Great observation, Ed.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: "23weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:11 PM
To: "Neil Albaugh" <neil@dbelltech.com>; "Dave Dahlgren"
<ddahlgren@snet.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>; <race427@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] [non LSR]Electronics and other stuff like fuel
mileage
> I just happen to have an old almost empty can of Shinola and the residue
> therein indeed has a substantial color and texture resemblance to
> mammalian excrement, particularly the type that results from the
> organism's ingestion of something that is abnormal in its diet. (How would
> I know about this but that our family pet is a dachshund?)
> Now for most of us the distinction between the two substances is quickly
> made by our sense of smell. However it is been noted here that
> politicians cannot sense the difference.
> We see and hear a lot of our politicians on the TV so it is pretty obvious
> that they have reasonable acuity in vision and hearing. But since TV
> cannot convey anything about their sense of smell one could easily suspect
> that they have lost that ability. Perhaps the election process and the
> associated funding environment creates the essential destruction of one of
> the politician's five senses.
> Nevertheless the Shinola Test may be the principal determinant of why the
> behavior of politicians in the face of things that truly stink is so much
> different from the rest of us. I hereby rest my case awaiting further
> evidence to support my hypothesis.
> BTW, my indictment of Toyota is not so much for their use of hardware
> electronics as their inability to properly manage the software
> development. The problem here is that when you get thousands of lines of
> software code it gets impossible for the human brain to understand all the
> possible interactions from unusual input combinations.
> A logical follow-on question is what will our technical inspectors have to
> say when someone shows up with one of these "fly by wire" Toyota's?
> Oh yeah .....re: mileage and emissions. I agree with Dahlgren.
> IMHO I think we should be in a pay tax at the pump based on the amount
> emissions your vehicle puts out per gallon of fuel. This is doable. We
> have the technology and the specific data from state emissions testing.
> All we need is a bar code or RFI chip on your car keys.
> Ed Weldon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neil Albaugh" <neil@dbelltech.com>
> To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>; <23.weldon@comcast.net>;
> <land-speed@autox.team.net>; <race427@aol.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Electronics and other stuff like fuel mileage
>
>
>> Dave; One more thought--
>> You know what they say about politicians who don't know sh*t from
>> Shinola?
>> Don't let them polish your shoes! :)
>> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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