And how do these findings compare to the effects of alcohol on the brain and rest of the body?
C'mon, a little common sense says that ANYTHING that alters consciousness likely isn't that good for the human body. But there is a trade off, for occasional use and enjoyment vs the potential harmful effects.
It is YOUR body, the govt really shouldn't have a say in what you can do with it....
If you're a grown adult, and the job in question takes up your working day, then you're damn right that it should remunerated well enough to be enough to live on.
No..if you're a grown adult, and you do not make enough money at a job you work a full day from...as an adult you should make the decision to FIND A BETTER FUCKING JOB that pays a wage high enough to make a full living.
No, not every job is a living wage job, they just are not worth THAT much in return for what they are. It is not up to the general public to make up for a persons vocational mistakes or ignorance, or their failure to have accepted the education that was presented to them as a child.
It is their responsibility to go back and learn how to get a better job. It will be tough and they may have to do it while working two jobs, but again, they made their own bed by their actions/inactions of their past and will have to work harder to make up for it.....it can and has been done.
This "entry job" bullshit is merely a rationalization for paying people less.
No, this was common sense thinking for years and only recently (last maybe 5-10 years) are people starting to say EVERY job out there should be a living wage job. No, this is a recent trend...trying to make excuses for people that didn't value an education the first time it was offered to them, and didn't see fit to try to work hard and get a "real job".
I grew up working starting jobs. I worked part time from the age of 16 through High School, college, etc. Back when I was waiting tables and bartending, my co-workers (mostly other students, etc) all talked about some day getting a "real job".
We knew then that these were not career jobs that real adults would/should have going forward in life when starting to live real adult life with families, kids, and trying to buy a home, etc.
No, this rationalization that "all jobs matter" is a recent trend, and the wrong one IMHO.
There is a reason: basic respect for the person doing the job. Asking someone to work two full-time jobs just to be able to split the rent on a single apartment and still need food stamps is dehumanizing.
I disagree.
After being born, the world does not owe you a living. If you grow up and do not take value of an education, and learn during your early years when you have all the time in the world to your education as a child/young adult....then well, you're going to have it tough as an adult.
If you do not grab that education and learn some skills for adulthood (can be vocational training too, don't forget)....well, you are doing to be stuck working multiple menial jobs for a living. At which point, you can suffer that, OR...and people do this, you double your efforts outside of your two jobs, to try to better yourself. There are resources to help you.
No, it will not be easy, but this is your fault, you should have done this earlier, so, you're paying the piper here a bit. But it can be done, people do do this.
I'm only talking about able bodied people.
I have no problem with a safety net for the elderly or truly infirmed that cannot work and support themselves.
But I do not believe every job out there IS meant to be a job you can make a living from. Some jobs are just for kids living at home or in school, part time...beginning jobs. Some are just meant for side gigs for extra money.
If you didn't do your work as a kid, well tough....you dug this hole yourself, and it makes it twice as hard to improve yourself later, but it can be done.
I have to problem showing people basic respect for being a human being, but I don't believe you have a right to be supported if you didn't do your part as well.
Why can't people get it through their heads that EVERY job out there is NOT meant to be one that you live on as a career?!?
I mean, some jobs are meant as entry jobs, some as just part time or side jobs for extra money.
I mean, what's next? Do we unionize and demand $15/hr for the neighborhood kids to mow or rake your fucking yard? $15-$20 hour for neighborhood kids to babysit for you?
I mean seriously, not every job should be meant to earn a living soley from that activity.
A master plumber or HVAC person may not make as much, but doesn't have to worry about getting fired every 1.5-3 years as one does in IT.
Wow..I dunno where you live..but those guys most everywhere in the country in the US make close to the 6 digit figure if they're a good hustler.
Hell in the south, during the spring-fall...if you're an
AC guy, you can pretty much name your price.....especially if you have a good reputation of not ripping people off, etc.....
You mean to a re-design to avoid someone winning the popular vote by millions of votes but still losing the election? Avoiding that in the future sounds like a good thing
No it would not.
If it were only the popular vote, then approx 3 states or so would call the shots for ALL the states in the union, and that does not represent the vastly different interests of each state due to its peoples' outlooks, and its needs based on its geography.
We'd basically have CA and NY for the most part deciding the presidents for the US going forward.
The way things were set up, you are a citizen of your STATE first...and then a citizen of the United States. This is for a very good reason. One size in a nation this large does not fit. That's why most power is supposed to reside with each state and the federal govt is constitutionally supposed to be weak in regard to that balance of power.
But we are a nation of states....and the balance needs to be kept on that level, not on pure population levels in very isolated regions.
Try to eat as much unprocessed whole foods...period.
If you stick with a diet of foods (and yes, you need to learn the relatively EASY task of cooking your own food from scratch) composed in the majority of fresh vegetables, fruits and healthy protiens....you'll do much better.
Your body is trained and knows how to process these and keep you healthy. If you're eating mostly vegetables, you'll be full and not overeat calorically....so, put those meats and stuff fin there too, but don't make them always the main dish...fill up on the foods that give you the most nutrients per calorie.
It really isn't hard, you just have to decide how valuable your time is with regard to your health.
And...get your kids involved with you cooking, this does two things..it teaches them about real foods AND hey you might start actually eating meals again as a family, something that seems to have faded somewhat into the past with many people.
You know, that extra soccer game or dance lesson be damned, cook and eat and spend time as a family, that time spent will pay you back many times over.
But really...it isn't that hard. Cook whole foods, eat a variety...avoid as much as possibly processed foods. When in the grocery store, for the most part...shop the outside of it, the perimeter and avoid all the processed crap in the center.
If you do that...."diets" and all will take care of themselves, you'll have gut health, systemic health, and who knows...it might even help grown your family togetherness health a bit too.
No, they should fix the tax loop holes that allow multinationals to dodge their fair share of the tax burden.
On the books, without the "loop holes" or deductions, whatever you term them, the USA has pretty much the highest corporate taxes in the world.
Let's cut the corporate tax down as close to zero as possible. Let's only allow deductions for expenditures related to the business (new equipment, etc)...and that's it.
Make it dead simple and dead cheap.
We'd have companies flocking to our shores to set up shop, and we'd be employing lots of US citizens in the process.
Corporations really don't pay tax anyway, they just pass it onto the consumers. Take it out of the equation and let the jobs and factories flow in...and employ our citizens.
Actually...for those Apple fans that buy for status (I don't understand that myself, I buy some of their products because I like them, I"v never thought of them as a status object).....come with a BRAND for the higher priced versions.
Next do the Apple iPhone 8USA +.
Charge a premium for the versions built in the USA.
Hell, it works for Fender, they have USA vs Mexican Strats....there's a price difference and it is worth it to some people to buy the US version.
Frankly, I have NO problem with most anything that was slightly higher in price if it was USA made. I"d definitely consider paying a bit more for US jobs, and hopefully, quality.
While my kids are "good" in the sense they don't get into trouble in terms of fights, vandalism, etc.; they won't do chores.
Wow...just....wow.
What has happened to people having kids and parenting today??!?!?
When I grew up as a child, there was no such things as "children won't do something". If my parents told me to do something, I hopped to it. If I didn't there were consequences. An ass whooping was the very last resort and rarely happened, especially if being told to do something around the house.
I was taught very early in life where my place in the family was, and it certainly was NOT top of the heap, making decisions for what was done around the house. No, I would not say for a minute that my parents were overbearing, they were being PARENTS. And their word was the final word in matters in the family and the law of the land.
I had respect for and still do what they say.
I'm not saying I never got in trouble and didn't try to do things I wasn't supposed to do. Sometimes I did get away with things and other times I did not and I was punished. The punishment fit the "crime" so to speak, but it was sever enough that I did NOT want to do it again.
Not sure about you saying your kids would "sneak off"...WTF? One of my punishments when I got older near the teen years was..grounding. When I was home, leaving home was NOT an option.
From your writings...it sounds like your kids have run of the house and that you are not in control.
Not sure how you lost it, perhaps you never had it.
But with kids....you are a parent first, not a friend.
I'm great friends of my parents now, I love them and do all I can for them, but that only happened as an adult.
As a child under their roof, while when I did things properly, life was good. But if I were to stray and such, I had the fear of God of them. I was never mistreated, I had what I considered to be a normal childhood, and this was pretty much the same with all my friends at the time.
It was unthinkinable to say "NO" to may parents then they gave me a command.
What happened to proper parenting since then? A home is not a democracy....it is a dictatorship with the parents in command, entrusted to teach the children life skills and send them on their way in the world.
Hmm...it seems as if this article expected a wide audience would have known about this show "The Grand Tour motor show".....but this, frankly, is the first I've heard of it.
I'm vaguely aware of the other show they mentioned, Top Gear, but other than hearing the name, I'm not familiar with the show....from the context I'm guessing it is a British show?
Are these shows like soccer..something Europe watches, but not so much here in the US?
It just seems like the crime should be on the INDIVIDUAL posting that shit. If I mail out 100 hate mail letters is it the fault of the post office ? No. That's on me.
If FB obstructs finding out who the individual is, that seems like a crime. But arrest the dude doing it.
There should be no such thing as a law against "hate speech".....
I know this is Germany we're talking about, but really....pretty much all speech, including "I hate the xyz people"....should not be against the law.
I mean unless you are actually inciting violence against a person or people, there should be nothing against any law about expressing any of your beliefs, no matter how vile, in public.
Vile speech is often the type of speech that MOST need protection. Remember, not that long back ago, vile and unpopular speech was about equal rights for women, civil rights, etc.
Any time you have the government censor speech that is unpopular, it might not only be taking out things that are truly bad for all times, but it also may target things that NEED to be changed, but isn't a popular sentiment amongst the majority......yet.
Those seats are there to let you drive a sports car and not pay insurance like you are driving a sports car.
Your insurance rates are not based on how many seats it has, nor the color. Nope, Red cars are not charged more for insurance than their other colored siblings.
It is purely based on cost of repair of car, along with your driving record.
In all likelihood, not sure your age, so I could be off here, but it could be an age thing. When I was in my 20s I would have thought a flashy looking car would be better. Once I hit my thirties and long time married, I still would love a performance machine, but the last thing I'd want is some flashy looking car that makes me stand out from a crowd.
I'm WELL out of my 20's and 30's...and well, older than that..haha.
My love for exotic and sporty looking cars has not dwindled in the least. Hell, if nothing, I love them even more now that I can really afford better, newer and more $$ cars. I don't buy them for anyone else, I've always bought them for ME to enjoy.
If someone stops me and wants to look or talk about it, that's nice and if I have time, I do so. If some girls notice me because of it, I'm not opposed to exploiting that as a path of getting to talk to her and know her, etc. Hell, I've no problem with using most anything to open a conversation with the fairer sex.
But that's not the primary reason I buy them. They give me joy every time I have to leave the house. I don't care if I stand out from the crowd, nor do I care if no one pays me attention. I generally don't care what other people, at least strangers, think of me. I don't have time for that. Life is too short not to live to the fullest of my ability, and enjoy it to my maximum capability.
I find that especially as I get older, I try to live by those thoughts more and more each day. I only have a short time on earth left....so, I do everything I can each day to enjoy my time left here to the fullest.
Law Enforcement (at least once) has tried to go after WAZE, for "Stealing" revenue.
I'm not a fan of the privacy risks from WAZE either....at the very least, I'm guessing it records your speeds at times and places, so couldn't that be used against you in a court of law if cops wanted it?
But there's plenty about WAZE I was worried about when I read their TOS and what info they took and kept on you....just wasn't worth it to me.
You know....I hope they find exactly who did the break-ins AND the meddling and there are consequences for that.
That being said, however....if Hillary hadn't been such a weak candidate, and not had so many skeletons in her closet, and hadn't been involved with SO many shady things over her career, then none of her staff would have been talking about all this on those emails that were leaked, and there wouldn't have been so much dirt on her to be leaked.
While I detest the meddling in our country's election, regardless of the source....this info DID come strait from the Democrats showing their dirty laundry and underhanded tricks, being in bed with much of the main stream media.....and from the Clinton campaign where her staff was rightfully worried about all the baggage she carried and how poorly she was adept at handling it and not causing more problems for herself and public image.
Then you clearly don't have children and/or don't do practical work involving a vehicle. My daily driver is a pickup because I need that sort of vehicle for various tasks (hauling, plowing, etc) that could not possibly be accomplished with a little sports car. Good luck hauling a 4x8 sheet of plywood in your 911. If you have a family in most parts of the US you will immediately need at least a third seat and some cargo capacity. People don't drive minivans because they think they are awesomely fun to drive.
No...no kids that I know of...(another reason I'm not on Facebook, haha).
But even so, the kid hauler or more "sensible" car is the wife/girlfriend car. I've been with women with kids, and for hauling around the litter...her car is the one with > 2 seats.
And for those times I'm in between girlfriends, I have plenty of other friends with trucks and SUV's and I borrow them to help me out on the rare times I need to haul something that won't fit in my 2-seaters. Or at worst I'll run to Home Depot and rent a truck there for $20 or so for a couple hours to move what I need moved. No big deal.
But, the majority of my time on the road does NOT require me to haul a large bulk or more than one other person.
This actually worked out GREAT for me in HS and College...in that if there was one more person I was going out with to party, I didn't have to drive and risk the DWI as often. I got to drink and ride...
Of course a lot depends on your lifestyle, and if you have a large litter of kids, I can see that. But I know a lot of my friends that do as I described above, the wife has the family truckster, and the guy gets the small, fun sports car.
I try to minimize as fully as possible, the banalities of life.
The flashier a car looks the more likely the cops are to pull you over, the more likely someone will steal it, the more likely you are to be recognized on the road.
1. That's what Radar Detectors and CB radios are for (yes, they are still a valuable tool ).
2. If they steal it..well, that's what insurance is for.
3. I'm not really trying to be anonymous while out on the road. Not trying to be seen, but not necessarily having a problem with friends noticing I'm out and about.
You got a lot of personal issues, don't you? Having to use a car to make a statement about yourself? That's pretty sad.
No...I, like many others genuinely LOVE good looking cars, that have high performance.
For many of us, a car is NOT merely a means to get from point A to point B.
I've never owned a car in my life that had more than 2 functional seats (I did lose a Porsche 911 Turbo to Katrina that "technically" had 4 seats, but you couldn't actually fit a human being back there). This is the type car I love and feel is worth the investment in, not that I really give a damn about what other folks think, but something that gives me an extreme amount of pleasure every time I sit down in the thing and fire it up. An innocuous trip up the road to Walgreens, is an adventure to me...
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C'mon, a little common sense says that ANYTHING that alters consciousness likely isn't that good for the human body. But there is a trade off, for occasional use and enjoyment vs the potential harmful effects.
It is YOUR body, the govt really shouldn't have a say in what you can do with it....
No..if you're a grown adult, and you do not make enough money at a job you work a full day from...as an adult you should make the decision to FIND A BETTER FUCKING JOB that pays a wage high enough to make a full living.
No, not every job is a living wage job, they just are not worth THAT much in return for what they are. It is not up to the general public to make up for a persons vocational mistakes or ignorance, or their failure to have accepted the education that was presented to them as a child.
It is their responsibility to go back and learn how to get a better job. It will be tough and they may have to do it while working two jobs, but again, they made their own bed by their actions/inactions of their past and will have to work harder to make up for it.....it can and has been done.
Hmm..I dunno.
It appears the pressure for that 2020 run has already taken its toll on poor Kanye's mental health, as that he's in lockdown now in the hospital.
No, this was common sense thinking for years and only recently (last maybe 5-10 years) are people starting to say EVERY job out there should be a living wage job. No, this is a recent trend...trying to make excuses for people that didn't value an education the first time it was offered to them, and didn't see fit to try to work hard and get a "real job".
I grew up working starting jobs. I worked part time from the age of 16 through High School, college, etc. Back when I was waiting tables and bartending, my co-workers (mostly other students, etc) all talked about some day getting a "real job".
We knew then that these were not career jobs that real adults would/should have going forward in life when starting to live real adult life with families, kids, and trying to buy a home, etc.
No, this rationalization that "all jobs matter" is a recent trend, and the wrong one IMHO.
I disagree.
After being born, the world does not owe you a living. If you grow up and do not take value of an education, and learn during your early years when you have all the time in the world to your education as a child/young adult....then well, you're going to have it tough as an adult.
If you do not grab that education and learn some skills for adulthood (can be vocational training too, don't forget)....well, you are doing to be stuck working multiple menial jobs for a living. At which point, you can suffer that, OR...and people do this, you double your efforts outside of your two jobs, to try to better yourself. There are resources to help you.
No, it will not be easy, but this is your fault, you should have done this earlier, so, you're paying the piper here a bit. But it can be done, people do do this.
I'm only talking about able bodied people.
I have no problem with a safety net for the elderly or truly infirmed that cannot work and support themselves.
But I do not believe every job out there IS meant to be a job you can make a living from. Some jobs are just for kids living at home or in school, part time...beginning jobs. Some are just meant for side gigs for extra money.
If you didn't do your work as a kid, well tough....you dug this hole yourself, and it makes it twice as hard to improve yourself later, but it can be done.
I have to problem showing people basic respect for being a human being, but I don't believe you have a right to be supported if you didn't do your part as well.
I mean, some jobs are meant as entry jobs, some as just part time or side jobs for extra money.
I mean, what's next? Do we unionize and demand $15/hr for the neighborhood kids to mow or rake your fucking yard? $15-$20 hour for neighborhood kids to babysit for you?
I mean seriously, not every job should be meant to earn a living soley from that activity.
Wow..I dunno where you live..but those guys most everywhere in the country in the US make close to the 6 digit figure if they're a good hustler.
Hell in the south, during the spring-fall...if you're an AC guy, you can pretty much name your price.....especially if you have a good reputation of not ripping people off, etc.....
No it would not.
If it were only the popular vote, then approx 3 states or so would call the shots for ALL the states in the union, and that does not represent the vastly different interests of each state due to its peoples' outlooks, and its needs based on its geography.
We'd basically have CA and NY for the most part deciding the presidents for the US going forward.
The way things were set up, you are a citizen of your STATE first...and then a citizen of the United States. This is for a very good reason. One size in a nation this large does not fit. That's why most power is supposed to reside with each state and the federal govt is constitutionally supposed to be weak in regard to that balance of power.
But we are a nation of states....and the balance needs to be kept on that level, not on pure population levels in very isolated regions.
Try to eat as much unprocessed whole foods...period.
If you stick with a diet of foods (and yes, you need to learn the relatively EASY task of cooking your own food from scratch) composed in the majority of fresh vegetables, fruits and healthy protiens....you'll do much better.
Your body is trained and knows how to process these and keep you healthy. If you're eating mostly vegetables, you'll be full and not overeat calorically....so, put those meats and stuff fin there too, but don't make them always the main dish...fill up on the foods that give you the most nutrients per calorie.
It really isn't hard, you just have to decide how valuable your time is with regard to your health.
And...get your kids involved with you cooking, this does two things..it teaches them about real foods AND hey you might start actually eating meals again as a family, something that seems to have faded somewhat into the past with many people.
You know, that extra soccer game or dance lesson be damned, cook and eat and spend time as a family, that time spent will pay you back many times over.
But really...it isn't that hard. Cook whole foods, eat a variety...avoid as much as possibly processed foods. When in the grocery store, for the most part...shop the outside of it, the perimeter and avoid all the processed crap in the center.
If you do that...."diets" and all will take care of themselves, you'll have gut health, systemic health, and who knows...it might even help grown your family togetherness health a bit too.
On the books, without the "loop holes" or deductions, whatever you term them, the USA has pretty much the highest corporate taxes in the world.
Let's cut the corporate tax down as close to zero as possible. Let's only allow deductions for expenditures related to the business (new equipment, etc)...and that's it.
Make it dead simple and dead cheap.
We'd have companies flocking to our shores to set up shop, and we'd be employing lots of US citizens in the process.
Corporations really don't pay tax anyway, they just pass it onto the consumers. Take it out of the equation and let the jobs and factories flow in...and employ our citizens.
Next do the Apple iPhone 8USA +.
Charge a premium for the versions built in the USA.
Hell, it works for Fender, they have USA vs Mexican Strats....there's a price difference and it is worth it to some people to buy the US version.
Frankly, I have NO problem with most anything that was slightly higher in price if it was USA made. I"d definitely consider paying a bit more for US jobs, and hopefully, quality.
Wow...just....wow.
What has happened to people having kids and parenting today??!?!?
When I grew up as a child, there was no such things as "children won't do something". If my parents told me to do something, I hopped to it. If I didn't there were consequences. An ass whooping was the very last resort and rarely happened, especially if being told to do something around the house.
I was taught very early in life where my place in the family was, and it certainly was NOT top of the heap, making decisions for what was done around the house. No, I would not say for a minute that my parents were overbearing, they were being PARENTS. And their word was the final word in matters in the family and the law of the land.
I had respect for and still do what they say.
I'm not saying I never got in trouble and didn't try to do things I wasn't supposed to do. Sometimes I did get away with things and other times I did not and I was punished. The punishment fit the "crime" so to speak, but it was sever enough that I did NOT want to do it again.
Not sure about you saying your kids would "sneak off"...WTF? One of my punishments when I got older near the teen years was..grounding. When I was home, leaving home was NOT an option.
From your writings...it sounds like your kids have run of the house and that you are not in control.
Not sure how you lost it, perhaps you never had it.
But with kids....you are a parent first, not a friend.
I'm great friends of my parents now, I love them and do all I can for them, but that only happened as an adult.
As a child under their roof, while when I did things properly, life was good. But if I were to stray and such, I had the fear of God of them. I was never mistreated, I had what I considered to be a normal childhood, and this was pretty much the same with all my friends at the time.
It was unthinkinable to say "NO" to may parents then they gave me a command.
What happened to proper parenting since then? A home is not a democracy....it is a dictatorship with the parents in command, entrusted to teach the children life skills and send them on their way in the world.
If nothing illegal was done here...what's the problem?
No, it is because each STATE is supposed to be on equal footing when electing the president.
NY is not more important than Wyoming, FL is not more important than OK.
It is the United STATES of America, a union on the state level. You are a citizen of your state first and then you are a citizen of the US.
That's the way the country was set up, and it is a good thing.
I'm vaguely aware of the other show they mentioned, Top Gear, but other than hearing the name, I'm not familiar with the show....from the context I'm guessing it is a British show?
Are these shows like soccer..something Europe watches, but not so much here in the US?
There should be no such thing as a law against "hate speech".....
I know this is Germany we're talking about, but really....pretty much all speech, including "I hate the xyz people"....should not be against the law.
I mean unless you are actually inciting violence against a person or people, there should be nothing against any law about expressing any of your beliefs, no matter how vile, in public.
Vile speech is often the type of speech that MOST need protection. Remember, not that long back ago, vile and unpopular speech was about equal rights for women, civil rights, etc.
Any time you have the government censor speech that is unpopular, it might not only be taking out things that are truly bad for all times, but it also may target things that NEED to be changed, but isn't a popular sentiment amongst the majority......yet.
Your insurance rates are not based on how many seats it has, nor the color. Nope, Red cars are not charged more for insurance than their other colored siblings.
It is purely based on cost of repair of car, along with your driving record.
I'm WELL out of my 20's and 30's...and well, older than that..haha.
My love for exotic and sporty looking cars has not dwindled in the least. Hell, if nothing, I love them even more now that I can really afford better, newer and more $$ cars. I don't buy them for anyone else, I've always bought them for ME to enjoy.
If someone stops me and wants to look or talk about it, that's nice and if I have time, I do so. If some girls notice me because of it, I'm not opposed to exploiting that as a path of getting to talk to her and know her, etc. Hell, I've no problem with using most anything to open a conversation with the fairer sex.
But that's not the primary reason I buy them. They give me joy every time I have to leave the house. I don't care if I stand out from the crowd, nor do I care if no one pays me attention. I generally don't care what other people, at least strangers, think of me. I don't have time for that. Life is too short not to live to the fullest of my ability, and enjoy it to my maximum capability.
I find that especially as I get older, I try to live by those thoughts more and more each day. I only have a short time on earth left....so, I do everything I can each day to enjoy my time left here to the fullest.
I'm not a fan of the privacy risks from WAZE either....at the very least, I'm guessing it records your speeds at times and places, so couldn't that be used against you in a court of law if cops wanted it?
But there's plenty about WAZE I was worried about when I read their TOS and what info they took and kept on you....just wasn't worth it to me.
That being said, however....if Hillary hadn't been such a weak candidate, and not had so many skeletons in her closet, and hadn't been involved with SO many shady things over her career, then none of her staff would have been talking about all this on those emails that were leaked, and there wouldn't have been so much dirt on her to be leaked.
While I detest the meddling in our country's election, regardless of the source....this info DID come strait from the Democrats showing their dirty laundry and underhanded tricks, being in bed with much of the main stream media.....and from the Clinton campaign where her staff was rightfully worried about all the baggage she carried and how poorly she was adept at handling it and not causing more problems for herself and public image.
No...no kids that I know of...(another reason I'm not on Facebook, haha).
But even so, the kid hauler or more "sensible" car is the wife/girlfriend car. I've been with women with kids, and for hauling around the litter...her car is the one with > 2 seats.
And for those times I'm in between girlfriends, I have plenty of other friends with trucks and SUV's and I borrow them to help me out on the rare times I need to haul something that won't fit in my 2-seaters. Or at worst I'll run to Home Depot and rent a truck there for $20 or so for a couple hours to move what I need moved. No big deal.
But, the majority of my time on the road does NOT require me to haul a large bulk or more than one other person.
This actually worked out GREAT for me in HS and College...in that if there was one more person I was going out with to party, I didn't have to drive and risk the DWI as often. I got to drink and ride...
Of course a lot depends on your lifestyle, and if you have a large litter of kids, I can see that. But I know a lot of my friends that do as I described above, the wife has the family truckster, and the guy gets the small, fun sports car.
I try to minimize as fully as possible, the banalities of life.
Its a lot easier and I'm guessing more lucrative to take a common car like a Camry to a chop shop and break it into parts for resale than a McLaren.
I don't use it....I never thought it was a good idea to have any of my phone info on Apple servers.
I back my phone up when I physically connect it to my home computer.
1. That's what Radar Detectors and CB radios are for (yes, they are still a valuable tool ).
2. If they steal it..well, that's what insurance is for.
3. I'm not really trying to be anonymous while out on the road. Not trying to be seen, but not necessarily having a problem with friends noticing I'm out and about.
No...I, like many others genuinely LOVE good looking cars, that have high performance.
For many of us, a car is NOT merely a means to get from point A to point B.
I've never owned a car in my life that had more than 2 functional seats (I did lose a Porsche 911 Turbo to Katrina that "technically" had 4 seats, but you couldn't actually fit a human being back there). This is the type car I love and feel is worth the investment in, not that I really give a damn about what other folks think, but something that gives me an extreme amount of pleasure every time I sit down in the thing and fire it up. An innocuous trip up the road to Walgreens, is an adventure to me...