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I'll take your definition of libertarianism - and I consider myself a libertarian . Freedom should trump all - but it doesn't even seem to be a consideration these days.
Agreed. Bastiat once stated the same thing in this fashion:
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.” Was wondering where all the block heater vs idle til warm news articles were. Now with the climate change vs the old save gas and money angle. Don't dealers sell them as add-ons anymore?
Under multiculturalism, is France supposed to turn its immigrants into French men or is supposed to tolerate their curious customs and folkways? Climate jihad, ask Galileo what happens when you go against established, consensus of learned men based science. Funny how no one remembers those "learned men". It's almost like their lives were a waste and the world would have been a better place much faster if their mommas had aborted them?
See this of the men who changed the world, for the very much better: QUOTE: "Newcomen's religion had consequences greater than absence from a local census. Dissenters, including Baptists, Presbyterians, and others, were as a class, excluded from universities after 1660, an either apprenticed, or learned their science from dissenting academies." "At the same time that he chartered the world's first scientific society, Charles II had created an entire generation of dissenting intellectuals uncontrolled by his kingdom's ever more technophobic universities." p29, Rosen, Willam, 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World' And those technophobic universities? They were known as Oxford and Cambridge. A few decades later, after the "learned men" died out, they came around. And those technophobic universities? They were known as Oxford and Cambridge. A few decades later, after the "learned men" died out, they came around.
Actually, it took more than "a few decades" for Oxbridge to come around. The part of the Clarendon Code which reserved Oxbridge for members of the established Anglican Church, The Corporation Act of 1661, was not repealed until 1828. C.D. Darlington, in The Evolution of Man and Society, discusses the relationship between religious Dissenters and scientific and engineering advancement. Darlington points out that the engineering and scientific advances in the 17th-19th centuries in Great Britain came nearly exclusively from Dissenters, not from Anglicans. See his tables on p 508-511 of Founders of the Scientific Revolution in Britain, born between 1620 and 1800 and Founders of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, born between 1650 and 1810. Nearly all of them were Dissenters. During the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions of that era, Oxbridge was pretty much on the sidelines. Granted, there were some Dissenters who were able to defy The Corporation Act and make it to Oxbridge, such as Isaac Newton. They were able to be at Oxbridge only by dissimulating their Dissenter religious views. Should you warm your engine before driving? It depends. If the temperature is 40 or 50 degrees a few seconds (10-15) is sufficient to make sure the oil flow is adequate. But you should still not accelerate hard or drive fast for a few minutes.
If the temperature is colder as in freezing or 10 to 15 below freezing then yes you should warm up the engine to a greater extent. You could still get away with 10-15 seconds of idle before driving off but drive slower for a few miles. If your route takes you directly onto a highway then I would warm at idle for a minute or two before driving away. If it is even colder then even more warming is essential before drivng at highway speed or beating other drivers to the next traffic light. You will see the occasional vehicla on the road that is burning excess oil or has a noticible knock in the engne when it accelerates. These are often the result of consistently over stressing a cold engine. Your car's pistons are not round they are oval. As the engine warms up and the piston expands slightly it becomes round and fits the cylinder almost perfectly. Your engine was designed to run at 220 degrees or so and not at 32 degrees. Of course if you replace your car every two years or so disregard this advice because it will all be someone else's problem. Agreed that lubrication is a key issue in warmup (as well as piston expansion). Synthetic oils help, but it still takes a bit to get some full flow through the engine.
Now with so many turbo charged cars, it's even more critical. Turbos are EXTREMELY sensitive to lubrication, a little contamination, or the wrong grade will quickly trash a turbo. I would definitely warm up a turbo engine get the oil thinned out a bit so it provides adequate flow. I don't know if trigonometry is racist, but is always working some angle.
Re: new vocabulary word - Harf
I thought Moonbattery's addition of 'harf' to our vocabulary was great but I'd like to add the adjective 'harf' to be used to add triteness and simpleness to something that is already trite and simple. For example: "Marie's concept of what encourages Islamist terrorists isn't just high school, it's really 'harf assed'. " I keep wanting to use this in the sentence:
Harf it up, Hairball http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/andre-jacques-garnerin-parachutist-parc-monceau/
Berry was the first American. But not the first. I think Obama is telling us that if France gave all Muslims top educations and elected them to high office for little reason, they would be a at least tolerant of French society and assimilate enough to not blow things up.
There is precedent for that in America. |