Parking insurance is a low-cost insurance used to 'protect' your investment in a parked automobile from theft, vandalism as well as damage from falling trees, being ran into and such.
It is used to cover a vehicle that won't be driven on a regular basis. Some times this type of insurance allows for *very* limited driving, such as weekend use or possibly emergency use and it had better be emergency use. It's sort of like 'recreational autmobile' used on Classic automobiles.
It should cost you significantly less then 35% of the value of your vehicle.
Of course, that might not be available in your state. If you use it, but are out driving on it and get into any sort of trouble, you can be significantly screwed. I would never recomend, suggest or othwerwise consider using such insurance on a vehicle that I drive daily. Depending on where you live, that could possibly land you jail time for Insurance fraud.
If you are educated about insurance, then you really can't be ripped off....and as far as I understand, the Insurance Industry is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the United States. For a time, I was a licensed Life Insurance Salesman and there were so many things that I could and could not say or suffer upwards of $10,000 dollars in fines and spend at least a year in prison. Those same types of regulations applied to home, auto and other property insurance.
Read up on the Insurance Laws in your state and grill the heck out of your Insurance Agent regarding all of the types of Insurance available. Call around, don't be an uneducated consumer and you won't be taken advantage of. If your state allows 'Parking' or 'Weekend Driver' Insurance and your agent isn't offering that to you, check with different companies until you find one that offers that in your state.
..earlier I hit the wrong key and couldn't get back to this.
Hence nothing but "Oh Boo-Hoo"
To continue...
If you don't like spending that much on insurance and, as you stated, you drive so little, get rid of your car. Borrow a friend's car or rent one instead. You can get some great deals on rental cars for one or two days.
As for me?
Insurance is a godsend. I do obey traffic laws and such, but my vehicle is my bred and butter. I drive at least 30 miles daily and every other weekend put in over 600 miles on an out of city trip.
If my vehicle was stolen, totaled or otherwise put out of comission, I would have a temporary rental within 24 hours and a replacement within a week.
Do yourself a favor, dump your car, or switch it to parking insurance. Then, if you only drive it once a week, at most, you can plan your trips ahead and call your insurance company to activate 'driving' insurance for the day. If that's not offered in your state, get rid of the car.
Have you ever had to make a claim on anything? Do you have Medical Insurance and have you ever gone to a doctor?
I really want to know why it is a 'ripoff'. I have heard many people that have never made a claim on insurance, call it a ripoff. Is it a ripoff because it costs you money?
I have never uninstalled Mozilla to run an update. Why waste the time? It overwrites and updates any setting changes while keeping your preferences and profile saved up very nicely.
Again, why waste the time in uninstalling just to move up to a newer release of Mozilla?
I wonder where we would be if we always 'waited' for the next great technological advance before we did something. We would probably still be in our caves huddling around a few burning cinders wondering at the marvel that is 'fire'.
When I said 'tomorrow' the statement was not meaning directly tomorrow and not directly the faster then the speed of light thing.
My statements were more general in nature then specific. It was only an optimistic statement. Now, the next statement is more specific:
Stephen Hawkings recently discovered/announced that matter may actuall 'escape' or be 'expelled' from Black Holes, which significantly alters our understanding of the universe.
Who knows? In the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years someone could 'break' that secret and speeding along faster then light will be like obtaining supersonic speeds today.
Just because it can't be done today, doesn't mean it won't be done tomorrow, next week, a month from now or anytime in the 'distant' future.
...you are right. We should work to ban this idea as well as ban Black Boxes in aircraft. The stated reasons for collecting this data is only a ruse to wear down our defense of our personal liberties.
We don't need crash data recorded in order to help build better roads and vehicles. We don't need to obey posted speed limits, because those 'bastards' that follow those posted limits cause the accidents of those that don't obey those limits.
Reality check...
Reckless driving is reckless driving.
If you are on a cell phone, checking a map or doing something other then driving, you are reckless driving.
If you are disobeying the speed limit, you increase your chance of getting into an accident, even if in your mind it is caused by someone obeying the speed limit, because you have to swerve or otherwise attempt to avoid hitting them.
Speeding is reckless driving. If these black boxes cause people to consider their driving. Well, that's a very good thing.
...lower insurance rates for those of us that obey traffic laws, aren't the cause of accidents (even in no-fault states) I am all for it.
Does this really get in the way of my privacy? Nope. I don't think the Black Box is going to read my mind and broadcast my thoughts for all the world to see. It's not going to track everywhere I go through GPS and inform some insidious 'Shadow Government' of my whereabouts.
Nope, all it should do is contain crash data. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I was responding to the remarks regarding soda machines.
There wasn't anything regarding a 7-11.
In fact, I didn't even respond the points regarding the supermarket statements. RFID is still sort of silly in the previously described cans, 6-packs, 12 and 24-packs, but I don't have time to talk about everything.
The inside of soda machines are all segregated columns filled with the various sugar drinks. Each column contains a seperated type of drink, although a few columns could contain the same drink, that's just an matter of local preferences.
Since each column is limited to one type of drink the machine can easy test how many of each brand are left and notify 'home' that they are running low. Which won't necesarily mean it will be filled quicker, it just means they know exactly what to bring to the machine. Distributors don't often change their routes since it allows them to send drivers out less often, servicing more machines without having to go back and forth all that often.
There is no reason to put an FRID into the cans going into Drink Machines. They serve no purpose that isn't already covered by tried and true technology.
...to the President's stand on Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
He's against it, on moral grounds, because life 'begins' at conception and the research will 'destroy' the precious life of those poor defenseless Embryos... (Even though the Embryos in question would likely be destroyed anyway, but could be put to good use, possibly finding cures for terminal illnesses and increase the quality of life for people with nervous system disorders and the like.)
So, how come he isn't going after the Invitro Fertilization Clinics?
Those places Destroy THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of Embryos every year. Why not outlaw those factories of genocide? (Because it would be political suicide, otherwise infertile people want babies, that's more important then the several dozen of their embryos that are lost/destroyed in the process.)
Where's the balance to that equation?
The real answer is that there is no balance to any equation that involves a politician, at least the two political parties that run this nation. It seems that the only rational people that base decisions upon balance are those that aren't in either political party.
...you could also get that done at virtually most protoype machine shops across the US.
If they have laser scan capable CMMs (That's Coordinate Measuring Machines), just about any 5-Axis Vertical Milling Machine and some decent machine operators it can be done.
Heck, you could even have that milled out of high-quality Aircraft Aluminum, like a 7000-series. You could also go with tooling steel, like Cold Drawn 1018 Carbon Steel or S-7 Tooling Steel...
None of this is really new. The technology has been around for at least 10 years, from the laser scanning to the 5-Axis Mills.
I have personally never been overly fond of ATI's support for DirectX over OpenGL. The reason is fairly simple...
OpenGL is more or less... well Open. It's available on a plethora of platforms. From Windows to several *NIX types to MacOSX to Linux.
DirectX? Well, that's Microsoft. You have to run Microsoft products to use it and that locks you into a Microsoft system. Let's see, it's availabe on Microsoft Windows and uh... Microsoft Windows and uh.. let me see, this is a tough one... Hmm... I know Microsoft Windows!!!
I vote Open over closed/proprietary with my dollars as often as I can. I want to see a PC market of choices, not a bleak one flavor, one size for 'all', one choice.
I completely agree with this sentiment. Personally, I see no reason to have Digital Cable. I am personally interested in only two television shows, both are on network television, which I obtain with my Basic analog cable connection.
The rest of the channels are fillers, for when I am to mentally and physically tired to do anything else.
Why would I want to stop going to my local video store? The people there are great! They will order ANYTHING that I ask for and carry the largest selection of classic and B-movies on DVD that you may ever find anywhere. They are big into the local film scene and art films.
The people there are knowledgeable, we make eachother laugh and it's much more fun then pushing a few buttons on a remote to obtain some VOD crap.
I won't ever use Video On Demand, there is no human interaction. That's why I almost never order anything off the Internet, I really enjoy the face to face shopping experience and the convenience of being able to immediately return an item if I find out it sucks, without having to pack it up and send it through some shipping service.
Green Gobling II is Harry, who was constantly at odds with his father's screaming voice/face in his mind and torn between his long-time friendship with Peter Parker and his hatred of Spider-man for 'killing' his father... A VERY tragic villain...
That's a terrible retelling of Venom's origins. It was so much better to have him be a 'competitor' with Peter Parker at the Daily Bugle for snapping shots of Spider-Man.
Hopefully, they will keep that part of the story as they did include Eddie Brock in the first Spider-Man movie... (Only briefly for one scene, but he was in the story.)
The original origin of the suit, it's coupling with Eddie Brock and the tragic 'anti-hero' the coupling creates is a great story that deserves to be explored on the big screen. Which could possibly create a 'spin-off' movie series similar to the "Venom" comic...
The Earth populated of Marvel Comics is filled with geniuses beyond what we have ever seen in our real world. People like Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Dr. Victor Von Doom, Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) just to name a few, place the level of 'ambient' science and technology beyond that which exists or could exist in our real world.
In Marvel Comics, just as the movies the time is today, just the circumstances the technology of super beings brings is vastly different.
As it relates to events within the history of the Marvel Comics Universe, everything shown in the film was extremely plausible for the year 2004.
I just can't wait until they progress the story farther...
I really want to see what is done to get 'Venom' into the movie Marvel Universe... Will there be a few 'Secret Wars' scenes or will that be played out in a 'comic styled' opening sequence? Will they even attempt to bring 'Venom' into the picture? If so, will they bring in the Fantastic Four, whom helped Spidey more then once with the symbiot.
In any case, I am very excited about the prospects of Hobgoblin making an appearance in the next movie. As for Doc Ock, it was left wide open for him to return, as the AI Arms bring him to the surface and find a way to resuscitate him, leaving his mind a wreck from the lack of oxygen, yet filled with a criminal genius, perhaps forgetting who Peter Parker is or perhaps not caring...
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The Fundamentalist Christian Fanatics being referred to are the 'Christian Reconstructivists', look them up on Google. These are 'Old Testament' loving folks that would bring 'Biblical Law' to a scary Taliban in the US level.
These Christian Reconstructionists do preach a Christian 'Take-over' of the world. They believe that they are at war with everyone that isn't with them. They believe that until they can build the Kingdom of God on Earth that there will be no second coming. They believe this, they preach this and they will do everything they can to obtain this.
As for this country being based on Bliblical Christianity, where is the Christian Bible and where is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?...the Bill of Rights?...the Declaration of Independence? Oh that's right, neither is mentioned, just some stuff about a creator, which could be any religion that believes in a higher power.
Even being unable to locate all of that, what about the part stating that a religious test is NEVER to be applied for someone seeking or winning a public office? If this nation was truly a 'Christian based' or 'Bible based' society, then anyone and everyone seeking or holding public office would have to pass a religious test of some sort.
The 'Old Testament' does advocate that, in just about every portion referring to a war being waged. Have you ever read the 'Old Testament'? You should, it is a very scary book. It is filled with some of those most racist and scary nationalistic beliefs that you can possibly imagine. It has been used as justification for acts the world has seen far to many times.
"Love your neighbor as yourself"? Well, isn't that easier if your neighbor is exactly like you? Can't that be read as your neighbor must be just like you, since you love yourself enough to let Jesus into your heart, your neighbor better love themselves just as much, or else! That isn't 'Old Testament' and that isn't so much of a problem.
...a really dry, drawn out storyline that doesn't get interesting until AFTER it scares away people that want a tad bit more excitement a little less exposition as well as a little less 'Look at the size of my ego' of Babylon 5......meshed with the remains of a decent premise, but poorly executed show about Alien Invaders in the 1960's and the young American Couple that works to stop them!
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Parking insurance is a low-cost insurance used to 'protect' your investment in a parked automobile from theft, vandalism as well as damage from falling trees, being ran into and such.
...and as far as I understand, the Insurance Industry is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the United States. For a time, I was a licensed Life Insurance Salesman and there were so many things that I could and could not say or suffer upwards of $10,000 dollars in fines and spend at least a year in prison. Those same types of regulations applied to home, auto and other property insurance.
It is used to cover a vehicle that won't be driven on a regular basis. Some times this type of insurance allows for *very* limited driving, such as weekend use or possibly emergency use and it had better be emergency use. It's sort of like 'recreational autmobile' used on Classic automobiles.
It should cost you significantly less then 35% of the value of your vehicle.
Of course, that might not be available in your state. If you use it, but are out driving on it and get into any sort of trouble, you can be significantly screwed. I would never recomend, suggest or othwerwise consider using such insurance on a vehicle that I drive daily. Depending on where you live, that could possibly land you jail time for Insurance fraud.
If you are educated about insurance, then you really can't be ripped off.
Read up on the Insurance Laws in your state and grill the heck out of your Insurance Agent regarding all of the types of Insurance available. Call around, don't be an uneducated consumer and you won't be taken advantage of. If your state allows 'Parking' or 'Weekend Driver' Insurance and your agent isn't offering that to you, check with different companies until you find one that offers that in your state.
Hence nothing but "Oh Boo-Hoo"
To continue...
If you don't like spending that much on insurance and, as you stated, you drive so little, get rid of your car. Borrow a friend's car or rent one instead. You can get some great deals on rental cars for one or two days.
As for me?
Insurance is a godsend. I do obey traffic laws and such, but my vehicle is my bred and butter. I drive at least 30 miles daily and every other weekend put in over 600 miles on an out of city trip.
If my vehicle was stolen, totaled or otherwise put out of comission, I would have a temporary rental within 24 hours and a replacement within a week.
Do yourself a favor, dump your car, or switch it to parking insurance. Then, if you only drive it once a week, at most, you can plan your trips ahead and call your insurance company to activate 'driving' insurance for the day. If that's not offered in your state, get rid of the car.
Oh boo-hoo.
Have you ever had to make a claim on anything? Do you have Medical Insurance and have you ever gone to a doctor?
I really want to know why it is a 'ripoff'. I have heard many people that have never made a claim on insurance, call it a ripoff. Is it a ripoff because it costs you money?
I have never uninstalled Mozilla to run an update. Why waste the time? It overwrites and updates any setting changes while keeping your preferences and profile saved up very nicely.
Again, why waste the time in uninstalling just to move up to a newer release of Mozilla?
I wonder where we would be if we always 'waited' for the next great technological advance before we did something. We would probably still be in our caves huddling around a few burning cinders wondering at the marvel that is 'fire'.
When I said 'tomorrow' the statement was not meaning directly tomorrow and not directly the faster then the speed of light thing.
My statements were more general in nature then specific. It was only an optimistic statement. Now, the next statement is more specific:
Stephen Hawkings recently discovered/announced that matter may actuall 'escape' or be 'expelled' from Black Holes, which significantly alters our understanding of the universe.
Who knows? In the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years someone could 'break' that secret and speeding along faster then light will be like obtaining supersonic speeds today.
Just because it can't be done today, doesn't mean it won't be done tomorrow, next week, a month from now or anytime in the 'distant' future.
We don't need crash data recorded in order to help build better roads and vehicles. We don't need to obey posted speed limits, because those 'bastards' that follow those posted limits cause the accidents of those that don't obey those limits.
Reality check...
Reckless driving is reckless driving.
If you are on a cell phone, checking a map or doing something other then driving, you are reckless driving.
If you are disobeying the speed limit, you increase your chance of getting into an accident, even if in your mind it is caused by someone obeying the speed limit, because you have to swerve or otherwise attempt to avoid hitting them.
Speeding is reckless driving. If these black boxes cause people to consider their driving. Well, that's a very good thing.
Does this really get in the way of my privacy? Nope. I don't think the Black Box is going to read my mind and broadcast my thoughts for all the world to see. It's not going to track everywhere I go through GPS and inform some insidious 'Shadow Government' of my whereabouts.
Nope, all it should do is contain crash data. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I was responding to the remarks regarding soda machines.
There wasn't anything regarding a 7-11.
In fact, I didn't even respond the points regarding the supermarket statements. RFID is still sort of silly in the previously described cans, 6-packs, 12 and 24-packs, but I don't have time to talk about everything.
The inside of soda machines are all segregated columns filled with the various sugar drinks. Each column contains a seperated type of drink, although a few columns could contain the same drink, that's just an matter of local preferences.
Since each column is limited to one type of drink the machine can easy test how many of each brand are left and notify 'home' that they are running low. Which won't necesarily mean it will be filled quicker, it just means they know exactly what to bring to the machine. Distributors don't often change their routes since it allows them to send drivers out less often, servicing more machines without having to go back and forth all that often.
There is no reason to put an FRID into the cans going into Drink Machines. They serve no purpose that isn't already covered by tried and true technology.
He's against it, on moral grounds, because life 'begins' at conception and the research will 'destroy' the precious life of those poor defenseless Embryos... (Even though the Embryos in question would likely be destroyed anyway, but could be put to good use, possibly finding cures for terminal illnesses and increase the quality of life for people with nervous system disorders and the like.)
So, how come he isn't going after the Invitro Fertilization Clinics?
Those places Destroy THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of Embryos every year. Why not outlaw those factories of genocide? (Because it would be political suicide, otherwise infertile people want babies, that's more important then the several dozen of their embryos that are lost/destroyed in the process.)
Where's the balance to that equation?
The real answer is that there is no balance to any equation that involves a politician, at least the two political parties that run this nation. It seems that the only rational people that base decisions upon balance are those that aren't in either political party.
I just wish it wasn't so.
If they have laser scan capable CMMs (That's Coordinate Measuring Machines), just about any 5-Axis Vertical Milling Machine and some decent machine operators it can be done.
Heck, you could even have that milled out of high-quality Aircraft Aluminum, like a 7000-series. You could also go with tooling steel, like Cold Drawn 1018 Carbon Steel or S-7 Tooling Steel...
None of this is really new. The technology has been around for at least 10 years, from the laser scanning to the 5-Axis Mills.
I know that ultralights, balloons and blimps fall under this category, per the AOPA Online Regulatory Brief, but what about the other types?
I am interested in seeing what the designs look like...
I have personally never been overly fond of ATI's support for DirectX over OpenGL. The reason is fairly simple...
OpenGL is more or less... well Open. It's available on a plethora of platforms. From Windows to several *NIX types to MacOSX to Linux.
DirectX? Well, that's Microsoft. You have to run Microsoft products to use it and that locks you into a Microsoft system. Let's see, it's availabe on Microsoft Windows and uh... Microsoft Windows and uh.. let me see, this is a tough one... Hmm... I know Microsoft Windows!!!
I vote Open over closed/proprietary with my dollars as often as I can. I want to see a PC market of choices, not a bleak one flavor, one size for 'all', one choice.
I completely agree with this sentiment. Personally, I see no reason to have Digital Cable. I am personally interested in only two television shows, both are on network television, which I obtain with my Basic analog cable connection.
The rest of the channels are fillers, for when I am to mentally and physically tired to do anything else.
Why would I want to stop going to my local video store? The people there are great! They will order ANYTHING that I ask for and carry the largest selection of classic and B-movies on DVD that you may ever find anywhere. They are big into the local film scene and art films.
The people there are knowledgeable, we make eachother laugh and it's much more fun then pushing a few buttons on a remote to obtain some VOD crap.
I won't ever use Video On Demand, there is no human interaction. That's why I almost never order anything off the Internet, I really enjoy the face to face shopping experience and the convenience of being able to immediately return an item if I find out it sucks, without having to pack it up and send it through some shipping service.
The 'average' user on the other hand...
They simply can't wait to 'Stick it to the Man!' and snag that 24kb copy of UT2K4!
That's right...
It's been so long since I have read that story.
Green Gobling II is Harry, who was constantly at odds with his father's screaming voice/face in his mind and torn between his long-time friendship with Peter Parker and his hatred of Spider-man for 'killing' his father... A VERY tragic villain...
That's a terrible retelling of Venom's origins. It was so much better to have him be a 'competitor' with Peter Parker at the Daily Bugle for snapping shots of Spider-Man.
Hopefully, they will keep that part of the story as they did include Eddie Brock in the first Spider-Man movie... (Only briefly for one scene, but he was in the story.)
The original origin of the suit, it's coupling with Eddie Brock and the tragic 'anti-hero' the coupling creates is a great story that deserves to be explored on the big screen. Which could possibly create a 'spin-off' movie series similar to the "Venom" comic...
The Earth populated of Marvel Comics is filled with geniuses beyond what we have ever seen in our real world. People like Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Dr. Victor Von Doom, Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) just to name a few, place the level of 'ambient' science and technology beyond that which exists or could exist in our real world.
In Marvel Comics, just as the movies the time is today, just the circumstances the technology of super beings brings is vastly different.
As it relates to events within the history of the Marvel Comics Universe, everything shown in the film was extremely plausible for the year 2004.
I just can't wait until they progress the story farther...
I really want to see what is done to get 'Venom' into the movie Marvel Universe... Will there be a few 'Secret Wars' scenes or will that be played out in a 'comic styled' opening sequence? Will they even attempt to bring 'Venom' into the picture? If so, will they bring in the Fantastic Four, whom helped Spidey more then once with the symbiot.
In any case, I am very excited about the prospects of Hobgoblin making an appearance in the next movie. As for Doc Ock, it was left wide open for him to return, as the AI Arms bring him to the surface and find a way to resuscitate him, leaving his mind a wreck from the lack of oxygen, yet filled with a criminal genius, perhaps forgetting who Peter Parker is or perhaps not caring...
The Fundamentalist Christian Fanatics being referred to are the 'Christian Reconstructivists', look them up on Google. These are 'Old Testament' loving folks that would bring 'Biblical Law' to a scary Taliban in the US level.
...the Bill of Rights? ...the Declaration of Independence? Oh that's right, neither is mentioned, just some stuff about a creator, which could be any religion that believes in a higher power.
These Christian Reconstructionists do preach a Christian 'Take-over' of the world. They believe that they are at war with everyone that isn't with them. They believe that until they can build the Kingdom of God on Earth that there will be no second coming. They believe this, they preach this and they will do everything they can to obtain this.
As for this country being based on Bliblical Christianity, where is the Christian Bible and where is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
Even being unable to locate all of that, what about the part stating that a religious test is NEVER to be applied for someone seeking or winning a public office? If this nation was truly a 'Christian based' or 'Bible based' society, then anyone and everyone seeking or holding public office would have to pass a religious test of some sort.
The 'Old Testament' does advocate that, in just about every portion referring to a war being waged. Have you ever read the 'Old Testament'? You should, it is a very scary book. It is filled with some of those most racist and scary nationalistic beliefs that you can possibly imagine. It has been used as justification for acts the world has seen far to many times.
"Love your neighbor as yourself"? Well, isn't that easier if your neighbor is exactly like you? Can't that be read as your neighbor must be just like you, since you love yourself enough to let Jesus into your heart, your neighbor better love themselves just as much, or else! That isn't 'Old Testament' and that isn't so much of a problem.
Yay...