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DaveInSaoMiguel
Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA Gender:
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Jun 3, 2016 - 4:03pm |
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About 4:30 my cell phone became useless as its "emer calls only". Seems Cricket is having a pretty much nationwide outage according to DownDetector.com. Doesn't look good as it won't let me log on to my account on their website either. There CS phone just rings and no answer with humans or recordings. Their online CS chat is also down. Maybe they bit the big one. Fortunately I also have a VOiP with GV. I tried calling 2 friends that also have Cricket and they just ring also and never goes to VM. Anyone else have cricket?
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Apr 27, 2016 - 9:46am |
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Proclivities wrote: Yeah, I was okay, just a little sore for a few days - mostly my left shoulder. The airbag deployed and the front end of the car absorbed the impact as it is supposed to - no damage to the interior - or me. What pissed me off most was that it was a nice car ('99 Civic) that I had only been driving for a couple of months. I got about $2,800. from the insurance company, but that's not enough to get another car like that. Now I'm back to driving the old car that I was going to get rid of, though I found a Corolla that I can afford, with low miles - have to work out the details.
glad you're ok corollas are one of the most popular cars on the planet i have had great results with hondas (i now drive a mazda and i'm very pleased) self driving cars will be pretty common in the near future also the new safety tech coming out now like blind spot monitoring and front end collision avoidance is great as more sensors are deployed cars will be safer and prices should fall win
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lily34
Location: GTFO Gender:
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Apr 27, 2016 - 9:32am |
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Proclivities wrote: Yeah, I was okay, just a little sore for a few days - mostly my left shoulder. The airbag deployed and the front end of the car absorbed the impact as it is supposed to - no damage to the interior. What pissed me off most was that it was a nice car ('99 Civic) that I had only been driving for a couple of months. I got about $2,800. from the insurance company, but that's not enough to get another car like that. Now I'm back to driving the old car that I was going to get rid of, though I found a Corolla that I can afford, with low miles - have to work out the details.
that sucks!! i love my honda civic, and i've had a couple other hondas that i loved, too. i drove a corolla for a very long time and liked it a lot as well.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Apr 27, 2016 - 9:29am |
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lily34 wrote: dang. that's awful. hope you're ok.
Yeah, I was okay, just a little sore for a few days - mostly my left shoulder. The airbag deployed and the front end of the car absorbed the impact as it is supposed to - no damage to the interior - or me. What pissed me off most was that it was a nice car ('99 Civic) that I had only been driving for a couple of months. I got about $2,800. from the insurance company, but that's not enough to get another car like that. Now I'm back to driving the old car that I was going to get rid of, though I found a Corolla that I can afford, with low miles - have to work out the details.
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lily34
Location: GTFO Gender:
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Apr 27, 2016 - 9:16am |
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Proclivities wrote: I totaled my car a few weeks ago because a driver (20 year-old) ran a red light at an intersection. There were some hedges and a slight decline on the left where she was coming from and I couldn't see here approaching; before I knew it there was a car directly in front of me. For anyone to run a red light at that speed she had to either be entirely reckless or more likely texting (or both). Well, it could have been much worse, at least she entered the intersection before I did, otherwise she could've slammed into my car at the driver's side door.
dang. that's awful. hope you're ok.
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Skydog
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Apr 27, 2016 - 9:12am |
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Proclivities wrote: I totaled my car a few weeks ago because a driver (20 year-old) ran a red light at an intersection.
I have been rear-ended twice by teenage girls, I walked back to check on one and she had more electronic devices with her than a Radio Shack store room
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Apr 27, 2016 - 9:08am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:New York Wants To Know: Have You Been Texting And Driving?I think I could like this idea - as long as the device indicates only usage, not actual data. We're bot pretty certain the guy who rear-ended us a few weeks ago was futzing with his phone at the time, but without a lot of legal expense, there's no way we can prove it. I totaled my car a few weeks ago because a driver (20 year-old) ran a red light at an intersection. There were some hedges and a slight decline on the left where she was coming from and I couldn't see here approaching; before I knew it there was a car directly in front of me. For anyone to run a red light at that speed she had to either be entirely reckless or more likely texting (or both). Well, it could have been much worse, at least she entered the intersection before I did, otherwise she could've slammed into my car at the driver's side door.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 27, 2016 - 8:42am |
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aflanigan wrote:In the space of thirty seconds yesterday, I saw not one but two flagrant examples of distracted driving. One clown was trying to insert ear buds into his ears that were connected to his phone, and was holding up an entire line of cars behind him since he hadn't notice the light had changed green. Seconds later, along comes another car with a driver with ear buds in holding and manipulating his phone with his hand while his eyes were fixed on it and not looking through the windshield.
If driving with your head figuratively up your ass so that you can neither see nor hear what's going on around you isn't prima facie unsafe, I don't know what is. Maybe we should take people's phones away for a year if they get caught doing something this careless.
I would say that at least half of the drivers I observe around here have a phone in their hand. I'm all for almost draconian enforcement of laws that prohibit such stupidity and for riders on insurance policies denying coverage if you cause an accident while jacking with a phone. Put the goddam thing in your pocket and drive the car.
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aflanigan
Location: At Sea Gender:
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Apr 27, 2016 - 8:38am |
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In the space of thirty seconds yesterday, I saw not one but two flagrant examples of distracted driving. One clown was trying to insert ear buds into his ears that were connected to his phone, and was holding up an entire line of cars behind him since he hadn't notice the light had changed green. Seconds later, along comes another car with a driver with ear buds in holding and manipulating his phone with his hand while his eyes were fixed on it and not looking through the windshield.
If driving with your head figuratively up your ass so that you can neither see nor hear what's going on around you isn't prima facie unsafe, I don't know what is. Maybe we should take people's phones away for a year if they get caught doing something this careless.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 27, 2016 - 6:20am |
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Alexandra wrote: And I'd bet that as big of a wake up call as that was for him—-it didn't really wake him up and he's still futzing and driving. It's an epidemic.
Oh, no doubt.
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Alexandra
Location: PNW Gender:
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Apr 27, 2016 - 6:10am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:New York Wants To Know: Have You Been Texting And Driving?I think I could like this idea - as long as the device indicates only usage, not actual data. We're bot pretty certain the guy who rear-ended us a few weeks ago was futzing with his phone at the time, but without a lot of legal expense, there's no way we can prove it. And I'd bet that as big of a wake up call as that was for him—-it didn't really wake him up and he's still futzing and driving. It's an epidemic.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 27, 2016 - 4:52am |
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New York Wants To Know: Have You Been Texting And Driving?I think I could like this idea - as long as the device indicates only usage, not actual data. We're both pretty certain the guy who rear-ended us a few weeks ago was futzing with his phone at the time, but without a lot of legal expense, there's no way we can prove it.
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haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
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Jan 20, 2015 - 4:32pm |
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Red_Dragon wrote:I have a company cell phone. It's an LG running Android and I like it fine. The WIFI functions well everywhere except in the building where I work - the company's WIFI. It even works well on company WIFI at other company facilities. Company IT tells me it must be my phone. dafuq
Tell them to buy you one that works.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Jan 20, 2015 - 4:30pm |
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I have a company cell phone. It's an LG running Android and I like it fine. The WIFI functions well everywhere except in the building where I work - the company's WIFI. It even works well on company WIFI at other company facilities. Company IT tells me it must be my phone. dafuq
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aflanigan
Location: At Sea Gender:
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Oct 10, 2012 - 11:38am |
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Manbird wrote:Jesus tapdancing christ... Then there's this:
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Oct 10, 2012 - 11:32am |
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Jesus tapdancing christ...
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cc_rider
Location: Bastrop Gender:
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Mar 22, 2012 - 7:37am |
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aflanigan wrote: Go ahead, shoot your junk mail with a gun. Then the code enforcement people will write you up for litter on your front lawn, smartass.
Actually, Digi-Key catalogs make pretty good targets. Especially if you soak 'em in water first. And apparently there is an endless supply of the damn things, so hey.
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Mar 21, 2012 - 5:18pm |
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oldslabsides wrote: never heard of 'im
What's wrong, is your google bone broken?
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Mar 21, 2012 - 5:03pm |
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Manbird wrote: Hidler? Who's Hidler?
never heard of 'im
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Mar 21, 2012 - 4:59pm |
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oldslabsides wrote: that sounds like something Hitler would say.
Hidler? Who's Hidler?
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