LarryT wrote:
You wrote turning away a very sick person because
of insurance issues is not a mistake it's capitalism at it's worst
Actually, it's illegal - signs are posted openly throughout the hospital
- near ER, REception, on every floor in hallways - etc - only a blind
person would
Here in snowy Michigan, it hit 60F yesterday. Now the winds seem to be
about 60mph this morning.
Hopefully some of that melted snow dries up, my gravel driveway was
turning to porridge.
Mitch
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Robert Rentfro wrote:
I have NEVER had a visor go bad on any of the MBs I've owned.
Furthermore, this is on my '05 E320!
I suppose you could file a NHTSA safety failure complaint if you feel
that strongly about it.
Mitch.
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I just might. Even though it seems most on the list think I'm nuts and I
need to quit whining and buy a new visor.
Bob R
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Temp got all the way down to ~55F here last night; 'sposed to go ~75F today.
My nearly showroom 124 (110 kmi) hasn't been started since yesterday; should
I check it for plenty of Mobil 1, check the battery ground, glow it twice,
keep the tires at 35 psi or just replace the fuses anyway, 'cause
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Here in snowy Michigan, it hit 60F yesterday. Now the winds seem to be about
60mph this morning.
Hopefully some of that melted snow dries up, my gravel driveway was turning
to porridge.
Same situation here in NW Oregon. The
Wilton Strickland wrote:
Temp got all the way down to ~55F here last night; 'sposed to go ~75F today
Huh? Temp or windchill?
We had gusts to 60mph with temps around freezing this morning in MI.
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It seems than at Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:53:33 -0500, Mitch wrote:
Wilton Strickland wrote:
Temp got all the way down to ~55F here last night; 'sposed
to go ~75F today
Huh? Temp or windchill?
We had gusts to 60mph with temps around freezing this morning
in MI.
I think that's a tildi, not
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Ed eloquently stated:
...the
dealers always seemed to go out of their way to keep their customers happy,
and their cars in top shape. Condition and numbers of older cars on the
road are pretty good advertising for a company I would think, and speak
volumes about a companies product.
AND
These
Anyone have a working transmission for an '87 300TD that they want to sell?
Thanks,
Chris
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Nope, sez I,
I'm just going around randomly fixing broken down cars He Just looked at
me and drove off about 100 yards and parked and glared at me for the rest of
the time I was there.
Here's your sign. Quote from Bill Engvall
Rick Knoble
'85 300 CD
'87 190 DT
Yeah, I know. I lived in the MI UP for four years. That's why I couldn't
resist mentioning the 75F. ;) Oh, and -85F chill in Greenland.
Wilton
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I thought of the same thing.
Bob R
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Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 11:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] First Time Stranded...Ever
Nope, sez I,
Yeah, that's an about, not a minus.
Wilton
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Decisions, decisions
It seems than at Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:53:33 -0500, Mitch
the
least bit damp outdoors is giving me the old car blues.
Guess I'll be heading up to the mall soon.
Bob R.
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Curt told me to D/L Mepis 7.
Did that, wrote the ISO to a disk, and when I try to boot from it, I get
to Loading Stage 2... and it sits there forever with no CD or hard
drive activity.
Mitch.
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The boy says the accel pedal detached from the accel rod/bar thingie,
appears that some little plastic slider thingie on the back of the pedal
has broken so it no longer attaches to the rod and slides.. Does one
have to buy a new pedal with a not-broken plastic thingie, or can one
buy a
How many die because of access to medical treatment?
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Buying freeze is back on, just
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Mitch wrote:
Curt told me to D/L Mepis 7.
Did that, wrote the ISO to a disk, and when I try to boot from
it, I get to Loading Stage 2... and it sits there forever
with no CD or hard drive activity.
Sounds like a bad disk or image.
stage2 is the second step of GRUB, the Grand Unified Boot
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Well I don't know if BMW dealers would fall over themselves to fix cars
that are out of warranty, for nix.
Me thinks the days of the customer being King/Queen are long gone,
remember wallets on legs.
However I can see Robert's point of view, a visor should not fail after
3 years and Mercedes
I have found that people working in the security industry are a
particularly humorless bunch.
Must be just that is the type that is attracted to that type of work.
Ordinarly the conversation should have gone something like this:
Rent a cop: ow ya going mate?
Bob: not too bad mate but the old
I have one for a SDL, which is the same except you have to swap the back
plate for the speedo pickup.
Christopher McCann wrote:
Anyone have a working transmission for an '87 300TD that they want to sell?
Thanks,
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you have to buy a new pedal, quite common problem.
Rich Thomas wrote:
The boy says the accel pedal detached from the accel rod/bar thingie,
appears that some little plastic slider thingie on the back of the pedal
has broken so it no longer attaches to the rod and slides.. Does one
have to
I just may shoot a letter to Deutschland. Certainly can't hurt anything.
Bob R.
Annoyed
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On Behalf Of Hendrik Fay
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 3:38 PM
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And the knucklehead I spoke to was armed with a taster, bless his heart.
We are not a very civilized bunch anymore.
Bob R
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What's the low down on that tranny...number of miles, did you drive drive it
before pulling it? Any known issues?
Thanks!
Chris
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] ISO '87 300TD tranny
To:
Rich,
99% certain I can get one at the U-Pick-It on Saturday...which is where I got
mine when my original pedal broke. Let me know. (You pay for pedal and shipping
- I've been Santa enough lately!)
-Chris
'85 300SD 241K mi/'92 Dodge B-350 Ram Wagon/'82 VW Vanagon Diesel 229K mi/'75
240D/'80
What? No machine gun or a least a high caliber hand gun, must be that
financial crisis thingy.
That's the problem, you give a jerk a uniform and weapon and you end up
with a bigger jerk.
These people should really do a course on people skills.
Hendrik
who has a little dog sitting next to him
I don't remember the numbers, and Don;t know if they are true, but
there is the story going around the Internet that states that X number
of people are killed by guns each year, and Y number are killed by
doctors, where XY, so doctors are more dangerous than guns.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 3:16 PM,
For those who are interested, I found one of the visors that extends to
cover the area that the standard visor on my 300SD wouldn't block. I think
it was out of an 87 SDL, but don't really recall. A perfect match
color-wise, but I had to do a bit of angling of the screw to get it to go
in. As
So, why wasn't Gregory Knox running for office?
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
There was lots of discussion on this topic a coupla weeks ago, I got this
from someone else, seems a point/counterpoint.
--R
A letter from GM and a
Well it may make you feel a bit better but it would be a waste of time,
the dealer says screw you, MBUSA say we stand by the dealer and
Daimler will say we stand by MBUSA.
In the scheme of things you are nobody to them, there seems to be a
mentality of we can afford to loose a few customers as
I found the stat somewhere but have lost the source. Supposedly the average
doctor kills something like 3.6 patients during the entire span of his
career.
Even if the doctor stat is over stated 10X and it's probably not then the
average gun owner kills considerably less during his career.
This
In my limited, non-scientific experience, I'd rate the number of
doctors and hand gun owners about equal in those that I do NOT feel
safe around. There a re good an bad examples of each. Some people just
can't be trusted, regardless of whether they have a SW or an MD.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:10
I have real issues with letters like these, particularly when they mis-state
facts.
For example, he compares:
The K car vs. the Accord?
The Pinto vs. the Civic?
The K car was early 80's and during the K-car release, Honda was building
pieces of crap. They were so bad that some mechanics
And remember, this is a visor in a 4 year old car!
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
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Or a butcher knife, or a baseball bat, or behind the wheel of a car
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
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Good thing it's not the break petal, just a broken petal of another kind. I
had to get one for my 'SD last year.
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
1983 300SD 267Kmi, ursula
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Are they regaining the title? The last quality rating I saw didn't
have a single MB listed (don't remember what it was though).
I'm happy to see Mercedes is regaining the title of best cars in the world
again, with their current newer models.
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dyndns.org(com?). Seems like an easy route to follow, so ther has to
be a 'gotcha'.
Don't have a domain name yet either --- but think it's time to put up
a server for
Update - ended up buying the Nikon D700 fro Amazon at $300 less than
any of the other stores (official US import even). It's an impressive
piece of equipment. It works every bit as good as I had hoped it would
for copying slides and negatives on the copy stand, with the exception
of the lack of a
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Fmiser wrote:
I would try verifying the ISO (MD5 or something like that),
and/or burn another disk.
Alltel throttled me on the download, so it took me six hours, and I'm
not eager to do it again.
I had my burner set to verify the write, and it didn't show any errors.
There was a txt for a
I downloaded a MD5 checksum program, the iso is fine.
I'll try burning another copy.
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There was a txt for a checksum on the mirror site, but I didn't know how
to run the checksum on the iso.
Either:
md5sum file.iso
or
sha1sum file.iso
Craig
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Use Dyndns. If you search on cnet, they also have a utility that runs in the
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Just got a D60 for Christmas... cant wait to take it out of the box.
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