Nope, they get free passes to Soviet Bloc countries. Now you could argue that that is a punishment fitting for treason and you won't hear me refute it!
Introducing the Chevy Gillette! Now with FIVE, count 'em, 5 back doors for the widest, easiest rear access available on any vehicle on the road today! Getting some junk into your trunk has never been easier!
They'll fuck that up like they do everything. At first it's finding suicide patterns, but then it's predicting future criminality ala Minority Report. Yeah, I'm pessimistic but I have good reasons.
What are you talking about! There is the entire Middle Earth down there. Go slay some orcs, ride with Rohan, burn some Ents, whatever man. If you can't find anything to do, you've got no imagination! Now excuse me but we are sieging Helms Deep. BRB:D
You paid 25 THOUSAND dollars as a sales/VAT/use tax! Holy shit! The Toyota probably didn't even cost $25K. How is this absurd tax justified? I think my state, Tennessee, has a roughly 8% sales tax on vehicles. If I paid 25k just in tax, I would have had to pay roughly $315,000 for the car. I don't even believe Toyota makes a vehicle for $300K+ any more. I am hoping, at least for your sake, you meant $2,500 and not 25,000. I feel very very sorry for you if you really did pay $25k.
I believe you have your ideas of work mixed up, if understood your use of quotations correctly. Hard work isn't "quantity", it is quality. You can half ass a bunch of stuff to get quantity and make it look like you're doing something but everyone knows if you want to do it the right way, then that means hard work. Hard work= quality and it really does make a difference.
And I raised mine with both physical (like cayenne8) and with emotional punishment like you did and my kids are doing great as well. What's the score now?
Oh yeah, that was what I was referring to in the last couple sentences of my post. I'll keep my private car as long as possible. I was just kind of imagining a world where once all of the statics prove the autocars are safer than humans, human driving will be made illegal or impractical either by law or economic pressure.
Good ideas but it won't matter at all. There are some folks so dead set against smokers that if they even think they smell smoke, they have a psychosomatic allergic reaction and their "symptoms" arise. I usually find the worst culprits are ex-smokers. If they can't smoke, NO ONE CAN!
Whaaaaa? You actually LIKE standing desks? Are you a coder? How can you possibly type for hours on end while standing? If my fat ass stands for more than 15 mins, my arches let me feel their wrath. There is no way I could do anything on a standing desk and I don't have to code. Filling out a spreadsheet of like 10 values is annoying as hell for me while standing, let alone my actual job that requires plenty of soldering. YMMV but I have no motor skills.
After all why have your own car when hopping in an auto taxi
I'll give you one rock solid reason that many people on here don't give 2 shits about and will probably flame me over but it's a practical honest answer. I am a smoker. I know I'm not the only smoker on/. so there are others here who feel my pain. You cannot smoke in a taxi, bus, train, or even the freakin sidewalk these days. I can go several hours without smoking if I have to so it wouldn't affect me too much, but my wife smokes every 15 mins like clockwork. She absolutely refuses to ride with anyone who will not allow smoking in their vehicle. I don't blame them at all but that means I have to drive damned near everywhere. I can't even use a damned rental car if she's tagging along so there is no way I would ever give up my own vehicle. I do look forward to some self driving cars but I will retain ownership if legally possible.
InB4 the trolls: yadda yadda quit yadda yadda. You aren't saying anything I haven't heard eleventy billion times before.
1) Magnusson-Moss Act says no, assuming you're in the US
2) They could at first, until they start seeing that drastic drop in people bringing cars in for service. The dealers don't work for the manufacturers, so they have a different profit motive. No one likes a tattle-tell and many customers have the personality types to scream that directly into their face. If money is lost, you can be guaranteed someone is going to bitching about it until they get paid.
3) This is the most unexplored question I've heard here today. I have no specific answer but I can tell you about rooting your cellphone. I have a Motorola Droid 4. This phone is rootable but it has a locked bootloader so you can't flash a new ROM on it. It also has a tattle-tell counter in it that increments by one every time you root it. Since it is hidden in the locked bootloader, there isn't anyway to reset it (as of last year anyway). Supposedly Moto could deny any warranty claims for the phone but I've not actually heard of them enforcing that. However, after the/. revelation last week about the automakers keeping all of that Sync & OnStar data, you can bet your ass that if it can phone home, it WILL phone home. Whatever they do with that info remains to be seen.
No you don't and you know it. Until EULAs are actually taken to court and ruled unlawful, you in no way own the software in any device, you've just got a license. Not that they would care about small potatoes like you as-is, but go ahead and make yourself a company that sells those hacks, and watch how quickly the lawyers come running. What you're saying is what you want to be true. I want it to be true as well, but our corporate & government overlords have put measures in place to punish us if we don't tow the line. Until that is changed, you can keep screaming you own it all you want even while they're taking all of "your" stuff away. Sometimes I hate this country.
There is no way whatsoever that they would tie safety systems to a pay per use feature. You're just jerking your knee cause when it comes to automated technology, that is the "fashionable" thing to do these days.
That's what all the hullabaloo is about? It looks like a rock. It looks just like all of the rocks around it. Evidently the spectrograph claims it isn't made like the others but personally I would have just passed that one by. Guess that's why I don't make the big bucks.
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Nope, they get free passes to Soviet Bloc countries. Now you could argue that that is a punishment fitting for treason and you won't hear me refute it!
Introducing the Chevy Gillette! Now with FIVE, count 'em, 5 back doors for the widest, easiest rear access available on any vehicle on the road today! Getting some junk into your trunk has never been easier!
They'll fuck that up like they do everything. At first it's finding suicide patterns, but then it's predicting future criminality ala Minority Report. Yeah, I'm pessimistic but I have good reasons.
What are you talking about! There is the entire Middle Earth down there. Go slay some orcs, ride with Rohan, burn some Ents, whatever man. If you can't find anything to do, you've got no imagination! Now excuse me but we are sieging Helms Deep. BRB :D
You paid 25 THOUSAND dollars as a sales/VAT/use tax! Holy shit! The Toyota probably didn't even cost $25K. How is this absurd tax justified? I think my state, Tennessee, has a roughly 8% sales tax on vehicles. If I paid 25k just in tax, I would have had to pay roughly $315,000 for the car. I don't even believe Toyota makes a vehicle for $300K+ any more. I am hoping, at least for your sake, you meant $2,500 and not 25,000. I feel very very sorry for you if you really did pay $25k.
I reject your notions, partly because they are a debasement of science, but mostly because I don't get invited to those sort of parties.
I believe you have your ideas of work mixed up, if understood your use of quotations correctly. Hard work isn't "quantity", it is quality. You can half ass a bunch of stuff to get quantity and make it look like you're doing something but everyone knows if you want to do it the right way, then that means hard work. Hard work= quality and it really does make a difference.
My dad did that to me too. I smoke 2 packs a day. You just lucked out. Sometimes tough love backfires!
And I raised mine with both physical (like cayenne8) and with emotional punishment like you did and my kids are doing great as well. What's the score now?
Oh yeah, that was what I was referring to in the last couple sentences of my post. I'll keep my private car as long as possible. I was just kind of imagining a world where once all of the statics prove the autocars are safer than humans, human driving will be made illegal or impractical either by law or economic pressure.
Good ideas but it won't matter at all. There are some folks so dead set against smokers that if they even think they smell smoke, they have a psychosomatic allergic reaction and their "symptoms" arise. I usually find the worst culprits are ex-smokers. If they can't smoke, NO ONE CAN!
Whaaaaa? You actually LIKE standing desks? Are you a coder? How can you possibly type for hours on end while standing? If my fat ass stands for more than 15 mins, my arches let me feel their wrath. There is no way I could do anything on a standing desk and I don't have to code. Filling out a spreadsheet of like 10 values is annoying as hell for me while standing, let alone my actual job that requires plenty of soldering. YMMV but I have no motor skills.
GAHHHHH!!!! I keep clicking the close button on your damned popup box and yet you keep taunting me you bastard paper clip!
I'll give you one rock solid reason that many people on here don't give 2 shits about and will probably flame me over but it's a practical honest answer. I am a smoker. I know I'm not the only smoker on /. so there are others here who feel my pain. You cannot smoke in a taxi, bus, train, or even the freakin sidewalk these days. I can go several hours without smoking if I have to so it wouldn't affect me too much, but my wife smokes every 15 mins like clockwork. She absolutely refuses to ride with anyone who will not allow smoking in their vehicle. I don't blame them at all but that means I have to drive damned near everywhere. I can't even use a damned rental car if she's tagging along so there is no way I would ever give up my own vehicle. I do look forward to some self driving cars but I will retain ownership if legally possible.
InB4 the trolls: yadda yadda quit yadda yadda. You aren't saying anything I haven't heard eleventy billion times before.
Did you know that archaeologists found that exact same phrase (in Latin) carved on one the homes in Pompeii? :D
But what is DC's excuse?
I'd suppose it could be a Murloc Nixon. "I'm not a cook!"
So Jimmy cracked code and you didn't care? Sounds like someone could write a song about it!
1) Magnusson-Moss Act says no, assuming you're in the US
/. revelation last week about the automakers keeping all of that Sync & OnStar data, you can bet your ass that if it can phone home, it WILL phone home. Whatever they do with that info remains to be seen.
2) They could at first, until they start seeing that drastic drop in people bringing cars in for service. The dealers don't work for the manufacturers, so they have a different profit motive. No one likes a tattle-tell and many customers have the personality types to scream that directly into their face. If money is lost, you can be guaranteed someone is going to bitching about it until they get paid.
3) This is the most unexplored question I've heard here today. I have no specific answer but I can tell you about rooting your cellphone. I have a Motorola Droid 4. This phone is rootable but it has a locked bootloader so you can't flash a new ROM on it. It also has a tattle-tell counter in it that increments by one every time you root it. Since it is hidden in the locked bootloader, there isn't anyway to reset it (as of last year anyway). Supposedly Moto could deny any warranty claims for the phone but I've not actually heard of them enforcing that. However, after the
The FIRST #1 job? What's the second?
No you don't and you know it. Until EULAs are actually taken to court and ruled unlawful, you in no way own the software in any device, you've just got a license. Not that they would care about small potatoes like you as-is, but go ahead and make yourself a company that sells those hacks, and watch how quickly the lawyers come running. What you're saying is what you want to be true. I want it to be true as well, but our corporate & government overlords have put measures in place to punish us if we don't tow the line. Until that is changed, you can keep screaming you own it all you want even while they're taking all of "your" stuff away. Sometimes I hate this country.
There is no way whatsoever that they would tie safety systems to a pay per use feature. You're just jerking your knee cause when it comes to automated technology, that is the "fashionable" thing to do these days.
*sigh* It's always something simple.....
But there's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
That's what all the hullabaloo is about? It looks like a rock. It looks just like all of the rocks around it. Evidently the spectrograph claims it isn't made like the others but personally I would have just passed that one by. Guess that's why I don't make the big bucks.