{"id":330,"date":"2003-05-21T01:33:56","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T01:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=330"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:20","slug":"why-i-dont-want-a-beemer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t want a Beemer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the fact that driving a BMW is an easy way to proclaim to the world &#8220;I&#8217;m an asshole!&#8221; there&#8217;s a tangible reason not to want one (even if I could afford it). The new ones are controlled by Microsoft Windows CE, as glowingly described in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2002\/Mar02\/03-04BMWpr.asp\" Target=\"Offsite\">Microsoft press release<\/a>.  Anybody knows this is just asking for trouble, as learned the <a href=\"http:\/\/aardvark.co.nz\/daily\/2003\/n051301.shtml\" Target=\"Offsite\">hard way<\/a> by Thailand&#8217;s finance minister and his chauffeur. Considering the somewhat primitive recovery technique, I suppose it&#8217;s a good thing the car windows weren&#8217;t any more bulletproof than the MS Windows.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the fact that driving a BMW is an easy way to proclaim to the world &#8220;I&#8217;m an asshole!&#8221; there&#8217;s a tangible reason not to want one (even if I could afford it). The new ones are controlled by Microsoft Windows CE, as glowingly described in a Microsoft press release. Anybody knows this is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=330\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I don&#8217;t want a Beemer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-5k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}