Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: RoadRacer <racer@nunya.biz>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: did this group die?
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 13:34:51 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 55
Message-ID: <vgokhs$3vml9$1@dont-email.me>
References: <o2OdnbgnQY09kL36nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com>
 <lohm46Ftvj6U1@mid.individual.net> <vg09u9$2ooa1$1@dont-email.me>
 <loi9ikF2aslU1@mid.individual.net> <vg21ka$35jc3$1@dont-email.me>
 <vg2vg8$2huv$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
 <vga4dh$sov3$1@dont-email.me>
 <vgatg5$2ocu$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
 <vgdt9v$1m4nt$1@dont-email.me> <vggbai$27ju4$1@dont-email.me>
 <vginjj$2a2h$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
 <vglijf$39vil$1@dont-email.me>
 <vglm6s$4if$2@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
 <vgmvtv$3kmhe$1@dont-email.me>
 <J9GcnTLsrsAzobL6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com>
 <vgnrln$14dk$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
 <xn0ot3smla50kj9003@reader443.eternal-september.org>
 <vgo5q3$pfe$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
 <xn0ot3xusac5eys005@reader443.eternal-september.org>
 <vgoepk$1mbr$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:34:52 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a714d5e8c0503f0a296f3823640a8185";
	logging-data="4184745"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ptM3s4bLuTpPLBrBD4AvwEvXhhb/rVws="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:WYegKQnVjV6HAk2PbMwLjwBdKb4=
In-Reply-To: <vgoepk$1mbr$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
Content-Language: en-CA
Bytes: 3909

On 2024-11-09 11:56, Andrews wrote:
> badgolferman wrote on Sat, 9 Nov 2024 18:25:11 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>>   If only they had built
>> in an access panel for the air filter...
> 
> Same with the CCV on my 525i which is merely a PCV but with a far more
> complex design such that BMW decided to call it, instead, a CCV.
> 
> It's horribly complicated.
> 
> And as a result, it *always* eats itself up in just a few years.
> 
> So *everyone* with that bimmer model has to replace it.
> 
> Like your Gold%20Wing/Gold-Wing/Goldwing/etc. air filter joke, it's as if
> BMW started with a CCV and then built the entire engine around that one
> emissions component.
> 
> It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't fail emissions - but it often does.
> 
> So everyone who knows anything about that bimmer model is well acquainted
> with the CCV (among other horridly designed engine components).
> 
> If they claim to be knowledgeable in that model, and if they don't know
> about the CCV, then it's clear that they're just posers playing games.
> 
> Like Alan Baker who never knew what a catenary was until I explained it to
> him in terms of sweeping around curves at constant speeds.

Except you don't "sweep around curves at constant speeds" when you're 
road racing, Arlen.

> 
> Alan Baker was so stupid, even after he looked it up - he thought it was
> about bridges - which proves yet again my point these Apple trolls are
> incredibly uneducated, and hence ignorant of everything - especially Apple
> products.

Nope. That's simply false.

> 
> Even when told a catenary had to do with taking curves at speed, these
> Apple trolls insisted a catenary has only to do with suspension bridges.

False again.

> 
> That's how stupid these Apple trolls truly are.
> 
> They read Wikipedia, which I'm sure mentions suspension bridges, and they
> don't have the education to flip the terms 90 degrees to sweeping out
> curves at constant speed.

You don't take curves at constant speeds when racing, doofus.