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Fo3 posted:
It came inside and died on your table?
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angryhampster posted:It came inside and died on your table? Ha Ha, no, my table outside where I do all my smoking and drinking at night (often cooler outside than in the house at night). I have a huge yard, but motherfucking crow chilling/dying under that table. E: It's still not dead yet. Packed it in a box and shoved it in the corner of the yard. I don't really want blood splattered on me in case it has some virus, plus pricks stole my shovels and stuff from my old house anyway so I have none here. The crow fought it's way out of the box and kind off rolled into a corner. But now it's fighting and loving around trying to roll back into my patio area. e2:VV couple of glasses of old crow was my dinner, I'm not hungry any more. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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Jan 16, 2016 16:48
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Haha got it. Crow for dinner.
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Jan 16, 2016 16:50
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some texas redneck posted:I thought you got rid of all the Nest Protects? I did, clearly this one just needs another blast of compressed air. It went off yesterday morning but since it was during a shower, I (incorrectly) assumed it just managed to get triggered by steam.
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Jan 16, 2016 16:55
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Fo3 posted:Ha Ha, no, my table outside where I do all my smoking and drinking at night (often cooler outside than in the house at night). This feels like in a movie we would be groaning at the obvious foreshadowing
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Jan 16, 2016 16:56
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meatpimp posted:Different "they"s with different agendas... Yospos had links, I'm on mobile/too lazy to bother finding them Still though, it's not happening for a long time and it would probably be easier to make self piloted flying vehicles since at least it has a z axis to be able to dodge something as well as nobody to walk in front of the vehicle
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Jan 16, 2016 16:59
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Distracted driving is just going to get worse as more and more poo poo is loaded into on board computing systems. Navigation is bad enough, but new cars effectively have a full on tablet embedded in the dash to distract the driver with, and rear cameras are no replacement for knowing how to use your mirrors and having your head on a swivel.
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Jan 16, 2016 17:09
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FC RX-7 NA project car adventure may be starting today. Found a local with a runner, very little rust, new trans, 87'...asking 1k. Going to show up with cash and see how cheap I can get it, assuming its not a complete turd. Its not a looker but it looks straight at least.
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Liquid Communism posted:Distracted driving is just going to get worse as more and more poo poo is loaded into on board computing systems. Navigation is bad enough, but new cars effectively have a full on tablet embedded in the dash to distract the driver with, and rear cameras are no replacement for knowing how to use your mirrors and having your head on a swivel. After spending a week with my Flex and MyFordTouch, I can say the touch screen is very distracting. Why do I need to hit 3 virtual buttons to turn on my seat heater?
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Jan 16, 2016 17:50
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:And trust car companies or Google to get it right? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, they have a long line of fuckups to prove neither should be allowed near this. About 50% of the time when I click on a Youtube link on my Android phone, the Youtube app opens and says "Can't load link". Google software, on a Google operating system, cannot handle opening a hyperlink. Yeah, these guys are probably fine to drive me around at 70 mph.
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Jan 16, 2016 18:09
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Pham Nuwen posted:About 50% of the time when I click on a Youtube link on my Android phone, the Youtube app opens and says "Can't load link". Reminder: Google did not understand why Snapchat accessing the camera as an unprivileged userland process frequently forced a hard reboot of a flagship phone they specified the hardware for, wrote the drivers for, running on a kernel they understood and controlled. It is still unpatched four years later. Snapchat eventually dealt with the problem by throwing up a dialogue at first boot going "hey Google won't fix this phone so you're on your own hashtag yolo." Don't let Ken near any cars they make. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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Jan 16, 2016 18:36
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Liquid Communism posted:Distracted driving is just going to get worse as more and more poo poo is loaded into on board computing systems. Navigation is bad enough, but new cars effectively have a full on tablet embedded in the dash to distract the driver with, and rear cameras are no replacement for knowing how to use your mirrors and having your head on a swivel. This is one of the big things that really annoys me about working for a large cell phone provider. On one hand, employees are supposed to be advocates against texting and driving (and other forms of distracted driving), which is all well and good, but on the other hand the company is working with OEMs to pack more and more distracting technology into new cars, because it nets us more subscribers. And I bet we'll never see a PSA about people who got killed because of someone who got distracted by the in-dash tweet reader we helped develop, should that ever happen. I don't think rear-view cameras are so bad, though. I agree that people should know how to set and use their mirrors properly, but with the way modern cars are designed you can see things with a rear camera that wouldn't be visible with the mirrors alone, like parking space markings or the front of the car behind you if you're parallel parking. It takes a lot of guesswork out of those situations.
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Jan 16, 2016 19:10
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Don't let hell. I want to see him weld a salvage steering setup into a Google car and rampage around offroad listening to it wail about his driving whole being unable to stop him. Torture for robots. 
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Jan 16, 2016 19:14
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zundfolge posted:This is one of the big things that really annoys me about working for a large cell phone provider. On one hand, employees are supposed to be advocates against texting and driving (and other forms of distracted driving), which is all well and good, but on the other hand the company is working with OEMs to pack more and more distracting technology into new cars, because it nets us more subscribers. And I bet we'll never see a PSA about people who got killed because of someone who got distracted by the in-dash tweet reader we helped develop, should that ever happen. Mirrors aren't just for backing up. Using them for that gets you used to checking them instead of checking the dash, which means less chance of murdering a motorcyclist because you merged into his front tire.
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Jan 16, 2016 19:16
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Someone left a fresh steamer on aisle 3 at Kroger. That was interesting.
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Jan 16, 2016 19:21
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Liquid Communism posted:Mirrors aren't just for backing up. Using them for that gets you used to checking them instead of checking the dash, which means less chance of murdering a motorcyclist because you merged into his front tire. Right, I'm saying that if you use your mirrors properly the camera can augment them in some situations. Every car I've driven with one only activates it in reverse so that's why I limited my discussion of the camera to those scenarios.
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Jan 16, 2016 19:32
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I'm watching the punisher send after about a third of a bottle of run I'm speculating: the entire premise is a guy gets his family killed by the mob. No billion dimmer tertiary fund, no spider bite, no super powers, nothing mystical. Just pure strain vigilante action. So why does it still sock?
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Jan 16, 2016 21:06
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 Coming soon to a garage near me. It's a W8 automatic with the CEL on. Expect thread upon arrival. edit: Cakefool posted:I'm watching the punisher send after about a third of a bottle of run I'm speculating: the entire premise is a guy gets his family killed by the mob. No billion dimmer tertiary fund, no spider bite, no super powers, nothing mystical. Just pure strain vigilante action. So why does it still sock? scuz fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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Jan 16, 2016 21:06
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Cakefool posted:I'm watching the punisher send after about a third of a bottle of run I'm speculating: the entire premise is a guy gets his family killed by the mob. No billion dimmer tertiary fund, no spider bite, no super powers, nothing mystical. Just pure strain vigilante action. So why does it still sock? Assuming you meant "why does it still suck?", the answer is that comic books were written for children and manchildren.
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Jan 16, 2016 21:14
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PaintVagrant posted:FC RX-7 NA project car adventure may be starting today. Found a local with a runner, very little rust, new trans, 87'...asking 1k. Going to show up with cash and see how cheap I can get it, assuming its not a complete turd. Its not a looker but it looks straight at least. Dude didnt want to move on the price, sadly. I now smell very, very deeply of exhaust. I think it was running rich, idle had a bit of a pop to it.
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Jan 16, 2016 21:20
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zundfolge posted:Right, I'm saying that if you use your mirrors properly the camera can augment them in some situations. Every car I've driven with one only activates it in reverse so that's why I limited my discussion of the camera to those scenarios. Those situations are mainly when you're driving a modern car with blind spots the size of an oil tanker and it is literally impossible to see anything within 10m behind the car without a camera. I love human psychology. Cars are unsafe > add gigantic amount of passive safety features that make the car into a bunker of protection that make it impossible to see out of > add cameras to restore lost visibility...for safety! Like why can't we just spend money on not crashing into poo poo? Why would people rather spend tends of thousands of dollars on a car that swaddles them in airbags instead of a few hundred bucks on driver training?
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Jan 16, 2016 21:28
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scuz posted:
I wasn't aware a w8 existed. Waiting eagerly. Auto? Lol. Cel? Lolol. scuz posted:Cuz you're only 1/3 through the bottle. Reevaluate around 4/5s. The one with Thomas Jane, right? That movie rules. Yes, him! Will do!
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Jan 16, 2016 21:32
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scuz posted:
You know like everything on that car is NLA, right? There's a thread on vwvortex where a guy had to fab bearings because they were NLA. The "good news" is that the ats are the same as other awd passats. The bad news is those broke even with 1.8t toque numbers. Also, your problem is almost certainly cam adjusters which are thousands of dollars if they aren't NLA. They're also an engine pull. O2 sensors, also an engine pull by the book, but you can do that one if you fab up the right tool with the engine still in. Also, in case you have issues finding brake stuff, they're the same as one of the audi s lines. Maybe the s6?
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Jan 16, 2016 21:34
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Cakefool posted:I wasn't aware a w8 existed. Waiting eagerly.  This is sort of a favor for my pops. He's done an extensive amount of work on it already, but he hears me with my crazy ideas like "buy a 1981 VW Caddy and convert it to RWD with my 2.0L engine" and thought this might scratch the itch for a while. nm posted:You know like everything on that car is NLA, right? There's a thread on vwvortex where a guy had to fab bearings because they were NLA. 
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Slavvy posted:Those situations are mainly when you're driving a modern car with blind spots the size of an oil tanker and it is literally impossible to see anything within 10m behind the car without a camera. At the risk of making a horrible generalization, it's because Americans love trying to solve behavioral/social problems with technology because actually changing our behavior is neither easy nor profitable. 
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Jan 16, 2016 22:33
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scuz posted:
Weren't you complaining about money issues earlier?
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Jan 16, 2016 22:58
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Okay 2/3red of a bottle and I flaked and switched to tea but the publisher turned out to be good for the reasons I previously said it sucked.
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Jan 16, 2016 23:23
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Just mixed and rolled like thirty meatballs and chopped tomatoes to puree later for the sauce base to make some spaghetti sauce. So this basically guarantees my wife will have a different idea for dinner when she gets home.
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Jan 17, 2016 00:23
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Send them to me, that sounds boss. Mistakes were made but overall operation "drink all the rum" had a good opening night. "Monsters dark continent" however was garbage.
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Phone posted:Weren't you complaining about money issues earlier? Technicalities, phone. Money issues go hand in hand with VW
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Jan 17, 2016 01:12
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scuz posted:"buy a 1981 VW Caddy and convert it to RWD with my 2.0L engine" Do this, please do this
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Technicalities, phone. Money issues go hand in hand with VW I really want a Touraeg after riding in my friends V10 TDI one. I just want the V6 one but man its still such a bad idea.
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Jan 17, 2016 01:16
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NitroSpazzz posted:Was going to reply in the race thread but this one works. For watching racing I really enjoyed sitting at Canada or the Carousel, 5 also sees a lot of action. Actual camping...no clue but inside Carousel seems like it would be good. Nice Thanks!
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Jan 17, 2016 01:21
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Fart Pipe posted:I really want a Touraeg after riding in my friends V10 TDI one. I just want the V6 one but man its still such a bad idea. We test drove a Q7 TDI as a joke and my wife had to talk me off that ledge for about a week.
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Jan 17, 2016 01:36
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The Mini is dead. Old lady ran a light and totaled it. Minor injuries. I'm so glad it's gone. Haha.
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Jan 17, 2016 01:41
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Cakefool posted:"Monsters dark continent" however was garbage.
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the spyder posted:The Mini is dead. Old lady ran a light and totaled it. Minor injuries. I'm so glad it's gone. Haha. well I guess that is one way to sell a car! I wanted the red XJ to get rearended at like 15mph every time I drove it for the last few months of its road-going existence, but no one ever closed the deal.
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the spyder posted:The Mini is dead. Old lady ran a light and totaled it. Minor injuries. I'm so glad it's gone. Haha.  dead gay car, so long and thanks for the cash
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Cakefool posted:Okay 2/3red of a bottle and I flaked and switched to tea but the publisher turned out to be good for the reasons I previously said it sucked. if you can get past the scene with the russian without loving that movie you're dead inside
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iwentdoodie posted:We test drove a Q7 TDI as a joke and my wife had to talk me off that ledge for about a week. Yea Im working on that but man what a nice car. Its way smaller than I thought and the interior is super nice even on the VW version. Plus hi/low range 4wd. I need to stop thinking about it though. Im spoiled with my super cheap to run Forester.
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