It's pretty easy to welcome "debate" when you've already determined the outcome before a single word has been spoken. It also looks like "transparency" now means the opposite of its traditional meaning. Kind of like how literally can mean figuratively, bad is good, etc.

It's not really that surprising. Rats are pretty smart. Especially compared to many other rodents. My daughter had a pet rat, it was pretty surprising how attached my wife got to it. We had originally planned to let her get two rats because they are very social and do better in pairs. But the one my daughter picked did not like other rats at all. The people at the pet store said that she got into some pretty nasty fights with any other rats, even the ones from her original litter. But she really craved human interaction. My daughter forgot to lock her cage once. It was within the first two week of her getting the rat. It was not even five minutes later that my wife looked down because she felt something on her foot. The rat almost immediately found my wife and was trying to climb her leg.

Food is the best way to train a rat. we noticed that the one my daughter had would often times turn down food it liked if it thought we had something else that it liked better. I don't think I've seen too many other animals that would do that.

I don't think so. Most limos are Cadillacs in the US. Granted there are obviously some specialty ones that are not, but certainly not enough to account for every Mercedes. Even so, cars like these will not be used by transportation companies very often as the overhead on gimmicky suspension stuff like this is not a money maker and too expensive to keep it going. Many cars that limo companies use get sold at auctions, and certainly do not contain anywhere near "10 tons of scrap."

FTFY

FTFY.

As I understood the summary, they are doing nothing to improve handling, it's merely to "increase the pleasure of the driver and passengers."

Sway bars are cheap and the bushings are the only thing that can wear out. This system probably isn't cheap and will cost a hell of a lot more than bushings do to fix it.

I agree, practice is a huge part of it. Back in the days of type on the old Smith corona very few people owned their own typewriter. Additionally there was no benefit, other than to practice, to type incessantly. Texting is a form of communication, it's totally different. Even typing on a computer is different. If you make a mistake, it'll probably be auto-corrected.

When I learned to type you could try to erase the error with one of those green pencil type ink erasers with a brush on one end. Half the time you tore a hole in the paper. Many years ago I discovered that using white out and then photo copying the original document and carefully aligning it in the typewriter was the cleanest way to make a correction. Of course then came erasing ribbons.

Typing is done for much different reasons now. It used to be a secretary would type notes they or someone else took. Now most people are typing their own thoughts. So the need to not look at the keyboard is greatly reduced. Between that, auto-correct, and the ability to edit, I've seen several people who can type forty or more wpm using only their index and middle fingers on each hand.

No, but after owning a car for a while it should be possible to change the radio station or temperature without looking at the display. This is pretty damn hard to do with touch screens. Physical dials an buttons simply make more sense for most controls like this in a car.

I can't say I've every owned a Toyota. But all of the cars that I've owned would not allow you to turn the key back to lock the steering wheel unless the car was in park or neutral.

But unlike a lion, Jason doesn't usually stop at just one.

I would sure as hell hope it would stop for the person, regardless of whether it's a child or not. Or do you just run over little old ladies if they get in your way while driving through a school zone?

It should, as that is the law. It should also slow down before it crosses the threshold for a lowered speed limit. While most people don't even start to slow down until after passing the lower speed limit sign, legally you are to be doing that speed as soon as you pass the sign.

I'd say that qualifies as a problem.

I remember reading about her after she did the first Tomb Raider movie in Cambodia. She was your typical Hollywood type until she saw how things were in that country. Afterward she donated $1 million of her own money to the UN refugee fund. Take a look at the humanitarian section on the Wiki page about her She's spent a lot of her own money and time trying to make the world a better place.

My wife follows this type of stuff more than I do. But I have a lot of respect for what she and Brad Pit have done. They donate a lot of their own money to these causes rather than asking others to do it. They also go to these places and physically help, which is even more unusual. They have done a lot to help the folks in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina too.

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