CJ Dave and H8monday make some pretty good points...
TEX had it correct a while back when he said not one in one thousand 4X4 guys know their actual final drive ratio...
There are a whole bunch that know what the transmission and differential gear ratios are, and a few have actually gone so far as to figure tire size into the equation, but that actual final drive ratio seems to escape them...
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I don't blame the ills of the world on the newer generations...
They just haven't been here long enough or been in any positions to make command decisions that will impact entire eco systems....
Besides, they seem too uneducated/ undereducated to do much damage to me.
They also seem to lack any kind of focus...
Probably because their parents let the TV raise them instead of actually raising their own children....
That constant stream of changing images and sound bites had to have an effect...
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My generation is lost somewhere in the middle.
We had parents too old for the 'Free Love' movement (IE, not 'Baby Boomers') and were pissed-off about it.
We had, at best, indifferent school teachers, pathetic schools, textbooks that didn't tell the truth for fear of offending somebody, presidents that ordered burglaries, secret bombings and political assassinations, but the rest of the 'Good 'Ole Boy' network allowed him to sneak off and not be tried for his crimes...
Or heroes went from John Wayne and the Astronauts that walked on the moon, to 'The Fonze' and Farrah Faucet...
All because of that little boob tube, and parents that wouldn't let us out of it's grasp...
(I went to school in the 70's, so most of my teachers were off on the "Me Generation" crap, or so drugged out that they didn't make sense)
They ask why there was no one like Hunter Thompson, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Ect come out of the post Baby Boom generation...
BECAUSE WE WERE RAISED IN THE 70'S! THE CULTURAL FRIGGING LOW POINT EVER ON THE PLANET!!
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The older guys aren't going to like this, but...
I blame the ills of the world on the four previous generations.
Start with the so called, 'Baby Boomers', and work backwards four generations...
They raped, ripped and pillaged the earth, and now it's my generation and descendants that will have to clean the mess up.
The made command decisions to dump EVERYTHING.
Most people will say they didn't know any better back then... Bullsh*t!
If you read about any one of million court transcripts where corporations were sued, they knew about the contamination factors long before, and made conscious decisions to dump hazardous wastes, pollutants, contaminants and what ever...
Ever here, "WASTE NOT, WANT NOT"?
I'm sure thats older than four generations...
Four generations back is where the 'Throw Everything Away' got it's start...
Before that, everyone used everything over and over again.
(A lot of the depression era people still do that... God bless them.)
If you throw away anything that can be recycled,
If you don't buy products made from recycled materials,
If you don't buy shoes that are quality, and can be resoled,
If you buy great big gas guzzlers (Uv's) and drive to work or wherever alone,
If you dump and paint, thinner or chemicals down the drain,
If you dump used oil or antifreeze,
If you don't see that your old tires are put to some kind of use,
If you don't have energy saving bulbs in your home,
If you don't have water restrictors in your home,
If you don't keep your vehicle tuned up,
If you don't buy and order farm raised seafood,
ECT, ECT, ECT,.....
If you don't do these things, you are still part of the problem...
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The Oceans look like a landfill, ... just add water.
Everyone here b*tches about leaving trash on the trails....
So you feel so good about yourselves, and you pat you selves on the back when you pack your trash out and throw it in those big dumpster....
.....Then that trash is taken out to sea, and dumped, and you don't care because some anti 4X4 group isn't throwing a fit...
You are worried about a few trees, when the oceans are in critical condition.
Fish stocks are down 85% from the turn of the century, but you just keep ordering Swordfish and red snapper, ect...
Entire eco systems are extinct. They will never be back, and the missing link in that food chain is headed directly towards you all, but you are asleep at the wheel...
Coral reefs are the breeding grounds for about 90% of animal marine life.
Coral reefs are reduced by 80% cense the turn of the century, and sill in a spiraling decline.
Some scientific studies say that up to 75 or 80% of our oxygen comes from ocean plant life.
That sea plant life is in a rapid decline, and so is your oxygen supply.
Even the guys from Maine admitted that the bays and water ways look like junk yards and sewers.
Heavy metals, PCB's, pesticides, herbicides, raw sewage and a million other things pollute our waterways and oceans.
The Food chain is breaking down, your oxygen supply is becoming extinct, new mutated diseases are popping up every day, and all the generations that caused it can do is b*tch about how lazy and worthless the later generations are...
You know, the generations that are going to have to clean up the messes, or we all die...
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Like I said before...
I hope the human race becomes extinct before we kill the planet.
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If you want to point fingers, start in the mirror...
There are bigger problems out there than education in automotive maintenance...
Not a damn thing gets done before YOU start...
(political commentary takes tact, something I don't possess.)
"I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha"