Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<< Well, since California has outlawed many things, I'm not sure California is a good sampler >>> CA outlaws stuff to give their lawyers plenty of stuff to help people sue over.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger >>LOL. That's classic. Come on, people.....a quadruple burger?? That thing's gotta be 8-10" tall. Yea, you might as well smoke a pack after that, it won't matter, you'll be dead in a few years anyway. Back in HS, we used to eat Wendy's triple-burgers, but they weren't anywhere near as big as that. << Oh, perhaps you haven't seen... <a href="http://whatupwilly.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-n-out-100x100.html" target="_blank">http://whatupwilly.blogspot.co m/2006/01/in-n-out-100x100.html</a>
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Well there is one extended warranty that I did purchase. It was on my wife's New Beetle Convertible. It is out of warranty and the convertible top is about to get fully replaced for the second time, free to us. They have a real engineering issue and I really don't see a fix, other than lifetime tops for us. Not only that, it's a 2003 Turbo, and it only has 22K miles on it. Our warranty runs to 100K, but with each replacement we get one year or 12K miles regardless of warranty now that it's been done once...well twice.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF >>I've not seen people doing this at Starbucks. Has anyone else?<< In San Francisco, go to the Starbucks at 18th and Castro Street. (That said, I love Starbucks. It's much better than the two local chains -- Caribou Coffee and Dunn Bros. -- we have in Minnesota.)
Originally Posted By onlyme Oh, for Gods sake, CT, that looks like a vomit roll. Sorry, I mean, I love cheeseburgers, but... Re: California smoking laws(I live in Fresno, btw); you can now smoke in the closet of your basement, or like many, build yourself a Subterranean room, similar to a bomb shelter, where you can go and enjoy a vice that you, as an adult, have decided to engage in. j/k Actually, I am surprised to see that the HP Pavilion allows smoking.....outside the back door, but still, I was surprised. sorry to be so off-topic.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Well, since California has outlawed many things, I'm not sure California is a good sampler. If you donb't like Arizona, I'll offer up Nevada and Illinois. Smokers galore in both places.>> Arizona has a relatively low percentage of smokers. Both Nevada and Illinois have a bunch though. Below is a list of the % of people who smoke by state, ordered by fewest smokers to most. An interesting thing I noticed is that of the highest smoking states, 10 of 10 are Red States. Of the lowest smoking states, 7 of 10 are Blue States. Just thought you'd want to know. 1 Utah 10.4 2 California 14.7 3 Hawaii 17.2 4 Idaho 17.4 5 Connecticut 18 6 Massachusetts 18.4 7 Arizona 18.5 8 New Jersey 18.8 9 Washington 19.2 10 Maryland 19.5 11 Kansas 19.8 11 North Dakota 19.8 13 Georgia 19.9 13 New York 19.9 13 Vermont 19.9 13 Colorado 20 13 Oregon 20 18 Florida 20.2 18 Nebraska 20.2 20 New Mexico 20.3 20 South Dakota 20.3 20 Montana 20.4 20 Texas 20.4 24 Minnesota 20.7 25 Iowa 20.8 25 Virginia 20.8 27 Maine 20.9 28 Rhode Island 21.3 29 New Hampshire 21.6 29 Wyoming 21.7 31 Wisconsin 21.9 32 Illinois 22.2 33 Pennsylvania 22.7 34 North Carolina 23.1 35 Michigan 23.2 35 Nevada 23.2 37 Louisiana 23.5 38 Missouri 24 39 Delaware 24.3 39 South Carolina 24.3 41 Mississippi 24.5 42 Alabama 24.8 42 Alaska 24.8 42 Indiana 24.8 45 Arkansas 25.5 46 Ohio 5.8 47 Oklahoma 26 48 Tennessee 26.1 49 West Virginia 26.8 50 Kentucky 27.5 Source: <a href="http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/shr2005/components/smoking.html" target="_blank">http://www.unitedhealthfoundat ion.org/shr2005/components/smoking.html</a>
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Re: extended warranties. If I buy a $2000 computer that has a one-year warranty, I'm sorry, but I buy the extended version that takes me in to years 2 and 3. Maybe I'm an idiot, or not looking at the small print, but comp. repairs can be quite costly, and it's worth it to me. << But the payback is poor. Say you spend $300 on an extended warranty. But if the probability of an average repair bill of $500 is only 20%, then you are overpaying $200 dollas for the warranty, which is why they are such gravy trains for the stores that sell them. Of course, the payback for any insurance is poor (insurers need to make a profit after all). Which is why I only buy insurance to cover catastrophes. For instance, I have a term life insurance policy that expires this year. I spent about $9000 on that policy over its 15 year span. Since I didn't die (the probability was very low as I was very young when I took out the policy) its money that went down the drain. But I needed the coverage for my family in the unlikely event that I died prematurely. But if the hard drive crashes on my PC it won't be the end of the world (unless I didn't back up my data), I'll merely be out something like $100-200.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Well there is one extended warranty that I did purchase. It was on my wife's New Beetle Convertible.<< I recall a remark in Consumer Reports: Why buy a car (make/model) that needs an extended warranty? But I suppose that if you just have to have a Mexican built VW (assembled with indifference in Puebla), then the extended Warranty might make sense.
Originally Posted By fkurucz And don't get me wrong, I like VW's. But I would never buy one that was built in Puebla.
Originally Posted By hopemax The only extended warranty we have purchased was for our iPod at CompUSA. The battery problem with the earlier models was already known, and yep, we ran into it. So about a month before the warranty was set to expire, DH took it in and they gave him a new one (which was a new model, and 5 more GB) so it was worth it.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Arizona has a relatively low percentage of smokers. Both Nevada and Illinois have a bunch though." I beg to differ about Arizona. Mucho smoking everywhere I went. And it seems everyone under 30 has multiple tattoos and piercings.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <And it seems everyone under 30 has multiple tattoos and piercings.> Arizona here we come!!!
Originally Posted By jonvn 14.7% in CA? and around here, it's much lower still. Here is 20x20 at in n out: <a href="http://321stars.com/20x20.jpg" target="_blank">http://321stars.com/20x20.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By jonvn Actually, that's nothing! Here is a 100x100: <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/113/2202/1024/Halloween2004" target="_blank">http://photos1.blogger.com/img /113/2202/1024/Halloween2004</a>%20086b.jpg
Originally Posted By jonvn Oh dear....I'm so out of it sometimes. I am looking for the pics of the kid who ate the 20x20 by himself. Can't seem to find it...
