I was told by a colleague who owned an Eclipse that he regretted buying the car. He said that although it had a powerful engine, the body/frame was too heavy and negated the power making it slow off the line.
Sounds like the kind of problems the Chevy Grand Caravan for their early/mid-2000 model years. My parents bought one, the dealer tried 3 engine swaps and still couldn't get an engine that worked right. They finally wrote it off as a lemon and bought a Kia instead that has been running flawlessly.
I have a 2001 Suzuki Vitara (2L/4cyl. Auto.) It is rated for 20/23 (city/highway) and I routinely get 22/25. I really wish they wouldn't have left the US market.
Topolsky is too young, he doesn't remember how things were before the 1990's when media companies started merging and becoming mega conglomerates. In the 1980's and prior there were far more media companies and they were far more independent than they are now. If CBS in bumhole Texas didn't want to air something they didn't have to, if ABC in jack-all Pennsylvania wanted to air gospel services they damn well did. It was easier to get movies into nationwide theaters, more choices for newspapers and magazines. Radio stations were actually the first to start getting sucked up by mergers and acquisition when Clear Channel began buying up every station they could. I still remember stations that started laying off live DJ's replacing them with taped recordings and began playing the same music and ads across each station. Things got even worse in the 1990's as Univision began buying up all the stations they could to push Spanish-language broadcasts to cash in on the growing Latino population (both illegal and legal). The most egregious example in the television world of mediocrity is none other than MTV. remember when they played music videos? Remember when they courted they had people on that were over the age of 25? Remember when people on the Real World actually had to pay rent? Remember when VHS used to play music videos after MTV stopped doing so? Remember CMT "Country Music Television"? Things did not explode into a new world of choice, they consolidated, homogenized, and chased after the advertisers paying the most money for a particular demographic. Then all the Senator's wives started banding together and threatening those handful of advertisers to not support anything they deemed controversial resulting in the conservative television landscape we have now. Things were better in the 70's and 80's than they are now because back then we had riskier content and independent media outlets serving up that content. The biggest threat to returning to that era now are the Internet service providers that are trying to restrict access to alternative sources of media.
Am I the only person on Earth that signed up for Youtube Red? I happily pay $10 a month for an ad-free experience, it's a substantial bargain compared to the $120/month I used to pay for cable TV which was overrun with ads. I also pay for HBO Now, Twitch Turbo for zero ads and PBS Passport for access to their back-catalog of shows. I hope Crackle offers and ad-free version for $10/month as well. $50-ish a month means I'm still saving $70/month.
I read the summary while imagining it being spoken by the voice of the computer attached to his chair that we are all familiar with. I then figured his cringed expression and eye movement were a desperate plea for help but that no one was bothering to verify his eyes were pointing to the same letters the computer was speaking. For all we know he has been trying to warn us that Skynet became active during the Reagan administration.
I sure know I will feel safer with the knowledge that fire trucks rolling down the street have the equipment on-hand to start a fire. Makes perfect sense.
I have not experienced ageism myself, only 37, but my Dad has. He worked for 14 years as an electrical engineer at Applied Materials before he got released in one of their many rounds of massive layoffs. When he went applying for similar work at other companies what he typically ran into was the department manager would say he was the best candidate they had ever seen and was very vocal about wanting to hire my Dad, but then once the paperwork went to HR they would not allow the hiring of my Dad due to his age. He heard from numerous managers the exact same story, that HR would not allow them to hire him.
The closest I have come to experiencing this was an HR department struggle to find an "acceptable" job title to classify my position under that would keep me held back under the particular ranking (I, II, II, IV, etc...) yet still allow my manager to give me a much needed pay raise. As a result, I don't necessarily believe that the issue is 100% the age of a person but the system by which HR uses to classify employees.
Just last night I was at Wal-Mart (sadly they have the best ice cream selection) and the morbidly obese black woman in front of me was having a problem using her card since she wanted to use it as a credit card but the chip was only allowing it to be used as a debit card. Thankfully, the cashier was able to get it to swipe as a credit card to get her transaction processed. Of course, she still had to stand there for 5 minutes and argue about how much she was charged for a 5-pack of Capri-Sun boxes. According to the cashier it was a limitation of the bank's implementation of the chip forcing it to only allow her card to be used as debit in that way.
I don't have a chip card yet (USAA is taking their sweet time) so I still enjoy the swiftness of swiping. I wish they would accept ApplePay though, it's much faster and safer.
With ApplePay you just hold the phone near the terminal and the phone automatically brings up your wallet, you don't need to unlock the phone first, it prompts you to use the TouchID merely to authorize the transaction. The first few times I used it I was unlocking the phone beforehand until I read somewhere that it wasn't necessary. I currently use it an average of 10 times a week, there just are not enough places accepting it.
I am a USAA customer and use a Chase ATM near me (USAA does not have branches of their own.) When I use the Chase ATM I insert the card and pull it right back out, it does not hold it and I do not leave it in. I have used ATMs that pull the card in and don't relinquish it until after the transaction is done, but the last time I used one it was an ancient ATM in an HSBC office building. Even the ATM's at gas stations are swipe style with the annoying recess that you have to fit your fingers into when inserting and removing the card.
Your forgot the biggest assumption of all: that the alien UFO had pulled into a precision orbit going the same direction and velocity as the space station.
I just use the Notes app on iOS. Preferably, I just take a photo of something rather than type out the detail. If the information was already written down on a label I see no reason to duplicate that effort, just photograph it and read it from the photo. Handy for recalling serial numbers and such. On a PC I just use the Sticky Notes app and screenshots. The only thing I tend to write down with a pen and paper anymore are passwords, which is possibly the worst thing to be writing down.
Do they have a plan for how to deal with all the batteries that will get replaced each year? Are there recyclable batteries suitable for use in an electric car? Other than that I believe consolidating pollution to a single-source, in this cases the power company producing the electricity used to charge the batteries, is a good thing. It is far easier to manage, filter, capture the pollution from one source than it is from a million sources.
The whole point of washing ones hands is to kill and remove the germs through the rigorous use of hot water and soap, the drying is just for comfort. The only thing that matters is which dries hands better and is more environmentally friendly from a resource perspective.
I read elsewhere that what AMC is discussing is having selected screens or showings at their multiplexes be designated for smartphone use during the movie, similar to the way you select between the 2D or 3D showing of some movies.
I grew up going to double-features and movies with actual intermissions that were long enough to go to the bathroom. I still go to the movies though and don't care about the ads since I just use my smartphone to keep me entertained until the movie starts. Unlike these millennials, though, I was taught to be respectful. So, when the movie starts I turn on airplane mode and pocket the phone so that even if the screen were to accidentally activate the back-light won't bother other patrons. I would be embarrassed if that were to happen which is what all these damn whiny millennials should be for their entire generation.
This just makes me want to vote for Trump even more knowing that he is being himself and not putting on a fake facade to trick people. Honesty is so rare these days, Trump is quite refreshing.
Call it an upgrade instead. The word recall implies something was mandated by a government or standards group. Since this is free and an improvement over the previous design just call it an upgrade.
The easiest way to identify someone with a Class B personality pretending to be Class A is the use of the word "unacceptable". You will find it used frequently in forums about Apple products by people that try to buy class rather than exude it.
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or when update 1511 installs.
I was told by a colleague who owned an Eclipse that he regretted buying the car. He said that although it had a powerful engine, the body/frame was too heavy and negated the power making it slow off the line.
Sounds like the kind of problems the Chevy Grand Caravan for their early/mid-2000 model years. My parents bought one, the dealer tried 3 engine swaps and still couldn't get an engine that worked right. They finally wrote it off as a lemon and bought a Kia instead that has been running flawlessly.
I have a 2001 Suzuki Vitara (2L/4cyl. Auto.) It is rated for 20/23 (city/highway) and I routinely get 22/25. I really wish they wouldn't have left the US market.
Topolsky is too young, he doesn't remember how things were before the 1990's when media companies started merging and becoming mega conglomerates. In the 1980's and prior there were far more media companies and they were far more independent than they are now. If CBS in bumhole Texas didn't want to air something they didn't have to, if ABC in jack-all Pennsylvania wanted to air gospel services they damn well did. It was easier to get movies into nationwide theaters, more choices for newspapers and magazines. Radio stations were actually the first to start getting sucked up by mergers and acquisition when Clear Channel began buying up every station they could. I still remember stations that started laying off live DJ's replacing them with taped recordings and began playing the same music and ads across each station. Things got even worse in the 1990's as Univision began buying up all the stations they could to push Spanish-language broadcasts to cash in on the growing Latino population (both illegal and legal). The most egregious example in the television world of mediocrity is none other than MTV. remember when they played music videos? Remember when they courted they had people on that were over the age of 25? Remember when people on the Real World actually had to pay rent? Remember when VHS used to play music videos after MTV stopped doing so? Remember CMT "Country Music Television"? Things did not explode into a new world of choice, they consolidated, homogenized, and chased after the advertisers paying the most money for a particular demographic. Then all the Senator's wives started banding together and threatening those handful of advertisers to not support anything they deemed controversial resulting in the conservative television landscape we have now. Things were better in the 70's and 80's than they are now because back then we had riskier content and independent media outlets serving up that content. The biggest threat to returning to that era now are the Internet service providers that are trying to restrict access to alternative sources of media.
Am I the only person on Earth that signed up for Youtube Red? I happily pay $10 a month for an ad-free experience, it's a substantial bargain compared to the $120/month I used to pay for cable TV which was overrun with ads. I also pay for HBO Now, Twitch Turbo for zero ads and PBS Passport for access to their back-catalog of shows. I hope Crackle offers and ad-free version for $10/month as well. $50-ish a month means I'm still saving $70/month.
I read the summary while imagining it being spoken by the voice of the computer attached to his chair that we are all familiar with. I then figured his cringed expression and eye movement were a desperate plea for help but that no one was bothering to verify his eyes were pointing to the same letters the computer was speaking. For all we know he has been trying to warn us that Skynet became active during the Reagan administration.
I sure know I will feel safer with the knowledge that fire trucks rolling down the street have the equipment on-hand to start a fire. Makes perfect sense.
I know right, us damn 6'rs keep getting all the mod points. Mwuahahahaha!
I have not experienced ageism myself, only 37, but my Dad has. He worked for 14 years as an electrical engineer at Applied Materials before he got released in one of their many rounds of massive layoffs. When he went applying for similar work at other companies what he typically ran into was the department manager would say he was the best candidate they had ever seen and was very vocal about wanting to hire my Dad, but then once the paperwork went to HR they would not allow the hiring of my Dad due to his age. He heard from numerous managers the exact same story, that HR would not allow them to hire him.
The closest I have come to experiencing this was an HR department struggle to find an "acceptable" job title to classify my position under that would keep me held back under the particular ranking (I, II, II, IV, etc...) yet still allow my manager to give me a much needed pay raise. As a result, I don't necessarily believe that the issue is 100% the age of a person but the system by which HR uses to classify employees.
Just last night I was at Wal-Mart (sadly they have the best ice cream selection) and the morbidly obese black woman in front of me was having a problem using her card since she wanted to use it as a credit card but the chip was only allowing it to be used as a debit card. Thankfully, the cashier was able to get it to swipe as a credit card to get her transaction processed. Of course, she still had to stand there for 5 minutes and argue about how much she was charged for a 5-pack of Capri-Sun boxes. According to the cashier it was a limitation of the bank's implementation of the chip forcing it to only allow her card to be used as debit in that way.
I don't have a chip card yet (USAA is taking their sweet time) so I still enjoy the swiftness of swiping. I wish they would accept ApplePay though, it's much faster and safer.
With ApplePay you just hold the phone near the terminal and the phone automatically brings up your wallet, you don't need to unlock the phone first, it prompts you to use the TouchID merely to authorize the transaction. The first few times I used it I was unlocking the phone beforehand until I read somewhere that it wasn't necessary. I currently use it an average of 10 times a week, there just are not enough places accepting it.
ApplePay takes 2 seconds, no need to futz around with a wallet, just toss your phone back in the pocket, grab the receipt and go.
Apple does not charge merchants anything for ApplePay, try doing research before posting lies.
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
I am a USAA customer and use a Chase ATM near me (USAA does not have branches of their own.) When I use the Chase ATM I insert the card and pull it right back out, it does not hold it and I do not leave it in. I have used ATMs that pull the card in and don't relinquish it until after the transaction is done, but the last time I used one it was an ancient ATM in an HSBC office building. Even the ATM's at gas stations are swipe style with the annoying recess that you have to fit your fingers into when inserting and removing the card.
Your forgot the biggest assumption of all: that the alien UFO had pulled into a precision orbit going the same direction and velocity as the space station.
I just use the Notes app on iOS. Preferably, I just take a photo of something rather than type out the detail. If the information was already written down on a label I see no reason to duplicate that effort, just photograph it and read it from the photo. Handy for recalling serial numbers and such. On a PC I just use the Sticky Notes app and screenshots. The only thing I tend to write down with a pen and paper anymore are passwords, which is possibly the worst thing to be writing down.
Do they have a plan for how to deal with all the batteries that will get replaced each year? Are there recyclable batteries suitable for use in an electric car? Other than that I believe consolidating pollution to a single-source, in this cases the power company producing the electricity used to charge the batteries, is a good thing. It is far easier to manage, filter, capture the pollution from one source than it is from a million sources.
The whole point of washing ones hands is to kill and remove the germs through the rigorous use of hot water and soap, the drying is just for comfort. The only thing that matters is which dries hands better and is more environmentally friendly from a resource perspective.
I read elsewhere that what AMC is discussing is having selected screens or showings at their multiplexes be designated for smartphone use during the movie, similar to the way you select between the 2D or 3D showing of some movies.
I grew up going to double-features and movies with actual intermissions that were long enough to go to the bathroom. I still go to the movies though and don't care about the ads since I just use my smartphone to keep me entertained until the movie starts. Unlike these millennials, though, I was taught to be respectful. So, when the movie starts I turn on airplane mode and pocket the phone so that even if the screen were to accidentally activate the back-light won't bother other patrons. I would be embarrassed if that were to happen which is what all these damn whiny millennials should be for their entire generation.
This just makes me want to vote for Trump even more knowing that he is being himself and not putting on a fake facade to trick people. Honesty is so rare these days, Trump is quite refreshing.
Call it an upgrade instead. The word recall implies something was mandated by a government or standards group. Since this is free and an improvement over the previous design just call it an upgrade.
The easiest way to identify someone with a Class B personality pretending to be Class A is the use of the word "unacceptable". You will find it used frequently in forums about Apple products by people that try to buy class rather than exude it.
Actually, Republican Senators go to bathrooms to find gay sex partners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...