Milligram46

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Milligram46 replied to the Buying and Maintaining a Car board. 9:12 PM

Re: Craig's List

There have been numerous stories for close to a decade that when you do the math, anew Civic is a better value than a used one. TCO for usd is more due to scant depreciation.

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Milligram46 replied to the Microsoft Corp. board. 1:14 AM

Re: Azure now a billion dollar business

AWS has had some very high profile outages, and their marketing/product marketing team is grossly understaffed and underfunded. The failures are public knowledge - the rest is some outside looking in background.

Despite the market share be [more]

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Milligram46 replied to the Buying and Maintaining a Car board. 9:42 PM

Re: Tires

The problem is with the variance in outer diameter, the differentials could detect the difference in wheel spin (the worn down tires have faster rotation and engage) - burning the differential out. This is the problem with AWD or 4WD and having [more]

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Milligram46 replied to the Microsoft Corp. board. 12:54 AM

Re: Cut off the nose to spite the face

You can already run Office in an iOS environment.

Check out CloudOn. It is freakin' amazing - and free. I use it all the time. Given more than one provider is doing virtualization, I don't see the urgent urgency.

Oh, and CloudOn is [more]

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Milligram46 replied to the Buying and Maintaining a Car board. 2:31 AM

Re: Fiction help

Honda Civic is as ubiquitous as McDonalds and constantly on the most stolen list.

Big bruiser - Ford Crown Vic, Dodge Charger or Challenger - but both are common. Pntiac G8 is big and rare but you won't be ramming cars with it. [more]

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Milligram46 posted to the Cars and Drivers board. 9:19 PM

Fisker and Suzuki

Fisker is a dead brand walking. They have furloughed all 200 remaining employees and it doesn't look like a rescue is coming.

Suzuki already announced they were leaving the United States, well their done in North America come 2014, the last [more]

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Milligram46 replied to the Cars and Drivers board. 9:18 PM

Re: Reality changes perceptions

We are living in a golden age for automobiles right now.

Quality across the board has never been higher. You can count on one hand with fingers left over the number of cars, trucks or SUVs that will give you any serious problems in the first [more]

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Milligram46 replied to the Microsoft Corp. board. 7:25 PM

Re: A touch of Good News

Damn it, I thought Ballmer quit when I saw the subject line.

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Milligram46 replied to the Buying and Maintaining a Car board. 6:40 PM

Re: car won't start

Mazdas of this era are known for ignition switch weight fatigue. This phenomenon is caused by too much weight on the key ring pulling down on the ignition switch thus causing no continuity. Try wiggling the key to see if it starts. If so, replace [more]

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Milligram46 posted to the Apple board. 10:42 PM

I'm Getting Out

Sorry folks, I've seen this dance music before. I've worked in tech all my life. I know, the fundamental, LOOK AT THE FUNDAMENTALS Milligram46.

AAPL has never been a stock to consider the "fundamentals."

Had that been the [more]

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Milligram46 replied to the Political Asylum board. 12:22 AM

Re: A possible rare moment

If paranoia keeps the government from using an ultimate weapon against American citizens now and in the future then call me paranoid.

When the founders created the constitution there were many that I am sure would consider paranoid. Thank [more]

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Milligram46 replied to the Political Asylum board. 12:20 AM

Re: A possible rare moment

Holy arse crackers JEDI, I didn't see your post until AFTER I wrote an, "I told you so," and linked to a post I wrote in June of 2002.

I'm convinced this is not a Republican or Democrat issue. Sadly I think that whatever agenda is [more]

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Milligram46 posted to the Political Asylum board. 12:00 AM

Rand Paul - 10 Hours And Counting

Over 10 years ago I wrote a post about Jose Padilla. It is the most recommended post I ever wrote in Fooldom. I was active in the "Asylum" back in those days and I was outspoken against The Patriot Act, and Patriot Act II. I saw them as [more]