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Detroit, 7:49 PM
Fri Nov 27
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05/13/09
I don't know who the ad agency responsible for Mercedes-Benz USA's ads are, but they're so full of themselves, it's sickening. (breathy arrogant voice) "The same LUXURY... in a NEYEUW smaller package!" I admit that it's not speaking to my section of the market, but this is almost like watching Sir Allen Stanford on CNBC a year before the financiapocalypse started.
This ad doesn't sell the vehicle itself, but at least it's far less abrasive.
05/13/09
Actually, it'd be better for 'em to drive off, and take the glorified C-class with 'em.
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Also, the video kinda, y'know, has a road. With lines painted on it. Which implies vehicle operation of some kind.
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The bridge reads bridgebridgebridge, the raindrops are:
d
r
o
p,
and it's all really cute.
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Depends on the car. My Volvo, man, I probably shouldn't bother with spikes.
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"Now, when I drive, I can just do my nails, and text my friends while letting my Benz drive around for me.
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03/20/09
However, I don't see how this law would be remotely enforceable or effective.
We don't need a law to solve every problem in society.
03/20/09
We don't need a law to solve every problem in society.
This is why I identify with libertarians. Less government is better, because, as has been proven time and again, its solutions are so well thought out and executed.
Government should protect our borders and deliver the mail...and we're not sure about the mail.
03/21/09
So: borders, mail, highways, bridges, dams, and well-executed industry regulation.
But not the regulation of specific individual behaviors because they're a bad idea.
03/21/09
This is why I like having the RCMP up here. Many laws are written in consultation with them, and when laws like this come up, they remind the morons writing them that it is patently unenforceable, therefore moot and toothless, therefore there's no fucking reason to waste our goddamn time writing it.
I don't text when I drive, not because I'm philosophically opposed to it, but because it's too fucking hard.
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To send a text, you have to have a cell phone, for your friend to receive said text, they have to have a cell phone... you both have phones, fucking call them!
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Texting "meet me at pravda at 10.30" is a lot easier than
- Hello?
- Hey, what's goin' on, pookie?
- Oh, nothing, just hangin' out, gettin' mah jerk on...
- Right on, man! Me too!
- Aren't you at work?!
- Sure! I put the "back in 10 minutes" sign up!
- ...Alright.
- So, anyway, I'm heading down to Pravda for a couple drinks tonight. You wanna join?
- Yeah, maybe if you take a shower first.
- C'mon, man, of course.
- Alright. 10:30?
- Yeah. See you there.
- Later, brah.
Don't hear what you don't want to hear--send a text.
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