Re: PC--What is it good for?

"Nate Edel" <archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In rec.arts.sf.written Jasper Janssen <jasper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:06:40 -0800, archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Nate Edel) 
>> wrote:
>> >In rec.arts.sf.written C.O. Jones <apair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> Jasper Janssen <jasper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> > where they're going). The H2 Hummer on the other hand is a minivan

>> >> > with a
>> >> > bodykit. It's no closer a relation than the relevant Dinky Toy is
to 
>> >> > the
>> >> > HMMWV.
>> >>
>> >> Are you seriously missing the point? Do you understand the phrase
>> >> "trickle down tech?" Trickle down tech is the Civilian Hummer. What 
>> >> you
>> >> are talking is military surplus. BIG difference.
>> >
>> >Except for the H1, there is no "trickle down tech," just trickle-down
>> >marketing.
>>
>> And as I was pointing out, even the H1 doesn't have *much* trickle down
>> tech.
>
> Much is still not "none," which is the case with the H2.
>
>> It's mostly just a body shape and the chassis, and the thing is, the
>> HMMWV's body and chassis are nothing special. It's more like a wide
>> tractor than a real car. The parts that trickled down are mostly the 
>> worst
>> parts of the things.
>
> I can't see why someone would want one, either, but there's at last
> some minimal amount of uniqueness there rather than just ugly sheet
metal
> over a standard GM truck body.
>
>> Only one thing that Hummers are good for: making stretch limos. When
you
>> add 20 feet, that's when they start looking in pro****tion to
themselves.
>
> I don't get the point of SUV limos; isn't the hassle getting in and out
> contrary to the whole "luxury"/comfort concept?  Although I guess the 
> climb
> might do decorative things (very briefly) for the legs of accompanying
> women.
>
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Don't SUV limons have stairs? I think the appeal of SUV limos is also
plenty 
of head room so you can actually sit up straight.

-- Ken from Chicago