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Discussion in 'EV (Electric Vehicle) Discussion' started by daniel, May 14, 2009.

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  1. Fibb222

    Fibb222 New Member

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    These match making services sound totally lame if they can't weed out all that spam.

    I heard good things about speed dating. Nerve wracking to be sure but fairly effective I would imagine.
     
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    Look! EV drivers are as attractive as Prius drivers! :p
     
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    I wouldn't advise "taking off in third." Most of my childhood, I built and raced remote controlled cars (electric). My fastest car went about 60mph (no lie). My friends and I learned quickly that when we forced the electric motors to turn large gear ratios under full throttle, the lifespan of the motors decreased SIGNIFICANTLY! In that 60mph car, the motor was turning a huge gear under increased stress and it only lasted me about three months. The EXACT same type of motor (a replacement, although I went through about 30 motors throughout my childhood) when geared lower lasted me OVER two years. If I was you, I would advise going through the gears in a normal manner.

    When you force maximum current through the windings of an electric motor and there is a resistance that is preventing the motor from turning freely, it permanently reduces the strength of the magnetic field of the permanent magnets in the motor. I learned this first-hand through experimentation.

    Daniel, I agree with bevspark; you should take up F8L on that offer. Stay away from the free spam-site and stick with Match.com. You need a "coach," and it sounds like F8L can help you out.
     
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  5. DaveinOlyWA

    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    daniel, those emails are coming from people who have "adult friendfinder" websites which is basically "pay for porn" sites. that is why they want your credit card info. you go to their site to look at pics, live video chat, etc, and pay for it.

    i knew girl (she was neighbor in an apartment complex...so only knew her from that and uh...ya...thats it) who basically paid her way thru college with a website just like that. i basically helped her buy a computer and register her domain with this outfit. they got a registration fee and monthly dues and handled the credit card processing chores ( for a BIG itme fee...like $10 per transction!!) and she got to keep the rest. she was hot no doubt and during the time i knew her for about 2 years she averaged $3-5000 a month profit stripping in her living room with nothing but herself and a $75 webcam. she was online 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. not bad money for a college student.
     
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  6. patsparks

    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    Oh man!! You know my sister in law uses the site. You said my secret ws safe with you?
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    I hope you got something for your efforts. Maybe sit in the corner and watch for free? :D

    Tom
     
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    I would guess the car racing industry is seriously into electric cars and the CVT gearless shifting for the not too distant future. High torque at low rpm is ideal for racing, and gearless shifting saves time vs manual shifting. The bottom line is whatever gets you to the finish line quickest.
     
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  9. DaveinOlyWA

    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    i loaned her the money to buy the computer...i was paid back with interest...and trust me, it was VERY interesting
     
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  10. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    I did. I ordered a Kindle DX. But it won't arrive until the 23rd. :(

    Or maybe you meant visit a prostitute. I probably would if I knew where to find one safely. It might be easier in a bigger city. When I lived in Mexico someone told me the plaza where the hookers went in the evening. I walked through there once, but it probably was not late enough. I go to bed early.

    This ad was not in a matchmaking service. It was just the personals section of a free, open, on-line classified ads web site. You put an ad there knowing there can be a lot of spam. That's why I used a disposable email address.

    I tried speed dating once. I had two "matches" but in the end neither one of them would go out with me. When you get a "match" it's just a permission from the person for the outfit to pass along their contact info.

    This is a big motor. It can handle it. With the controller it's going to be getting, it could take off in fourth, but on the city streets, third is the proper gear to be in.

    Some of them appear to be what you say. Others appear to be "age verification" sites that also promise to check that the person whose card is given is not on a sex offender list. Those ones promise not to charge anything to your card. I have two problems with them: One, I don't believe that they won't charge your card, since five obvious spam emails (exactly the same text, right down to the lower-case "kate" as the claimed name) direct me to one such site, promising not to charge the card; spam email = spam web site; and two, even if there is a public sex-offender list, there's no way they can reliably link it to names from credit cards, and anyway, a real sex offender would get a card under a fake name: not hard to do, I'm sure.

    So I think some are what you say, pay-for-porn sites, and others are outright credit-card fishing sites.

    There seems to be a pattern with these age-verifying scams: First an email with a picture of a very pretty woman, and a reasonable-sounding text such as "I saw your ad [reference to the title of the ad] and I'd like to meet you." The instant you reply, you get another email saying something like, "With all the craziness going on, I'd like you to verify your age [link to web site]. I'm not scamming you. As soon as you verify, I'll shoot you my phone number." The pay-for-porn ones have a different style: their first email says something like "Pictures of me here [insert link]."

    One of the latter actually sent me another email saying "Several people came into the room but didn't say anything. Was one of them you?" I answered that I didn't know anything about a "room" and asked for clarification. I got no reply.
     
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  11. DaveinOlyWA

    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    trust me daniel. it doesnt matter what it says or where it says its from. its all computer generated spam from the same people that run adult friend finders. the actual name of the company escapes me, it was over 5 years ago. but the place runs about 40 different sites for all persuasions, including borderline legal ones. they make the money by getting someone to offer something that can be "traded" online. they do the marketing, basic website design and handle the money transactions with each phase of the operation taking is own piece of the pie.

    dont bother making a personal reply to any of them, they use that to verify a valid email addy. plus the only thing valid on any of those emails is the link to the site where you register your card to pay to see whoever
     
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  12. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    They may all be run by the same company, but it really looks to me as though some are pay-for-porn and others are fishing for credit cards to steal from. The former is a legitimate business. You pay money and you get dirty pictures. The latter is crime.

    And as I said, I'm using a disposable email address. Once I'm done, I cancel it, and it disappears. Poof.

    But I'm answering all replies, because there's the outside chance that a real person may answer my ad.
     
    #212 daniel, Jun 18, 2009
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    Yeah, I bet
     
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    bevspark Toyota, Major Sponsors of The

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    Daniel, I agree with bevspark; you should take up F8L on that offer. Stay away from the free spam-site and stick with Match.com. You need a "coach," and it sounds like F8L can help you out.[/quote]


    It's nice to know someone agrees with me. :D
     
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  15. F8L

    F8L Protecting Habitat & AG Lands

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    I'm just adding to your mystique. :p
     
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    bevspark Toyota, Major Sponsors of The

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    I don't beleive that for one minute. Maybe you could meet someone on a nice chat site like this one. Get to know each other online for a few months then take it from there. :)
     
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    Nothing mysterious about Pat. ;)
     
    #217 bevspark, Jun 18, 2009
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    F8L Protecting Habitat & AG Lands

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    The guy has a friggin' emu for an avatar. I'd say he is pretty mysterious. :D And who else gets up at like 3am to go draw a Toyota symbol in the snow-covered parking lot of a grand hotel?
     
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    Rae Vynn Artist In Residence

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    That is precisely how I met my DH... and we've been married ten years now! :p
     
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  20. daniel

    daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb

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    Well, you have not known me as long as I have! Listen, I'm 60 years old, which means I have 45 years of looking. I've met lots of people face-to-face, I've put ads and answered ads. Friends have promised to introduce me to their friends.

    Women don't like me.

    On a lighter note, I finally got a legitimate reply to my ad: a woman who claims to be 63 but her picture looks like she's 75. I thanked her for responding, and politely declined.

    Just out of curiosity I phoned an escort service. I asked how it works. They would take my information and pass it on to the escorts, who would phone me, and after talking I could say yes or no. The cost is $200 per hour. Maybe other services have different prices. That means supper and an evening together would cost me about a thousand bucks. I have been told that "escorts" are actually hookers, but I know enough to know that they're not going to be specific over the phone. And although I would like to have sex, what I want a heck of a lot more is someone who would touch me because she likes touching me. I also don't know whether $200 is the service's fee, before the lady asks for her fee. I also know that the whole sex industry is extremely predatory. And I know that the only way I'm ever going to get any is to pay for it, but I doubt it's even worth it when there's no feeling involved. I want someone to like me one whole hell of a lot more than I want someone to let me stick my thing in her.
     
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