Gender: Male Location: al-Jumhuuriyya al-Yamaniyya
I agree.
However being able to remotely turn off the engine opens all sorts of problems. Not to mention that it seems almost certain to drive down sales of the cars that have it.
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Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
A juvenal prank.
Gender: Male Location: Still tired....still hiking.
First you lose your job so you can't pay the cable bill, then the internet bill, well.... you can live without those. You decide to miss a few car payments to buy you some time so you can at least pay the phone bill to call and follow up on some jobs you applied for. So, you finally have a few interviews and it seems like for sure you'll land a job today, but low and behold, you get in your car and it won't start. Now you are totally ****ed. If only the car started, you could have got that job and in two weeks time made your payments, but no... they had to kick you while your down. ****.
The car does not belong to the person...so why shouldn't the company who owns it be able to disable the car from a far away place?
Ofcourse tracking the car etc is what worries Civil Rights activists...and indeed most people I suppose.
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Oh come on...we both know you don't think "boring"...you think "blood-boilingly offensive" and lament the loss of the former glory and torture power of the Holy See.
Gender: Male Location: USA, Oklahoma. Pewpy balls.
Then here's reality.
You shouldn't have had a phone in the first place, nor cable, and you should have had plenty of money stashed for a dark spot, just in case you lost your job.
On top of that, you can use a "go phone" for you "communication needs".
Your house payment (including insureance, etc.) should have been less than 1/3 of your NET income, as well. (yearly, montly, weekly, doesn't matter.)
You also get a job working at ANY place that will take you...including fast food, because a little money is better than no money. Make sure the job is evening so you have time to do interviews during the day.
Don't forget to be flexible with the type of work you'll accept. Don't expect a similar job with similar pay: expect a crappier job with crappier pay.
Badda boom. Financial problem circumvented.
If all else fails, you still have your stupid brand new car that you should have saved up for and purchased with cash anyway.
BTW, I've almost lived out that scenario I listed out, above. Cept, I owned my car, had 0 debt, and just enough money to live on while I worked at Quiznos part time until I got a "real" job. This was back in da day.....when I was single and could suffer.
Gender: Male Location: Still tired....still hiking.
Exactly, this was back when you were single and actually had money TO stash away. You should have put that disclaimer at the top of your post. "Then here's reality."
Gender: Male Location: Still tired....still hiking.
I know brutha. Me too. I must say though, money is far more tight than when I was single, but at least my job has been very steady. I'm constantly looking for some freelance work on weekends, but the way things are right now it's hard to find it. I do want a bigger cushion for my family, at least more than what I do have right now, which is life insurance and a small stock portfolio.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but a more positive use that comes with such technology is for example that businesses with fleets have an additional protection against car theft, at least for now.
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Bardock42 is a whimpering pussy now who lost his flare to debate vigorously and just spouts senseless and thinly veiled puns here and there. You nazi pr*ck. Get your balls back from whoever you sold them to, you fat f*ck. What happened to the manly, chubby German big mouth we once knew, who'd flatten ignorance with a solid argument? Now it's like Andy Dick meets John Candy. You hybrid beefcake. Suck my c*ck
You are right, which is why I advised the Pentagon not to install them in their tanks and jets.
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Bardock42 is a whimpering pussy now who lost his flare to debate vigorously and just spouts senseless and thinly veiled puns here and there. You nazi pr*ck. Get your balls back from whoever you sold them to, you fat f*ck. What happened to the manly, chubby German big mouth we once knew, who'd flatten ignorance with a solid argument? Now it's like Andy Dick meets John Candy. You hybrid beefcake. Suck my c*ck
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Jun 29th, 2009 03:06 PM
That's how I look at this pathetic plot against the citizens of America. 
