trumped up possibly criminal charges they throw at you. They saw, "Listen, plead it down to a first time DUI and you can still drive, just pay a fine get a couple points and in a few years you're back to normal", meanwhile you hadn't had a drink since that barbeque three weeks ago.
Just like being labeled a sex offender, gotta piss real bad and no rest rooms around, step off into the woods and go while covered by a tree of bush... Some liberal yuppie walks past and bam, you're labeled a sex offender for life. This is about punishment and revenue collection, nothing more, nothing less. Guilt or innocence has no play here. Welcome to liberal hell.
Besides, even drunk I could hotwire a car no problem. It's not rocket science.
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My experience in college has been that I don't learn anything in class. It has been the most expensive msitake of my life. Don't learn a darn thing and they charge you enough to buy a McMansion by the time the screw you over with money grab after money grab. Then you have all the minorities who are heavily subsidized (maybe 10%-15% of classes) and are wasting my money by being there and getting nothing from it. The class is always brought down to the dumbest common denominator, which means the rest of us can't learn. Every now and again you find a person with a mental disability in the class, they're probably heavily subsidized as well and they are nothing but a disruption and distraction, not to mention they davalue my degree. Then there's all the rich kids whose parents pay for their $40k+/yr tuition and just make a big party out of it, not even trying to learn anything. If I either got fired or quit from my current job, went job hunting and one of these idiots or mentally handicapped folks interviewed before me, I guarantee they wouldn't take me seriously since the retard they just interviewed has the same degree from the same school.
All that aside, I always have my laptop with me in every class. In most classes it's required for various shenanigans. Labs or codesod that needs writing, essentially mindless busy work. It's also useful to have slides or notes open to page forward or back for reference. I admit I rarely pay attention since the professors don't teach much I don't already know, but I always follow along with slides and material on my notebook. Usually while getting real work done, for work. In the rare event a professor is talking about something I don't know much about, I can quickly scan over the relevant slides, compare to previous slides as needed, aand google for a proper and more detailed explanation to learn what I really need to know about the topic. The small amount htat I have learned could have been done far cheaper, more effectively, and more thoroughly in my own time.
College amounts to a cruel joke. It's just a big scam to make some people rich. The joke is on all the fools like me who were told all through childhood "Go to school and get a degree, it's worth any cost". So that's what I did, and it was not worth any cost. It really wasn't worth a damn at all. I expected to learn a lot of useful things to use at work. I haven't learned anything relevant to my career, and not have been scammed out of a small fortune and left with nothing. College is the biggest scam there is and it has nothing to do with using laptops in class.
Do what you're told, be a good little tax paying slave and don't rock the boat...
In a free country with a free market, that's irrelevant. Shame no such thing exists anymore.
But think of it this way, a vehicle with minimal emissions controls that gets an additional 15-20 MPG uses less fuel. Less pollution from manufacturing and transporting that fuel. Perhaps more parts per million come out the exhaust, but there are fewer millions coming out the exhaust per mile traveled, and thus potentially less net pollution per mile than a lower emission vehicle that gets relatively poor fuel mileage.
Factor in a few extra starters over the life of the vehicle at anywhere from $75-$150/each and those savings in fuel economy might actually cost you money.
10 MPG: $.32/mi
12 MPG: $.27/mi
Savings: $.05/mi
42 MPG: $.076/mi
44 MPG: $.073
Savings: $.003/mi
To put these in perspective, for my instance, to save $100 in gas, I would have to drive only 2000 miles in the truck while pulling my trailer. So in my case I'd save about $100/yr. with a 2 MPG increase in towing MPG in the truck.
To save $100 with a 2 MPG increase on the bike, it would take 33,333 miles. Assuming about 4000 miles/yr on the bike, it would take over 8 years to save $100 from a 2 MPG increase, or alternatively I'd save $12/yr.
Assuming a different scenario, driving each vehicle exclusively for a year that an average American supposedly drive 12,000 miles. A 2 MPG increase on a 10 MPG vehicle would save $600. A 2 MPG increase on a 42 MPG vehicle would save $36. The numbers speak for themselves.
I sold a '67 Ford that had about 325,000 miles on the original 289 and FMX transmission, though it blew oil out the dipstick if you were on the highway for long enough. Rings were worn but it still ran smooth. Actually sold it because I had a nicer '68 Ford and didn't need two cars.
Generally though I keep vehicles forever. It's cheaper to rebuild an engine or transmission than to buy a new car. It's also cheaper to replace a rusted body panel than buy a new car. Also to replace weather stripping, a windshield, etc. I buy vehicles with the intent to keep them pretty much forever, since you can't buy a decent new car anymore.
Wrong. The EPA and NHTSA will not allow those cars made for European markets in the States.They do not meet ridiculous US safety mandates (free market and customer choice be damned) and they do not meet EPA emissions mandates. To modify the vehicles to meet safety and emissions standards would be ridiculously expensive. The emissions part wouldn't be terrible, a few tweaks here and there, lose 10-20 MPG, and emissions are met, but safety involves extensive redesign if the vehicle wasn't originally designed with both markets in mind.
Basically, the the time the car would be legal for sale in the States, it would no longer make sense. It would be a ridiculously expensive subcompact that gets mediocre mileage... Basically waht we have plenty of now.
For comparison, a compact car from the early 60s, a Falcon with a 144 cubic inch six cylinder and 3 speed manual could get over 30 MPG on the highway. I know, I used to have one. That car was large by current econobox standards, and had a large engine by current econobox standards, but without all the safety and emissions mandates it was possible to make a cheap and simple car that delivered great fuel economy and was reliable and easy to maintain. How come we don't see any new cars in that price range and size getting significantly better MPG? Thank the EPA and NHTSA for that.
I have never once had a problem at self checkout, ...
and my home improvement purchases, I swear by self checkout.
Purchasing a few 2x12's, which have tags on most now at the home improvement store I sometimes use. "Please place the item in the bagging area" Yeah, I fucking can't, it's 2"x12"x10'! Proceed to wait for clerk to make error disappear. Then try to scan some fasteners, most of which are tagged. Have to scan each individually, wait to register on computer, place in bagging area, then scan next identical item. At which point some will not have tags, yet are identical to previous fasteners. Okay, So I pull one out of bagging area to scan, at which point the system flips out because I pulled an item out of the bagging area before paying. It's insanity.
If I go to the local hardware store and grab a whole whack of fasteners I get no hassle. I just walk up with a fist full of fasteners or my pockets full of them and say "16 at $.14, 6 at $.80, ..." bam, done. In and out no problem no hassle no aggravation. Moral of the story, some high school kid getting $5/hr or whatever is a lot more efficient and intelligent than these self serve lines at the big name stores.
These searches are a flagrant vilation of our Fourth Amendment rights. Furthermore, TSA does not have up to date information on which airports have these porno scanners. So if you go to an airport not listed as having porno scanners, decide you don't want to be blasted with radiation, have naked pictures taken, or groped, you cannot leave without being jailed and slapped with an $11,000+ fine.
Want to know why 9/11 happened? Why those planes were able to be flown into those buildings? It happened because your government disarmed every honest person on those planes.
Simple solution, leave airline security to the airlines. I'll fly the airline that treats me with the msot respect as a customer and allows me to carry what I'd like onboard. until then, I do not fly anymore.
Simple solution is to eliminate all entitlement and welfare programs. Lazy moochers aren't a problem, and anyone who wants such things as health care, a place to live, or food will work for it if they want it bad enough, or seek help from some entity other than government who may be sympathetic toward them.
I would say it would more more tied to a sadism gene than an empathy gene. It's sadistic to steal, at gunpoint, from those who earn and give to those who don't. It's also sadistic to trample the natural rights of man.
Presumably neocons have their own gene too.
They aren't stealing from you. Most of them pay taxes and few of them actually get any government services. The jobs that they take are ones that even now in this economy are going unfilled in terms of legal workers. The UFW has been trying to get people to come take those jobs, and it's been tough going, few people are desperate enough to take the jobs.
Simple solution, stop redistributing my money. I'm poor, get taxed insanely high both on income, sales, and all the hidden taxes our government imposes on us. I don't want to pay anyone else's way and I don't want anyone else to pay my way. End unemployment handouts, welfare handouts, etc. and people will take those jobs. People out of work won't take them now because they are getting a paycheck (maybe more than those jobs pay) to sit around and do nothing all day. If the choice is clean bathrooms, pick vegetables, clear tables, work in a factory, etc or STARVE, people will work those jobs while doing what it takes to find something better.
I'll take the alternative, legalize all these victimless crimes. Rips the carpet right out from under the drug lords, gangs, cartels, etc. Also creates another source of tax revenue... Tax these other things just like anything else or as a "sin tax" if you are the messed up type that wishes to force your morals on others.
Highly doubtful this fellow was carrying any automatic weapon at a bar and around on the street. While it is a Constitutionally protected right to do so, it is illegal in many states to open carry automatic firearms. More than likely he used some sort of 1911 based pistol which he was probably legally carrying until the point of intoxication, at which point he should have no longer been carrying.
I used to game when there was no DRM and if I wanted to pirate it was as simple as copying floppies. I bought a game every months or two and rarely pirated.
I carried this thorugh the CD check era and simply used no-CD cracks. When no CD cracks limited me from running the latest cersion of some games or palying online, I stopped buying games. Anymore it's rare that I buy new games. I deal with the DRM in Steam for HL2 because I only play it online with DoD mod. That's really the only game I play anymore. It's cheaper since I don't need to upgrade my computer or buy new games, and easier because I don't sweat having to circumvent the latest DRM so I can enjoy my games how I want to play them.
I now waste a lot less time on video games and spend more time doing fun active things, so in a way DRM has improved my life by pushing me away from wasting time and money on video games and computer upgrades.
Not if your salary is paid by taxpayers.
They shouldn't have had kids in the first place, but be that as it may they can get loans and go further into debt to get their kids a basic education, or provide the best they can at home. If this fails, well, if we stop coddling criminals and encouraging lethargy with our current unemployment and welfare systems these folks will either starve, get locked up/executed depending on their crime, shot by someone in self defense, or maybe, just maybe teach themselves a skill and get a job.
It may seem harsh, but I have no sympathy for those who sit around collecting their "bennies" on my dime and choose not to work for a living.
The problem when you do something like that is you get even more of what we have now, a ineffective school system which teaches government mandated tests and does not teach useful valuable information that may be either intellectually satisfying or flat out practical in life. There's no time for that, as the kids are basically in one big braindump.
I believe a better solution is to make parents pay for their children's school, non-parents don't pay. Also give them the option of taking their tax dolalrs that would go inot the local public school to another public school if they wish to send their children there, or take their tax dollars and put them towards a private school instead of any public school. Give people the choice to vote with their money and their feet and schools will shape up or go under. Bottom line is it would not allow underperforming schools to sit and be content providing the status quo.
These unions need to stop whining and get on with something productive. I can tell whether a teacher has tenure after a brief conversation. It's so obvious in their attitude, it's like once they get tenure and know they can't be fired (unless they screw up really bad) it's like someone flipped the 'give a damn' switch to off.
As for the rankings, it's not conclusive but there surely is some correlation. I'd like to know simply because I subsidize these schools and pay the teacher's salaries (which are rather high in most cases). I deserve to know what the money forcibly taken from me to pay for things I do not use or condone is doing.
Competition wil lcorrect the messed up situation with tenured teachers. You can tell the change in attitude the day they get tenure. If they had no tenure, combined with only taxing those with children for schools, the situation would improve.
Where competition comes in, is should a parent decide they don't like the local public school they should be able to take their child AND their money to a private school, or even another public school. Parents who don't want their kids going to urban gang training centers still have to subsidize them, and those with no kid ssubsidize them as well. A better solution is to directly bill the parents. It would lower costs and introduce competition. There also wouldn't be absurd costs like in my town where they spent a fortune to astroturf a perfectly good little league field along with other small fortunes on the sports teams while not offering a good education to the kids who are stuck going there.
I agree, rural areas should not be subsidized, but don't make me subsidize your backwards gang training centers... Oh, I mean schools. Regardless, subsidization of anything is bad. It allows those who fail to continue to fail and do poorly as you reward them for it and lower the cost to encourage people to buy into whatever the good or service may be.
No, cut subsidies of all forms of transportation and do not tax them at all, reduce regulation. Let them each win of their own merit.
Personally I prefer rail simply because the cronies from the government only trample my rights a little bit on rail. Eliminate the TSA and let the airlines and railroads use their own security or lack thereof as a selling point.
This is just punishment not prevention. The real sad thing is DUI is like becoming a sex offender, it can happen to anyone for any reason. If the gestapo are in a bad mood or want to harass you more on some unconstitutional fishing expedition all they have to do is say "I smelled alcohol on his breath" They'll hammer you with DUI, and many folks will plead guilty to misdemeanor DUI over wahtever other trumped up possibly criminal charges they throw at you. They saw, "Listen, plead it down to a first time DUI and you can still drive, just pay a fine get a couple points and in a few years you're back to normal", meanwhile you hadn't had a drink since that barbeque three weeks ago.
Just like being labeled a sex offender, gotta piss real bad and no rest rooms around, step off into the woods and go while covered by a tree of bush... Some liberal yuppie walks past and bam, you're labeled a sex offender for life. This is about punishment and revenue collection, nothing more, nothing less. Guilt or innocence has no play here. Welcome to liberal hell.
Besides, even drunk I could hotwire a car no problem. It's not rocket science.
Newsflash, this is a totalitarian police state... Welcome to the USSA