The article says more clearly “2.7 billion records with Social Security numbers.” The author goes on to say he found 4 records with a friend’s data but in those 4 records were 3 different SSNs. He called the friend and confirmed that one of them was his actual SSN. I guess someone was auto-linking names and SSNs for ID theft purposes and getting it wrong sometimes.
Same. I started to like him when he appeared on David Letterman a lot. He seemed genuine and funny. I learned more about him some years ago when he dropped out of public life. People were worried and thought he was being held hostage or died. It was very weird.
Turns out he was doing great and died in 2024, possibly while dressed as Barbara Striesand*. We should all be so lucky.
*(Wikipedia says he did a social media post with a photo dressed as Barbara Striesand and was found dead minutes later.)
I think of the method this guy used as “The Sarah Palin method” because she once did a news interview while people were killing turkeys in the background that way.
Christians should show they’re not the antichrist by getting “Nero,” which is Greek for “not the beast” tattooed on their forehead
What if it’s a torx instead? People have to buy torx bits to work on their car.
I don’t see how it could be effective. The brand specific things I mentioned are almost identical and none of them stop people from repairing their car. The BMW design is simpler than the ones I mentioned. A flat screwdriver with a gap cut down the middle would work.
I don’t really know. I purposely picked the things I mentioned because they’re similar to the BMW bolt, but the tools required are cheap and simple for all of them.
Part of my point was that there are other, more complicated and more expensive tools that are brand specific too. I think a lot of it is really just the nature of the beast. Brands do thiings differently, so a special shaped tool to get into the nook and cranny of a certain car won’t work on a different brand that has different nooks and crannys. And you can substitute “brand” with “engine,” “model,” or even “year.”
“specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.”
Give me a break.
I hate to break it to people but every manufacturer has a lot of brand specific tools. You need a special socket for Toyota head bolts, 10 point sockets for Honda suspensions, a special multipoint socket for Audis, a special socket for Mercedes lug nuts and it’s good to have a 21.5mm for Fords. 5 point security torx are starting to pop up on GMs.
That’s just an example of a few sockets, the deeper you go into a car, the higher the possibility that you need a $400 special tool or kit for a specific manufacturer, or even specific year or engine.
An auto rotation isn’t a crash. An auto rotation can end up as one but usually looks like a normal landing
What kind of car were they in? They haven’t made dome lights that big in cars since 8 tracks
Naked Space, a.k.a. The Creature Wasn’t Nice. A terrible Leslie Nielson spoof movie from 1981 that looks like it was shot in a weekend for $500, but it’s funny to a point and has some good lines.
I’ve never worked in an office, what does a marketing job entail that is so physically draining?
I used to watch a lot of British comedy but never really watched any that aren’t highly rated. The only two that come to mind are Man Stroke Woman and Green Wing
I like some of the stories in the Bible but it’s still pretty hard to read. I don’t know why, I don’t have that problem with other, even older writings. There is nothing confusing about the Enuma Elish, for example. I think the Epic of Gilgamesh is freaking great.
But when the Bible steals a story told in the Epic of Gilgamesh and makes it Noah’s flood, it loses all meaning. The original wasn’t all that exciting to begin with but there was a deep meaning to it being in the Epic. But in the Bible, what is the meaning? What’s the moral to the story? It just doesn’t work.
And a whole tree is ground down for one toothpick
I found this which confirms it’s for adjusting the controls before getting in. I think this one in particular didn’t have people with disabilities in mind and is a poor execution all around.
I don’t doubt this may be the purpose but the execution looks bad. It may be an illusion but it seems a little far away from the water controls, you’d have to go past elbow deep. The toilet is definitely in the way. You can’t get to it with a wheelchair or while standing, you have to be sitting on the toilet.
I don’t see how you could get enough reliability to do either from any distance.
Big tires don’t really help for that though, and lifts like that often have a tighter suspension and a rougher ride. The vehicle you want to drive fast over bumps would be some kind of luxury car that puts a lot of emphasis on having a smooth ride.