Cheech

Holiday weekends are revenue weekends. If you don't know this by now, you probably shouldn't be driving anything that goes faster than 10MPH.

Didn't notice the 2.5in HD. Since you don't want SSD, swap with whatever 3.5in HD suits you. As far as the different vendors go, I had no problem approximating that price ordering everything from Newegg or from Microcenter, or a small combination of both. Yes, with this system you can drop in a standalone vid card if you wanted gaming performance. Your original requirements pointed towards a very stripped down system since there was nothing on there that was incredibly taxing. For what it's worth, I'm running a H67 onboard vid chipset for my HTPC with absolutely zero issues.

Here you is. 500 on the dot with a full, legal version of Windows. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 3.1GHz Dual-Core Processor ($111.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock H67M (B3) Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($77.55 @ Newegg) Memory: AMD Performance Edition 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($47.98 @ Amazon) Storage: Seagate Momentu 500GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.98 @ NCIX US) Case: Rosewill R363-M-BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/400W Power Supply ($54.98 @ Newegg) Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($16.99 @ SuperBiiz) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64-bit) ($130.20 @ Amazon) Total: $499.67 (Prices include shipping and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-08-31 07:51 EDT-0400)

Appears so. According to wikipedia (I know, I know, quickest info I could find) it does meet the classification of a scooter and therefore needs a plate. Here's the rest of the specs: Motorized with Seat Motor Type: 500-Watt Electric Brake Type: Front and Rear Hand Number of Wheels: 2 Battery: Rechargeable lithium-ion battery Charger Type: 110–220 VAC UL-Approved Average Recharge Time: 6 Hours Top Speed: Up to 30 mph depending on rider's weight, road conditions, and other external factors Distance: 50 miles per charge depending on rider's weight, road conditions, and other external factors Color: Blue UPC: 8 94836 00253 2 Motor: 500 Watts Battery: Lithium-Ion Battery Life: 1,000 Recharges Top Speed: 30 mph Ride Time: 80 Minutes Per Charge Charge Time: 5–7 Hours Charge Input: 220V or 110 Charge Output: 48V/3A Warranty: 2-Year Battery/Elect-1 Yr. Unit weight 175 lb. Case dimensions 70”x21”x45

If you're not a fan of guns, what the fuck are you doing on this site?

senor blosser's right on this one. You'd have much better luck finding out what the asshole wants by talking to him then being able to pin down his identity and location via email forensics. Or you can just banish that address to the spam folder and the problem also magically goes away.

Interesting to me that they use what look like Crown Vic's over there, I wonder what sheikh got bent over the barrel to place that order. I see the Land Rover, which is much better suited for the conditions than a wide Crown Vic.

Mine usually clears up after a few hours, longer if I've been drinking before going to Taco Bell. oh, tachometer? Not sure I can help you there bub, sorry. Enjoy some snark, though.

As have I. I know some of the 70/80's Goldwings can be had for cheep, I'm oddly curious about them.

From the command center, I had a good and thankfully VERY boring time. The other guy that was with me, Scott, was saying that at about 1PM last year they had 30-40 incidents between mechanical failures, riders down, etc. This year, at about that time, we had 8. I might be tempted to bike it out next year, I know doing moto escort was one of the most fulfilling things I've done, just seeing everyone cheer on each other, the people on the side of the road cheering everyone on, and reading all the stuff from the back of the biker's shirts. Thanks to everyone involved for taking the time. I'll see you all next year.

You must be new here, every discussion gets distilled to guns eventually.

Too late.

You should take the advice of your avatar.

Not to my knowledge. However, DC has a set of landmines all it's own, it's probably very illegal to transport them to the mail drop.

But Regal in Westlake's a no-carry zone, and he didn't have a CHL, so he's just a cunt with a gun. You'd do better to wait for more information before you start your defense.

I'm going to take a small liberty and assume since the cop was there for a decent amount of time before the driver got there, he had the car's license plate, which is all he would need to pursue the driver in the event that he drove off. Also, given this particular incident (again, no need for hypotheticals), there wasn't a lot of danger about the guy peeling out because it was a busy NYC road. To answer your question, you issue the citation just like authorities have been issuing citations for decades, on the vehicle itself. If the owner of said vehicle actually shows up, then you can give it to them in person. Everything else is up to the guy getting the ticket as to how he wants to proceed from there (paying, not paying, fighting in court, etc.)

They did drag him out of the car and cuff him for assault on an officer. His being rich or poor had nothing to do with it. Happy?

Um, no. It was a parking ticket, you don't detain people for parking tickets or civil infractions.

I think I'm going to need you to explain your position a bit further, because this to me reads like a word salad. You don't have to consider the hypothetical, the guy put himself in front of a car that was parallel parked on the side of a busy road in order to make it clear to the driver that no, leaving isn't the best idea right now. Yeah, he could have talked to the guy, but he was engaged in writing the ticket, and chose this method instead which for the vast majority of the population would be just as effective. If you've ever been to NYC (especially the area that I think this took place in, based on the cobblestone roads), you'd know that the chances of this guy peeling out and driving off at any speed faster than double digits (while doing no damage to his car) is absolutely impossible. Hey, if you want to be cynical, then be my guest. I have more than my fair share of cynicism when it comes to the police, but I also recognize a delayed pain response when I see one.

And we're done here. I had plenty of punters when I was selling the CBR, I let everyone know what spot they were in and if there were any reasonable buyers ahead of them. I also let everyone who even halfway sounded serious that the first person to get cash to me at a price that's agreeable to both of us gets the bike. I'm all for honorable solutions, but in the business world, honor takes a backseat to cash-in-hand.

That's true, but in this case they did need consent since the car wasn't being impounded.

Once again, inserting hypotheticals to a situation that doesn't call for them. For all you know on the video, they could have asked the guy to search and he didn't give consent. The cones were around the car probably because there was a guy laying on the traffic portion of the street and the cop wanted to give a little buffer for everyone's safety. I did think letting the GF take the car was a little weird, especially since it was used in the commission of a crime, but hey, if that's NYC laws, that's NYC laws. And the reason you think that NYC is "rude, and full of attitude" is that the locals there don't have time or the inclination to put up with petty bullshit, that goes for cops and citizens alike.

Adrenaline, man. Between the "eightball" and the "payday bitch", you really seem to like inserting random hypotheticals into a situation that doesn't call for them. I'm probably more distrusting of police than the next guy, but at least I can form a reasoned opinion based solely on the video that I'm given without having to toss in "well, what if's" to shore up my argument.

Here's a twist for you, I don't see it that way. The driver clearly saw that the cop was writing him a ticket. Drivers makes an attempt to pull away, which the cop counters by sticking himself in front of the quarter-panel. Driver stops, cop backs off a little so he can finish writing but still keeps his body close enough to the car to make someone who wasn't a complete idiot think twice about trying to take off. Guy takes off anyway. I'm all about police professionalism and restraint, I'd even argue to say I'm more for it than most of the police- and authority-cheerleaders/apologists on here. In this case, where the guy sees what you're doing, and you're already given him a warning (non-verbal, but it's still a warning) and the guy STILL runs over your foot? Yeah, I'd be a little pissed off. He didn't seem to eager to get out of the car, I'd even go so far to say if given the opportunity, he might have closed the door and took off (although how far he could have gotten in Manhattan traffic is iffy at best). Good arrest.

whatever, serf.