Google| Subject | Re: Laguna Seca is booked! |
| From | -hh |
| Date | 2012-03-27 20:11 (2012-03-27 11:11) |
| Message-ID | <ab0bdee0-88be-4970-9a40-e9c8e12f1563@a5g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | ed |
| Followups | Nashton (2d, 3h & 18m) > -hh |
On Mar 27, 8:46=A0am, ed <n...@atwistedweb.com>wrote:
edI easily could have claimed that I was just being "smart", but to make such a claim can very without also providing any substantiation would ring hollow.
On Monday, March 26, 2012 4:16:34 PM UTC-7, -hh wrote:-hhed
On Mar 26, 5:12=A0pm, ed <n...@atwistedweb.com>wrote:On Monday, March 26, 2012 1:21:59 PM UTC-7, Alan Baker wrote:
...Alan Baker
No.pedantic, aren't you? =A0;P-hhed
Beats projecting.
it's not projecting to point out the truth (remember alan is the guy that just asked "That actually is a possibility, isn't it?" to "everyone else is overcompensating but you, you were just being smart").
As I said above, I easily could have claimed "Yes", but to make such a claim can very without also providing any substantiation would ring hollow. In retrospect, I think it was a fair decision appropriate for its day and no regrets.Alan Baker
Quite obviously, he had one when he NEEDED one.quite obviously, the mention of a timeline for when it's a fad is something he thinks is relevant, otherwise why bring it up, right? =A0:P-hhed
It doesn't absolutely resolve the objective question of 'need', but its a pretty reliable indicator.
a simple yes would have sufficed, no need to justify below. =A0:P
And from a chronological standpoint:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_utility_vehicle#Popularity
...states that the SUV craze started (in earnest) in the 1990s.
In terms of actually being used for their design function, by 1998, the percentage of SUVs that were ever being used off-road had already fallen to 13%...
cite: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3D1432
...and by 2005, this number had fallen even further, to just 5%...
cite: http://www.edmunds.com/car-safety/the-best-family-hauler-suv-wagon-minivan-= or-crossover.html
Add the high-CG and rollover, and now how every damn vehicle sold in the West is DOT-mandated to have tire pressure monitoring kits and the like, because these macho "compensators" don't even know how to check their tire pressure anymore. What's next are going to be rear-view cameras because they're running over their own children in their own home driveways.
-hh
2012-03-27
