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> On 2024-05-02 7:50 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On Wed, 1 May 2024 19:26:28 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> ave you owned one? There's no going back to small, low, cramped
>>>> automobiles.
>>>
>>> I've got a semi-retired F150 in the driveway. It's an '86 back when
>>> pickups were still pickups.
>>>
>>>> I've saved about 1/3 of the purchase cost of my cheap Ford Explorer SUV
>>>> just by using it to pickup and bring stuff home: furniture, appliances,
>>>> big screen TVs, home reno materials, large boxes, etc.
>>>
>>> You'd be surprised what I can stuff into my 3-door Yaris.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Vitz#XP10
>>>
>>> I referenced the Vitz because it gets confusing. My 2018 Yaris hatch is a
>>> Toyota with the same drive train as the first gen. The sedans that year
>>> are rebadged Mazda 2s. Different engine and drive train. Great fun at the
>>> auto parts store.
>>>
>>> The rear seats were folded down the day I bought it. I'm not an Uber
>>> driver so they're unnecessary weight.
>>
>> I had a Yaris (the original model) which was fun and cornered well.
>> Manual transmission, of course!
>>
>> Of course, the doofs here made fun of me about it. Same when I switch to
>> the Fiesta, also a peppy fun car.
>
> Why are you always providing this newsgroup with evidence that you're a
> homosexual?

Why do spritely compact cars trigger you?

Did one pull up to you and a bunch of clowns piled out and beat the
bejeesus out of you?

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Among the lucky, you are the chosen one.

On Thu, 2 May 2024 08:04:18 -0000 (UTC), Simon wrote:

> It is amazing how many can't park between the lines when they get there,
> should have done more colouring practice as a kid.

Some are sloppy and can't really drive their barges but many of the
parking lots really aren't laid out well for monster pickups and SUVs.
When you drive a subcompact Toyota it's a real PITA. First, you can't find
the damn car hiding in a sea of SUVs. Then, as you pull out, you sort of
have to ease the nose out because you can't see around them. I'm better
off if I've got a bike where I can stand up and peek around them.

On Thu, 2 May 2024 14:55:23 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

> However, that disadvantage is far outweighed by the sense of superiority
> engendered by the commanding, high-up, driving position from which you
> may look down your nose at the lesser mortals in their puny little cars.

I drove a truck for a while in the '90s. Sitting in the cab of a Kenworth
really gives you a sense of superiority. It's always fun when some master
of the universe in his BMW thinks he can play chicken and force his way
into traffic.

On Thu, 2 May 2024 08:42:43 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> I'm 6'2.5" at last measurement. Of course, I might also be shrinking now
> that I'm in my 40s. I have no idea what that process starts.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/why-do-i-shrink-in-height-
as-i-age

Welcome to the magical shrinking man age... When I was at my full height
I found comfort in a vehicle was very dependent on the design more than
the size of the vehicle. I liked Ford pickups but felt cramped in GM
pickups. Most passenger cars were okay but the most uncomfortable car I've
owned was an Audi. It was ergonomically designed for somebody other than
me. My '73 Mustang was fine but riding in a friend's Mustang II was
torture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Fiero

I was interested when the Fiero came out so I stopped at the Pontiac
dealership where I'd bought a Firebird two years earlier. As I was looking
at it the salesman who sold me the Firebird yelled across the showroom
'They don't make that in your size!' He was right. I don't know how they
are now but when I looked at Corvettes in the '70s I realized that despite
being fairly large they didn't come in my size either.

On Thu, 2 May 2024 07:50:38 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> I had a Yaris (the original model) which was fun and cornered well.
> Manual transmission, of course!

I had a 2007 with a MT. It was a sleeper when it came to handling. On a
day with a strange lack of traffic I played with a Mini on Hwy 1 down
through Big Sur. I couldn't lose the Mini but it wasn't gaining on me
either. A few tourists may have dove off the scenic pull offs as the two
rollerskates roared by. The Vitz is popular for club racing in Japan and a
hot version has done very well in rallies.

The 2007 met an early death by snowplow in March 2011. There were no MTs
available so I placed an order for one. After thinking about it that night
I went back the next day and bought the AT they had on the lot. This was
right after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown and I wasn't sure if Japan was
going to be in the car business in the near future.

The 2011 had an airbag recall that I put off until I got too many nagging
notifications so I took it in to the dealership in 2020. While hanging
around I saw a leftover 2018 hatch. That was the last year for the Toyota
version before they switched to the Mazda 2 version. Hatchbacks don't move
in this market and I figured I could get a good deal although it's another
AT. I took delivery on the first day of the Covid lockdown here. The
showroom was deserted except for a bunch of salesmen looking daggers at
the guy they thought might be selling the last car for a long time.

Barring left turning snowplows this will probably be my last car.

On Thu, 2 May 2024 09:05:36 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> Why are you always providing this newsgroup with evidence that you're a
> homosexual?

I don't think driving a Yaris has led to any questions about my sexuality.
If the pink Hello Kitty! notebook I bring to company meetings has nobody
ever had big enough balls to mention it.

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Thu, 2 May 2024 14:55:23 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
>
>> However, that disadvantage is far outweighed by the sense of superiority
>> engendered by the commanding, high-up, driving position from which you
>> may look down your nose at the lesser mortals in their puny little cars.
>
> I drove a truck for a while in the '90s. Sitting in the cab of a Kenworth
> really gives you a sense of superiority. It's always fun when some master
> of the universe in his BMW thinks he can play chicken and force his way
> into traffic.

Just think of the I-95 truck fires, including the one a few hours ago.

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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Thu, 2 May 2024 09:05:36 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>
>> Why are you always providing this newsgroup with evidence that you're a
>> homosexual?
>
> I don't think driving a Yaris has led to any questions about my sexuality.
> If the pink Hello Kitty! notebook I bring to company meetings has nobody
> ever had big enough balls to mention it.

"Andrzej" is a retread troll. Son of the rabid pedagogue.

--
Be cheerful while you are alive.
-- Phathotep, 24th Century B.C.

On 5/3/2024 2:34 PM, SandChimp wrote:
> On 5/1/24 21:21, SandChimp wrote:
>
>> So the number one shortcoming of Linux for me is now shifted to that
>> problem. Lack of proper instructions to install their apps.

wth?

Google for 'How to install apps on <distro> Linux'

https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1525
https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Software-in-Debian-Linux
https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/addremove-install.html.en
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-install-apps-on-manjaro/84114

Also check out www.distrowatch.com They list most distros in
existence, with links to the homepage, documentation, reviews, etc

You can go wrong with any or all of them.

> There's another problem of course that's probably worth mentioning. Not
> only at present, but in Linux's entire lifetime, many of those who know
> Linux have had the tendency to keep the knowledge to themselves, while
> having the nerve to step into, even reside, in a Linux forum. We have
> similar individuals with similar problems in the physics form here too.
> So it's not the Linux that does it. It is the individual.
>
> My guess is, such individuals are the cro-magnons and are useless for
> the success of Linux OS.
>
> To share information, requires abilities that are often seen in Modern
> Human, and only rarely seen in cro-magnons. Read the full discussion of
> that in one of my blogs here in sci.physics. A cro-magnon man had to be
> born with a certain form of autism to be able to share information as
> naturally as Modern Human does. They have to borrow from other parts of
> their brains to be able to do it!
> It is obvious to me that a few of you in Linux forum should
> really fuck
> off. It doesn't matter how much you know Linux. It's not your place to
> be in a "Linux advocacy" forum, if you don't help. Go to your niche Nazi
> holes and stay there with the likes of yourselves, and discuss Trump vs
> Biden hogwash. You should not be anywhere that I and the like visit. I
> share my information, to friend or foe. You miserable little Nazis
> don't. Being scared of humans is in your genes. Read my related blog and
> find that out!

More ridiculous nonsense, as found in EVERY SandChimp post.

Most likely everyone has plonked you because you're a babbling fool.

Go back to your pipe bombs and 'Divorced Men' support group and leave
sci.physics and cola alone.

On Fri, 3 May 2024 15:46:41 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
<v13ev1$n8g8$3@dont-email.me>:

> On 5/3/2024 2:34 PM, SandChimp wrote:
>> On 5/1/24 21:21, SandChimp wrote:
>>
>>> So the number one shortcoming of Linux for me is now shifted to that
>>> problem. Lack of proper instructions to install their apps.
>
>
> wth?
>
> Google for 'How to install apps on <distro> Linux'
>
> https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1525
> https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Software-in-Debian-Linux
> https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/addremove-install.html.en
> https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-install-apps-on-manjaro/84114
>
> Also check out www.distrowatch.com They list most distros in
> existence, with links to the homepage, documentation, reviews, etc
>
> You can go wrong with any or all of them.
>
>
>
>
>> There's another problem of course that's probably worth mentioning. Not
>> only at present, but in Linux's entire lifetime, many of those who know
>> Linux have had the tendency to keep the knowledge to themselves, while
>> having the nerve to step into, even reside, in a Linux forum. We have
>> similar individuals with similar problems in the physics form here too.
>> So it's not the Linux that does it. It is the individual.
>>
>> My guess is, such individuals are the cro-magnons and are useless for
>> the success of Linux OS.
>>
>> To share information, requires abilities that are often seen in Modern
>> Human, and only rarely seen in cro-magnons. Read the full discussion of
>> that in one of my blogs here in sci.physics. A cro-magnon man had to be
>> born with a certain form of autism to be able to share information as
>> naturally as Modern Human does. They have to borrow from other parts of
>> their brains to be able to do it!
> > It is obvious to me that a few of you in Linux forum should really
> > fuck
>> off. It doesn't matter how much you know Linux. It's not your place to
>> be in a "Linux advocacy" forum, if you don't help. Go to your niche
>> Nazi holes and stay there with the likes of yourselves, and discuss
>> Trump vs Biden hogwash. You should not be anywhere that I and the like
>> visit. I share my information, to friend or foe. You miserable little
>> Nazis don't. Being scared of humans is in your genes. Read my related
>> blog and find that out!
>
>
> More ridiculous nonsense, as found in EVERY SandChimp post.

No need for the racism -- he can't help the accidents of his
birth.

(But yes, it is nonsense, and ridiculous.)

>
> Most likely everyone has plonked you because you're a babbling fool.

Yes, but people keep replying to him.

>
> Go back to your pipe bombs and 'Divorced Men' support group and leave
> sci.physics and cola alone.

I think part of his problem is he is wanting "help" from cola.

cola is an advocacy group. If he needs help with Linux, there are
better newsgroups in which to get assistance.

He's also alienated pretty much anyone that can help him, but that's
the least of his worries.

--
-v

On 5/1/24 21:21, Physfitfreak wrote:

> So the number one shortcoming of Linux for me is now shifted to that
> problem. Lack of proper instructions to install their apps.
>
>
>
>

There's another problem of course that's probably worth mentioning. Not
only at present, but in Linux's entire lifetime, many of those who know
Linux have had the tendency to keep the knowledge to themselves, while
having the nerve to step into, even reside, in a Linux forum. We have
similar individuals with similar problems in the physics form here too.
So it's not the Linux that does it. It is the individual.

My guess is, such individuals are the cro-magnons and are useless for
the success of Linux OS.

To share information, requires abilities that are often seen in Modern
Human, and only rarely seen in cro-magnons. Read the full discussion of
that in one of my blogs here in sci.physics. A cro-magnon man had to be
born with a certain form of autism to be able to share information as
naturally as Modern Human does. They have to borrow from other parts of
their brains to be able to do it!

It is obvious to me that a few of you in Linux forum should really fuck
off. It doesn't matter how much you know Linux. It's not your place to
be in a "Linux advocacy" forum, if you don't help. Go to your niche Nazi
holes and stay there with the likes of yourselves, and discuss Trump vs
Biden hogwash. You should not be anywhere that I and the like visit. I
share my information, to friend or foe. You miserable little Nazis
don't. Being scared of humans is in your genes. Read my related blog and
find that out!

On 5/3/2024 4:40 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2024 15:46:41 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
>>

<snip>

>> More ridiculous nonsense, as found in EVERY SandChimp post.
>
> No need for the racism -- he can't help the accidents of his
> birth.

Netnannying doesn't work on me, fella.

He can't help being born in a repressive, terroristic, 3rd world
shithole like Iran, but he CAN control his posting. Maybe.

> (But yes, it is nonsense, and ridiculous.)
>
>>
>> Most likely everyone has plonked you because you're a babbling fool.
>
> Yes, but people keep replying to him.

It's mainly him that replies to himself. One of his posts began like this:

On 4/14/24 00:18, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 4/13/24 22:57, Physfitfreak wrote:
>> On 4/13/24 22:46, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>> On 4/13/24 22:35, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>> On 4/13/24 22:01, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>> On 4/13/24 20:56, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/13/24 20:17, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 19:51, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 19:37, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 19:16, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 19:04, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 19:00, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 18:47, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 18:28, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 18:19, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 17:59, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 17:35, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 17:12, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 17:01, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 16:53, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 16:33, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 16:01, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/13/24 14:57, Physfitfreak wrote:

kook!

>> Go back to your pipe bombs and 'Divorced Men' support group and leave
>> sci.physics and cola alone.
>
> I think part of his problem is he is wanting "help" from cola.

I rarely read his drooling. What I have seen is a steady spew of
anti-White hatred and obsessive talk about his dick and 'Penis X' and
assorted mental illness and lies.

> cola is an advocacy group. If he needs help with Linux, there are
> better newsgroups in which to get assistance.

Just about any Linux question can be answered with Google.

> He's also alienated pretty much anyone that can help him, but that's
> the least of his worries.

Most likely he's itching to do an honor killing because his sister
wouldn't marry him when she was 14..

On Fri, 3 May 2024 18:40:57 -0400, DFS wrote:

> He can't help being born in a repressive, terroristic, 3rd world
> shithole like Iran, but he CAN control his posting. Maybe.

I've known several very intelligent Iranians; they aren't all assholes.

On 5/3/24 19:41, rbowman wrote:
>
>
> I've known several very intelligent Iranians; they aren't all assholes.

Hehe :)

You mean assholes towards Nazis, no? Hehe :)

On 2024-05-02, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On 1 May 2024 14:54:49 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> I've seen a few SUVs or whatever you want to call them that looked like
>>> a disaster waiting to happen with a high CG and relatively narrow tread.
>>
>> “Ya canna change the laws of physics, Cap’n!”
>>
>> I honestly don’t understand this fondness for SUVs.
>
> Conspicuous consumption? A feeling of safety in a giant vehicle? A feeling of
> power and superiority in a giant vehicle? Luxury appointments in an SUV?
> Driving a buncha kids to soccer?

Driving your family (with six kids) across country.

--
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality."
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine

On 2024-05-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2024 18:40:57 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> He can't help being born in a repressive, terroristic, 3rd world
>> shithole like Iran, but he CAN control his posting. Maybe.
>
> I've known several very intelligent Iranians; they aren't all assholes.

In Texas my doctor was Iranian. A nice guy and a good doctor.

--
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality."
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine

In sci.physics Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/1/24 21:21, Physfitfreak wrote:
>
>> So the number one shortcoming of Linux for me is now shifted to that
>> problem. Lack of proper instructions to install their apps.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> There's another problem of course that's probably worth mentioning. Not
> only at present, but in Linux's entire lifetime, many of those who know
> Linux have had the tendency to keep the knowledge to themselves,

And yet another Dunning-Kruger post from our resident poster boy for the
syndrom.

The Internet is literally awash with many gigabytes of documentation,
forums and tutorials on the various flavors of Linux.

RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 2024-05-02, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On 1 May 2024 14:54:49 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've seen a few SUVs or whatever you want to call them that looked like
>>>> a disaster waiting to happen with a high CG and relatively narrow tread.
>>>
>>> “Ya canna change the laws of physics, Cap’n!”
>>>
>>> I honestly don’t understand this fondness for SUVs.
>>
>> Conspicuous consumption? A feeling of safety in a giant vehicle? A feeling of
>> power and superiority in a giant vehicle? Luxury appointments in an SUV?
>> Driving a buncha kids to soccer?
>
> Driving your family (with six kids) across country.

True, but all too often there is only one person in said ginormous vehicle.

--
Sheriff Chameleotoptor sighed with an air of weary sadness, and then
turned to Doppelgutt and said 'The Senator must really have been on a
bender this time -- he left a party in Cleveland, Ohio, at 11:30 last
night, and they found his car this morning in the smokestack of a British
aircraft carrier in the Formosa Straits.'
-- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton
bad fiction contest.

On 2024-05-04 12:42 a.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2024-05-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 May 2024 18:40:57 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> He can't help being born in a repressive, terroristic, 3rd world
>>> shithole like Iran, but he CAN control his posting. Maybe.
>>
>> I've known several very intelligent Iranians; they aren't all assholes.
>
> In Texas my doctor was Iranian. A nice guy and a good doctor.

It should be noted that a lot of the Iranians we see in the West were
once chased out of their country because of their religion. I had an
Iranian student once who told me that she and her mom had to leave
because they were Christian. A true sweetheart. I've also had some who
left Iran because they wanted to. They were Muslims and spent every
minute of the day causing issues for everyone in the classroom.

--
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king.

On 5/4/24 09:57, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> On 2024-05-04 12:42 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-05-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 3 May 2024 18:40:57 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> He can't help being born in a repressive, terroristic, 3rd world
>>>> shithole like Iran, but he CAN control his posting.  Maybe.
>>>
>>> I've known several very intelligent Iranians; they aren't all assholes.
>>
>> In Texas my doctor was Iranian. A nice guy and a good doctor.
>
> It should be noted that a lot of the Iranians we see in the West were
> once chased out of their country because of their religion. I had an
> Iranian student once who told me that she and her mom had to leave
> because they were Christian. A true sweetheart. I've also had some who
> left Iran because they wanted to. They were Muslims and spent every
> minute of the day causing issues for everyone in the classroom.
>

Fuck you and your experiences.

On Wed, 1 May 2024 19:26:28 -0400, DFS wrote:

> On 5/1/2024 4:28 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On 1 May 2024 14:54:49 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> I've seen a few SUVs or whatever you want to call them that looked
>>> like a disaster waiting to happen with a high CG and relatively narrow
>>> tread.
>>
>> “Ya canna change the laws of physics, Cap’n!”
>>
>> I honestly don’t understand this fondness for SUVs.
>
> Have you owned one? There's no going back to small, low, cramped
> automobiles.

Instead you have a large, high, cramped automobile.

It’s just dumb. They have an inherently higher centre of gravity, which
compromises their handling. Then they try to lower the roof to compensate,
and that just reduces the interior room.

Ah, I just realized ... you’re in the USA, aren’t you? Cars in the USA
aren’t expected to go around corners.