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>> For example, there was a hole
>> under the accelerator pedal where you can watch the road
> go past below.
>
> A Flintstone car? :)
I tell you what, you'd need to be more like Popeye than Fred to shift
this lump of pig iron!
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4b6b3c77$1@news.povray.org...
> >> For example, there was a hole
> >> under the accelerator pedal where you can watch the
road
> > go past below.
> >
> > A Flintstone car? :)
>
> I tell you what, you'd need to be more like Popeye than
Fred to shift
> this lump of pig iron!
My manual trans Subaru Outback has a lot of trouble shifting
into reverse. Sometimes I have to take the parking brake off
and rock the car back and forth (you know, while sitting in
the driver's seat, start rocking) in order to get it into
reverse. Trannies in my last 3 Subarus have been crappy...
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DungBeatle wrote:
> My manual trans Subaru Outback has a lot of trouble shifting
> into reverse. Sometimes I have to take the parking brake off
> and rock the car back and forth (you know, while sitting in
> the driver's seat, start rocking) in order to get it into
> reverse. Trannies in my last 3 Subarus have been crappy...
Ah yes, my first car had a similar issue. It's not so bad if the car is
already moving when you try to select reverse. But if not... well, I
hope you got muscle! o_O
Then again, that car had been back to zero TWICE... And it was a Ford
when they manufactured it.
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DungBeatle wrote:
> Have you tried Rain-X? It gets good reviews from actual
> users.
Yeah, that stuff's the bomb too. :-)
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Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:40:00 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:14:17 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:37:40 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How?
>>>> Your examiner was blind? ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Nor drunk.
>>
>> Hmmm...you weren't in the UK?
>>
>>
> Aberdeen
Doing a test at the proving ground and the test objective was to get away
from something that was about to explode as fast as you could? ;-)
Jim
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:32:58 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> What I liked most was the warning to never put the seatbelt under your
> arm or behind your back. It seems so *ludicrously* obvious that this
> will result in horrifying bodily injury that I cannot believe anybody
> would do something so stupid...
>
> ...and yet, they bothered to print the warning, so...
When shoulder belts first started being used, people who didn't want them
would route them in weird places so they would just have the lap belt.
Just like people who grew up driving without a seat belt on at all - many
have a hard time just putting the belt on. Me, I can't drive even to a
new parking space - or back down the driveway - with my seatbelt off. It
just feels weird.
Jim
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:12:17 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Maybe they are philanthropes honestly worried about the safety of
> children.
Well, children are "potential future customers".
Jim
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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
news:4b6b6ac7$1@news.povray.org...
>
> Just like people who grew up driving without a seat belt
on at all - many
> have a hard time just putting the belt on. Me, I can't
drive even to a
> new parking space - or back down the driveway - with my
seatbelt off. It
> just feels weird.--Jim
I grew up without them and it took me years to create a
seatbelt habit. My dad installed seatbelts in a '57 Chevy
wagon sometime in the '60s. He only required us to put them
on when we were on the freeway (we lived in Los Angeles at
the time). My previous car had those seatbelts that
automatically pulled over you when you closed the door, I
miss that...
~db
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On 2/4/2010 6:07 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>
>> It's got a CD-changer in the front, which is nice. It's slot-loading
>> though, so any CDs you put in it are likely to get ruined. But then, I
>> always use custom CDs for the car anyway. If one gets broke, I burn
>> another copy.
>
> Wrong.
>
> Yesterday I thought I had a front-loading 6-disk CD changer which might
> even support MP3.
>
> Today I discovered that there's no MP3 support, but more seriously
> there's no CD changer either. It plays one and only one CD.
>
> So not only is this thing slot-load, but I'm going to be doing an awful
> lot of loading and ejecting disks! o_O
Hmm. Probably can't top that, but.. Got two new phones in the last three
days. Why? Old one was a junk throw away they gave for free, with no
features, but I could, with some tricks, get images and a midi file that
"sort of" didn't sound horrible onto it. So, I request a phone that
supports MP3. I get a "newer" model W385, which has no SD slot, no
support in 4.5 of the phone tools at all, no way to get things on/off
the phone, other than contacts, except via the data options, like web
access, which I don't pay them for... Hmm. Ok, but I "can" cut a 30
second bit from the MP3, buy a $50 version of Phone Tools 5.0, which
supports it, then sort of upload the file, kind of..
The other option? Take the damn thing back, pay $20 more for a new
Motorola RazrV3, which, because its an update of the V1 *is* compatible
with the version of the tools I have, and upload/download any damn thing
I want from/to it, including full MP3s, or any pictures I might take
(other one had a camera, but you could only email/upload them via web
access to get them off the phone).
I have, at this point, stopped trusting *anything* anyone says about
hand held devices. Your lucky if you can run 3rd party stuff written for
them properly without them crashing, use the features without 14 addons,
or a higher cost plan, or special software, and half the time what "is"
on them doesn't work all the time.
Nice to know I can look forward to the same BS from cars, if/when I ever
get one. lol
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if version = "Vista" {
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call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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> Quizzical fact: I passed my car driving test first time, in about 10
> minutes, after one driving lesson and driving through a red traffic light
> and parking on the pavement (sidewalk) in a major city.
>
> How?
Because they were desperate for people to drive stuff in the war and were
handing out licenses to anyone with at least one leg and one foot? :-D
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