Jeff DeWitt wrote:
> Dave Milne wrote:
>> I've met plenty of people I'd trust with a gun, and plenty of people who
>> should never be allowed out by themselves.
>>
>> Just for an OT discussion, are the following statements true, scaled
>> up to
>> country level ?
>>
>> "an armed North Korea is a polite North Korea"
>
> No, you have to keep things in context. An armed society is a polite
> society because you never know who might be armed so it's best to assume
> everyone is. On a nation to nation level that doesn't work so well
> because it's hardly ever the leaders that get hurt if the shooting starts.
>
>> "Its not WMDs that kill people, its people that kill people".
>
> WMD's DON'T kill people, someone has to set off the WMD and it's that
> someone that is doing the killing.
>
> The US and the old Soviet Union had insane amounts of nuclear weapons
> pointed at each other and those weapons never hurt a soul because no one
> used them (thank God), indeed it could be argued that WMD SAVE people
> because all those weapons may have kept the cold war from becoming hot.
>
> Jeff DeWitt
Yup! That was M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. You'd have to be nuts
to start a nuclear war. The problem today is people who are nuts getting
their hands on nukes. And I apologize in advance for getting so far O.T.
in a Jeep Group :-)

--
FRH

 

Kate wrote:
> "rst" <senninha@ziplip.com> wrote in message
> news:1190412786.934371.48590@57g2000hsv.googlegrou ps.com...
> http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...?autoplay=true
>
>
> And yet, people still buys these pieces of garbage.
> -------------
> It's not the Jeep's fault, it's the moron behind the wheel.
>
>
>
>

That crash was caused by what we call a "spacer" problem. This is the
defective part that fills the space between the steering wheel and the
driver's seat.

--
Pete
'84 CJ-7 with a bunch of engine mods, looks very stock from outside
'07 Commander
'94 Land Rover Defender 90 POE #1500
'04 Audi S4

 

Kate wrote:
> "rst" <senninha@ziplip.com> wrote in message
> news:1190412786.934371.48590@57g2000hsv.googlegrou ps.com...
> http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...?autoplay=true
>
>
> And yet, people still buys these pieces of garbage.
> -------------
> It's not the Jeep's fault, it's the moron behind the wheel.
>
>
>
>

That crash was caused by what we call a "spacer" problem. This is the
defective part that fills the space between the steering wheel and the
driver's seat.

--
Pete
'84 CJ-7 with a bunch of engine mods, looks very stock from outside
'07 Commander
'94 Land Rover Defender 90 POE #1500
'04 Audi S4

 

Kate wrote:
> "rst" <senninha@ziplip.com> wrote in message
> news:1190412786.934371.48590@57g2000hsv.googlegrou ps.com...
> http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...?autoplay=true
>
>
> And yet, people still buys these pieces of garbage.
> -------------
> It's not the Jeep's fault, it's the moron behind the wheel.
>
>
>
>

That crash was caused by what we call a "spacer" problem. This is the
defective part that fills the space between the steering wheel and the
driver's seat.

--
Pete
'84 CJ-7 with a bunch of engine mods, looks very stock from outside
'07 Commander
'94 Land Rover Defender 90 POE #1500
'04 Audi S4

 

Kate wrote:
> "rst" <senninha@ziplip.com> wrote in message
> news:1190412786.934371.48590@57g2000hsv.googlegrou ps.com...
> http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...?autoplay=true
>
>
> And yet, people still buys these pieces of garbage.
> -------------
> It's not the Jeep's fault, it's the moron behind the wheel.
>
>
>
>

That crash was caused by what we call a "spacer" problem. This is the
defective part that fills the space between the steering wheel and the
driver's seat.

--
Pete
'84 CJ-7 with a bunch of engine mods, looks very stock from outside
'07 Commander
'94 Land Rover Defender 90 POE #1500
'04 Audi S4

 

Bill Putney wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> rst wrote:
>>
>>> http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...?autoplay=true
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And yet, people still buys these pieces of garbage.
>>>
>>
>> You call the *JEEP* garbage? I call that Darwin in action. The only
>> "garbage" was between the driver's ears.
>>
>
> LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
> (for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
> happening.

The most common last words of an urban fool: "Yo, hol' my beeah, dood, N
watch DIS!"

 

Bill Putney wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> rst wrote:
>>
>>> http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...?autoplay=true
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And yet, people still buys these pieces of garbage.
>>>
>>
>> You call the *JEEP* garbage? I call that Darwin in action. The only
>> "garbage" was between the driver's ears.
>>
>
> LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
> (for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
> happening.

The most common last words of an urban fool: "Yo, hol' my beeah, dood, N
watch DIS!"

 

Bill Putney wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> rst wrote:
>>
>>> http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...?autoplay=true
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And yet, people still buys these pieces of garbage.
>>>
>>
>> You call the *JEEP* garbage? I call that Darwin in action. The only
>> "garbage" was between the driver's ears.
>>
>
> LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
> (for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
> happening.

The most common last words of an urban fool: "Yo, hol' my beeah, dood, N
watch DIS!"

 

Bill Putney wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> rst wrote:
>>
>>> http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...?autoplay=true
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And yet, people still buys these pieces of garbage.
>>>
>>
>> You call the *JEEP* garbage? I call that Darwin in action. The only
>> "garbage" was between the driver's ears.
>>
>
> LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
> (for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
> happening.

The most common last words of an urban fool: "Yo, hol' my beeah, dood, N
watch DIS!"

 

"Spdloader" <askforit@nospam.triad.rr.com> writes:

> "Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
> news:1bwsuihdiy.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net ...
>> Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>>>
>>> LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
>>> (for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
>>> happening.
>>
>> Oh, don't be racist and ageist. Don't have to be white, don't have to
>> be young.
>
>
> Making an accurate observation is neither.
> It is merely a statement of the truth.

My point was that it was unnecessarily narrow. When you see guys of
other colors, and old guys, with their hats on backwards you can still
bet on something stupid happening (it's arguable whether something
stupid has *already* happened when he put his hat on).