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Bills: Down With Citizen Database. A flurry of legislation seeking to ban or curtail the Total Information Awareness program -- whose goal is to develop ways to track patterns in databases of Americans' private info -- hits Capitol Hill. Privacy advocates cheer. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News] 11:57:39 PM  comment []
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Spencer Day, the first friend I made in San Francisco, the person who taught me how not to be afraid of people, just won the Star Search semi-finals! Go Spencer Go! 2:33:20 PM comment []
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US gone mad. Sunday Times: "Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 2:18:01 PM comment []
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I'll let you think of any appropriate explatives for this... my car needs work. Lots and lots of work. When I purchased my 2000 Eclipse, I asked two primary questions. Does it have a timing belt or a timing chain (my 1991 Nissan had a chain while my 1994 Acura had a belt, some people never catch on). I knew how expensive it was to replace them. I also asked whether there was going to be a convertible model. I was lied to on both counts. At 82,000 miles I found out I don't have a chain after all, and I was way overdue. Luckily I found this out from the dealer, not by having it snap on the freeway. I had a random plastic part shoot off and hit my leg when I was sitting at a drive through last month. Luckily I found the source (it was a fastener that snapped off of the dead pedal next to the clutch and shot off at me) and reattached it. Add to this the little annoyances like the fact that the door won't shut when the window is up all the way, the radio that occasionally decides it's stolen and disables itself, cruise control that on one random occasion decided that engaging and then accellerating uncontrollably was a Good Idea, and the sunroof that sometimes refuses to close. And the glovebox which from 2001 to a few months ago refused to open fell open and now refuses to close. Most of these fall into the annoyance category, but the glovebox is dangerous and could sever a passenger's kneecaps in an accident, so it needs to be fixed. My car has also started leaking, probably from a bad water pump. And the Check Engine light came on. So I brought the car into the dealer, and a few days later I'll get it back for the sum of $2300. There goes my savings. I don't abuse cars... my Acura and my Nissan both treated me very well. For the most part I do my maintenance on time, especially the oil changes, I don't drive like a maniac (although I'm no grandma) and I wash/wax them periodically. The miles were mostly freeway miles on 280, which is mostly smooth, not stop/go.
The synopsis of this wordy entry is: for those of you who are considering a new car, don't buy a Mitsubishi. Well, unless it's a second car and you're really rich. |
Last update: 9/3/03; 8:01:01 PM .
