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Can you disable “find my car” for when you don’t want to be “found?” Just asking …

I’d rather NOT have my car phone home every few seconds — would it still operate if you disconnected the 3g antenna?

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Can =/= should.

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The center console in cars is an artifact of a transmission and/or exhaust hump. Tesla Model S doesn’t have one — personally, with the width of the Model S, I’d just as soon have a 3-person bench seat in front, sculpted as buckets on the left and right sides.

I like the straight-across dash. Reminds me of my uncle’s old Citroen DS 🙂

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The real question is “why was the Obamacare law written in such a fucking boneheadedly stupid fashion?”

Instead of making subsidies end at 400% of FPL, they should have gradually tapered subsidies to zero depending on family income, number of dependents, etc

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Assuming that government revenue stays approximately constant, maybe the subsidy dollars will be taken from somewhere else so that EVERY American ends up a winner.

There’s a lot of fat to be trimmed in law enforcement, imprisonment, and defense, and US lawmakers are slowly starting to see reason on those matters. (Drug law reform, sentencing reform, reluctance to unilaterally attack Syria, etc)

If we didn’t spend so much on death and violence, we’d have more money to spend on life, education, research, and infrastructure. We’re finally waking up to this fact, 33 years after Ronnie Ray-Gun graced the White House with his presence.

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I’m confused. You said that most companies offer spousal coverage, yet the employee has to pay it out of pocket anyway (at a lower rate than an individual plan, though).

So the exchanges will essentially extend this to families where one parent is self-employed and the other is a homemaker or part-timer. It doesn’t sound like it will discriminate based on gender either, since the exchanges will be available to all who aren’t covered by an employer.

Isn’t this a good thing? And yes, I think that two-parent families, with both parents in total working less than two shifts should be encouraged. It’s good for the kids, and with unemployment being high as it is, taking some people out of the workforce voluntarily would help spread the wealth.

Sort of offering people on an overbooked flight a $500 voucher if they take the next plane 🙂

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And everytime I see one I ask myself why there is a grille on the front …. (Or anywhere on the car for that matter).

Believe it or not, power electronics generate quite a bit of heat that needs to go somewhere. Plus intake for front brake cooling, HVAC blower, you get the idea.

It may not need to be as large as it is, but an air intake is definitely needed.

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Why do you even need an SUV in San Diego — doesn’t the Model S sit seven people in a pinch?

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Bearishgurl, so you’re saying that people should be forced into having two-working-parent families by overly high insurance premiums?

Remember that child-care is ALSO expensive. If this enables more families to have only one breadwinner (or causes families to have both parents working less than full time), this can only be a good thing. Americans work too much, too hard as it is. We should be more like the French.

(The economic problems in France come from other sources, like the difficulty of firing bad employees.)

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Hah, boss, I have insurance now WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.

Buh-bye, have a nice life, hope a bus doesn’t hit you!!!!!

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I personally hope that we’ll move to ONLY exchanges within ten years, meaning that insurance will end up 100% divorced from employment status, whom you retired from, etc. Insurance being tied to employment is a historical mistake (it was an end-run around WW II-era wage freezes) that should be corrected ASAP.

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I rode with a pro a few times and he said we were doing 32 on a slight uphill approaching Ramona from Lakeside( We came back through wild cat canyon)

Either you had come off a downhill, he was pulling your … leg, or it was 32 “Canoock miles” per hour.

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Tell them to take the marketing fee out of your deposit, return the balance, and get them to sign something that payment was received in full and that you will be responsible for no further charges stemming from the rental of the unit at 543 Goatrunner Lane, Oceancity, CA 92563.

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I don’t think 30 miles in a hour is pro level on a spin bike? I think they would be doing 40 o rmore?

Most exercise bikes have different resistance settings — it would just depend on what the bike is set to do, no?

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Unless you’re in his head, how would you know? Come on.

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