All those are old news. "Thin" sheet metal only matters if it rusts, and rust devoured old school sheet metal easily enough.
I've worked with plastic manifolds. So what? If well-designed, they do fine. You can't honk down on the hardware like on a cast iron intake, so don't do that.
Small wires and connectors are a bit fiddly, but again no big deal. Different connector tools aren't expensive.
I've been involved with rebuilding a lot of salvage vehicles from two or more organ donors, and don't find it intimidating. These are often "gut rehabs" where a burn job gets a complete dash and wiring and interior swap, and they are done with relatively basic equipment.
Vehicles now often last for very high mileage if well-maintained. Some design choices suck, which (Vega engines, Pinto bodies) has been the case since cars existed.
"is the fact that most new cars are very difficult for the owner to repair themselves, given that many are highly integrated with computer systems. Shade-tree mechanics are going to disappear."
No, their knowledge base has changed. Code scanners are easy to use and general mechanic work is not more difficult. I'm a mechanic.
"That and the fact that every new car seems to be built on the principle that repair costs are no obstacle, so if a car gets hit, its highly damaged, extremely expensive to repair, and much more likely to be a write off - meaning you need to buy a replacement."
No, the way to repair modern vehicles is the same as the old way, with salvage parts, and this has been the case for the decades I've worked on cars.
It is easy to "total" for insurance purposes, but that's different and based on new parts plus finishing. A perfectly good front clip with matching paint from salvage has all the factory coatings and hardware. I'd much rather use that on my own rides than new OEM parts.
"The caddy and vette buyers believe they're getting the cream of the crop, so they scream in agony if there is a speck of dust in the car."
The used car dealer I worked at (rightly IMO) regarded Cadillac as utter shit, but they have a strong ethnic market as do Chrysler (barf) which we would sell since there plenty of organ donors. We avoided repairing them and preferred to swap them to salvage yards for parts to fix non-shit vehicles. Caddy parts are not cheap so salvage is a good choice.
No shit. I would note that "bad" now tends to mean "sucks to work on" and "repairs or replacement of X item is hideously expensive" rather than "high infant mortality".
The "church state" is a front for the Corporate State by which it rules the mob.
People stupid enough to believe in superstition deserve to be manipulated, exploited, robbed, poisoned (pollution qualifies) and expended like the dumb cattle they are, so that is exactly what happens! They VOLUNTEERED when they abdicated freedom of thought for submission to lies.
Too bad for the (few) rest of us, but I can understand WHY the elites do what they do to their intellectual inferiors. I can't say I wouldn't take similar advantage were I born into position to do so.
Cataract beget LENS REPLACEMENT and that, for me, was wonderful. It was like going from an ancient CRT to a good modern flatscreen. I had various other eye problems which lens replacement partially corrected.
I won't enjoy being in the blast radius, but my country has so many idiots and superstitionists in it we deserve to suffer horribly for letting it get this bad.
It's a fine solution for an individual who owes nothing to Iranians.
They had their revolution and replaced the harsh-but-pro-modernity Pahlevis with something vastly worse. Now they can reap what they sowed.
If they don't like their government, they can do what Americans did before we became scared conformists and KILL their opponents until they surrender or no longer exist.
If Jihadists can bravely fight to the death in order to kill their opponents, why can not their opponents do the same? The Taliban take on the greatest military in the fucking world, and die resisting!
I'll gently suggest that the Iranian whiners are in the minority, Iranians are too comfortable (a few thousands or tens of thousands of students don't mean shit) to overthrow the Mullocracy.
If they wanted personal freedom they'd make like the French Revolutionaries, burn their "churches" and behead their "priests". They want Islam instead, and they therefore deserve it (to borrow a line from Mencken) "good and hard".
"I'm fairly young and I already start getting reactions along the line of "Are you a criminal or what?" when I tell people I don't have a facebook profile."
I just let them know Facebook is for noobs and I'm too leet to bother with that shit. Works very well.
When Muslims kill Muslims, that's good news in the manner of Communists killing Communists. There are no "good" versions of humans who embrace either ideology.
Both ideologies impose social restrictions to which I object. One cannot tolerate anti-theism, the other cannot tolerate private property. Good fucking riddance.
All religion is oppressive, all religion is based on lies as there isn't the slightest logical reason to believe in Sky Fairies, and religions insist on imposing social restrictions BASED on superstition.
Silly amateur. Gradually "sell" it off to friends, disperse it, and spend enough partying to mask that you saved any of it.
The classic "divorce sale" dumping of assets is common reality. You can also put liens on things like vehicles ("I needed money for transition") in excess of their value to poison any attempt to sell them.
Have cool buddies for this. If they are mechanics, a "mechanics lien" often trumps everything else, and the lien + storage is often in excess of vehicle value. Vehicle goes to magistrate auction (if ex presses the issue!) and no one else bids but the mechanic since the lien is so high. Mechanic gets the vehicle and can sit on it until the sun burns out. Don't fake the work. Do invoices, pull the engine or trans, etc.
By that logic, ejection seats in fighter aircraft are cowardly and mature pilots rely on faith. (The aircraft mechanical failure rate and crash rate in general are much lower than the divorce rate. Most fighters survive to go to the Boneyard.)
By that logic, estate planning isn't necessary because next-of-kin won't change how they roll when money is involved. (That's worthy of another thread!)
Having an organised life isn't the same as digging a hole behind the outhouse in case the spouse needs a quiet place to stay.
I hang when it gets hard. My wife has PTS from a hideous childhood and is an (functional) alcoholic in consequence. Refuses treatment and any suggestions are met with rage/denial. Otherwise, she's a great gal with a competent and strong personality and she knows I'll take care of here and she of me.
I probably should get a divorce but I'm tough and committed and still in love. How-fucking-ever, I don't project MY situation and MY rules of engagement onto others. I observe situations and note outcomes.
I've seen (as an Air Force supervisor and alternate First Sergeant) all sorts of situations where people who expressed what you just did STILL crashed and burned, because one virtuous spouse can't magically change the other and people change over time.
Owning and knowing how to use a fire extinguisher doesn't make you an arsonist preparing to do an insurance job on your house.
Good luck, but everyone draws different cards in the game of life.
I've seen too many "mingled" examples turn into disasters.
In the Air Force, I had to counsel folks from airmen to NCOs who "thought" they had a life mate until they went TDY and came back to an empty house, no money, and their love match getting pounded (by someone else) like a cheap steak. Pulling First Sergeant duty (I was an assistant, and glad it wasn't full time!) is very educational.
My way has a parachute. I may never need to pull the ejection handle, but it's there. The other way is terrific until it isn't, and then it's much more messy.
Good luck, but I could never ethically advise anyone to try it that way.
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"6 year old PC's can still run XP, and once XP support is withdrawn, they will have to either sell off those PC's or move to Linux"
People who run Windows on old PCs don't care about "support".
I'm a mechanic who deals with these things often.
All those are old news. "Thin" sheet metal only matters if it rusts, and rust devoured old school sheet metal easily enough.
I've worked with plastic manifolds. So what? If well-designed, they do fine. You can't honk down on the hardware like on a cast iron intake, so don't do that.
Small wires and connectors are a bit fiddly, but again no big deal. Different connector tools aren't expensive.
I've been involved with rebuilding a lot of salvage vehicles from two or more organ donors, and don't find it intimidating. These are often "gut rehabs" where a burn job gets a complete dash and wiring and interior swap, and they are done with relatively basic equipment.
Vehicles now often last for very high mileage if well-maintained. Some design choices suck, which (Vega engines, Pinto bodies) has been the case since cars existed.
Folks have forgotten how easy it is to "total" old vehicles. Bend a frame or cab structure and it's "bye bye" then or now in many cases.
"is the fact that most new cars are very difficult for the owner to repair themselves, given that many are highly integrated with computer systems. Shade-tree mechanics are going to disappear."
No, their knowledge base has changed. Code scanners are easy to use and general mechanic work is not more difficult. I'm a mechanic.
"That and the fact that every new car seems to be built on the principle that repair costs are no obstacle, so if a car gets hit, its highly damaged, extremely expensive to repair, and much more likely to be a write off - meaning you need to buy a replacement."
No, the way to repair modern vehicles is the same as the old way, with salvage parts, and this has been the case for the decades I've worked on cars.
It is easy to "total" for insurance purposes, but that's different and based on new parts plus finishing. A perfectly good front clip with matching paint from salvage has all the factory coatings and hardware. I'd much rather use that on my own rides than new OEM parts.
"The caddy and vette buyers believe they're getting the cream of the crop, so they scream in agony if there is a speck of dust in the car."
The used car dealer I worked at (rightly IMO) regarded Cadillac as utter shit, but they have a strong ethnic market as do Chrysler (barf) which we would sell since there plenty of organ donors. We avoided repairing them and preferred to swap them to salvage yards for parts to fix non-shit vehicles. Caddy parts are not cheap so salvage is a good choice.
No shit. I would note that "bad" now tends to mean "sucks to work on" and "repairs or replacement of X item is hideously expensive" rather than "high infant mortality".
"I predict more people returning to firefox them going to chrome over this."
I never quite got the "run one browser" thing. They don't get jealous of each other and with multiple desktops running several is trivial.
"Religion is humans best attempt at understanding/explaining the world we sense but cannot directly scientifically observe around us."
Bullshit. It's pure superstition that is absolutely nothing more than a tool for men to master other men by offering rewards for desired behaviours.
"Science and Religion can both be trusted when the pursuit is of the truth."
Faith pursues OBEDIANCE, not "truth", or it would admit that Faith itself may be false.
Have a lovely New Age day of reconciling Science and Nonsense....
The "church state" is a front for the Corporate State by which it rules the mob.
People stupid enough to believe in superstition deserve to be manipulated, exploited, robbed, poisoned (pollution qualifies) and expended like the dumb cattle they are, so that is exactly what happens! They VOLUNTEERED when they abdicated freedom of thought for submission to lies.
Too bad for the (few) rest of us, but I can understand WHY the elites do what they do to their intellectual inferiors. I can't say I wouldn't take similar advantage were I born into position to do so.
Cataract beget LENS REPLACEMENT and that, for me, was wonderful. It was like going from an ancient CRT to a good modern flatscreen. I had various other eye problems which lens replacement partially corrected.
America deserves him at this point.
I won't enjoy being in the blast radius, but my country has so many idiots and superstitionists in it we deserve to suffer horribly for letting it get this bad.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/dead-parrot.htm
It's a normal religion, not a farce. ALL superstition is bad.
Don't follow witch doctors, you don't need Sky Fairies. Think for yourself.
War is a bitch. If the only way to get individual unconventional fighters is a small military strike, that's what to do.
It's a fine solution for an individual who owes nothing to Iranians.
They had their revolution and replaced the harsh-but-pro-modernity Pahlevis with something vastly worse. Now they can reap what they sowed.
If they don't like their government, they can do what Americans did before we became scared conformists and KILL their opponents until they surrender or no longer exist.
If Jihadists can bravely fight to the death in order to kill their opponents, why can not their opponents do the same? The Taliban take on the greatest military in the fucking world, and die resisting!
I'll gently suggest that the Iranian whiners are in the minority, Iranians are too comfortable (a few thousands or tens of thousands of students don't mean shit) to overthrow the Mullocracy.
If they wanted personal freedom they'd make like the French Revolutionaries, burn their "churches" and behead their "priests".
They want Islam instead, and they therefore deserve it (to borrow a line from Mencken) "good and hard".
"I'm fairly young and I already start getting reactions along the line of "Are you a criminal or what?" when I tell people I don't have a facebook profile."
I just let them know Facebook is for noobs and I'm too leet to bother with that shit. Works very well.
When Muslims kill Muslims, that's good news in the manner of Communists killing Communists. There are no "good" versions of humans who embrace either ideology.
Both ideologies impose social restrictions to which I object. One cannot tolerate anti-theism, the other cannot tolerate private property. Good fucking riddance.
All religion is oppressive, all religion is based on lies as there isn't the slightest logical reason to believe in Sky Fairies, and religions insist on imposing social restrictions BASED on superstition.
Our enemy and the enemy of personal freedom is RELIGION.
The superstitions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all completely toxic.
Death to witch doctors and their servants.
"I can't think of one single reason why there isn't a small nuclear reactor on every block in the country."
Small tsunamis.
Silly amateur. Gradually "sell" it off to friends, disperse it, and spend enough partying to mask that you saved any of it.
The classic "divorce sale" dumping of assets is common reality. You can also put liens on things like vehicles ("I needed money for transition") in excess of their value to poison any attempt to sell them.
Have cool buddies for this. If they are mechanics, a "mechanics lien" often trumps everything else, and the lien + storage is often in excess of vehicle value. Vehicle goes to magistrate auction (if ex presses the issue!) and no one else bids but the mechanic since the lien is so high. Mechanic gets the vehicle and can sit on it until the sun burns out. Don't fake the work. Do invoices, pull the engine or trans, etc.
By that logic, ejection seats in fighter aircraft are cowardly and mature pilots rely on faith. (The aircraft mechanical failure rate and crash rate in general are much lower than the divorce rate. Most fighters survive to go to the Boneyard.)
By that logic, estate planning isn't necessary because next-of-kin won't change how they roll when money is involved. (That's worthy of another thread!)
Having an organised life isn't the same as digging a hole behind the outhouse in case the spouse needs a quiet place to stay.
I hang when it gets hard. My wife has PTS from a hideous childhood and is an (functional) alcoholic in consequence. Refuses treatment and any suggestions are met with rage/denial. Otherwise, she's a great gal with a competent and strong personality and she knows I'll take care of here and she of me.
I probably should get a divorce but I'm tough and committed and still in love. How-fucking-ever, I don't project MY situation and MY rules of engagement onto others. I observe situations and note outcomes.
I've seen (as an Air Force supervisor and alternate First Sergeant) all sorts of situations where people who expressed what you just did STILL crashed and burned, because one virtuous spouse can't magically change the other and people change over time.
Owning and knowing how to use a fire extinguisher doesn't make you an arsonist preparing to do an insurance job on your house.
Good luck, but everyone draws different cards in the game of life.
The public are stupid, stupid beasts (observe who they elect) and want to hold their fiat illusion.
Challenge that and they will hurt you.
I've seen too many "mingled" examples turn into disasters.
In the Air Force, I had to counsel folks from airmen to NCOs who "thought" they had a life mate until they went TDY and came back to an empty house, no money, and their love match getting pounded (by someone else) like a cheap steak. Pulling First Sergeant duty (I was an assistant, and glad it wasn't full time!) is very educational.
My way has a parachute. I may never need to pull the ejection handle, but it's there. The other way is terrific until it isn't, and then it's much more messy.
Good luck, but I could never ethically advise anyone to try it that way.
We didn't get married for seven years, but the benefits (I'm USAF retired) were worth it.
We don't do superstition so there is no religion involved.