"We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China," said Musk in the interview. "If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book."

Edited November 11, 201212 yr by lithium

My Camry does that now, you want THAT?

I want a something that can get that when driving easy and have the power to drive like a hoon

My friend's dad owns a used car business. Took a buick with the supercharged 3.8l for a drive one night. I think it was sold for 5-6 grand. decent hp/$ ratio

And if you spend a couple grand, you can really lay some power down.

I have kicked around the idea of getting a Regal GS. All that muscle in a lightweight Buick Century body. I hate their damn dashboards though.

My Camry does that now, you want THAT?

I want a something that can get that when driving easy and have the power to drive like a hoon

My friend's dad owns a used car business. Took a buick with the supercharged 3.8l for a drive one night. I think it was sold for 5-6 grand. decent hp/$ ratio

And if you spend a couple grand, you can really lay some power down.

I have kicked around the idea of getting a Regal GS. All that muscle in a lightweight Buick Century body. I hate their damn dashboards though.

That was the main reason I wanted a Rivi. I love the interior in them, but damn, they rust like a SOB up here. Everything does, but that era of GM seems particularly bad. Hell, my LeSabre looked brand new, but close examination under the car and every body seem revealed a nightmare.

My Camry does that now, you want THAT?

I want a something that can get that when driving easy and have the power to drive like a hoon

My friend's dad owns a used car business. Took a buick with the supercharged 3.8l for a drive one night. I think it was sold for 5-6 grand. decent hp/$ ratio

And if you spend a couple grand, you can really lay some power down.

I have kicked around the idea of getting a Regal GS. All that muscle in a lightweight Buick Century body. I hate their damn dashboards though.

That was the main reason I wanted a Rivi. I love the interior in them, but damn, they rust like a SOB up here. Everything does, but that era of GM seems particularly bad. Hell, my LeSabre looked brand new, but close examination under the car and every body seem revealed a nightmare.

I'd settle for any high-powered car. Fricking local taxes.

Oh FUCK that

"We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China," said Musk in the interview. "If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book."

my co has the same view on patents

"We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China," said Musk in the interview. "If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book."

my co has the same view on patents

If I recall, Vishay has no patents on strain gages for the same reason.

I am afraid to patent my love making techniques for the same reason......

Chicoms will steal my cocksmith skillz.

"I has 3 inches of hard yerrow cawk for yew!"

Trying to hang with my navy buddy. Yikes.

Streetlights....... people.. ..

Music + hooch. Uh oh.

my kids have been shit heads today.

wife leaves for a week tomorrow.

daycare lady is on call for jury duty this week too.

FUCK ME

50 bucks an hour anr I got you Sean......

Oh and fuck T-Mobile. Instead of the W's contract being up in February, it somehow got changed to fricking August. Now I'm going to be stuck paying more money for their damn screwup.

So I took the new scanner for a spin today. I just farted around with cars I am familiar with. I am glad I was familiar with them.

The vehicle set up is very simplistic. No reference info is given. It vaguely asks for body and engine, but goes no further. Fortunately for me I knew they were referring to the body code and engine code, and I knew those for my vehicles. FWIW I received a message that I was out of range of my wireless access point and that all information would be delivered via cache, not through online access. Perhaps the online access would dictate what digit in the VIN each code would be. For me, GM, Chrysler and Ford will be simple, but I have had some oddities with Suzuki code placement, and Nissan code placement, and I know the Euros are very weird with their VINs. Of course IIRC the Tech 2 (GM's factory tool) asks for information the same way, so perhaps that is what they are going for.

By contrast my Verus, allows me to input the entire VIN and the Verus, my old Mastertech VCI, and my OTC Genesis (and every other scanner I have used) prompts you for the specific digit of the vin for the line, body, engine, year, and in some cases transmission coding.

The functionality seemed to be all there. All the expected PID lists, special tests, system tests, functional tests, etc. were there. On my 96 the cylinder balance test did not function correctly, it killed the car completely.

I am interested in playing more tomorrow. I have a 2012 Chevy Sonic in the shop right now with a pair of codes for the electronic thermostat. My SnapOn was at home, and I didn't have the Maxidas updated yet, so I had to use the worthless shop scanner, and I could not actuate the thermostat. I have honestly never worked on an electronic Tstat, so whether there is functionality with my Verus or my Maxidas I am uncertain. I will also have a few Kias, Hyundais, and Suzukis in there to mess with. These vehicles are the primary reason I got this unit, so I am curious as to how well it works with them. Hopefully setup will be more intuitive with the Koreans than it was with the GMs.

Got one of my hdds down to 196kb free today--opps.

I love it. It took Obama exactly 3 days after his re-election to shun people he promised to support.

On Friday, Obama told an MTV audience that he would not fight for gay marriage his second term, intoning that “it would be up to future generations of Americans to implement meaningful reform.”

In May he raked in huge amounts of funding from the gay community and their supporters in May when he endorsed gay marriage.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/11/Obama-Won-t-Fight-For-Gay-Marriage-His-Second-Term

He did get a round of golf in yesterday though...

He did get a round of golf in yesterday though...

Thank God. I was thinking he hasn't been able to play much golf since he started campaigning this spring.

50 bucks an hour anr I got you Sean......

I'm not going to ask what sort of services you are used to providing.

Your bitch was lazy I see

LOL.

I love it. It took Obama exactly 3 days after his re-election to shun people he promised to support.

On Friday, Obama told an MTV audience that he would not fight for gay marriage his second term, intoning that “it would be up to future generations of Americans to implement meaningful reform.”

In May he raked in huge amounts of funding from the gay community and their supporters in May when he endorsed gay marriage.

http://www.breitbart...His-Second-Term

Research. That comment was made in an interview on MTV on 10/26.....a week and a half before the election. People had more than enough time to consider that when voting, if they so chose. Your site is mis-citing information to make it look like it just happened this past Friday when it was two weeks ago.

http://www.mtv.com/n...-equality.jhtml