PurdueGuy

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Hey Mr. Troll, you could at least look at the date on the thread before you post.

They'd better be paying you for the commute, or paying you a heck of a lot of money, or paying you very reasonable money for short hours. An 8 hour work day turns into 12 hours. You'd be surrendering a lot of social and/or family life for work. Hard for any job to be worth that.

Saturn engineering had many plans that never came to fruition, because they didn't have the money, because GM upper management cut them off right out of the gate. You can't stay "new and fresh" without some operating capital.

Yeah, because the brand wasn't successful when it was selling a third of a million cars a year. Having an enthusiast car is not the same as success as a whole.

I wonder how many miners die every year... appalling.

Is that meant to be an answer? You just quoted a part of the article I was referencing. Yes, it's likely that this indicates a drop in the number of people trying to cross the border. It still says NOTHING about the success rate of stopping illegal crossings. They caught 556,000 in '09. Is that 90% of the people that tried, or 50%? 20%?

Yes I read the article. The border is secure according to the author, and according to you. That does not make it truth. I can find articles all day that state the exact opposite and everywhere in between - finding an article proves nothing. Again I ask - they caught over a half million people crossing the border last year, how many did they miss? Oh wait, we don't know that, because we missed them. The article does nothing to address the success rate of catching people crossing the border. IF you can find a reliable source that can state the success rate at which we are catching those crossing illegally, and they are measuring it in a reliable and meaningful way (doubtful, since if we could readily count the number of people, we'd be more readily catching them), and... IF the number of people successfully crossing the border illegally is less than 98% that try... Then I will concede that the border is secure. Both borders (as well as coastlines) present security problems, but none seem nearly as abused as the southern border. Start with it, figure out a good method for securing the border without extreme cost and with good success rates, and go from there.

Immigration reform could certainly help, but it doesn't address all the problems of having unsecured borders.

Sweet, I've been waiting to find this for $20 or less.

You're really worked up about this, aren't you? What's your solution?

What a stupid statement. Do they really think the idea of building a wall includes gobs of manned watchtowers and no ways for traffic to get through? Durrr. It has to be more than a fence, which can be cut through far too easily, but it doesn't have to be insanely huge, nor manned. Electronics can handle much of the manning. And OF COURSE THERE WOULD BE CHECKPOINTS TO LET TRADE THROUGH. We're not cutting off ties with Mexico. The only reason securing the border would hurt relations between the countries is if there are an abundance of politicians cashing in on illegal immigration in one way or another. Which is probably happening. Also, just because they found 3-4 people in Arizona to quote backing up their argument, doesn't mean I believe it's true. Oh, and only more than half a million people being caught trying to cross the border illegally is supposed to be comforting? How many got through?

Since all leases have wallet rape built in.

shut up & give me my cake.

Can you not see that the two issues are incredibly intertwined? WE DON'T CONTROL OUR BORDER. That means: - free passage of illegal immigrants - free passage of drugs - free passage of terrorists Yes, there is room to discuss changes in drug policies which might affect the drug market & reduce the violence related to it. Yes, there is room to discuss changes in legal immigration policy to make it easier to come here legally, which might affect the number of people who come here illegally. But these things do not change the fact that we have no control over our borders, and that is a threat and unacceptable even if there were some relief in the drugs & immigration issues.

Yes, we should rework the process for immigration to allow for people to come to our country more easily. We ALSO should ENFORCE our laws. I don't understand how people think that enforcing our borders with a high rate of success (not perfect) is so impossible. If it weren't for political foot-dragging, political correctness (not to be confused with efforts to truly preserve rights & reasonable privacy), proper funds and staffing could allow for clever use of technology that would GREATLY reduce illegal immigration, illegal cross-border drug running, etc. Yes, reforming immigration processes, limits, etc would also help reduce the flow of illegals, but we can't wait until every ideal action is taking place to take SOME action. It's perfectly fine to question the specifics of this law, but I applaud AZ for at least DOING SOMETHING. And to act like illegal immigrants doing low-wage work is somehow doing us a big favor is ignorant of the drain they present on the economy. They generally do not pay taxes (except things like sales tax), but still add costs to other social programs.

It's almost impossible to completely eliminate the problem. It's not difficult at all to do a better job than we do. Just because it's difficult to do something perfectly doesn't mean it shouldn't be done at all.

I'll also add that just because there is some potential for a few misguided officers to abuse this or any other law doesn't make it bad or not worth pursuing. Any law can be abused, and we as a nation cannot allow that to handcuff us from doing what is necessary. Instead we need to recognize where a law like this could be misused, and be prepared to properly reprimand any officer who does abuse it. We can't continue a policy of doing nothing because someone might get offended.

Something has to be done about illegal immigration. Not sure if Arizona's bill is the right way to go, but something has to be done, and not some watered-down pansy lame excuse for action. I have nothing against legal immigrants, and know many wonderful people who are first generation americans. Those who came here illegally need to go home. Perhaps we need to make it easier to become a legal immigrant, I'm not that familiar with that process, but we have to do something about those here illegally.

In that it's a CUV with electrically driven wheels? Sure. Seems like a pretty loose connection, though, unless the Sequel used the voltec architecture. I like it - it looks good, the specs sound good, and I bet it would sell.

I'd say the Lambdas could use the 2-mode. Hopefully the next gen BAS system can make some real gains, and I'd start offering that on just about everything. A full hybrid malibu might be of interest, depending on the cost premium.

Considering I have a high school diploma, you would think I would know by now that spilling some oil on the floor when doing an oil change in someone else's garage with a perfectly clean concrete floor was inevitable, and would have put down something to catch it. But, I was too anxious to finish so I could see if the '69 Cougar XR7 would start up so I could take it for a test drive.

I would guess they're more desired for a blend of performance and comfort. Looks like they have pretty decent bolstering.

Some of you seem to be missing the point that cloth can be done very well. Comparing leather seats in a BMW to cloth seats in a chevy isn't a fair comparison. Of course caddy cloth seats would have to be very high quality and classy in design. What caddy should offer is what customers want, not what just some customers think should be standard. Consider high-end plush furniture, does it only come in leather? Heck no.

I won't argue with that.