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And don't get me going about power windows and locks with no mechanical backup -- I swear, it's as if it was designed to the specifications of some predator.
And don't get me going about power windows and locks with no mechanical backup -- a predator's dream.
I drove a diesel for thirteen years, and so far as simplicity goes, you could pour Crisco in the fuel tank and it'd run. The only reason I got rid of it was that it was eventually consumed by road salt. No doubt that's part of the conspiracy too -- get rid of all the old cars by forcing them to rust out.
I'd like to take the guy who invented power windows and jam his neck in one.
I have a bicycle. No power windows on that, I'd like to point out.
I'd beg to differ on that; working on a 40 year old engine is a matter of spanners and experience, whilst working on a 5 month old one needs college time on electronics and expensive kit that would make nasa envious....
The same is true of working with wood rather than working with plastic. The former needs hand tools and a supply of trees, whilst the latter needs complex factories and a means of dealing with the pollution. And speaking as a fletcher, I can make my own arrows very simply, but to make cartridges for a rifle would take far more complex equipment.
To suggest that older times were not simpler is a quite strange assertion.
All very true. I was really talking about the moral and emotional realities of life. They never change.
Runs on smoked herring...and lets not mention the emissions.
Well, I seem to fail to see the basic moral parity between the positions of the Allies and the Axis.
Perhaps Germany could have withheld the reparation payments without leveling Guernica for practice or rounding-up Jews for the gas chambers.
Perhaps it really wasn't Clemenceau's fault that Germany invaded Poland, Norway, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union (inter alia).
Perhaps, despite your carefully worded but persistent insinuations to the contrary, we really did have a contest between good and evil.
Personally, I think cars today are designed primarily to provide continuous employment for professional auto mechanics. $500 repair bill just to replace a chip? Well, we had to pull out the engine to get to it. :doh:
Well, you know what they say... the more complicated a machine is, the more there is to go wrong. It's certainly true that modern cars are much more complex machines, and require a much greater level of specialist knowledge to work on. Probably true of a lot of things.
That's the problem: every little thing now requires some kind of expert. We're being experted to death!
I figured out and fixed the problem on my new motorcycle a few months ago, which my delership could not do. My neighbor said, "thats the difference between a mechanic and a technician!"
Well, maybe new cars are difficult to fix, but hey, horse surgery is no picnic either!
Years ago, my father had to take time off of work to show the "mechanics" at the Ford dealership where the huge oil leaks were coming from. They had mirrors and all kinds of stuff and still couldn't find it even though it was dripping down the block like rain. The morons at the factory had forgotten to torque down the heads tight enough.:eusa_doh: