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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QTyPSROL_s8/UYLb-uN9SyI/AAAAAAAAQyQ/tFpJZFgAh38/s640/IMG_20130502_170723.jpg The Cherokee got a last dance today, before I park it for a time and replace most of the steering and suspension. Wish I could find a day to get Bishop and Joseph and Yancy all over here,...

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So are all these businesses losing customers at a staggering rate? I guess if everyone sucks at customer service the same amount, customers have nowhere else to go? The alternative is that people actually don't care about customer service, and will just go wherever they get the best deal [or wherev...

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People who buy brand new cars confuse me. My parents, for example, who are going to trade a 2011 Ford F-150 for a 2014 Ford F-150 because they can get a lower interest rate on the payments...the completely ludicrous payments, which they're now going to have to pay for another two years. I understand...

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Got the new MC in, and it holds pressure, thank dog. Got a little ambitious with the actuator rod, and now the brakes are so tight they're on the whole time you're driving, red-hot and ready to burn. So Sunday - tomorrow is full up - I'll pull the MC [without disconnecting the lines] and shorten the...

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Because I needed my own car this weekend, Ana and I needed to bleed the brakes again. We'd tried twice, but just couldn't get a firm pedal. So last night we bled it again, but sucked some air into the master cylinder and made things worse. Before I pulled it to do a bench bleed, we comprehensively b...

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Almost every time, the changes are for the worse. It's not a matter of simply getting used to the changes...the new tech often doesn't work as well or isn't placed properly. Yeah, this is a real burden of the American System of Manufacture: you have to constantly change everything, because otherwis...

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Rainy day, and waiting for my daughter to get home so we can vacuum bleed the brakes, so I decided to tackle another problem: my wipers only worked on High, and even then were very slow, and when you turned them off, the wipers stopped wherever they were. Not dangerous, but annoying, particularly si...

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And wouldn't you know it? It turned out to be the ignition coil after all. I didn't want to try it, and not be able to return it, so when it tested almost the same as the old one, I gave up. Could have saved me $120 if I'd just risked $50. Damn. But at least the Cherokee is running again, so we can ...

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If it's any consolation, I'm rather a bit older.

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You replaced the cap and rotor, and still no spark? Wow. Yeah, if the ignition coil doesn't get the right signal [via the ECU, presumably] from all the sensors - including the crankcase position sensor, the sync position sensor, and probably half a dozen others I don't know about - it won't trigger...

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We did finally run into a problem we couldn't diagnose [or at least not in the two days we have left to do it]. We replaced the exhaust, from manifold to tailpipe, including the O2 sensor. Drove it for a few days, no problems. I took it out, ran it for five minutes, brought it home where it idled fo...

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I hate big box retailers. Places like Best Buy used to have sound rooms and video rooms with at least some specialty equipment that wasn't available at every Walmart. I noticed this lack when I wanted to buy some Polk speakers for...I don't know, one of the last 18 cars I had. We went into an ABC W...

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Oh, yeah. When we bought Cherokee 3.0, it wouldn't always start; you had to fiddle with the shifter to get it to start. Neutral safety switch, naturally, we assumed, and kind of forgot about it; we're used to working with quirky vehicles: I drove a manual BMW for seven months without using the clutc...

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Got the new exhaust system: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zqCTY8Ai7Yw/UWrAnVvCc2I/AAAAAAAAQUA/VANRX99HxRU/s800/IMG_20130412_215115.jpg We bought all Wagner, both for cost, and because they make the quietest muffler available for Cherokees. [We're not that wild about driving way out into the wil...

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Finished Daenerys' vision in the House of the Undying, and [spoiler] I don't see how Jon Snow can be anything other than Rhaegar and Lyanna's son. And "his is the song of ice and fire," which must make him fairly special, if the books are named for him. [/spoiler] Of course, whatever the p...

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I'm so far behind that I'm still reading Clash of Kings, nevermind watching the new season, but something struck me recently: [spoiler] if my theory above about Jon Snow is right [that he's the offspring of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark] and Ygritte's bard's tale is true [that Starks carry the ...

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We're doing some work on our third Cherokee this week: replacing the front shocks, steering stabilizer, and spring isolators, and putting in a heavy-duty tie rod, heavy-duty drag link, poly track bar bushings and poly-bushing swaybar endlinks. We're trying to isolate and prevent some massive high-sp...

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w00t!

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Hmm. Not happening to me. Is it possible you've got some kind of Flickr add-on or search bar or extension or something installed?

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That's awesome! I'm a big, big fan of Subaru; I drove one as a company car some years ago, in the winter, and was barreled over by its all-wheel-drive. I drove it hard - exactly the way you'd expect me to drive it, really - and it was always settled and planted, and at the edge in difficult conditio...

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They work under different assumptions on the use of force, I think. Absolutely they do, and my feeling has always been that the two mindsets are inimical, that they cannot possibly coexist in the same force, but then I think: we ask police to distinguish between appropriate uses of force all the ti...

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Okay, so here's some questions, for a lazy Sunday morning: In auto mode, pull up to a stop with a long straight ahead. Turn off the stereo. Give the car moderate to heavy acceleration. • Does it keep the same rev count, more or less, throughout the acceleration, no matter the speed? • Is it making t...

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I've recently been reconsidering my position that the police and the military must always be different groups.

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That's weird. It must just pick a set of points on the "cone" and call them gears, and let you manually jump to them. I think the CVT is the most interesting transmission going; I wish they were more durable, so they could withstand offroading and high-torque electric applications, but the...

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I didn't realize those came with CVTs; does hers have one? I'm interested in what they feel like to drive.

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The way I see it, you remove power of control from the state in question (in this case, the US federal government, except in terms of interstate and international commerce) and allow the states and local jurisdictions to regulate firearm ownership as their citizens see fit, so long as such regulati...

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My opinion is that the constitution is not a "living, breathing" document. Sometimes I wish it could be changed more easily, actually. The internet just isn't something the framers could have envisioned, and while their general principles still largely hold true today, some of the things ...

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Do you feel like the police are nothing more than a group of armed thugs protecting the interests of the elite? No. Police are public safety officers designated to hold the peace of the people, as enacted by the people's Constitution. Some police officers are dicks, maybe even more than average for...

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As a private citizen, I believe that most personal firearms, whether designed solely for combat or otherwise, should not be banned from law-abiding citizens. I believe I have a right to defend myself, my family and other people with lethal force should the need arise. I think so, too. In some local...

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Restart the computer; it'll automatically shut off Safe Mode when Firefox is completely closed, and the best way to guarantee that's happened is to reboot. If it comes back on in Safe Mode, then you should check your shortcut to make sure it's not set up to do so automatically [by putting "-saf...

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Gonna fix it yourself?

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The power-to-weight ratio of these engines is insane. I don't know if the reason they can make so much power in such a small, light package is due to how the engine is stressed. But it would seem that any car/truck equivalent is much more heavy-duty, so to speak. It sure seems to me like the compac...

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Bonefish wrote:Why would you make it outta plastic?!

Nylon pulleys aren't as hard on the belts, have less friction than metal ones, don't separate, are lighter, and of course cost less. I still prefer metal ones.

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Hrm. Now I want to put a Suzuki Hayabusa engine [and sequential gearbox] in my Cherokee. What a dreadful idea.

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Actually, now I'm stuck on both possibilities: what if Rome weren't weak, and survived? It'd take a lot of changes to keep Rome on top, but if they were made, what would the world have been like if there had been another several centuries of Roman dominance? And then on the other hand, if the German...

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You say they were a symptom of bigger problems? Without elaborating on those, does this mean that they took advantage of a Roman weakness? I would say definitely. [Although it's worth noting I'm not, you know, Bonefish or anything; I have a decades-old high school education on the subject, basicall...

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What would the world be like if Germanic tribes hadn't overcome the Roman Empire?

My impression is that Rome would have fallen anyway; the Germanic tribes were more symptom than disease. But who, then, steps in to fill that power gap?

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Let me preface this by saying I assume you're just making a general purpose + gaming rig, without a lot of attention being paid to silencing, audio production, or other specialized goals. If you're looking for any of that stuff, let me know. MSI B75MA-P45 mobo Can't really go wrong this generation. ...

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Oy vey. What a pile of bullshit. I've been hearing a lot of this nonsense lately, and a lot of it boils down to this nonsensical tripe: "Being a woman requires always being on defense." No, it doesn't. Living your life as if you're constantly a prospective victim makes you look for perpetr...

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Yeah, a Subaru would be the perfect match, but in your area, finding one within $2000 that isn't a heap is tough. Worth keeping an eye out for, but might just leave you with a lemon. Same with BMW and Mercedes wagons, and even the ones I found close to your price range wouldn't have been 4wd. Howeve...

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Most of the money is going to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods: fake purses, that sort of thing. But St Louis specifically is targeting peer-to-peer downloads, and they're not alone. While most of the DoJ's efforts are on sites - Megaupload, most famously - St Louis is setting up their own serv...

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Members of Bulldrek in Britain may want to run far, far away : a 20-year-old man made some tasteless jokes on Facebook about a missing child and has been arrested as a result. He's been sentenced to 12 weeks in prison . The joke I've read is a great deal less offensive than things CE or myself might...

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Let me make sure I get what you're looking for: you want fuel-efficiency, and you're looking for a pickup truck, right? Is diesel an option? How big a truck are you thinking? Two- or four-door? Offroad-capable, or strictly on-road?

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I don't know about a "game changer," but this is a step in a particular direction . A large federal grant [well, large by relative standards to, say, my personal finances] has been given out to several local police departments to step up their IP enforcement programs. So, a little closer t...

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The one thing I miss about Google+ when I'm here is the +1 button, so I can say, "Hey, hey, I appreciate that," or, "Good point!" without making a whole post to do it. So, um, +1!

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I wish I could get Kyle over here to comment, but registration on Bulldrek is currently...complicated. I've actually got a pile of people I think would be interesting to add, but spammers have made the process significantly more troublesome than I feel is valuable.

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I just don't understand why they didn't just lock the boards - as they'd done with the first board - and leave them on the server. I know they switched servers, but so what? It's easy to migrate them over, and I only offered my assistance, like, 14 million times. I just don't get it. Sometimes I men...

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Oh, my. And Japan leads the way, with criminal penalties for downloading infringing content. Poop.

My favorite part, though, is how people against the measure chose to protest: by spending an hour cleaning litter in a public park. Uh, come again?

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But even then, yeah, absolutely, a perfect storm could take it all. And while I agree it's not best to dwell on what's lost, this isn't lost. This is like someone stole my car: it still exists, and if they'd give it back I could have it. Isn't it worth dwelling if there's still a chance of recovery...

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