Thread: I need a new truck

Well, one way you can look at this is, any system left unattended will return to equilibrium. In the wild when you introduce more big cats than the area can sustain, they will kill each other till balance is restored. The human animal is the same. Introduction of supra-physiological levels of governed order and control allows for the dominant predator to live more closely to one another than nature would normally allow. More and more effort and energy will have to be put into sustaining this unnatural system till society consumes more energy than it creates. In essence this system can only be sustained for so long before the inevitable crumbling begins. In steroid terms when the exogenous force is out of the system, the body (system) atrophies till equilibrium is restored.
Maybe people would get those bombs, maybe it's no more dangerous for rogues to possess them than a rogue state (u.s.). I might be overly optimistic about human nature, but my thoughts are that it takes a government to provide the real dangers of the world, and left to their own devices, the overwhelming majority of people would resort to agrarian lifestyles. Every moment we are alive we are in danger of being killed. "Freedom, even dangerous freedom is preferable to the safest slavery."

So did the truck ever get fixed or did you just go and buy a bmw with free maintainence?

Originally Posted by withoutrulers

I might be overly optimistic about human nature, but my thoughts are that it takes a government to provide the real dangers of the world, and left to their own devices, the overwhelming majority of people would resort to agrarian lifestyles. Every moment we are alive we are in danger of being killed. "Freedom, even dangerous freedom is preferable to the safest slavery."

WOR, No you are not overly optimistic, your faith is well placed. We are a brilliant, relentless species that (to paraphrase Faulkner) not only finds ways to survive, but prevail. I'm convinced most of us are hardwired with hyper-sensitive apocalyptic chips, easily activated -- the relentless fear of monsters beyond the next village or treeline. This hyper-sensitivity is, demonstrably, wired to a sense of personal responsibility. We ALWAYS blame ourselves for every ill, be it weather, famine, plague or pestilence. Not only that, we blame ourselves in advance. How many thousands of years have we been punishing ourselves, sacrificing goats, virgins, our own children to mitigate bad luck and insure good? Our apocalyptic chips are easily manipulated, and done so hourly by religions, governments, the ten o'clock news. We are to blame for global warming, are we not? Over the last forty year, from NYT best sellers and pulpits, we have blamed ourselves for water shortages, population bombs, world wide famine, pandemics and global hurricanes that were guaranteed to end the world as-we-know it by 2010. Well . . . here we are. If you are genuinely interested in revolutions, and how they unfold, go to Cuba now. Don't wait. I have been going three-five times a year since 1980 when I brought back a boat load of refugees from Mariel. Go to the mountains of Colombia where the "inevitable" revolutionary victors of Sendero Luminso are reeling, on their last legs. Go to Vietnam where the actual revolution there began in 1980, five years after the war ended, when the "Scocialist" government incorporated a new business doctrine, "Hung bien" (sp?) that wisely changed their business practices to capitalism, which is why the economy there is thriving. Cuba, first, i think, because it's just getting started.

Originally Posted by bigmoe65

So did the truck ever get fixed or did you just go and buy a bmw with free maintainence?

next week.

I found a place gonna do it for around 500. 200 bucks cheaper than the chain mechanics.

i would like to get a beamer one day but i want the 710 or 720, whatever.....the expensive one

Originally Posted by ROID

next week.

I found a place gonna do it for around 500. 200 bucks cheaper than the chain mechanics.

i would like to get a beamer one day but i want the 710 or 720, whatever.....the expensive one

The expensive BMW is the Alpina 7, although, as mentioned by Dylan Thomas all of the M classes are shit-hot -- but keep in mind all BMWs prior to 2010 have the nightmare iDrive system which may be the least intuitive computer system since Windows. As to trucks, christ, buy a 2007 Ford, Chevy, Toyota or Nissan. A ton are coming back as end-of-lease, and you can get a great deal,