Surely the blinking Red light is there not to warn you but to warn would be theives that this cars security system is armed. Mine usually only comes on when I've locked it and it blinks away on the drivers side door by the window.
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Surely the blinking Red light is there not to warn you but to warn would be theives that this cars security system is armed. Mine usually only comes on when I've locked it and it blinks away on the drivers side door by the window.
Green LEDs cost about 50% than red LEDs.
They wouldn't be able to see it outside. It's barely 2mm in diameter buried under the RPM gauge. I don't think anyone BUT the driver could see it, & even they have to be paying attention. Smaller than the head of a pencil eraser. I think it goes off at a certain point, but I haven't bothered to wait it out
Same.
Fortunately, I don't give a crap anymore lol. I refuse to use my phone in my car at all. If I need GPS, I'll do it beforehand & just remember. Memory: Nature's way of saying use it or lose it.
If I'm lost or can't find something, I'll pull over & actually take the time to use it independently. I'm old. That's what we always did, so I'm not bothered
Is that connected to the whole "why barns are red" thing?
Then I'm fine only having warning lights that warn me when things aren't working, which I'm going to assume is even less costly
Yes. Because the compound used to make red paint is cheaper than anything else. It's simple iron mixed with oxygen. Thanks 'Head of the Class' for teaching me this over thirty years ago.
I was using the car Bluetooth to play music, since I have a lot of music on small Bluetooth-capable devices. Thankfully they can also use an auxiliary cord.
Kor
Can I go ahead and say I'm going to hate NBC'S coverage of the Olympic before it starts?
I think I've mentioned this before in another thread, but living close to the Canadian border, the CBC is included in some cable and satellite packages and I got spoiled by the CBC's coverage. It focuses more on the sports and less on manufacturing drama.
I think I've mentioned this before in another thread, but living close to the Canadian border, the CBC is included in some cable and satellite packages and I got spoiled by the CBC's coverage. It focuses more on the sports and less on manufacturing drama.
What the fuck is the Olympics doing back in BEIJING?!? 
I mean, there's lots of other countries that deserve it more. (Like Germany; Berlin's Olympiastadion could easily host the Olympics again) And which have the added advantage of, you know, not being brutal dictatorships.
I mean, there's lots of other countries that deserve it more. (Like Germany; Berlin's Olympiastadion could easily host the Olympics again) And which have the added advantage of, you know, not being brutal dictatorships.
What the fuck is the Olympics doing back in BEIJING?!?
I mean, there's lots of other countries that deserve it more. (Like Germany; Berlin's Olympiastadion could easily host the Olympics again) And which have the added advantage of, you know, not being brutal dictatorships.
Not a lot of places actually want to host the Olympics anymore, primarily due to the costs involved. There were originally six bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but four were withdrawn/cancelled, leaving Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan as the only two choices. Beijing won the IOC vote 44 to 40.
See, that's why Berlin should get the Olympics again. They already have a perfectly good stadium to use.
At first I thought China must have bribed the IOC. Now, I realize...they probably still did.
At first I thought China must have bribed the IOC. Now, I realize...they probably still did.
Yeah, I was a little shocked they went back to China so soon after the Summer games were there, and because it's so controversial. I thought the whole point of the Olympics was to highlight different countries, not to just keep going back to the same countries over and over again.
This week I gave a library presentation for work about refugee communities in our area. A guy interrupted me on like the third slide and told me to get to the topic as it has been advertised, "who's coming in, how many there are, where they're coming from, how they're being vetted, how they're being funded." (I don't think, btw, this is how the branch library i was speaking at advertised this program 
). I was, at the time, discussing immigration during the early 1900s. "I'm not interested in a history lesson," he told me. "And you're talking about legal immigration here, these people came in legally through Ellis Island. These weren't refugees."
So many things.
). I was, at the time, discussing immigration during the early 1900s. "I'm not interested in a history lesson," he told me. "And you're talking about legal immigration here, these people came in legally through Ellis Island. These weren't refugees."So many things.
I probably would've literally directed him to somewhere in the library that has a book he needs to readThis week I gave a library presentation for work about refugee communities in our area. A guy interrupted me on like the third slide and told me to get to the topic as it has been advertised, "who's coming in, how many there are, where they're coming from, how they're being vetted, how they're being funded." (I don't think, btw, this is how the branch library i was speaking at advertised this program
So many things.
Hahahaha "Sir, I think you're in the wrong part of the library. I think you need to be in the part where the books are?"
Supercuts seriously need to pay their workers more wages so they can hire more.
Before COVID, I could walk into any Supercuts at any time and get a cut within 40 minutes. Now you have to check in at 7:30 to have any chance of getting an appointment at 4. They just lost my business.
Before COVID, I could walk into any Supercuts at any time and get a cut within 40 minutes. Now you have to check in at 7:30 to have any chance of getting an appointment at 4. They just lost my business.
Is it really a major convenience to be able to get a walk-in haircut -- or for that matter, a same-day haircut appointment? I usually phone my barber at least two or three days ahead for a haircut appointment.