Howard

While I don't want to see it and think it a bad idea, the touchID on my iPhone works perfectly every time. I am very impressed with it.

The new rule book became available today, some big changes and some not so big changes. The rules take effect March 1st, here is a link: http://www.idpa.com/misc/docs/2015IDPA-Rules-MA-V1.0.pdf One of the biggest changes is that non-threat targets are going to be treated more like USPSA no-shoots, you will earn a 5 second penalty for each hit now rather than one penalty per target hit. They are consolidating SSR &ESR into one REV division and creating CCP & BUG divisions. Oh, and let's not forget the flatfooted reload will finally be history!!!!

Heck if I could justify having it I would like to have a big truck too, just not much real need for it.

Yea but that noise of slurp slurp slurp at the gas pump is hard to put up with I love my new HSH which only visits the pump every 600 or so miles.

Actually it can, although the hatch does not fully close. I know this from first hand experience with a friends' Prius. You can even fit a double wall oven in it.

Oh, while my old Prius was great in terms of MPG it was probably the worst car ever made for snow and ice. When going up hill in snow the traction control would cut back on power, and it would keep doing it until you came to a stop. What was worse was there was no way to turn it off, and the car's pseudo CVT left you with but one forward gear. The only way to get up a slippery hill was to have enough room so that you could tack up the hill the way a sailboat does when trying to head into the wind. That was part of the reason I bought the HSH in that you can turn off the traction control and it has a real 6 speed auto transmission that you can actually manually pick gears on.

Yes, the Stealer's charge an arm an a leg for lots of stuff. You can buy rebuilt packs for as low as $1,200 that have all new cells and its only a couple of hours to change them. The other option is find one in a junk yard from a car that was damaged in a front-end accident. There are a lot of cars out there with stupid designs. I remember back in the 1970's when Chevy came out with a car called the Monza. It was originally designed with a small engine but as an option you could get it with a V8. Only problem was that to change the last spark plug you actually had to pull the engine to get to it. Now THAT is stupid big time.

Batteries? I replaced the 12V tiny car batter in the trunk on each car, even the aftermarket ones are high but under $100. Never a need to replace the traction battery, and the one I just got rid of had 146K miles on her. People get scared about the battery costs, but I think they are warranted for 8yr / 100k miles and you can always pickup a rebuilt one for about $1,500. Cheap considering there is no transmission in the car to ever have to replace, no starter motor and you almost never use the friction brakes so they last a long long time. I never changed the rear brakes and only did the fronts once. I replaced the car with a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid which has a life-time warranty on the traction battery. Yes they tell you that you have to remove the bumper to change bulbs (stupid) but there is a way to do it from under the hood if you have smaller hands. I think HID's are about at the end of their life, as the new LED bulbs are as bright or brighter and much cheaper.

I think you can have size OR mpg, pick any one.

Glad to hear the app fixed it. There are several free apps that will let you check your upload and download speed. Here is a screen shot of one I use:

I have no such problem on my 6+. Are you using WiFi or cellular? If cellular is it 4G LTE, or is it dropping down to 3G or 1X? In either case try running a speedtest program to see what sort of bandwidth the phone is receiving, that is likely the issue.

15-22 all the way!

I assure you they don't; neither of mine had any bumper stickers on them. But then I owned a pair of 2002 which you probably would not even recognize as a Prius as they were the original model that had a trunk not a hatchback. I bought both used in '05 and '06 when gas was cheap and nobody wanted them, I averaged better than 45 MPG with them and they were super reliable cars. It was nice to have the trunk to keep my guns out of sight too.

I'm with you 100% on this. Everyone told me you have to get a 92FS, so I did - big mistake. Don't get me wrong it's a good gun and fairly accurate. The issues I have are mostly what Underdog said above, you can't change the front sight and the grip is made for someone that must be 6'6" and have hands to match. I can't reach the mag release without rotating my grip, and then obviously it takes time to reacquire the right grip. Then there is that double action trigger pull which makes my 686 revolver look soft by comparison. I did the D-spring modification, but it still is not great. Then there is the whole decocker thing, I much prefer a safety. But it is all my fault as I really did not do my research and know much more about guns today than when I bought it. But she is highly reliable and can take a licking and keeps on ticking.

We need to go back to the way it was before they introduced radial tires and labeled them all weather. Back in the day we all had what were called snow tires, some of them even had metal studs in them. If you did not have snows, then you put on chains. It used to be you were banned from the road in times of emergency if you did not have snows or chains. Today's winter tires are simply amazing. Not only do they have snow tire type tread but they are made of special very soft rubber compounds that have much better traction in cold weather. They improve your stopping distance even on dry pavement in cold weather compared to all season tires. I went out in with my Blizak winter tires two Sundays ago when we had that massive ice slick and I never even noticed it and my anti-lock brakes never even chattered. Four wheel drive is good, but those four wheels need to have traction to do anything and true winter tires make a huge huge difference.

Well just went out and snow blew the 1.5" of snow that was on the driveway Will this turn out to be the biggest joke since 0bamba?

That sucks, sorry to hear this.

Year I thought is was going to be a joke and that auto correct changed "bar" to "bear"

Wow they must not like you. I have sometimes gotten stuff in 18 hours of ordering it. I have never have anything take more than 48 hours if it was Prime qualified. Don't use Roku, but when I stream stuff to my Samsung 4K TV I never have issues. Perhaps you are having an issue with the bandwidth of your router. Some routers have settings where you can prioritize bandwidth to certain devices or certain applications - perhaps that might fix your problem.

We already have 18" on the ground and are expected to get 5' more ***** ***** NEVER believe the crap you see on the internet

I have this one http://www.barska.com/Biometric_Safe-Large_Biometric_Keypad_Safe_By_Barska.html in my bedroom. Remember that these are probably more accurately locking cabinets rather than true safes. They will keep the curious out, and delay the determined, but they can be drilled, popped or otherwise opened if someone has time. That said, I think they are very good for keeping honest people honest and keeping kids out. They open with a single finger print, but you can store up to 32 prints. So I have several fingers coded with different placement, have never had it not open when I tried. It also has a keypad that can take up to 8 numbers, so you can open it by entering a code as well. Lastly, it has a key as a third means of opening. If you just leave it sitting on the floor someone could pick it up and carry it away, but I don't think that is the concern you have. What I did with mine is that I have it sitting in a corner next to my dresser. I bolted a pair of 8' long 2"x4"s to the back of it and they run behind my dresser. Thus, it would require someone to move the heavy dresser to get at it and then they would either have to have a saw to cut off the two long studs or try carrying it out around hallways with 8' of wood hanging on to it - not likely.

Glad a few of you were able to jump on this and save a few bucks!

More snow, yuk! Went out to clear the driveway yesterday and my snow blower was acting funny. Had no realized that when I tried to clear the wet slush we had a few weeks ago there was something wrong with it - I thought it was just the slush was too much for the beast. Took a quick look and saw I had broken one of the sheer pins. Had never had that happen before. Fortunately I had a package of them and quickly got her back in operation. At least I am ready for more white crap if it happens now.