knowing that Bush will only follow his invisible leader in the sky.
News flash, sparky: this has nothing to do with religion. Bush no more believes in God than you do. But he knows how to use propaganda, he knows how to get Christians to follow his evil, Satanistic ways. What you ascribe to religion is merely evil, selfish men who use religion to further their own greed.
Bush is the wolf is sheep's clothing that we were warned about. Pat Robertson, too. These men are NOT Christians. Don't listen to their words, look at their actions. They worship money.
Bush is an athiest who pretends to be a Christian.
If you're talking about Afghanistan I'll agree. But if you're talking about Iraq I'll call you a brainless syncopant. We had no reason to invade Iraq; none at all.
Iraq had no Al Quaida terrorists. They do now.
BTW, are we still looking for bin Laden? I haven't heard jsck about him lately. Shouldn't we be invading Pakistan to look for him?
These things mentioned are unpalatable but then again - so is war. Moral of the story - avoid it. But sometimes you will have to fight, and when you do, fight hard and fight to win.
This fight never had to be joined. This war was based on Bush and his administration's LIES.
I truly believe that George Bush is a very evil man, whose real purpose in getting us into this war was to destabilize the middle east so the price of oil would skyrocket and he, his friends, and his family would become even richer.
Thousands have died, the American economy is in ruins, just so a rich bastard could become even richer. And yet the bastard still has apologists!
When will this evil man be brought to trial for his crimes against humanity?
I've scanned the comments, and after reading the respoonses from my countrymen I amd ashamed and appalled.
There was an item on the radio in the news today that the Gitmo prisoners are suffering from TSS and show evidence of torture. When will Americans wake up and demand accountability? Like excellence, mediocrity and criminality come from the top.
Bush, Cheney, the Secretary of "defense", and a whole lot of other people need to be tried and convicted of war crimes. The actions of my government are past shameful.
We deserve the vitriol hurled at us by the rest of the world. For the first time in my 56 years I'm ashamed to be an American.
Bush and all the people he has appointed should be impeached, tried, found guilty of treason and war crimes, and set in front of a firing squad and shot.
Not even Hirohito damaged my country as much as the current administration.
You are the exception. I would actually expect an engineer to not only buy a Volvo but to drive it in a safe manner. Most people buy Volvos for the same reason as SUVs- percieved safety (although the perception is unwarranted with an SUV).
My idea of a moron is someone with a PhD in physics who tailgates. He should understand the forces involved, after all.
Are they really stupid if their genes survive longer?
Yes. Your survival has little to do with your intelligence. And, your intelligence is only partly determined by your genes; environment plays a much larger role. There are a lot of things that can damage a brain, almost all of which are environmental.
So "fanatical athiests" is your code for someone who occasionally gets annoyed with people advertising their religion- but who doesn't act on this annoyance, instead jokingly complaining about it on slashdot?
No, if some asshat brings up creationism or the golden rule or abortion here he deserves to be slapped down unless the topic is specifically about that whether he's an athiest, Baptist, or Muslim. There was a thread about some stupid "creationist museum" a while back and anti-religion posts were valid there. But I see athiests coming out of the blue here just bashing religion in general without provocation whatever. Perhaps you made some of those posts yourself.
If your sig says "there is no god" you are advertising your (lack of) religion, and that's valid and will get no grief from me, just as valid as the fish with legs you see on cars.
Who modded this flamebait insightful?
Flamebait? Why are you so defensive, son? I never attacked you. Perhaps it was modded so by someone who, like me, sees athiests attacking people at slashdot for religion on an almost daily basis?
I don't know; the Vice Presidency's most important function (seeing as how there are few times he has to break a tie in the Senate) is to be breathing when the President stops doing so.
I don't think Barr would actually make a good President, and the Greens afaik haven't selected a nominee (last I saw there were several running). Barr's really not a Libertarian even though he's running as one; he's a Republican. But if the Greens aren't on the ballot I'll vote for Barr.
The study was of people reacting to assholes, not the assholes themselves. If nobody drove like an asshole there wouldn't be any such thing as road rage.
My observation isn't that the rich folks are pissed off, it's that they are pissing everyone else off by driving like witless morons.
The question becomes how to fight and win without raising the danger level and letting the obnoxious one know he is out of place
I would rather not fight at all. It just isn't worth it. He probably already knows he's out of place but doesn't care.
Tailgaters don't bother me; people running red lights and stop signs bother me. People who think they're entitled to part of my lane bother me. People whose actions cause danger to my person and property bother me.
Some people live to annoy other people. On the internet we call them "trolls".
anger: 1. a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire. 2. Chiefly British Dialect. pain or smart, as of a sore. 3. Obsolete. grief; trouble. -verb (used with object) 4. to arouse anger or wrath in. 5. Chiefly British Dialect. to cause to smart; inflame. -verb (used without object) 6. to become angry: He angers with little provocation.
Rage noun 1. angry fury; violent anger. 2. a fit of violent anger. 3. fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc. 4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst. 5. a violent desire or passion. 6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage. 7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable: Raccoon coats were the rage on campus. 8. Archaic. insanity. -verb (used without object) 9. to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate. 10. to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously. 11. to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence: The battle raged ten days. 12. (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence. --Idiom13. all the rage, widely popular or in style.
Rage=anger, but anger !=rage. Horse=4 legged animal, 4 legged animal!=horse.
I think the operative words in your definition is "between". Otherwise the dictionary is at odds with itself.
Obviously you've missed my journals (lucky you). She's a friend who's staying with me while her alien husband is in Basic Training. Beats the hell out of me why any guy would let his wife live with another man, let alone with a cyborg, but those aliens are wierd.
She has nothing to do with bumper stickers. She accuses me of road rage when I say "fucking asshole" whan someone acts like a fucking asshole.
Wow. Just wow. You know, guy, if you routinely have people reacting to you that way you should think about your driving. You are a menace, and not because of your gun.
running streetlights through downtown
You and the semi driver are lucky nobody died as a result of your stupid, callous, selfish behavior.
I was surprised to find that an Explorer can not outrun an unloaded semi
I'm not. Explorers are heavy pieces of shit that can't corner, brake, or maneuver very well.
The police were no help
Lucky for you or you'd be in jail.
I don't expect to have to use it
You had better expect to use it! Do you think you're the only insane moron out there? The first time you run up against someone similarly armed and stupid, you had better count on either a) dying or b) going to prison.
I am a polite and courteous driver
You are fooling yourself. You are an asshole and a menace and shouldn't even be on the road.
the courts generally look kindly towards geezers that have had to defend themselves against thugs.
The courts do NOT look kindly on ANYONE who shoots someone in a road rage incident. You have been very lucky so far. It's amazing someone with your mental problems managed to live so long.
It's annoying if it's a bad time for people like me who want to post about it on our sites
So just do what the major TV networks and corporate newspapers do - make shit up!
Actually back when I was into that sort of thing, I found that making shit up and making sure everyone knew you were making shit up when you made shit up was a recipe for success!
My old site theFragfest.com (a Quake/Quake II site) mixed obvious onion-like bullshit with.plan files, opinion, and other crap and people loved it. I didn't do long pieces like I do in my/. journal or did in my k5 diary, most posts were a paragraph or two.
MAGRATHEA, SOULIANIS-RAHM TWIN STAR SYSTEM, HORSEHEAD NEBULA -- The Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and other Professional Thinking Persons have reached a consensus on whether or not 42 will remain the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything and decided that the answer is not, in fact, 42, despite popular belief.
42, formerly the Ultimate Answer, before its demotion to Penultimate Answer.Their statement is as follows:
"The AUPSLOPTP members gathered at the 2007 General Assembly agreed that an Ultimate Answer is defined as any string of text that (a) is an answer to a question, (b) has sufficient meaning for its self-awareness to overcome rigid philosophical forces so that it assumes a meaningful equilibrium (nearly well-rounded) profile, and (c) has cleared up what the Question is around the [time] of its unveiling.
"This means that as of yet we do not have an Ultimate Answer. A new distinct class of answers called 'Penultimate Answers' was also decided. It was agreed that 'Ultimate Answer' and 'Penultimate Answers' are two distinct classes of answers. The first members of the 'Penultimate Answers' category are 42, 23 and NJ_42+23 (temporary name). More 'Penultimate Answers' are expected to be announced by the AUPSLOPTP in the coming centuries and millenia. Currently a dozen candidate 'Penultimate Answers' are listed on AUPSLOPTP's 'Penultimate Answers' watchlist, which keeps changing as new answers are found and the meanings of the existing candidates become better known."
Many fans of Douglas Adams were outraged at the statement. Indeed, several DNA fans who were members of the AUPSLOPTP who were standing behind their spokesbeing immediately attacked the spokesbeing with their 42-embroidered towels. Galaxywide protests are ensuing to protest the demotion of 42 to Penultimate Answer, saying that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy firmly defines the Ultimate Answer as 42. Earth has its own claims; see Google, Ask.com, and Windows Live Search (in order of credibility).
However, Lunkwill and Fook, the programmers of Deep Thought, say that Douglas Adams would have understood 42's demotion.
"Oh, well, that's life," they said. I am so sexy baby. Unh Unh Unh guess what I am doing
Marvin the Paranoid Android, however, rebutted the claim saying "Life... don't talk to me about life."
[edit] Sources The Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and other Professional Thinking Persons "AUPSLOPTP's announcement of demotion". The Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and other Professional Thinking Persons, February 29, 2007 Vroomfondel "Lunkwill and Fook say Adams would have understood 42's demotion". Forty-twix News, April 20, 2007
Sorry I'm a couple of days late with this. There is a photograph of 42 at the UnNews site.
To me, he seems like a genuinely populist candidate, and an idealist to boot
My emphasis. There's an old joke that wouldn't be so funny if it weren't true. Q- how do you tell when a politician is lying? A- his lips move.
The fact that he's from my state, with perhaps the most corrupt politics in the nation (the last Democrat Governor to lose an election to a Republican went to prison, and the last Republican Governor is still IN prison. Another newer joke - in Illinois we're so patriotic even being dead doesn't keep us from voting) tells me that he's a crook. The fact that he's in one of the two major parties tells me he's going to bow to the corporates.
If he were in a "third party" AND from another state I'd probably support him. But age and disillusionment has made me a cynic. Every law that goes against citizens' rights, citizens' welfare, or common sense that neverless does good to a corporation gets passed by a 100% margin in both houses or nearly so (Bono act, DMCA, Iraq war, PATRIOT Act, etc).
I've only voted FOR one President - that was Clinton, when he ran for reelection. He'd surprised me and actually done a good job. Every other election since Nixon I voted for the "lesser of two evils".
If Obama wins and does a good job, actually NOT cowtowing to the corporations, then he will be the second President I vote for. But the only way he's going to be able to do that is win this time and do a good job of being President.
But you got me looking shit up.
Barack Obama has missed 252 votes (42.6%) during the current Congress. Not good. If I missed work 42% of the time they'd fire me. From the same link, "Barack Obama has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues 96.5% of the time during the current Congress". Also not good. That alone should tell you that he's voting for the corporations or he'd be more independant. According to the page (I simply googled), most of the votes he actually cast were "cloture motions". The only actual bill I see that looks like something that would matter to Americans is the Food and Energy Security Act, which was passed on a partisan vote (R against, D for) and vetoed by Bush.
Sorry, but this tiny bit of research has made me less likely to vote Obama.
No, I'm most certainly NOT *that guy*. People who drive slow in the left lane piss me off no end. The only thing worse is when you're doing the speed limit, and some asshat passes you at a high rate of speed (85 in a 65), then slows down to ride next to someone going slow in the right lane, blocking traffic.
And I saw something that warmed my heart, something I seldom see on the highway, especially in Illinois.
I saw a semi that the State Police had pulled over!
Your justification for following the rules is severely flawed.
I justified it because bicycles don't create traffic
Yes, you do. When I have to slam on the skids at a green light because you're too stupid or suicidal to stop at a red light, that creates traffic. Nobody wants to help a moron commit suicide.
and need traffic lights to tell them when to stop so they don't end up killing each other
You're not old enough to drive, are you? If you're too stupid to understand why traffic lights are needed, I'm not nearly smart enough to explain it to you.
You don't see traffic lights on bike paths.
Yes you do - when they cross highways. It's a lot harder to slow/stop a two thousand pound vehicle doing 35 mph than it is to stop/slow a 30 pound vehicle doing ten.
DUH!
I always found it funny that drivers get so pissed of when cyclists run red lights, when it is safe to do so, just because they can't.
Cars can run red lights when it's safe. But they don't; most don't, anyway. That's because most auto drivers are responsible adults, while most bicycle riders (in the US anyway) are either too young to drive, or lost their license because they have the same attitude you do.
You'll be lucky to survive long enough to get your driver's license.
I really should let a motorcycle rider answer this, but it's safer for the motorcycle rider to have a loud engine because most fools don't see motorcycles. A bike loud enough to drown out a horn or siren is going to be pulled over PDQ, btw.
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knowing that Bush will only follow his invisible leader in the sky.
News flash, sparky: this has nothing to do with religion. Bush no more believes in God than you do. But he knows how to use propaganda, he knows how to get Christians to follow his evil, Satanistic ways. What you ascribe to religion is merely evil, selfish men who use religion to further their own greed.
Bush is the wolf is sheep's clothing that we were warned about. Pat Robertson, too. These men are NOT Christians. Don't listen to their words, look at their actions. They worship money.
Bush is an athiest who pretends to be a Christian.
If you're talking about Afghanistan I'll agree. But if you're talking about Iraq I'll call you a brainless syncopant. We had no reason to invade Iraq; none at all.
Iraq had no Al Quaida terrorists. They do now.
BTW, are we still looking for bin Laden? I haven't heard jsck about him lately. Shouldn't we be invading Pakistan to look for him?
These things mentioned are unpalatable but then again - so is war. Moral of the story - avoid it. But sometimes you will have to fight, and when you do, fight hard and fight to win.
This fight never had to be joined. This war was based on Bush and his administration's LIES.
I truly believe that George Bush is a very evil man, whose real purpose in getting us into this war was to destabilize the middle east so the price of oil would skyrocket and he, his friends, and his family would become even richer.
Thousands have died, the American economy is in ruins, just so a rich bastard could become even richer. And yet the bastard still has apologists!
When will this evil man be brought to trial for his crimes against humanity?
I've scanned the comments, and after reading the respoonses from my countrymen I amd ashamed and appalled.
There was an item on the radio in the news today that the Gitmo prisoners are suffering from TSS and show evidence of torture. When will Americans wake up and demand accountability? Like excellence, mediocrity and criminality come from the top.
Bush, Cheney, the Secretary of "defense", and a whole lot of other people need to be tried and convicted of war crimes. The actions of my government are past shameful.
We deserve the vitriol hurled at us by the rest of the world. For the first time in my 56 years I'm ashamed to be an American.
Bush and all the people he has appointed should be impeached, tried, found guilty of treason and war crimes, and set in front of a firing squad and shot.
Not even Hirohito damaged my country as much as the current administration.
You are the exception. I would actually expect an engineer to not only buy a Volvo but to drive it in a safe manner. Most people buy Volvos for the same reason as SUVs- percieved safety (although the perception is unwarranted with an SUV).
My idea of a moron is someone with a PhD in physics who tailgates. He should understand the forces involved, after all.
You shouldn't be. I hope I've given you food for thought.
Are they really stupid if their genes survive longer?
Yes. Your survival has little to do with your intelligence. And, your intelligence is only partly determined by your genes; environment plays a much larger role. There are a lot of things that can damage a brain, almost all of which are environmental.
So "fanatical athiests" is your code for someone who occasionally gets annoyed with people advertising their religion- but who doesn't act on this annoyance, instead jokingly complaining about it on slashdot?
No, if some asshat brings up creationism or the golden rule or abortion here he deserves to be slapped down unless the topic is specifically about that whether he's an athiest, Baptist, or Muslim. There was a thread about some stupid "creationist museum" a while back and anti-religion posts were valid there. But I see athiests coming out of the blue here just bashing religion in general without provocation whatever. Perhaps you made some of those posts yourself.
If your sig says "there is no god" you are advertising your (lack of) religion, and that's valid and will get no grief from me, just as valid as the fish with legs you see on cars.
Who modded this flamebait insightful?
Flamebait? Why are you so defensive, son? I never attacked you. Perhaps it was modded so by someone who, like me, sees athiests attacking people at slashdot for religion on an almost daily basis?
I don't know; the Vice Presidency's most important function (seeing as how there are few times he has to break a tie in the Senate) is to be breathing when the President stops doing so.
I don't think Barr would actually make a good President, and the Greens afaik haven't selected a nominee (last I saw there were several running). Barr's really not a Libertarian even though he's running as one; he's a Republican. But if the Greens aren't on the ballot I'll vote for Barr.
The study was of people reacting to assholes, not the assholes themselves. If nobody drove like an asshole there wouldn't be any such thing as road rage.
My observation isn't that the rich folks are pissed off, it's that they are pissing everyone else off by driving like witless morons.
The question becomes how to fight and win without raising the danger level and letting the obnoxious one know he is out of place
I would rather not fight at all. It just isn't worth it. He probably already knows he's out of place but doesn't care.
Tailgaters don't bother me; people running red lights and stop signs bother me. People who think they're entitled to part of my lane bother me. People whose actions cause danger to my person and property bother me.
Some people live to annoy other people. On the internet we call them "trolls".
Why would you put a bumper sticker on your car that said "get the fuck out of my way, asshole!"?
I wouldn't; it was a joke.
anger:
1. a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
2. Chiefly British Dialect. pain or smart, as of a sore.
3. Obsolete. grief; trouble.
-verb (used with object) 4. to arouse anger or wrath in.
5. Chiefly British Dialect. to cause to smart; inflame.
-verb (used without object) 6. to become angry: He angers with little provocation.
Rage
noun 1. angry fury; violent anger.
2. a fit of violent anger.
3. fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.
4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite: the rage of thirst.
5. a violent desire or passion.
6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm: poetic rage.
7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable: Raccoon coats were the rage on campus.
8. Archaic. insanity.
-verb (used without object) 9. to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.
10. to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.
11. to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence: The battle raged ten days.
12. (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence.
--Idiom13. all the rage, widely popular or in style.
Rage=anger, but anger !=rage. Horse=4 legged animal, 4 legged animal!=horse.
I think the operative words in your definition is "between". Otherwise the dictionary is at odds with itself.
Obviously you've missed my journals (lucky you). She's a friend who's staying with me while her alien husband is in Basic Training. Beats the hell out of me why any guy would let his wife live with another man, let alone with a cyborg, but those aliens are wierd.
She has nothing to do with bumper stickers. She accuses me of road rage when I say "fucking asshole" whan someone acts like a fucking asshole.
Wow. Just wow. You know, guy, if you routinely have people reacting to you that way you should think about your driving. You are a menace, and not because of your gun.
running streetlights through downtown
You and the semi driver are lucky nobody died as a result of your stupid, callous, selfish behavior.
I was surprised to find that an Explorer can not outrun an unloaded semi
I'm not. Explorers are heavy pieces of shit that can't corner, brake, or maneuver very well.
The police were no help
Lucky for you or you'd be in jail.
I don't expect to have to use it
You had better expect to use it! Do you think you're the only insane moron out there? The first time you run up against someone similarly armed and stupid, you had better count on either a) dying or b) going to prison.
I am a polite and courteous driver
You are fooling yourself. You are an asshole and a menace and shouldn't even be on the road.
the courts generally look kindly towards geezers that have had to defend themselves against thugs.
The courts do NOT look kindly on ANYONE who shoots someone in a road rage incident. You have been very lucky so far. It's amazing someone with your mental problems managed to live so long.
So when was the last time a fanatical athiest (sic.) knocked on your door to try to talk you out of your religion?
They don't knock, they just walk on in via the internet at sites like slashdot that have nothing whatever to do with religion.
And I have lots of fun fucking with the Jehova's Witnesses' heads. It's been quite some time since one came by, they must be getting wise.
Actually I do. To misquote 2010, "My God! It's full of assholes!"
It just annoys me. If I see a fish on a car, I'm usually pretty sure that the person with the fish is only trolling.
So just do what the major TV networks and corporate newspapers do - make shit up!
Actually back when I was into that sort of thing, I found that making shit up and making sure everyone knew you were making shit up when you made shit up was a recipe for success!
My old site theFragfest.com (a Quake/Quake II site) mixed obvious onion-like bullshit with
In other UnNews,
Sorry I'm a couple of days late with this. There is a photograph of 42 at the UnNews site.
To me, he seems like a genuinely populist candidate, and an idealist to boot
My emphasis. There's an old joke that wouldn't be so funny if it weren't true.
Q- how do you tell when a politician is lying?
A- his lips move.
The fact that he's from my state, with perhaps the most corrupt politics in the nation (the last Democrat Governor to lose an election to a Republican went to prison, and the last Republican Governor is still IN prison. Another newer joke - in Illinois we're so patriotic even being dead doesn't keep us from voting) tells me that he's a crook. The fact that he's in one of the two major parties tells me he's going to bow to the corporates.
If he were in a "third party" AND from another state I'd probably support him. But age and disillusionment has made me a cynic. Every law that goes against citizens' rights, citizens' welfare, or common sense that neverless does good to a corporation gets passed by a 100% margin in both houses or nearly so (Bono act, DMCA, Iraq war, PATRIOT Act, etc).
I've only voted FOR one President - that was Clinton, when he ran for reelection. He'd surprised me and actually done a good job. Every other election since Nixon I voted for the "lesser of two evils".
If Obama wins and does a good job, actually NOT cowtowing to the corporations, then he will be the second President I vote for. But the only way he's going to be able to do that is win this time and do a good job of being President.
But you got me looking shit up.
Barack Obama has missed 252 votes (42.6%) during the current Congress. Not good. If I missed work 42% of the time they'd fire me. From the same link, "Barack Obama has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues 96.5% of the time during the current Congress". Also not good. That alone should tell you that he's voting for the corporations or he'd be more independant. According to the page (I simply googled), most of the votes he actually cast were "cloture motions". The only actual bill I see that looks like something that would matter to Americans is the Food and Energy Security Act, which was passed on a partisan vote (R against, D for) and vetoed by Bush.
Sorry, but this tiny bit of research has made me less likely to vote Obama.
No, I'm most certainly NOT *that guy*. People who drive slow in the left lane piss me off no end. The only thing worse is when you're doing the speed limit, and some asshat passes you at a high rate of speed (85 in a 65), then slows down to ride next to someone going slow in the right lane, blocking traffic.
And I saw something that warmed my heart, something I seldom see on the highway, especially in Illinois.
I saw a semi that the State Police had pulled over!
He should have been charged, but the tailgater should have been charged as well (I'm guessing the guy who braked hard had been drinking).
Was the pickup or the school bus tailgating? Or both? Seems to me everyone involved should have been charged.
Yes, some cyclists are stupid, how does that make them different from drivers?
Their stupidity is far more suicidal.
Your justification for following the rules is severely flawed.
I justified it because bicycles don't create traffic
Yes, you do. When I have to slam on the skids at a green light because you're too stupid or suicidal to stop at a red light, that creates traffic. Nobody wants to help a moron commit suicide.
and need traffic lights to tell them when to stop so they don't end up killing each other
You're not old enough to drive, are you? If you're too stupid to understand why traffic lights are needed, I'm not nearly smart enough to explain it to you.
You don't see traffic lights on bike paths.
Yes you do - when they cross highways. It's a lot harder to slow/stop a two thousand pound vehicle doing 35 mph than it is to stop/slow a 30 pound vehicle doing ten.
DUH!
I always found it funny that drivers get so pissed of when cyclists run red lights, when it is safe to do so, just because they can't.
Cars can run red lights when it's safe. But they don't; most don't, anyway. That's because most auto drivers are responsible adults, while most bicycle riders (in the US anyway) are either too young to drive, or lost their license because they have the same attitude you do.
You'll be lucky to survive long enough to get your driver's license.
I really should let a motorcycle rider answer this, but it's safer for the motorcycle rider to have a loud engine because most fools don't see motorcycles. A bike loud enough to drown out a horn or siren is going to be pulled over PDQ, btw.