When the car was on a real road it was turning them off to get better performance and fuel consumption at the expense of emissions.
Not sure why VW stock has tanked then...personally, this sounds like a very GOOD reason to go buy a VW car now...knowing when it comes to it, that it will really perform well!!
Hmm...my big question is...how can the avg person easily do this...so as to now be able to mod his car as he wishes and have it pass inspection when it has to.
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Fortunately I've never lived in a state that requires emissions *sniff* tests, but I understand it is a PITA in some states to put on even a simple aftermarket exhaust system for performance.
I don't know how old you are, but there was actually punishment for misbehaving when I was in school. In elementary school, our principal had a cricket bat looking paddle that had holes drilled in it and the bright red letters on it spelled out "The Board of Education". He had it on the wall behind his desk. There were maybe half a dozen times during the year that it actually got used. It was rare enough that everyone knew about it in the school and was the main topic of discussion on the playground for a couple of days afterward. Of course the meeting with "The Board of Education" was the least of your worries. Most of us were more afraid of the punishment we'd get when we got home.
Yep, I'm likely in your age group, I got my ass whupped at school a time or two..and yes, it was when I got HOME that I was most worried..hahaha.
But for the most part, my teachers were cool. What would happen, I'd usually finish my work fast and early and then be bored, and start distracting my neighbors. That began to earn me having my desk up closer to the teacher where she could keep an eye on me, or give me something else to do.
I would come up with new and creative things to do in class...I was a handful for sure, but I was a happy friendly kid, and while I was a PITA to many teachers, the same ones would tell my parents that they really liked me and just needed help keeping me in control.
But, thankfully...they didn't have the Attention Deficit syndrome diagnosis back then, and I wasn't drugged. I just sometimes had to be "extra supervised". All in all, I think I turned out fine.
But I have to guess your situation is a very niche one....an extreme outlier to most kids' situation.
Normal anxiety and angst is a part of growing up and learning to deal with things. I'm afraid that way too often today, what should be normal levels of this type stress, is being treated with drugs, instead of teachings of how to live and deal with this.
Extreme cases like you have, of course require more tx, but I would still guess that your extreme case is in the minority of the human population numbers.
It's because of the growing economic inequality. Back in the 60s or 70s, just graduating with a BA from a state university was a respectable accomplishment and let you enjoy a middle class lifestyle. Hell, with a high school diploma and a good union you could live a solidly middle class life. Today, if your kid doesn't make it into a top five business or tech school, they are pretty much doomed to a lifetime of desperately struggling to avoid poverty. So, if your kid isn't studying as hard as he needs to in order to stay on track for that future Wharton MBA, then you better get him on some drugs. If a teenager makes one mistake (assuming he's not a big money 1% offspring) then he will be barred from a decent standard of living.
Seriously??
Where do you live where life is this bad for kids if they aren't in the 1%? What is your definition of the 1%...anyone making over $40K or something?
Not being in the top 5 of your class, is not a sentence to poverty anywhere I have lived or know about in the US. What city and state do you find a child's future so dismal?
Good Lord,
We had no inclination of taking the slew of pharmaceutical drugs back in my day as a teen. Ok, sure, we had plenty of "parking lot" drugs we often had fun with...but as far as systemized drugging of kids, we did just fine without all the anti-depressants turning kids into zombies so early ln life.
I can't imagine we're doing these young teens and pre-teens any good with all this. We didn't need it in the past and we all came out well adjusted (always a few exceptions), so why in God's name do we feel the need to start drugging kids from such an early age ?
It is just big Pharma selling more wares, getting folks hooked early?
Between "Attention deficit disorder" (formerly known as being "a boy")...and now anti-depressants, can a kid that was once considered normal growing up and developing with all the fun times and turbulent times grow up today without the first inclination be to DRUG THEM?
Yeah, they've also abused their workers, poisoned the environment, killed their customers with dangerous products, killed their employees with dangerous work practices, ran every type of scam that you can imagine and every scam you can't imagine, generally behaved with complete lack of morals or regard for other people WHICH IS WHY WE REGULATE THEM.
The trouble is...the Large Evil Corporations (TM) that you are likely aiming this towards...are pretty much immune to all the regulations and onerous paperwork...they have teams of lawyers, tax men and paper workers to take care of all this to get away with pretty much business as usual.
Big Corps actually often LOVE the type of regulations and red tape we currently have, as that it keeps smaller businesses and startups from being able to gain ground to compete with them, since they can't afford said, lawyers, tax accountants and lobbyists.
If nothing else maybe make some exceptions for businesses that employ 200 or less people?
Or, did you say "they shouldn't be having kids" but actually mean "poor people don't deserve the right have sex with each other". Because that's what most people who talk the way you do actual mean.
No, I mean that if you are a GROWN ADULT, have all the sex you want, just be an adult about it, and do something to keep from popping out a kid just after you pop your dick into her.
Feel free to have all the sex you want, you have that right of course.
You just do NOT have the right to force me and others to pay for your kids as a result of your immature , ill considered bed hopping activities.
Can somebody please tell me, please, how a "jobs bill" would work?
I'm curious about this too.
The government really does not create jobs in any meaningful way.
What it does currently do...is over regulate and kill the small businesses with taxation and paperwork preventing them from doing what they have historically done BEST in the past, and that is....employ the majority of people in the US.
Perhaps some meaningful legislation from the Feds could be named the "Get The Govt The Fuck Outta The Way Of The Small Business To Create Jobs" bill.
You know Switzerland has already implemented a basic income right? Strangely, they have not been plagued by a mass of people quitting their jobs.
MUCH smaller country, and different culture, more homogenized than the US.
We have far more folks, AND...well, culture has bred a lot of lazy, entitled, no work ethic folks in the past few decades.
There are PLENTY of folks with no drive which would leech on said system and not be self motivated enough to try to better themselves above it in any significant way.
And you'll be getting it, just under a different program.
Take all those 'eliminates' he said and turn them into 'consolidate' instead. This is one program to replace all those other programs.
Well, if that is the case then the basic income estimate of about $2K a month ain't gonna recompense me for what I"d put into SS for many decades.
The SS calculator for future dollars (if the program survives) would a bit over $4K/mo for me at retirement age 67....and about $5700 if I wait till 70 to retire....
The govt better hold up their promises to me...phase this in on the young folks, but it isn't fair for me to get screwed. I'd have much preferred the Feds to let me invest that money in the market back when I started, but no, it was forcibly taken from me and promised at retirement.
Funny enough, up here in Canada, it is illegal to pay for sex (this is recent; it used to be legal, what was illegal was solicitation) , however if one pays for sex and records it then it is legal (exception made to keep the porn industry alive).
Same strange situation here in the USA.
If you pay a girl to have sex with you, it is illegal. BUT, if you film it, it then becomes legal.
Let's kill football too - my tax dollars are better spent on teachers than coaches.
That would be true if it weren't for the fact that football programs are self sustaining, and actually through the extended avenues of revenue they have (example, keeping Alumni interested and donating), football programs often contribute TO the schools and help pay teachers, and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.
If he was refering to the fact that girls now have substantial advantage over boys (over 20% advantage throughout elementary, middle, and high school) and at college entrance, then he would be correct, and very serious. The only area of education not dominated by women in the past ten years is STEM, and men are also far behind women in biology & related sciences, and math, leaving really only computer science and the engineering fields, and physics to men. Every other degree has at least 65% women, far outpacing men. I for one would prefer a system that is gender neutral and doesn't discriminate, seeks to empower all students at all levels in all disciplines, and let students choose their own path, I'd rather the gender boxes disappear altogether and people become free to set their own path in life, whatever their gender.
Hear, hear!! I wish I had mod points for this.
Let's not also forget sports...the Title "9" rules haven't so much promoted women sports as it has helped kill many sports for men outside of football.
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I know if I had one of these cars, I'd certainly NOT be taking it in for the recall work.
Getting the better mileage and performance out of my car like this sounds like a benefit I'd want to keep!!
Not sure why VW stock has tanked then...personally, this sounds like a very GOOD reason to go buy a VW car now...knowing when it comes to it, that it will really perform well!!
Fortunately I've never lived in a state that requires emissions *sniff* tests, but I understand it is a PITA in some states to put on even a simple aftermarket exhaust system for performance.
Yep, I'm likely in your age group, I got my ass whupped at school a time or two..and yes, it was when I got HOME that I was most worried..hahaha.
But for the most part, my teachers were cool. What would happen, I'd usually finish my work fast and early and then be bored, and start distracting my neighbors. That began to earn me having my desk up closer to the teacher where she could keep an eye on me, or give me something else to do.
I would come up with new and creative things to do in class...I was a handful for sure, but I was a happy friendly kid, and while I was a PITA to many teachers, the same ones would tell my parents that they really liked me and just needed help keeping me in control.
But, thankfully...they didn't have the Attention Deficit syndrome diagnosis back then, and I wasn't drugged. I just sometimes had to be "extra supervised". All in all, I think I turned out fine.
But I have to guess your situation is a very niche one....an extreme outlier to most kids' situation.
Normal anxiety and angst is a part of growing up and learning to deal with things. I'm afraid that way too often today, what should be normal levels of this type stress, is being treated with drugs, instead of teachings of how to live and deal with this.
Extreme cases like you have, of course require more tx, but I would still guess that your extreme case is in the minority of the human population numbers.
Seriously??
Where do you live where life is this bad for kids if they aren't in the 1%? What is your definition of the 1%...anyone making over $40K or something?
Not being in the top 5 of your class, is not a sentence to poverty anywhere I have lived or know about in the US. What city and state do you find a child's future so dismal?
No, I am questioning all the DISEASE period. At the very least, I'm questioning the over diagnosis of so many diseases.
I can't imagine we're doing these young teens and pre-teens any good with all this. We didn't need it in the past and we all came out well adjusted (always a few exceptions), so why in God's name do we feel the need to start drugging kids from such an early age ?
It is just big Pharma selling more wares, getting folks hooked early?
Between "Attention deficit disorder" (formerly known as being "a boy")...and now anti-depressants, can a kid that was once considered normal growing up and developing with all the fun times and turbulent times grow up today without the first inclination be to DRUG THEM?
Thank you!! Come again.....!!
The trouble is...the Large Evil Corporations (TM) that you are likely aiming this towards...are pretty much immune to all the regulations and onerous paperwork...they have teams of lawyers, tax men and paper workers to take care of all this to get away with pretty much business as usual.
Big Corps actually often LOVE the type of regulations and red tape we currently have, as that it keeps smaller businesses and startups from being able to gain ground to compete with them, since they can't afford said, lawyers, tax accountants and lobbyists.
If nothing else maybe make some exceptions for businesses that employ 200 or less people?
No, I mean that if you are a GROWN ADULT, have all the sex you want, just be an adult about it, and do something to keep from popping out a kid just after you pop your dick into her.
Feel free to have all the sex you want, you have that right of course.
You just do NOT have the right to force me and others to pay for your kids as a result of your immature , ill considered bed hopping activities.
I'm curious about this too.
The government really does not create jobs in any meaningful way.
What it does currently do...is over regulate and kill the small businesses with taxation and paperwork preventing them from doing what they have historically done BEST in the past, and that is....employ the majority of people in the US.
Perhaps some meaningful legislation from the Feds could be named the "Get The Govt The Fuck Outta The Way Of The Small Business To Create Jobs" bill.
MUCH smaller country, and different culture, more homogenized than the US.
We have far more folks, AND...well, culture has bred a lot of lazy, entitled, no work ethic folks in the past few decades.
There are PLENTY of folks with no drive which would leech on said system and not be self motivated enough to try to better themselves above it in any significant way.
Well, if that is the case then the basic income estimate of about $2K a month ain't gonna recompense me for what I"d put into SS for many decades.
The SS calculator for future dollars (if the program survives) would a bit over $4K/mo for me at retirement age 67....and about $5700 if I wait till 70 to retire....
The govt better hold up their promises to me...phase this in on the young folks, but it isn't fair for me to get screwed. I'd have much preferred the Feds to let me invest that money in the market back when I started, but no, it was forcibly taken from me and promised at retirement.
Hmm..perhaps they, they shouldn't be having kids they can't afford?
Ok....that answers exactly NONE of my questions...
And when was the last time you heard of any major tax or department in govt that was fully and successfully defunded or removed entirely?
Hell, it took almost 108 years to remove the Phone Excise Tax ....something as archaic as that took forever to fully remove.
Does this money just magically appear?
Isn't the Fed Reserve already magically creating money for us...and that is just getting us further in debt?
While this sounds all warm and fuzzy...everyone likes "free" money...but WTF does it come from?
Yep,if it were a filter for women, it wold be called a breakthrough....for men, it is "Troll-A-Vision"...or an anti-beer goggles simulator....
Same strange situation here in the USA.
If you pay a girl to have sex with you, it is illegal. BUT, if you film it, it then becomes legal.
What a strange world we live in....
That would be true if it weren't for the fact that football programs are self sustaining, and actually through the extended avenues of revenue they have (example, keeping Alumni interested and donating), football programs often contribute TO the schools and help pay teachers, and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.
As a guy, face it, you ALWAYS pay for it...one way or another.
Some forms of repayment are just more legal than others....
Long tradition....
Hear, hear!! I wish I had mod points for this.
Let's not also forget sports...the Title "9" rules haven't so much promoted women sports as it has helped kill many sports for men outside of football.