magduf

40 ms·

391.
by magduf 7y ago
Every motorcycle has to have a distributor, unless it's either so new that it has coil-on-plug like modern cars, or it's so old it uses magnetos, or it's a single-cylinder engine.
392.
by magduf 7y ago
This is probably BS, another example of "correlation is not causation". Vegans most likely live longer because they don't eat horribly unhealthy foods like average people, and are much more conscious about eating healthy foo
393.
by magduf 7y ago
Dealers will also hit you with warranty extension pitches shortly before your warranty expires. But you're right, they might be figuring that selling that info to competitors might net them more money than relying on their own sales t
394.
by magduf 7y ago
Personally, I don't think elderly people who've become gullible have any business operating a motor vehicle. It's a massive failure of our society that not being stuck at home in most places requires a car, and this should b
395.
by magduf 7y ago
I only questioned your credentials because you said you were in legal counsel, and at an automotive OEM of some kind. Most people who've done any significant DIY car work know about this law, because it's protected them for dec
396.
by magduf 7y ago
>That said, I believe that there is very limited legal recourse for a vehicle OEM who wants to prevent an end user from changing the data collection and upload features of their vehicles. The worst thing would be potentially voiding the
397.
by magduf 7y ago
>Furthermore, if a customer changes the car to stop data upload, that could be seen as tampering with a vehicle. This could lead to legal consequences, but I'm not a lawyer so I can't dwell on the specifics. Where are you getti
398.
by magduf 7y ago
Is raising taxes preferable though? In the present scenario, taxes are lower, because the government is making up for it by selling my info to marketeers, who then try to sell me crap I don't want. I don't buy any of it, but a p
399.
by magduf 7y ago
I'm guessing maybe both. I don't see why my dealer would want someone else trying to sell me a warranty extension; that competes directly with the dealer.
400.
by magduf 7y ago
The entire problem with your logic is that you're assuming that humans will not and cannot do anything at all to change carbon levels, aside from relying on natural processes. That's completely ridiculous. Any attempt to fix the
401.
by magduf 7y ago
Warning: I am not a climate scientist. However, I have to disagree that humanity has to leave the planet, or that it's impossible to fix. I will agree that it's very unlikely to be fixed or mitigated to a decent amount before dis
402.
by magduf 7y ago
We have plenty of evidence already showing the concentration of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere going back many thousands of years (from core samples). There really isn't any room left for debate, because the facts are clear, the only
403.
by magduf 7y ago
>Why are you assuming that traffic is moving at 30-45 mph through a neighborhood. Because that's what I see in the suburbs here in DC. >In my neighborhood the speed limit is universally 25 and the stop signs & one way streets
404.
by magduf 7y ago
Growing a city with a growth boundary is very, very easy. All you have to do is tear down some older structures, and build new, taller ones. Or fill in empty space. The reason this isn't done is purely because of stupid zoning laws a
405.
by magduf 7y ago
Exactly. If a woman wants to wear jeans, it's OK. Or slacks, or a skirt, or a dress, or shorts, or leggings/yoga pants these days. What choices for bottoms do men have that aren't trousers? There's shorts if the weath
406.
by magduf 7y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out!
407.
by magduf 7y ago
Hmm, I see. Yeah, I can see those sections of the IKEA store getting more sales from women perhaps. But I'm thinking that someplace like Bed, Bath & Beyond probably gets more female customers, and would be a preferred place to go
408.
by magduf 7y ago
So you let your young (under 10yo) kids bumble around on bicycles in the streets with traffic whizzing by at 30-45mph?
409.
by magduf 7y ago
Ok, so there's cars speeding around your neighborhoods, and kids playing on these very same streets without somehow getting hit by all the speeding cars? Sorry, I don't buy it.
410.
by magduf 7y ago
This reminds me a lot of Italy, where the people voted to ban nuclear power in the country, not because they were anti-nuclear and were afraid of it, but because they didn't think they were competent to do it safely. So they preferred
411.
by magduf 7y ago
Oregon (US) has something similar in the Portland area; they call it the "urban growth boundary".
412.
by magduf 7y ago
>They whoop and holler at the lower rent from living in suburban sprawl, but don't notice that the various costs of car ownership are nickel-and-diming them, and their municipality's budget. They also don't make the obviou
413.
by magduf 7y ago
>Are they happy with it, compared to... I think a lot of it is that most of them haven't ever been outside their own country, and seen what it's like in other places. You're right about "billing hell", and of co
414.
by magduf 7y ago
Well, let's look at examples from other countries. Do liberal western European nations have this same kind of bias in their family courts, or not? Many "liberals" in America really aren't that liberal, and women in Amer
415.
by magduf 7y ago
I'm quite sure what you describe is not at all normal for suburban America. Maybe there's a few pockets here and there where kids have found some safe spaces, such as in cul-de-sacs, but overall subdivisions have too many speedin
416.
by magduf 7y ago
This is an idiotic strawman argument. People don't get killed by trains and bicycles in remotely near the numbers that they do by cars, especially when you count all the people killed in car accidents. Your entire argument is "we
417.
by magduf 7y ago
That's why you're supposed to have separate bike lanes for bikes to ride on at full speed. Lots of cities have something like this. A path that cyclists use to actually get somewhere in a short time should not be the same path th
418.
by magduf 7y ago
>E.g. if we took the extreme measure of banning any and all vehicles, period, then millions of people might die because economic networks sustaining society would collapse. There's plenty of cities outside the US where most people d
419.
by magduf 7y ago
Not only is it not irrational, we're also ignoring what we're being forced to give up because of all these cars. Kids can't just run or bike around their neighborhoods safely without worrying about (or their parents worrying
420.
by magduf 7y ago
Pretty close. If you fill the local pool with sharks, then you're still going to have a few people killed by sharks, because they chose to ignore all the warning signs about the sharks. The death toll will be pretty low, though, becau

More ›