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Jumping and hard driving? Even better reason to go Italian! Love to rev and ground clearance that can take a humpbacked bridge at 90!
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I had a french girl friend who hit a hump back bridge at around 65 only to find it had a chicane bend in the middle (invisible at 65) and totalled her Porsche 911 after riding the bridge rail and then rolling and flipping off the end of the bridge. She complained, "These German cars are sh*t! It just fell apart and there are pieces of it everywhere!" I then pointed out that she stepped out of the wreckage without a scratch or a even a bruise and that the Porsche had given its body to save hers. She was a lot more fond of them after that epiphany!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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My Uncle Willy [after whom I am named] was/is a mad rally type, he is actually the only person to see the car and know what it is, and he will NEVER be allowed to drive it either. 
speramus in juniperus
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Forogar wrote: There's hardly a car I've owned that hasn't needed a new engine or gearbox or
something else mechanical such as suspension - I have never had an electronics
failure
Ah, well, you don't drive Italian!
Seriously, you can not break the engines or gear boxes on them, they are unbelievably solid. The electrics suck though, as did the steel for the body in the old days, though both are better today.
Personally, in the last say 15 years, I have had two alarms fail, an ECU connector fail, two relays fail, and an oil sensor fail.
In that time I have had a driveshaft joint fail, and a cam chain snap (BMW, very old, piece of junk, running it till it died kind of thing), but never anything seriously mechanical.
Anyway, yo have incurred the wrath of the car god, so watch out! 
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Erudite_Eric wrote: Fun things you can do with computers these days; look at your cars ECU with a laptop!
Just got the cable, 20 euros,
Or you buy a bluetoothadapter for the same money, plug it into the ODB2 socket, pick up your smartphone... 
Mine is always in the car, if I'm bored (or actually need it) it takes ~30 seconds from decision until everything works, the most time is spent waiting for everything getting connected.
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Chocolate Makes You Smart[^]
Hmmm, I am just off to get me some smart
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It seems to be implying that the only way these bloggers know what's coming in W9 is because they have got pirate copies. Given that MS haven't officially started on Threshold then this is highly unlikely.
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Drugs is bad. Drugs is real bad.
speramus in juniperus
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After reading it, you might need a Paracetamol or two.
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Is everyone going to call it as wine? If yes, I already hate it.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Nothing to see there: Richi Jennings is off Lithium, that's all.
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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I think it's trying to communicate about his fellow bloggers.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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There is an ISO standard...for Tea.
As in cups of tea.
ISO 3103:1980[^]
How do I know this? XKCD What If?[^]
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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We need an artist PRONTO!
0. Drawing of cup and saucer, kettle, and teapot [tea cosy optional]
1. Add caption "I'm IS0 3103 compliant, are you?"
2. Profit!
speramus in juniperus
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T-Shirts...
Mugs...
Biscuits...
Ah, the merchandising, the merchandising... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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speramus in juniperus
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As Long as Germany exists there has to be a Standard for everything
Because we can 
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modified 15-Jan-14 7:51am.
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ISO - International Organization for Standardization It's international..
...wait, I see the acronym is out of order, must be American. 
[Edit] Added joke icon.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
modified 15-Jan-14 8:45am.
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wahh sorry  , i messed it up america was popular for the usermanuals
modified the comment 
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Sorry to be such a nerd, according to ISO[^] it is Quote: ISO Our name
Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of our name is always ISO.
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