Oh and for what it's worth the person who hit me had a suspended license and no insurance. The driver was the real problem, but a car with safety features could have saved me a lifetime of neck and back pain. At least the safety features in my car kept me alive.

So your assuming that the car you're driving is smart enough to know when to avoid an accident but doesn't know that you've just been or are going to be hit from behind? Engineers will have to take many type of situations into consideration when they program all this. Would you suggest that safety features should…

I agree, but man there are so many people who have no common sense or just plain shouldn't be driving.

That's exactly what I was going to say. As someone who got hit by an idiot who ran straight through a red light at full speed, I'm for making cars stop a lights. I wouldn't mind an override button (for emergency reasons) and a blackbox to log the override. That way if you override it and stupidly run through a red,…

This is what happened in Austin, TX but to a lesser degree. We have tons of hills and overpasses. It started with freezing rain and sleet, which hit warm ground and sat there as water. Then as temperatures dropped further and stayed below freezing, all the water turned to ice and much of it was black ice (the kind you…

Actually it is a preview of FF7 because on the FF6 Blu-ray they even say it's a exclusive sneak peak of the next movie.

I believe I made a purchase at this famous store yesterday. I bought my wife a new (bigger) engagement ring and a band that matched pretty well. Paid a little less than half of the original price. But those prices mean as much as a MSRP or an Amazon list price. Still it looks great and she was very happy.

What, that was the fun part. ;)

Ah, that's true it is possible to make a custom image for that particular feature. I've thought about doing that for the images I build at work but it's not worth the effort. Well as an alternative to using the ISO tool, one can run diskpart to format a USB drive and give it an active partition so that it's bootable.…

Don't forget Windows 8 itself can reset your computer back to a fresh install.

I hate that so many people especially "counselors" in high school pressure youths to go to college and yet many of those youths don't even know what to learn about. It's a waste of time and money to go for the sake of going. As for me, a top 10% hardly, but I did listen in class and had no problems passing tests.…

Fact: There is never good time to run out of toilet paper. It's all that separates us from the animals! Paper towels, conversely, may seem to be a less urgent purchase, but a minor kitchen spill can quickly turn into a Messapocalypse if you're out of Bounty or Brawny. The only defense against a dearth of paper goods…

I disagree with your statement but agree with your inference about higher education in general. I don't have a degree. I'm working the same tech support job and making the same amount as others and all my co-workers have degrees. I educated myself, because to do a job right you have to have knowledge about what you're…

I get gas at Costco (consistently cheaper than other places) and use GasBuddy to keep track of prices. Although it helps that Costco is on my way home and the fact that I have to use Supreme gas I usually save about $0.20 or more per gallon as compared to a normal gas station.

Here's the Costco link: http://www.costco.com/Winegard-Flatw…

I dunno, they had started on Monday night but I think the problem was that it was too early and washed away from the rain over night. I saw plenty of sand in places but it had all been washed or blown off to the sides.

Ha! We get snow more like once a decade. Plus I've driven my summer tires in snow, it can be done. When we get ice, people who walk get injured sliding on the stuff and it think that says it all.

Of course, but not in the south where we see ice maybe once every few years and snow we get that maybe once a decade. Driving in snow is not a problem, but here we tend to get wet roads because the ground is too warm and then as the temperature stays well below freezing the wet roads turn to ice roads that look like…

Black ice. It was water but then around rush hour it got colder and the roads turned into skating rinks.

You know it didn't used to be as bad...until the economy went to crap and lots of people from California moved in. Coincidence? I think not!