Pish posh, I'm VERY hard on stuff and I've had my Motorola i60 (flip phone) for 3 years, to the point where the "Motorola" is wearing off of it and its still fine, its on my hip all day every work day and nearly 24 hours every other week when I'm on call. Its gone from Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada to Mountain View California and back twice in 2 weeks and as far south as Miami, Florida north to Minniapolis, MN, north west to Boise, ID. You get the idea, for awhile I traveled alot. In the 3 years I've broken the carrier several times, used to super glue it back together until I lost the spring, got a new carrier last winter and I've been good since then. My wife has a Nokia, again bottom of the line, its not a flip phone and she's been very happy with it. I'm trying to remember when she got the current one, I'm thinking its been just over a year. She had her previous Nokia something like 5 or 6 years, it was a workhorse, she lost it hence the new phone. Both Nokia's get excellent reception, better than my Motorola. In fact now that I think of it the old Nokia fell off my hip once while I was driving the Super M tractor, it survived passing under the bushhog. My wife found it AFTER I drove over it with the big rear tire on the next pass... That was a good phone. -Curt Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:46:15 -0400 From: "LarryT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Corporate Scams - was OT 500 PPM low sulphur .. To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original
Well, if we're gonna talk about corporate scams might as well mention my latest pet peeve - cell phones - they're made so fragile that a insurance policy to keep it maintained is almost mandatory - it's impossible to get a simple cell phone - I have to use Verizon because they have consistant coverage so my wife can call during her 50 mil trip home/to work - our 2 year agreement was over and we renewed and needed new phones because the old ones were falling apart. Tried to find a one piece (that doesn't flip open) without a camera and they don't carry any. I think their tactic is to sell a phone that needs expensive maintanence/insurance policy to keep it working. Yep, I'm paranoid. Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs Porsche Road Test http://members.rennlist.com/roadtest/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 07 16:05:46 2006 Received: from wmail-1.airmail.net ([209.196.70.86]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fyspu-0007ue-4t for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:05:46 +0000 Received: from [64.0.172.2] (helo=Verity0531) by wmail-1.airmail.net with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) id 1Fyspm-000GdU-HC for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:05:38 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "George Larribeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:05:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] [Bulk] Re: OT 500 PPM low sulphur .. X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: </pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:05:47 -0000 "What is Good for General Motors, is Good for America" ..... .... Unsafe at > any Speed, Ralph Nader book, made the public aware of know auto design > which will cause death in a crash .... I have read unsafe at any speed. I always wanted a Corvair with a custom license plate 'NADER' however that plate is/was on a Corvair that belonged to an employee of the DMV in San Francisco. Unsafe at any speed dealt with a lot of cars / designs besides GM products. One of the books biggest points was swing axel rear suspension. VW, Renault, Corvair (changed in 1965 to a 'Vet type of multi link thing'). Granted a Corvair had 'issues' The heater could leak exhaust gasses rather easily. VW changed to what is referred to as 'the clean air heater' in 63?. As safety goes.. I don't think a 62 Ford Falcone is much better that a 62 Corvair. My 1970 280SE had a swing axel rear suspension . I loved that car Remember, its not the Nut on the Wheel, Its the Nut behind it. George Larribeau Dallas, Texas 1985 300SD 190K
