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Just bought a Ford SUV: was a lot of car for the money with some great features and drives very nicely, thank you.
I've had a Jag and a BMW and driven the others (Mercedes and Audi reluctantly as I think they are overpriced piles of crap). Yes, they are great to drive (especially the Jag) but the roads here are very different from the UK and require a different car to survive.
BTW: the biggest negative on the Ford is a gas tank that only takes about 15 gallons on a vehicle that just about gets 22mpg on a good day. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I am presuming you rented. I really don't understand why the rentals are so crap over here. However, cost is a factor in the States. We don't have unlimited money like the Europeans, at least as citizens, so we have to purchase a car that can do 200k miles and cost a relatively modest sum.
That said, I currently drive a 2014 BMW 550i and it is the nicest riding car I have ever had. Unfortunately, it is also the most expensive. The American options are definitely more value oriented. If the Fusion was RWD, had slightly better seats, and didn't have a touchscreen I would have probably gotten it instead.
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Who in hell thought rear fog lamps a smart idea?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I once accidentally left my high-brights on after the fog had cleared whilst driving on the autobahn in Germany.
The police stopped me and very politely asked me to turn them off.
That has stuck with me all these years and I now am very careful to make sure they are off except when necessary - I wish everyone else would as well; where are the German police when you really need them?
[edit]: For clarity "high-brights" are extra bright rear fog lamps, not high-beam headlights.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 22-Apr-14 11:45am.
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Quote: I once accidentally left my high-brights on after the fog had cleared
You had high beams on in the fog? They claim that lowers your visibility because of reflections.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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"They" can claim whatever they want.
Is it actually true?
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When I have tried it, yes. Try it next time you are in thick fog.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's awfully rare here, but I'll try it at the next opportunity.
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Dry ice then perhaps?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Depends how thick the fog is (or how heavy the snow fall is). In thin fog/light snow your high beams can still punch farther forward before being dissipated by reflections; in worse weather conditions you're just increasing glare.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not "high-beams", "high-brights", in others words, extra bright rear fog lamps.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ah, I see. High-brights is not a phrase I was familiar with.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Two words.
Hyundai Excel.
These cars seem to be fitted with a single rear fog lamp which (I assume) gives no indication to the driver that it is on. I also imagine the switch is difficult to see.
If I ever see a single bright red beacon in the distance on a clear day, I will have a bet with my passengers it is an Excel.
I'm doing well, financially.
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The older model Excels had the switch essentially unlabelled and down under the steering wheel on the right... On by default, and clearly not explained to people by the sales rep on delivery!!
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In the U.S. we're currently suffering through "Common Core" teaching methods (I'll leave it to you to google "Common Core".
Most of you remember the way we were taught to do subtraction:
32
-12
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20
This is the way Common Core teaches the same problem:
12 + 3 = 15
15 + 5 = 20
20 + 10 = 30
30 + 2 = 32
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20
I understand how they got there, but I DON'T understand how that's a better way to do it. 
Maybe it's because a minus sign promotes negative thoughts about math...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It is almost as though they are deliberately enstupidising children.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Quote: It is almost as though they are deliberately enstupidising children.
Good thing you are already educated.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's pronounced edumacated.
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Edumaciated?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Ahh... I always miss the "I" in the middle... must be silent.
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Quote: enstupidising
This is my new word of the week.
What? No, I don't care that it isn't a real word! It should be!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If we don't dumb our kids down who will work for and shop at Walmart?
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I understand how they got there
I do not. How does this work ? And how does it scale to 156473-3 ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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You count up from 12 to 32, using easy incremental steps
12 + 3 = 15, then 15 + 5 = 20, etc util you get to 32.
So it could be done shorter as well:
12 + 8 = 20
20 + 10 = 30
30 + 2 = 32
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8 + 10 + 2 = 20
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Jacquers wrote:
You count up from 12 to 32, using easy incremental steps |
And what exactly is this "Incremental steps"? Who says you cannot count up from 12 to 32 like this?
12 + 20 = 32
» 32 - 20 = 12
or
» 32 - 12 = 20
and as such
20 - 12 = 8
(How do I know that? Well take 32. 3 X 2 = 6 + 2 = 8) 
I mean even easier still is take the original problem 32 - 12 = ?
3-1=2_ 2-2=_0
» 32 - 12 = 20 
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