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Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 30676 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Sitting here thinking*, no serpentine belt, does this mean no charge? Maybe it never was seized, just ran until the battery discharged. By now there is no way to know. I think you are right. The engine never seized. It had been sitting for 3 years before I bought it. The light oil freed things that were sticking. I did a compression test and all 8 cylinders look good. I need to buy a camera and take a look for scoring. I have less than $700 in this vehicle and it's towed my boat today. I am happy with the investment. What it looked like when I bought it. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66342 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Sometime in 2024-2025 I'll be looking for either a 2017+ Chevy Bolt EV or a 2017+ Chevy Volt or a 2017+ Nissan Leaf or 2010-2015 Toyota Prius hybrid. All of them need to be below $25,000.00 and the car has to have at least a 7K battery to take advantage of the $4000 IRA down payment help which is currently just a credit that I can't touch and it can't had the $4000 applied before as you only do this once per car. Plus there is another $2000 possibly from California, plus $1000 from myself which is the most that I can do. Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36800 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
We've all heard the story about a cleaner who turned something critical off.... well.... Annoyed janitor turns off super-cold freezer and destroys decades of scientific work, causes at least $1M in damages. It could be the plot of a dark comedy if it weren’t a science tragedy. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3345 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Update to original story: Family sells 1 million pennies found while cleaning home He wouldn’t disclose the final sale price, non-disclosure agreements were a key part of the transaction, but he admitted that his family was “more than satisfied” with the number. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36800 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
A new toy for the kids to play with (and some not so young). :-D Caltech’s new ‘Morphobot’ is a little transforming robot that can walk, drive, and fly. Cheers. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
The best Christmas present ever. Grant Darwin NT |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22534 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Santa please drop one off in my house :-) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66342 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
A new toy for the kids to play with (and some not so young). :-D Ah yes, a Decepticon... Soundwave... Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Well, i know twitter has been steadily circling the toilet bowl since Musk took it over, but now it appears that unless you have a Twitter account, you can't view any Twitter posts directly. A few sites i visit will often have a feed on their main pages with a list of tweets, but if i click on any of them it now takes me to the Twitter login page and not the Twitter account. I don't have a Facebook account, nor a Twitter account. nor a Google account, nor a Play store account, nor a Microsoft account, nor an Apple account and i have no intention of getting one of any of them in the foreseeable future. Grant Darwin NT |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 30676 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
No twitter here either. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21288 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
No twitter here. Never had a want for any other social media accounts except this SETI one. |
Kissagogo27 Send message Joined: 6 Nov 99 Posts: 716 Credit: 8,032,827 RAC: 62 |
hi, u can try to replace twitter.com in the adress by nitter.net |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66342 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
No twitter here either, today Twitter is home to a bunch of twits, with Musk being the admitted Chief Twit... Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Finally, an excellent legitimate use for ChatGPT- Man designs ChatGPT bot subscription service to annoy and waste telemarketers' time Jolly Roger is not the first to use this trick to scam the scammers. A chatbot named Lenny has been giving robocallers their comeuppance since 2008. However, Lenny is not as effective since it doesn't recognize when a key press is needed to reach a human – a prevalent practice these days. The Wall Street Journal notes that auto-dialers can make about 100 calls per second, and the telemarketer only gets on the line if there is a human response, such as a key press. Grant Darwin NT |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3345 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Nothing better than wasting the tele-scammers time. I'll do that on occasion if they get past my free call block service which hangs up on them on 1st ring if the phone number has already been flagged as telemarketing, survey, spam, or scam. That's 99% of all calls to my house phone and about the same percentage of unwanted calls to cell phone. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3345 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Yep, it's official Twitter login now required to view tweets Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure". |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Yep, it's official Twitter login now required to view tweetsThat should reduce his Ad revenue even more than everything else he's done so far- combined. The "data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" was probably more a case of most of those that actually knew how to keep everything running have all cleared out, and as the system gradually degrades, so does it's performance. I'm thinking it's now in a slow but steady death spiral, till people discover the next Twitter like thing after which it will just implode on itself as everyone else left there jumps ship en masse. Grant Darwin NT |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21288 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
It could also be to stop us “non-twitter” people from seeing twitter posts. Also could be a money grab pay if you want to see. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22534 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
I'd go for an attempt at money grabbing. Another no-vote on being forced to have a Tw*tter account. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31009 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Well as many small government places used twitter to announce things they will have to move on to a different service. So now my local fire department can't tell me to avoid a certain fire zone. |
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