If I lived in Chicago, I would get a Speedpass specifically for McDonald's. I tend not to carry much cash, so sometimes my selection of quick-place-to-eat is determined by which fast food place takes credit cards, which is a very small number. (Thankfully, the local A&W is an exception.)
If I spill McDonalds coffee on myself and get burned then it's their fault and my ass it getting paid...CHA-CHING!
For more information on the McDonalds coffee burn, which shows that it was not your average frivolous-lawsuit-demonstrating-the-need for-tort-reform, go here.
"Tighten" is probably better understood to be: take out the slack. Belts stretch under loading (accident), but you have a limit to permissible deflection (steering wheel). Taking the slack out just lets the seatbelt do its work, which is keep you in place and eat up some energy.
Volvo has developed Roll Stability Control (RSC), which is the first application of normal stability and traction controls to avoid the potential for rollover.
It's not a law. Salaried folks can be union. Some of the finance people at a large company I'm familiar with are union. It's just less common, perhaps because sitting long hours at a desk doesn't beat you up as much as laying bricks or working an assembly line.
Unions (eg. UAW, Teachers' Unions) have a tendency to be seniority rather than merit based. So when layoffs do come, whoever was hired last goes first, whether or not they are better/more qualified than others hired before them.
Common unions also divorce pay from skill/effort, and instead you must accumulate years rather than say, do good work, to get your raise and extra vacation.
A little extra bitter, as my wife the teacher was hired five days before the school year, and per union contract is first on the chopping block. BTW, the union will be fighting for a 2% raise for the remaining teachers in the district. Do the math, and that's most of the cut teachers' salaries. A union looks out for its interests, not necessarily those of the employees.
The built-in filter is far from perfect. Currently, I am getting loads of messages with just a single image routed to my inbox, rather than the bulk mail folder. Thankfully, Yahoo! does let you block images, so it doesn't load them and confirm your address. Newer accounts (eg., family members) seem less prone to this, perhaps because their addresses haven't been out in the wild as much yet.
For conventional text spam, the filters are decent and route most to the bulk mail folder.
As Wes Bentley was up for the role originally, this may be his shot. Based on his performance in American Beauty, it could be a darker, less happy-go-lucky Spiderman, which I would enjoy.
I did this for my high school "Physics Olympics". We had a boat race, from one end of the pool to the other. A small platform for our rower, and 100 and some odd feet of a 2 inch wide styrofoam strip. I think our time was less than 1 second.
Forget studying physics; we studied the rules.
This also led to the toothpick bridge that was constructed by gluing the whole back of toothpicks together. Since mass was in grams, and length was in centimeters, the straight multiplication for score was heavily weighted towards mass. 150 kg later, those sissy meter-long bridges didn't stand a chance.
You must do a helluva lot of driving in order to "save some money", or just be doing it for the environmental aspects. Let's take a $13,700 Civic HX versus a $19,100 Insight. (Permit me to use MSRP for argument's sake.) For every $1000 price difference, at $2.25 gallon you'd need to drive about 40k miles to pay off the Insight. That's around 211k to pay off the sticker price difference, and still in the high 100k miles after your tax incentive.
For that matter, to save money, drive your SUV and skip the $350+ month carpayment + $X dollars of insurance on the Insight.
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I would've been happier with "Trans Am" - at least keeping in the same rear wheel drive Pontiac family.
If I lived in Chicago, I would get a Speedpass specifically for McDonald's. I tend not to carry much cash, so sometimes my selection of quick-place-to-eat is determined by which fast food place takes credit cards, which is a very small number. (Thankfully, the local A&W is an exception.)
For more information on the McDonalds coffee burn, which shows that it was not your average frivolous-lawsuit-demonstrating-the-need for-tort-reform, go here.
That one's no good - I saw it in several spam messages today, right after offers for @!Ffjfou34444 and a free auuuuu__Uuuaf34342.
That's just because of the exchange rate. ;-)
It was inspired by Ray Kurzweil's In the Age of Spiritual Machines.
A great album, one of my favorites. Now if they'd just play in Michigan more so I didn't have to go to !$^@!$!@#$ Ohio to see them.
"Tighten" is probably better understood to be: take out the slack. Belts stretch under loading (accident), but you have a limit to permissible deflection (steering wheel). Taking the slack out just lets the seatbelt do its work, which is keep you in place and eat up some energy.
Four point seat belts wouldn't castrate you; you're thinking of five point belts.
I wouldn't worry about skidding; the vehicle would probably have abs in the event that it invokes that much braking.
Volvo has developed Roll Stability Control (RSC), which is the first application of normal stability and traction controls to avoid the potential for rollover.
It's not a law. Salaried folks can be union. Some of the finance people at a large company I'm familiar with are union. It's just less common, perhaps because sitting long hours at a desk doesn't beat you up as much as laying bricks or working an assembly line.
Common unions also divorce pay from skill/effort, and instead you must accumulate years rather than say, do good work, to get your raise and extra vacation.
A little extra bitter, as my wife the teacher was hired five days before the school year, and per union contract is first on the chopping block. BTW, the union will be fighting for a 2% raise for the remaining teachers in the district. Do the math, and that's most of the cut teachers' salaries. A union looks out for its interests, not necessarily those of the employees.
Protux moved to http://www.nongnu.org/protux/.
For conventional text spam, the filters are decent and route most to the bulk mail folder.
Looks like that link has roled off - this one should work.
As Wes Bentley was up for the role originally, this may be his shot. Based on his performance in American Beauty, it could be a darker, less happy-go-lucky Spiderman, which I would enjoy.
Forget studying physics; we studied the rules.
This also led to the toothpick bridge that was constructed by gluing the whole back of toothpicks together. Since mass was in grams, and length was in centimeters, the straight multiplication for score was heavily weighted towards mass. 150 kg later, those sissy meter-long bridges didn't stand a chance.
For that matter, to save money, drive your SUV and skip the $350+ month carpayment + $X dollars of insurance on the Insight.
He's right - the average Vulcan thinks the average Romulan is a troll because he lives under the bridge.
Jens "Yence, not Juh-enz" C.