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Sledhead36

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  1. Uhauls are pretty inexpensive and you can leave it there.
  2. Do what you feel is right, I am not as worried about the flu shot and getting the flu, as what the long term ramifications on my brain of getting one. I know several people who have early onset of Alzheimer's, and while not 100% conclusive, the shot may have affected them. Unless you want to be able to hide your own Easter eggs in the future....proceed with caution.
  3. This would be a great opportunity to put a digital electronic door lock on your home. Never deal with keys again. It'll cost you about 100 bucks but it's the best investment you've ever made....to never have to carry a key and be able to change the code anytime you want. Super easy to install and you can get at Home Depot or Lowe's. You can either get a deadbolt or a handset, however I prefer deadbolts.
  4. I've never ever had a flu shot and never intend to get one unless I'm at a point in my life where I believe my immune system is compromised. I never gave my children flu shots and would never give my children flu shots unless their immune system's were compromised. The truth is people do die from the flu. The truth is, people die from all kinds of shit every year. I have long-term concerns with Alzheimer's and the Mercury associated with any vaccination, I scrutinize each and everyone of them. I do in fact get vaccinations that I believe will work and are necessary. The flu shot is like throwing a dart at a dartboard the size of Texas. They pick 3-4 potential strains that they believe it might be. Some years they might get close other years they miss altogether. I've heard way too many stories about bird flu, swine flu, I think it's all propaganda and potential moneymaking for the pharmaceutical business. You should do what you think is right. I again will not get one until I feel that my health would be compromised severely by getting the flu. Here is a good Snopes article that will give you some food for thought. http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/flushot.asp
  5. Good guess, that is one way. I also used my personal vehicle, not the demo, for test drives. No one can tell me what I can do with my own car. Lol
  6. The dealer networks were set up long-ago to protect the consumers from the manufacturers. The reason being before the advent of unions the manufacture was difficult to contact or deal with, hence a local dealer would help you with purchase and maintenance of the manufactures vehicles. At the time this is a good thing however when Elon Musk decided to go into manufacturing electric cars, he did talk to many of the dealers about selling his vehicles and he believed that they would only use the electric vehicles to get people in the door and then convince them to buy "ice"or internal combustion engine cars. He knew the only way to get a clear shot was to have a dedicated sales force that did not have a gas engine car to sell as an alternative. The reason this scares the dealers is that they are no longer considered valuable to the consumer and only create issues from Price gouging as well as massive profits from servicing the automobiles. If the model works why wouldn't other manufactures go direct in the future to totally control what their stores do and do not provide as well as the quality of service. That's every state has an old law that was written in the 40s as to how a dealership should look. Each state is drawing on those old loss to say that Tesla does not fit the model that was designed and no manufacture may sell direct. This is been overturned in every state other than Texas. You may or may not recall this happened in Ohio, that Germain, ricart, and the Midwestern auto group sued to stop Tesla from selling directly in the state of Ohio. That lawsuit lasted three months and after hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money, it was proven that it was unconstitutional to block the sale of Tesla cars directly. Keep in mind, the show floors are only a place to look at the cars and demo them, all sales are done online. Thus in the state of Michigan, the only thing that blocked right now is the ability to test drive the car and to talk about pricing. You can still have a store and show the vehicle you just can't test drive it and you can't talk about pricing. However the cars can be ordered and delivered via the Internet and if somebody really needs to try one out they can go to any dealership in the surrounding state and do so. Interestingly enough people do that all the time. Tesla is selling cars as fast as they possibly can make them.
  7. As Kevan has said...... There is a sucker born every day......his favorite customers.
  8. I recieved a lot of hate on this one......most of the story is accurate on P1, it is owned by a doc out of canton, the Studio 47 story is dead on, but no tune or anything happened with the car. The car was only transported to columbus for an event by C&C . Com. Wiggles of course made it look like he either was the owner or was tuning it...all bullshit. So I called him out, he blasted me all over a blocked Facebook page, so I reposted his childish rant thru a friend. Like I give a crap of what he thinks or would be concerned about what he says about me. If someone thinks I am an asshole for calling him out, then they are no friend of mine. Honesty is earned, and is difficult to get. He forgot this long ago. Btw, the doc drove the car home because of all of the drama.
  9. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/mri-video-couple-having-sex-4300400
  10. Model X will start to be built in December for January shipping, I think at last count, there are about 20,000 pre orders. Meaning, if you ordered one today, it will be late next year to take delivery. The battery pack has 7000 lithium ion cells in separate packs, so the previous post got some bad info from the store. The individual batteries are about the size of a roll of quarters. Either way, battery costs will plummet once they are made in the USA.........when was the last time you heard.....we can make it cheaper here? Elon's hope is, all car manufactures abandon development of the battery packs and just buy them from him. Which will further the lowering of the cost of batteries. With 8 years unlimited mile warranty.....batteries should not be a concern. Now if he can just get the sub $50k car produced......well that will change the world.
  11. They will come down with more competition, hang in there. You will love driving them, more torque than my Lambo.
  12. I see there's a lot of speculation in this thread. Actually a lot of errors. The batteries on all the vehicles have a eight year unlimited mile warranty. It stays with the car. How does that compare you your ICE car? I'm really not worried about the battery. My car is two years old, the only thing I put in it, is about 3 gallons of washer fluid, two sets of wiper blades and a set of tires. No oil, no belts, no tune ups, no plugs.....etc. every time I brought my BMW in for an oil change they always found an extra $600 of crap to fix. I don't even pay for electricity, as I go to the local supercharger twice a week, we can charge it for free. Takes less than 30 minutes. It's at a mall so I grab a cup or dinner while I wait......oh my phone pings when it is full. There will be a sub $50k car in 2016, in the mean time, the used Model S is now in the $70-80k range. Do the math. Yes, it is more expensive upfront.......but with almost zero maintenance, they become very affordable. It costs $7 to charge it full at home. That's like 2 gallons of gas for 270 miles. 270 miles on a charge is plenty, how many days does anyone actually drive more than that? And if you do, the GPS leads you right to all the local chargers. If you need to go farther and are worried.....take another car or rent one for that trip. As for the D......got it on order, only disappointed it did not include time travel.
  13. Lol, I love the comments from people who have never seen a dirt track in their life! But they sure know everything about it.... Interesting twist of events. Guess all that info the Mary jane does not impair you, might not be true also.
  14. Lol, yes that was a bad assumption! Looks like it was an awesome day for the event. It looks like Kevan drove, how is he doing? Btw, Should I take your family to dinner for you since you have abandoned them?
  15. He is the biggest wiggles suck up ever. He used to show up at a ton of car events, seemed ok, but realized he is a wiggles spy. Be careful of anything you tell him, he runs right back to wiggles.
  16. D-bag had the car out for the Italian stampede in California. A group of guys in Lambo power chided him to the point where they had lined up a track and a Dyno to have him substantiate the facts he's claimed for the last three years. Amazingly when he was challenged his transport had to leave a day early in order to get back. There was no way for him to stop the transport so he was unable to meet with these guys. LOL, I think he transported him himself.
  17. Just FYI, unless it is a brand name big transporter, they all want cash. Especially Sub $1000 for cross country. You got a deal on that one.
  18. I want to make the first 2000rwhp Lambo......how much would that cost?
  19. My neighbor just bought one, not super impressed.
  20. LOL, no you have to do a lot more than reduce your cable bill to get one of those. But combine that with every other aspect of your life, in reducing overall costs and it certainly can help. When I started my business I lived for five years like I was fresh out of college. Made sure I was tucking plenty away rather than going and buying the first thing I possibly could.
  21. You would put an individual antenna at each home. No need to run coaxials to all the different houses unless you happen to be right next-door. You can buy antennas on eBay for less than 100 bucks and they're super easy to aim
  22. Not that I would suggest this.........but once you have direct tv boxes, they don't know where there live.......meaning 2-3 people could share an account. One sets it up, gets several boxes and gives them to the other guys......but again, I would never recommend this......
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