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CDailey
Have you talked to your insurance provider? Do you even have insurance on your car? Most Florida car insurance companies will provide 1 free windsheld replacement.


This conversation sounds familiar...:odd:
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That would be because we had the same conversation in my car's thread, lol.

I have full coverage on my car (was surprisingly only $17 more for collision). I've asked my dad to call a few times and he still hasn't, I'll have to talk to him later on.
 
Oh, haha. Keep bugging your dad. It could save you a big chunk of change. Then you could buy your badass boots. :D
 
In Florida the windshield is a FREE no-deductible replacement with comprehensive. If you don't have comprehensive but just collision, then you'll have whatever your collision deductible is. If you have comprehensive most glass companies will handle everything for you, and will even come to you car to do the replacement.

Some companies go as far as to include all forward-facing glass with the windshield, which would include headlamps.

As for how to spend the money, you do realize, don't you, that money doesn't have to be spent???? It can be stored somewhere, like a bank, under a mattress, in a bo in the yard, wherever, and when enough has accumulated you might be able to get that thing you "can't afford."
 
In America, we drive on the right side of the road. When we walk in a hallway or on a sidewalk, we generally walk on the right side. My question is: in countries where people drive on the left side of the road, do they also walk on the left side of the sidewalk? :p
 
Generally, they should... actually, they probably would, since it means that you are walking on the street side of the sidewalk facing oncoming traffic... which is safer than having your back to the car jumping the curb and heading straight for you.

But in my experience, people just walk wherever the hell they want on a sidewalk or pathway.
 
wfooshee
As for how to spend the money, you do realize, don't you, that money doesn't have to be spent????
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Confucius say:
"The destiny of all monies is to be spent. Sitting in a bank, it's meaningless. Only when money is spent does it have any value." :trouble:
 
I usually walk on the left side, but sometimes don't. I don't pay a lot of attention to it (neither does a lot of people I see).
 
Shame on you James! One must always walk on the left-hand side of a corridor unless indicating to enter a door on the opposit side. This must be done with an impatient stare and stuttering step.
 
I recently watched an episode of Top Gear in which they zapped a car with fake lightning with Hammond inside.

Hammond was protected because the chassis acted as a Faraday cage.

What i was wondering is, if he was in say, a McLaren F1 that has a carbon fibre chassis, would he have been fried?

I guess the lightning wouldn't have struck the car in the first place?
 
A Faraday Cage is any structue constructed using a conductor as an external shell. Carbon is a conductor, so the McLaren F1 would be fine.

A convertible car on the other hand would be quite disastrous, since the shell is incomplete.
 
ExigeEvan
Shame on you James! One must always walk on the left-hand side of a corridor unless indicating to enter a door on the opposit side. This must be done with an impatient stare and stuttering step.
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In a corridor or hallway I usually walk on the left, but on a pathway I don't usually care since others around here don't. ;)

Fun fact - on London Subway stair elevators you need to stay on the right to let people who walk up them move past you on the left.
 
Carbon conducts electricity. That's why circuit boards are printed on silicone wafers, not carbon wafers.
 
niky
Generally, they should... actually, they probably would, since it means that you are walking on the street side of the sidewalk facing oncoming traffic... which is safer than having your back to the car jumping the curb and heading straight for you.

But in my experience, people just walk wherever the hell they want on a sidewalk or pathway.
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Haha I don't really mean which side when regarding auto traffic, I mean which side of the sidewalk regarding people traffic.


Actually I have another question, why do some clocks have IIII for 4 instead of IV?
 
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A gentleman walks between his lady and the street, protecting her from whatever debris may be slung her general direction.

As for which side compared to other pedestians, who cares?
 
Famine
A Faraday Cage is any structue constructed using a conductor as an external shell. Carbon is a conductor, so the McLaren F1 would be fine.
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It's abit of a grotesque statement to say Carbon is a conductor! Diamond doesn't, graphite does but not through layers, not sure on carbon fibre though.
 
That's because in a diamond, there aren't any free electrons.

RE: sidewalk... where you walk on the sidewalk will generally depend on the left-hand drive / right-hand drive nature of traffic in your country. In general, people will walk like they drive or like they walk on the sidewalks.

It's very interesting going to a poorly designed building with escalators going "the wrong way"... in a left-hand drive country, people always assume the escalator going to the next floor is on the right side.... the discombobulation and eventual traffic jam of people first going right then left as they look for the right escalator.
 
wfooshee
A gentleman walks between his lady and the street, protecting her from whatever debris may be slung her general direction.
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I can deflect cars with my hips.
 
wfooshee
A gentleman walks between his lady and the street, protecting her from whatever debris may be slung her general direction.
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You must walk with some rather unpopular women.


I do however think that anyone walking with a young child should have them placed the opposite side to the road.
 
G.T
In a corridor or hallway I usually walk on the left, but on a pathway I don't usually care since others around here don't. ;)

Fun fact - on London Subway stair elevators you need to stay on the right to let people who walk up them move past you on the left.
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This doesn't match my experience. Riders on the left, walkers on the right, is how I've experienced London Underground escalators.

Famine
A Faraday Cage is any structue constructed using a conductor as an external shell. Carbon is a conductor, so the McLaren F1 would be fine.

A convertible car on the other hand would be quite disastrous, since the shell is incomplete.
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The lightning would probably go to the top of the A pillar, but I won't volunteer for that experiment.
 
ExigeEvan
It's abit of a grotesque statement to say Carbon is a conductor! Diamond doesn't, graphite does but not through layers, not sure on carbon fibre though.
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Grotesque? Have you been at the thesaurus again?

A carbon atom will conduct electricity. Diamond won't, due to its structure. Graphite is an extremely good conductor and is used industrially for electrodes (low resistivity at high temperatures). Carbon-fibre is graphite based...
 
Watching the first page made me hungry! :drool: So here comes a food question..

Wich is your favorite hamburger chain? The only american ones we have in Sweden are Burger King and McDonald's. Then we have a few swedish ones such as Max, Sibylla and Frasses.

I go for Burger King I think.

(Damn I sound like a fatboy right now! :lol:)
 
I'm Wendy's kind of people. Perhaps that has something to do with my status as the reference specimen for human physical fitness. . . . . :guilty:
 
GilesGuthrie
This doesn't match my experience. Riders on the left, walkers on the right, is how I've experienced London Underground escalators.
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James is right - stand on the left on the underground and you're roadkill :sick:

I have a question - Is the amount of sugar in food irrelevant to whether something can be considered healthy? M&S have their 250 ml fruit juice cartons in their "Eat Well" range, when they contain a staggering 12.2 g of sugar per 100 ml, 1.1 g per 100 ml more than their own brand Cola :sick: , yet because it contains a bit of fibre and some vitamins, it's considered part of their "healthy eating" range?

(Also, one of my favourite drinks - 'Feel Good' Cranberry and Lime with "No Added Sugar" has pretty much the same amount of sugar in it... so just as well they didn't add any....! I think the "No Added Sugar" thing, prominently marked on the front label, is somewhat misleading... it should really say, "We haven't added any sugar because there is already tonnes of it in there!")
 
Natural sugar (fruit juice, honey, etc.) is "better" for you than processed sugar (corn syrup, sucrose, etc.)
 
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