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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
they aren't even street legal.
AFAIK, that usually just means that it doesn't have a place to put a license plate, and maybe it doesn't have sufficient headlights or taillights, depending on jurisdiction.
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@djls45 whatever it means, the end result is that you can't drive them on public roads. Which kind of defeats the purpose of having a car.
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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
you can't drive them on public roads. Which kind of defeats the purpose of having a car.
You're not thinking like rich people. First you buy your own private island, then you can drive whatever you want there.
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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@djls45 whatever it means, the end result is that you can't drive them on public roads. Which kind of defeats the purpose of having a car.
Technically those idiots driving around with flashing brakelights aren't street legal either.
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@dangeRuss technically those idiots do have paperwork proving street legality. The 16 owners of EP9 don't (according to Wikipedia).
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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss technically those idiots do have paperwork proving street legality. The 16 owners of EP9 don't (according to Wikipedia).
What paperwork would that be?
Also wonder if when you take it in for inspection they fail you for blinking tail lights.
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@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss technically those idiots do have paperwork proving street legality. The 16 owners of EP9 don't (according to Wikipedia).
What paperwork would that be?
Car registration. Can't register a car if it's not street legal. Of course since car registration is itself proof of street legality, you'll never encounter it unless you build the car yourself (my grandpa BTDT, kinda) or if you import a car from abroad.
Also wonder if when you take it in for inspection they fail you for blinking tail lights.
Depends on what the inspection is for. And IME most non-state-employed inspectors are willing to turn a blind eye on pretty much everything that's not outright life-threatening. Spilling oil all over? <stamp> You're good to go, just remember to refill it regularly!
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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
Spilling oil all over? <stamp> You're good to go, just remember to refill it regularly!
How else would you know there's still oil in it if it doesn't leak? It's when it stops leaking you need to worry
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@loopback0 I've posted before that when I was in university, I had a pick-up truck that got 400 miles to the gallon. I never had to change the oil, because it changed itself while I drove. Unfortunately, one day it stopped leaking; I was driving home for some holiday or other, and I forgot to fill it up before I left.
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@HardwareGeek said in Targeted advertising fail:
@loopback0 I've posted before that when I was in university, I had a pick-up truck that got 400 miles to the gallon. I never had to change the oil, because it changed itself while I drove. Unfortunately, one day it stopped leaking; I was driving home for some holiday or other, and I forgot to fill it up before I left.
400 miles to a gallon of oil?
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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss technically those idiots do have paperwork proving street legality. The 16 owners of EP9 don't (according to Wikipedia).
What paperwork would that be?
Car registration. Can't register a car if it's not street legal. Of course since car registration is itself proof of street legality, you'll never encounter it unless you build the car yourself (my grandpa BTDT, kinda) or if you import a car from abroad.
You can register whatever you want, they don't actually look at your car.
Also wonder if when you take it in for inspection they fail you for blinking tail lights.
Depends on what the inspection is for. And IME most non-state-employed inspectors are willing to turn a blind eye on pretty much everything that's not outright life-threatening. Spilling oil all over? <stamp> You're good to go, just remember to refill it regularly!
I dunno I've failed inspections in brooklyn for bullshit stuff, like brake lights not working.
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@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@HardwareGeek said in Targeted advertising fail:
@loopback0 I've posted before that when I was in university, I had a pick-up truck that got 400 miles to the gallon. I never had to change the oil, because it changed itself while I drove. Unfortunately, one day it stopped leaking; I was driving home for some holiday or other, and I forgot to fill it up before I left.
400 miles to a gallon of oil?
Yes. I thought that was clear from the context.
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@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
You can register whatever you want, they don't actually look at your car.
That depends on where you live. In some places, you can't register or renew your registration without passing a smog inspection. In Texas, you can't register your car without passing a safety inspection in which, among other things, they actually drive your car at a specified speed and check whether it will stop within a specified distance. Speedometer doesn't work; they can't tell if they are driving at the right speed to check the brakes; doesn't pass inspection; can't register it. (And if your vehicle isn't registered, you can't get a driver's license. Ask me how I know all this.)
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@HardwareGeek said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
You can register whatever you want, they don't actually look at your car.
That depends on where you live. In some places, you can't register or renew your registration without passing a smog inspection. In Texas, you can't register your car without passing a safety inspection in which, among other things, they actually drive your car at a specified speed and check whether it will stop within a specified distance. Speedometer doesn't work; they can't tell if they are driving at the right speed to check the brakes; doesn't pass inspection; can't register it. (And if your vehicle isn't registered, you can't get a driver's license. Ask me how I know all this.)
That would have failed the car I drove growing up. Our family van had something screwy with the place where the speedometer cable plugged into the dash. So it just squeaked with a plastic-on-plastic squeak that varied frequency with your speed. Plus, the driver-side door didn't open from the outside, so during the summer you left the window down; during the winter you'd get in the passenger side and climb over. Oh, and being a rear-wheel-drive minivan, with 90% of the weight (ballpark) over the front axle, it had "fun times" in the snow. Doing cookies at the slightest bit of snow, voluntarily or not. We'd frequently load a few hundred pounds of wheat or rock salt into the back to try to get some semblance of control. Rarely worked.
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@Benjamin-Hall My recently departed minivan needed several repairs to pass inspection. One of them was that the speedometer worked correctly (?) about 95% of the time; however, I couldn't be certain it would work correctly during the inspection. All of the other repairs were fairly minor, but that one was going to be expensive. I could have fixed it in 5 minutes with a soldering iron (assuming the internet was correct as to the nature of the defect), but hours of labor to disassemble to get to the part I needed to solder. And I couldn't count on getting all of it done before I needed to have it registered in order to get my TX driver's license before my CA license expired.
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@HardwareGeek said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Benjamin-Hall My recently departed minivan needed several repairs to pass inspection. One of them was that the speedometer worked correctly (?) about 95% of the time; however, I couldn't be certain it would work correctly during the inspection. All of the other repairs were fairly minor, but that one was going to be expensive. I could have fixed it in 5 minutes with a soldering iron (assuming the internet was correct as to the nature of the defect), but hours of labor to disassemble to get to the part I needed to solder. And I couldn't count on getting all of it done before I needed to have it registered in order to get my TX driver's license before my CA license expired.
Oregon only requires proof of inspections (including emissions) if you're registering in certain counties (ie Portland). They do come out and check the VIN, but that's done entirely from the outside without actually turning on the car or anything.
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@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss technically those idiots do have paperwork proving street legality. The 16 owners of EP9 don't (according to Wikipedia).
What paperwork would that be?
Car registration. Can't register a car if it's not street legal. Of course since car registration is itself proof of street legality, you'll never encounter it unless you build the car yourself (my grandpa BTDT, kinda) or if you import a car from abroad.
You can register whatever you want, they don't actually look at your car.
No I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. Maybe YOU always could because you never ran into a situation where street legality would be in question. Buy new? The manufacturer already proved street legality for you to be allowed to sell. Buy used? The previous owner would be unable to register it themselves if it wasn't street legal so logically you don't have to prove it either.
But try to import a car from overseas and suddenly it's a whole new world of regulatory compliance.
Also wonder if when you take it in for inspection they fail you for blinking tail lights.
Depends on what the inspection is for. And IME most non-state-employed inspectors are willing to turn a blind eye on pretty much everything that's not outright life-threatening. Spilling oil all over? <stamp> You're good to go, just remember to refill it regularly!
I dunno I've failed inspections in brooklyn for bullshit stuff, like brake lights not working.
Brake lights not working is life-threatening.
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@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss technically those idiots do have paperwork proving street legality. The 16 owners of EP9 don't (according to Wikipedia).
What paperwork would that be?
Car registration. Can't register a car if it's not street legal. Of course since car registration is itself proof of street legality, you'll never encounter it unless you build the car yourself (my grandpa BTDT, kinda) or if you import a car from abroad.
You can register whatever you want, they don't actually look at your car.
You're 100% wrong on this.
Initially titling a vehicle entails putting its Vehicle Identification Number into the state's database, which is a thing that's done in coordination with the manufacturer, who already knows the make and model and verifies it with the state.
The reason you've never done this is that the dealer does this when they buy the car from the factory.
Then, when they sell it to a customer, they transfer their title to the customer. When the customer re-sells the car as used, eventually, they transfer the title to the next guy (who might be a used car dealer) and so on.
If there's no manufacturer, or the manufacturer says the model doesn't exist ("We only sell that model in Japan!"), you can't register the car.
Importing a recent car from overseas yourself and registering it without the cooperation of the manufacturer, which is the thing @Gąska is alluding to, is theoretically possible, but the states make it difficult because they don't want you to do it.
Also if you do it wrong, the government will come and crush your car into a cube and not reimburse you.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@dangeRuss technically those idiots do have paperwork proving street legality. The 16 owners of EP9 don't (according to Wikipedia).
What paperwork would that be?
Car registration. Can't register a car if it's not street legal. Of course since car registration is itself proof of street legality, you'll never encounter it unless you build the car yourself (my grandpa BTDT, kinda) or if you import a car from abroad.
You can register whatever you want, they don't actually look at your car.
You're 100% wrong on this.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Targeted advertising fail:
If there's no manufacturer, or the manufacturer says the model doesn't exist ("We only sell that model in Japan!"), you can't register the car.
Self-built cars are a thing. I mean, I assume they are. They're a thing in Europe, so I'm assuming they must be in the USA too, because the USA is supposed to be free-er than Europe?
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Targeted advertising fail:
Importing a recent car from overseas yourself and registering it without the cooperation of the manufacturer, which is the thing @Gąska is alluding to, is theoretically possible, but the states make it difficult because they don't want you to do it.
I was referring to importing a car that was registered in the country of origin. VIN, plates and everything. It's a fairly common practice in Poland (guess why). The thing is, US cars and European cars have slightly different legal requirements (most importantly regarding lights, both front and back), so US cars are non-street-legal by default so you have to adapt your car and then go through an inspection. If you're a mass importer it means the full homologation procedure, but there's apparently an exception if you import for personal use, with a limit of 1 car per year, where you only have to do the regular safety inspection, which is much faster (and cheaper). I don't know the details since I've never done it myself, and the relevant laws aren't easily googlable.
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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Targeted advertising fail:
If there's no manufacturer, or the manufacturer says the model doesn't exist ("We only sell that model in Japan!"), you can't register the car.
Self-built cars are a thing. I mean, I assume they are. They're a thing in Europe, so I'm assuming they must be in the USA too, because the USA is supposed to be free-er than Europe?
Oh, yeah, for a long time.
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Ah, the 19(7[789]|80) Ford Fiasco... we never even attempted to get it registered: it was just a holiday paddock-basher.
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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
Self-built cars are a thing. I mean, I assume they are. They're a thing in Europe, so I'm assuming they must be in the USA too
There are plenty of (semi-)reality TV shows with big, tattooed, look-I’m-a-cool-tough-guy Americans doing just that.
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status: wondering why Google decided this was the ad for me, I'm the middle of a tech article...
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I'm clearly being shown this ad because I read a lot about football and I live in the New York metro area. But there's been an NFL team in New York City since the 1920s, and TWO teams since the 1970 merger between the NFL and the AFL. (This ad means NYC and not New York State. But if you want to pretend they mean NYS, both the Jets and the Giants play in New Jersey, right across the Hudson River from the city. But New York State has also had a team in Buffalo since the AFL merger.)
The ad is a clickbait listicle of 20 cities that could potentially host an NFL team. Anyone who knows which cities have NFL teams and which ones don't could easily come up with the same list.
Why would you pay money to show this to me without using your geolocation tool to find out if there's already an NFL team in my market?
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How many hundreds of millions cheap are we talking about exactly?
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Why did I like this? Ah, well, because I didn't like it!
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@Tsaukpaetra : User has confirmed that watching videos they don't like is still worthwhile use of their time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Targeted advertising fail:
@Tsaukpaetra : User has confirmed that watching videos they don't like is still worthwhile use of their time.
"Which prompts for and ..."
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Truth.
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@boomzilla I don't but given your post I think I can safely assume that I don't want to either.
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@remi said in Targeted advertising fail:
@boomzilla I don't but given your post I think I can safely assume that I don't want to either.
They're running almost constant ads on TV (cable) about it. "Call us (lawyers) if you were at ...". I did find a way to avoid them - I'm reading Chaney's The Last Reaper series instead.
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@remi said in Targeted advertising fail:
@boomzilla I don't but given your post I think I can safely assume that I don't want to either.
I don't and I think I should know.
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@Gąska said in Targeted advertising fail:
Depends on what the inspection is for. And IME most non-state-employed inspectors are willing to turn a blind eye on pretty much everything that's not outright life-threatening. Spilling oil all over? <stamp> You're good to go, just remember to refill it regularly!
I guess it depends on jurisdiction. This has never been my experience. Here, you only need an inspection when buying a used car from someone other than a dealer. I remember in the '80's or '90's getting a car inspected. The first garage gave me a list with about $500 of repairs. So I took it to another garage. They gave me a list with different items, but still about $500 of repairs.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Targeted advertising fail:
Why would you pay money to show this to me without using your geolocation tool to find out if there's already an NFL team in my market?
Because marketing (and propaganda) is more effective if it mixes in things you know to be true among the stuff they want you to swallow. Especially things you feel strongly about. Makes you trust the source of the ads more.
Well, that's what it was supposed to be doing, anyway. They just failed at truth.
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Yes. I am very interested in topics such as
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Targeted advertising fail:
Yes. I am very interested in topics such as
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Weird of them to duplicate anime with two options
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@izzion despite big eyes and round heads, I'm pretty sure Thomas and Friends is not an anime.
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I almost ed that non-pork hams do exist, but then I saw the pig-shaped logo on the label.
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@Zerosquare Like vegan meat alternatives, any non-pork versions of pork products would be clearly labelled as such
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@hungrier said in Targeted advertising fail:
clearly labelled
Following the "clear" labeling precedent of such products as "be'f" and "chick'n", it would no doubt be labeled "Boneless Smoked H'm".
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@HardwareGeek said in Targeted advertising fail:
@hungrier said in Targeted advertising fail:
clearly labelled
Following the "clear" labeling precedent of such products as "be'f" and "chick'n", it would no doubt be labeled "Boneless Smoked H'm".
G'd forbid
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Ah, yes, I would definitely want to subscribe to a deleted user...
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Ah yes, for my child that I totally have that's becoming of age to go to preschool....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Targeted advertising fail:
Why did I like this? Ah, well, because I didn't like it!
CinemaSins is one of those channels that's like a trainwreck I can't help but watch. There's like 2 plotholes the guy will point out that are novel and actually entertaining, but then in between them are either claimed plotholes that aren't actually plotholes or he just mentions something like "Billy Crystal has a cameo in this movie" and dock it for no other reason.
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@The_Quiet_One Their earliest videos were more earnest about honest critique but they found very quickly that being asshats dinging for shits and giggles got better reactions, so they do that a lot more.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Targeted advertising fail:
Ah yes, for my child that I totally have that's becoming of age to go to preschool....
You confused the algorithm with all that pony stuff.