A Horse With No Name
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Ohh absolutely....the son of the owner of a restaurant I love to go to got a degree in computer science, has not been able to find work for a year and a half. Offered to help get the kid into the electrical apprenticeship or the HVAC apprenticeship, kid sits at home and wants nothing to do with working with his hands. I could see the government paying talented peoples tuition for the hard sciences where we need talented people, but at the same time, we have a glut of people getting degrees in theater and art therapy. Explained to a student yesterday that getting a masters in political science after getting a bachelors in political science was an excellent way to be unemployable with even more student debt...was not what she wanted to hear. We have two cultural biases in our country that are killing us, our anti intellectual anti science bias, and our anti blue collar anti working with your hands bias. Our anti working with your hands/blue collar bias is the result of public school indoctrination into the virtues of white collar careers, and our anti intellectual bias is the result of our horrid media. Both need to go. Yes, but in this country you can make it if you want to...sons girlfriends parents arrived nearly penniless as immigrants, have built a couple of businesses, and are now worth serious coin. We need to adequately fund state universities and encourage people to go to them and get degrees in technical fields, IMHO.
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Agreed, although I do not find the extra height of AWD cars to be an issue visually.
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Fantastic list!
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Will be checking it out!
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But for those who embrace Science, technology and reality there is a bright, bright future. Did you check out the article I posted for you?
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Most technology has social elements that resist it when it first came out...basically human behavior....people whined like crazy when steam ships started taking business away from sailing ships...
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Cool....we will see how many incentives VW can pile together when I am ready....
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Could we all please remove the sand from our respective private parts and act like adults?
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Always a nice surprise. Thinking a Golf Alltrack might be a nice car to look at to replace the Jetta with.
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I do agree that the Cadillac lineup looks fantastic.
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https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/11/30/5g-technologies-will-power-a-greener-future-for-cities/ dfelt, here is an excellent article for you on what that future will look like...enjoy!
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Yes, both companies are becoming more product focused and investing in some cool stuff....
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...and even in the mid 1970's, the Deville name still meant something while Continental was in sharp decline.
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Although I would put Cadillac ahead of BMW. If we are talking 2002, then BMW would be ahead...but BMW has become so focused on riding their legacy and building cheap lease deals that they no longer as passionate about product as the once were. Cadillac is now MUCH more passionate about product than they were 15 years ago. Also, Rolls and Bently are kind of type cast (like an actor or actress gets type cast) into building a particular type of car...with Cadillac and Benz, there is a lot of room for creativity. CTS-V wagon and Mercedes Unimog come to mind...
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Believing all of the rhetoric of any one individual is an intellectual fallacy, and does not indicate clear or rational thought. Also, discounting or trying to discredit any information that runs counter to an established bias you have is just sloppy thinking. I will leave it at that. The funny thing is I used to flag races at Mid Ohio, Nelson ledges and the like, and used to know a lot of guys in the Porsche Club and Corvette Clubs. It is a warm and friendly rivalry, and most Corvette drivers and Porsche drivers are complete gentlemen. Making it an either/or dichotomy not only is intellectually sloppy, it is a discredit and disgrace to the people who actually own and enjoy the cars...and have the actual kahunas to drive them at speed on a track...
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No different than me using a credit card to buy a $350 router for my woodworking shop in my garage and paying it off at the end of the month. credit cards are like that Router...a tool to use.... Use either a woodworking router or a credit card improperly though and you will get hurt, physically or financially.
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The people who remember the real Lincoln as a Luxury make, the Lincoln from the 1960's, are now sitting in a pile of their own feces gradually coming to grips with the fact that this strange person sitting in front of them calling them "mom" or "dad" is somehow biologically related to them... The pic above is not of a continental, it is a glorified NYC Taxi painted black and given some different sheet metal.
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