Seems like a bonehead mistake, of gigantic proportions. Chevrolet has shipped their 2012 Sonic without break pads installed – no big deal. Oh, wait, we need those in order to keep from careening into intersections full of people and/or car? Well crap, let’s get to the dealer. No wonder it was $500 off, they just sold us a kit, not a car. Some assembly required I guess. Given that, we assume, most cars are made with robots I’m not sure how this would have happened – oh yeah, the robots aren’t aware that pads need to 101% be installed. If maybe, I don’t know, people still put cars together someone would have caught the mistake. I’m sure the guy who worked the assembly line for 40 years (and knows more about your car than the guy who drew up the blueprints) would have stopped production before such a deadly product was shipped. And they say we need tort reform? I think this shows we need something, anything, to keep companies on their toes. Not that we need to sue Chevy all at once now. Not at all – but if they weren’t worried about lawsuits I wonder if they’d ever give us break pads? It sure doesn’t seem like something on the forefront of their mind. Can’t wait to see The Consumerist get a hold of this one.

Here is what SlashGear had to say, the source (for me) of the story…

We’re pretty certain that someone at General Motors is in a whole heap of trouble this week as its been discovered that a batch of their Chevrolet Sonic cars with missing brake pads have left the factory and were sold in kind to unsuspecting customers. While these missing pads aren’t currently being rated as something so fatal that GM is recommending a total instant freak-out on the part of car owners, if you are one of those owners, you probably should bring your car in to be checked. Nothing like cruising into grandma’s house for New Years and finding yourself on the other side because you brakes just… you know… aren’t there.

via 2012 Chevrolet Sonic recalled due to missing brake pads – SlashGear.

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What has become incredibly lame about it is the suggestions that people make or conversations that really don’t need to happen. I feel like a celebrity at times. You know how people probably try to play the Kevin Bacon game with Kevin Bacon? It gets really old. My favorite suggestion is to stop wearing a hat. “You wouldn’t lose your hair if you didn’t wear a hat.” Well, you wouldn’t know if I never took it off. Not only do people automatically assume they are the first to impart these words of wisdom but they think you care. I’ve never once replied “You know, I never thought of that! People should pay you for that type of advice – genius! You are an absolute genius, please write books, humanity would be better off”.

And how dare people? Maybe it is an obvious comeback but could I go around telling people it’s probably the pastries and fried chicken that was making them fat? And as a balding person I have the same attitude of the morbidly obese in America – I could care less. Stop bugging me about it. Can I point out the blemish on your face shaped like Italy – because that’s all you are doing – making me self conscious about something that up until that point didn’t bother me at all. Luckily the feeling of inferiority washes away and I’m back to being happy about other things.

But this is the root of such comments I guess. People can sometimes only feel better about themselves when they point out the flaws of others. C”est la vie.

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You see – Sarah Palin, the very same failed Vice Presidential Candidate of yesteryear, explained for us when it is okay to say retarded. The test is that if you are joking, doing it for show and trying to get a rise out of someone it is okay. Behind closed doors in anger – not okay. You can’t be going around now telling everyone they are retarded just because you are angry. But making fun of Bob the office clown’s antics at the water cooler – okay! You can tell everyone how much he “LOOKS LIKE A FACK’N RETARD!” and everyone can ROFLCOPTER till lunch.

Minorities, consult your local leadership, I can’t tell you when and where to say retarded. Queen Sarah doesn’t speak for you (but you knew that I’m sure, unless you’re retarded). This ability to be able to – run around the local theme park yelling “RETARD, RETARD!, RETARD!” is a very freeing thing. WP, you know how much you are going to love this? Grocery store, bags of frozen peas on your head and your friends yelling at your retarded ways. That’s definitely not lame.

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I love the entire set of warnings in the instruction set, especially since it starts with: Do NOT save deleted messages on the server. It gets fun in part three, my emphasis.

Do NOT save deleted messages to your [Gmail]/All Mail folder as some clients will try to empty this folder and ultimately fail. This can lead to delayed mail access or excessive battery consumption on a mobile device.

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A southern Ontario woman suing Black’s Photography over pictures of her marijuana plants will have to produce the photos in court.

Agnieska Wojtanowska says Black’s violated her Charter rights back in 2001 when a worker handed the photos over to police.

Drug charges were later dropped when the pictures were excluded as evidence because they were obtained without a search warrant.

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Luckily there is a solution to this fail other than restoring from a backup (lengthy) or just throwing your Jesus Phone away:

Heres how to fix.

Unsync your music/videos or whatever isnt going onto your iphone/itouch by plugging in your device and unchecking the sync box within each multimedia tab then click apply. Let the device sync then once completed reconnect your device check all your sync tabs that you want and sync again. This should resolve the problems and sync your files.

It should only be your music and videos and some podcast that dont sync at the start but this description should fix the error 13019.

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Below are just a few of the WoW achievements I, or Henzod rather, attained this weekend:

• General:
  • Going Down? – I jumped down onto the rising elevator in Warsong Hold and lived, somehow.
• Dungeons:
  • Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom – Completed this one with the guild (<EPIC FAIL>).
    
  • Azjol-Nerub – Also completed with the guild
    
  • The Nexus – Got a nice pug group with a Death Knight to tank.
    
  • The Violet Hold – Different pug group, different Death Knight.
    
• Exploration:
  • Explore Howling Fjord – A lot of running around, my last stop was the island north of Utgarde Keep – and on accident.
    
• Quests
  • 1000 Quests Completed – This likely should have been completed before the last expansion, but I didn’t quest much from 56 to 60. I “grinded” Argent Dawn rep and XP for days.
    
• Professions
  • Working Night and Day – Cost a few hundred gold, but I leveled up just enough to become a Grand Master Leatherworker. Skinning was the easy (and free) one to level.

Those go with the (fun) PVP Achievements I earned in a single match:

• Capture the Flag: Capture the flag in Warsong Gulch.
• Ironman: Capture and carry the flag three times in Warsong Gulch without dying.
• Warsong Gulch Perfection: Win Warsong Gulch with a score of 3 to 0

Screenshots of the weekend;

Drakuru is revealed after a long quest line at the end of Drak'Tharon Keep.

After playing for eight hours straight I've found myself in Grizzly Hills questing again.

After nine hours of play I find myself in The Violet Hold bringing the pain.

After ten hours of play I find that it's time to slow down and check out and scan the auction house.

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