Smart technology to outrage motorists!

Jul 09, 2004 46 Replies

I've spent years observing clues that people provide in written text. The fact that you insist on misspelling a word that was just highlighted for you tells me you don't learn very well.

You know, some people in this group get tired of all the whining and bitching from basket cases who are powerless to correct the source of their mental anguish. You ever hear the expressions "put up or shut" and "s*it or get off the pot"?

Crying about nonsense like tactics, conversely, does not make your "argument" any more digestible. We've heard it all before. Ain't a citizen around that thinks this country's scams are nirvana, but look at what else you have to pick from.

And you can bet that's because he had a momentary falling out with the powers that be, who reminded him to stick to the script or wind up dead.

No, the *problem* is that the government will not allow Americans even the remote chance of eradicating the archaic bipartisan system.

So buy a Kevlar helmet and run on the independent ticket.

No, it's not silly. But is it wise to do lose sleep over it?

---------- Listen closely, people. Harboring day-to-day angst does more damage to you than the "problems" you have, whether it's asshole drivers or fatcat politicians or the cell-phone babbling maroons at your favorite restaurant. It affects you mentally and physically, and queues you up to be a statistic in some category you sure as hell won't like.

A have a very good friend who, for the past decade, has become increasingly critical of the political circus in his state. His primary fixation is the absurd pension structure given to everyone who work(s) for a government institution. I've watched as this has consumed him over the years and degraded by a large amount his personal quality of life. He can't shake it; it's an undiagnoseable cancer. His precious spare time is used up "following" the goings-on of so many public figures it's staggering. And to what end? Absolutely none, except to make me genuinely concerned about his life in the years to come.

I'm not advocating apathy. It's good to be aware of your surroundings and issues that do affect you. But you need to step back and look inside yourselves for the ability to wipe the internal slate clean on a daily basis. "Winning" debates that can never really be won does nothing but kill you in increments.

The tension level has increased dramatically in Real Life. Deaths due to stress-related illnesses are the highest in hisory. Do what you can do to fight *that*.

No, it proves I can't spell/type well. But I see you also believe in falsehood that spelling ability is related to intelligence and learning ability. Sorry, if there is any relation at all, it's an inverse one.

Ahh Another way of saying you get to whine about those evil speeders who don't obey the law, but other people don't. If you don't want to be exposed to the viewpoints of other people then usenet is not a good place for you.

Why don't you put up or shut up? What are you doing to lower speed limits? What are you doing to bring about your utopia where driving is an automated task or whatever it was you mentioned earlier? It's a debate tactic, plain and simple. And I could use it to just as effectively. I try to get above such tired old nonsense, but if that's the way you want to play, fine. Since you want to talk about putting up or shutting up, you first. Put yours and I'll put up mine.

That's what he said.

It's still possible, difficult, but still possible. Wait much longer and it won't even be that.

I am missing something. It starts with an M and ends with a Y. I do pretty well, but not enough for an election.

Who said I am losing sleep over it? Not I. That's your creation.

Ahh I see you are going to attack me by creating an image like you did before by saying I'm like one of your 'friends'. Another lame line of debate. The fact remains, when it comes to setting speed limits you are ignorant of the topic and do not wish to educate yourself. Because of this you attempt to change the topic of the thread to a personal attack on me. First it's the put up or shut up, now you repeat the 'you are like my crazy friend' rutine. The response is simple, you don't know me.

At 12, I repeatedly outspelled the student body and most of the faculty at my private school. At 14, I was tested at an IQ of 165. I guess I must be an moe-ron.

*I* wasn't the one whining, n*****ts. I was observing human nature, as I have done for a long time. If it were up to me, there would be no speed limit. Pay attention.

Usenet is a cesspool devoid of rules or compassion. Welcome aboard.

Why the hell would I want to? You just don't get it, do you? You're no smarter now that when you were whining about females dissing your ass. Here's a clue, Brent: you're an idiot.

You are so stubborn you don't see that I have no agenda here.

Oh yes, I'm sure he did.

That's right. All the more reason to get a little more out of life while you can instead of wasting time worrying about what other people think.

The system is such that even proper funding won't help if you are not connected. You have to pay your dues to move up, and the only ones to pay them to are the Dems and Repubs.

There was this guy local to me that was very politically involved with the Mormon Republican faction in this state. He attended all the meetings, shook the right hands, helped others with campaigns, etc. He had a miniscule job with a paycheck to match. His wife had to work so the kids could eat. But after years of proving his loyalty and willingness to accept practices that his "religion" was *publicly* against, his turn came. His people backed him for senator, of all things. We are talking a fat lazy SOB who couldn't vacuum the carpet at his place of business, and who hated every minority there is. Yep, he's in office right now. A damn senator.

I was in shock when I found out he was elected. Nobody I talked to knew who he was. It made me sick. But I got over it, because I don't have the ammo to fight the system.

It's a figure of speech, but the fact that you posted a shitload of links just concerning the speed limit thing shows me you are a bit too passionate about stuff out of your influence.

Thanks god for that, because your capacity to understand what others are talking about is very limited.

It shows that your powers of observation are very weak and that you are unlikely to learn anything new when information is presented that contradicts your position.

You will simply not bother to carefully read and comprehend what is written and because of this you will have trouble learning new things.

You can try to blow this off with comments like the one you just posted, but it won't change the fact that you simply aren't paying attention.

Please try a logic course. No relationship means just that, there isn't one. And the inverse relationship usually deals with people in technical fields such as engineering.

Ahh.. for you it's just expressing reality, for others it's whining. Sorry.

Then why are you trying to create rules if that's what you believe?

Name calling another lame tactic surfaces. I think you've hit them all.

So you're just a troll then and you should be kill filed?

Who's worrying? Why do you insist on such projections?

You mean a simple include file of URLs that I've cut and pasted into over time? Gee. I think my time investment in that file might be a whole minute and half. It's simply a list of articles I've come across (generally someone on usenet refering to them) and figures from a book I've read. It's website was so hard to fine, it was the book's title.

I am sure you have 'bookmarks' in your favorite web-browser. This is nothing more than that for one particular subject.

I grow tired of all this reading into of simple ordinary things.

All because I ignored a spelling flame. You can read so much into such a little thing, you need to get your own TV show. Did you ever think that I simply didn't bother with it because it's trivial nonsense?

Seriously, think about it. Why would someone want to make the thread branch about me as their primary debate method?

This group is particularly sad in that regard.

While you are at it, look up the words "if" and "falsehood"

Unlike you I have many interests. I have bookmarks on all sorts of things One of those is my interest in safe, fast, and efficent road use. And I know quite a bit about it through reading on the subject.

Let's say I spouted a bunch of misguided bullshit about the 428 cobra jet V8, you'd correct me and maybe shove the cites from your bookmarks down my throat. If I claimed that my 'observations' trumped all your knowledge gained over the years and I refused to read the cites you gave, you would likely burst into a tirade of insults or something.

You posted misguided information about a subject I know well, I corrected you, gave you sources. You responded by saying that you know all there is know and refused to read them. See the parallel. Lesson over.

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