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Comment Re:nope! (Score 1) 496

Normal, would mean a car engineered to do what it is supposed to do, without the excuse of crippling it with all the post 70s garbage that got attached.
The goal in the natural evolution of the internal combustion engine as applied to society is not more power at expense of environment as the knee-jerk reactionists would have you believe. The goal has been and always was for efficiency with power. Mans goal for power came first to meet necessity. The next necessity IS efficiency which in turn would have been environmentally sound. The knee-jerk crowd whined en-masse for the sake of the environment without caution for their own needs. In turn, we were rewarded with performance sucking gizmos and slap dash solutions that set evolution back, thus endangering the environment further and infecting autos with scads of crap that grow, removing the abilities of an owner to service his own car and forcing manufacturers to buy cheaper raw materials, use cheaper methods to keep cost competitiveness down, thus exacerbating the problem further. Now, rather than sleek efficient affordable flying hot rods we were going to have by now, we have the BULLSHIT those with your pathetic attitudes deserve.
Electric is too little , too late.

Comment Re:Don't bother. (Score 1) 509

Then there is the other end of the problem to address; we elect the morons. It would be easy to point out that candidates at the federal level are specialists in money and nothing else, thus eliminating both wings of the Repubmocrat party. Problematically, other parties tend to be focused elsewhere as well, or are promoting some dipshit extreme action that no one can get with.
We are going to end up with an idiot, no matter what we do.

Comment Re:nope! (Score 1) 496

Ever known any acquisition dept. people in the industrial sector?
I thought not. Cheap is the name of the game. Buy the biggest bulk for the least amount of money. Yes, cheap cameras can work fine...for a small while.
The side of your car, for years, is not where a cheap camera will live for long and that is where they are going to put them. Why stop with the camera?
Lets pick on the display as well. We could start a line in Vegas on the life of the backlight.
Perhaps you are one of the suckered who actually believes there is an auto company out there who is eager to please their customer base with the finest of everything available. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
In this case, less is more. Mirrors do not require expensive repairs by qualified technicians, give realtime information guaranteed,and dont add significantly to the initial cost of the car. Just because we can, is not a good reason that we should.

Comment Re:nope! (Score 1) 496

Then , of course, when you think about it, outside, on a point on the car that receives much vibration from the road as well as turbulence, consumer electronics.
Not just consumer electronics, CHEAP consumer electronics,vibrating down the road. I estimate replacement will come around the time you make the last car payment.
Cars quit being cars by 1973, the evolutionary trend is toward crap.

Comment Re:Ethical is irrelevant. (Score 0) 402

It would be a cause of ethical unrest for those facilitating the mission and their role as enablers.
This however could be overcome if only we would change the word Astronaut to Politician, Prisoner, Tax Collector, Reporter or anyone else in a position of variance to mankind.
Simply, quit sending Astronauts on dangerous missions and save them for the more domestic work. Send undesirables forth into the void. It is indisputably logical to do so for a plethora of reasons that do not EVEN need discussed.
Present it to the board and LETS PUT HILLARY ON MARS FOR GOOD!

Comment Re:Medicalizing Normality (Score 1) 558

Youe missing the point (sorry no apostrophe on this machine)
Science may/may not account for the fact that human beings are fallible dependent on the postive/negative effect it would have on the outcome of the ambition du jour. Since we know even entire schools of thought could fall like limbs, it isnt impossible and is probable on an effective level that in order to save face, family and franchise, arbitrary decisions can be made that would affect future outcomes of the discipline to a warped degree. As an analogy I could offer the mechanics( not the philosophy) of the Catholic Church as an example of the depth to which skewed information can be accepted as part of a closed system, accepted and skewed further over a large period of time and turn out antithetic to its origins. All the while accepted. We could use Politics as an analogy....
Science will not be above question when we all know everything about everything. Until then it remains a wilderness not far removed from a time when the Church ruled the earth was flat, we used leeches as cures for common maladies,we took the family to watch the mushroom clouds north of Vegas through welding helmets, we thought genetic manipulation was going to help us, and so forth.
I dont seek to bury science, only to humble it and bring it back out its pornographic daydream. Were still stone age and havent figured out the things that matter, like relieving ourselves of government, feeding ourselves a diet that will promote health, and how to provide for all without taking from anyone.

And, I am an asshole, but that was never part of this.

Comment Re:Scientists warned of global warming for decades (Score 1) 230

We could work with Joerg Sprave on an accelerator. https://www.youtube.com/user/J...
I think German engineering is called for. Kochs just chapped my ass with their so called Citizens for Prosperity campaign against Kansas Wind/Solar power initiative.
But, then when I pay my utilities, Kochs get richer. Kochs were outed, the initiative didnt change. So....Im guessing Joreg is up to a new challenge...

Comment Re:Medicalizing Normality (Score 1) 558

Well, lessee, 1 in 600,000 is pretty damn random, so you get no Mentalist award for that . The point is there is no credible scientific evidence because science is not credible, instead it is mutable, malleable and suffers from the same failings as individuals making up the whole. It doesnt take a conspiracy for fuck ups to occur in a majority, let alone a minority. Believe me, Ive heard every bullshit breakthrough to every conspiracy out there for the last 26 years as the numbers climb to epidemic proportions as fuckheads like you type halfbaked crap to half read posts in your half assed attempt to seem smart? sympathetic? knowledgable? Oh, I see youe a wanna be activist.
What made you think I would come with a head bowed excuse? Excuses are for people like you.
I dont blame anyone for this sort of behavior. It is par on this course. It is expected.
I also didnt give any answers, I only pointed out probabilities with the same snide zealousness and cynical vigor that Id bitchslap you across the room with, boy.
Im bitter and pissy, so eat shit.

Comment Re:Medicalizing Normality (Score 0, Flamebait) 558

My son was born autistic, when the rate was 1 in 600,000 , 26 years ago.
But , of course, it couldnt be anything environmental. Science says the world is a safe place.
It couldnt be anything wrong with vaccinations. Someone important said it wasnt and of course Medicine knows what it is doing and has all the answers.
It couldnt be industrial chemicals in the food supply, we have government agencies to watch over us. It couldnt possibly have anything to do with science, politics or policy, those people are infinitely wise and caring and will rescue us with the right answers at the right times.
Autism is obviously a punishment by God for rejecting Fred Phelps and making fun of liberals.
It must be magic faeries.
Yeah, thats the ticket...

Comment Re:Scientists warned of global warming for decades (Score 1) 230

Wul , what if Yellowstone is pushing? WHut if fracking elswhere is causing a chain reaction that causes politicians to make geologists say stupid things in order to protect investment? In this day of pseudenlighenment science we have observed that facts remain true and untrue until acted on by a news program and then it becomes one or the other and will remain so until the market produces other needs for the industrial sector. This has been proven by firing politicians from an accelerator into a set of slits. Ideas and clothing appear to pass through one slit and feces passes through the other. The results are weighed for matter, anti-matter and it-doesnt-matter. The janitor comes in and mops up the poo.

Comment Re:Other quakes today (Score 1) 114

I think given a few thousand years, those quakes would rock Okiedokey anyway.
But, lookey here! We got quakes going on everywhere suddenly, as if one action causes a reaction.
The scientific curiosity displayed as we progress is not unlike the curiosity of a chimp playing with a hand grenade.

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