Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Cass - May 04, 2013 3:50:31 pm PDT #21532 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I have succeeded in achieving no litterboxes on the first floor. Hopefully, I can get it down to just one upstairs, since I don't currently have any protest poopers, that I know of, but proceeding slowly.

Nice!

I have two boxes and one cat but she's had zero litterbox issues here and they're side-by-side (one World's Best and one non-clumping clay) so we're keeping them.

It is so smoky outside. If this is one of the fires I know about, it's very bad. If it's one I don't know about, it's also bad because our fire crews are already spread way too thin battling awful conditions.


§ ita § - May 04, 2013 4:05:00 pm PDT #21533 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So by your tally, ND, one company has killed the key. I still feel comfortable that although the key will not survive, the steering wheel is just making it look like less of an outlier by virtue of utter confusion. It's not dying like the CD player is dying (and I think it's easy to over-estimate the number of people who are handy with non-CD music purchasing--my parents will likely drive keyless cars before they play MP3s in a car without extensive lessons--they don't own MP3s anywhere, on anything, right now). If Prius is the only company that doesn't have a shove something in and turn it option anywhere on the menu, we're not that far along. Everyone knows Priuses are spaceships with wheels.


NoiseDesign - May 04, 2013 4:15:56 pm PDT #21534 of 30001
Our wings are not tired

It would be interesting to see what the take up rate is on the keyless option on cars that offer it. I know that most of the Focus and Fiesta models I have had as loaners have it. I believe only the absolute base model uses a key.


§ ita § - May 04, 2013 4:19:32 pm PDT #21535 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I also wonder what percentage of models offer it. Jetta's my go to calibration, and it seems to have been an option since 2012.


tommyrot - May 04, 2013 4:35:27 pm PDT #21536 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The Tesla Model S only comes keyless, I think.

eta:

I love my keyless Focus. But once I rented a keyed Focus and every time I got in I would try to press the nonexistent Start button


sarameg - May 04, 2013 4:45:08 pm PDT #21537 of 30001

My car still has only a tape deck. I no longer have any tapes.

I know I'm in for a real shock when I have to replace this car. Which, I should start test driving things, so I'm not completely clueless. I know me. I will not preemptively replace said car before I hit a repair estimate that leads me to replace it. Which will mean a rental while I shop. Would be so much better if I had an idea what I wanted to replace it with. Things have changed quite a bit in the last 13 years (well, 16, if you count the car vintage.) Moreso than what had changed from '88-2000 (I bought my '88 sentra in 95 or so?)


DavidS - May 04, 2013 4:47:08 pm PDT #21538 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

For those who watched the Kentucky Derby today, Laura Hillenbrand picked Orb to win, which he did. She noted that he was bred by the Phipps family who also bred Seabiscuit, and is partly owned by the Janney family, who owned "the mighty, ill-fated Ruffian. He runs in Ruffian's silks."


Connie Neil - May 04, 2013 4:54:37 pm PDT #21539 of 30001
brillig

"the mighty, ill-fated Ruffian. He runs in Ruffian's silks."

Oh, I remember when she died.


sarameg - May 04, 2013 5:01:08 pm PDT #21540 of 30001

Clean toilet. Tub scrubbed. Tomorrow involves moving the bed to de-Devify the carpet underneath. Uhg. (I do it a couplethree times a year anyway. This time, there might be crying, though.)


Typo Boy - May 04, 2013 5:07:41 pm PDT #21541 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

What about steering wheels though? What do cars without steering wheels use? Joysticks?