Geeto67

is there a breakfast diner that has TVs with fox sports? Like a sunnystreet cafe or someplace like that?

That's really interesting, I wonder why? Better components? Shorter stroke?

no I am saying that you point of view is extremely one sided and based on a lot of generalizations. I'm not saying you didn't have these expirences, but the may not be indicative of the population as a whole. my grandmother was a nurse at flushing hospital for 40 years, I used to do my homework in the waiting room including the ER. You get all kinds. My father used to do rounds at St Vincent's during the AIDS epidemic and I used to come along so I've seen it. yes but you are not talking about a majority of the population, not everyone who is poor or underinsured is a drug addict, and not everyone who is prescription shopping is poor or underinsured. It's an access problem. yes I have a rough idea. It's not cheap. It's also not everyone complaining of chest pains. I've had that work up back in 2006 and they didn't find anything either, I wasn't prescription shopping but even after I declined any pain medication I'm sure my attending physician chalked it up to that just because he couldn't find anything. That is kind of my point, I have a different expirence from you and a different point of view with the healthcare industry. Actually being a med mal attorney (and that was a fully licensed attorney not some gopher) was my dream job given my feelings on the health care I actually left the practice for two reasons: 1) physicians are mostly arrogant pricks who take every med mal suit personally and are incapable of admitting fault or displaying any hubris even when it was clearly a deviation from the standard of care which made them a genuine pain in the ass to get them to make decisions like settle, and 2) the 210 billable hours a month minimum was giving me chest pains. Remind me some time about the physician we were defending who was on trial for attempted murder after getting caught buying an unlicensed hand gun from an undercover FBI agent for the purposes of killing a patient he was having an affair with. We had to defend the med mal claim where he deviated from the standard of care by sticking his penis in his patent. Do you think he saw it that way? By the way, we were based in Manhattan but covered the tri-state area including all the major ny area hospitals and hundreds of private practices. For med mal we were the firm with the highest volumes in the country. We saw all cases, but I'm glad to hear that you think everyone in Manhattan is rich, it means the PR machine that is the NYC mayors office is doing its job. 100% agree. Don't disagree but some of that is attributable to previously unattainable access to healthcare, so why not try to solve for that part of it and take that part out of the problem. It's not going to solve the whole thing but it will help. Still it's not a problem exclusive to the lower classes. What I am saying is the current system is rife with abuses at all levels and all varieties, and victim blaming the lower class for one type of abuse is not solving anything. But go ahead, keep blaming a minority population for the ills of the system instead itself, it's totally going the pathway to a solution. :dumb:

This is mostly a load of horse shit. First off what do you mean by abused? Not paying? Well no kidding not paying they don't have health insurance and most can't afford the out of pocket cost of care. That's not really abuse, that's the part of the problem the affordable care act sought to rectify (and mostly failed to do so). If by abuse you mean fraud, then you have to have insurance to commit fraud which again is not really the populace we are talking about. Most Americans aren't interested in preventative care, there just happens to be more people in the lower end of the economic spectrum. Obesity, heart disease, and drugs run across the entire economic range. You are making too many generalizations here. Drugs do tend to disproportionately affect the poor but even if you were rich when you started you aren't going to be once that addiction really gets going. My parents ran a successful radiology practice for 35 years, in highscool I did their billing, and for a while out of law school I handled their insurance fraud cases and some collections. You want to know who abuses the system from the fraud side of things? The middle and upper middle class. My favorite was always the guys who used their wife's health coverage for their mistresses/girlfriends. Scumbags every one but not poor and not in the demographic for the affordable health care act. The immigrant populations were also pretty bad but only because they were so closely tight knit that once one of them figured out how to game the system then everybody in the community instantly knew it and would try it. I spent two years at one if the top medical malpractice firms in Manhattan defending physicians, want to know who most of the actual plaintiffs were? Middle and upper middle class patients. My favorite case was a guy suing for spinal surgery malpractice where he splashed out $120k for a wedding in Hawaii six months post surgery and our PI caught him on film doing the limbo. Not really in scope for the affordable care act. Truth is it takes money to sue for malpractice, those days of Attys taking any and every case that walked in the door for a percentage on the back end are dying, even in a climate where there are more attorneys than ever before and unemployment in the profession is high. It's one of the most expensive types of lawsuits to conduct and your case has to be really amazingly good (like the surgeon left tools inside the cavity good) for an atty to take it on spec. By the time you are through depositions you have spent $20k-$50k as a plaintiff, it's rare for an atty to front that kind of money in this day and age, and cases don't settle till they are past the EBTs.

Shouldn't this topic be in the kitchen? This is the market normalizing when the funding is cut off. That's all. It doesn't mean the entirety of the affordable care act will fail (it's possible but not a certainty), it just means that the startups that couldn't get their act together and relied on government funding will go under and the ones that are financially stable will survive and likely grow to absorb the patients from the closing insurers. Was this a poorly handled roll back if subsidies? Absolutely. Based on the article most of the startups weren't able to meet the minimum requirements so nfp enrollment was probably handled poorly as well. I'm surprised at the number of people using the term freeloaders here. That's just sad and despicable. What the Affordable care act set out to do was to serve a class of people who were uninsured and underinsured. These are not people that had a choice to get healthcare and just decided to wait till there was a free option, these are classes of people that the old system had decided to let die in the gutter. This was not a system set up to help the middle class or the wealthy, it was to benefit a large and underserved population of people who otherwise didn't previously have access to healthcare. This is a problem that can only be solved by govt intervention, and by the way we as a county are not leaders in healthcare in the world. I'm not a fan of the affordable health care act either, I think it had good intentions but was ruined by government corruption, bipartisan sabotage, incompetence, and govt red tape. However that doesn't mean I'm going to blame the elderly, sick, and poor of its shortcomings. As morally conscious people We are supposed to be stewards of those less fortunate than ourselves. To call them freeloaders is to spit on the victims of an unfortunate government boondoggle.

Did I read that right? 18psi of boost in a stock 4.8l bottom end?

I live in the Charleston and there are several garages open right now. The Charleston (where the barn is located - it's just a bar and fitness center), the Orleans, the Farms, and the Lofts are all Edwards. I think they get about $90 a month for garages to residents, don't know what they charge to non-residents. They are not heated but they are dry and have power (like for a batt tender). Tuttle is a hike from New Albany though.

If you are that worried about it and have the prosecutors information, call them and ask if you are going to be called and if so can you push the date. Being proactive can only help your situation.

I'm not sure what you are supposed to be showing?

Elon is an amazing salesman. He has sold his investors on the idea of losing money in the long term because it's good for the distant future. Maximum Bob is right, Some day he isn't going to get any more money and Tesla is going to have to become profitable overnight to survive. I do agree with bob that a cheaper model is needed, I don't agree that it needs to be a hybrid. A leaf competitor could keep to the brand's core values and now that the Tesla name has luxury cachet an "entry level" commuter car and leaf competitor might be the ticket to profitability. provided they don't get instantly creamed by the big three or the Japanese flooding the marketplace with their own competitors. We certainly live in interesting times.

If you had full coverage on the Porsche, your own insurance will pick up the remainder of the tab if he doesn't have enough coverage as part of your uninsured/underinsured coverage. They may even sue him personally once the subrogate your rights. I know in NY they aren't allowed to raise your rates for accidents that are not your fault but Ins is state regulated and I don't know about Ohio. If your own insurance company is involved they should be able to tell you his coverage if they know.

Lingenfelter also drove the Calloway sledgehammer there, we talked about it in the Calloway thread. It's been around for a long time and lots of OEMs have used it. They are always looking for test drivers:http://www.trcpg.com/test-drivers.aspx

It's doubtful he's doing it intentionally to delay the process, he's in a bad situation and trying to improve his position slightly, if he can get out of the charges his insurance won't go up quite as much. It's very common and often the individual isn't thinking how do I fuck the other guy but rather how do I get a little less fucked. Honestly, most times these tickets bounce anyway because the officer didn't directly observe the accident, and often they end up having a little effect on the outcome of fault for the purposes of payout. It just sucks that it takes time.

The two charges are standard traffic violations carrying 2 points each. They may not need you, but if you get the subpoena call the prosecutor who issued and let them know you will be out if the country then and you need a new date. It's your choice about the personal injury claim. Document all medical visits, time taken from work, etc. you get paid for all that and make sure the ins company pays full amount. Make sure to ask for a set aside for any future medical if you know there are future appointments or you expect she will have pain requiring treatment related to this accident in the future.

If you haven't been issued a subpoena, you are not expected to appear....yet. If you don't mind me asking, what was he charged with? Sounds like this was more than a routine ticket. I am usually the first person to say get a lawyer in almost any situation, but for just giving testimony I don't think you need one. I would try and call the prosecutors office and find out who the assigned prosecutor is and if you are going to be asked to be called as a witness. If they say yes then let them know you will be out if the country then and that they may need to seek a continuance. If you are called you would be a witness for the prosecution so it's their responsibility to ask for the continuance, if you hired a lawyer all he would do is the exact same thing because you don't really have standing to ask for the continuance since you are not a party to the case. If this was just a routine traffic charge they rarely call witnesses for them, if it was something more serious like a criminal misdemeanor then there is a greater chance they will call you as a witness. The charge and whether he beats it or not does not mean the driver is at fault. The way an insurance company looks at it is how successful will they be in a civil case, where the burden of proof is lower and the purpose is to find actual fault. A conviction on a traffic charge makes the outcome of a civil suit more likely to be in your favor but if he is not convicted it does not mean he still didn't cause the accident - it just means there isn't enough proof that he broke any laws doing it. If you will forgive my insensitivity, is your wife permantly affected physically by this accident? Did she break any bones? Let me tell you how a good (i.e. Non ambulance chasing atty) personal injury attorney might look at this case: a "good" (as in an easier case) injury is on where there is a lot of clear physical damage that indicate a potential loss or possible disability in the future. Broken bones, torn ligaments, etc...these are good injuries. A soft tissue injury is much harder to collect on because it is harder to prove long term disability. It doesn't mean a lawyer won't take the case, it just means the payout is likely to be smaller and less likely to be worth it considering what you may have to pay an attorney. Insurance companies are great at figuring out and paying out damage to the car, they are lousy about figuring out and paying out damage to a human, so you should be consulting with a reputable personal injury attorney about your potential case. A note of caution about attorneys: most non-atty people think that lawyers can handle any situation in the law regardless of their specialty. This is not true. Unfortunately there are some attorneys who think this as well since there isn't a restriction on what you can do once you pass the bar as long as you do it competently. I have seen a lot of really bad situations over the years because someone had a family member or a friend who is an attorney and they wanted to help and got creamed because they didn't know the nuances of the practice. If you have a German car you don't take it to an Italian motorcycle mechanic to get repaired, same thing here - you don't have your buddy who is an attorney represent you in a personal injury case if he is a real estate lawyer or something like that. Find a highly recommended personal injury atty, preferably one who doesn't advertise on TV with a nickname like "hammer", and take his or her advice.

Sounds exactly like my experience owning a new ducati, without the added expense of having to fix a defective part out of pocket because all the warranty would do is replace defective parts with more defective parts. It also sounds like my friend's experience owning a new alfa roadster in the 1990s. It's the one thing the Italians are great at: making something that is a real treat to use and then depriving you of the use of it half the time so you appreciate it better. I hear there is a customer service person for Fiat NA that haunts the fiat 500 board (handle: Fiatcares). Have you tried reaching out to them?

sounds like some of this is more bad dealer than bad car. Fiat's supply chain problems are well known so the timing isn't surprising. however, a good dealer would find a way to make a case for the throw out bearing given it was an issue not corrected at the time of initial diagnosis. Can you find a new dealer? I am really disappointed to hear these horror stories about the abarth. I really like them and it seems like they have no end to problems. I mean I get it that people don't buy Italian machinery for it's reliability but still....it's not a complicated car.

most likely. Often you have to sign a release before your car hits the dyno, but not always. Unless you can see some fault on the part of the operator that deviates from normal procedure it's usually on you to make sure the car is safe. If the tire was speed rated for 150mph vehicle speed and the vehicle did not exceed 150mph you could make a case for a defective tire with the mfg, but I think dyno runs might be excluded from the tire's warranty and disclaimed at time of purchase. In slow motion you can actually see the sidewall deform and the tread separate from the rest of the carcass so there may be something to be done there. I doubt they would cover the damage to the car though.

That's probably where the end of 4th gear was with the gearing he has. More than likely the tires speed rating wasn't as high as the tire was asked to spin. From my own expirence most dyno operators don't check your tires, it's on you to know if your car is safe. Years ago I was allowed to make 5 dyno passes on my GTO with bfg belted t/a tires which they haven made since 1983. Nobody ever said a word about it, and that tire could have easily come apart being old, dry rotted, and generally gross. I was stupid as a kid.

The mfgs are doing a lot of interesting things with custom pain these days. If I had to guess it is either a metallic base coat or Pearl coat second stage under a a semi-gloss clear. Because Pearl and metallics have different light reflection properties than standard paint they give off a "sheen" even when top coated with matte clear.

will an wrx/STI engine fit in there? serious question, I don't know anything about subarus. I am assuming this is a hydraulic lifter. years ago I had a problem with one of the pontiac lifters collapsing. Same hole, every time, 3 different lifters. Turns out there was a slight obstruction (swarf) in the oil passage that caused the lifter to starve for oil enough to "pump down" but not enough to heat up or seize. When it did it would collapse and I would get this horrible tick. happened at idle as soon as the oil warmed up. Sounds similar to what you have going on - the lifter isn't getting enough oil, it collapses, that opens up the all the clearances and the thing walks. Or it could have just been a defective lifter. If the subaru uses a solid lifter then nevermind.

When was that exactly? First generation the camaro carried on average 300 lbs over the nova platform it was originally based on. It also carried a premium price tag. From 1st to 3rd gen camaro hovered around 3300lbs-3500lbs, sure lighter than today but when you consider a full frame A-body was maybe 100lbs-200lbs heavier it doesn't seem like that light a car. Only time I can think of the mustang being "cheap", "light", and "performance were the 5.0 fox body LX cars which were comparatively cheaper than the GT due to options bloat on the GT, notch back was lighter than the hatch and the car was nearly as light as other Japanese cars, and they were v8 manual trans available independent of any other options. I get in the used market third gen slick roof F bodies and LX notch mustangs may have been considered light cheap fun but that might have more to do with 200hp ratings, marginal build quality of 1980's. any lightness came from stripping all the crap out of the insides of them. Comparing them to new light roadsters with full interiors seems displaced. I see this more along the lines of the 2 seat mercury capri, the fiero, the 1st gen Mr2, and other 2 seat sporty "commuters". out of all the previous small 2 seaters the miata was the only one that was truly successful and it was for reasons other than being a performance vehicle. I would like to see this succeed, I just don't see it as being likely.

glass roof on a small car like this is kind of interesting.....wonder how long it takes before the aftermarket makes a CF replacement panel if the car makes production.

the issue I have is....doesn't toyota already have a car like this? the FRS? What does this do that the FRS doesn't besides potentially cost less than $20k? All I could see this doing here in the US is eat the ass out of the FRS sales market to the point where it isn't profitable for toyota to bring in either, and then they cancel making cheap sports cars and go back to trying to convince us highlanders are something we want in super deluxe $40K hybrid models. oh and selling us $80K land cruisers -they are great at that too. I don't see there being a use for this car in the US other than a novelty for a year or so and eventually convincing toyota can't sell cheap sports cars in the US market and go back to developing a $75K supra. I would rather Toyota/subaru create a "track mule edition" FRS where they strip out the back seats, the standard back up camera, and other crap to get the price from $26K to $19K and sell that instead. As far as the looks? I kind of like it. reminds me of some of the eggcrate fishmouths from 50's british sports cars like the AC Ace coupe and the austin Healey 100 Coupe http://www.automobilesreview.com/gallery/ac/ac-aceca.jpg http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Austin-Healey/56-Austin-Healey_100-4_Coupe-DV-09_CbS_01.jpg

I killed cable this year too. Only high speed internet. The only thing we miss is my daughter is having my little pony withdrawal syndrome. Def don't miss commercials. We rent a lot of movies from the library, listen to radio, and read more. For games we go out to watch (spent most of my morning at the Audi dealer watching the UT v Oklahoma wile they serviced the wife's car). Cutting cable is only difficult if you want to continue watching TV shows. I am making way more progress on my bike projects now without it. Good for you trish for giving the cable the boot. I should have done it years ago.