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spog posted:Friend just had a bog standard Ford Fiesta stolen from outside their house. I honestly have no idea. I mean it's possible that he just had it repo'd and is embarrassed about it. shy boy from chess club posted:Older stuff is just easy to steal. My mom had her old Buick Century stolen and they took it, broke the front seats so they leaned back farther, put speakers in the back window and smoked crack in it. Looked like it was just some kids having a great time with something easy to steal and dump it wherever when they were done. That's sad  Old cars are really easy to steal though. No steering wheel locks or any real security features. When it was running I was able to start my 88 300zx with a butter knife, pull the butter knife out and throw it in the floor of the passenger seat, and keep driving it no joke.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:carlos ghosn is going to jail About drat time, the 370z is 11 fuckin years old now and they haven't even hinted at a new one. Throw the book at him, IMO
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Nov 19, 2018 19:56
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Somebody stole my 94 Escort LX when I was driving cross country in 2002 or so. They found it not even an hour later with the keys in it. Guess they wised up? Edit: Yeah, I stupidly left the keys on the front seat while I was checking into a hotel.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:56
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Can't speak to the Fiesta specifically but Ford has been using a passive anti-theft system since at least the early 2000s. Shouldn't be able to start it without a key. Of course, there's nothing stopping a resourceful auto thief from replacing the ECU with one that's been reprogrammed to bypass the immobilizer. What's perplexing is why someone would go through that much trouble for a loss-leader model.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:57
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Geoj posted:Can't speak to the Fiesta specifically but Ford has been using a passive anti-theft system since at least the early 2000s. Shouldn't be able to start it without a key. Maybe the guy he buys the flashed ECUs from was trying to get rid of them?
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Nov 19, 2018 20:05
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Powershift posted:About drat time, the 370z is 11 fuckin years old now and they haven't even hinted at a new one. I mean imo everytime they change the Z they gently caress it up so they might as well just stick with what they got and try not to make it any worse.
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Nov 19, 2018 20:05
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Kind of pricey, but an ideal AI:SS gift NSFW 
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Geoj posted:Can't speak to the Fiesta specifically but Ford has been using a passive anti-theft system since at least the early 2000s. Shouldn't be able to start it without a key. That was my understanding: that apart from BMW and those with keyless, we'd long reached the point that you had to have a key. Hence my curiosity Geoj posted:What's perplexing is why someone would go through that much trouble for a loss-leader model. Very first question I asked was what model it was for that reason. Police suggested that it was stripped for parts. I am a bit dubious as Ford stuff is plentiful and cheap anyway.
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Nov 19, 2018 20:34
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spog posted:That was my understanding: that apart from BMW and those with keyless, we'd long reached the point that you had to have a key. I think he just got his car repo'd and is trying to make up a story to cover it up.
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Nov 19, 2018 20:59
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64bit_Dophins posted:I think he just got his car repo'd and is trying to make up a story to cover it up. Nah, I know they paid cash for it 3 years ago.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:01
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spog posted:Friend just had a bog standard Ford Fiesta stolen from outside their house. How does he know it wasn't towed?
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Nov 19, 2018 21:05
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nm posted:How does he know it wasn't towed? UK The only people who can tow or clamp a car are the govt and as it was in a private car park, it wasn't towed.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:07
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spog posted:UK Ahh interesting. Here is the United States of "get hosed" we hire felons to repo cars and they are legally allowed to basically take it from anywhere if they know where the car is parked. We had a number of temp warehouse workers at my company a few months ago and I saw a repo-man pull into the (work) parking lot, attach the tow hitch simply by backing up towards the car, and drive off in a total of what was probably 20 seconds no joke. Later I saw her go to her parking spot only to look down at her phone and call an uber.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:15
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spog posted:UK I don't mean legally towed.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:20
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I saw an old man coming out of the store with a single bottle of beer. The bottle fell out of the bag and smashed in the parking lot. Have you ever been so convinced you've just seen your future self that you think about it the rest of the day? I'm going to start buying cans instead.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:37
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I dropped a 12 pack of bottles right out the door of the packie one time but since I was a raging alcoholic at the time and went to that store every day they just laughed and gave me a new 12 pack. At the time I was happy but its actually kind of sad.
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Nov 19, 2018 21:43
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64bit_Dophins posted:Here is the United States of "get hosed" we hire felons to repo cars and they are legally allowed to basically take it from anywhere if they know where the car is parked. Actually, now I think about it, bailiffs (debt collectors) can seize and take your car away but they have to wait at least 2 hours before towing it to give you time to pay the debt nm posted:I don't mean legally towed. Ah right. I suppose it could happen but it's not something you hear happening much here. A car on a trailer would stick out like a sore thumb so it would be a risky theft.
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Nov 19, 2018 22:03
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Maybe there's some kind of OBD vulnerability they can exploit? As for why, could be someone needing a load of panels that colour.
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InitialDave posted:Maybe there's some kind of OBD vulnerability they can exploit? Common cars tend to be the most stolen. They just part out everything. Normally, I expect them to be a touch older though as older cars tend to have more people looking for used parts (and tend to be easier to steal). Other than thefts for the purpose of committing another crime in the car or joyriding, most cars stolen are stolen for parts, not to resale whole.
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This is probably like asking what's the one true religion, but I need a corn bread recipe and my friends from the south insist you can't use sugar, and all the recipes I see online have sugar in them. Thoughts and/or recipes? My friend who makes very good corn bread but is from California uses sugar, but it tastes good so I may just use his recipe.
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Nov 19, 2018 22:31
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You're right! I guess they're finally getting serious about that whole everyone-in-the-Japanese-auto-industry-committing-rampant-QA-fraud thing. probably more of an Olympus style corporate governance thing than the QA thing
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MomJeans420 posted:This is probably like asking what's the one true religion, but I need a corn bread recipe and my friends from the south insist you can't use sugar, and all the recipes I see online have sugar in them. Thoughts and/or recipes? My friend who makes very good corn bread but is from California uses sugar, but it tastes good so I may just use his recipe. If you like it make it who cares? But in TN we use salt.
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MomJeans420 posted:This is probably like asking what's the one true religion, but I need a corn bread recipe and my friends from the south insist you can't use sugar, and all the recipes I see online have sugar in them. Thoughts and/or recipes? My friend who makes very good corn bread but is from California uses sugar, but it tastes good so I may just use his recipe. Are you actually serving it to southerners or just sticking to their rules? https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/11/southern-unsweetened-cornbread-recipe.html TBH this is probably better but it has some sugar https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/01/moist-and-tender-brown-butter-cornbread-recipe.html
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Nov 19, 2018 23:57
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Not actually serving it to southerners, but I prefer savory to sweet so I'm wondering if I'll be blown away by sugar free corn bread. That serious eats brown butter recipe sounds pretty good though, I may just do that.
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I've sneezed like 8000 times today, so i guess this is how i die, internal organs and bones just pulverized by constant sneezing 
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Brown butter is so good it really makes a huge difference in so many things https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/12/the-food-lab-best-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.html
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Nov 20, 2018 00:41
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Is brown butter made from chocolate milk? Sounds disgusting
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Is there a medical difference between rectal and anal
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I mean, the rectum and the anus are different things, but that's one of those "Aktchually..." moments for the majority of scenarios.
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mewse posted:Is brown butter made from chocolate milk? Sounds disgusting Well, brown cows. I just basically follow the recipe on the bag of Martha White corn meal.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You're right! I guess they're finally getting serious about that whole everyone-in-the-Japanese-auto-industry-committing-rampant-QA-fraud thing. It's for embezzlement and stuff like that, not really anything to do with cars that I saw.
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Nov 20, 2018 00:57
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mewse posted:Is brown butter made from chocolate milk? Sounds disgusting You simmer butter in a pan until the milk fat browns. My wife makes sweet potato gnocchi with a sage-infused brown butter and the two combined are amazing.
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Goober Peas posted:Is there a medical difference between rectal and anal I feel there is a back story here that no one wants to hear.
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So I know I threw a lot of doom and gloom around here earlier, and I just wanted to come and share some unrelated great news I got. A few months back I was on the fast track to a paid firefighter position, and I ended up getting dropped by hr on the very last decision they could make. I'm known in a few different stations in that city, shared a bottle of bourbon with a couple chiefs when they got good news, etc. Everyone was quite pissed at the decisions hr made, and have extended interviews to the select few they actually want to work with, including me. While kicking every poo poo to the curb that hr knew and pushed through regardless of the FD's say. So yeah. A big boy job two days a week, so that I can still be home the majority of the time to help out. I'm stoked. Use a bit of sugar in the cornbread regardless, it really wakes it up.
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Nov 20, 2018 01:06
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Do they let you take the uniform home at weekends? You could cheer your wife up.
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That's some good news at least, SGS. My view of such departments doesn't stray too far from "there's no situation so bad that involving HR can't make things worse".Goober Peas posted:Is there a medical difference between rectal and anal
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"Just the tip" In all seriousness, I've had rectal exams at physicals, but today was the first time it's been called an anal exam There really wasn't a difference in practice, and I decided I wouldn't ask while he had his finger up my rear end in case he gave a funny answer or something Goober Peas fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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spog posted:Do they let you take the uniform home at weekends? That was the very first thing she asked for when I gave her the good news. Yall are ridiculous
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mewse posted:Is brown butter made from chocolate milk? Sounds disgusting
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Goober Peas posted:Is there a medical difference between rectal and anal Depends on the size of the gerbil.
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