Then be sick of it, but it is still accurate. One may be theism-free quite easily. One may also defend their right to not be imposed upon by the agendas of the superstitious, and as superstitions are vigorous they sometimes require vigorous opposition.
"The funny thing about atheists is that most of them will never understand the irony of their faith."
Atheism is merely the absence of theism.
Anything else a person may attribute to their non-theism or use to explain it is their problem/baggage, but it isn't atheism. Atheism is a "faith" like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
"Traffic offence are acceptable in our society, being a naked hippy is not."
Not anymore. Too many of them sold out, gave up, or were never serious about change in the first place.
Not that what the youth movement accomplished wasn't enormous (like much of the sexual freedom we take for granted), but too many of them turned into what they supposedly hated. The derelict pseudo-hippies didn't help either. (Hint: wasted white trash are the same no matter how they cut their hair.)
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"Infinitely many, in fact, if you haven't gotten sucked into the black hole yet."
Easily avoided by using the "Oprah" method. Just tie a board across your butt that bridges both thighs.
"Anybody that would try to spread that load of horseshit is likely to have no problem charging you for refilling your muffler fluid and changing your starter belt."
Any "mechanic" stupid enough to use that line probably believes those parts are real.
"So now we'll have to worry about people tearing open the backs of our cars to remove our _perfectly good, multi-thousand-dollar_ battery packs to sell them for $200 to feed their addictions (heroin, alcohol, food, gasoline, etc.)."
You have to worry about catalytic converter thieves, wheel thieves, and "complete vehicle" thieves with any modern car. If you want to deter car theft, make it more difficult to steal them, and punish car thieves harshly.
"I can't imagine a DIY vehicle getting approved over road safety."
All that is required in my state is to document a reasonable number of the major parts (to answer any questions like "how do I know they aren't stolen?") and coordinate with DMV to send an officer by to inspect it. Upon his approval title will be issued. Also works with antique vehicles from states that didn't require titles for transfer.
"If they'll fall for Scientology, they're just walking grift bait anyway."
IMO they deserved to get used up and thrown away, but the problem is not the chumps. The problem is that the chumps are used by their masters to get power over the rest of us, and that I do no accept.
"To conduct the study, the scientists prepared a paste of scrapie prion-infected brain tissue mixed with hot dogs. They then exposed the paste to temperatures of 120-135 degrees Celsius (250-275 degrees Fahrenheit) and short bursts of ultra high pressure, in excess of 100,000 lbs. per square inch. The scientists found that they were able to retain the basic texture and flavor of the processed meat while reducing the prions to non-infective levels. This may have application in improving the safety of meat products.
The combination of temperature and high pressure has been used commercially for the past 15 years to reduce the amount of bacteria in foodstuffs and to preserve ham, chicken, salsa, and other foods. Dr. Brown said his team "took the process one step further, to see if it would kill prions, which it did." He called the discovery a relatively inexpensive, practical step to potentially improve the safety of processed meats. "
"US manufactures don't bring small Diesels to the US because they're just plain evil."
Suicidal is more like it.
US companies had the prestige/image to bring light diesel pickups to market and sell them effectively because they CREATED the diesel pickup market. Instead they let their small pickup lines become boring and atrophy. Ongoing diesel production would have allowed them to refine their product and produce proven engines (just as VW has done with their automobile engines).
The VW strategy when they built their Rabbit engines was to have a common engine block and bottom end, and transmission bell housing pattern for gasoline and diesel engines, slashing diesel production costs. A small common-block pickup truck diesel can be done the same way. The other payoff is that a gasoline engine based on a diesel bottom end will last a very long time.
US buyers tolerated the repair costs on the larger trucks because they were (usually) good designs that were torquey and appealing. As long as big trucks were selling, makers saw no reason to cover their asses by having diesel options in their small pickups. I argue that after getting slammed in the last fuel crisis they should have been prepared and they (obviously) chose not to be. Ceding market after market and relying on a big truck/SUV platform monoculture proved a vulnerability, just as building cars with (essentially, they are so close drivetrain swaps from car to truck are common) pickup truck drivetrains was in the 1970s.
Toyota, OTOH, built its image on small trucks and small gasoline engines. There was probably no reason to risk anything by changing a formula that has worked so well over time no matter what the fuel prices. Toyota is inherently ready for high gas prices because of their product line.
"Now that ULSD is mandatory in the U.S. and diesel technology has advanced even more, diesel passenger vehicles are coming back in the next year or two."
Not small diesel trucks though. The VW diesel cars are excllent, but after getting spanked in the light pickup market when they tried to sell a front-wheel drive design in the US they are presumably snake bit.. They don't have the vital "image" factor to back up any truck they might offer, so why bother?
"Ford sells an I4 3 liter turbo-diesel in South America called the NGD 3.0E. There's no demand for a 'small' diesel, so no one brings such things to the USA."
US vehicle makers (may they die soon as they are obstacles to progress) don't want to hurt sales of their large trucks (which are the equivalent of 1970s garbage barge cars) by building useful things such as a diesel Ranger or S-10. Diesel = "macho" and only studly large trucks are allowed that.
I'm not sure why Toyota doesn't do it, but it may be that their gas engine truck sales are satisfactory. Diesels would be MUCH more expensive to repair due to pollution control requirements, and high diesel fuel prices (due to expensive low sulfur diesel fuel) don't make a diesel truck as attractive as they once were.
I want a hybrid truck WITH a green diesel engine, because I want a truck that can power serious accessories such as welders with minimal extra hardware. A small hybrid truck could turn into an ECONOMICAL welding rig, because I could dispense with the "engine" bit of an engine-driven welder. Hybrid work trucks could be a very good thing for fleet use.
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"Gaah, I'm really quite sick of this mantra."
Then be sick of it, but it is still accurate. One may be theism-free quite easily. One may also defend their right to not be imposed upon by the agendas of the superstitious, and as superstitions are vigorous they sometimes require vigorous opposition.
"The funny thing about atheists is that most of them will never understand the irony of their faith."
Atheism is merely the absence of theism.
Anything else a person may attribute to their non-theism or use to explain it is their problem/baggage, but it isn't atheism. Atheism is a "faith" like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
"Traffic offence are acceptable in our society, being a naked hippy is not."
Not anymore.
Too many of them sold out, gave up, or were never serious about change in the first place.
Not that what the youth movement accomplished wasn't enormous (like much of the sexual freedom we take for granted), but too many of them turned into what they supposedly hated. The derelict pseudo-hippies didn't help either. (Hint: wasted white trash are the same no matter how they cut their hair.)
"Infinitely many, in fact, if you haven't gotten sucked into the black hole yet."
Easily avoided by using the "Oprah" method.
Just tie a board across your butt that bridges both thighs.
"IIRC there have already been fatalities from salvage people cutting into the wrong stuff."
That (like torch-cutting shock absorbers at the fat end) weeds out the incompetent.
The industry is pretty sophisticated and hybrids go quickly at auctions (which is why I haven't scored a wreck to play with).
"is it grey, and is it gooey? in which case, it looks like the end of the world [wapedia.mobi] is nigh!"
"Nanites eh? Bah, humbug!"
"Anybody that would try to spread that load of horseshit is likely to have no problem charging you for refilling your muffler fluid and changing your starter belt."
Any "mechanic" stupid enough to use that line probably believes those parts are real.
"pussy"
Pretty much!
Cars are easy to part out. Salvage yards do it legally every day, including cutting cars completely in half to sell front or rear "clips".
BTDT, just takes a Sawzall with a few long blades.
"So now we'll have to worry about people tearing open the backs of our cars to remove our _perfectly good, multi-thousand-dollar_ battery packs to sell them for $200 to feed their addictions (heroin, alcohol, food, gasoline, etc.)."
You have to worry about catalytic converter thieves, wheel thieves, and "complete vehicle" thieves with any modern car. If you want to deter car theft, make it more difficult to steal them, and punish car thieves harshly.
"Even by the standards of today they are a well-mannered bunch. Scientologists don't suicide-bomb people "
Interesting that Islam is considered to have set the "standards of today".
"I can't imagine a DIY vehicle getting approved over road safety."
All that is required in my state is to document a reasonable number of the major parts (to answer any questions like "how do I know they aren't stolen?") and coordinate with DMV to send an officer by to inspect it. Upon his approval title will be issued. Also works with antique vehicles from states that didn't require titles for transfer.
"If they'll fall for Scientology, they're just walking grift bait anyway."
IMO they deserved to get used up and thrown away, but the problem is not the chumps.
The problem is that the chumps are used by their masters to get power over the rest of us, and that I do no accept.
"And the difference between cult and religion is...?"
Political power.
Is she hot? If so, propz for l33t MILFage!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030508074341.htm
"To conduct the study, the scientists prepared a paste of scrapie prion-infected brain tissue mixed with hot dogs. They then exposed the paste to temperatures of 120-135 degrees Celsius (250-275 degrees Fahrenheit) and short bursts of ultra high pressure, in excess of 100,000 lbs. per square inch. The scientists found that they were able to retain the basic texture and flavor of the processed meat while reducing the prions to non-infective levels. This may have application in improving the safety of meat products.
The combination of temperature and high pressure has been used commercially for the past 15 years to reduce the amount of bacteria in foodstuffs and to preserve ham, chicken, salsa, and other foods. Dr. Brown said his team "took the process one step further, to see if it would kill prions, which it did." He called the discovery a relatively inexpensive, practical step to potentially improve the safety of processed meats. "
"That's nothing. I have peons swarming my village."
Heat and pressure have been observed to kill prions, and should work for your situation.
Give it a try and post results!
"YOU ARE NOT BEYONCE!"
Well, maybe after a few beers.
"Try it, it's fun. I even bought a fountain pen. It feels nicer than a biro, or typing on the keyboard."
I would, but my scanner is broken so I have no way to email letters.
"Of course you can, you just can't use Facebook. Which is probably for the best anyway."
Of course you can, just use obfuscation after describing your obfuscation technique, such as spelling it backwards:
moc.tonemgub
"unless you have a critical need to access a lot of data at high speed while driving a truck over a small post-apocalyptic wasteland."
The Detroit Police Department will be buying in bulk.
"US manufactures don't bring small Diesels to the US because they're just plain evil."
Suicidal is more like it.
US companies had the prestige/image to bring light diesel pickups to market and sell them effectively because they CREATED the diesel pickup market. Instead they let their small pickup lines become boring and atrophy. Ongoing diesel production would have allowed them to refine their product and produce proven engines (just as VW has done with their automobile engines).
The VW strategy when they built their Rabbit engines was to have a common engine block and bottom end, and transmission bell housing pattern for gasoline and diesel engines, slashing diesel production costs. A small common-block pickup truck diesel can be done the same way. The other payoff is that a gasoline engine based on a diesel bottom end will last a very long time.
US buyers tolerated the repair costs on the larger trucks because they were (usually) good designs that were torquey and appealing. As long as big trucks were selling, makers saw no reason to cover their asses by having diesel options in their small pickups. I argue that after getting slammed in the last fuel crisis they should have been prepared and they (obviously) chose not to be. Ceding market after market and relying on a big truck/SUV platform monoculture proved a vulnerability, just as building cars with (essentially, they are so close drivetrain swaps from car to truck are common) pickup truck drivetrains was in the 1970s.
Toyota, OTOH, built its image on small trucks and small gasoline engines. There was probably no reason to risk anything by changing a formula that has worked so well over time no matter what the fuel prices. Toyota is inherently ready for high gas prices because of their product line.
"Now that ULSD is mandatory in the U.S. and diesel technology has advanced even more, diesel passenger vehicles are coming back in the next year or two."
Not small diesel trucks though. The VW diesel cars are excllent, but after getting spanked in the light pickup market when they tried to sell a front-wheel drive design in the US they are presumably snake bit.. They don't have the vital "image" factor to back up any truck they might offer, so why bother?
"Ford sells an I4 3 liter turbo-diesel in South America called the NGD 3.0E.
There's no demand for a 'small' diesel, so no one brings such things to the USA."
US vehicle makers (may they die soon as they are obstacles to progress) don't want to hurt sales of their large trucks (which are the equivalent of 1970s garbage barge cars) by building useful things such as a diesel Ranger or S-10. Diesel = "macho" and only studly large trucks are allowed that.
I'm not sure why Toyota doesn't do it, but it may be that their gas engine truck sales are satisfactory. Diesels would be MUCH more expensive to repair due to pollution control requirements, and high diesel fuel prices (due to expensive low sulfur diesel fuel) don't make a diesel truck as attractive as they once were.
I want a hybrid truck WITH a green diesel engine, because I want a truck that can power serious accessories such as welders with minimal extra hardware. A small hybrid truck could turn into an ECONOMICAL welding rig, because I could dispense with the "engine" bit of an engine-driven welder. Hybrid work trucks could be a very good thing for fleet use.
"The supposed "theocracy" you speak of,"
Are you referring to Tom Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, etc?
If so, try again. :)