Now that's awesome. I already have a couple of Airhogs AeroAce, which is the Silverlit X-Twins for you guys, and the Airhogs Havoc which is the Silverlit PiccoZ helicopter. The heli I fly in the basement all the time, or I use to. The plane I couldn't fly in the house, but fly with about 20 barn swallows in the evenings out in the back yard in the summer.
That Stingray looks really cool. I haven't been in the toy section for quite some time. I'll have to look for the Airhogs equivalent next time I'm at the store.
Look on the right side of the car. Wheels will start rotating clockwise then
No, he was some geeky kid in an 80's teen romance movie, something about getting picked on by the football team and being in love with a cheerleader...
Oh, wait, that was Lucas.
....oops, showing my age....
Don't buy a car with over 200,000 km? Pffff, that's only about 125k miles... I just got my little Honda a few months ago with 179k miles on it complete with a blown head gasket. It now has 184k on it and is still running strong with that blown head gasket. It is easily the 2nd best running vehicle I've owned (again, this includes it with the current blown head gasket.) The best running was an 89 Toyota pickup truck that ran like I just drove it off the assembly line when I was involved in a wreck at 139k miles way back when.
3rd best running vehicle I've had was an 88 Toyota 4Runner. I sold it with 189,000 miles on it and it ran great. It was even totaled not once, but twice.
Worst running cars I've owned was a Ford with 49k, another Ford with 89k, a Chevy with 130k, and my wife's current vehicle, another Ford with 51k on it now that was purchased new.
Point is, choose the car for the car it is, not for the mileage it has. Mileage is only relevant after pointing out what the car actually is. 200k miles of car X can very well be a better car than 50k miles of car Y.
3rd best running vehicle I've had was an 88 Toyota 4Runner. I sold it with 189,000 miles on it and it ran great. It was even totaled not once, but twice.
Worst running cars I've owned was a Ford with 49k, another Ford with 89k, a Chevy with 130k, and my wife's current vehicle, another Ford with 51k on it now that was purchased new.
Point is, choose the car for the car it is, not for the mileage it has. Mileage is only relevant after pointing out what the car actually is. 200k miles of car X can very well be a better car than 50k miles of car Y.
If Birder would like to challenge me in a race with his GT2, I'm all for it.
Oh, and as gentleman rules would state, if he challenges, then of course I get to select the venue. He won't make it through the first mud hole
Indeed. I'm sure this girl would have inspected the gun without picking it up (went off when she grabbed it from the table) first to check for a red tip.
You have a lot of faith in what a 3 year old is capable of doing.
What purpose does having a gun sit on the top shelf loaded but with a trigger lock and the first 3 rounds blank? Why not have it unloaded with the clip and bullets located in another part of the house?
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Those rules would definitely help a 3 year old picking up a gun thinking it was a wii controller....
And this would work if it had been the parent who left the gun out that got shot. Can't expect a 3 year old to know what a gun is, so natural selection isn't the case here.
And this would work if it had been the parent who left the gun out that got shot. Can't expect a 3 year old to know what a gun is, so natural selection isn't the case here.
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I'm jealous. I wanted to give both cars a good wash after work since it was a beautiful 50 F out. But all this 45-50 degree weather has only melted the snow down to where it is only 15 inches deep in the yard and the driveway is a sheet of ice because the house blocks the sun.
March I get antsy for cleaning the cars up after the winter, but there's always too much snow laying around yet.
March I get antsy for cleaning the cars up after the winter, but there's always too much snow laying around yet.
The reason it's so sensationalized is because of Toyota's reputation for being reliable and dependable. Back a few short years ago, my wife recalled (no pun intended) seeing on the news a Toyota representative stating that they need to cut costs to remain competitive. It's the same that all other companies spew out, "cut costs", and the first thing that is affected by the statement "cut costs" is quality.
GM, Ford, and Dodge are constantly issuing recalls over here. Just because of the economy here and the bogus bailouts over here, Toyota not being an American manufacturer is being unfairly targeted by the media here. GM just recalled a whole bunch of their garbage, yet all it is in the media is a small blurb, then ignored and back to the Toyota sensationalizing.
Over here it seems that everyone wants Toyota to fail unlike what is wanted of the American manufacturers. The thing that people don't realize is, everyone making the OEM parts for the American cars are also making parts for Toyota and all the other manufacturers. "GM is too big to allow to fail..." Well, guess what, so is Toyota because if either one of them fail, it takes away 40% of the business of the OEM manufacturers in this country no matter which of the 2 manufacturers are out. When GM cut their manufacturing in 2008, we cut down to about 25% of our workforce. This year, when Toyota canceled all orders because of the recall and production stoppage, we again cut down to about 25% of the workforce.
The difference is, Toyota isn't flying in their private executive jets to Washington DC to beg for the government to bail them out of this.
GM, Ford, and Dodge are constantly issuing recalls over here. Just because of the economy here and the bogus bailouts over here, Toyota not being an American manufacturer is being unfairly targeted by the media here. GM just recalled a whole bunch of their garbage, yet all it is in the media is a small blurb, then ignored and back to the Toyota sensationalizing.
Over here it seems that everyone wants Toyota to fail unlike what is wanted of the American manufacturers. The thing that people don't realize is, everyone making the OEM parts for the American cars are also making parts for Toyota and all the other manufacturers. "GM is too big to allow to fail..." Well, guess what, so is Toyota because if either one of them fail, it takes away 40% of the business of the OEM manufacturers in this country no matter which of the 2 manufacturers are out. When GM cut their manufacturing in 2008, we cut down to about 25% of our workforce. This year, when Toyota canceled all orders because of the recall and production stoppage, we again cut down to about 25% of the workforce.
The difference is, Toyota isn't flying in their private executive jets to Washington DC to beg for the government to bail them out of this.
Hmm, after 5 years without problems, I don't think I'll bother trying to hunt down the side cover.
Hey, if it makes him feel like he's important by bragging about getting MS products for free, let him be.
I get it free as well through work. I also get a discount on cell phone service, Dell computers, and can buy a new car for thousands under dealer cost from several manufacturers, but I don't mention it in every one of my posts. Perhaps I should?
Now I remember having an issue as well with Firefox. Unlike IE, Firefox is/can be color managed. In the screenshot you have above, select sRGB color profile. Then either Firefox should be ok because it is looking at your profile you assigned, or you may need to change it within firefox.
I remember when I had FF 3.6, I had to change the color management in Firefox. Unfortunately, I'm back on FF 2.0 currently due to a Windows reinstall and can't remember what exactly to do. If you google for color management in firefox, you should be able to figure out how to configure FF to color manage according to the profile you set above.
I remember when I had FF 3.6, I had to change the color management in Firefox. Unfortunately, I'm back on FF 2.0 currently due to a Windows reinstall and can't remember what exactly to do. If you google for color management in firefox, you should be able to figure out how to configure FF to color manage according to the profile you set above.
Going off someone else's settings with different monitors and, well, different everything isn't going to do it.
I would make sure you are using the correct color profile for the monitor. I had what sounds like a similar issue, only it was between graphics programs for me (photoshop, paintshop pro, Lightroom, etc.) and it was the color profile. Using the wrong profile can really wash out the colors or make them so saturated that your screen looks like a cartoon.
I would make sure you are using the correct color profile for the monitor. I had what sounds like a similar issue, only it was between graphics programs for me (photoshop, paintshop pro, Lightroom, etc.) and it was the color profile. Using the wrong profile can really wash out the colors or make them so saturated that your screen looks like a cartoon.
I bought my first PC in 1995. Not one PC has ever been left closed up. My current PC I bought in 2005. I immediately opened it to install a 2nd hard drive and something else. It has been open since about the 3rd day I bought it, just slightly over 5 years now.
First question is, why would you measure anything that length in inches to begin with? You would measure it in feet or in feet and inches. There would be no reason to convert. On second thought, you would measure it in miles, or even yards would be fine, but yard as a measurement is rarely used.
At work everything we do is pressurized. We work with one piece of equipment in PSI. The next equipment in the process is in MPa. The final finished part is molded in bar.
We buy pop (soda probably for you guys, it's pop in Pittsburgh/western PA) in 12 ounce cans, 24 ounce bottles, and then 2 liter bottles. Milk is broken down to gallon, half gallon, quart, and pint, but fuel is in gallons to fraction of gallons.
A recipe may call for a tablespoon of butter, or it can call for a 1/4 pound of butter.
If you work on your car, it really gets messed up. You may need a 9/16 inch wrench for this bolt, but the next bolt you need a 14 mm wrench.
We buy pop (soda probably for you guys, it's pop in Pittsburgh/western PA) in 12 ounce cans, 24 ounce bottles, and then 2 liter bottles. Milk is broken down to gallon, half gallon, quart, and pint, but fuel is in gallons to fraction of gallons.
A recipe may call for a tablespoon of butter, or it can call for a 1/4 pound of butter.
If you work on your car, it really gets messed up. You may need a 9/16 inch wrench for this bolt, but the next bolt you need a 14 mm wrench.
You do realize that most of the engineers designing parts for cars are not engineers for the manufacturers, right? The majority of the parts on a car are designed by the supplier manufacturers and they bid to the car manufacturers. The car manufacturers then go with the lowest bidder, hence you have the Toyota problem.
OEM parts are a compromise between comfort and performance. Just because car X has this suspension and "they are the manufacturer, thus they should know" as you guys always spout doesn't mean that the suspension is perfect. The aftermarket designs for a specific purpose, not for a compromise. They may design Y suspension components for comfort and Z suspension components for performance.
Take exhaust for example. Car manufacturers have to compromise performance for quietness. The aftermarket manufacturers don't care about the quietness over performance. They design to increase the performance.
Then again, I suppose all you internet experts work for car manufacturers and would know more about it than I do, who does work for an OEM car manufacturer supplier that has the engineers designing the parts and bidding them out to the car man. just like I said they do. I suppose I also wouldn't know how it all works when I am the one working in R&D and the one who manufactures the pre-production parts for testing that has to be just good enough so that it passes the tests and requirements and can be manufactured at a lesser quality without passing the tests at a later time when put into production.
OEM parts are a compromise between comfort and performance. Just because car X has this suspension and "they are the manufacturer, thus they should know" as you guys always spout doesn't mean that the suspension is perfect. The aftermarket designs for a specific purpose, not for a compromise. They may design Y suspension components for comfort and Z suspension components for performance.
Take exhaust for example. Car manufacturers have to compromise performance for quietness. The aftermarket manufacturers don't care about the quietness over performance. They design to increase the performance.
Then again, I suppose all you internet experts work for car manufacturers and would know more about it than I do, who does work for an OEM car manufacturer supplier that has the engineers designing the parts and bidding them out to the car man. just like I said they do. I suppose I also wouldn't know how it all works when I am the one working in R&D and the one who manufactures the pre-production parts for testing that has to be just good enough so that it passes the tests and requirements and can be manufactured at a lesser quality without passing the tests at a later time when put into production.
Or you can just download and install Malware Bytes or Superantispyware in a matter of minutes and scan for half an hour and be done.
Shhhhhhh.... I am recording it and am still at work for another few hours....
At least your post sounds promising
Just for clarification, it may have sounded like booing, but it wasn't. It was "Lou" for Roberto Luongo, the goaltender.
One thing I'm wondering is, what kind of TV coverage are you all watching? Are you guys watching what I am, the NBC coverage over here, on the internet? How about you guys in Canada? Did you guys see the pregame where Roenick was interviewing and spending the afternoon with Ovechkin? These numbskulls on NBC love Ovechkin so much it is sickening. I thought Roenick was going to bend over and let Ovechkin
him right there on the table.So what is one of the other association to Germany Dan could have used to support his agreement to Shotglass' comment? He used that analogy because it fits.
I also would like to know, why is the suggested racism discussed in this thread not OK, but it is OK to suggest that I (as well as you, Ben) am lazy, fat, and stupid because I am "American" just as how it goes on constantly in this forum? Racism today in normal lives has nothing to do with slavery and all the rest mentioned. It has to do with the fact that any and every time you turn on the news, you see news of gang members shooting people on the street, you see 90% of the robberies in the news where the culprit was a certain "type" of person, you see the majority of the crime in the news with a picture of a certain "type" of person.
I also would like to know, why is the suggested racism discussed in this thread not OK, but it is OK to suggest that I (as well as you, Ben) am lazy, fat, and stupid because I am "American" just as how it goes on constantly in this forum? Racism today in normal lives has nothing to do with slavery and all the rest mentioned. It has to do with the fact that any and every time you turn on the news, you see news of gang members shooting people on the street, you see 90% of the robberies in the news where the culprit was a certain "type" of person, you see the majority of the crime in the news with a picture of a certain "type" of person.
Actually, home advantage goes a bit further than just the fans being on your side. Home advantage also gives you things such as making the final line change before puck drop and who has to have their stick on the ice first. Russia was the actual home team, in terms of the actual game. They had the higher seed going into the game. They had the advantage of changing their lines according to who they wanted to match up with whomever Canada put on the ice. That can be a pretty big advantage.
If it comes down to Canada vs. US, the US will also be the home team. If Canada plays Finland, then Canada will be home team (that could be wrong, I am not positive about Canada having top seed of those who played in the first qualifying round, but I'm pretty sure they were.)
Yeah yeah, sorry bout that. Some of us are at work and jump on and read forums when we have a spare moment, like during our 5 minute lunch moment or 5 minutes before the start of the day, and type fast.
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