Personally, I hate Halloween. I have enough identity issues that I don't need to be wearing costumes and masks. The only time I put a mask on these days is when a safe word is involved.
I went to Oklacon 10 in Watonga, Oklahoma. 5 days, 4 nights of drinking, dancing, fires, costumes, and Cards Against Humanity. I went as Billy Bob Brockali of the Rock-afire Explosion. And, damnit, nobody who was there seems to have posted photos of me yet!
And yet, it still surprises me how many places that have called my company for service see me arrive on site holding a clipboard, a cardboard carton, and a toolpouch full of screwdrivers, and automatically assume that I'm there to fix critical equipment touching customer data without so much as checking my paperwork, much less checking ID. People are stupid. This trick could very easily work in plain sight.
I have a cassette adapter that's been closed in doors, run over with the seats, and wrapped around every fixed object in the cab more times than I can remember. I've had it since high school, and originally used it to basically use school boomboxes as a pair of speakers on a school PC streaming CFOX over the internet back in the late 1990s. It's outlasted a 1995 Kia that I should never have gotten rid of, a 2002 Santa Fe that was stolen, the 1977 Fargo Tradesman that replaced it, and has been in my 1999 Malibu for the last 3 years. It's also threatening to outlive the servos in that car's tape deck, given that I bought the car with 97000 miles and it has 200,000 on it now...good thing it doesn't actually need to wind tape to work!
Take total cost of maintaining and expanding motorist infrastructure for the year, divide by the number of registered vehicles, then use GVWR as a factor so heavier vehicles pay more than lighter vehicles. No tracking, and car-free folks aren't subsidizing what's a luxury item in that state. Win/win.
The joke was the company I was working for while hauling the Postal Service's mail gave me a was an underpowered piece of shit, especially for hauling mail at turnpike (mandatory 50-75 MPH range) speeds for long distances through the Ozark foothills and over the Ouachita Mountains. Your foot would go numb trying to press farther into the pedal when it's already full open and losing speed. And if momentum was already on my side, there was pretty much nothing that was going to let me let it go, even if it meant passing another truck very slowly. If I slowed down, I wouldn't get that time back and it'd take me 20 minutes to get it back; and if that happened once or twice a day, well, towns stop getting mail daily.
Let's see... what are the first things we'll see this used for?
1. Automated speeding tickets.
I'm OK with this. Driving faster than the road was designed for and conditions allow is the biggest reason cars have all these safety features that any actually competent and attentive driver doesn't need.
It's almost like speed limits were set by engineers who spent a lot of time and effort finding the optimum speed under ideal conditions for the design of the roadway and capability of barely trained drivers or something.
Try not running the yield sign when you're entering the highway, then. Merging traffic yields to through traffic when lanes end or when entering a roadway. They're speeding up to get out of the way of someone who ran the sign while creating as little delay for other traffic as possible, not to block someone from merging.
I liked the cruise control on the Hino 268 I drove for the Postal Service: Enter the turnpike, put foot to floor and leave it there, hope truck stays above minimum speed limit while climbing. Sucked balls for actually getting work done, though, when you're delivering to 30 post offices in 15 counties every day.
Android tablet as a center console gives you access to OsmAnd, and any relatively recent Garmin unit can easily handle Lambertus' conversions, both giving you nice, OpenStreetMap maps updated several times a year.
You seriously need to get your emergency brake adjusted, then. I had a service brake failure at turnpike speeds (~75mph) about two years ago and successfully stopped my Chevy Malibu with the e-brake. Emergency brake is exactly the right term. Can the engine overcome it? Yeah, if the throttle is stuck, but it at least gives you something holding the brake down a bit while you find a way to kill power.
That's why you ease it on one notch at a time so you can control it. You don't just slam it on. Also, this is why I think an electronic parking brake is an outright retarded idea without a traditional manual lever or latchpedal present.
Steering wheel locks engage when the key is in the OFF or ACC position, regardless of what the transmission is in, on every car I've ever driven that even has a steering wheel lock. That said, wait for a straightaway, kill the engine and listen for it to stop, then go back to the ON position without going to the START position.
Out of those 138,928 downloads per day, how many people actually continued to use Open Office and how many used it briefly, discovered that it is crap and downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft Office.
Want to know how we know you've never used OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
Thank you for explaining why McDonald's is not only popular, but thriving, in the American midwest. I was surprised to discover that, unless you live in a big city like McAlester, Claremore or Lawton, indoor plumbing is still a "maybe." Want basic landline phone service? That's a very real maybe. Want electricity? That's almost definitely a solar panels on your roof thing. Want indoor plumbing? Then you're stuck on a water cistern or a well, both of which depend on electricity. Whether you go well or cistern largely depends on whether or not fracking has destroyed the water table yet. And if you're on a cistern in rural Oklahoma two years into a drought, well, a shower is a five gallon bucket of water heated with a bucket heater, once a week, and you're happy to have the luxury of water to spare for bathing at all. (No, your coworkers and clients don't complain, they're in the same boat).
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Personally, I hate Halloween. I have enough identity issues that I don't need to be wearing costumes and masks. The only time I put a mask on these days is when a safe word is involved.
You literally sound as fun as a blanket party.
I went to Oklacon 10 in Watonga, Oklahoma. 5 days, 4 nights of drinking, dancing, fires, costumes, and Cards Against Humanity. I went as Billy Bob Brockali of the Rock-afire Explosion. And, damnit, nobody who was there seems to have posted photos of me yet!
And yet, it still surprises me how many places that have called my company for service see me arrive on site holding a clipboard, a cardboard carton, and a toolpouch full of screwdrivers, and automatically assume that I'm there to fix critical equipment touching customer data without so much as checking my paperwork, much less checking ID. People are stupid. This trick could very easily work in plain sight.
QNX is what most of these manufacturers already use.
I have a cassette adapter that's been closed in doors, run over with the seats, and wrapped around every fixed object in the cab more times than I can remember. I've had it since high school, and originally used it to basically use school boomboxes as a pair of speakers on a school PC streaming CFOX over the internet back in the late 1990s. It's outlasted a 1995 Kia that I should never have gotten rid of, a 2002 Santa Fe that was stolen, the 1977 Fargo Tradesman that replaced it, and has been in my 1999 Malibu for the last 3 years. It's also threatening to outlive the servos in that car's tape deck, given that I bought the car with 97000 miles and it has 200,000 on it now...good thing it doesn't actually need to wind tape to work!
Take total cost of maintaining and expanding motorist infrastructure for the year, divide by the number of registered vehicles, then use GVWR as a factor so heavier vehicles pay more than lighter vehicles. No tracking, and car-free folks aren't subsidizing what's a luxury item in that state. Win/win.
The joke was the company I was working for while hauling the Postal Service's mail gave me a was an underpowered piece of shit, especially for hauling mail at turnpike (mandatory 50-75 MPH range) speeds for long distances through the Ozark foothills and over the Ouachita Mountains. Your foot would go numb trying to press farther into the pedal when it's already full open and losing speed. And if momentum was already on my side, there was pretty much nothing that was going to let me let it go, even if it meant passing another truck very slowly. If I slowed down, I wouldn't get that time back and it'd take me 20 minutes to get it back; and if that happened once or twice a day, well, towns stop getting mail daily.
Let's see... what are the first things we'll see this used for? 1. Automated speeding tickets.
I'm OK with this. Driving faster than the road was designed for and conditions allow is the biggest reason cars have all these safety features that any actually competent and attentive driver doesn't need.
It's almost like speed limits were set by engineers who spent a lot of time and effort finding the optimum speed under ideal conditions for the design of the roadway and capability of barely trained drivers or something.
You sure it wouldn't be when the box tries to prevent someone from just wedging their way into through traffic without yielding first?
Try not running the yield sign when you're entering the highway, then. Merging traffic yields to through traffic when lanes end or when entering a roadway. They're speeding up to get out of the way of someone who ran the sign while creating as little delay for other traffic as possible, not to block someone from merging.
This makes me wish I had mod points right now.
Sounds like a personal problem spurred by poor life choices.
I liked the cruise control on the Hino 268 I drove for the Postal Service: Enter the turnpike, put foot to floor and leave it there, hope truck stays above minimum speed limit while climbing. Sucked balls for actually getting work done, though, when you're delivering to 30 post offices in 15 counties every day.
Android tablet as a center console gives you access to OsmAnd, and any relatively recent Garmin unit can easily handle Lambertus' conversions, both giving you nice, OpenStreetMap maps updated several times a year.
I thought that was Interstate 405 in Portland before ODOT repaved it.
Oklahoma has car inspection rules?
You seriously need to get your emergency brake adjusted, then. I had a service brake failure at turnpike speeds (~75mph) about two years ago and successfully stopped my Chevy Malibu with the e-brake. Emergency brake is exactly the right term. Can the engine overcome it? Yeah, if the throttle is stuck, but it at least gives you something holding the brake down a bit while you find a way to kill power.
That's why you ease it on one notch at a time so you can control it. You don't just slam it on. Also, this is why I think an electronic parking brake is an outright retarded idea without a traditional manual lever or latchpedal present.
Steering wheel locks engage when the key is in the OFF or ACC position, regardless of what the transmission is in, on every car I've ever driven that even has a steering wheel lock. That said, wait for a straightaway, kill the engine and listen for it to stop, then go back to the ON position without going to the START position.
Out of those 138,928 downloads per day, how many people actually continued to use Open Office and how many used it briefly, discovered that it is crap and downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft Office.
Want to know how we know you've never used OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
Same reason we already do so for rural roads. Commerce still depends on people like us. You like beef or driving a car? Thank rural Oklahoma.
Thank you for explaining why McDonald's is not only popular, but thriving, in the American midwest. I was surprised to discover that, unless you live in a big city like McAlester, Claremore or Lawton, indoor plumbing is still a "maybe." Want basic landline phone service? That's a very real maybe. Want electricity? That's almost definitely a solar panels on your roof thing. Want indoor plumbing? Then you're stuck on a water cistern or a well, both of which depend on electricity. Whether you go well or cistern largely depends on whether or not fracking has destroyed the water table yet. And if you're on a cistern in rural Oklahoma two years into a drought, well, a shower is a five gallon bucket of water heated with a bucket heater, once a week, and you're happy to have the luxury of water to spare for bathing at all. (No, your coworkers and clients don't complain, they're in the same boat).
Want to know how I know your idea of economics in the US is stuck in 1993?
Which is why we shouldn't be championing lassez-faire capitalism as the end-all, be-all in American commerce.