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Manufacturer, as they want the entire vehicle to last just past the warranty period, and then you scrap it and buy a new vehicle from them. Dealership wants the vehicle to last as long as possible, as they make the money from servicing, not from new vehicle sales. Many examples of vehicles that suffer from severe engine wear that shows up just after warranty period expires, when you use the manufacturers intervals. More regular changes are not environmentally unfriendly, as oil is a very easy to recycle material, and there are generally a lot of ways to do so. ROSE foundation is quite willing to do it for you, and the oil is either refined for use again, or used in industrial processes, so overall it is not dumped.
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By me a good chunk of office space has been converted, mostly into student accommodation, as there is a regular shuttle service to the university so having a single set of buses is a lot cheaper to run. They also get used during breaks as tourist accommodation, making good use of the space again, as they are central to the city, and with good public transport to the beaches and other entertainment spots.
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Probably being an annoying ahole is all. But if there is no light ordinance I would have gone, gotten a 5W green laser, put it on a tripod, and methodically burnt each LED out in those fixtures, because "it is just light, no limit on it" as defense.
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Funny how they never make a mistake and undercharge you, always overcharge. Travel agencies are vanishing though, most people these days look online and do it, and find that this can be a lot cheaper to do, especially if you are doing it regularly with the same airlines and the same hotel and resort groups. Return customers are much preferred, as after all they did make the choice to use them again, thus are satisfied with the service, and likely to tell others.
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If there is a Dune II, will he be building a dynasty?
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Very likely much higher, as probably a good chunk are stuck with a long lease, even if they only use a fraction of the space now, and have turned the majority of it into storage instead, or are using it for warehousing space, because they cannot get out of the lease without penalty.
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Why use Uhaul, there are other rental companies out there, must have been one closer than 600 miles from there with a vehicle. They cannot be the only rental people around who do trucks.
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Used to be a common thing with cheques, they would scan the deposit slip then edit it to show cash instead of cheque. Your account would show the deposit, but not that it was a cheque or cash, until a few days later when it would be reversed, because the cheque bounced. Finally the banks stopped issuing and accepting cheques, though there still is fraud this way, often using stolen accounts.
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@EngineeringVignettes Smells like they outsourced it to the cheapest bidder, who in turn outsourced it to an even cheaper developer in a cube farm somewhere, who did the needful. Buggy code, passed the bare minimum of checking (did it work in test on a single point, then passed) and was deployed with no other checking.
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Another issue with spices is they also react with medication, not surprising, as many medicines are originally extracts of plant matter, and many are still available as a common spice, like cinnamon, a tree bark, and nutmeg, a tree nut, both of which have medicinal uses. Thus spices are very limited in use, along with needing to have a low controlled dose of salt, for those with renal impairment or those with unknown renal failure or hypertension, which means the food is generally lacking in salt to enhance flavour.
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You can include all car manufacturers in an episode, all have had some major recalls for some reason or the other, but it is how they handle them that differs.
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Property management companies where the power bills are all under one sheet, not broken down to a building or floor, so that tenants are billed for it, instead all get averaged for it. Till somebody actually complains about the light pollution to the company social media nothing will be done.
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Yes, but most of them have probably had at least 2 engine rebuilds by now, simply because the original parts wore out. Taxi use is hard on a vehicle, so the companies that do it will spend a bit of money on maintenance, plus also regular checking of the vehicle itself. Not just drive it till it says service, and then think about going in "soon", but daily checks of oil, fluids and tyres, because that is what keeps you earning money. You would notice quickly the glitter oil, and immediately do action on it, not just drive till it stops.
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As above he wants to buy the neighbouring lots, bulldoze down and build a set of condos to flip them. But not enough land, so the bright lights to make the neighbours move out and sell cheap. Wonder if anybody has reported him to the IRS for tax fraud anon yet, as those sort of investigations can go back decades, and they will want payment now, argue later on.
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@ninemoonplanet Well i have had to install lights, because the street lights are not working, and the council shows little regard to actually fixing them.
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Often the only difference is price, the eggs come from the same producer, and are just packaged in a different pack, and perhaps washed and colour graded, or even have a brown dye applied to make them look "better" and even in colour. Best is the farm eggs, and there you also get those with every egg having a double or even triple yolk, and the farm chicken eggs definitely have a much better taste.
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Price, looks good on the showroom floor, has a lot of fancy features. Plus does not fall to pieces as you leave the showroom, and also a low instalment with long 7 year low interest rate car loans. So they were cheaper per month.
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Generally I do not use plastic bags, prefer to get the free cardboard boxes the shops have, which they otherwise throw in a recycling bin. When the big box I have is full I get it recycled and get some money back as well, plus do not pay the plastic bag levy as well. Here plastic is not recycled much, pretty much all goes to landfill or is the national flower.
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So what is new for Range Rover then? BIL had his own parking spot in the service bay, and as I dropped it off there so often the security and most of the sales people thought I actually worked at the dealership. I used to skip the check in line, drive through the side entrance, past the security then take it to it's parking, and leave the key with the service office, along with the fault list for the week. In the months they had it that recall was out for "immediate attention", and they had the new pipes, but they were never installed. Guess how we found that out, I was driving the kids, and the hose popped, so I had to do a roadside fix to get it going, using a multitool, and cooldrink to fill the water up. Yup popped head gasket on a rear cylinder, but it was "within specs", so it had rough idle when cold forever after. The low water sensor is disabled on start, as it would otherwise falsely trigger with normal coolant flow.
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@pcplayssomething This was when they were still made in the UK though. Glad to see QC has still the same standards, though the design with all that metal is safe.
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@n_u001 That can is make from pressed steel, with a thin electroplating of tin both sides of the sheet before it is pressed. They are quite good Faraday cages as is, as putting the lid on makes a very good RF seal, and the steel is a reasonably good RF attenuator.
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@Ynalaw Yes, but that then is you interfering with the property, the laser is not, as you are merely "shining light" onto the property, and if he is legally allowed so are you. Though if not laser then a call to rent a 20kW Xenon short arc searchlight, aimed at the fixture till it catches fire, will also work, as after all they did not have a max light amplitude, and those lights are often rented out, though with a caveat not to aim them at property within 100m as they might burn it from the intensity of the light beam. Does need to have it's own 50kVA generator with it, and a good amount of cooling water as well to keep it running.
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