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Fatwah on Western Digital
My Element wasn't totaled and it was WAY worse than that.
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Stereodude
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Well the body shop tells me it's totaled since the cost to repair exceeds the value of the vehicle. My insurance company hasn't told me anything yet.
ddrueding
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I'm still thinking that that car is totaled. Had he gone into your rear bumper maybe not, but that is a lot of damage at the rear.
I went car shopping with my girlfriend on Sunday, but this was for her, not me. Her Civic is a 2003 (116K miles) and is at the point where it needs a timing belt replacement, a new catalytic converter (engine light comes and goes), headlight replacement, fix the front window washer, and some suspension work. The car is valued at roughly $2500 due to the wear and tear and also she's pretty hard on the exterior, so it has some exterior damage. The cost of the repairs/maintenance come close to the value of the car, so it's a tough call to fix or replace.
We test drove a 2012 Hyundai Tuscon GLS and it was rather nice. She was comparing it to a Honda CRV and we were impressed with the quality and also the ride. The safety report looks to be very good at the IIHS website.
We test drove a 2012 Hyundai Tuscon GLS and it was rather nice. She was comparing it to a Honda CRV and we were impressed with the quality and also the ride. The safety report looks to be very good at the IIHS website.
Stereodude
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By the way, was your Element almost 10 years old with 150k miles on it at the time?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I believe it had 30k or something of all highway miles. Though that just looks like they'd need to replace a few body panels to me.
Stereodude
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Basically all the body panels on my Maxima are damaged except for the 4 doors. The headlights, front bumper, grill, hood, rear bumper, trunk, etc. I'd wager the "frame" is tweaked too.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Had this sent to me today, and thought I would share:
Cello Wars... http://youtu.be/BgAlQuqzl8o
I thought it amusing and very well put together. Just ignore the slightly overweight Darth Vader...
Cello Wars... http://youtu.be/BgAlQuqzl8o
I thought it amusing and very well put together. Just ignore the slightly overweight Darth Vader...
DrunkenBastard
Storage is cool
Congrats to dd and yourself Chewy.
DrunkenBastard
Storage is cool
http://www.examiner.com.au/news/local/news/general/drivers-miraculous-escape/2382529.aspx
21 tonnes is about 46,000lbs to the Yanks amongst us. He walked away. Very very lucky.
21 tonnes is about 46,000lbs to the Yanks amongst us. He walked away. Very very lucky.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Cars are to me just slightly ahead of drying paint in terms of my level of interest, but since we're on a car wreck theme this week, here's a bunch of pictures of some Ferrari pileup that happened in Japan.
If you like red Italian sports cars, it might hurt to look.
If you like red Italian sports cars, it might hurt to look.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Whew, at least the Porsche was saved.
ddrueding
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I believe that to be a Ferrari F430 with a body kit. That white 512 was very lucky his car went no further under the guardrail.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Slow day at work today, so I'm working through the piles of hardware I have sitting around. I've got two Core 2 Duo and one Turion laptop working well enough to boot Linux off a thumb drive. Which is cool because, hey, free laptops.
ddrueding
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A friendly teenage geek was bored this summer, to I gave him a dozen dead compaq laptops. These were all failed screens, power connections, motherboards, etc. Really dead. Just through part swapping he has revived 4 of them. Not financially feasible, and certainly not worth my time, but cool for him.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
The way used laptops sell on Ebay, he probably made out like a bandit.
ddrueding
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Nope, gave them to his friends with Ubuntu installed. Really cool kid.
Stereodude
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So the insurance company still hasn't made up their mind about the car. Apparently their analysts are still working on it and will make a decision by Thursday. I had the body shop fax me the estimate they sent the insurance company. It says there's $7k in damage to the car and their estimate only uses non-OEM parts.
The insurance company / body shop tried this stunt when my car was rear ended 2 years ago and they got to replace the rear bumper cover a 2nd time with an OEM one because the first one was a non-OEM part with bad fit and finish that had visible molding marks and the like. I already have an somewhat terse voicemail into my claim rep about this.
Some pictures from last time:
The insurance company / body shop tried this stunt when my car was rear ended 2 years ago and they got to replace the rear bumper cover a 2nd time with an OEM one because the first one was a non-OEM part with bad fit and finish that had visible molding marks and the like. I already have an somewhat terse voicemail into my claim rep about this.
Some pictures from last time:
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Fatwah on Western Digital
They changed the layout like, oh, maybe last Friday? Something like that.
ddrueding
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Mine hasn't changed. Still at the top, still with shopping. Perhaps because I am logged in?
It is a very strange situation. On my main computer the Google is unchanged (bar on top). I don't log into anything and I just turned that computer on. :spiderman:
ddrueding
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Take a look at the top-right of the top bar....does it have your e-mail address listed?
ddrueding
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They only know it if you have registered with one of their services and signed in from that computer before. Cookies do the rest.
I don't think so. Does the Google have a store? I also clear the cookies around 4000 times per year.
ddrueding
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Google has "Google Checkout" and "Google Wallet" which are used by a bunch of online vendors. They also own YouTube, have e-mail services, and about a million other things.
mubs
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Why? You can set your browser to delete all cookies when you exit the browser, except the ones you want to keep, like for this site.
BingBangBop
Storage is cool
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Doesn't flash have its own cookie system that is independent of the browsers cookies. Thus, you can clean the browsers cookies all day long and still have cookies...
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Fatwah on Western Digital
It is time for a hot chick break. Why no, there isn't anything going on in my office. Why do you ask. Anyway:
1. This chick is hot.
2. She does push ups in ways that I have never seen them done before.
3. She has a hot accent that's probably relevant to ddrueding's interests.
4. Did I mention she's hot?
5. If hot chicks doing exercise in exercise clothes are not good to look at while you're at work, do not click this.
6. Burpees are forever. I don't know what that means but it's the title of the video. I don't even know what a burpee is. Presumably it has something to do with the sideways one armed pushups and crap.
1. This chick is hot.
2. She does push ups in ways that I have never seen them done before.
3. She has a hot accent that's probably relevant to ddrueding's interests.
4. Did I mention she's hot?
5. If hot chicks doing exercise in exercise clothes are not good to look at while you're at work, do not click this.
6. Burpees are forever. I don't know what that means but it's the title of the video. I don't even know what a burpee is. Presumably it has something to do with the sideways one armed pushups and crap.
She was previously a porn star and recently quit doing the exercise videos with a replacement now taking over. My coworker uses her videos as training material every day. I get to hear about her all the time.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
If she did porn, I don't recognize her. Hm. Now I'll have to watch it again. Shucks.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Looks like she did some modeling for MetArt, Twistys and DDgirls. Solo sets, no toys (that I could see from a skim of my collection), and no performing with a partner of either gender. Basically people took pictures of her standing around being hot. That makes her more of a nude model than a porn star.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
OK this is also pretty cool. And it's not hot chicks. And the 4k source video is being made available, too.
Not that I'm looking at videos all day.
Not that I'm looking at videos all day.
ddrueding
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That's all I'm doing, still 1700 minutes left on my 220GB VM file copy.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Coincidentally, that's just about how long I waited for my converted VM to boot before I gave up on it.