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ben franklin's take on dst personally, dst sucks. the best thing to do would be to eliminate it altogether. you want more daylight, either get up earlier or move to alaska for 6 months a year. i grew up in indiana, which didn't have it at the time. now the governor of indiana is trying to...

so, uh, where is your car right now? some insurance companies won't cover you if your car wasn't locked and your stuff gets swiped. someone robbed 6 cars at the chrysler foundary where my brother works. 5 of the cars had broken windows, my brother's car just had stuff stolen. although they...

makes me proud to be a purdue alumn. oh, ****, the couch is on fire again...

nein! du hast mich! achtung! nein sprechen deutch! that's all i got. you'll notice that the exclamation points give you that fine spittle spray necessary to speak good german.

when ours broke it sounded like a rifle shot. my wife and i couldn't figure out what it was until the garage door needed help going up. then we parked outside until we got it fixed. get it fixed quickly before your garage door opener burns up.

just wondering... i'm just a couple hours north (saginaw for work, caro for home) and thought i'd, say, pay a visit or something... so, you don't keep a massive cd collection in your car, huh? my truck was robbed one morning of about 12 cd's, a walkman, and my dilbert hangy thing. i'd left...

states fight back!

i've tried, and i'm "logged in." it just won't download. i keep getting looped around.

it's tough to find replacements; many places won't sell them because the risk of injury is quite high. that said, should you find them, replace them on both sides. they are rated for some amount (more than half the weight of your door). it's better to have someone replace them for you. i just...

the noise in my car diminished when i switched to pennzoil. i throw in a quart of ll 15w-40 with my normal oil and it's better. not perfect, but better.

if you look at ethanol as a convenient energy source, rather than a net negative or net positive, it may be a workable solution. ethanol is easily transported, relative to solar, wind, hydrogen, nukes, or hydroelectric. at some point you have to have the others to produce the ethanol. on...

if you look at ethanol as a convenient energy source, rather than a net negative or net positive, it may be a workable solution. ethanol is easily transported, relative to solar, wind, hydrogen, nukes, or hydroelectric. at some point you have to have the others to produce the ethanol. on...

they recently built an ethanol plant in my neck of the woods, and to hear proponents talk about it, we'd be keeping the extra energy in bottles in the closet. i got into an argument with someone who was telling me that you get more energy out than you put in. i don't know how to describe the...

they recently built an ethanol plant in my neck of the woods, and to hear proponents talk about it, we'd be keeping the extra energy in bottles in the closet. i got into an argument with someone who was telling me that you get more energy out than you put in. i don't know how to describe the...

new york health care fraud the national sales tax would lead to a huge black market for everything, and not much else.

the question is, can we discuss oil there?

i'm with you.

part of the problem is that the uniform manner that the big 3 operate (qs9000, ts14xxx) is crap. it has nothing to do with quality, and everything to do with paperwork. i saw someone mention 6 sigma black belt earlier. there's another horrible application of statistical method. 6 sigma is...

since i kind of blew the question, yes, i have worked for companies that have reduced product quality to meet customer cost demands. this happens through material substitution, design changes, component elimination, or going to inferior suppliers with lower costs. we're about to do it again...

the failures i've experienced (over all companies) include things like: 1) customer provides incorrect specification 2) supplier quality not adequate (and we don't catch it) 3) improper testing of new design (our fault) 4) customer drawing errors (stack up with other parts) 5) sabotage (1...