Yeah I think they’ll need a bigger computer this year, borrowing from jaws.
A lot of cheap mowers come with an engine that says you never need to change the oil for the life of the engine. Of course there is no easy way to drain so you either have to suck it out or tip the unit over. I just wait until it is out of gas and change the oil. It looks old and nasty. There is no filter on the engines so I don’t know how they expect this to work. The life of the engine is probably far shorter for anyone who follows this.
Don’t understand the “jaws” reference.
I’d rather pay the $700 and hopefully ensure several more years of use . . . versus drinking the koolaid and maybe needing a new transmission in a few years
Try TrueDelta.com - very well organized statistical data based on actual owners’ experience. Not like some jdpower crooks.
If it bothers you, do something about it. Complain to you elected national representatives.
Not entirely accurate - your message (request/response objects) is broken down into packets, and the packets may travel through china before they arrive to their destination to your next door neighbor so in reality ANY message is likely to be “international”. Thus nsa.
The best insurance to longevity is preventative maintenance. But as others have said, there are exceptions. Had a 2006 Town and Country today with 280,000 miles. Pulled these plugs from it. They still sparked but they taxed the coils so much it fried one of them.
1 Like
I think that BS feature means that it intentionally burns more oil than traditional engines, so you just have to add oil. If you forget then the engine is ruined. Getting rid of the rotating screen and other grass clipping filters has let engines get clogged up with grass clippings and ground up leaves. This caused over heating which ruined a lot of lawn mower engines. I think this ruined lawn mower engines faster than people who just added more oil and never changed it (before that was a feature).
Some powerful group is spying on domestic data communications! Snowden said that all data going through the Internet is saved for 3 days. Literally everything including huge multimedia downloads. Then I guess the smaller more valuable data is kept longer. Things like email is kept forever.
Is there some kind of loophole where a US telecommunications company is considered to be foreign, so they are allowed to spy on it? Maybe the network hardware is made in China? That’s kind of how their legalistic sense of abiding by the law works.
As an software engineer manager who’s been working in the telecom industry for about 20 years I can assure you that is total bull crap. Telecom companies keep META Data. Not the data itself. It does not listen to your phone calls. All it will keep is what number you called an how long you were on. Emails may be kept forever if you don’t delete anything. But once you delete it and from inbox and then the deleted folder it’ll do a soft delete. Then after a number of days (about 30) the email will be gone forever.
You really need to stop listening to these dumb conspiracies. Especially stop repeating them without any proof or knowledge of it.
2 Likes
For those that care to partake, not me, the lifetime lawnmower oil is based on it using so much oil during the season, so you add oil. Adding oil each time supplements the old oil enough to keep the mower going. Some people do that with their cars too and justify it as changing oil over a time period. They never say it is better for the mower, just won’t destroy it. Last year I gave away the mower I bought in 1985 and still was fine. Some of us expect longer longevity than the Walmart throw aways.
My original comment was a joke…
- Metadata - and you as a software engineer should probably know - is extremely powerful all by itself.
- From my experience (as a Software Engineer), reality is usually worse than what we expect.
I’ll give you an example. I worked for a company that inspected all kinds of power transmission equipment. One would reasonable assume that if an inspection reveals crucial structural defects, appropriate action is taken but in reality, it works like this: the equipment owner has a contract with a state agency that obligates it to do an inspection every so many years but there is nothing about taking ANY actions. So the contract between the inspection company and the power company EXPLICITLY stated that we could NOT inform our customer about our findings.
In other words, if a power poll falls on your head, the power outfit is not liable because it inspected it but was not aware of potential danger. No kidding.
To summarize, corporate world is so rotten that after having worked for numerous companies in a variety of industries, nothing can surprise me.
Unfortunately corporations and governments are known for overlooking obvious problems such as defective engines, safety issues and such. The Pinto is a classic example of this.
We had a dam failure caused by a power company being negligent here. Luckily it failed at the best possible time of the year and day so no one was killed. It could have killed THOUSANDS of people had it happened on a hot summer weekend when a popular state park was filled with campers and such. They knew there were problems with the facility but chose to operate it anyway because it was making the $2 million each day it was operating. Of course it was out of operation for several years and FERC issued the largest fine in their history for the negligence and the damage it caused. This would have been real ugly had it happened when the state park was packed as it always is in the summer. There would have been dead kids ripped apart, wrapped around trees, metal rebar, etc. It looked like an atom bomb went through the place.
The Challenger exploding is another classic example of this as is the Equifax data breach. There were known problems but the entities in charge gave the go-ahead.
Good point to keep a weather eye on the spark plug change-out interval. As the spark plug gap widens with miles driven, the ignition circuitry needs to produce a higher spark voltaage that will jump the extra distance, so the ECM boosts the coil voltage. If the wide-gap problem continues unabated, eventually the ignition coil packs may be damaged.
1 Like
In the last gas crunch I had people offering me absolutely stupid money for my CRX-DX because it got 35-40mpg.
Of course, as soon as prices went down, they all ran out and bought the biggest SUV they could find because people never learn. 
2 Likes
I believe that! During the last gas crunch I had a gas hog Dodge Ram. I was told repeatedly I should trade it in for something more fuel efficient (which was damn near anything)….and get a car payment? You can buy lots of gas for $3-500/month. I rode it out and kept the truck.
I have absolutely nothing against owning a more fuel efficient vehicle, but buying a new vehicle to save gas is generally a fool’s errand, financially. I mean if you just want to conserve fuel or drive an EV, then I think that’s great. But it’s generally not economically feasible, short term at least.
In that regard, I can see the appeal of a used fuel efficient vehicle. So your used CRX…is it still for sale? 
Hehe. Well it needs a new engine, but I do still have it!
Hard to tell without the usual emojis.
1 Like