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I've seen a lot of people on gun forums get out of speeding tickets, and I think it's due to having a CCW. Not necessarily that they have the card, but when they pull over they do everything they can to assure officer safety. I will always turn on my dome light, turn off the vehicle, keep my hands on the wheel, inform the officer (even though not legally required unless asked) and ask him how to proceed.

I just got back from two vacations. Went to Destin Florida for a week, and then last week was down in Hilton Head SC for a week. I averaged 35.2mpg on the way from Ohio to Hilton Head, and got 500 miles out of a tank of gas in my 2005 Acura TSX which has the vtec 4 cylinder with tons of power. I was thrilled! Especially since I was driving at around 75-85mph about the whole trip.  

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Yeah, Ford dropped the Ranger, Chevy the S10 and Mazda no longer sells their B-series over here. Dodge had the Ram 50, but that was put out to pasture long before the others when the Dakota started selling better. Even the "mid sized" pickups these days are starting to dwindle. Soon enough, it'll be full-sized diesel or nothing.

I remember reading an article a few years back regarding the wheel base size/MPG ratio, and due to that manufacturers will be getting away from smaller trucks. It's easier to build a larger truck due to less pressure on meeting MPG standards. I tried searching for the article or something similar to it, but no luck.

Cash for clunkers also drived up used car prices.

140k for four grand? Eeesh. It seems like uaed car prices have jumped since I bought my truck around 2009. My friend bought a mint GMC 2500 with 99k for the same price around that time.

impulse418 wrote: Found a truck. 03 4x4 S10 with 98k miles, for a pretty good price. Only problem it's in Los Angeles. I really do not like visiting the Peoples Republic of California, but I might have to.

Found a truck. 03 4x4 S10 with 98k miles, for a pretty good price. Only problem it's in Los Angeles. I really do not like visiting the Peoples Republic of California, but I might have to.

JohnnyCanuck wrote: well, my 'o9 macbook died, so bought a retina, need it for work.

What is your macbook doing? Mine died a month or so ago. It wouldn't boot. Had the gray/white startup screen nonstop. I tried all the fixing solutions I could find of buttons to press while turning it on. Seeing if it was a corrupted memory card. Nothing worked. I found some people with 09 MacBooks were all having the same issue and it was a bad harddrive wire. Apparently the 09 MacBooks have this problem more than any others. I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro. I ordered a new one from ifixit and replaced mine. Now it works just like before. After that fiasco, I bought an external harddrive and made a complete duplicate of my internal harddrive. Now I can boot up from the external if the wire ever gives me a problem. Just have to rewrite every month or 2 to keep it all updated.


With the explosion of the Antares rocket headed for the ISS to restock supplies, does anyone what kind of backup procedures they have for getting another rocket up as soon as possible.

Everytome I see ISS, I think of ISIS or any other names they have been given.

agentwhale007 wrote: On the research side, I'm working on some content analysis stuff looking into the themes of trending stories on the Facebook sidebar, and I'm doing a larger content analysis of use of the #GamerGate hashtag on Twitter to get a quantitative data set on that whole mess.