Sir, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

I don't know of a single ABS system that is engaged by monitoring brake fluid. They all are driven by the ABS ring (a sprocket) on the rotor, unit bearing or hub bearing, at the wheels. if low brake fluid is screwing with your ABS unit you have a much bigger problem than low fluid level.

Defensive, much? Maybe something like tradeable sports cards, a lathe and furnace for smelting, screen printing tools, golf clubs? The list of cool stuff a kid could get geeked on is endless, but I enjoyed how you went straight to possibilities that carry to some serious negative connotations. For the record, I see nothing wrong with bringing a gun home if you show the children to respect it. I would encourage this practice, actually.

got a link to back this stat up?

Let's string him up!

What's really sad is even with a Depression no one cares enough to do that.

I worked at MS for over a year and it was just painful. I watched amazingly talented people get ignored and shut down while complete idiots kept getting to ship stupid products riddled with bugs. Test teams would cry 'show stopper' because a p1 bug wasn't fixed but a PM would ignore this serious flaw and make their ship date (or 2nd ship date).

I'm not trying to speak maliciously; I have nothing against the people I worked with. They're nice, intelligent people but they are not high quality coders or testers, or PMs. That is why you get such god awful products being released.

Just look @ the new version of Messenger - they do a lazy fetch for contact pictures even right after installing it. Who in their right mind would ship such an obvious flaw if the fix takes 10 minutes?

Great excuse to get rid of dead weight but it will be damn tough to carve them out.

Fixed that for you. Remember, using American longshoreman to unload.

I so very wish I had mod points. Good catch, I feel less the patriot for not having noticed myself.