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Sounds like software to me: a legally bought product that may be locked off accidentally because of a stupid DRM mechanism, and essentially can only be used properly with the DRM removed by hackers .... 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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FORD - Fix Or Repair Daily
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LOTUS - Loads Of Trouble, Usually Serious
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Given yours and the previous post, ironically this was a truly great car[^].
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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There were loads of explanations for what car names really meant:
HONDA: Had One Never Did Again
BMW: Break My Windows
SAAB: Send Another Auto-mobile Back
Are the only other ones I can remember (or post in the Lounge at any rate)
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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GM - Government Motors
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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FIAT - Fix It Again Tony
BSA - Bastard Stopped Again
FORD - First On Race Day
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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OriginalGriff wrote: BMW: Break My Windows
FTFY as i never heard of BMW crashing into PCs! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Break My Windows
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~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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OriginalGriff wrote: HONDA: Had One Never Did Again
Hold On, Not Done Accelerating
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BMW : Bought My Wife
MAZDA : Most Always Zipping Dangerously Along
POLO : (O now I cannot be that naughty  )
And then there are LOADS more here[&]
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We had some German ones when I was stil in school. I only remember one of them.
OPEL: Ohne Power, Ewig Letzter (without power, always last one)
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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FIAT - Fix It Again Tomorrow.
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FORD - Found On Road, Dead.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Many, many years ago I went into a small local parts supply centre for an exhaust for my Ford Cortina and was quoted £30. I then saw a sign behind the counter saying "exhausts fitted free" and thought why get my own hands dirty?
Me - "Can you fit it for me?"
Them - "Of course, that'll be £50"
Me - "What about the free fitting?"
Them - "If you fit it yourself, we give you a discount!"
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I just bought a 2012 Ford Focus a few months ago and I really love it but my A/C condensate line leaks onto passenger floor and I've taken it back were I bought it and they blow the line out and it works for a while then clogs back up. The drain pan is behind the firewall and the whole dash has to taken out to get to it so the guys at the shop were I bought it don't want to do it the right way and I don't think it's covered under extended warrenty and I can't afford to shell out to have it done so am stuck. When it clogs I take it in and they blow it out, charged me first time 2nd time was free but they are not going to continue this for long.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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They are cracking cars - the chassis is excellent and the gearbox is the best one I've used in a modern car.
The main problem are the design "quirks". Mine has windscreen washers that, when the rubber goes, starts to drain out onto the sparks (fixed in later models), causing pinking. The other problem (common to a lot of modern cars) is that you pretty much have to take the whole light assembly out in order to change a simple bulb - meaning that it needs re-aligning, meaning a mechanic.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Yeah it is an awesome car! The reason I bought that model is I rented/drove one for a month when I took my trip out west and loved it. But as you say there are plenty of design quirks, and to get them worked on is expensive and a lot of the work required a mechanic.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I just bought a 2012 Ford Focus a few months ago and I really love it but my A/C condensate line leaks onto passenger floor and I've taken it back were I bought it and they blow the line out and it works for a while then clogs back up.
Try setting the vent control so the AC brings in outside air and cools it down rather than recirculate the air from the cabin over and over. My dad was a mechanic for 40+ years (not at a Ford dealer, mind you) and one of his observations is that if you let an AC recirculate the air from the cabin, it gets too cold then freezes the lines. Then they either have to blow it out, as you're seeing, or wait until it thaws out on its own.
By letting it draw outside air instead, it should never get cold to the point where the line freezes.
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Awesome advice will check it out thanks!
[update]
It was set on outside circulation and it's still leaking. Boooooo
So the dealership is getting a call today.
[/update]
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
modified 11-Aug-14 11:49am.
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Well, that's all the car advice I had for today.  It's a hardware problem, and I'm a software guy...
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Is that really out or not?
A quick search on the web suggests it didnt happen yet.
But I saw one of my friends carrying Nokia Lumia 630 & its Phone info clearly says it's Windows Phone 8.1.
If it's a developer preview, it might better carry a suffix saying WP8.1 GDR or something but nothing was written. It was a clear "Windows Phone 8.1" 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I have it on a Lumia 1520. It just updated last night.
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Wow, but was there an announcement from Microsoft about the release?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Did it break yours like it broke mine?
One email account went into endless sync...took me a day to catch it in between attempts so I could delete it. Incredible battery drain and overheating.
SMSs can no longer be replied to via voice-to-text when Bluetoothily connected to my car.
And I still haven't figured out what update this actually is. It's NOT the latest one, since that's not available yet. I think it's the one just before.
I'm hoping the real one fixes what it broke.
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