I've bought several Samsung branded batteries on Amazon with no problems. Of course someone like Samsung has the muscle to attack fakes. Small niche companies are the most vulnerable.
Yes, I'm sure they can justify it. Basically if the police attempt to arrest you and you resist and have a weapon they are free to kill you. That's a basic fact. But was it necessary? I watched the video a dozen times and I don't believe they had to kill him. He was resisting and so they were okay to kill him. I remember cops when I was a kid and I saw one take a night stick to a guy that tried to pull a gun on him disarm the guy and then proceed to whip his ass silly with the stick. Hardly anyone talked about police brutality in those days but regardless the guy lived to get sentenced for resisting arrest. Police used to have balls.
I'm sure there are a lot of bad cops. Unfortunately there are also a lot of people like you. Ignorant and full of shit. I'll take my chance with the cops because I know what life would be like without them. Let a city like Baton Rouge have all their cops walk off the job for a week. It'll become a war zone for real.
Personally I don't think they had to shoot him. I'm with you on the fact he was actively resisting and it looked as if he might have been trying to reach for something with his free hand but I'd simply have pistol whipped his ass into submission. If two big ass cops can't handle a guy they're sitting on then they're fucking useless. They'll never get them for 1st degree murder as it's obvious they were in a struggle before they shot him but it's possible a jury might get them for manslaughter. But then they'll ask for a judge and with a bench trial and a non passionate judge applying the law in the strictest sense these guys will walk. Still, they should be fired. If they can't do any better than what I saw in that video they need to find another line of work.
My dad's 74 suburban had a 454 big block engine and a heavy duty towing package. It got 11 miles per gallon. 11 city, 11 highway and 11 when towing a 16 foot travel trailer. With all that torque you only knew you were towing the trailer by looking in the mirror. I do remember one time he towed a trailer load of chipped marble and it got 8 then. I could tell that load was back there!
That's pretty pricey but then I've never paid anyone to do a brake job. It's actually one of the less challenging mechanical jobs on a car. The hardest part is bleeding the brakes afterwards. Still, if you aren't mechanically inclined it's better to pay a professional.
The tend to be more efficient, especially on overhead cam engines. They used to have a reputation for being troublesome but modern ones seem to be much better. Modern electronics have solved a lot of problems with them.
Hah, I remember having to change the thermostat on my sons Maxima at a gas station parking lot one time. What on any normal american V8 is a 10 minute job became a fucking nightmare. There was about an inch and a half clearance between the housing and the strut tower. I looked at the plugs on hers because the shop wanted so much to change them. I'm not a professional mechanic but I've got 3 thousand dollars worth of tools I have acquired over my 56 years and I know how to use them after working on cars, trucks and aircraft for decades. I told her to pay them, they would earn it.
Probably okay if the shop is reputable. I had a friend that worked at one of those quick change places. He said most of the time they never actually changed the filter. Lot's quicker that way.
Non judicial punishment is optional in the military. It's something they offer you instead of a courts martial. It's kind of like the civilian equivalent of pleading guilty. Yeah, admit you screwed up and didn't properly store that classified material and we'll just take 2 stripes and a 500 dollar fine. Fight the charge and they try you and then they fry you. Off to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for a couple of years hard labor. I don't know why they fucking bothered with the sham FBI investigation. Everyone knows she's part of the elite in this country that are considered above the law. She's the next President so we have a new master coming to hold the reins of power. I'm already sick of this farce of an election.
Man a lot of people don't even know how to change an oil filter. If anything goes wrong once it's out of warranty they're at the mercy of a mechanic. It's like people having to take their computer to best buy because it wont boot, most end up just buying a new one when all they needed was a new hard drive.
If you don't have any mechanical ability you should buy a new car. It's terribly expensive compared to used but if you have to pay a mechanic unless you personally know a good one you're going to pay out the ass for repairs. To change the heater core in my Grand Marquis it cost me just over 50 bucks for the part and a couple gallons of anti-freeze and most of a Saturday in my garage. If I had to pay for it I'd have had to pay 500 dollars and that's to a guy I know and trust. At the local Ford dealer I'd have gotten shafted to the tune of almost 800 dollars. Labor is expensive and tearing the dash out of a car down to the firewall isn't fun but I'm not paying out that kind of money.
I've bought two new cars in my life and both times I paid out the ass compared to the used cars I've bought. I bought a 2001 Grand Marquis in 2005 with only 28,000 miles on it for 11,000 dollars and I'm still driving it now with 186,000 miles on it. I've had to fix a few things but it's a joy to drive, super comfortable and built like a tank. Cars off lease are almost always great buys. Well maintained with low miles and good prices. I will never buy another new car.
His pads hit metal so the rotors were probably impossible to refurbish. Those can cost quite a bit for 4 of them assuming that all of them were damaged. More likely he got ripped off and only 1 or at most 2 of them were bad. Depending on the car those are about 30 to 100 dollars per wheel. Brake pads might be 50 bucks per brake pair for OEM style pads. That's a lot more than 50 bucks in parts. Still 700 sounds really excessive, he probably took it to his dealer and you know those guys are going to fuck you. I've installed plugs on my Grand Marquis and it's a bitch on it. I can't conceive of doing it on my daughters Nissan. Sure, they're a couple of dollars a piece for the plugs but 130 dollars per hour of labor and that gets expensive too. If you can't work on your own car then the simplest maintenance will cost hundreds of dollars. My dad taught me because we couldn't afford to pay anyone else to do it and we had cars that were almost always 20 to 30 years old and required a lot of work. I remember my dad rebuilding a 57 buick dyanflow transmission on a table in our basement. That was a shitty transmission, he called it a dynaslush. Still he got the car for 100 dollars, towed it home and 3 days later he was driving it to work for the next 7 years before it threw a rod and went to the crusher.
You know, some people that hate Hillary have no love for Trump either. You knew that didn't you? Or do you think if you dislike one you must love the other?
Yeah, that's why I had to upgrade. My DirecTV DVR sucked every tiny bit of bandwidth on it every time my wife hit up on demand for a show she'd missed. After a decade it was just too slow to keep up.
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I've bought several Samsung branded batteries on Amazon with no problems. Of course someone like Samsung has the muscle to attack fakes. Small niche companies are the most vulnerable.
Counterfeit Meds should be life in prison.
A Weber? Not a Green Egg?
Yes, I'm sure they can justify it. Basically if the police attempt to arrest you and you resist and have a weapon they are free to kill you. That's a basic fact. But was it necessary? I watched the video a dozen times and I don't believe they had to kill him. He was resisting and so they were okay to kill him. I remember cops when I was a kid and I saw one take a night stick to a guy that tried to pull a gun on him disarm the guy and then proceed to whip his ass silly with the stick. Hardly anyone talked about police brutality in those days but regardless the guy lived to get sentenced for resisting arrest. Police used to have balls.
I'm sure there are a lot of bad cops. Unfortunately there are also a lot of people like you. Ignorant and full of shit. I'll take my chance with the cops because I know what life would be like without them. Let a city like Baton Rouge have all their cops walk off the job for a week. It'll become a war zone for real.
Personally I don't think they had to shoot him. I'm with you on the fact he was actively resisting and it looked as if he might have been trying to reach for something with his free hand but I'd simply have pistol whipped his ass into submission. If two big ass cops can't handle a guy they're sitting on then they're fucking useless. They'll never get them for 1st degree murder as it's obvious they were in a struggle before they shot him but it's possible a jury might get them for manslaughter. But then they'll ask for a judge and with a bench trial and a non passionate judge applying the law in the strictest sense these guys will walk. Still, they should be fired. If they can't do any better than what I saw in that video they need to find another line of work.
My dad's 74 suburban had a 454 big block engine and a heavy duty towing package. It got 11 miles per gallon. 11 city, 11 highway and 11 when towing a 16 foot travel trailer. With all that torque you only knew you were towing the trailer by looking in the mirror. I do remember one time he towed a trailer load of chipped marble and it got 8 then. I could tell that load was back there!
That's pretty pricey but then I've never paid anyone to do a brake job. It's actually one of the less challenging mechanical jobs on a car. The hardest part is bleeding the brakes afterwards. Still, if you aren't mechanically inclined it's better to pay a professional.
On the open road they're hard to beat but I think in town driving they're not any better than a normally aspirated engine.
The tend to be more efficient, especially on overhead cam engines. They used to have a reputation for being troublesome but modern ones seem to be much better. Modern electronics have solved a lot of problems with them.
Right, most of the time the back brakes will last at least as long as two front sets.
Hah, I remember having to change the thermostat on my sons Maxima at a gas station parking lot one time. What on any normal american V8 is a 10 minute job became a fucking nightmare. There was about an inch and a half clearance between the housing and the strut tower. I looked at the plugs on hers because the shop wanted so much to change them. I'm not a professional mechanic but I've got 3 thousand dollars worth of tools I have acquired over my 56 years and I know how to use them after working on cars, trucks and aircraft for decades. I told her to pay them, they would earn it.
Probably okay if the shop is reputable. I had a friend that worked at one of those quick change places. He said most of the time they never actually changed the filter. Lot's quicker that way.
I mean he should get a free pass too shouldn't he? After all, his intentions were pure and not for personal gain like Hillary.
Non judicial punishment is optional in the military. It's something they offer you instead of a courts martial. It's kind of like the civilian equivalent of pleading guilty. Yeah, admit you screwed up and didn't properly store that classified material and we'll just take 2 stripes and a 500 dollar fine. Fight the charge and they try you and then they fry you. Off to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for a couple of years hard labor. I don't know why they fucking bothered with the sham FBI investigation. Everyone knows she's part of the elite in this country that are considered above the law. She's the next President so we have a new master coming to hold the reins of power. I'm already sick of this farce of an election.
Man a lot of people don't even know how to change an oil filter. If anything goes wrong once it's out of warranty they're at the mercy of a mechanic. It's like people having to take their computer to best buy because it wont boot, most end up just buying a new one when all they needed was a new hard drive.
If you don't have any mechanical ability you should buy a new car. It's terribly expensive compared to used but if you have to pay a mechanic unless you personally know a good one you're going to pay out the ass for repairs. To change the heater core in my Grand Marquis it cost me just over 50 bucks for the part and a couple gallons of anti-freeze and most of a Saturday in my garage. If I had to pay for it I'd have had to pay 500 dollars and that's to a guy I know and trust. At the local Ford dealer I'd have gotten shafted to the tune of almost 800 dollars. Labor is expensive and tearing the dash out of a car down to the firewall isn't fun but I'm not paying out that kind of money.
I've bought two new cars in my life and both times I paid out the ass compared to the used cars I've bought. I bought a 2001 Grand Marquis in 2005 with only 28,000 miles on it for 11,000 dollars and I'm still driving it now with 186,000 miles on it. I've had to fix a few things but it's a joy to drive, super comfortable and built like a tank. Cars off lease are almost always great buys. Well maintained with low miles and good prices. I will never buy another new car.
Probably stuff like the starter, alternator, power steering pump, those kinds of bullshit items designed to break after 5 to 7 years of standard use.
His pads hit metal so the rotors were probably impossible to refurbish. Those can cost quite a bit for 4 of them assuming that all of them were damaged. More likely he got ripped off and only 1 or at most 2 of them were bad. Depending on the car those are about 30 to 100 dollars per wheel. Brake pads might be 50 bucks per brake pair for OEM style pads. That's a lot more than 50 bucks in parts. Still 700 sounds really excessive, he probably took it to his dealer and you know those guys are going to fuck you. I've installed plugs on my Grand Marquis and it's a bitch on it. I can't conceive of doing it on my daughters Nissan. Sure, they're a couple of dollars a piece for the plugs but 130 dollars per hour of labor and that gets expensive too. If you can't work on your own car then the simplest maintenance will cost hundreds of dollars. My dad taught me because we couldn't afford to pay anyone else to do it and we had cars that were almost always 20 to 30 years old and required a lot of work. I remember my dad rebuilding a 57 buick dyanflow transmission on a table in our basement. That was a shitty transmission, he called it a dynaslush. Still he got the car for 100 dollars, towed it home and 3 days later he was driving it to work for the next 7 years before it threw a rod and went to the crusher.
Courts. That's the way it's supposed to work. Using bureaucrats and other organizations
for that job is madness.
Hillary Clinton's hawkish foreign policy? What? Back off the pills man.
No, they're just low level demons.
You know, some people that hate Hillary have no love for Trump either. You knew that didn't you? Or do you think if you dislike one you must love the other?
Yeah, that's why I had to upgrade. My DirecTV DVR sucked every tiny bit of bandwidth on it every time my wife hit up on demand for a show she'd missed. After a decade it was just too slow to keep up.