Yea. I'd be as likely to figure out that holding the start key down would turn off the engine as I would try to twist the key all the way down to the starter engage position to turn of the engine.
I've driven several vehicles with starter buttons. Hitting a starter button at a high rate of speed would wreck the engine and perhaps cause an accident.
Many years ago, when I was driving old junkers, I had the throttle return spring break on one of them - so I put my foot on the clutch pedal (it was a stick shift), turned off the ignition using the key and put the gearbox in to neutral.
Note that nobody had ever told me what to do when the throttle return spring breaks - it was FUCKING OBVIOUS what t the right thing to do was.
Yes, gramps. You do know that is not applicable at all to a fly by wire car like the prius?
why couldn't you fix it? with all your high falutin logic and all.
I play dumb as a box of rocks about anything outside of my programming.
You don't get any credit for doing stuff outside of what you were hired for, and if you screw up helping out outside your job description, people will turn on you like wolves.
It gets better. During lunch one of the bosses comes down and put one of his family's notebooks on a programmers chair. "It's got some viruses or something on it." he says.
So while the .NET guy is trying to fix a minor disaster on the website, it's decided to tell buyers they can't buy something when they can, he has the notebook beside him so he can work on it too.
1) The saying is "The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math."
2) The saying isn't always true. In CA, it is statistically favorable to play the Lotto when the net jackpot (present value, after taxes) exceeds $41.4 million. This only happens rarely, but it does happen.
What the hell do you mean "Statistically favorable"? It's still more likely I'll get struck by lightening than my five bucks will win the jackpot.
Some chicks go as far as fishing your used condom out of the garbage, and pouring the jizz into their cooter.
Always thought it would be a great troll to fuck a chick like that, but leave a condom full of Negro jizz in the garbage. Won't she be surprised in 9 months!
The problem with that plan is finding the condom full of Negro jizz.
Well, first you find a negro, and take off his pants.
We should never have entered the war. We should have made peace with the Third Reich but have defeated Japan. Let the Nazis occupy France indefinitely. It's not like the French really gave a shit.
Well, obviously the Soviets would have ended up with France.
But the French did care. They were very upset when America and Britain violated the treaties and refused to help stop the German invasion.
You can't allow an ally to get conquered without firing a weapon to help, and then dawdle in four or five years later and expect them to be particularly grateful.
YAH! HE'S TOTALLY RIGHT! AND THE AMERICANS ALSO RAPED FRENCH POODLES. HOWARD ZINN SAID SO. HOOOWWWWAAAARRD ZINN!
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I don't suppose there's anyway I can convince you that our policy of destroying French villages to prevent Germans from taking cover in them might have upset the French who lost their homes, businesses, and families?
Zathrus: a couple of years ago, during the IP trap wars, it was repeatedly shown that you were working from a DSL line that was coming from your own home. Yet on the board you said that you were at some big company doing important work.
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I do accounting programs for a small company. I would never claim to be doing important work for a big company.