For all you tards, here is a brief rundown. (number by picture, to make it easy) #2. Slide the seat in position, leave it the fuck alone. Done. #3. Is there water? If yes-turn the wipers on, if no-leave it the fuck alone. (same for darkness) #4. I would like to stab the person who thought of this, reach to the seat belt and bring it to the buckle. EASY #5. This is stupid, roll the fucking windows down. #6. Push-button ignition is cooler, stop making the keyfob bigger. #7. I want to see the little red needle zoom past the numbers, leave it alone. #8. Get rid of your stupid SUV, buy a sedan, and turn the fuck around. #9. Power on and power off, learn your car and stop being lazy. #10. Gas/Electric hybrid is just a band-aid. Make better use with technology. #11. Take the time and learn to parallel park, its easy. Stop being lazy. #12. Learn how to use your cruise control (you know, the buttons that say accelerate and decelerate). Stop hitting your brakes. #13. Your auto-slushbox still won't get it spot on as you could if you know how to drive your car. #14. This isn't WRC, stop being silly. #15. Never fucking works right, Cool/Hot - Fan Control - Floor/Face/defrost mix works. #16. Driving is feeling the car. It becomes an extension of yourself. There is a reason why you can't stay on the road in Forza 3 like you can in the real world. #17. Map your route, learn your area, stop being a dick. #18. Active noise canceling is annoying, sound dampening material can help quiet things easy. #19. Making things overly complicated makes more things that can go wrong. #20. Is it really that hard? really? The stupid button is two feet from you. I can hit buttons on my dash without looking at them, can you? #21. Motorcycles are everywhere, look twice and don't be lazy. #22. If your bazillion candlewatt xenons are still not enough, stop blinding the fuck out of everyone else and see a doctor. #23. Having a handle that is wired to a brake makes me feel good. Keep it simple. #24. Pull the fuck over and sleep at the rest stop. Its your fault that you have been at Mohegan Sun all night playing hold'em. Take this time to come up with a story to tell your wife. #25. Eyes...white lines...simple. If you can't do this, you are going to run some poor kid down in the crosswalk. I don't care if your mom needs this, tell her to get her old ass off the road. #26. READ A BOOK, READ A BOOK, READ A MOTHERFUCKING BOOK.
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@Dr.Danger owns the city turkeys: What some don't understand is why the tech was created in the first place. 1 GPS is not for getting around the city you live in. Do you know your way around the entire USA/Canada? 2. Auto braking was created for a reason. During emergency stops, most people have the tendency to either pump the brakes or do not actually apply 100% braking. Both of these increase braking distance. 3. power seats- Does anyone here have a family? Are you and your wife and children all clones of each other and therefore enjoy the same seat position? If not, then power seats with memory buttons are very useful.
@Cliff_Dangers:
1. I drove from Boston to New Orleans with a quick google map and a couple state maps EASY. Although, my advantage is that I grew up in a big city.
2. Driving courses should be more in-depth, like learning how to brake in an emergency. Training for a racing license helped me with this.
3. I do agree about memory settings making it easier for multiple drivers, but it is no problem switching between me (6'2") and my wife (5'7") without power seats.
Back when I was still very little I had, I shit you not, an entire shelved closet full of 1/18 scale cars, all organized and parked at a 45 degree angle. Everything from Italian supercars to a dually Dodge Ram 3500 HD (which was then my absolute favorite car,) to weird shit like the Mustang Mach III concept and a Diablo for which I had procured, and to which I skillfully applied, a full DuPont / Jeff Gordon #24 decal set (I don't know what I was thinking.)
I basically had the makings of a 1/18 Concours Dé Insensé.
What is actually accomplished by Fox paying wind-power plants in India to generate enough "clean" energy to compensate for an "estimated" 1,300 tons of carbon emissions created by making a TV show???? Maybe if ya'll pass the crack pipe this way I'll be able understand this BS...
@bigblockautoX: Not much, as all those sacred cows are churning out far more methane than is being 'offset' by 24. Besides, I seem to remember when they were pushing the "Ice Age" theory pretty hard; I'll just wait for the pendulum to swing back again.
Do carbon offset sellers still believe that environmentalists are stupid enough to fall for these sorts of medieval indulgences? Whatever, I'm just glad 24 has more car chases.
I can't wait to watch tonight's episode of 24 where Jack flips his GEM Peapod while in hot pursuit of a stolen Prius. Hot regenerative braking, environment-saving action! I can't wait!
I've come to accept that the rate of temperature change on earth is increasing, most likely as a result of man-made CO2 emissions.
From what I can tell, the change in CO2 emissions required to reduce or reverse our effect is not even remotely feasible on a worldwide scale. Essentially, we can't get there from here.
It appears, short of some really good greenhouse gas scrubbing or temperature lowering inventions that the world is going to get significantly warmer no matter what.
That leads me to believe we (as individuals, a nation, or a species) might better direct our efforts to preparing for and abating the effects of climate change.
@Mad_Science: While you are correct that curbing the amount of CO2 emissions to stop (or even reverse) the effects of global warming is essentially impossible, where you're wrong is in assuming that the effects of CO2 emissions are an all or nothing thing. The effects are a function of the concentration of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere, and if we can even slow the increase in the amount of CO2 emissions occuring, we'd reap significant benefits from it. Basically, we need to work on both reducing CO2 emissions and abating the effects of climate change.
@Mad_Science: And that's the part where things get a little murky, as how much effect you'll get from changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere is pretty difficult to predict. But right now, CO2 emissions are increasing exponentially. The world collectively needs to reduce that. Ideally you'd want to get to steady CO2 emissions, but a more realistic goal for now is just to achieve a linear increase of emissions.
But I think the overall goal should be to not radically change the chemical composition of the atmosphere, because of the incredibly wide-ranging effects it could have, not the least of which are global climate change.
@elwood: In crafting my comments, I spent some time looking for model results over the long term, but they all just seem to go out to 2050ish at a +3-10° C rise, with the curve pointed up.
Typically, when bodies heat up, they eventually reach a steady-state temperature where the rate of heat production and the rate of heat dissipation become equal. This is because the hotter something gets relative to its environment, the faster it sheds heat to the environment.
Sometimes the opposite occurs, where you have a positive-feedback loop. Namely, the hotter something gets, the higher the rate of heat production. This could be very bad for the Earth, with an "end-game" of us heating up beyond what's tolerable.
@Mad_Science: I'd like to know that too, but I still think that just accepting the current rate of CO2 emissions is a negligent course of action at best. If we're operating under the assumption that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is affecting global temperatures, then it's be wrong to not attempt to address the root cause of the problem rather than just finding ways to deal with it.
And if you wanted to find the steady-state temperature of the earth, you could probably boil it down to a fairly simple heat transfer problem. You have an incoming heat flux from the sun, some heat retention factor that's correlated with the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and then a heat flux leaving the earth that's radiated between the temperature of the earth and the black body temperature of space. Do an energy balance on the whole thing and solve for the average temperature of the earth. Though you can see from all the simplifications made how difficult coming up with an accurate projection really is.
@elwood: I understand your point that just because we don't know what the end result doesn't mean we shouldn't try to address the root cause.
On the other hand, we need to look at what will happen based on realistic expectations of worldwide CO2 emissions.
Start with the assumption that the rate of increase in production (2nd derivative of total CO2, 1st derivative of CO2 production) remains what it is now.
If that's the case, does the earth head towards unsustainability?
If yes, then what reductions are required to get to a point where the earth is hot, but habitable?
If no, then what's the steady-state temp, and what does the world look like at that steady state temp?
Lastly, it doesn't take long for this to boil down to a discussion about how much influence we'd like to have on the earth. There's no way it's going to be zero, and different people/nations have different perspectives on what's acceptable. I guess I'm just trying to point out that trying to "freeze" the condition of the earth at a given set point is both futile and foolish. Of course, this doesn't give us carte blanche to monkey with the planet as we see fit.
@Mad_Science & elwood: Wow! An intelligent discussion, instead of crazy denialists or militant environmentalism. Just goes to show that the standards of the Jalopnik commentariat haven't quite yet fallen completely down yet.
The whole concept of "carbon offsets" is laughable. Its as though Mother Nature cares about money. Tell you what, let's stuff some Benjamins into the hole in the old Oak tree and see if the planet is any more saved.
All it is is an excuse for polluters to keep polluting and not have their Humvees spray-painted or lay awake at night knowing that every breath they take brings the world that much closer to total annihillation. Its this culture of guilt. WTF? Did everyone all of a sudden turn Catholic?
@elwood: Perhaps, but if not for her presence Fox would be pretty much compelled to come up with a competing show. So having a lone voice of dissent is the lesser of two evils.
And even Karl Marx would probably admit that at least she's easy on the eyes.
@Ethyleneglycoholic: I know methane emissions as a result of livestock were a concern, but as I understand it that was directed more at the beef industry than poultry.
So they are saving the trees then....cause carbon dioxide right?
Do you want to know why I love trees? Because you can lie down under them on a moonlit night, watch the branches move in the breeze, and ball your brains out.
I think its funny how concerned Americans and Europeans are with their carbon footprint. Our carbon footprints are *much* better than China, India, most African nations on a per capita basis.
I think that we definitely need to use our resources responsibly, but I think there is a point where this obsession goes too far.
If you want to be fully honest about it, you could reduce your carbon footprint to 0. But that doesn't leave much of a future for you.
@elwood: The logical fallacy isn't that bad. Murder and stealing are completely separate things, its more like a situation where both actions influence each other.
Kinda like.. you're stuck in a small room. A whole bunch of people are pooing, so it's okay if you let a fart slip from time to time. The whole room stinks, anyways.
08/01/09
Maybe it was part of CARS... Can't Arrange Reasonable Solutions.
07/31/09
#2. Slide the seat in position, leave it the fuck alone. Done.
#3. Is there water? If yes-turn the wipers on, if no-leave it the fuck alone. (same for darkness)
#4. I would like to stab the person who thought of this, reach to the seat belt and bring it to the buckle. EASY
#5. This is stupid, roll the fucking windows down.
#6. Push-button ignition is cooler, stop making the keyfob bigger.
#7. I want to see the little red needle zoom past the numbers, leave it alone.
#8. Get rid of your stupid SUV, buy a sedan, and turn the fuck around.
#9. Power on and power off, learn your car and stop being lazy.
#10. Gas/Electric hybrid is just a band-aid. Make better use with technology.
#11. Take the time and learn to parallel park, its easy. Stop being lazy.
#12. Learn how to use your cruise control (you know, the buttons that say accelerate and decelerate). Stop hitting your brakes.
#13. Your auto-slushbox still won't get it spot on as you could if you know how to drive your car.
#14. This isn't WRC, stop being silly.
#15. Never fucking works right, Cool/Hot - Fan Control - Floor/Face/defrost mix works.
#16. Driving is feeling the car. It becomes an extension of yourself. There is a reason why you can't stay on the road in Forza 3 like you can in the real world.
#17. Map your route, learn your area, stop being a dick.
#18. Active noise canceling is annoying, sound dampening material can help quiet things easy.
#19. Making things overly complicated makes more things that can go wrong.
#20. Is it really that hard? really? The stupid button is two feet from you. I can hit buttons on my dash without looking at them, can you?
#21. Motorcycles are everywhere, look twice and don't be lazy.
#22. If your bazillion candlewatt xenons are still not enough, stop blinding the fuck out of everyone else and see a doctor.
#23. Having a handle that is wired to a brake makes me feel good. Keep it simple.
#24. Pull the fuck over and sleep at the rest stop. Its your fault that you have been at Mohegan Sun all night playing hold'em. Take this time to come up with a story to tell your wife.
#25. Eyes...white lines...simple. If you can't do this, you are going to run some poor kid down in the crosswalk. I don't care if your mom needs this, tell her to get her old ass off the road.
#26. READ A BOOK, READ A BOOK, READ A MOTHERFUCKING BOOK.
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(ps- your replay means nothing to me, don't bother.
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1. I drove from Boston to New Orleans with a quick google map and a couple state maps EASY. Although, my advantage is that I grew up in a big city.
2. Driving courses should be more in-depth, like learning how to brake in an emergency. Training for a racing license helped me with this.
3. I do agree about memory settings making it easier for multiple drivers, but it is no problem switching between me (6'2") and my wife (5'7") without power seats.
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I basically had the makings of a 1/18 Concours Dé Insensé.
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Besides, I seem to remember when they were pushing the "Ice Age" theory pretty hard; I'll just wait for the pendulum to swing back again.
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Do carbon offset sellers still believe that environmentalists are stupid enough to fall for these sorts of medieval indulgences? Whatever, I'm just glad 24 has more car chases.
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I've come to accept that the rate of temperature change on earth is increasing, most likely as a result of man-made CO2 emissions.
From what I can tell, the change in CO2 emissions required to reduce or reverse our effect is not even remotely feasible on a worldwide scale. Essentially, we can't get there from here.
It appears, short of some really good greenhouse gas scrubbing or temperature lowering inventions that the world is going to get significantly warmer no matter what.
That leads me to believe we (as individuals, a nation, or a species) might better direct our efforts to preparing for and abating the effects of climate change.
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i.e.:
If we cut our CO2 emissions by 0/10/25/50% and hold them there indefinitely what is the real, net result when if comes to temperature?
Are we just changing the eventual steady-state result? Are we just slowing an inevitable thermal runaway?
The discussion needs to shift away from "is climate real and man made" to "what are we hoping to accomplish?"
03/02/09
Oh and a bottle of Makers might be a good preparation tool.
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*South, in the southern hemisphere.
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But I think the overall goal should be to not radically change the chemical composition of the atmosphere, because of the incredibly wide-ranging effects it could have, not the least of which are global climate change.
03/02/09
Typically, when bodies heat up, they eventually reach a steady-state temperature where the rate of heat production and the rate of heat dissipation become equal. This is because the hotter something gets relative to its environment, the faster it sheds heat to the environment.
Sometimes the opposite occurs, where you have a positive-feedback loop. Namely, the hotter something gets, the higher the rate of heat production. This could be very bad for the Earth, with an "end-game" of us heating up beyond what's tolerable.
These are the kinds of things I'd like to know.
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And if you wanted to find the steady-state temperature of the earth, you could probably boil it down to a fairly simple heat transfer problem. You have an incoming heat flux from the sun, some heat retention factor that's correlated with the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and then a heat flux leaving the earth that's radiated between the temperature of the earth and the black body temperature of space. Do an energy balance on the whole thing and solve for the average temperature of the earth. Though you can see from all the simplifications made how difficult coming up with an accurate projection really is.
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On the other hand, we need to look at what will happen based on realistic expectations of worldwide CO2 emissions.
Start with the assumption that the rate of increase in production (2nd derivative of total CO2, 1st derivative of CO2 production) remains what it is now.
If that's the case, does the earth head towards unsustainability?
If yes, then what reductions are required to get to a point where the earth is hot, but habitable?
If no, then what's the steady-state temp, and what does the world look like at that steady state temp?
Lastly, it doesn't take long for this to boil down to a discussion about how much influence we'd like to have on the earth. There's no way it's going to be zero, and different people/nations have different perspectives on what's acceptable. I guess I'm just trying to point out that trying to "freeze" the condition of the earth at a given set point is both futile and foolish. Of course, this doesn't give us carte blanche to monkey with the planet as we see fit.
It gets circular quickly...
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All it is is an excuse for polluters to keep polluting and not have their Humvees spray-painted or lay awake at night knowing that every breath they take brings the world that much closer to total annihillation. Its this culture of guilt. WTF? Did everyone all of a sudden turn Catholic?
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And even Karl Marx would probably admit that at least she's easy on the eyes.
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Do you want to know why I love trees? Because you can lie down under them on a moonlit night, watch the branches move in the breeze, and ball your brains out.
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I think that we definitely need to use our resources responsibly, but I think there is a point where this obsession goes too far.
If you want to be fully honest about it, you could reduce your carbon footprint to 0. But that doesn't leave much of a future for you.
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Kinda like.. you're stuck in a small room. A whole bunch of people are pooing, so it's okay if you let a fart slip from time to time. The whole room stinks, anyways.