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Like I said, identify the exact car that you want, and search for a deal on THAT car. Any dealer will let you test fit car seats. If they don't they're idiots. One important distinction that I feel the need to make. Everyone here is saying "walk". I disagree. What puts the screws to me most is not the person walking away from a deal, but rather a person's WILLINGNESS to walk away from the deal they don't want in order to get the deal they do want. What will get you the deal is your willingness to not walk away if the dealer has a willingness to sell to you at your desired price. We have dozens of people look at the same car. Some are serious, some are dreamers, some are deal-hunters, but EVERYONE is a car buyer. You need to be a serious buyer, not a deal hunter. Deal hunters often leave with worse deals than many others would, because they're mostly concerned with how many dollars come off the initial price, and they will often end up buying a more worn-out car because they saw 4 digits come off sticker instead of 3. Best thing you can do is start tracking a lot of particular cars right now on dealer lots, and continue to build a list of cars you'd like to buy in your price range over the winter. When tax time comes and you get your rebate, if the cars you're observing now are still available, you can be sure of a couple things: 1) That dealer wants the car GONE. Make him a reasonable offer (a few hundred off asking price) and you'll get the car you want. 2) That is the absolute, very little negotiation needed, price that you can get on such a car. If the car that's been around is not the one you want, but a newer one is available at a higher price, use the older car to negotiate to the price you want. Not in the sense of "hey I can go buy this other one for $XXX, you need to do this price" but in the sense of "listen, I know this other one at $XXX price is probably around what you paid for yours, since it's been in inventory forever, so if you'll do $YYY price on yours, that leaves you a bit of profit, gets me the car I want at a price I want, and gets you a sale today". Bottom line, you will get a good deal if you show willingness to buy. EDIT: Some dealers this is true, some it's not. If a dealer won't do your price, it might be because they're not willing to deal, or it might be that they know they have a phenomenal car and it deserves a higher price. Start planting seeds now and see what sprouts at tax time. Example: I sold a Land Rover to a guy for less than I told him I could sell it to him for. Why? Because in June we had a TON of traffic on it at $XXX price, but no one could get financed or people were making idiot offers. My customer had made a reasonable, well-researched firm offer of $YYY. 2 months and no success selling the car later, we hadn't even put $YYY on the sticker to open it up to offers and my manager called the guy saying that he had right of first refusal since he'd made an offer that we were about to put on the sticker. The guy got the car he wanted at the price he wanted by being patient.

This. My parents are both VEHEMENTLY anti-guns. My dad grew up in a fascist regime where guns were instruments of oppression, so he's got an understandable bias against them. However, despite their personal feelings, they both made sure my sister and I were exposed to proper firearm training at an early age with my uncle since they knew we'd eventually form our own opinions and wanted us to be knowledgeable and safe. My sister decided to not be into guns at all, I did, and I'm very thankful for the early lesson of "never point at anything you wouldn't willingly kill".

If we can't trust them with a 5 pound tool that is easily abused to kill innocent people, I can't imagine trusting them on the road with a 4000 pound tool for transportation that can just as easily kill people. I'm ok with jail for such willful disregard for others' safety.

Going to once again reinforce what a terrible idea it is to take part of a student loan to buy a car. Why not buy a $4k car and hang on to that student loan money? Chances are pretty high that blowing all this money doesn't leave a lot of cushion in case your brand new $7k car (hint: most $7k cars aren't in great shape) needs some work within months. If you're dead set on making a horrible financial decision, you need to identify what $7k cars are going to fit your needs. It sounds like whoever is buying the car is all over the map in terms of what the next car needs to do. Based on the tone if your posts, it seems like someone is very excited to make a big purchase and is looking at a lot of potentially unreliable (PT Loser, Mitsu Outlander, etc) cars. Car buying is very emotional, and, again, if you are going to put your financial security in jeopardy by borrowing against student loans, you need to make a much more boring and financially reasoned choice in your car searches. Don't decide what the max amount you can spend is and see how much car you can get for that amount. Find out what kind of car suits your needs best, see what reasonable expectations you can have when balancing your desire for nice features, low wear (miles, etc), and price. Cannot reinforce how much you need to NOT spend your absolute max if part of your "budget" is earmarked for education. Source: I sell cars for a living. LISTEN TO ME AND DON'T FUCK AROUND WITH YOUR FINANCES BECAUSE YOU WANT A SHINY NEW CAR.

This blows goats. I hope this religious bullshit goes down in flames.

I was going to say, they had this deal on Woot a little while ago. buy it.

stating the obvious so it doesn't need to be restated 50 times; shoot both and buy whichever one feels better.

There was a video posted a while ago of a guy in San Diego (I think) open carrying, who had a cameraphone record his encounter with police. The officer stopped him, made sure he was exercising his rights in a legal way, let him know why he was stopping him (he'd gotten calls, people were worried), and sent him on his merry way without causing a ruckus, even though the guy was somewhat confrontational.

The 5th amendment prevents you from testifying against yourself. Public places are not a courtroom, and you do, to some extent, have to comply with officers' questioning. There's a certain extent you have to answer, though I'm not sure where that ends. It always helps to answer questions like "where are you coming from and where are you going?" to help an officer ascertain whether or not you're a potential problem. edit; not saying you should always comply, just saying that there are times to stand your ground and times to give a little.

Thank you, this is excellent.

If it were easier and cheaper, everyone would do it instead of buying a generator. Buy a generator.

Yes and yes.

VERY interested in updates, thanks for this!

Fitness clubs routinely have a metric fuckton of customer complaints stemming from high-pressure sales, so name changes aren't uncommon.

Willis McGahee came back, so will Lattimore

What I understand of pocketknife carry in Ohio is that you are allowed to conceal it if it's for the explicit purpose of transporting it, or if it's a knife for work (cutting boxes, etc), but not keeping it for self defense. I find it odd that in Boston I actually was allowed to carry as many knives with blades under 3.5" as i wanted for self defense, but my sister needed a Class A gun permit for mace.

I've been to NA meetings with my best friend who kicked heroin addiction. Right now my family is dealing with my extremely alcoholic uncle. I never met my paternal grandfather, he died at 50 due to health problems directly resulting from severe alcoholism. Some advice, just from my POV which is different than others; Don't kick it for your daughter. Kick it for yourself. If you kick it for your daughter, what will happen when she no longer needs you as involved as you are now? Stop drinking because it makes you happy, not because your daughter needs you sober, because someday she won't. That's what happened to my uncle. His sons are out of the house now and he isn't a grandfather, so he's turned to the sauce because he doesn't feel needed. This will sound harsh, and will probably get some hate, but it's my experience. Addiction is not a disease. It is a scapegoat. If alcoholism is a disease, then I've managed to magically rid myself of this disease in the short period between graduating college and getting a real job. By every definition, I was an alcoholic in college. I have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism, and in college I couldn't not drink. I was always drunk, and binge drunk. Hospitalization didn't stop me. But then I just decided to stop being such an immature clod and scaled my drinking back to reasonable levels. Having a real job and real responsibilities helped, because I was able to prioritize. Again, this is harsh, but the people who are "unable" to control their drinking because of the disease of addiction are just not motivated enough. I'm sorry if I offend anybody with that. EDIT: To the above post, that he is prevented from being sober is not a symptom of his disease, but rather a consequence of his actions, IMO. It's shitty that his actions have piled up in such a way, and I feel for your family. I wish him and the rest of you the best in helping him. I brought up my friend who kicked H earlier. He is what you would call an addictive personality. They tried to get him to do the 12-step thing. He hated it. They kicked him out of rehab after 30 days for not going along with the program. He is totally able to drink responsibly and make adult decisions without going completely bonkers on drugs. He came back from rehab with a vehement hatred of the 12 step program. He thinks it's passing the buck; doing drugs was his decision and his alone, and the consequences were his to suffer. Having suffered them, changed his life, and stayed clean without the help of anyone beyond those who helped him detox, that's his belief.

The B&N skimming is an example of why they do this; in that case, I think it was the FBI that asked them not to release any info regarding the breach so they could try to track down the people without lots of attention. My guess is that Chase or a company that works closely with Chase has been compromised and they're trying to find the source.

You need to find out the provenance of the truck; find out how original it is. If it truly is original and in great shape, John Bruh is right on with $10-15k. If it's original but needs work, I'd say probably $7k. If it's a hoopdie that's not really original and needs work, probably $3-4k. Source: I had a '59 3200 Fleetside longbed that was in poor condition and had non-original motor and trans that I sold for $4000.

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Where we will have a winter full of rain, with 3 days of 3 foot snowfall, followed by 74 degree weather the next day.

some sort of automatic/repeating snowball gun/launcher/catapult

Maybe the mods are just a higher echelon of troll, and you and the other trolls are simply their plaything. It really doesn't take any effort to copypasta some gay erotic fiction, but to get a troll so riled up that they need to spam threads about how X, Y, or Z member shouldn't be banned, or how the mods do a shitty job, or how trolls are the victim of a modtroll conspiracy, well that is an example of some pretty masterful trolling. The troll has become the trolled

Auto or manual? There's currently a class-action lawsuit against BMW USA for the god-awful CVTs they put in some of the Minis in the early years.

This. One building west of Jimmy Johns/Liquor store across from The Meridian.