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Seems like someone spent a little too much time studying the blade.

Those watches, if any of them even actually ship, are guaranteed to be straight from Aliexpress.

Compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qBbsqkSR1A

Edit: Wait, wait, wait. I thought of a better one. https://youtu.be/nQy-eJALZI0?t=143

Google Opinion Rewards app.

Unless Google Googles you. I used to use this, but I have apparently been permanently silently banned from it with no explanation and no recourse. I did nothing wrong or disingenuous as far as I can tell; It simply kept asking me – presumably based on my location – how my experience was with retailer X, Y, or Z was. Always stores which I had not visited but simply gone near, and I truthfully answered that I did not go to those places and it’d give me thirty cents or whatever, but then one day it just stopped offering me surveys at all, apparently forever.

So I guess this flags the magic Google algorithm that I am worthless as a consumer and the app no just longer does anything on any of my devices anymore. It loads, it displays, but it never presents me any surveys. It squatted there on my phone completely silent for six months, so I uninstalled it. What a crock.

Also, I’m sure they’re spying on you all the time through that app. Obviously it tracks your location, and Satan himself only knows what else it reports back to them. I think I’d give it a miss at this point. I’d rather pay $2 of real money for some app versus having Google snooping around behind me all the time just to get something for “free.”

But yeah, Torque Pro is worth it. I use it all the time. So is Alpine Quest. Those are the only two paid apps I ever use on my phone.

Consider this beehive kicked: The Eclipse was crap long before they tried to bloat it into a crossover SUV. Mitsubishi killed it by continuing to sell the things knowing damn well they had faulty sumps and oil pumps, so they’d constantly starve of oil and then explode. My sister’s Eclipse was the only car I’ve ever witnessed to melt its own radiator. I think that pointless hump in the hood was actually to have a space to contain all your cams and valves when they left the chat at highway speed.

And then, back in the day it was Mitsubishi and not Kia or Nissan who were so desperate for sales that their dealerships were instructed to finance any moron at punitive interest no matter the risk and put them in a brand new base Eclipse or, occasionally, a Galant. Bad credit? No credit? No eyesight? No pulse? No problem!

So the early 2000’s equivalent of “Big Altima Energy” was you inevitably found that any unexploded Eclipse driven by anyone who wasn’t a tuner was instead being piloted by somebody who had no business whatsoever operating a motor vehicle. Sure, that was really a problem with the drivers and not the car, but it means that to this very day every time you see one you still let out that disgruntled sigh and give it an extra couple of car lengths of room.

I await with interest my imminent crucifixion by angry Eclipse owners, now. Go on, give it to me. I am invincible!

Oh, for sure the prices will remain inflated forever. I was just gauging the longevity of trying to use this as the stated excuse.

One wonders how long greedy corporations will continue to use “the dockworker’s strike, don’t you know” as a lame excuse to jack up retail prices now. Four months? Six?

I’ve got my tricorne hat on and everything.

Right under the Tree Of Liberty.

Ah. Another sterling strategy from Donald “Neville” Trump.

Negative, unfortunately. I’ve never had a use case to mess with the option.

I found a few on github, though. I imagine any open source tools are probably… less… likely to be thinly disguised vectors to pwning your device.

The option you’re looking for is “mock location,” and it is buried in the developer options in the settings menu on your phone.

You will probably have to enable the developer options menu on your phone, which is done by tapping the build number in “about phone” five times. You will get a popup message when developer options are enabled, and then the Developer Options entry will appear under “System” (at least on recent Android versions) in your settings menu.

Note that this is not a complete solution. You still need a mock location app, which you will give permission via this screen to override your phone’s reported GPS location.

I can only conjecture it must have cost a mint.

Crikey. I have to wonder what that ~2TB unit must have cost in 2016.

Interesting that the one has such large capacitors in it. I imagine that is as last-ditch effort to keep the board powered long enough to finish flushing all of its caches in the event of a power failure.

I mean, from a legal standpoint, sure.

But realistically, given that she’s currently the sitting vice president, the odds of her actually being in the campaign office versus being in the White House or at a meeting somewhere on on a jet or giving a speech or elsewhere on the campaign trail are, including many decimal places, zero.

I also don’t expect anyone dumb enough to actually try shooting at the campaign office to know that, though.

That also doesn’t preclude anyone else from being in the office.

Functionally, there really isn’t. The only reason it still exists at all is because “tradition.”

What hydrogen cars?

The sum total of Toyota and whoever else’s efforts still amount to an inconsequential fraction of the vehicles currently in operation, probably not even a notable portion of a percentage point.

In its current form, anyway. I don’t really have a problem with it if it’s employed in its original intended method, i.e. the senator in question actually has to keep talking and cannot yield the floor for the entirety of the amount of time he wants to block something. And preferably, we put him in TV in real-time while he’s doing it. Under very bright lights.

The way it works now where anyone can just say, “We declare filibuster” serves no purpose other than to allow whoever is in the minority (but let’s not kid ourselves, usually Republicans) to infinitely block anything forever without consequences, which is prima facie undemocratic.

Puerto Rico?

It’s positively inführeating.