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(...) whutza subconscious? i can't seem to find mine anywhere .. :) and if it co-ordinates everything, why do i have a conscious? doesn't it defeat the purpose if you keep in mind that your subconscious is in control? if you keep it in mind, it'd (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Well, that's an interesting standpoint. I don't think peer pressure is *only* what causes people to smoke, drink, etc, hell no. I don't think you can deny that when a class full of students snickers at someone's looks, behavior or something else, it (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) X- (...) Not at current. The system is only on the Land Rover Discovery II. It will soon be offered on the X-Series and Land Rover Range Rover and Land Rover Freelander V6. DaimlerChrysler uses a system called ESP, which helps keep the M-Class (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) in (...) Something sounds odd here, unless the situation is actually that the small child may just be grazed by the truck since it is higher off the ground. (...) <snip> (...) Is that system in any of the SUVs owned by the average person? I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, this always makes me laugh! I have very quickly learned that peer pressure does not exist. "Peer pressure" is the excuse used by people who are looking for an easy way out of something. I'll use a stereotypical example: "If you don't do (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't have any fatality rates, but I do know that if a small child is hit by a truck, his chances of survival versus being hit by a car are almost three times greater. I completely forgot the reason, it has to be with the truck taking the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) might (...) Kevin, Why do you say they don't make Suburbans any more? I know they are changing the name for the 2001 models, but they still make them. (URL) if it wasn't for my commute and the fact that they cost in the high 30's I would by (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) true (...) Those and more. Cost of building the roads. True insurance costs (one thing which seems a bit wrong to me is that when the other guy is at fault, insurance covers the cost of the damage, but doesn't do anything to cover the cost of (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) big, (...) One thing I would be curious about is if there is a higher rate of fatality in humongous SUV vs humongous SUV than between say two mid-size cars (I wouldn't be surprised if two sub-compacts in a collision causes more fatalities due (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That is not true. The idea that SUV's (btw, I don't consider Suburbans to be SUV's because they were around and well designed before yuppies destroyed^H^H^H discovered the class) are safe is purely the result of marketing them that way. Just (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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