I understand reality quite well, it’s you who doesn’t. If you and others believe those who run government grant you things, allow you to live, allow you to keep something of what you earn as the reality, then it’s you who’s “FUCKED”. That belief makes you livestock. Human resources to serve their ends. To live, to…

Another crappy gawker article... You will never see hydraulic jack fail like that in use. Hydraulic systems fail by leaking. Like all pressure vessels they follow the leak-before-break rule. They leak, the pressure releases. Some systems have check valves, mechanical locks, and other designs as fail safes against…

When you can’t formulate an argument just fling out the insults and ridicule for not having the enlightened views we are told by our betters to have. Why don’t you try thinking for your self? It’s a fair bit harder than relying on massa, but try it sometime.

If you think everything flows from the state, rights,…

Again, since you can’t figure it out, the question was posed, why do people drive drunk? I answered it. Understanding some of the reasoning behind something isn’t endorsing it. I know lots of people are too mentally impaired to grasp simple logic like that but at least give it a try.

Furthermore, I’m going to wager…

You came back at me that driving is privilege so you opened the discussion. And it is a philosophical one that gets right to the heart of self ownership. What has effectively come about is a result of perception. People have the perception that government grants privilege so it does. It’s a con like any other and so…

The question was posed. I offered one of the answers. It’s a very real answer for real life situations where people didn’t plan on drinking as much as they did and so on. And one can avoid the driver’s seat and sleep in the back and it’s still DUI.

A warning chime is not a guage. The analog here is the gear indicator, not the chime. However you understand that already and are merely playing a stupid game. One I can play too BTW.

So now you’re going into other threads with strawman nonsense by intentionally ignoring context. That context being the warnings for every little thing in the car, not traffic control devices external to the vehicle and gauges which simply report the condition.

Go read the first post I made in reply to your nonsense about things being designed to kill vs. things not designed to kill. Same subject. I haven’t changed it. The things are not the problem. The condition of the society is. You introduced the topics of social contracts and living off on one’s own, not I. You again…

You’re just being dismissive. You don’t want to deal with arguments I made. My arguments weren’t about “shootings” they are about violence. I made it very clear you can take all the guns away but you aren’t fixing the underlying problem. You can take more and more away but it won’t fix the problem. Cry slippery slope…

Oh don’t let the kids.... parental government right there in your words but you didn’t make a political argument?

You’re so conditioned you think a parental system of government is “common sense”. You can’t think of any other way of doing things but to offer up more of the same. Ban / restrict the things as if nobody…

On the contrary, you’re being insulting because _you_ have no rational argument or reasoning, just superficial and over simplified political view you get from your team. You can only repeat what you are told. This leaves you one option when presented with a argument that requires some thought, the social one of a 3rd…

“You say all that as if it doesn’t matter that somebody can buy a weapon that’s perfectly suited for killing dozens of people, and then go and kill dozens of people.”

I didn’t “say” anything of the sort. Maybe you need to learn some reading comprehension? I wrote that violence comes from people and societal conditions,…

In old cars the parking brake cables were open to the elements for much of their length. So there would be places where the cable went back into a housing that were also exposed to the elements. So in 1975 or so she probably had one freeze up because it wasn’t greased regularly, got wet while she was driving and then…

What if you have to push it? Is there some ‘I really want it to be in neutral and get out of the car’ setting?

For some damn reason (ok, I know what is*) everything has to be an electronic interface instead of a direct mechanical connection. What’s lost is the feel of that mechanical thing going into place. However with the software control there is probably some way of doing it better than a warning chime.

I don’t think it’s because people have their attention elsewhere but because there are so many warnings. When there are warnings for everything there are warnings for nothing. It becomes a constant background noise.

Most states it’s being ‘in control of the vehicle’. If the keys are anywhere on one’s person or accessible it’s DUI. So basically a person has to unlock his car, hide the keys somewhere the cops won’t look for them, (hidden somewhere outside and away from the car ideally) then get inside and sleep.

Out of touch with reality? Not I. But people such as yourself who have been well conditioned into belief systems are the ones who are out of touch. The simple fact is that violent crime is not correlated to firearm restrictions. Do you really think that semi-automatic weapons suddenly turned people in the USA crazy…

It is the condition of society that determines the violence. The tools available are whatever they are. If the society is violent and prone to violence but guns are hard to find then they will kill with kitchen knives, blunt objects, cars, whatever is available as weapons will do. People will make their own guns if…