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Wowzers. It’s a fake SUV. And flunk-wheel-driven, so not even a real Merc.

Another trucklet. Pour some sodium silicate into the motor, rev to 6000 rpm, hold until destruction.

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Rules are meant to be broken, as long as you don’t get caught 🙂

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I’m not sure if the VW diesels were ever California certified anyway.

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Hopefully Clinton will have another stroke just before the primary and turn into an incoherent mess, leaving it to Sanders.

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Carson started out promising, and has proven himself a schmuck. Out of that entire band of bozos, Kasich is the only halfway acceptable one. For one thing, he knows when to STFU.

Though personally I’m pulling for Sanders.

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Stay in San Diego and go freelance. Or open a small business, or get your Ed degree and teach. Tech isn’t the be-all and end-all of life.

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Maybe we need more reasonable smog standards. For what time period are the levels 40x the allowable amount emitted?

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The Fed decision, fortunately, didn’t have much positive effect on stocks. Hope a slow slide continues through 2016. Here’s to it!

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Yes it is hard. The slums of Mumbai are easy. Rio too. And Caracas. Lets do easy.

If there were free movement of people, maybe there would be fewer of those slums. Borders are just artificial constructs to keep the poor poor and the rich rich.

What makes the person who flat out sneaked in, violating the border laws with the intent of violating the laws and living here in violation of the laws, more deserving to be allowed to stay than those people waiting?

What makes the people playing in a corrupt system any more deserving? Besides, many of the people coming in from the South have a choice: immigrate, die in poverty, or get killed by some cartel asshats. Hell of a choice. I wonder what you’d do in their shoes?

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FlyerInHI — right now, the US doesn’t track who leaves the country by land, other than a few sporadic and pilot programs. Places like East Germany and Czechoslovakia did. Fuck that idea. Hard.

I don’t like the idea of creating such an infrastructure, because it could be used to prevent people with undesirable politics, people accused of overblown charges, “suspected” terrorists (or whatever) from leaving the US under a future government. There should be border controls coming in, but anyone should be free to leave the US without much trouble.

Borders are artificial constructs designed to preserve economic inequality anyway — it would be better if they’d gradually fade away over a few decades. Let people live where they want to and in the places that have the best opportunities for their chosen life path.

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I don’t think you should have to check the papers of everyone whom you do business with — I’d rather have some % of illegals in the US than have a creeping police state.

If I have a plumber recommended by a friend, should I really have to check his license info, SSN, green card, etc before I let him replace the john in my bathroom?

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At least you still can get one with a real transmission, not one designed for wimps with bad knees. Most Italian cars right now are paddle-only with the wrong number of pedals. I’d RATHER drive any Miata than most new Ferraris or Lambos.

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I wonder if there are any people in Mexico who would do that sort of work cheaper…

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Buy a second mattress? Duh.

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Personally, I don’t give a flying rat’s arse, so I don’t get those people. I rent out my apt when I travel sometimes, and it doesn’t bother me. Not a lot of stuff in there that would be valuable to a thief.

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