I almost never go to the dealer.
Dealer prices are usually outrageously expensive compared to a decent mechanic, but on the other hand I've experiences that tell me that some mechanics are sharks so it's important to establish a good relationship with a mechanic or learn to do it yourself.

I had this other experience where a Ford dealer tried to sell me a car and even after I told them my situation (no credit history) they insisted that they could "help" me, so when the salesman had to go get the manager; the manager sat down in the salesman's desk and after looking over some papers he started subtly laughing.

Another dealer had a car I could afford but wouldn't do test drives on Saturday (basically the only day I have to myself), so ultimately I ended up finding a nice little Volkswagen on Craigslist from a private seller.

So dealers? I could do without them.

It is not uncommon to find programs utilizing the MOS 6052 instruction set doing the same thing.
This is why if you write a Nintendo NES emulator exactly to spec some games might not work because they use undocumented instructions that work on the real hardware but need to be specifically implemented in software.

I think the friend-zone phenomena is typically a result of, or combination thereof; immature women (esp. teenagers), women who knowingly take advantage and men who have a self-image problem.
On the other hand there are men who do actually believe you can put niceness tokens in until sex comes out and women can typically spot that from a mile away.
And then from personal experience there are cases where a man genuinely loves a woman to the point he would lay down his life for hers but she continually pushes him aside; it's not a nice place to be in, it's emotionally frustrating and generally not worth putting up with so the parent comment's suggestion of separation is not a bad idea because it'll give you time to breathe, mature and maybe she'll realize what she lost.. or not but you'll be better off as a free man from such emotional tyranny.


Last but not least is a tidbit from the Bible; "The heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate. Who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9).
Listening to ones heart often leads to irrational decisions and therefore many regrets so the Bible again councils; "thinking ability itself will keep guard over you, discernment itself will safeguard you," (Proverbs 2:11). How wise it is to think before you feel!

That does it! How many people have to die until we do something about explosions?
I'm sure we can all be confident that Senator Feinstein (D-Cal) will be drafting an "Assault Explosions Ban" bill by the end of the week to rid us of this problem once and for all.

I first read it as "New bird shaped drone shot down at Security and Defense trade show."
Maybe I've been living in the south way too long.

It adds a whole new meaning to "The RED planet."

Also Outlaws and especially The Dig were some other great LucasArts games with amazing intros.

Nor any mention of Outlaws!
That game was like "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" turned into a video game.

Phrenology returns with a vengeance for the public to swallow along with a variety of cancer curing pseudoscience!

I got modded as troll. I guess the mods don't have a sense of humor, or the trolls happen to have the mod points today.

When are they going to come out with a satellite that will let me inspect the gravel in my driveway?

When I was young my parents made sure that if I was going to play video games with violence in them that I understood that it was pure fantasy and disconnected from the real world.
Parents of kids these days see video games more as a baby sitter, and these kids are left to have their mental state molded by what they watch and play rather then having a parent there to help them to realize where fantasy ends and reality begins.

Any time anyone mentions making health care (let alone mental health care) more accessible in this country for people who need it everyone starts screaming; "SOCIALISM IS EVIL! HOTDOGS AND APPLE PIE! COMMUNISTS ARE GOING TO TAKE OUR FORD TRUCK! FIREWORKS!", and other random capricious propaganda.
Then a school shooting happens and people start screaming we need to make health care more accessible for people who need it.

You just can't win either way.

I used to use Thunderbird but then I got a job. I'd happily switch back to Thunderbird if they'd add in Exchange support like every other mail client on the planet. :(

Being owner to a couple of different tablets I wouldn't mind trying out the eBook scene but the fact that eBooks cost just as much, if not more even, then the physical dead tree versions it just isn't economical to me.
If both formats are around the same price then I would rather have the physical dead tree copy that I can do what I please with which includes re-sale rights under the First Sale Doctrine that corporate America has been hell bent on destroying for the past 200 years.