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Re: Political Bullsh*t or Age of Transportation Enlightenment?

On Sep 25, 10:25 am, "Amy Blankenship"
<Amy_nos...@magnoliamultimedia.com> wrote:
> "Jack May" <jack....@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > "Amy Blankenship" <Amy_nos...@magnoliamultimedia.com> wrote in
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> >> "Jack May" <jack....@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> >>> "The poster last in PDX in 2003"
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> >>> in messagenews:1190612765.133806.174580@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
> >>> On Sep 23, 10:51 am, "Jack May" <jack....@comcast.net>
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> >>>> "Steve Shackman - pdx" <s.shack...@gmail.com>
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> >>>> On Sep 14, 12:37 pm, "Jack May"
<jack....@comcast.net> wrote:
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> >>>> > "Don Homuth" <dhomuthoneatcomcast.net> wrote
in message
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> >>>> > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:52:52 -0700, pjb...@webtv.net
(Paul Berg)
> >>>> > > wrote:
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> >> Apple does not warranty the IPod hard drive.  And that is for good
> >> reason. If you buy an IPod, you will be replacing it or its hard drive in
> >> 18 months, max.  I'm sure there is some parallel we could draw to cars
> >> here :-)
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> > Except cars have become  incredibly reliable requiring very little
> > maintenance over the years.
>
> Certainly that is true of Korean and Japanes cars.  But if you look at the
> huuuge inventories of car dealerships, it is clear they are not expecting
> people to stop replacing their cars any time soon, whether maintenance
> requires it or not.
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> > Light rail anyway requires about a hour of maintenance per hour of
> > operation.   Far higher than required for any car.
>
> You say that but have yet to provide a cite.  And even if that is true, what
> is the total lifespan of the average light rail engine/car compared to a
> personal vehicle?
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> > My Porsche 944 is 20 years old and still going well.  Of course that is
> > misleading because my using the BMW motorcycle prevented a lot of
> > accumulation of wear out on the car.
>
> Oh, and European ones, too.

Actually, newer European cars are junk.

> > I am thinking about buying a new car to replace the Porsche for several
> > reasons such as safety and technology advances.  I am thinking about the
> > Toyota Matrix, a car designed for Costco with 50 cubic feet of cargo space
> > while still getting 34 MPG and it is cheap.
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> > On hard drives, they are built with such tight tolerances of the head
> > flying over the disk, it is amazing that they last even 18 months with all
> > jolts and bump they endure.
>
> Funny my elcheapo mobiblu had no hard drive issues until I upgraded it for
> another player with better features whose brand name I don't even know but
> which also hasn't given me any problems and has better features than an
> IPod.  If it did cause me any problems, I could easily replace it since it
> is a fraction of the cost of an IPod.  It's probably Japanese or something.

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