From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 2:35:02 AM UTC-5, Alan Baker wrote:   
   > On 2014-12-10 02:36:12 +0000, Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher   
   said:   
   >   
   > > On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:40:43 PM UTC-5, Ashton Crusher wrote:   
   > >> On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 00:46:35 -0800 (PST), "Wise TibetanMonkey, Most   
   > >> Humble Philosopher"  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> On Sunday, December 7, 2014 2:56:05 PM UTC-5, Ashton Crusher wrote:   
   > >>>> In every country in the world, the first thing people want as they   
   > >>>> come up out of the mud is personal transportation.   Even in China,   
   > >>>> with cities far bigger then most, and with plenty of public   
   > >>>> transportation of one sort or another, the people still hunger for   
   > >>>> personal transportation.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Right, and because of it they are choking in pollution and the world is   
   > >>> looking into the abyss of irreversible climate change.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> And they are sitting in endless traffic jams as well, so they are not   
   > >>> getting fast anywhere.   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >> So?  What's it to you?  It's their choice, why do you keep suggesting   
   > >> you know better how they should live then they do?  Maybe you'd like   
   > >> to tell us all what size house we should be allowed and what kind of   
   > >> food we should be allowed to eat.  Clearly they like cars, with all   
   > >> the attendant problems, over mass transit. Even in a   
   > >> quasi-dictatorship you see this over and over.  People want the   
   > >> freedom of a car.  It's only in a few places that have become rats   
   > >> nests, like NYC where many are forced to give up that dream and SETTLE   
   > >> for impersonal transportation.  Even in NYC people who can will pay   
   > >> ungodly sums of money to have a car.   
   > >   
   > > Even in the land of the free the size of the guns are limited.   
   > >   
   > > For example, a bazooka is not OK. Even a machete may not be OK.   
   > > Everything is regulated.   
   > >   
   > > Let me ask you something, can you import Renaults and Citroens into Canada?   
   >   
   > How is that germane?   
      
   Well, I'm afraid the import of those cars to Canada is banned. Just another   
   regulation to fall in line with American regulations.   
      
   REGULATIONS, REGULATIONS, REGULATIONS...   
      
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