Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 149th Edition
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Originally posted by the Bear:
cardboard is lighter than steel so the power to weight ratio is vastly increased, allowing the train to run at much higher speed
Frankly speaking, you may not be too far off the mark.
Dollars to donuts say that the manufacturers tried to cut corners where they could. Perhaps slightly thinner steel here, remove a bolt there.... you get the point.
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And the materials not able to withstand the speed and with lack of maintanence you get an accident
It's like the glass windows on their high rise buildings falling off and injuring people below :x
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And of all things to learn....our side learns these things.
Here's what you get from having your bus body made from thin aluminium foil and getting it to bang the rear of the solid Continental-built bus...which suffered a big dent....that's all.
Seems like SBS had learned from this episode and went back to Continental-built bodies.
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morning guys
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Originally posted by elindra:
And the materials not able to withstand the speed and with lack of maintanence you get an accident
It's like the glass windows on their high rise buildings falling off and injuring people below :x
this is a consequence of china's growth at any cost policy. more to come!
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
And of all things to learn....our side learns these things.
Here's what you get from having your bus body made from thin aluminium foil and getting it to bang the rear of the solid Continental-built bus...which suffered a big dent....that's all.
Seems like SBS had learned from this episode and went back to Continental-built bodies.
did I ever tell you guys about the red neck road rage case I was involved in back in canada ? ....
it's before I got my civic, when I was still driving the $900 self fixed plymouth .....
someone in a honking big new ford truck rear ended me at a red light ... my car was totally okay, even the bumper was undamaged .... the front end of his truck was smashed ....
maybe that's why he was so pissed, even though he was in the wrong ...
they don't make cars like they used to ...
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Originally posted by Fatum:
did I ever tell you guys about the red neck road rage case I was involved in back in canada ? ....
it's before I got my civic, when I was still driving the $900 self fixed plymouth .....
someone in a honking big new ford truck rear ended me at a red light ... my car was totally okay, even the bumper was undamaged .... the front end of his truck was smashed ....
maybe that's why he was so pissed, even though he was in the wrong ...
they don't make cars like they used to ...
Cars used to be tanks
Now they are aluminium cans
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they cost as much as a tank though .....
I was surfing the car sites just last week .... can you farking believe that a new nissan MARCH hatchback costs one hundred farking thousand less some change ?!?!?!?!?!
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Originally posted by Fatum:
did I ever tell you guys about the red neck road rage case I was involved in back in canada ? ....
it's before I got my civic, when I was still driving the $900 self fixed plymouth .....
someone in a honking big new ford truck rear ended me at a red light ... my car was totally okay, even the bumper was undamaged .... the front end of his truck was smashed ....
maybe that's why he was so pissed, even though he was in the wrong ...
they don't make cars like they used to ...
Its the trend for just about everything....even aircrafts and ships.
The USN learned their lesson from using aluminium foil when their spanking new ship literally melted to the keel from a fire. Now their ships are all made from high-grade steel. No questions asked.
From this to.....................
And the folks around the world are now playing with composite materials....some of which have been proven to be flammable (in accidents), and having questionable strength.
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Cheaper, lighter, faster.....but not necessarily better.
You could argue its because of concentrating on economic theory like marginal cost/benefit, but the same people should have taken into account hidden costs and expected depreciation if they were going to use that argument.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
they cost as much as a tank though .....
I was surfing the car sites just last week .... can you farking believe that a new nissan MARCH hatchback costs one hundred farking thousand less some change ?!?!?!?!?!
We bought a Killed In Action for $48K three years ago, and I wonder how much an equivalent new car will cost in another three years. But it's no surprise, whoever controls the number of COEs released should have acted years ago to reduce the vehicle population growth rate.
Most of the new cars are designed to be destroyed in a controlled manner in a crash to dissipate some of the energy, but not like the biscuit tins from PRC.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
We bought a Killed In Action for $48K three years ago, and I wonder how much an equivalent new car will cost in another three years. But it's no surprise, whoever controls the number of COEs released should have acted years ago to reduce the vehicle population growth rate.
Most of the new cars are designed to be destroyed in a controlled manner in a crash to dissipate some of the energy, but not like the biscuit tins from PRC.
all they have to farking do ..... is to remove the taxis from the equation .....
why are the taxis bidding together with the private cars anyways .....
these are the farkers bidding $60k for each piece of paper ...
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The flammable items was only to be found out later usually. Sad Any case cheaper dun go with better always. Luckily SBS for one is going back to European body makes.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
all they have to farking do ..... is to remove the taxis from the equation .....
why are the taxis bidding together with the private cars anyways .....
these are the farkers bidding $60k for each piece of paper ...
and they need to make the bidder pay what he bid.. so if the stupid bastard bid $150k, he pays $150k.. alongside the lowest bid which may be $50
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sooo full sooo sleepy -____-
I posted wat I had with pics on my nom nom adventure thread...
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Harley is my HERO!!!
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Originally posted by the Bear:
Harley is my HERO!!!
They converted a vegetarian into a meat eater!
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
We bought a Killed In Action for $48K three years ago, and I wonder how much an equivalent new car will cost in another three years. But it's no surprise, whoever controls the number of COEs released should have acted years ago to reduce the vehicle population growth rate.
Most of the new cars are designed to be destroyed in a controlled manner in a crash to dissipate some of the energy, but not like the biscuit tins from PRC.
the truck's shiny chrome bumper simply dropped onto the road in one piece, parts of the front crumpled up ....
I tried to look for any damage to my battered 1989 plymouth but found none ....
I think in the later years detroit tried to do what the japanese were doing, thinner and thinner aluminum bodies and lighter and lighter weight chasis to drive fuel efficiency ...
you would never know it in the tropics, but most japanese sedans are built too light for winter conditions ... where you'd want a heavier weight on the wheels for better traction and to swing the car out of ice troughs on the roads ....
I sold the plymouth for $300 to the gf of one of my fishing buddies and I think it's still going strong ...
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speaking of ford trucks .....
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Originally posted by the Bear:
and they need to make the bidder pay what he bid.. so if the stupid bastard bid $150k, he pays $150k.. alongside the lowest bid which may be $50
I'm surprised that they're not doing it when it will enrich their coffers further.
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I think the bitter medicine would have to come sooner or later ....
something's got to give if you cram 5 million bodies into 700 square kilometers ... actually much less than that if you count in all the catchment reserves and the airports which takes up around 1/10 of our land mass.
the next generation may have to accept that you'd have to pay through your nose if you want to drive your own private vehicle ... and that the comfortably middle class, the civil servants, teachers, middle managers, engineers etc etc, may simply not afford to be able to drive in the future ..... the european model maybe ....
so we have have the ironic situation where most people's first car would also be a conti car .... it's a bit silly to pay 100k for a japanese hatchback when you can get a conti sedan for 10% more ....
well .... reason to work harder ! .. -__-"
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
I'm surprised that they're not doing it when it will enrich their coffers further.
no.. do not be surprised.. it is preying on the "kiasu" mentality
when the guy who thinks he can get away with bidding $150k when eventually he will pay the lowest successful bid will do it because he is ensured a COE...
so the rest will increase their bids accordingly in order to secure a car...
in the end, the cost of the lowest bid is very high
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Its not about being kiasu....the superiority of auctioning boils down to its ability to eliminate those who are not able and willing to pay and allocating it accordingly.
The problem comes with what goods you would want to auction.....private transport? Which becomes closer to a necessity with this transport system we have now? Then the advantage of using the auction system fails..........classic market failure.
