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to bring this back around to the internet relics, I remember a good blog/website circa 2002 or so that used to just post pictures of ricer cars (around when the first Fast & Furious was huge) that would just absolutely tear them up for how idiotic some of modifications were. I don't know if it was popular or not :/ Does this ring any bells? Is there any place I can go and laugh at tuners nowadays?
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pak9, awwww yeahhhhhhh! i actually ripped that whole site, wonder if i still have it edit: sort of still here: http://web.archive.org/web/20010725160335/http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Chelsea/6482/ http://web.archive.org/web/20091024022126/http://geocities.com/WestHollywood/Chelsea/6482/index2.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20050122111213/http://pak9.com/ Vince McMahon has a new favorite as of 18:51 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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Mad Monk posted:No idea, it's got the same engine as the 350z so that's where I got my idea from. I forgotten all about the skyline. Now I guess their normal model cars are Sentra, Altima, and Maxima? They've still got the Versa and the 370Z being sold stateside as well. I'm still sad they killed off the Xterra for the Rogue though, the Xterra was way more iconic (and is one of those cars that you never see in bad shape, I see tons of older Xterras on the road and they're always in excellent shape.
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Unctuous Cretin posted:I had a Chevy Metro for a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5z2mrJ6CZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYqnYTXsMA We talk about fuel economy today and these things seemed to do 40+ MPG pretty easily according to the ads, but the trade offs were likely lifespan, safety, comfort compared to a modern car.
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JediTalentAgent posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5z2mrJ6CZQ Aw hell yeah. I had a 1994 Metro that I bought totaled from a friend's family for a couple hundred bucks, back in 2002. I put in a couple hundred bucks to fix the front end damage and proceeded to drive it 90 miles/day for work. It had 160k miles on it and was ratty as hell. It still got a very consistent 44 mpg, slowly dropping towards 41 mpg as the valves deteriorated over the 40k miles I would put on it. Only a few weeks after I got it fixed, "un-totaled", inspected, some jackass cut a left turn in front of me. The car was totaled again with very similar damage as before. I collected over 1k from the insurance company and fixed it, again. I even acquired a spare parts Metro. I ended up using its clutch and head as the originals had worn past their useful lives. The valves were so bad that the bottom of the air filter was scorched. The transmission was so tiny that I just had a friend hold it from above while I was doing work from below. Great car, relic of the 90's.
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I remember when I was a kid, I would see these ads for Internet kiosks, the idea being that you, the homeowner with lots of equity and thus capital to spare ( ), can buy a thing that stands up in a mall and people can pay per minute to go on the Internet. I tried to find the ad, but no luck. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?
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Stinky_Pete posted:I remember when I was a kid, I would see these ads for Internet kiosks, the idea being that you, the homeowner with lots of equity and thus capital to spare ( I need to get in on this... 
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Captain Yossarian posted:I need to get in on this... http://www.emailarms.com/products/internet_kiosk.html Go hog wild.
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Stinky_Pete posted:I remember when I was a kid, I would see these ads for Internet kiosks, the idea being that you, the homeowner with lots of equity and thus capital to spare ( These used to be in airports before smartphones and free wifi got big. Never saw anyone use them... I assume the only money in that business was for the guy selling the kiosks.
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Pham Nuwen posted:These used to be in airports before smartphones and free wifi got big. Never saw anyone use them... I assume the only money in that business was for the guy selling the kiosks. This is how it works for anything in which someone offers to sell you something that can make you money in return. If the machine was guaranteed to make money, why the hell is he selling it to you? Even worse if you are leasing it. The same thing with bitcoin miners. If they are guaranteed to make a return on investment, why the hell would the company ever sell you one? They could just build them all and run them on their own. Then once they start making less money than is being spent on electricity and cooling, they sell them to the public. This is in fact how one company operated. They kept having "delays" in manufacturing. Then months later when the proposed hashing power was obsolete, people started receiving their orders and it appeared as if they had been run for a while before being shipped.
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I like how you can block certain keys, like backspace. That would be fun to see users try to navigate.
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Cojawfee posted:This is how it works for anything in which someone offers to sell you something that can make you money in return. If the machine was guaranteed to make money, why the hell is he selling it to you? Even worse if you are leasing it. The same thing with bitcoin miners. If they are guaranteed to make a return on investment, why the hell would the company ever sell you one? Why don't car manufacturers run taxi companies? (  )
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why don't car manufacturers run taxi companies? ( 
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Lady, that's not where the 5 button is!
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Jerry Cotton posted:Lady, that's not where the 5 button is!  Purchase my internet kiosk or you'll never vote a thread 5 again.
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Cojawfee posted:
At first I thought you just pulled up a stock image but then I noticed the jacket and welp must be a goon.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why don't car manufacturers run taxi companies? ( http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10706250/gm-lyft-driverless-cars-ride-sharing-investment
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Iron Prince posted:i dont know exactly what the hell is happening here, but one of you probably does It's called "having women find you attractive"
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blugu64 posted:It's called "having women find you attractive" Pretty sure those are vampires
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why don't car manufacturers run taxi companies? ( They don't but they devote millions of dollars to nailing taxi exclusivity contracts: http://www.nissanusa.com/future-and-concept-vehicles/taxi-of-tomorrow
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Vince McMahon posted:pak9, awwww yeahhhhhhh! This is something that I kind of wish still happened. I remember printing out and binding tons of old sites and newsgroup posts as a kid. When I got an ls-120 and then later a Zip drive I'd have them all meticulously saved
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:to bring this back around to the internet relics, I remember a good blog/website circa 2002 or so that used to just post pictures of ricer cars (around when the first Fast & Furious was huge) that would just absolutely tear them up for how idiotic some of modifications were. I don't know if it was popular or not :/ 
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:to bring this back around to the internet relics, I remember a good blog/website circa 2002 or so that used to just post pictures of ricer cars (around when the first Fast & Furious was huge) that would just absolutely tear them up for how idiotic some of modifications were. I don't know if it was popular or not :/ Getting even further back to the topic of internet relics, try http://funroll-loops.info/
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Cojawfee posted:This is how it works for anything in which someone offers to sell you something that can make you money in return. If the machine was guaranteed to make money, why the hell is he selling it to you? Even worse if you are leasing it. The same thing with bitcoin miners. If they are guaranteed to make a return on investment, why the hell would the company ever sell you one? They could just build them all and run them on their own. Then once they start making less money than is being spent on electricity and cooling, they sell them to the public. This is in fact how one company operated. They kept having "delays" in manufacturing. Then months later when the proposed hashing power was obsolete, people started receiving their orders and it appeared as if they had been run for a while before being shipped. otoh vending machines
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Every vending machine I've ever seen is owned by a company that owns lots of vending machines. Maybe there's people out there who try to sell vending machines to individual people but there is usually a contract with some company that deals with the machines.
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Cojawfee posted:Every vending machine I've ever seen is owned by a company that owns lots of vending machines. Maybe there's people out there who try to sell vending machines to individual people but there is usually a contract with some company that deals with the machines. is that company coca cola or pepsi usually they're a regional thing, or some guy will have 10 vending machines he checks every week on a route or something. it's probably different in big cities vs smaller cities and towns
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:is that company coca cola or pepsi There's usually a sticker with a phone number. Usually the company is called "Some Kind of Name Vending" or whatever.
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I had an idea several years ago was buying up a lot of used books and then putting vending machines in bus stations, train stations, airports that would dispense small paperbacks, baggies with some crayons and small coloring books, etc. The idea being that prior to internet everywhere, people might spend 2-5 bucks for ANYTHING to read on a long flight, trip, etc. at any hour of the day or night, something to entertain the kids for an hour, etc. Nothing ever came of that idea, though.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I had an idea several years ago was buying up a lot of used books and then putting vending machines in bus stations, train stations, airports that would dispense small paperbacks, baggies with some crayons and small coloring books, etc. The idea being that prior to internet everywhere, people might spend 2-5 bucks for ANYTHING to read on a long flight, trip, etc. at any hour of the day or night, something to entertain the kids for an hour, etc. To be honest if the variety was good this would be powerfully competitive with the relentlessly depressing airport bookstores. I'm pretty sure airport employees are really slaves, anyway, so go for it. Moreover, there would be a certain game-like quality to such a thing.
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It wouldn't have to be 'just books' either. Even in the modern age, you could have updated the stock to reflect more modern needs and tastes. Flash drives, USB cables, emergency sewing kits, prepaid forever stamped envelopes, etc. in addition to just books.
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I saw one selling Rosetta Stone products one time in the Orlando airport I think. Seems a little late at that point but what do I know?
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Casimir Radon posted:I saw one selling Rosetta Stone products one time in the Orlando airport I think. Seems a little late at that point but what do I know? e: I definitely saw one in DC last summer but thinking about it the last time I was in the states before that was like 2007, which I just realised was very nearly a decade ago now, so idk
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Iron Prince posted:edit: heres a dumb old computer thing. i dont know exactly what the hell is happening here, but one of you probably does Well there are 8 bits in 1 byte, so 16 bits - the size of data this amazing new computer's CPU operates on - can store 2 bytes. And sex sells. Does this help?
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JediTalentAgent posted:It wouldn't have to be 'just books' either. Honolulu International Airport has a Brest Buy branded vending machine, sells everything from chargers to cameras, headphones, USB sticks etc. I couldn't help laughing at their bullshit prices and bought what I needed from the shop a little further up. Where I worked at the time was a Bose platinum partner, and Bose set all RRPs - don't gently caress with it. Don't go higher or lower. But that drat Best Buy machine was waaaay overpriced on even basic headphones (to be honest, not sure of their rules in the US).
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Not that long ago I got oddly nostalgic for AOL so I actually signed up for an account using AOL 3.0 and I posted a thread about it. It was a big effort post but I figured you guys might enjoy it: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3517794 Sadly I just tried to sign on to AOL 3.0 and AOL 4.0 and the software was blacklisted starting in July of 2015  It is actually amazing that they even bothered to blacklist it after letting it connect for 18 drat years. Check out the thread; you would be surprised at the stuff they were still hosting on some AOL Keyword server somewhere.
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JediTalentAgent posted:It wouldn't have to be 'just books' either. They have vending machines at airports that dispense mp3 players and headphones and shch
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I have a coffee mug I got at Microsoft in the mid 90's. The front of it has a cartoon of what looks like a Mac II SI and underneath that "Online EMOTICONS" The other side has these examples with the explanation underneath: :-))) Triple chins '@_____ Snail Mail #-) Partied All Night  Basic smile Frown :-@ Very angry  Wink {{{JOHN}}} Hugs to John $-) Just Won Lottery :-(O) Yelling =):-) Uncle Sam @<---<--- A Rose for You
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I loved those old magazine articles/sidebars, like in Newsweek, that would attempt to explain the new-fangled computer goings-on to their longtime readers, as well as stuff like teenage slang. I remember one such sidebar that tried to explain what the different domains in email addresses meant: .edu = college kid . com = someone working at a company, or possibly someone connecting via AOL .org = someone working at a museum .net = SUPER COOL HACKER, WATCH OUT
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Keith Atherton posted:I have a coffee mug I got at Microsoft in the mid 90's. The front of it has a cartoon of what looks like a Mac II SI and underneath that "Online EMOTICONS" The snail's antennae are on the wrong loving end.
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