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I think you've had way too much egg-nog.

It doesn't have the crazy touch-screen display though. Lame.

That's about eight people on the internet and they cannot afford it anyway so who cares.

Banning electronics is impractical. What is needed is to continue the concentrated effort to shame and diminish bad behaviour, similar to drunk driving.

The terrible sound emnating from the car almost eight seconds before failure wasn't severe enough?

Saw this Volvo Bertone 262C coupe a few days ago on Vancouver Island: It was in remarkably good shape.

And I thought this thread was going to involve Bronies.

WOOOOOOOOO!!!

We were? I didn't want GM to bankrupt a second time.

I normally have it in for vehicles with short, useless beds. But I'd totally rock one of these. In that yellow colour, too!

I finally got it. For what will be my line of work, it's a necessity. Though, it certainly doesn't get a 'Like' from me.

And where the hell is the Kia Amanti?! What about the Hyundai Pony?! The Honda Crosstour? This is horrible.

Well the Dodge Dart is going to have a nine-speed ZF transmission. Shame BMW is "stuck" with a lousy seven or eight, when an economy car... from DODGE... will have them beat by two cogs. What kind of rinky dink operation are they running? Get with the times, Germany.

I don't recall Aztek's going up in flames, or accelerating by themselves, or having a reputation for falling apart, or rolling over, or shamelessly pandering to gender. The Aztek is a lot of things. But 'worst vehicle of all time' ain't one of them. Pontiac was not solely killed by it, either. What a stupid article.

I picked up a new BB Curve 9300 for 100 bucks all in. It'll tide me over until my contract expires next winter. By then, I'm expecting I'll be choosing between a new Blackberry touchscreen or a Windows Phone.

I've been busy all day today, but tomorrow should give me time to get some scans. I will acknowledge that people will try to get free news any way they can. Even with pay walls erected. But it will be of lesser quality and value. It will not survive on advertising if nobody reads it. Good, balanced and imformative news is worth paying for. History has shown this time and time again. Unlike that song on iTunes, a newspaper can positively influence a person's financial health or well-being. I've sent a PM with a link to a speech from a graduate student who held a seminar that I reported on. It's over an hour but I believe her advice is excellent for any young reporter. It will give you insight into whether the job is for you.

You're thinking small. Let's cut out the newspapers and weekly magazines. You still have monthly mainstream magazines, but also trade publications. Every industry from mining to milking cattle has a publication. Government requires people with journalism experience for PR, research, and advice. Private corporations need PR, as well as advertising and product promotion - who better to interact with journalists, than a person trained in journalism? These are just off the top of my head at 1:30am. Media companies will not go away. Journalists will get work. What journalists need to do is adapt. Move to a job, or find a different career in the meantime. You'll be happy to know that many small towns have their own daily papers and often need employees. But you may need to move for that to happen. My capital city has an outlet entirely owned by the journalists. It's essentially a co-operative. Chicago has a co-op that do their own stories then sell them to the major outlets. In both situationsm people get paid but there are no corporate overseers. Those may soon be the future. Remember, piracy has shrunk with the advent of iTunes and other services. People will pay for their news. Unlike iTunes' music, news is necessary. Anyone who turns 25 needs to know about the world around them. They'll pay for information if it can't be had for free. Imagine conducting your life without information? It'd be impossible. I can't speak for America's media institutions. But my country's media outlets, save for a couple small ones, are gray. There is no bias in good journalism. There is bad journalism, where one side of a story is ignored but that is due to sloppiness or lack of time. We aim to be objective. Autoblog isn't journalism. They rely on snark, and outlets like C&D have realized that is what's needed to get hits. Plus, I would bet most of their writers have had no formal journalistic training. Much of their writing is terrible. But the lines are not blurred when it comes to proper media. At BBC you will see a reporter try to get every angle as possible. Then, they will fact-check. Then, they will consult an editor. Then, their editor will fact-check, then the article is sent to copy-editing, and so on. Contrast that with a blog by some numbnuts who regurgitates what he hears and overdramatizes it. When I get those documents scanned, I will send them to you as PDF's. They will help bring another perspective. I can try to get some of them done by tomorrow.

Your first mistake is thinking that journalism is narrowly limited to newspapers and printed media. At least mainstream outlets. Every hobby, every trade, every business has a 'trade publication.' They're lucrative. Your second mistake is not remembering that people need information. It's a commodity. People require news to conduct their lives. Journalists are always needed. Mistake number three... is 'free.' News outlets made the mistake of putting their material online for free. That's now changing with 'pay-walls.' People will pay for news, even those accustomed to free news. Blogs are generally not journalism. Most are run by so-called 'citizen journalists' that don't adhere to journalism's tenets. Who has more credibility? Some blogger? Or a proper news organization? People respect journalists because we provide (in most cases) informed, unbiased articles, structured in an easy to digest way. Ad revenues are down due to the economy. Fewer people spending equals fewer retail ads. But newspaper advertising is far more effective than web advertising which does NOT generate money. Web services lose money. Finally, journalism is not just limited to media. It can be applied to: PR agenices for corporations, and advertising. Even government relations with public/private sectors. TL:DR - Journalists are gatekeepers of information. We sift through the chaff and we tell the public what they need to know. Journalism will never go away - it has existed since early Chinese/Roman Empires and has been a necessity to anyone wishing to conduct their life effectively since the shipping news. Don't panic. Edit: We spent a lot of time on these subjects in the program I was in. I am scanning my material over the winter, and I will send you some PDF's on this very topic. The points of view are from journalists themselves.

Nobody ever

Told y'all.

Well they're doing a good job at adopting them. Stainless steel was invented, what, in like the 1920's? If it were so common sense, then why isn't it being applied? I thought that companies were self-regulating and made practical decisions in the interests of consumers on their own.

No. The industry can take of these things themselves. There's no need for a government organization to mandate such pointless rules to justify their bureaucracy's largesse.

What's wrong with mandating the same ignition behaviour throughout the industry? This could save lives... If someone rents a vehicle, and they're unfamiliar with its push start behaviour in an emergency, it's potentially dangerous. More convenience, and greater safety. For the public good. That's exactly what a government should do.