Yep, cat bypasses are too loud, what's better?
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Mike/mlincoln,
Just a thought...your rationale and your suggestions aren't all that far off - it's your way of communicating them. If you spend a moment thinking about how you communicate you might find that you don't **** people off as much.
Just a thought...your rationale and your suggestions aren't all that far off - it's your way of communicating them. If you spend a moment thinking about how you communicate you might find that you don't **** people off as much.
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What do you think, Mark?
What do you think, Mark?
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Hi Rick,
Fair enough...I'll try to be more polite (even in the face of ad hominem attacks).
Best, Mike
Hi Mark,
I don't know if they use their cars mostly or exclusively on the track...that's why I asked (in a perhaps too inflammatory way, as Rick points out) in my first post. CMM was polite enough to reply in a civil manner and provide useful information that addresses the question.
How about you? Do you drive with open pipes or a cat bypass on public roads? I don't know...but I suspect many do--and I propose they should not. For that matter, I don't think that Joe six-pack should be allowed to jack up his truck to high heaven and subsequently override my 993 at a red light, thereby increasing my risk of death and injury.
In Germany, a nirvana often cited by some on this list, these sorts of rules are relentlessly enforced. One simply cannot have a cat bypass, loud mufflers, or illegal ride height: if the car even makes it to the yearly inspection without being stopped first and taken off the road toot sweet, it promptly fails and then can't be licensed until the mods are removed. That level of regulation, along with better roads, enforcement of good driving practices (e.g., following too close, hogging the left lane, exceeding posted speeds--all often detected by photo), and exemplary driver training makes Germany a relatively safe place to drive fast in the right place. In the USA, everyone makes their own rules and the result can be dangerous chaos on urban roads, as well as annoyances such as open pipes and "fart can" mufflers tooling through residential neighborhoods (often simply because the owners believe it to be such a cool statement).
--Mike
Fair enough...I'll try to be more polite (even in the face of ad hominem attacks).
Best, Mike
Hi Mark,
I don't know if they use their cars mostly or exclusively on the track...that's why I asked (in a perhaps too inflammatory way, as Rick points out) in my first post. CMM was polite enough to reply in a civil manner and provide useful information that addresses the question.
How about you? Do you drive with open pipes or a cat bypass on public roads? I don't know...but I suspect many do--and I propose they should not. For that matter, I don't think that Joe six-pack should be allowed to jack up his truck to high heaven and subsequently override my 993 at a red light, thereby increasing my risk of death and injury.
In Germany, a nirvana often cited by some on this list, these sorts of rules are relentlessly enforced. One simply cannot have a cat bypass, loud mufflers, or illegal ride height: if the car even makes it to the yearly inspection without being stopped first and taken off the road toot sweet, it promptly fails and then can't be licensed until the mods are removed. That level of regulation, along with better roads, enforcement of good driving practices (e.g., following too close, hogging the left lane, exceeding posted speeds--all often detected by photo), and exemplary driver training makes Germany a relatively safe place to drive fast in the right place. In the USA, everyone makes their own rules and the result can be dangerous chaos on urban roads, as well as annoyances such as open pipes and "fart can" mufflers tooling through residential neighborhoods (often simply because the owners believe it to be such a cool statement).
--Mike
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Mike, What a great time you and your friends (or lack of) must have when you have get togethers, YAWN......
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Hi Randy,
FWIW, this means "Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason: Debaters should avoid ad hominem arguments that question their opponents' motives." The sin that Rick politely pointed out that I should avoid. Et tu, Randy?
--Mike
FWIW, this means "Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason: Debaters should avoid ad hominem arguments that question their opponents' motives." The sin that Rick politely pointed out that I should avoid. Et tu, Randy?
--Mike
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Makes sense if I was debating you which I am not. Don't take that as agreeing w/ you. Just expressing my opinion of you. You socially inept tard.
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well,
I learned a new word today. ad hominem ....looked it up all by myself! Now I just have to figure out how pronounce it.
my next project is too learn Haiku......I wonder how ad hominem could be used in a haiku?.
I learned a new word today. ad hominem ....looked it up all by myself! Now I just have to figure out how pronounce it.
my next project is too learn Haiku......I wonder how ad hominem could be used in a haiku?.
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e.g. is not the same as i.e.
Dear Randy,
Dictionary use cases are examples (they are e.g., not i.e.). In other words, another perfectly acceptable example of an ad hominem attack would be "To call someone a boorish, friendless clod instead of engaging him on the merits". Again, et tu?
--Mike
ps--but I was on the State Championship Debate team in Michigan in high school...and there is a certain schadenfreude (you'll have to look that up, I expect) in tweaking the jocks now that life's tables have turned.
Dictionary use cases are examples (they are e.g., not i.e.). In other words, another perfectly acceptable example of an ad hominem attack would be "To call someone a boorish, friendless clod instead of engaging him on the merits". Again, et tu?
--Mike
ps--but I was on the State Championship Debate team in Michigan in high school...and there is a certain schadenfreude (you'll have to look that up, I expect) in tweaking the jocks now that life's tables have turned.
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Re: e.g. is not the same as i.e.
Originally posted by mlincoln
Dear Randy,
Dictionary use cases are examples (they are e.g., not i.e.). In other words, another perfectly acceptable example of an ad hominem attack would be "To call someone a boorish, friendless clod instead of engaging him on the merits". Again, et tu?
--Mike
ps--but I was on the State Championship Debate team in Michigan in high school...and there is a certain schadenfreude (you'll have to look that up, I expect) in tweaking the jocks now that life's tables have turned.
Dear Randy,
Dictionary use cases are examples (they are e.g., not i.e.). In other words, another perfectly acceptable example of an ad hominem attack would be "To call someone a boorish, friendless clod instead of engaging him on the merits". Again, et tu?
--Mike
ps--but I was on the State Championship Debate team in Michigan in high school...and there is a certain schadenfreude (you'll have to look that up, I expect) in tweaking the jocks now that life's tables have turned.
turns out that schadenfreude was the word of the day 3/10/2000
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schadenfreude
...and a word any German-car loving driver whose mother was also ethnic German should know! (maiden name Steinemann--she grew up speaking German before learning English in public school)
Best, Mike
Best, Mike
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Re: schadenfreude
Originally posted by mlincoln
...and a word any German-car loving driver whose mother was also ethnic German should know! (maiden name Steinemann--she grew up speaking German before learning English in public school)
Best, Mike
...and a word any German-car loving driver whose mother was also ethnic German should know! (maiden name Steinemann--she grew up speaking German before learning English in public school)
Best, Mike
Are you saying we should take a malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others, because we love driving german cars? Or we should just know what the word means?
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Well, the literal meaning in German is "guilty pleasure"...which I used in the sense of taking a "guilty pleasure" in flummoxing the jocks at last. (meaning "confuse" or "perplex").
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Best, Mike
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Used without permission from Flying Finn. I thought it particularly fitting for you.
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Randy M
Best,
Randy M
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How attractive...you new avatar? If you're feeling just a bit too frustrated and inarticulate just now, just drive to the grocery aisle, lie down, and kick your feet and scream...that always works for kinder.
Mike
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Originally posted by mlincoln
Well, the literal meaning in German is "guilty pleasure"...which I used in the sense of taking a "guilty pleasure" in flummoxing the jocks at last. (meaning "confuse" or "perplex").
Best, Mike
Well, the literal meaning in German is "guilty pleasure"...which I used in the sense of taking a "guilty pleasure" in flummoxing the jocks at last. (meaning "confuse" or "perplex").
Best, Mike
thank you for putting the meaning of "flummoxing" it saved me the time of looking it up.