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From: don (Calgary) on 26 Nov 2009 00:39
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:20:33 -0600, Chuck Rhode
<CRhode(a)LacusVeris.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:05:23 -0800, TOG(a)Toil wrote:
>
>> Best quality of any car I've run is the present Subaru Legacy. Quite
>> phenomenal.
>
>I'm driving a '94 I bought out of a junkyard last fall.

Hey I'm driving an old 85, I found covered in dust, in the back of a
farmers shed, last fall.
From: Chuck Rhode on 26 Nov 2009 01:22
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:30:59 -0800, turby wrote:

> The Ford F150 has been America's best-selling vehicle for 20 years,
> and this year the top 3 are all pickups.

.... and, like riding a motorcycle, owning one places you squarely in a
demographic targeted by bureaucrats charged with ensuring your safety.
Here's a choice bit of Federal profiling that hit the airwaves three
years ago. I heard it parroted yesterday on Public Radio by a
Wisconsin State official:

"A male who drives a pickup truck on country roads can reasonably
presumed to be a NASCAR fan. And you would reasonably presume that
this fan knows that the reason racecar drivers generally walk away
from horrific wrecks is that they are belted into their cars.

"If the feds can convince those drivers to make that last little
connection between seat-belt use and their own safety, a lot of lives
will be saved. The numbers back it up."

"The federal government's latest report on traffic safety is
prosaically titled "Research Note: Restraint Use Patterns Among
Fatally Injured Passenger Vehicle Occupants." In essence, it
identified who the people are who didn't buckle their seat belts and
got killed because of it.

"And those people are disproportionately males, driving on rural
highways in pickups or SUVs...."

o "Seat Belts: Upcoming Campaign Only Makes Sense." _Evansville
Courier and Press_ 17 May 2006. 25 Nov. 2009
<http://www.courierpress.com/news/2006/may/17/seat-belts-upcoming-campaign-only-makes-sense/>.

I've not bothered to download, open, and read the NHTSA *.pdf, but I
can just imagine the preconceived notions that undergird it -- to wit:
Don't be like them! Those who got killed got killed for one reason
and one reason only, and their congenital stupidity, social
awkwardness, poor grooming habits, susceptibility to substance abuse,
and disadvantaged economic status all qualified them for inevitable
retribution!

--
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From: Chuck Rhode on 26 Nov 2009 01:33
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:54:21 +0000, The Older Gentleman wrote:

> Steve Paul <smarshallpaul(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>> Management is the problem. Us grunts that do the work, and are
>> closest to the issue of quality, are always pissed off about the
>> business decisions that have to be made, in order to get product
>> out the door, for the sake of a revenue stream held hostage by
>> shareholders and investors who are not committed to the company
>> product, but to their own bottom line.

> Yes, I like this summary. OTOH, it could be argued that if you can't
> make the product price-competitive, it won't sell anyway....

To me it seems the arguments come down to, "How much is enough?" and a
corollary is, "How soon do you need to realize a profit?" American
business has been pathologically focused on near-term results to the
utter disregard of future revenue.

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From: The Older Gentleman on 26 Nov 2009 02:17
sleazy <none(a)nil.net> wrote:

> http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/cto/1472797620.html

I wasn't really thinking of a track car, to be honest.

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Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
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From: tomorrow on 26 Nov 2009 05:40
On Nov 25, 9:59 pm, Sean_Q_ <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote:
> S'mee wrote:
> > ....you commies FAILED.
>
> A Commie who quotes Adolph Hitler in his SIG?
>
> SQ

It's okay to be a commie nazi if you're already a netkook. That's
known as "Henry's Thid Law of Conservation of Kookiness."[1]


[1] There is no First or Second law, because well, it's kookier that
way.
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