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Transmission goes out $3K. Car value $3K. Well it is in (I thought) good condition, so put the new transmission in. Two weeks later the check engine light comes on and it starts to surge at around 40 MPH. 
So I am told it will be $3K to fix. Elephant, elephant, elephant!
Not going to fix it, but still have at least a year to pay on my pickup truck. So drive the truck and only drive the car when I have to.  I really do not like to drive the truck in town as my spatial perception is not the best.
Hope to get something early next year, but in the mean time...
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Two weeks later the check engine light comes on and it starts to surge at around 40 MPH.
So I am told it will be $3K to fix.
See, that's the real problem with modern cars. You need a computer technician to diagnose the problem, and special tools and knowledge to make repairs. I predict that we've seen the end of the "classic car" because after 5-10 years they stop making repair parts available, the most important of which are the myriad of computers that control the car. I'm seeing it happen with Mustangs made in the 80's. The computers are starting to fail, and if you can find one, they're expensive as hell. I am of the opinion that the manufacturers are doing this intentionally to get you to have to buy a new car every 5-10 years.
".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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How did you know it was a 2008? 
When Ford made the Model T anyone could fix the car.
No facts to back this up, but it seems the cars are made cheaply (bad ignition switches, bad emissions) so they can sell you a new car in a few years.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Model T
Speaking of bad emissions... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Better than the horse it replaced:
In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan’s third-story windows.
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The 2CV could be completely stripped down with a cresent wrench! French Cars who knows if it was a feature!! 
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: The 2CV could be completely stripped down with a cresent wrench!
That's because the manufacturer knew that if it was much more complex than that, the French would just give up trying to fix it.
".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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My experience with later Citrons (odd connection to Lemons) have proved that point!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I am of the opinion that the manufacturers are doing this intentionally to get you to have to buy a new car every 5-10 years
Yep, some sort of planned obsolescence.
Not just force us (well, not me, as I don't have a car), to buy a new car, but for all the support line to buy new diagnostic tools for each car manufacturers and car models.
I'd rather be phishing!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: See, that's the real problem with modern cars. You need a computer technician to diagnose the problem, and special tools
Fiat ECU Scan (hacked version) off the net and a $10 cable to diagnose my alfa. And US/Jap cars diagnostic SW is freely available I have heard.
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Someone please explain this to me
http://imgur.com/GBVvkkk[^]
Total disk size: 999GB
Available: 936GB
Used: 63GB
However,
Apps: 314GB
This is probably Dr. Who's hard drive which has somehow gotten... sorry, got on my Mac.
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Maybe someone got REALLY confused about the difference between GB and GiB...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Hey, it's Apple. They've always imagined that they're bigger than they really are have gotten! 
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Maybe it's mostly cache/temp stuff so it doesn't count it.
Maybe it's just bad maths.
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Math. Mathe. Maths. Depends on what time I post (or rather, who is awake to read it)
Technically you were right. It was an indexing problem, it was including files long gone. Refreshing spotlight fixed it.
A bug! I found a bug! On a mac! Whoopeeee! <MS fanboi="off" />
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Might have something to do with sector size (allocated by the OS file system).
".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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If you put Root Beer in a Square Cup, do you get Beer?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Only on the side.
(Why would anyone want to drink root beer, when whisk(e)y, lager, wine, etc. are available?)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Always keep root beer handy, just in case some voodoo zombie pirate suddenly takes interest in your significant other...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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den2k88 wrote: voodoo zombie ghost pirate
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I don't drink root beer, sorry. Cardhu, otoh...
I never finish anyth
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No, you get flat beer! You'd have to cube it to get beer!
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Be careful if you're talking hypotetically: putting imaginary root beer in a square cup results in loss of beer.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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