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I think my calls to Verizon customer service might be responsible for at least some of those numbers - I never once said please or thank you to them, either. :o

Wow: Mr Entitled missed the chance to demonstrate moral behavior to the kid along with his tennis lesson, [if you can't get permission, it's not ok to act as if you did] then the LEOs go so far overboard that respecting them is tough. I'm just wondering why the overreaction by the cops - seems...

If you'll read the Newbies FAQ, I'm pretty sure it covers your first two questions [neither of which has changed lately], and even explains why the third one doesn't really matter too much. Expedite is very different from OTR and 'local' driving, and mostly, you get out what you put into it...

Walmart to Install Surface-to-Air Missiles on Store Rooftops to Shoot Down Amazon Drones | Rock City Times They're claiming this is a joke, but I believe it, lol.

Again: WTH does that have to do with anything?! Are you implying that my comment about the culture of politeness indicates a desire to live under the same cultural restrictions as the Japanese? When you 'connect the dots', I gotta wonder how you come up with a snail from an outline of a camel....

Deming took his ideas to Japan because the Big 3 [fatuous arrogant morons] told him to, "Made in Japan" being then synonymous with cheap throwaway junk. They said Japan needed help improving quality, not us - they really believed they'd always have a captive market for whatever they built...

He probably wasn't racing, per se, but he was traveling at one heluva high rate of speed - and you can see the [downed] speed limit sign in the crash photo: 45. Several pro race drivers were quoted as saying the Porsche was a difficult car to drive, [not a regular model], and cars like that...

Much as I liked the movies, I'm finding it hard to feel very much sympathy for Walker or the driver. Street racing is cool to watch on the screen, but in real life, it's not acceptable. These two endangered a lot of people for their own thrills, and why is nobody mentioning that? There's more...

That's why you drive a little picker upper, huh? :p

You made me splurt my drink all over the keyboard! Which makes it the best post all week IMO. ;)

This is a song I didn't love until I found this version, 8 or 9 years ago, and now I have to find it again every year. White Christmas originally by Bing Crosby. - YouTube It never gets old. :)

You're close, lol: Feliz Navidad. Which reminds me of another classic: Merry Christmas [from the family] by Robert Earl Keen. Makes me laugh every time I hear it. :o

Dude, you're looking for 'love' in all the wrong places, lol. Expedite is where failure is not an option, and a van that old is a failure waiting to happen. Maybe you could do something like delivering phone books, where it doesn't matter if you get there or not. Just saying.

Is what I think: Obama was elected to 'prove' that racism has been largely overcome. It hasn't, and even if Obama were a great President, it wouldn't make any difference to the racists. Like Turtle says, we really can't make up for the past, [and the Indian reservations prove how little we care...

The media doesn't want us to know about a whole lot of things [which might embarrass people with the power to make the media suffer for their transgressions], hence the constant diet of random violence and celebrity gossip. Both subjects are a safe and reliable distraction, guaranteed to not...

Since the vid in the link no longer exists [wonder why, lol] we still don't know how to defeat the facial recognition software without looking like a bank robber. I gather it involves a hat with a 'halo' of infrared lights that are invisible to people nearby, but blind the cameras. That could...

Technically, the tag transmits the location of the object, which is useful in shipping [like the QC] and tracking [like UPS & FEDEX package delivery, and pharmaceuticals], but it's not a huge stretch to imagine tags being placed that can track a person's location, as the cellphone. Auto mfrs...

Yep, it's easier to be compliant with elogs, and compliance is what FMCSA is after. If there were any proof at all that compliance equals safety, I'd agree, but I'm pretty skeptical. The original suggestion from FMCSA, that those carriers & drivers with a history of bad behavior be forced to...

As Rumrunner said, most people considering expediting are advised to drive for an owner first, to see whether they can handle it - we don't do much 'drop & hook'. We drop and wait, and the waiting can drive some people over the bend. I didn't suggest it, because the OP indicates some knowledge...

I found this graph, which lists the top 10 causes of death [in the US] and gunshots are #10. Rather odd that insurance companies are able to charge higher premiums for smokers, but don't screen for a sedentary lifestyle & poor diet, which has a huge impact on the rates of cardiac disease, which...