Exactly. Different cars designed for different intentions. I own an '05 Mustang GT. It's very nice. Been flawless so far to the point that I feel bad for Ford and their current problems. They can make something nice when they have the right people in place - in this case Hau Thai-Tang and Sid Ramnarace.
They sell more auto Mustangs than stick. It's a daily driver that people take to work.
It fell out of the sky, accompanied by a host of angels. Everyone knows that.
Then, hovering in the air, surrounded by a wreath of misty light and cherubim, it received it's first call from God who delivered the three prophecies of Cupertina.
The first was a vision of Hell, which looked like an AT&T service agreement and 900 page bill.
The second was how to save (switch) souls from the clutches of Vista and delivered by the Virgin Mary herself in the guise of Ellen Feiss.
The third is held under tight guard by high ranking members of the Huckabee presidential campaign, and is to be revealed on the first New Moon after the current Pope dies.
Hey, I have a 2005 Mustang GT that I love, so I have to speak for it.:) It is an UNAPOLOGETICALLY retro American muscle car that should be respected for what it was meant to be.
1. They seem to shoot down any car that cannot perform on a professional race track like a professional race car. The concept of a practical "street car" seems to be beyond them for some reason. There was one where they raced an off the rack Mustang (designed for street and open road driving) against some sort of Lotus specifically designed and tuned for twisty, high speed driving. WTF? Will they be pitting a Formula 1 car against a Dodge Nitro next?
2. There's also gleeful propagation of the "if the technology in the car is more than seven hours old it sucks" meme that has turned todays autos into gold mines for service station because no one can fix their own bloody cars anymore.
So, really fun show, but their attitudes toward cars is a bit blinkered.
Yeah, but we already rope off areas as national parks and protected areas. Unlimited clean energy (UCE) would not necessarily prevent that, and it would provide the energy to go and fix areas we've already broken (strip mines and toxic sites and such things).
UCE also allows you to build bigger and more densely: think SimCity arcologies. You could utilize existing space more efficiently. Even make "icebergs" out of your cities from the standpoint that 80% of them could be underground. Earthquake prone areas excepted, of course.;-)
I can't finalize my opinion until Top Gear puts The Stig into one of these things, and races it against a Bugatti Veyron. Now that's scientific method, people!
FAST is not a self-recursive acronym. FAST stands for "FAst Search and Transfer". The "fast" in the expanded acronym is not the acronym FAST, it is the actual word fast, therefore it is not a self-recursive acronym.
We've bee stuck at "Platinum" for too long. We used to have "Plus" and "Extra". Then "Pro" and "Extreme". Then we hit the elements with "Silver", "Gold", a strange detour through "Titanium" and then "Platinum". I think some companies used "Diamond".
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself... You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, 'there's going to be a joke coming,' there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks
It doesn't harm them to any great extent, but I know everyone wants to play pretend that the lawyers are doing good at the end of the day, so, there ya go.
Yeah! Enrich some more lawyers who, in a more sane society with fewer whiny bitches, would be sweeping streets. Instead, they find enough rubes to sign up for a class action suit. The company gets a tiny slap. The rubes get a $1 coupon. The lawyers get to snort coke off hooker's breasts in the back seat of their 7-series. That solves what, exactly? It's a scam created by the legal industry and enabled by their buddy lawyers in government.
Can we maybe start reserving the whole class action thing for, oh, I dunno, toxic waste dumping, or something like that?
Craftsman is about the only thing they have left of any real value. Someone would probably buy the product line. Maybe one of the home improvement chains?
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Exactly. Different cars designed for different intentions. I own an '05 Mustang GT. It's very nice. Been flawless so far to the point that I feel bad for Ford and their current problems. They can make something nice when they have the right people in place - in this case Hau Thai-Tang and Sid Ramnarace.
They sell more auto Mustangs than stick. It's a daily driver that people take to work.
It fell out of the sky, accompanied by a host of angels. Everyone knows that.
Then, hovering in the air, surrounded by a wreath of misty light and cherubim, it received it's first call from God who delivered the three prophecies of Cupertina.
The first was a vision of Hell, which looked like an AT&T service agreement and 900 page bill.
The second was how to save (switch) souls from the clutches of Vista and delivered by the Virgin Mary herself in the guise of Ellen Feiss.
The third is held under tight guard by high ranking members of the Huckabee presidential campaign, and is to be revealed on the first New Moon after the current Pope dies.
So let it be written. So let it be dumb.
Like I said, I love the show.
:) It is an UNAPOLOGETICALLY retro American muscle car that should be respected for what it was meant to be.
Hey, I have a 2005 Mustang GT that I love, so I have to speak for it.
I don't know why Ford doesn't sell the Mondeo in the US.
I love the show, but...
1. They seem to shoot down any car that cannot perform on a professional race track like a professional race car. The concept of a practical "street car" seems to be beyond them for some reason. There was one where they raced an off the rack Mustang (designed for street and open road driving) against some sort of Lotus specifically designed and tuned for twisty, high speed driving. WTF? Will they be pitting a Formula 1 car against a Dodge Nitro next?
2. There's also gleeful propagation of the "if the technology in the car is more than seven hours old it sucks" meme that has turned todays autos into gold mines for service station because no one can fix their own bloody cars anymore.
So, really fun show, but their attitudes toward cars is a bit blinkered.
Yeah, but we already rope off areas as national parks and protected areas. Unlimited clean energy (UCE) would not necessarily prevent that, and it would provide the energy to go and fix areas we've already broken (strip mines and toxic sites and such things).
;-)
UCE also allows you to build bigger and more densely: think SimCity arcologies. You could utilize existing space more efficiently. Even make "icebergs" out of your cities from the standpoint that 80% of them could be underground. Earthquake prone areas excepted, of course.
But these are political problem, not scientific.
I can't finalize my opinion until Top Gear puts The Stig into one of these things, and races it against a Bugatti Veyron. Now that's scientific method, people!
Also, lets be real. How effective is a 30HP car going to be moving a family of fatass American families weighing in at ~1000lbs total.
Jeremy Clarkson? Is that you?
And it consumed very little fuel - around 40 gpm, I think.
I dunno... 40 gallons per mile seems a bit steep.
Slashdot would suck if everyone had to call Rob before they felt they were allowed to use his web server.
Wait! You mean I don't? Shit! All those wasted phone calls!
FAST is not a self-recursive acronym. FAST stands for "FAst Search and Transfer". The "fast" in the expanded acronym is not the acronym FAST, it is the actual word fast, therefore it is not a self-recursive acronym.
Wait... who's on first again?
Or not.
Pat Buchanan won New Hampshire in 1996.
I'm just sayin'.
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I have to go join another message board just so I can use that name. It's better than Jackie McJackass.
We've bee stuck at "Platinum" for too long. We used to have "Plus" and "Extra". Then "Pro" and "Extreme". Then we hit the elements with "Silver", "Gold", a strange detour through "Titanium" and then "Platinum". I think some companies used "Diamond".
How about:
MusicPass Beryllium
MusicPass Plutonium
MusicPass Upsidasium
MusicPass Unobtanium
MusicPass Neutronium
MusicPass Dilithium
MusicPass Polonium
MusicPass Tin Foil
MusicPass Mithril
Also, the whole "MusicPass" could be revised and- GODDAMMIT I HATE MARKETERS! I FUCKING HATE THEM!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA!
"Platinum MusicPass"
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself... You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, 'there's going to be a joke coming,' there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks
I read the summary twice and still have no idea what it's about. It just isn't parsing for me.
In just five minutes I found this weird ancient obelisk!
Obelisk
Wow! A previously unknown sphinx!
Sphinx
Some sort of ancient roadway system. It's a bit hard to make out.
Ancient trade routes
...but I'm working on it. I need some bigger guns.
It doesn't harm them to any great extent, but I know everyone wants to play pretend that the lawyers are doing good at the end of the day, so, there ya go.
Yeah! Enrich some more lawyers who, in a more sane society with fewer whiny bitches, would be sweeping streets. Instead, they find enough rubes to sign up for a class action suit. The company gets a tiny slap. The rubes get a $1 coupon. The lawyers get to snort coke off hooker's breasts in the back seat of their 7-series. That solves what, exactly? It's a scam created by the legal industry and enabled by their buddy lawyers in government.
Can we maybe start reserving the whole class action thing for, oh, I dunno, toxic waste dumping, or something like that?
They are set top boxes. The whole point of the venture is to move them from computer screens to televisions.
I'm just hoping for an analog hole. Maybe a component output?
Hey! I *OWN* the basement I hide in, thank you very much!
:-\
Actually, I've hated Trek since the middle of DS9.
$SUCCESSFUL_COMPANY sued for $OVERHYPED_REASON by $MONEY_HUNGRY_LAWYERS for $SOME_SCHLUB_WHO_AGREED_TO_BE_LAWYER'S_MARK
Lather, rinse and repeat.
I'm registering my next domain in Klingon.
Craftsman is about the only thing they have left of any real value. Someone would probably buy the product line. Maybe one of the home improvement chains?