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« Reply #26600 on: September 13, 2023, 01:30:36 PM »
The second way is the battery can go bad while supplying a slow decline of voltage. This results in slow than normal engine cranking sound that you will notice in the morning or after the car has been sitting for a long period of time. Once you notice this it's up to you to be preventive and change the battery before total failure occurs.
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« Reply #26601 on: September 13, 2023, 02:04:28 PM »
Music Midtown – Sept. 15-17, 2023 | Piedmont Park | Atlanta, GA

My age is showing.  My wife and I strolled through the park today and I was ASTONISHED at how much is being constructed, a number of enormous sets and stages all around.  There was even a ferris wheel, probably more rides we didn't see.  It was a real mess, and we have various street closures this weekend all around us.  And the basic ticket is $280.

My wife took some photos, I'll see if I can post a few.
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« Reply #26602 on: September 13, 2023, 02:13:23 PM »


The tall black thing upper right is temporary staging also.
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« Reply #26603 on: September 13, 2023, 02:13:54 PM »


Another stage half a mile distant.
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« Reply #26604 on: September 13, 2023, 02:14:22 PM »
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« Reply #26605 on: September 13, 2023, 02:14:53 PM »
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« Reply #26606 on: September 13, 2023, 02:32:46 PM »
Do these groups play at the same time?
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« Reply #26607 on: September 13, 2023, 02:37:03 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 13, 2023, 02:32:46 PM
Do these groups play at the same time?
If they do, then those stages are all WAY too close together.  We do a ton of music festivals here in Austin, the biggest one being the ACL Fest, and the stages are MUCH more spread out than that.
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« Reply #26608 on: September 13, 2023, 02:39:43 PM »
My guess, they set up on one while another plays.  There are two more large stages being built a ways away.

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I have a feeling my ears will be ringing all weekend.  There was a long line of portapotties already in place.

They have had 300,000 people in past years.
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« Reply #26609 on: September 13, 2023, 04:09:11 PM »
Batteries & Tires don't last here in Phoenix.  Another good reason to trade in a lease every 3 years
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« Reply #26610 on: September 13, 2023, 09:56:06 PM »
Quote from: Riffraft on September 13, 2023, 04:09:11 PM
Batteries & Tires don't last here in Phoenix.  Another good reason to trade in a lease every 3 years
Neither do windshields.
In their wisdom, they lined every major highway with tiny pebbles.  On purpose.  Cars driving 70 mph with pebbles flying at you.  
it's a racket.  
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« Reply #26611 on: September 14, 2023, 09:32:39 AM »
From the NYT today:


Google certainly looks like a monopoly by many measures. More than 90 percent of web searches worldwide are done on Google.

This level of dominance can create problems for anybody who isn’t a Google executive or shareholder. The company is so profitable that it can shape government policies through lobbying and donations. Google can potentially hold down wages for anybody who wants to work in internet search: Where else is that person going to go? Google can also essentially force consumers to turn over their personal data to the company; to exist in today’s economy, you need to interact with Google’s various services, like search, Gmail, Google Cloud and YouTube.
“For the past decade, Google and other tech giants have become incredibly powerful and entwined in just about every aspect of our lives,” Cecilia Kang, one of the Times reporters covering the Google trial, told me.
The Justice Department’s case against the company (and a related lawsuit brought by 38 states and territories) argues that Google has unfairly maintained its dominance by paying other companies billions of dollars a year. Payments to Apple, for example, are the reason that Google is the default search engine on iPhones. As a result, the Justice Department says, competitors to Google cannot establish themselves.
Google responds that its success is simply a reflection of the quality of its products. “People don’t use Google because they have to,” Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, has written. “They use it because they want to.”
The government’s biggest challenge in winning this case is closely connected to Bork’s framework for antitrust policy. He argued that the most rigorous standard for judging potential monopolies was consumer prices. Only when economic analysis proved that a company was so powerful that it could raise consumer prices should regulators step in, Bork and his allies said. Otherwise, the government was just guessing about when a company was so big as to be problematic.
Who benefits?
Google, of course, charges consumers nothing for its main products. The company makes money in other ways, such as advertisements. The same dynamic exists elsewhere in the technology industry. Facebook does not charge consumers for an account, either. Amazon does charge for products on its site, but often not any more than other retailers.
In recent years, a rising generation of legal scholars has tried to overturn the Bork consensus by arguing that large companies can still do damage even without increasing prices. They can hold down wages, warp government policy, trample on privacy or spread misinformation.
(One member of this rising generation is Lina Khan, whom President Biden named to run the Federal Trade Commission.)
As part of their argument, these critics of big business — the intellectual heirs to Theodore Roosevelt — can point to macroeconomic data. In the four decades since Bork’s view triumphed, wages for most Americans have grown more slowly than either corporate profits or the incomes of the wealthy. Corporate consolidation seems to have been better for a small slice of privileged people, including Google executives, than for most Americans.
In the long term, these critics hope to change the legal standard for evaluating large companies, much as Bork and other scholars slowly did in the late 20th century. Doing so will probably require new laws as well as different attitudes among regulators and judges. Such a project might take decades, if it ever succeeds.
In the meantime, the Justice Department’s lawyers hope to persuade Amit Mehta, the federal judge hearing the case, that Google has violated even the lenient antitrust laws of today.


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« Reply #26612 on: September 14, 2023, 09:45:12 AM »
Quote from: Riffraft on September 13, 2023, 04:09:11 PM
Batteries & Tires don't last here in Phoenix.  Another good reason to trade in a lease every 3 years
I've never been one to lease, but I may start for that reason.

The Benz has the auxiliary battery in the trunk. Very accessible. Had to replace that one once. Lasted 7 years up North. $145.00.

That thing is probably $250-300 now.
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« Reply #26613 on: September 14, 2023, 09:47:40 AM »
My wife used to lease, new car every three years.  Expensive route of course, relatively.  Car "tech" is changing rapidly today, I think, so leasing may be the better option, but not versus keeping a car for a decade or more (which I'd prefer to do if it's a good car).  Most automakers are going HforL to EVs of course, none of us can be sure where that ends up in a few years.
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