In general, the Pinto's gas tank was at about the same risk in a crash as any other small car. The lack of a large sturdy frame means the tank can be crushed easier. The worst problem the Pinto had was the way the fuel filler hose was connected to the tank. It ripped away much to easily in a crash and sprayed gas into the body of the car.
A recall was issued for the installation of safer filler connections and they were integrated into the later models. The later models were also made heavier and beefier.
>>> * Note: The offer may not apply if you happen to be non-white, non-male or just plain poor.
Actually it did apply. Millions of people of all kinds flocked to the U.S. with nothing and built good lives for themselves because of the freedoms it offered. Does that mean that every last one of them prospered? No.
Sometimes you had to find the right place to settle in order to get what you wanted, but freedom and opportunity were there for everyone. The original contention that it bore close resemblence to repressive regimes like Communist China is false.
By the way, being born a non-white female in the U.S. in the 1920's did not get you killed on the spot. Does it still do that for you in China today?
>>> Unless you happen to be in that top 1-5%. How is that much different from the US in the 1920s?
In America in the 1920's anyone could own land, and start a business, and write or say whatever they pleased. You couldn't legally sell whiskey or beer during much of that period, but in most other ways you had even more freedom than Americans do today.
I wouldn't trade my life today for one in the 1920's though, because of the advances that have been made since then which give us an easier and longer life.
I'm not an expert on China, but I would expect that the large numbers of people they have working in skilled trades will develop into a powerful middle class over time and transform Chinese society. This pattern has happened before in countries all over the world. That is why the Chinese labor market became so attractive in the first place. Earlier countries that had been that same kind of market were transformed into more developed nations as the workers became skilled labor and management. This led to a middle class, a growing domestic economy and rising wages.
A very interesting book was written about the first MIG-25 to fall into U.S. hands. The book follows the life of the pilot as he defects, and eventually returns to the Soviet Union. The book is called, "Mig Pilot".
I found a page where western acquisition of Soviet and Chinese aircraft are listed:
>>> What bullshit. Conflicting bills are solved on the basis of power and horsetrading; and no one would want a record of their negotiations to come back and embarrass them.
Parent is correct. I don't want a robot trading away my state's water rights to get another Air Force Base. That's what my Congressman is for.
>>> A state of terror doesn't exist when everyone is being nailed. It can happen to only a few, and then everyone else learns the lesson, internalizes the fact that they must watch what they say, watch what they do, or SOMEthing might happen. People automagically line up in ranks for very little reason, something Goebbels and Hitler knew well. McCarthy knew how it worked, and so did Nixon and Bush II.
Where McCarthy is concerned, at least, you need to catch up on history. In 1995 decoded Soviet cables were declassified which proved that McCarthy had been right all along. Look up The Venona Project.
I, BEING THE SON OF THE LATE INFORMATION MINISTER OF BRUNEI, HAVE AUTHORITY TO MILLIONS OF PHONE RECORD INFORMATIONS WHICH I WOULD BE WILLING TO SHARE WITH YOU.
IT HAPPENS THAT I HAVE BEEN BEEN DEPORTED TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, BUT MY ASSOCIATES CAN FACILITATE THE EARLY RELEASE OF THIS TREASURE TROVE FOR US. WE NEED ONLY AN UPFRONT PROCESSING FEE OF $1,267.39 DOLLARS US.
PLEASE RESPOND IN STRICTED CONFIDENCE,
GOERGE NORLANDER TEMPORARILY LOCATED IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
Speaking of the Pinto. There is a book that goes into the whole Pinto controversy in great detail, along with the rest of Ford Motor Company's history from the beginning until the 1970's.
The book is called, "Ford: The Man and the Machine", by Robert Lacey.
I didn't know it until doing a google search just now, but it was even made into a movie.
>>> The hijackers on 9/11 might have been stopped by the use of cookies, but we will never know.
Actually, we do. The memo prohibiting persistent cookies came out in 2003. This suggests that the 9/11 terrorists were not deterred by cookie technology when it was in full force in 2001.
Clearly we are lagging behind the terrorists in cookie warfare.
I don't understand how you can say that allowing Wash and Book to be killed was an attempt to reach a wider audience.
If anything I felt that it showed the core audience that this was not an episode of a TV series, where much could be expected to end up the same at the end as at the beginning. New viewers would not know of their earlier contributions to the story and would be much less attached to them.
I don't see how new viewers can have been a factor in the decision to let them die. New viewers would have gotten the same effect of seriousness if new characters had been added and then killed.
Also, River had been shown as having a 'super weapon' mode in the Firefly series, where she closed her eyes and killed three armed troops with three shots in about one second, so the movie was not 'turning' her into something new.
I loved the movie and will own the DVD today (first day out). If nothing else, you finally get to see what a Reaver really looks like.
The question isn't how original you think her ideas were, it's how well she crafted them into a worldview that other people could understand and find value in.
For myself, the pleasure of reading her works was first in seeing her lay out a strong case for things I had long believed myself, and second in seeing her take those things to the next level and demonstrate how they were part of a framework that was a better way for man to live than the mysticism and mindless self-sacrifice that was being offered elsewhere.
Not everyone is suited for Objectivism, clearly. Some people have socialism, or fascism, or mysticism ingrained in them in ways that can not be undone.
>>> Rand's 'philosophy' (which her novels are intended to showcase) is, at its heart, a ripoff of an extremely shallow reading of Nietzsche.
Rand's novels are intended to flesh out her philosphy through example. To best understand the philosophy itself you might read her non-fiction books, like 'The Romantic Manifesto', 'The Virtue of Selfishness', and "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal'. There are probably others I'm missing.
Under some conditions the store may very well be held liable. If they did not pursue due diligence in assertaining that the buyer was not a known felon, then they could face penalties.
Also, guns and knives have many recreational and defensive uses, and the vast majority of buyers are no threat to anyone.
Is the same true of someone who buys an exploit?
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright
>>> i would have expected the party breakdown to be 180degrees opoistite this...
>>> can someone explain?
Here's my wild-ass guess.
Thirty years ago you got your news and opinion from A-NB-CBS and you liked it, cause you didn't have much choice. With that kind of media bottleneck in effect the Democrats held Congress in an iron grip for forty years.
Now there are scads of places to get your news and opinion and the Democrats find themselves on the outs.. out of the White House, out of control in the Senate, and out of control in the House. They have drawn the conclusion that too much free speech is very bad for their prospects as a party.
The company says their future is with Linux. Most of us who use their products would probably be fine using them without Linux. It's their dwindling market share that is pushing them toward Linux as a way to put themselves back in a growing market.
One problem Netware had that cost them market share was the level of sophistication required to write applications to run on the server. The number of native apps available for Netware has never been very high, and is dwindling. When those apps come into an enterprise computer room now they are coming wrapped in some other OS, like Windows.
By embracing Linux, Novell hopes to reverse this trend and have their signature products, like directory services, IDM, etc, running on a box that is also capable of running many third party applications and is not hard to develop for.
They are still big among enterprises that value reliability and ease of use for large directories. I work in local goverment and it is our central store of identity and authentication for 12,000 users, as well as distributing applications and hosting files. Netware 6.5 provides great resources for Identity Management. Many goverment and educational sites use Netware, maybe because they typically don't have a lot of money for staff and need something that isn't labor intensive or prone to failure.
We have never had server downtime because of a virus or worm.
Novell's marketing seems to be the only weakness, the products are great.
Their hope of the future is migrating all their existing features to run over Linux.
If it won't skip commercials I'll never have it, I don't see why anyone would. I get sick of commercials in broadcast TV to the point I even stop watching shows I like--right in the middle--and say, 'To hell with this, I'll watch a DVD or something where I can skip the commercials.'
Either I've gotten much less tolerant of commercials, or the quantity and obtrusiveness of the ads has gone up so much that sitting through them is no longer an option after the first few.
>>> As well as the U.S. economy depends on foreign labour.
This is an assertion that is often made, even in regard to illegal aliens. I'd like to see it proven one way or another. If illegals were rounded up and deported we'd soon find out if the country could still function or not.
If it couldn't, which I seriously doubt, we could increase the LEGAL avenues for foreign workers to enter the U.S. for a limited time, under controlled conditions.
"Cheer up! The worst effects of what we're doing won't be felt until after we're all dead" - Ashleigh Brilliant
>>> why can't they can find out who these people are and deport them?
Better yet, run sting operations to smoke them out and then prosecute them. Some of them are guilty of extortion, kidnapping, and murder and will continue to do it until they are stopped.
You can't advertise a used car, truck, boat, or motorcycle on the internet today without these scammers attempting to cheat you with a stolen or counterfeit check.
This requires no greed on the part of the seller. The claims of the scammers and their apologists that the victims deserve to be robbed because of their greed are simply hogwash.
"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow." - Ayn Rand
Wasn't there a political component to this view that going to the moon was a waste of money? I recall hearing a constant moan from the left that the money should have been spent on social programs here on earth instead.
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." - Isaac Asimov
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In general, the Pinto's gas tank was at about the same risk in a crash as any other small car. The lack of a large sturdy frame means the tank can be crushed easier. The worst problem the Pinto had was the way the fuel filler hose was connected to the tank. It ripped away much to easily in a crash and sprayed gas into the body of the car.
A recall was issued for the installation of safer filler connections and they were integrated into the later models. The later models were also made heavier and beefier.
>>> * Note: The offer may not apply if you happen to be non-white, non-male or just plain poor.
Actually it did apply. Millions of people of all kinds flocked to the U.S. with nothing and built good lives for themselves because of the freedoms it offered. Does that mean that every last one of them prospered? No.
Sometimes you had to find the right place to settle in order to get what you wanted, but freedom and opportunity were there for everyone. The original contention that it bore close resemblence to repressive regimes like Communist China is false.
By the way, being born a non-white female in the U.S. in the 1920's did not get you killed on the spot. Does it still do that for you in China today?
>>> Unless you happen to be in that top 1-5%. How is that much different from the US in the 1920s?
In America in the 1920's anyone could own land, and start a business, and write or say whatever they pleased. You couldn't legally sell whiskey or beer during much of that period, but in most other ways you had even more freedom than Americans do today.
I wouldn't trade my life today for one in the 1920's though, because of the advances that have been made since then which give us an easier and longer life.
I'm not an expert on China, but I would expect that the large numbers of people they have working in skilled trades will develop into a powerful middle class over time and transform Chinese society. This pattern has happened before in countries all over the world. That is why the Chinese labor market became so attractive in the first place. Earlier countries that had been that same kind of market were transformed into more developed nations as the workers became skilled labor and management. This led to a middle class, a growing domestic economy and rising wages.
A very interesting book was written about the first MIG-25 to fall into U.S. hands. The book follows the life of the pilot as he defects, and eventually returns to the Soviet Union. The book is called, "Mig Pilot".
I found a page where western acquisition of Soviet and Chinese aircraft are listed:
http://home.sprynet.com/~anneled/Defections.html
The "Mig Pilot" episode is listed for 1976.
>>> What bullshit. Conflicting bills are solved on the basis of power and horsetrading; and no one would want a record of their negotiations to come back and embarrass them.
Parent is correct. I don't want a robot trading away my state's water rights to get another Air Force Base. That's what my Congressman is for.
>>> A state of terror doesn't exist when everyone is being nailed. It can happen to only a few, and then everyone else learns the lesson, internalizes the fact that they must watch what they say, watch what they do, or SOMEthing might happen. People automagically line up in ranks for very little reason, something Goebbels and Hitler knew well. McCarthy knew how it worked, and so did Nixon and Bush II.
Where McCarthy is concerned, at least, you need to catch up on history. In 1995 decoded Soviet cables were declassified which proved that McCarthy had been right all along. Look up The Venona Project.
DEAR PRINCE ABADALLAH,
I, BEING THE SON OF THE LATE INFORMATION MINISTER OF BRUNEI, HAVE AUTHORITY TO MILLIONS OF PHONE RECORD INFORMATIONS WHICH I WOULD BE WILLING TO SHARE WITH YOU.
IT HAPPENS THAT I HAVE BEEN BEEN DEPORTED TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, BUT MY ASSOCIATES CAN FACILITATE THE EARLY RELEASE OF THIS TREASURE TROVE FOR US. WE NEED ONLY AN UPFRONT PROCESSING FEE OF $1,267.39 DOLLARS US.
PLEASE RESPOND IN STRICTED CONFIDENCE,
GOERGE NORLANDER
TEMPORARILY LOCATED IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
Speaking of the Pinto. There is a book that goes into the whole Pinto controversy in great detail, along with the rest of Ford Motor Company's history from the beginning until the 1970's. The book is called, "Ford: The Man and the Machine", by Robert Lacey. I didn't know it until doing a google search just now, but it was even made into a movie.
>>> The hijackers on 9/11 might have been stopped by the use of cookies, but we will never know.
Actually, we do. The memo prohibiting persistent cookies came out in 2003. This suggests that the 9/11 terrorists were not deterred by cookie technology when it was in full force in 2001.
Clearly we are lagging behind the terrorists in cookie warfare.
I don't understand how you can say that allowing Wash and Book to be killed was an attempt to reach a wider audience.
If anything I felt that it showed the core audience that this was not an episode of a TV series, where much could be expected to end up the same at the end as at the beginning. New viewers would not know of their earlier contributions to the story and would be much less attached to them.
I don't see how new viewers can have been a factor in the decision to let them die. New viewers would have gotten the same effect of seriousness if new characters had been added and then killed.
Also, River had been shown as having a 'super weapon' mode in the Firefly series, where she closed her eyes and killed three armed troops with three shots in about one second, so the movie was not 'turning' her into something new.
I loved the movie and will own the DVD today (first day out). If nothing else, you finally get to see what a Reaver really looks like.
The question isn't how original you think her ideas were, it's how well she crafted them into a worldview that other people could understand and find value in.
For myself, the pleasure of reading her works was first in seeing her lay out a strong case for things I had long believed myself, and second in seeing her take those things to the next level and demonstrate how they were part of a framework that was a better way for man to live than the mysticism and mindless self-sacrifice that was being offered elsewhere.
Not everyone is suited for Objectivism, clearly. Some people have socialism, or fascism, or mysticism ingrained in them in ways that can not be undone.
>>> Rand's 'philosophy' (which her novels are intended to showcase) is, at its heart, a ripoff of an extremely shallow reading of Nietzsche.
Rand's novels are intended to flesh out her philosphy through example. To best understand the philosophy itself you might read her non-fiction books, like 'The Romantic Manifesto', 'The Virtue of Selfishness', and "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal'. There are probably others I'm missing.
Under some conditions the store may very well be held liable. If they did not pursue due diligence in assertaining that the buyer was not a known felon, then they could face penalties.
Also, guns and knives have many recreational and defensive uses, and the vast majority of buyers are no threat to anyone.
Is the same true of someone who buys an exploit?
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright
>>> For an extra $9.95 a month you can get voicemail installed for those discerning dogs that want to screen their calls.
Dogs probably wouldn't use the feature, but cats certainly would.
>>> i would have expected the party breakdown to be 180degrees opoistite this...
>>> can someone explain?
Here's my wild-ass guess.
Thirty years ago you got your news and opinion from A-NB-CBS and you liked it, cause you didn't have much choice. With that kind of media bottleneck in effect the Democrats held Congress in an iron grip for forty years.
Now there are scads of places to get your news and opinion and the Democrats find themselves on the outs.. out of the White House, out of control in the Senate, and out of control in the House. They have drawn the conclusion that too much free speech is very bad for their prospects as a party.
The company says their future is with Linux. Most of us who use their products would probably be fine using them without Linux. It's their dwindling market share that is pushing them toward Linux as a way to put themselves back in a growing market.
One problem Netware had that cost them market share was the level of sophistication required to write applications to run on the server. The number of native apps available for Netware has never been very high, and is dwindling. When those apps come into an enterprise computer room now they are coming wrapped in some other OS, like Windows.
By embracing Linux, Novell hopes to reverse this trend and have their signature products, like directory services, IDM, etc, running on a box that is also capable of running many third party applications and is not hard to develop for.
They are still big among enterprises that value reliability and ease of use for large directories. I work in local goverment and it is our central store of identity and authentication for 12,000 users, as well as distributing applications and hosting files. Netware 6.5 provides great resources for Identity Management. Many goverment and educational sites use Netware, maybe because they typically don't have a lot of money for staff and need something that isn't labor intensive or prone to failure.
We have never had server downtime because of a virus or worm.
Novell's marketing seems to be the only weakness, the products are great.
Their hope of the future is migrating all their existing features to run over Linux.
If it won't skip commercials I'll never have it, I don't see why anyone would. I get sick of commercials in broadcast TV to the point I even stop watching shows I like--right in the middle--and say, 'To hell with this, I'll watch a DVD or something where I can skip the commercials.'
Either I've gotten much less tolerant of commercials, or the quantity and obtrusiveness of the ads has gone up so much that sitting through them is no longer an option after the first few.
>>> As well as the U.S. economy depends on foreign labour.
This is an assertion that is often made, even in regard to illegal aliens. I'd like to see it proven one way or another. If illegals were rounded up and deported we'd soon find out if the country could still function or not.
If it couldn't, which I seriously doubt, we could increase the LEGAL avenues for foreign workers to enter the U.S. for a limited time, under controlled conditions.
"Cheer up! The worst effects of what we're doing won't be felt until after we're all dead" - Ashleigh Brilliant
>>> why can't they can find out who these people are and deport them?
Better yet, run sting operations to smoke them out and then prosecute them. Some of them are guilty of extortion, kidnapping, and murder and will continue to do it until they are stopped.
You can't advertise a used car, truck, boat, or motorcycle on the internet today without these scammers attempting to cheat you with a stolen or counterfeit check.
This requires no greed on the part of the seller. The claims of the scammers and their apologists that the victims deserve to be robbed because of their greed are simply hogwash.
"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow." - Ayn Rand
>>> Tom Delay gets convicted of "campaign finance irregularties" but...
Correction: Delay has been indicted. He has not been convicted of anything.
"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program." - Bob Wells
Wasn't there a political component to this view that going to the moon was a waste of money? I recall hearing a constant moan from the left that the money should have been spent on social programs here on earth instead.
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." - Isaac Asimov
Cool.
Maybe, "It is tyranny to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
would state the case without going that extra little bit too far.
>>> There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it does him good
I like that! Is it yours?