He's completely right here. You'll spend about $8,000 on tools in the first couple years and you'll probably end up with about $15,000 in tools. You won't make much money when you start. It's a pretty competative market where you work against other mechanics in your shop. When you start, you get stuck changing oil and they do the work where you can beat the books by a lot.
I don't know if you've looked into working with cars, but book rate is how much they assume it'll take you to fix something. You can usually work faster. Say book rate is 1.5 hours for changing an alternator and you do it in 30 minutes. You still get paid for 1.5 hours and you have time to work on other stuff.
But hey, it's just 2 semesters of classes. Try to get a job at a dealership and shoot for something like BMW or Jaguar. Good luck if you try it. I did just because I wanted to be able to work on my own cars.
Yeah, and if you tape over that number it makes it harder for the repoman. Then we'd have to illegally open the car to check the VIN. Not that repomen ever do anything illegal.
So once again, I need to say, visit my site and get Star Trek punk rock songs for free. Recorded live to 2 track but hey, they're free and they're about Star Trek. Man oh man, I'm a geek. I wanted a slashdot sticker for my bass for when we were filmed for Trekkies 2, but I never got one.
whatever can ooze them into asphalt probably can not be carried on a plane.
It wasn't until 2 years ago that airlanes cared what you brought on a plane. I have a friend who brought quarter sticks of dynamite on a flight to San Francisco from New York in his carry-on. But that was 8 years ago.
My mom used to not let me play with toy guns. I now have a large collection of real guns including some of the dreaded "assault" rifles. My next purchase will be a Model 97 shotgun.
I shoot targets, not animals because deer aren't doing anything that bothers me. Although if I lived in an area where deer are a menace I might develop a taste for venison.
Once I saw one burn in Fair Oaks about 15 years ago, which was was pretty funny. The owner pulled over and jumped out. He walked around in shock while the firemen put it out. Some other car of frat boys & sorority girls stopped to watch and one of the firetrucks ran over a girl's foot. She was paying attention to the burning car and didn't move when the firetruck drove by. That was even funnier than the car burning. I don't think she was hurt that bad, mostly jumping around on one foot screaming.
My friend used to use windows media player as his mp3 player. He stopped using it after we made fun of him.
Other things we made our friend quite doing:
- Talking to girls - His Dr. Who scarf was too short. Man, was that a riot. - He was living in his mom's basement (pretty normal like the rest of us) but he tried to do his own laundry! Quite the ribbing on that one. 35 year olds don't do their own laundry. - His episode of "Pretty Soldier Sailormoon" is the censored version where Usagi and Mamoru fall off the balcony WITHOUT the umbrella. Man, what a dork.
Oh, there's plenty of others, but don't get me started!
I've saw one up before, and I'm sure if I checked they'd pop up again and again. Once my 471212 becomes valuable (sometime around when James Tiberius Kirk is around), I'll sell it on eBay for 50 quatloos, I betcha.
I'm glad I signed my name on her petition to run, but there's so many great unqualified candidates running I don't know who to vote for. Larry Flynt, the porn guy. Mary Carey, the porn star. Angelyne, the expensive hooker. Gary Coleman from Dirty Work. Hercules in New York.
They're the same people who ask employees at a restaurant, "Will I like this?". My answer was always, "how the fuck should I know you hag". They'd realize their stupidity and tip me heavily. So next time someone asks you "will I like this movie?" just repeat what I just said. I'll bet they tip you.
And some journalist who can't find a better story.
By "better" do you mean the article with 235 comments that even you posted too? Currently with a 4, Interesting rating.
It's August, a slow month for news, but I think this would've been covered in a normal month.
I have 2 members. One real, although I use the name IP Freely, and one fake. No point in saying that name even though I'll be rated out soon enough.
I like the fake ones that you can center in on something. I'm friends with a lot of people who've worked at MRR Magazine. There's a friendster of MRR and I've ran into people I haven't seen in years. That'll probably get yanked too.
These people are some of the most underpaid, underappreciated lot in our society (with the exceptions of teachers). They work long, hard, mentally-disturbing stints...in a community that probably doesn't even give a rats backside port about them.
They place their lives on the line, every day...even for somthing as stupid as a pull-over for a bad tail light.
You're right. That makes up for the cops that stood over me, making fun of the picture on my driver's license while the paramedics worked on me. They kept trying to get the paramedic to laugh too, but he said "Hey lay off" and got the cops to go away. Yes, sir. Them there cops sure is underappreciated. Nothing like a good gay bashing to get a Reno cop to say, "Go ahead and file a report if you'd like. We're not going to do anything". Or the cop that said, "I could kill you and no one would ever know".
Yup. Those guys are underappreciated. It'd be better if I was gay, but hey, I was a funny looking punk rocker, so therefore I was gay to the guys who jumped me from behind and to the cops who had to show up. It was made up for in the surgery I had to have. Not that the cops cared because I was gay so I had it coming.
I'm actually not that bitter, but if I saw a cop on fire, I wouldn't piss on him to put him out.
There's a big difference between selling adult comic books and punching someone's nose. Wasn't the US supposed to be a republic and not a democracy? In democracy the majority can force the minority to do what they want, but in a republic you can't. Not that that actually occurs (manzinar, Chinese Exclusionary Act), but it's a nice ideal to shoot for.
Just trying to push up the stock prices. The SCO executives will be selling off all their stocks soon enough.
Did SCO get bought by the guy who bought Pabst, closed all the breweries and leased the Pabst name? Charles Hurwitz, the same guy who bought the logging companies in Northern California, upped the logging, sold his stocks high, and then the logging companies went under when they logged out everything. Maybe it's 2 guys and I'm just thinking (hoping) it's just one evil guy.
By "US car company" you mean Ford & GM. Chrysler is owned (0wn3d, I reckon) by the Germans. The US is down to 2 companies. How long do you think that'll last before FIAT buys another?
Most "foreign" car manufacturers have plants here.
I'd say everyone in this country is corrupt in some way or another. Luckily, I'm holier than thou. Excuse me while I go download some songs from Kazaa.
I always ask to be put on the DNC list. I used to just mess with them, but now I just say remove me. The last time the caller was from India and she started laughing. "You want me to what?" She put her boss on the phone so I could repeat "Put me on your do not call list". He laughed too. He said, "You know we're calling from India, so there's nothing you can do. If you'd like call up DirectTV and complain to them, but we'll still call you for our next client."
They were both actually really nice and honestly amused. I filed a report with the FCC against DirectTV but I'm sure I'll never hear anything back from it.
Although since I've been asking to be put on the master DNC list, and asking for a written copy of the DNC policies to be mailed to my PO Box, I don't get as many calls. I've also never received a copy of the DNC policies.
I've had my men out working on a Grand Hole in Northern Arizona. My Grand Hole covers 277 miles and has a small river running through it to wick away toxic wastes depositing them in a Giant Pond. So there's no problems with the Good Ol' USA!
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Of course, if you really look at things like the Space Shuttle, they are quite ugly but they get the job done.
By "gets the job done" do you mean, "it's only killed a couple crews"?
There are airbags for motorcycles. Try googling on it.
I've been run off the road on purpose by guys in SUVs. Dang kids these days...
One day I'll have to sell my motorcycles and upgrade to Kaneda's bike from Akira.
He's completely right here. You'll spend about $8,000 on tools in the first couple years and you'll probably end up with about $15,000 in tools. You won't make much money when you start. It's a pretty competative market where you work against other mechanics in your shop. When you start, you get stuck changing oil and they do the work where you can beat the books by a lot.
I don't know if you've looked into working with cars, but book rate is how much they assume it'll take you to fix something. You can usually work faster. Say book rate is 1.5 hours for changing an alternator and you do it in 30 minutes. You still get paid for 1.5 hours and you have time to work on other stuff.
But hey, it's just 2 semesters of classes. Try to get a job at a dealership and shoot for something like BMW or Jaguar. Good luck if you try it. I did just because I wanted to be able to work on my own cars.
Yeah, and if you tape over that number it makes it harder for the repoman. Then we'd have to illegally open the car to check the VIN. Not that repomen ever do anything illegal.
--Former Repoman & plate of shrimp
So once again, I need to say, visit my site and get Star Trek punk rock songs for free. Recorded live to 2 track but hey, they're free and they're about Star Trek. Man oh man, I'm a geek. I wanted a slashdot sticker for my bass for when we were filmed for Trekkies 2, but I never got one.
whatever can ooze them into asphalt probably can not be carried on a plane.
It wasn't until 2 years ago that airlanes cared what you brought on a plane. I have a friend who brought quarter sticks of dynamite on a flight to San Francisco from New York in his carry-on. But that was 8 years ago.
My mom used to not let me play with toy guns. I now have a large collection of real guns including some of the dreaded "assault" rifles. My next purchase will be a Model 97 shotgun.
I shoot targets, not animals because deer aren't doing anything that bothers me. Although if I lived in an area where deer are a menace I might develop a taste for venison.
Good thing I posted that comment because I was just about to post it.
I've heard that whiskey and ensign story a few times in my life. I've always thought of it as urban myth to prove a point.
I've seen a few here in sunny California.
Once I saw one burn in Fair Oaks about 15 years ago, which was was pretty funny. The owner pulled over and jumped out. He walked around in shock while the firemen put it out. Some other car of frat boys & sorority girls stopped to watch and one of the firetrucks ran over a girl's foot. She was paying attention to the burning car and didn't move when the firetruck drove by. That was even funnier than the car burning. I don't think she was hurt that bad, mostly jumping around on one foot screaming.
My friend used to use windows media player as his mp3 player. He stopped using it after we made fun of him.
Other things we made our friend quite doing:
- Talking to girls
- His Dr. Who scarf was too short. Man, was that a riot.
- He was living in his mom's basement (pretty normal like the rest of us) but he tried to do his own laundry! Quite the ribbing on that one. 35 year olds don't do their own laundry.
- His episode of "Pretty Soldier Sailormoon" is the censored version where Usagi and Mamoru fall off the balcony WITHOUT the umbrella. Man, what a dork.
Oh, there's plenty of others, but don't get me started!
I've saw one up before, and I'm sure if I checked they'd pop up again and again. Once my 471212 becomes valuable (sometime around when James Tiberius Kirk is around), I'll sell it on eBay for 50 quatloos, I betcha.
Does anyone know where there's a list of spyware that does this? I'd like to see what programs to avoid stealing.. uhr.. I mean buying.
I'm glad I signed my name on her petition to run, but there's so many great unqualified candidates running I don't know who to vote for. Larry Flynt, the porn guy. Mary Carey, the porn star. Angelyne, the expensive hooker. Gary Coleman from Dirty Work. Hercules in New York.
I think the winner should be decided by a monkey knife fight.
They're the same people who ask employees at a restaurant, "Will I like this?". My answer was always, "how the fuck should I know you hag". They'd realize their stupidity and tip me heavily. So next time someone asks you "will I like this movie?" just repeat what I just said. I'll bet they tip you.
And some journalist who can't find a better story.
By "better" do you mean the article with 235 comments that even you posted too? Currently with a 4, Interesting rating.
It's August, a slow month for news, but I think this would've been covered in a normal month.
I have 2 members. One real, although I use the name IP Freely, and one fake. No point in saying that name even though I'll be rated out soon enough.
I like the fake ones that you can center in on something. I'm friends with a lot of people who've worked at MRR Magazine. There's a friendster of MRR and I've ran into people I haven't seen in years. That'll probably get yanked too.
These people are some of the most underpaid, underappreciated lot in our society (with the exceptions of teachers). They work long, hard, mentally-disturbing stints...in a community that probably doesn't even give a rats backside port about them.
They place their lives on the line, every day...even for somthing as stupid as a pull-over for a bad tail light.
You're right. That makes up for the cops that stood over me, making fun of the picture on my driver's license while the paramedics worked on me. They kept trying to get the paramedic to laugh too, but he said "Hey lay off" and got the cops to go away. Yes, sir. Them there cops sure is underappreciated. Nothing like a good gay bashing to get a Reno cop to say, "Go ahead and file a report if you'd like. We're not going to do anything". Or the cop that said, "I could kill you and no one would ever know".
Yup. Those guys are underappreciated. It'd be better if I was gay, but hey, I was a funny looking punk rocker, so therefore I was gay to the guys who jumped me from behind and to the cops who had to show up. It was made up for in the surgery I had to have. Not that the cops cared because I was gay so I had it coming.
I'm actually not that bitter, but if I saw a cop on fire, I wouldn't piss on him to put him out.
Try making up a good last name. I use "Smith".
Ever so sincerely,
Dave uh... "Smith"
There's a big difference between selling adult comic books and punching someone's nose. Wasn't the US supposed to be a republic and not a democracy? In democracy the majority can force the minority to do what they want, but in a republic you can't. Not that that actually occurs (manzinar, Chinese Exclusionary Act), but it's a nice ideal to shoot for.
Just trying to push up the stock prices. The SCO executives will be selling off all their stocks soon enough.
Did SCO get bought by the guy who bought Pabst, closed all the breweries and leased the Pabst name? Charles Hurwitz, the same guy who bought the logging companies in Northern California, upped the logging, sold his stocks high, and then the logging companies went under when they logged out everything. Maybe it's 2 guys and I'm just thinking (hoping) it's just one evil guy.
By "US car company" you mean Ford & GM. Chrysler is owned (0wn3d, I reckon) by the Germans. The US is down to 2 companies. How long do you think that'll last before FIAT buys another?
Most "foreign" car manufacturers have plants here.
Ah yeah, "majority" and "larger group of people to get hurt or angry". We "stopped" Chinese, Japanese and the rest of Asia-Pacific people from living in the Good Ol' USA. It wasn't until 1952 that they could become citizens and that was after 160 of being on the no-goodniks list.
I'd say everyone in this country is corrupt in some way or another. Luckily, I'm holier than thou. Excuse me while I go download some songs from Kazaa.
I always ask to be put on the DNC list. I used to just mess with them, but now I just say remove me. The last time the caller was from India and she started laughing. "You want me to what?" She put her boss on the phone so I could repeat "Put me on your do not call list". He laughed too. He said, "You know we're calling from India, so there's nothing you can do. If you'd like call up DirectTV and complain to them, but we'll still call you for our next client."
They were both actually really nice and honestly amused. I filed a report with the FCC against DirectTV but I'm sure I'll never hear anything back from it.
Although since I've been asking to be put on the master DNC list, and asking for a written copy of the DNC policies to be mailed to my PO Box, I don't get as many calls. I've also never received a copy of the DNC policies.
I've had my men out working on a Grand Hole in Northern Arizona. My Grand Hole covers 277 miles and has a small river running through it to wick away toxic wastes depositing them in a Giant Pond. So there's no problems with the Good Ol' USA!
Dang, even the google cashe of buymusic.com took forever on my Mozilla. It popped right up with Opera though.
I couldn't find an email to complain about the mandatory IE though. But there's this page: http://www.buymusic.com/support/email.aspx
Maybe sending something to their privacy guys at privacy@buymusic.com could do something though.
For free low-fi songs of a Star Trek band, you should follow the link in my sig.