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Comment Re:I'm driving a rented Nissan Pathfinder while my (Score 1) 622

car is being repaired. Ridiculous! 20 MPG and every time I step on the brakes or the gas it rocks back and forth like a rocking chair. It seats about as many people as a sedan and can carry only slightly more junk than a sedan. Why do people want to drive these things? They aren't attractive, they don't stop/go fast, they can't carry much stuff. I don't get it.

I don't understand why so many people want to drive pickups either. In a pickup you can only haul stuff you care about in decent weather. I get it if you're a farmer or ranch hand and need to haul messy stuff year round, but why would anyone else want to drive a truck? And why is it that the bigger the pickup, the greater the odds that they will back into parking spaces?

Haul'n shit! Seriously though, most of the stuff I haul I really don't care about. I've loaded mine (compact pickup) up with rocks, mulch, wood, scrap metal, furniture, and numerous other things. I also have a small utility trailer, and have loaded both. If you don't have one, you won't miss it, but if you do have one, you may find it is indispensable. Granted I have a utility trailer too, and that would work for most cars, but most cars don't come with a factory hitch, much less a 2" hitch.

Comment Re:Progressive Fix 101 (Score 1) 622

Sheesh, I have two kids and the family barely fits in my 4-door Toyota Tacoma pickup. I'm 6'5" so I put the seat all the way back, and kids are required by law to be in car seats until they are probably 10. We also have a Honda minivan, and that is comfortable only because it seats 8. Cars these days, especially what they call mid-sized sedans, are complete crap.

Comment Re:The solution to NASA's budget problem (Score 1) 47

"The real kick in the pants is when September comes and these same budget people are running around asking if anyone knows of a way to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2 days before purchase orders are cut off at the end of the year or we will lose the money." Well, you give it to IT to spend on computers, crappy computers. Where else can you spend that amount of money overnight than on pallets of shitty Dell or HP computers? Anything of quality, such as Agilent test equipment, has lead times of weeks. Wouldn't surprise me if the shitbox PC makers pre-build in anticipation of the money.

Comment Re:Viewing Launches (Score 1) 23

Huh, I saw the maiden Discovery launch too. My dad and I drove down from VA. I don't remember exactly where we watched from, but there was a pond near by, where the alligators were watching us. I took a few seconds to actually see it rise above the treeline. What still amazes me is how long the thrust tail was; a flame probably as long, or longer than the entire vehicle. BTW, looking forward to that open source HT. KD4HSO

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