Jim Naseum Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Ads work, which is why you are surrounded by them, TV, radio, Internet, billboards, and so on. Google, one of the largest companies in the world is just a fancy ad platform. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Ed can fix ANYTHING! Try a Google search on Edd China. You'll find that he holds several world records, including world's fastest ... toilet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I've noticed in the last month or so, Viagra/Cialis having commercials late in the afternoon, around 4-6pm. I like to watch the local news at 5pm, my 14 year old daughter is usually close by doing homework. I just think it's odd for them to be on at that time. I don't have kids. I've often wondered what parents of kids do during all these viagra ads? They seem to be on all the time, anytime. The commercials are becoming more popular. I guess they found their target audience (not me…haha) during the day. I always grab the remote and quickly change the channel. I hope when my 14 year old daughter has a question about those commercials, she asks her Mom 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Ed can fix ANYTHING! Try a Google search on Edd China. You'll find that he holds several world records, including world's fastest ... toilet. That's very interesting. I'll check that out. A lot of tv shows that have someone repairing an item….car, house, whatever, the majority of the work is done off camera, the show isn't long enough for the whole procedure. A lot of work is done by someone else. But I think Edd does his own work. He seems like a great mechanic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Being an auto mechanic in UK provides Edd China lots of opportunities for practice. The only thing that kept the UK from getting big in computers, is the fact they couldn't figure out a way to make them leak fluids. It's said, the British drink warm beer because they have Lucas refrigerators. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Lucas---The Prince of Darkness There are two settings with Lucas---dim and dimmer. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Lucas---The Prince of Darkness There are two settings with Lucas---dim and dimmer. Lucas - the people who invented darkness. I restored a few british cars in my wasted youth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfbane Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Lucas---The Prince of Darkness There are two settings with Lucas---dim and dimmer. Lucas - the people who invented darkness. I restored a few british cars in my wasted youth. "Volkswagen, Das Auto!" They apparently think potential buyer's of their diesel engine equipped vehicles are Das Stoopid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfbane Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Lucas---The Prince of Darkness There are two settings with Lucas---dim and dimmer. Actually there's a third setting: dead! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Lucas---The Prince of Darkness There are two settings with Lucas---dim and dimmer. Old 70's joke. Why do the Brits drink warm beer? Lucas makes refrigerators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfbane Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Being an auto mechanic in UK provides Edd China lots of opportunities for practice. The only thing that kept the UK from getting big in computers, is the fact they couldn't figure out a way to make them leak fluids. It's said, the British drink warm beer because they have Lucas refrigerators. You must not be acquainted with America dish water like Coors or Bud. I'd take a warm Brit beer any day over those two and their ilk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 It's said, the British drink warm beer because they have Lucas refrigerators. You beat me to it, I totally missed your post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Gute Fahrt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Lucas---The Prince of Darkness There are two settings with Lucas---dim and dimmer. Lucas - the people who invented darkness. I restored a few british cars in my wasted youth. "Volkswagen, Das Auto!" They apparently think potential buyer's of their diesel engine equipped vehicles are Das Stoopid! I will take one of those diesel's, 40 + MPG, I think the EPA is Das Stoopid.......................There is not 1 american diesel that will get 40 mpg, and lets not even think about the 18 wheelers and trains, ships, etc...etc...etc...I would bet you take a measurement on that cars emissions without the software for the mileage it gets compared to any diesel here in the states and its negligible......................There problem is they had the audacity to buck the EPA.............so they must become the example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 (edited) I stand corrected Chevy Cruz Diesel is supposed to get 47 highway who Knew chevy even had a diesel car I will still take a VW diesel, and I still think the EPA is NUTS Edited October 22, 2015 by joessportster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfbane Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Lucas---The Prince of Darkness There are two settings with Lucas---dim and dimmer. Lucas - the people who invented darkness. I restored a few british cars in my wasted youth. "Volkswagen, Das Auto!" They apparently think potential buyer's of their diesel engine equipped vehicles are Das Stoopid! I will take one of those diesel's, 40 + MPG, I think the EPA is Das Stoopid.......................There is not 1 american diesel that will get 40 mpg, and lets not even think about the 18 wheelers and trains, ships, etc...etc...etc...I would bet you take a measurement on that cars emissions without the software for the mileage it gets compared to any diesel here in the states and its negligible......................There problem is they had the audacity to buck the EPA.............so they must become the example There's a German made diesel that gets good mileage (actually better than VW's) and doesn't need to cheat. Made by BMW and available in their 328d. Costs more but retains it value better. It is Volkswagen who cheated both their customer's and the EPA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshnich Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 Lucas---The Prince of Darkness There are two settings with Lucas---dim and dimmer. Lucas - the people who invented darkness. I restored a few british cars in my wasted youth. "Volkswagen, Das Auto!" They apparently think potential buyer's of their diesel engine equipped vehicles are Das Stoopid! I will take one of those diesel's, 40 + MPG, I think the EPA is Das Stoopid.......................There is not 1 american diesel that will get 40 mpg, and lets not even think about the 18 wheelers and trains, ships, etc...etc...etc...I would bet you take a measurement on that cars emissions without the software for the mileage it gets compared to any diesel here in the states and its negligible......................There problem is they had the audacity to buck the EPA.............so they must become the example Interesting take from a WSJ editorial ENLARGE Volkswagen’s manufacturing plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. Photo: john macdougall/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images ByHolman W. Jenkins, Jr. Oct. 6, 2015 6:16 p.m. ET230 COMMENTS Volkswagen ’s behavior may have been bad, but did it ever make sense to mandate that passenger cars, after 2008, be restricted to 0.07 grams of nitrogen oxide output per mile? This target of 0.07 grams is already about a 90% reduction from the NOX output of the average car on the road today, according to the EPA. It represents about 1/40th the output of the average full-size pickup (gasoline or diesel), of which more than 10 million are on the road. No doubt health benefits have been secured for the American people as the worst-polluting of vehicles have been removed from circulation. A heavy truck in the 1980s put out 28 grams per mile. But these health benefits may also be systematically exaggerated, thanks to the entirely nonempirical presumption that small amounts of smog are proportionally as dangerous as large amounts. You would never know it, but only this tenuous assumption lies behind the media’s confident assertion that between five and 20 deaths a year can be blamed on the miscreant VWs. Already a trope is taking hold in the press: We must double-down on testing to make sure our cars meet the ever-expanding, multiple regulatory objectives we set for them. Unasked is whether America’s expansionist clean-air bureaucracy, after its successes of the 1970s, hasn’t already gone well past the point of diminishing returns in its pursuit of cleaner air. There is plenty of evidence for this proposition. As President Obama’s first-term regulatory czar Cass Sunstein said in his 2002 book “The Cost-Benefit State,” “As government controls get more severe, the benefits of increasing severity diminish, to the point where ‘the last 10 percent’ may do very little at all.” Holding the same job in the George W. Bush administration was Indiana University’s John Graham, who co-published a paper this year entitled “Uncertainty in the Cost-Effectiveness of Federal Air Quality Regulations.” VW’s new chief, Matthias Müller, says his company now faces an existential crisis. If so, it joins a club whose most conspicuous members are GM and Chrysler—namely the club of auto companies simultaneously killed by regulation and propped up by government. VW is partly owned by the German state of Lower Saxony, largely controlled by Germany’s dominant labor union, and virtually an appendage of Germany’s dominant political parties. You can be certain that, no matter how high the bills for the emissions-cheating scandal go (and $100 billion has been mentioned), VW will not be allowed to fail. Ultimately this problem of governments simultaneously killing and propping up their auto industries lies behind a passionate protest issued earlier this year by Fiat-Chrysler ’s CEO Sergio Marchionne. Mr. Marchionne called on the industry urgently to consolidate in order to lessen the burden of duplicative investments that companies are making to comply with government rules. Example: the looming Obama fuel-mileage mandate requiring a U.S. fleet average of 54.5 mpg by 2025. This mandate is theoretically aimed at global warming, though its net effect, even if honestly implemented, would be far less than 1% of global carbon-dioxide output. But as we know from careful congressional investigation, the 54.5 target was never the product of science and engineering. It was the product of the White House PR machine’s desire for an impressive-sounding “headline number.” There is only so much of this that a competitive, capital-intensive industry can take, and VW’s cheating scandal is partly a manifestation. Hence a modest proposal for settling the case. Volkswagen says it will fix its U.S. cars to meet U.S. nitrogen-oxide rules, but then it will certainly have angry customers on its hands because its cars will no longer meet customer expectations for fuel-mileage and horsepower. If VW could reconcile these bogeys, there would be no scandal. So instead of fixing the cars, how about offsetting their excess nitrogen oxides? VW could chip in a few tens of millions of dollars to keep some of America’s struggling nuclear plants in operation a few years longer. Already Vermont Yankee and Wisconsin’s Kewaunee, authorized to run beyond 2030, have been shut down by their operators because they can’t compete with cheap shale gas. A 1,000-megawatt gas-fueled power plant, as it happens, produces in a year almost exactly as much NOX as the offending 482,000 U.S. Jettas and Passats. A nuclear plant produces none. Not only would VW make good on its NOX obligation. Arguably, the company would be striking a blow for rationality. Angela Merkel, who announced the closure of Germany’s nuclear plants after the Fukushima accident, is said now to rue her precipitate action. If politicians and eco campaigners mean what they say about fighting global warming and reducing air pollutants like NOX to vanishing proportions, nuclear is the only realistic option. Continuing to imagine that miraculous results can be obtained by piling up more mandates on cars is only a formula for more VW scandals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Naseum Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I would expect nothing less from the WSJ - rationalizing corruption. VW had lots of choices, such as mild retuning to meet the requirement. The choice to go rogue rather than suffer perhaps mild market declines, is a perfect example of corporate corruption ala the banksters. Argue the rules? No problem, but this scheme tho defraud needs to be dealt a big blow. Our world does not need more corruption. Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) There is not 1 american diesel that will get 40 mpg A Cruze diesel will do well over that as will the gas version. Edit, you found it . Edited October 28, 2015 by CECAA850 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 I've noticed in the last month or so, Viagra/Cialis having commercials late in the afternoon, around 4-6pm. I like to watch the local news at 5pm, my 14 year old daughter is usually close by doing homework. I just think it's odd for them to be on at that time. I don't have kids. I've often wondered what parents of kids do during all these viagra ads? They seem to be on all the time, anytime. The commercials are becoming more popular. I guess they found their target audience (not me…haha) during the day. I always grab the remote and quickly change the channel. I hope when my 14 year old daughter has a question about those commercials, she asks her Mom I'll bet most 14 year olds have already heard what Viagra is and what it's for. They probably have also heard one or more jokes about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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