Fail: Want an Android phone but there is no way I'd even use five hours of calls in a month, let alone the ten hours that come with the cheapest plan.. I suppose it would be too ballsy for them to say "You're paying for this phone and then a lot extra over time."
Are there any Android equivalents to the iPod Touch?
BTW, that aforementioned snowpocalypse hit my house. Just got done wrestling with the 15 inches in the driveway. I am pouring sweat, and that's something fat men hate to do.
After spending forever downloading Mass Effect on my brother's Steam account, some error is stopping me from playing. I may have to re-download it or some other nonsense...Or it may never work, and I'll be out $20, which would cause me to hit something...
My SFBRP website has been hacked. And because I'm behind some kind of corporate firewall and filtering service while on a cruise ship, it won't load the page properly so I can see what is going on. Fuck!
I'm pretty sure my heat pump can no longer keep up with the weather. It's 2 decades old, it's under 30F and it's covered with snow. It's been trying to maintain 72F and been running almost non stop for the passed 2 hours. I'm gonna hafta remember to switch over to emergency heat before I go to sleep. The temperature is going to plummet tonight.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.
I'd like to say on record that my Toyota is the most dependable, well-built, least-repair-needing, great looking, totally worth the sticker price car I've ever dealt with. I've had it going on 10 years. I've logged 80,000 miles (for a total of $134,000 miles -- I bought it used from my father-in-law). The amount of negative press being attributed to this recall is, in my opinion, unwarranted.
Funny story, somewhat unrelated: I was walking to my car in the parking lot of a local grocery store when I was approached by an angry woman. Some context is necessary here; my county used to employ somewhere on the scale of 10,000 Ford workers and now it doesn't. The woman saw me getting into my Camry and started screaming that I'm unAmerican and how dare I be a traitor and there will be hell to pay, etc. I looked at her, laughed, and told her my car was made pretty much entirely in Kentucky but her Ford was built mostly in Mexico and Germany and then just pieced together in the US, so my "Japanese" car is more American than hers.
That's why, it's a survivor from when Toyota built cars properly.
The amount of negative press being attributed to this recall is, in my opinion, unwarranted.
Unintended acceleration has always been a hot button news story, it really ratchets up the fear. Ever since the Audi 5000, which by the way was not actually real, every case was ruled driver error. Yes, every driver that had an issue had stamped the accelerator when they meant to hit the brake. 60 Minutes pretty much made the story up, and it nearly put Audi out of business in America.
However, Toyota's unintended acceleration is real. The problem has been amplified by Toyota's notoriously poor brakes and very powerful V6 engines. But the worst bit by a mile is how they've handled it. They've been shady, dismissive and changed their story multiple times. It's like they're trying to use the Fight Club method of recalls, which is just not how it works in the real world.
They do have pretty poor brakes. I learned to drive in a Toyota, so I am used to the brakes. Of course, it's unsettling for me to ride with someone else driving a different kind of car that gets much closer to the cars in front of them than I do.
I also don't understand why people are using "the last decade" as a metric when the recalls don't seem to expand back past 2006 or so. If it's just the last 5 years, they shouldn't be attributing the problem to all of the cars produced in the last 10 years. I'm not particularly worried about the resale value of my car. I intend to drive it until it crawls into a hole to die, and a drop in the estimated value will simply make my vehicle taxes lower. Plus, I have gap coverage on my loan, so if the car is ever totaled and the insurance has to replace it, the gap between what I owe and the current value is supposed to be covered.
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I suppose it would be too ballsy for them to say "You're paying for this phone and then a lot extra over time."
Are there any Android equivalents to the iPod Touch?
BTW, that aforementioned snowpocalypse hit my house. Just got done wrestling with the 15 inches in the driveway. I am pouring sweat, and that's something fat men hate to do.
My fail? So cold...it's gonna take me forever to get my car out of all that snow...
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
Thankfully in the real world there's the NHTSA.
Funny story, somewhat unrelated: I was walking to my car in the parking lot of a local grocery store when I was approached by an angry woman. Some context is necessary here; my county used to employ somewhere on the scale of 10,000 Ford workers and now it doesn't. The woman saw me getting into my Camry and started screaming that I'm unAmerican and how dare I be a traitor and there will be hell to pay, etc. I looked at her, laughed, and told her my car was made pretty much entirely in Kentucky but her Ford was built mostly in Mexico and Germany and then just pieced together in the US, so my "Japanese" car is more American than hers.
She went ballistic. It was fun.
However, Toyota's unintended acceleration is real. The problem has been amplified by Toyota's notoriously poor brakes and very powerful V6 engines. But the worst bit by a mile is how they've handled it. They've been shady, dismissive and changed their story multiple times. It's like they're trying to use the Fight Club method of recalls, which is just not how it works in the real world.
I also don't understand why people are using "the last decade" as a metric when the recalls don't seem to expand back past 2006 or so. If it's just the last 5 years, they shouldn't be attributing the problem to all of the cars produced in the last 10 years. I'm not particularly worried about the resale value of my car. I intend to drive it until it crawls into a hole to die, and a drop in the estimated value will simply make my vehicle taxes lower. Plus, I have gap coverage on my loan, so if the car is ever totaled and the insurance has to replace it, the gap between what I owe and the current value is supposed to be covered.