Local man dies for freedom of choice

[JimmieT]

Darned, I'm thinking I should go get a job so I could get a paycheck for just roaming/postulating/disseminating on the INTERNET!

Advice given freely is worth exactly that...

 

[redneckford]

Darned, I'm thinking I should go get a job so I could get a paycheck for just roaming/postulating/disseminating on the INTERNET!

I do not want a "JOB" I want a "PAYCHECK" just like the younger generation!!!! Heck that is what my dad said about my generation?

 

[Soundguy]

wow does anyone besides me watch the television show heroes. This post could be in that show

I watched about the first 2-3 episodes.. then my schedule changed.

What part makes it 'fit' the show.. just curious?

soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

Geeez! I didn't realize we had to have a major in grammar to reply to a thread in a tractor forum!

You don't.. but basic conversation skills should be employed to keep the train of though continous. If we are going to jump around and postulate about past or future events.. then context needs to be given for continuity sake... this -really- should be / is / was all middle/high school stuff.. not sure what the education system is pumping out now.. but from what I hear.. it is mostly teaching kids to take tests.. rather than pushing the curriculum.

soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

Darned, I'm thinking I should go get a job so I could get a paycheck for ****just**** roaming/postulating/disseminating on the INTERNET!

( ** emphasis added for clarity )

Hmm.. "*just*" .. so then.. are you saying that you want a job that pays you specificaly ( perhaps exclusively? ) to roam and postulate?

Or did you mean that you wanted a job that paid you, and in the course of your work.. you could also roam and postulate?




soundguy

 

[Renze]

I have other neighbors who have non-ROPS tractors who are probably nearly as safe over time as many of us are on our ROPS equipped tractors. I have nothing but respect for their safe operations (except the lack of a ROPS for just in case.) These others are not making grandiose statements regarding the need to jump free in case of an accident and do not show disdain nor look down their noses at people who show a realistic concern for tractor operating safety.

Please do not use his death as the ultimate "grandiose statement" to set the score even with him.....

 

[Renze]

A semi-truck driver, on his cell phone, plowed into the back of the bus.. no sign that he tried to stop... crushed the rear of the bus.. pushed the bus a couple hundred feet.. semi-cab and bus erupted into flames.

Just go to Finland... they let you pay a couple of hundred Euro fines if they see you holding a phone in your hand while driving.... They dont even ask if you were actually using it or not....

 

[patrick_g]

I have often said there is a great difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance may be cured with experience and or education or training. Stupid is immutable, permanent, terminal...

I also believe the wisdom of Will Rogers when he said we are all ignorant, just about different things.

Not knowing about safe practices is ignorance. Knowing and choosing to not be safe is stupidity.

The forgoing is a generalization intended to communicate a general idea to everyone EXCEPT NARROW MINDED CLILNTONESQUE types who exhibit the misguided opinion of their personal perfection in communications.

Pat

 

[gemini5362]

Yes.. you wrote that in the 2nd or 3rd paragraph.. however.. inthe paragraph above that.. you made fairly blanket statement wondering why older tractors didn't have them.. thien went on to say that not using them must be stupidity or lack of education... I've included your direct quote.. in case you have forgotten what yuo said.:





Since we are talking about 'the old days int he first part of this paragraph.. with no other clues that we are jumping ahead in time for the 2nd sentence.. i can only assume that the 2nd sentence is also refering to that same time period.. IE.. when those old tractors were made. Thus.. you are in effect saying that people using those old tractors, back then.. were either stupid.. or uneducated.. even though the rops were not designed for them back then.

That's the aprt of your statement I object to.





As you can see.. it was implied... and in a blanket fashion.. since no other qualifiers were used.. and to other contextual info was given to say otherwise.


soundguy

soundguy I quoted this post to answer your question about heroes . In heroes (which is a science fiction series for anyone that does not know what it is) A couple of the characters can teleport back and forth in time and sometimes you see them in the far distant past, sometimes you see them in the future and sometimes in present time. It gets a bit confusing about where they are or what they talk about. In some of these posts the comments were about how things were done in the past. Or what led up to some of the changes in equipment. This post you talk about how the original poster was talking about the old days then mention he jumps ahead into the future etc etc. Kind of reminded me of a heroes timeline.

 

[gemini5362]

I have often said there is a great difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance may be cured with experience and or education or training. Stupid is immutable, permanent, terminal...

I also believe the wisdom of Will Rogers when he said we are all ignorant, just about different things.

Not knowing about safe practices is ignorance. Knowing and choosing to not be safe is stupidity.

The forgoing is a generalization intended to communicate a general idea to everyone EXCEPT NARROW MINDED CLILNTONESQUE types who exhibit the misguided opinion of their personal perfection in communications.

Pat

I sure hope you are not talking about me. There are a lot of things I hate to be called but being called CLINTONESQUE sure hurts.