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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
Here I am at my driver's ed course, on my instructor's iMac, "Big Mac" *L*. Honestly, I don't know what everyone has against these Macs. If you ask me, IBMs are far worse. This iMac is actually pretty nifty. And it's blue!

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
 
Speaking of Driver's Ed...I should probably sign up for that this year. But all those damn Grade 10's will be in it. Greasy Grade 10's.

I guess that's what I get for being lazy, and waiting until Grade 12.

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :
 
I'm in it right now, and all the do is show gory films of car accidents. Signal 44, Death on the Highway, The Valvoline Driver Education Video, Room to Live ... all cult classics.

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Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.

Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com

"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."

Tolstoy, on a more objective note.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
Geez, what kind of driver's ed courses do you guys have? This one is fun. Hardly any videos

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :
 
USC has a ton of iMacs on campus. All I care to say is, to someone who's used to Windows and more than one mouse button, Macs are like new shoes. And you can't expand the web browser to full-screen, which was annoying.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
 
Driver's Ed? Gosh, I feel old. And I'm not! So cut it out. Sheesh, kids.

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :
 
No kidding, I took that 9 years ago. I feel old now too. You darn wipper-snappers!

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
 
HAH! I mock you people who have not yet received a liscence! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Drivers ed sucks big time, lucky you. hehehehe

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
 

LOOK OUT FOR THAT TRUCK!!!!!

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :
 
Our Computer Information Technology department just rid of the Mac lab here at our University. Apparantly, the problems of lack of use and crashing software did it in. Re-installing the MacOS every two weeks on half the computers just wasn't fun for anyone over here.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
I never took driver's ed at all...

If you get rid of the Mac keyboard, the Mac mouse, MacOS, and the goofy look, iMacs run fairly well... :-)

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
 
"you can't expand the web browser to full-screen"

Yes, my dear Ziyal USC woman...you sure can.

Down on the bottom right of the browser window is what Mac calls the window shade thingie. Not to technical I know. But just click-hold-and drag that sucker and you can resize the browswer to whatever size you want!!

As far as the double mouse thingie goes, you can get Mac mice / mouses / meeses with multiple buttons. I rather prefer multiple buttons...but lacking any on you Mac, just hold that mouse button down for a bit and that serves to do generally what the second Generic IBM PC clone button would do. I.e. for saving a picture to your disk from a browswer, click and hold and you get a nifty pull down!

Sure, you may have asked some Trojan computer person for help but they ain't very nice unless you tip them. Besides UCLA is a better. Costs less too.

Oh, the Mac is such a good machine.
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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
 
I took it a few years ago and never got to see those blood and guts movies!

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
Well, Tim, if I don't take driver's ed, it'll cost about $3600 for insurance.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Hm... I guess my insurance company doesn't care about that. I learned how to drive from my parents for less than two months and then got my license. Just barely passed, but I still got it... :-)

BTW, that was a year ago. I drive much better now, so I'm not as much of a menace to society as you may think. Not in that context, anyway...

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
I have to have my permit for 4 months before I can get my licence.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :
 
Drivers Ed? Schools run that? *scary*.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Well, I was actually on my third permit at the time. I kept getting them, but I never bothered to actually learn to drive 'til a couple months before I started college, and I decided I ought to... :-)

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
Daryus: Schools don't teach driver's ed. It's a company called Triple C that holds courses.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
 
Mine's through school...I think. I haven't taken it, but I'm sure it is.

So, I'm not the only person in the history of the world who hasn't gotten a liscense by 17? Well, that's a pseudo-relief, now I don't feel so loser-ish.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
Pah. We get a scary old person who sits next to us, tells us we're doing everything wrong, then takes �12 after an hour.

It's like a really bad form of prostitution. Without the sex. But still with a lot of red faces and heavy breathing. And a little embarrassment too.

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :
 
Jay: Yeah, UCLA's cheap. Cheap gets you the overcrowding of a beehive and a student-teacher ratio of 750:1. Besides, I got financial aid.

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :
 
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It's like a really bad form of prostitution. Without the sex. But still with a lot of red faces and heavy breathing. And a little embarrassment too.

LOL.
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Today we saw a film that made the whole class cry. 'Cept me, iron nerve me. It was about the sickest thing I've ever seen too.

At the beginning of the film, a man comes on in an office saying "we're going to scare you into becoming a better driver. Not only will you see death, and those dying on the pavement after an auto accident, you will hear it. The moaning and groaning of pain."

To say the very least, it wasn't ketchup everywhere either.

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Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.

Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com

"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."

Tolstoy, on a more objective note.

 


Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
 
That really shows the sad state of society today. Instead of helping a victim of an automobile accident, passerby quickly remove their camcorders and sell the footage to the highest bidder. I mean, shouldn't somebody have helped these guys writhing in their their death throes trapped inside a Dodge Caravan?

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
 
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It's like a really bad form of prostitution. Without the sex. But still with a lot of red faces and heavy breathing. And a little embarrassment too.

They still fuck you over though and make you pay for it.

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :
 
LOL

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
 
Ziyal:

as the saying goes "Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be Trojans."

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
Er, is that a real saying, or is it actually from Jerry Springer?

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
 
It's taken from an old country song that goes 'Mamas, don't let your children to cowboys.'

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
 
4 months? its 6 months in PA, of course, I missed the daeadline, yay.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
 
I got my license a few years ago. My parents used to rib me on how I drive. SHEEEESH.

Kids today CAN NOT DRIVE. A rule to the guy today on 695: a solid object (your new Honda) cannot pass through another solid object (my Jeep). Another rule to this guy: Above rule is especially bad (for you) and good (for me) when you attempt it in front of two State Troopers. I hope you got a big ticket.

I had my learners for about 6 months before I got my license (I got my learners in Oct. 95, and the license in March '96.)

I have been in one (minor) accident -- it was my fault, I admit, although the snow and ice contributed to it. Luckily, no damage was done to the other aside for some minor needed repairs to a bumper, I also have recieved no tickets for traffic violations.

Driving is fun. Learn to drive stick, though. Its a requirement

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
How does one "drive stick", cause it sounds suspiciously like an argument I heard a couple of guys in Soho about who'd get to control the car. At least, I assume it was the car...

I have the amazing ability to only crash into stationary objects. Not bad, eh?

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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
 
Driving Stick = Driving a Car with a Manual Transmission

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
 
Driving manual is, in my opinion, a lot more fun. I learned to drive originally on an automatic, but I have a lot more fun driving a manual transmission ... and you know, to those people who complain its hard? Naw, man, its as hard as learning how to ride a bike. Once you get the hang of it it is as easy as pie ...

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
Of course I'm learning to drive stick - my truck is a standard!

Anyways, I finished driver's ed with an overall mark of 91%.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
 
When I was learning, I would actually count how many days I would go without stalling her out ... I think I've stalled once in the past nine months or so (I've had my Jeep a little over fourteen months now)

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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
 
*ticked at parents wanting to buy him the cheapest Saturn possible*

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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"

(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)

 


Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
My friend let me try driving his stick-shift once. I didn't stall it at all. 'Course, I never went above second gear or about 15mph, but hey... :-)

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :
 
*ticked at parents wanting to buy him no car at all*

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
 
*also ticked at parents, til he realizes he's 20, w/o a license and parents owe him $1200, gets ticked for that*

I could've made a downpayment with that money, argh... tip, never loan family money. It ain't loaning, it's giving it away.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
*ticked at people who assume it their parents job to supply them with a car, and an expensive car too*

Sheesh, do you lot have no idea what "independence" is? You want a car? Get a job and buy one. In fact, buy one over here, where they cost roughly 9 million times as much as they do in the US.

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
 
If you meant me, that was sarcasm.
I think the old tradition of getting a car at 16 is what he meant.

I'd be happy with a cheap one if it worked, expensive ones are hard to maintain anyhow.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
 
I'm just very lucky that we have an extra vehicle that isn't used

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 
Nah, it wasn't aimed at you TLE. And it was half-joking anyway.

Still, most people I know have had to buy their own (crappy) cars. With their own money. That they've worked for. Then they outfit them with ridiculous sound systems. Tsk, the youth of today, eh?

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
 
This is what I get for posting at 4-5 am...

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :
 
*Is constantly surprised how many unco's there are on the road*. Driving a car is like breathing. If you have to think about it, you're in trouble. Boy oh boy, do we need some autobahns over here. Just to eliminate the twats.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
 
You know what scares me most? The moron whose car I nearly snapped in two when he sped through a red light and actually got mad -- AT ME! -- when he saw I was about to hit him.

He runs a red light. Barely avoids getting his POS Geo Metro torn in two by my Wrangler, and then he has the AUDACITY to give ME a dirty look?

Where's my gun? No ... no ... where's my spoon?

"Why a spoon, Cousin?"
"Because it'll HURT more, you twit!"

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :
 
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Boy oh boy, do we need some autobahns over here.

The German government is about to institute a toll system for the autobahn(s) as well as more posted speed limits, like the rest of the European Union.

At least acording to reports from Deutsche Welle. I don't know if it is by mistake or otherwise, but my public access is full of German television. It's quite interesting, really.

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Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.

Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com

"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."

Tolstoy, on a more objective note.

 




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