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Conetent from my daily travels TITI ``CUBA  (There wasn't a single tie down on this whole thing)
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Wasabi the J posted:
I once followed a pickup and had a full size Christmas tree achieve lift and fly towards my windshield trunk-first like a spear.
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bitchtard posted:Never become emotionally attached to things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RClo_MuDJRs Geoj posted:Have you ever been hit by a car, and spent over a week in the hospital as a result? I have. I've also had my car damaged before. I'll take having to have a window replaced over a skull fracture & concussion any day of the week. Not only is it cheaper, it's also a whole hell of a lot less painful. Clearly getting hit by a car is the same exact thing as someone accelerating a little hard on an empty street.  Geoj posted:Take it to a track, or at least bury the pedal on a backroad or in a deserted industrial area in the middle of the night where the only life he's putting at risk is his own? Thank you captain obvious! Anytime someone ever goes more than 5MPH over the speed limit they better take that poo poo to the track or get a rock through their window. Geoj posted:Clearly you're not thinking of the mental pain & anguish the owner of that car is going to go through for the rest of his life. Every time he opens the door he'll remember touching poop. They need to find whoever did that and lock them away for touching someone's car. The owner could not possibly just open the passenger door and get in that way. Geoj posted:This isn't a case of NIMBY. I simply do not deviate more than 5 MPH from the posted limit in residential zones, and I keep it within 10 MPH of the posted limit on the highway. Keeping my job - which requires I have a clean driving record - is a lot more important to me than inflating my ego or winning the red light to red light race. Where are the houses? Where are the kids? How the hell do you classify a four lane divided boulevard as a residential street? Geoj posted:So now having some minor physical damage done to your car is the same as being assaulted? Maybe we could keep stretching the law here and charge that guy with attempted murder... Well according to CA law. . . Philip J Fry posted:I threw a rock at a car once because the fucker hit me in the back with a Big Gulp when I was walking my dog late at night. Punched a nice hole right through the back window. This is important, what type of soda or drink was in the Big Gulp? Seriously, someone being a complete dick and throwing a large soda at an innocent bystander is waaaay different than someone just accelerating a little bit on an empty street. You probably did leave little bits of glass all over the carpet in their vehicle that they will never be able to get out.
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Wasabi the J posted:Conetent from my daily travels Meh.  Horsie!  And then there's this little weird thing:  Lowered '90 something Nissan, primered front fenders and the to sawzalled off. I've seen this guy driving around a lot, and I don't think he has any top for it. Either that or he really loves getting soaked in the rain.
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Crotch Fruit posted:This is important, what type of soda or drink was in the Big Gulp? Seriously, someone being a complete dick and throwing a large soda at an innocent bystander is waaaay different than someone just accelerating a little bit on an empty street. You probably did leave little bits of glass all over the carpet in their vehicle that they will never be able to get out. Some syrupy-smelling cola like Mr Pibb or something but it was more ice than soda, so it kinda hurt. Just glad they didn't hit my dog.
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Oh hey cool a bunch of posts in terrible car stuff... Awww gently caress.
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Wasabi the J posted:
Vegas? If so, I'm not surprised. gently caress driving during the day or anywhere near the strip in that city Also, I had a loving woman flick her cigarette out the window on the freeway directly onto my hood a few weeks ago. It was at night so it was just a shower of embers. I was able to convey extreme hatred back at her as I passed so at least that was good. Oh and a few months ago some loser did the same thing, but WITH DIP. All over my windshield. May he die a slow, cancerous death.
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Chinatown posted:Vegas? If so, I'm not surprised. gently caress driving during the day or anywhere near the strip in that city Why would you drive around the strip when Dean Martin/Frank Sinatra exist? I haven't had problems with traffic here, unless you go around the 95/15 interchange during the workday; gently caress THAT area. I did casino security for three years on the strip. Traffic was never an issue unless the President was in town, and then you just use the private casino roads. 
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Delivery McGee posted:The PT Cruiser wasn't any better when Chevy did it. Sorry to pull from a few pages back but, you're crazy. A car that can be had as a small panel van with a turbo and stick-shift cannot possibly be that bad.
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PT Cruiser is to Neon as HHR is to Cobalt. Pick your poison.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Sorry to pull from a few pages back but, you're crazy. A car that can be had as a small panel van with a turbo and stick-shift cannot possibly be that bad. You're so cute, with all that naivete 
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Krakkles posted:I don't have to, because the law does - he threw a rock at the car, he meant to, in California, at least, that would qualify as a felony. It probably would be felony vandalism though, but that's a county felony.
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I think the moral of the story is that the revolution is an emaciated, rage filled, empty shell of a man whose only way of lashing out at the bowl of poo poo his life has been is to throw a rock at a nice car.
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May 31, 2014 07:40
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What in the gently caress happened in here, jesus.
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Cage posted:Have you seen GBS lately? There is only one reason to visit GBS the Uli thread. Even that thread has gone to poo poo, someone said "Uli gently caress quest" and now it's page after page of "has Uli hosed yet????"
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Krakkles posted:I would still care just as much, yes. I have had people throw things at my car before, and it's not only severely uncool, it's dangerous. "It's only class warfare if we fight back."
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Is there a history to those hash mark decals? Did it come on a car from the factory and then everyone started copying it? Was there even a first car or did did they just show on the aftermarket one day as generic decals?
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That's acutally kinda awesome, all it needs is a DOT approved windshield to avoid tickets. Speaking of which, years ago one of my friends did something similar with a 90s Explorer. Less than a month after he intentionally cratered the engine on a '67 Chevrolet pickup (he wanted a different vehicle), he rolled the Explorer that was given to him. The roll was not Firestone tire related, just your average stupidity in the middle of a corn field kind of roll. Instead of being given another new vehicle, he took a sawzall to the pillars. After he received the first ticket for having no windshield, he installed two square pieces of clear plexiglass from the hardware store and got another ticket a week later. Cage posted:Is there a history to those hash mark decals? Did it come on a car from the factory and then everyone started copying it? Was there even a first car or did did they just show on the aftermarket one day as generic decals? The original four 1963 Corvette Grand Sport racers started the hash marks, the pit crew used them to identify the cars. Car #1 had one stripe, two stripes on #2, etc. Apparently the drivers of cars one, three, and four sucked because people only remember car two. Also, the original hash marks were just tape and on the nose of the car because the pit crew looked at the front of the car as it was pulling in to identify them. There is also an alternative theory that the hash marks were moved to the fender in order to show the steering was on the correct side. 
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Jesus loving christ can you idiots stop D&Ding this thread up  Awful things spotted last weekend PACKING TAPE CURES HYUNDAIS.jpg  the truly terrible poo poo is the logo visible in the rearview mirror, gently caress motorola phones forever Fun fact: dodge owners don't understand trigonometry  
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A friend in high school drove her lovely Hyundai Accent around for months with a passenger side headlight made out of duct-tape.
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Slavvy posted:What in the gently caress happened in here, jesus. A bunch of people getting their panties in a wad about a video. Jesus indeed.
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In town twice a year for supplies. Disappointed there isn't a puddle where he got out & took a quick piss before shopping.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Speaking of which, years ago one of my friends did something similar with a 90s Explorer. Less than a month after he intentionally cratered the engine on a '67 Chevrolet pickup (he wanted a different vehicle), he rolled the Explorer that was given to him. The roll was not Firestone tire related, just your average stupidity in the middle of a corn field kind of roll. Instead of being given another new vehicle, he took a sawzall to the pillars. After he received the first ticket for having no windshield, he installed two square pieces of clear plexiglass from the hardware store and got another ticket a week later. Doesn't it kind of seem a little... let's say foolhardy, to saw off the top end of a vehicle that you've already rolled over once? I mean, sure, it would remove a little bit of the top-heavy-ness, but I still sure as hell would not ride along with that dude. Please tell me his story didn't end with "And then he rolled over a second time... the end."
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I know the touchscreen controls discussion was about 10 pages back, but this was just announced, and it got me thinking   I can't even begin to imagine how much it would suck to operate those controls whilst wearing two layers of very thick gloves at +4g with a +-1g high frequency vibration shaking you around... edit: oh, and if you screw up, instead of turning on the wrong radio chanel or upsetting the A/C, there are 7 people on board (including yourself) that get vaporized into not much more than air pollution
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Captain Bravo posted:Doesn't it kind of seem a little... let's say foolhardy, to saw off the top end of a vehicle that you've already rolled over once? I mean, sure, it would remove a little bit of the top-heavy-ness, but I still sure as hell would not ride along with that dude. Please tell me his story didn't end with "And then he rolled over a second time... the end." I cant get over the part when he wanted an Explorer over a 67 Chevy 
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Captain Postal posted:I can't even begin to imagine how much it would suck to operate those controls whilst wearing two layers of very thick gloves at +4g with a +-1g high frequency vibration shaking you around... Don't forget about the issues with using capacative screens with gloves on. The gloves will need to be specially designed to conduct electricity. Unless they went for resistive screens, which are even worse.. gloves or no gloves.
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Captain Postal posted:I know the touchscreen controls discussion was about 10 pages back, but this was just announced, and it got me thinking From the video he said that all the emergency controls are in the buttons. And let's face it, you don't drive a space capsule, the computer drives it and if the computer dies then you're hosed no matter what happens, so it really shouldn't be an issue. I don't think you're supposed to be loving with the controls during burns or re-entry anyway.
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Captain Bravo posted:Doesn't it kind of seem a little... let's say foolhardy, to saw off the top end of a vehicle that you've already rolled over once? I mean, sure, it would remove a little bit of the top-heavy-ness, but I still sure as hell would not ride along with that dude. Please tell me his story didn't end with "And then he rolled over a second time... the end." The ending is even better, he know drives a fuel tanker.  Fart Pipe posted:I cant get over the part when he wanted an Explorer over a 67 Chevy That was the real terrible part of my post. The pickup was pretty decent. The body was straight-ish, paint looked like poo poo, but the motor was simple and you could fix anything that went wrong with a screw driver. However, so long as he had reliable(ish) transportation his parents would not buy him a new vehicle so the only solution was to pull the drain plug and go for a drive.  I might have been there at the time and half halfheartedly encouraged this stupidity because I didn't think he was really dumb enough to do it.
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Captain Postal posted:I know the touchscreen controls discussion was about 10 pages back, but this was just announced, and it got me thinking I'm more worried about the clock-drift between the left and right panels 
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Sorry to pull from a few pages back but, you're crazy. A car that can be had as a small panel van with a turbo and stick-shift cannot possibly be that bad. A (weird) previous coworker made a spreadsheet of cost vs hp for all new cars in 2011, and sorted by hp/dollar. The HHR SS was at the top so he went and bought a brand new HHR SS. And then drove a rental for a month when the turbo lost oil at 750 miles. Not really that impressive, I can spend $950 for an old Volvo that gives me the same experience as that.
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Yeah, rocket-wise, there's not much you can do manually anyway if computer guidance fails. The Space Shuttle could technically be manually flown to orbit after SRB separation, as well as re-entry and landing, but not precisely enough for, say, ISS/Hubble rendezvous or placing a satellite in its proper orbit. The touchscreens are fancy, but won't be used for anything mission-critical during launch, other than info displays (visibility is an issue with the shaking, but NASA figured out a couple years ago that strobing the displays on and off in time with the vibration solves that issue); everything important is big, chunky buttons. Designing a small amount of conductivity with modern materials shouldn't be hard, and the gloves on modern pressure suits aren't that bulky at all:  Compare to full-on EVA suits:  Flying to Low Earth Orbit and back is routine enough that a lot of the process can be streamlined and manual overrides removed; most of those in Apollo/Shuttle were due to spacecraft design being an entirely new thing and astronauts needing maximum capability to wrestle the craft back home if it should go out of control or behave in an unexpected way. The test pilot era is long past and basic spaceflight is pretty well solved by now, modern ships don't have to look like Apollo capsules inside, just like modern cars don't have manual ignition timing/choke controls. The aesthetic is entirely debatable (I like it personally), but it's hardly an engineering disaster.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Speaking of which, years ago one of my friends did something similar with a 90s Explorer. Less than a month after he intentionally cratered the engine on a '67 Chevrolet pickup (he wanted a different vehicle), he rolled the Explorer that was given to him. The roll was not Firestone tire related, just your average stupidity in the middle of a corn field kind of roll. Instead of being given another new vehicle, he took a sawzall to the pillars. After he received the first ticket for having no windshield, he installed two square pieces of clear plexiglass from the hardware store and got another ticket a week later.
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Captain Postal posted:I know the touchscreen controls discussion was about 10 pages back, but this was just announced, and it got me thinking Exactly which controls do you imagine them having to use on that touchscreen during the few minutes they're spending at high G?
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:Exactly which controls do you imagine them having to use on that touchscreen during the few minutes they're spending at high G? Maybe the DVR in the bottom left hand corner, or the quarterly profit graphs in the right middle. I don't get why it needs not only a trunk release button, but 2 of them. You'd think they only need that when they get to where they're going. Does the model S even have a physical trunk release button?
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