Built like a Mercedes (?)

MOST north american roads are pretty good by world standards, but
there are more miles of bad roads in North America than all the roads
put together in most countries of the world, due to the overwelming
number of miles of road involved. Many "urban" light trucks do not
carry ANY load - but that is pretty well made up for by those who
habitually overload them by magnitudes of 4 or 5, and occaisionaly 8
or 10. In our area, it is NOTHING to see a 1/2 ton truck loaded with 2
tons. - just like it's nothing to see pickups that have NEVER carried
as much as 500 lbs in the box. (but some have over 700 lbs just on the
front seats)

 

And the rated load capacity on the 4wd is generally LOWER than on the
2wd. Due in part to the extra weight of the 4wd cutting into the RGVW.

 

"Canadian Winter" is a joke so far this year. Can't see ANY snow here,
where we would generally have several feet at this time.

 

230 and 250 cu inch sixes were not made before 1963. The cars I dealt
with most in the early years were no older than 1959. By then they
were 10 years old - and 10 year old cars in southern ontario were
generally pretty well scrap then.

 

MANY are, but there can be a whole lot in that MANY and still be a
very small fraction of the trucks in use here.

 

This is called anecdote. Just because you foolishly overload your

Certainly not, but I can assure you, I'm not very hard on my truck
comparitively speaking.

Ahh yes, thats called ANECTDOTE, just because all you saw was good, doesn't
mean it all is good.

--
Max

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)

 

He is very good at tall stories.

Factless stories tend to be short. Like yours.

--
Max

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)

 

Fair enough, it's barely sweater weather here right now. But that
hasn't stopped the salt minions - we may actully have more salt and sand
in the front yard right now that snow.

I aint pulling the good cars out of the barn until salt season is over,
snow or no snow.

 

Someone else here said that there were more longer journies and *that*
hammered the oil more.

In fact your average use is little different to anywhere else in the World.
Some vehicles travel a few hundred yards to a few miles to the shops and
school while others hammer up and down the freeways while others deliver
stuff door to door and there is every kind of variation in between.

What really strikes as being rather odd is that some [rather loud] Americans
[some of whom are here] insist that theirs is "worse, bigger, badder,
better" than anyone else's according to the point they are trying to make at
the time. In this context the car use in America is certainly average. More
cars per head of population than most places, yes but the use, varied as
anywhere, is only average. The conditions are similarly average, ranging
from bad to good and from cold to hot. No particularly special conditions
except Alaska and Arizona. Even these are duplicated in many other regions
of the world outside N. America.
An Irish farmer went to see a big ranch in the mid West of America and fed
up with all the bigger/better stories that he heard every day out there
replied when the rancher said "it takes me three days in this pickup to
travel round the perimiter fence back to my start point"
"I'm so sorry things are so bad, I once had a pickup like that"

Huw

 

I see. Well maybe next time when you want to use sarcasm in a written
conversation, you can try to let people know.

*************************
Dave

 

Are you taking this skit on the road soon?

*************************
Dave

 

All squares are rectangles. Your reply - no they aren't, that is only
because squares come when you buy one. What the hell does that mean?

Grab your dictionary off the shelf, if you have one, and try finding
the word logic in it. Come back when you understand what it means.

Why? E-Mail, which is what I assume you mean, is not the same thing
as Usenet, which is what I assume you mean. E-Mail uses SMTP over
TCP/IP, while Usenet uses NNTP over TCP/IP. They have nothing in
common, other than the fact that they both use words, just like Word,
Excel, Adobe, Firefox, SAP, and a host of other programs.

Your considerable experience in using shitty software notwithstanding,
other people really do know more than you.

*************************
Dave

 

Now this is at least a logical response.

*************************
Dave

 

I don't doubt it. Read back a few posts and recall what we're talking
about- whether the engines were CAPABLE of running 200k with proper
care. They were. I'll bet you if I had a time machine I could go back
and pull any random Chrysler or Ford v8 off a 1968 dealer lot and run it
for 200k miles. Every single one that I or my family had back then did
so. Of course we knew people that used Quaker Sludge and changed it
every 5 years whether it needed it or not, and wore out their engines in
50k miles back then too. My point is that oil has changed a LOT more
than engine mechanicals have changed.

 

Hit the post button too quickly on the last one.

Actually my logic is sound. Let me explain. First off, the majority
of posters on Usenet DO NOT use outhouse express. The majority use a
large number of other programs, most of which typical Windows users
have never heard of, and even if they did, they would be incapable of
using. The majority of Usenet users are not those who download porn
and spam groups such as this. Although I grant that the majority of
bandwidth may be porn...

This group I refer to are mostly very technical people. The very
people who build and maintain the systems that we rely on to "surf the
web". The very systems that outhouse express users aren't even aware
of. I guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of outhouse
express users could not even understand how the Internet works, and
have no idea what the difference is between NNTP, SMTP, HTTP and other
protocols. Now of course we will have to put up with those who will
now claim to be experts because they were able to use Google to find
what these stand for, but we all know that is a ruse.

So, if we assume that say 70% of Usenet users are technical people,
and that as a rule, less than 10% of them use outhouse express ( I
doubt it is that high! ), that gives us say 63% of all users who
don't touch that crappy MS program. Now of the other 30% of Usenet
users, a significant number of them have the inate intelligence to
realize that outhouse express is not a news reader, and never will be.
These are the same ones who would not think of calling it an E-Mail
program either, because, well, they have brains. Let's assume that
half of this group use something other than outhouse express.

That gives us 78% of users who actually understand that MS is not the
end all be all of software companies, who have further decided to use
one of the many alternatives (if you can call preexisting software
alternatives). Now, of the 22% left, the ones who by my contrived
example use outhouse express, some percentage of them are top posters.
Keep in mind that pretty much nobody who uses a 'gasp' alternative
program on Usenet top posts. So, we come to the conclusion that:

Wow. See how that works? Now, I grant that I am making these numbers
up. However, if someone wants to do a statistical sampling, I am sure
we can come up with real numbers. I guarantee that the number of
'alternative news reader client' users who top post approaches zero,
and that the number of users who top post refuse to acknowledge that
outhouse express is not a news reader. Simple logic, really.

*************************
Dave

 

<sarcasm>
No, no, Clare, there is no way you know what you are talking about.
Steve's 3 examples are clearly a far better statistical sample than
your hundreds of "actual" repairs.
</sarcasm>

*************************
Dave

 

**** dave, you could not get more insufferable than you are. it seems
like you try every day, but listen pal, it just isn't possible.

 

omg, you have to be kidding. rallyed it all day long? no way man.

 

Never mind that top posting in a business conversation is the most
efficient way in following up in a continuing dialogue (much like
newsgroup posting) and you made your poor wife look like a fool.

Man - have you guys started a religion about not top posting? I thought
I was anal-retentive! You are making a big deal about absofrigginlutely
nothing, and your poor wife certainly realizes it too.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

I was going to say tongue-in-cheek that I wouldn't have been surprised
to see replies on the order of "Well, if the business world jumped out
of a 5-story building, would you jump out of a 5-story building too!?".
Lo and behold, I see that my imagination wasn't far from what actually
happened! (Example: "That's primarily because business people don't know
shit about technology.")

Amazing!

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')