That is funny, both that she did it and that the tow truck driver told her to. Water damage like this is SO easy to spot as you probably know.
If she was going to decieve, she should have at least made a half-assed attempt at it and pulled the spark plugs, drained the water from the cylinders, etc. And then she could explain why the connecting rods are bent and there is water in the oil...:)
From my experience, they are not doing it to sell the movie. A have seen a lot of theses camcorder jobs on IRC the same day a movie opens in theatres. I think they do it "to be cool" or because they like the risk involved and enjoy helping out the people in their crowd or trading ring.
As a holder of a concealed weapons permit, I think you would find those who "pack heat" legally (with a permit), are among the safest and most well-trained people with firearms. I would be thankfull if I was not carrying and was in a place that was robbed or something else, and there was someone with a concealed carry permit and handgun to protect the rest of the citizens.
It is those who carry weapons illegally that are the problem. Most people I know who carry leagally are well trained and go to the range often to hone their skills. And NO ONE I know who carries a handgun WANTS to use it.
So BMW refused to warranty damage caused by something they told your friend's sister not to do? What's wrong with that?
With a car that small and low, I would expect it would not be able to drive through a foot of water. Water would probably get into the intake and hydrolock the engine.
I agree. While there will always be a need for more computing horsepower, consumer PC purchases in the near future will be largely based on size, style, and noise, and processor horsepower will be a secondary concern.
It is similar to the muscle car days of the 1960's and 70's - everyone was wanting more power, more speed. They got what they wanted, but there was a sacrifice of handling, fuel consumption, etc. Then we saw a shift in the 80's and 90's to the econoboxes. Now for many consumers, the look at styling and comfort first, and engine size later. And even our big engines are much more reliable, clean, and efficient that their 70's counterparts.
You can't smoke the tires on the WRX because it doesn't have enough horsepower. Please. Normal every-day street tires don't have very much grip to begin with. And at it's claimed ~270HP, this still is not enough power to spin the tires for a few blocks.
Not to mention the power delivery of these engines is much more in the high RPMs, where the older big displacement V8's have much more power in the low end, which will help "off the line".
The WRX has much more power and pep than other cars in it's class, but it is not a muscle car. It does handle quite well, though. Handling is much better than the muscle cars of yesteryear.
When you are composing a new email, go to Format -> HTML. It will format your email in HTML. Seriously. I have had to use LookOut 2003 for several months now.
Yes, european cars tend to be this way. I once accidentally put a few gallons of diesel in my friend's old 70's BMW. He has claimed it never ran right after that. I am not sure if I believe him.:) The diesel was heavily diluted with gas.
Either way, the diesel nozzle will not fit on American or Japanese made cars, as it is too big. Euro cars, however, it seems anything will fit in there.
I wonder if a car like this was actually on the market if there would be a popular aftermarket hood mod. Basically you would cut the hood open with a plasma cutter or cutting wheel, then install an aftermarket-made hood with the accompanying brackets and accessories.
I mean really, how can they keep the front body closed to everyone except volvo mechanics? a new weird-shaped bolt that requires a special (expensive) volvo tool (this is common motorcycles)? or would it be more complex, perhaps something that would have to be validated with the onboard computer before it would allow the hood to be opened? maybe a mixture of both is my guess.
And I should have mentioned in my previous post that the main reason Stream couldn't solve a lot of problems wasn't the people, it was their really crappy training, and poor resources. We had very good training (I spent a solid month in training, and we had update trainings all the time). Stream just didn't have good training (too much money... if their employees weren't on the phone, they weren't making money).
That's interesting. I worked for a company that outsourced to stream (beaverton, or). You guys were tier 1 basically, and we handeled the calls that Stream couldn't solve. As the article mentioned, I found a lot of punters that just wanted to dump the customer on to me, but I would largely refuse if they had not done there were. After a while I began to recognize the major punters who just didn't care (Terry, I am looking at you, wherever you are).
I was hard to blaim the lowly stream employees though, I knew they were graded heavily on call time (we were not), and I knew they were making crap wages. To them it was just a paycheck.
Nothin has changed. The company I used to work for lost Stream and outsourced to another company outside the US, which I hear is even worse (but cheaper).
Perhaps you might think differently if you were one of the ones in the World Trade Center that jumped out from a 70 story window because that's the BEST option you had. Or if you were a close relative of one who did.
Have some respect.
Or will it take another attack before you figure out that that the US needs better security?
As is Microsoft... OS/2 anyone? Microsoft pulled a backstab to IBM when they lost interest in OS/2 after Windows 3.x was developed. I
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I'm a storage engineer, and, to the enterprise, 30TB is peanuts. On a busy day, I have provisioned 30TB in one day to various computers. A typical high-end array (an EMC/Hitachi/HP/etc)usually tops out at around 150TB, but you can have a bunch of them on the same storage area network.
The trick, is how to back it all up in shortening backup windows. Things like truecopy work, but take twice the disk space.
Fuck yes. Speak it brother. God I hate the same damn thing at my school. If one teaches in America at an English-speaking school, one should be re-fucking-quired to speak decent English.
What would you propose? I think worthless version number skips are dumb, like jumping from version 2 to 8 for no other reason, but what's wrong with going to version 10 from version 9? Version 10 will likely have a kernel version 2.6.x, up from 2.4.x, so what's wrong with going to the next number when a major change takes place (like a new kernel)?
I know it's chic for people to hate SUVs right now, but, one shouldn't have to defend purchasing or using one. They serve a legitimate purpose. Don't worry about defending yourself. If you have the money and the desire, go ahead an buy whatever car/truck/van/SUV you want.
Here where I live, much like you, we need something more than a car. I prefer trucks, since I haul and tow things, but SUVs are great too for the mountain driving and carrying more passengers.
I guess I am just sick of people hating the SUV, while excluding the other options. SUVs are a very good all-around vehicle, and, yes this may be a surprise to slashdotters, but some of us don't live in florida, and yes, it actually snows a lot, and yes we do go offroad.
would you believe me if i say i have never bought a music cd? i am just not that big into music. however, i did "inherit" my wife's collection when we got married, so we probably have about 5 gigs of mp3s now. not that i like listening to air supply, though.
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That is funny, both that she did it and that the tow truck driver told her to. Water damage like this is SO easy to spot as you probably know.
:)
If she was going to decieve, she should have at least made a half-assed attempt at it and pulled the spark plugs, drained the water from the cylinders, etc. And then she could explain why the connecting rods are bent and there is water in the oil...
From my experience, they are not doing it to sell the movie. A have seen a lot of theses camcorder jobs on IRC the same day a movie opens in theatres. I think they do it "to be cool" or because they like the risk involved and enjoy helping out the people in their crowd or trading ring.
As a holder of a concealed weapons permit, I think you would find those who "pack heat" legally (with a permit), are among the safest and most well-trained people with firearms. I would be thankfull if I was not carrying and was in a place that was robbed or something else, and there was someone with a concealed carry permit and handgun to protect the rest of the citizens.
It is those who carry weapons illegally that are the problem. Most people I know who carry leagally are well trained and go to the range often to hone their skills. And NO ONE I know who carries a handgun WANTS to use it.
So BMW refused to warranty damage caused by something they told your friend's sister not to do? What's wrong with that?
With a car that small and low, I would expect it would not be able to drive through a foot of water. Water would probably get into the intake and hydrolock the engine.
I agree. While there will always be a need for more computing horsepower, consumer PC purchases in the near future will be largely based on size, style, and noise, and processor horsepower will be a secondary concern.
It is similar to the muscle car days of the 1960's and 70's - everyone was wanting more power, more speed. They got what they wanted, but there was a sacrifice of handling, fuel consumption, etc. Then we saw a shift in the 80's and 90's to the econoboxes. Now for many consumers, the look at styling and comfort first, and engine size later. And even our big engines are much more reliable, clean, and efficient that their 70's counterparts.
you are a dork and need to get out more.
This is not true. Pager services have been able to hold message till the pager was in range for years, just like cell phones.
You can't smoke the tires on the WRX because it doesn't have enough horsepower. Please. Normal every-day street tires don't have very much grip to begin with. And at it's claimed ~270HP, this still is not enough power to spin the tires for a few blocks.
Not to mention the power delivery of these engines is much more in the high RPMs, where the older big displacement V8's have much more power in the low end, which will help "off the line".
The WRX has much more power and pep than other cars in it's class, but it is not a muscle car. It does handle quite well, though. Handling is much better than the muscle cars of yesteryear.
That easy, huh? :)
When you are composing a new email, go to Format -> HTML. It will format your email in HTML. Seriously. I have had to use LookOut 2003 for several months now.
Yes, european cars tend to be this way. I once accidentally put a few gallons of diesel in my friend's old 70's BMW. He has claimed it never ran right after that. I am not sure if I believe him. :) The diesel was heavily diluted with gas.
Either way, the diesel nozzle will not fit on American or Japanese made cars, as it is too big. Euro cars, however, it seems anything will fit in there.
I wonder if a car like this was actually on the market if there would be a popular aftermarket hood mod. Basically you would cut the hood open with a plasma cutter or cutting wheel, then install an aftermarket-made hood with the accompanying brackets and accessories.
I mean really, how can they keep the front body closed to everyone except volvo mechanics? a new weird-shaped bolt that requires a special (expensive) volvo tool (this is common motorcycles)? or would it be more complex, perhaps something that would have to be validated with the onboard computer before it would allow the hood to be opened? maybe a mixture of both is my guess.
And I should have mentioned in my previous post that the main reason Stream couldn't solve a lot of problems wasn't the people, it was their really crappy training, and poor resources. We had very good training (I spent a solid month in training, and we had update trainings all the time). Stream just didn't have good training (too much money... if their employees weren't on the phone, they weren't making money).
That's interesting. I worked for a company that outsourced to stream (beaverton, or). You guys were tier 1 basically, and we handeled the calls that Stream couldn't solve. As the article mentioned, I found a lot of punters that just wanted to dump the customer on to me, but I would largely refuse if they had not done there were. After a while I began to recognize the major punters who just didn't care (Terry, I am looking at you, wherever you are).
I was hard to blaim the lowly stream employees though, I knew they were graded heavily on call time (we were not), and I knew they were making crap wages. To them it was just a paycheck.
Nothin has changed. The company I used to work for lost Stream and outsourced to another company outside the US, which I hear is even worse (but cheaper).
Apple doesn't have DRM? uhhh... ok... Then why can't I download iTunes music from any OS, burn it with any software, and play it with any player?
It's Carly, or Carleton, you poop slap. Not Carla.
Perhaps you might think differently if you were one of the ones in the World Trade Center that jumped out from a 70 story window because that's the BEST option you had. Or if you were a close relative of one who did.
Have some respect.
Or will it take another attack before you figure out that that the US needs better security?
As is Microsoft... OS/2 anyone? Microsoft pulled a backstab to IBM when they lost interest in OS/2 after Windows 3.x was developed. I
I'm a storage engineer, and, to the enterprise, 30TB is peanuts. On a busy day, I have provisioned 30TB in one day to various computers. A typical high-end array (an EMC/Hitachi/HP/etc)usually tops out at around 150TB, but you can have a bunch of them on the same storage area network.
The trick, is how to back it all up in shortening backup windows. Things like truecopy work, but take twice the disk space.
Fuck yes. Speak it brother. God I hate the same damn thing at my school. If one teaches in America at an English-speaking school, one should be re-fucking-quired to speak decent English.
So would signing 300 copies become signing 900 copies? Aren't we stuck in a recusrive loop now?!
What would you propose? I think worthless version number skips are dumb, like jumping from version 2 to 8 for no other reason, but what's wrong with going to version 10 from version 9? Version 10 will likely have a kernel version 2.6.x, up from 2.4.x, so what's wrong with going to the next number when a major change takes place (like a new kernel)?
Personally, I don't think I would like a computer in my collar. I would rather have it in my armpit or my ass crack, if at all possible.
I know it's chic for people to hate SUVs right now, but, one shouldn't have to defend purchasing or using one. They serve a legitimate purpose. Don't worry about defending yourself. If you have the money and the desire, go ahead an buy whatever car/truck/van/SUV you want.
Here where I live, much like you, we need something more than a car. I prefer trucks, since I haul and tow things, but SUVs are great too for the mountain driving and carrying more passengers.
I guess I am just sick of people hating the SUV, while excluding the other options. SUVs are a very good all-around vehicle, and, yes this may be a surprise to slashdotters, but some of us don't live in florida, and yes, it actually snows a lot, and yes we do go offroad.
would you believe me if i say i have never bought a music cd? i am just not that big into music. however, i did "inherit" my wife's collection when we got married, so we probably have about 5 gigs of mp3s now. not that i like listening to air supply, though.