05-09-2023, 08:28 PM
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An automobile capable of off-highway operation, as indicated by the fact that it:
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(i) Has 4-wheel drive; or
(ii) Is rated at more than 6,000 pounds gross vehicle weight;
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Whatever are they smoking? Don't want.
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Trophy truck - Wikipedia
Total wet weight is around 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) minimum, with the mass necessary to absorb the rougher terrain in desert racing. Transmission is a choice of either three-speed automatic or six-speed sequential gearbox.
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You are comparing two very different things and two different weights.
Gross vehicle weight is the maximum weight a vehicle is rated for when fully loaded with fuel, passengers, and cargo. The legal maximum it can weigh on a scale.
The trophy truck weight is the minimum a race truck with no actual bed or cargo capacity is allowed to weigh to qualify to race.
The rules I quoted are what the federal government uses to move a vehicle classification from a passenger car to a SUV. They are the justification for giving that vehicle different fuel economy standards because they are designed to do things that a regular passenger car cannot do - travel off road. In the case of a 2WD vehicle it must both have enough ground clearance to actually go off-road AND a GVW over 6,000 lbs.
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05-09-2023, 09:32 PM
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What would you call this?
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All wheels, no clearance.
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05-09-2023, 09:34 PM
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All wheels, no clearance.
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It only has about 36,037ft of clearance over the Mariana Trench.
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05-11-2023, 06:41 AM
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Xist -- "I bet that I will occupy more bandwidth emit a larger word count. "
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I may submit more images than you.
Definitely more GIFs.
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05-11-2023, 06:55 AM
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What's wrong with foreign cars? Mine are all foreign.
The new Nissan Versa starting at $16,000 seems like a good deal to me. It also comes with a manual transmission, what more could a guy want?
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The guy with two Toyotas wants a Nissan
Nissans were okay before Renault bought them in 2002.
Somehow Mitsubishi is involved, too.
The only domestic vehicles I ever bought I purchased from my father and I don't think that I would buy one from anyone else.
He isn't around anymore, so that will not happen again.
People always tell me to buy a new Dodge whenever I mention needing minor repairs or maintenance.
Someone told me they always want a Toyota, but they can only afford a [new] piece of Chevy, so they more than pay the difference in repairs.
They are only kind of self-aware?
I don't know what these annoying people would say if they told me to buy a Dodge and I bought a Ford or piece of Chevy?
"At least you didn't buy a reliable Japanese car?"
MotorBiscuit says the cheapest Dodge is a Hornet, but it doesn't say that is a rebadged Alfa Romeo Tonale.
How hard is this junk for repair departments?
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Hornet is a historic name; it was affixed to a full-size Hudson in the 1950s, a small AMC car in the 1970s, and a boxy 2006 Dodge concept.
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Except this is an Italian crossover.
MotorBiscuit says
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2023 Dodge Hornet: $30,590 MSRP
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Motortrend says the 5-Year Cost to Own is $44,409.
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05-11-2023, 11:36 AM
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MotorBiscuit says the cheapest Dodge is a Hornet, but it doesn't say that is a rebadged Alfa Romeo Tonale.
How hard is this junk for repair departments?Except this is an Italian crossover.
MotorBiscuit says
Motortrend says the 5-Year Cost to Own is $44,409.
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Dodge got rid of their cheap cars years ago. That Hornet is not targeted at someone looking for a cheap car. It is for someone that wants 270 hp / 295 lb-ft in a sporty compact crossover.
I am a bit confused about how Motor Trend decides what is good or bad for their total cost to own. The Hornet is $44,409 and "Poor". The Jeep Compass is $40,485 and "Good". However most of the difference is depreciation which is expected for a higher priced car and then fuel cost - which one should expect to get a much more powerful vehicle.
It would seem to me that value is based on the class of car you are buying not absolute cost
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05-13-2023, 07:19 PM
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I am finishing my application for my second on-line SLP program. It asks for 3 strengths, 3 weaknesses, and what I am doing about the latter. I studied like crazy, but still missed things that the professor only said once, weren't in the textbook, but were on the test. I tried retaking on-line classes through Eastern New Mexico University, but apparently there are downsides to choosing the cheapest school in the U.S. I started writing that if I am not accepted this year I will start retaking classes elsewhere, and then wondered what the second-cheapest school was, so I asked ChatGPT, and it responded with programs ranging from $20,000 annually at Columbia College in South Carolina to $32,000 at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
I asked "How does this compare with ENMU?" and it responded that MUMU costs $17,000 per year.
I asked "Are there any other colleges offering on-line speech pathology classes for less than $20,000 annually?"
West Georgia, Arkansas at Little Rock, and South Dakota are around $10,000 yearly.
So, why the heck did it waste my time with schools that cost a couple times as much?!
I am pretty sure that someone said a school in Utah was second-cheapest, but I have not been able to find that, and I have not been impressed by the tuitions I see on-line.
I asked ChatGPT and it just told me which schools have undergraduate speech programs, but said it couldn't find any information on their tuition, so I started looking, and excuse my language, but Rocky Mountain University sucks.
I keep searching for speech therapy and it keeps trying to make me read about their Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree/Family Nurse Practitioner program.
It only took 5 minutes to find out that UOnline undergraduate tuition for 2022-2023 is $260 per credit hour for both Utah residents and non-residents., but it still seems like it should have been easier to find. I found it right away for ASU, $561–$661 per credit hour.
Excitingly, I asked "According to https://online.utah.edu/tuition-fees/index.php, how much is undergraduate tuition per year?" and it responded with contradictory information from 5 different sources than the one I gave it.
"Yes, but according to the link I gave you, `UOnline undergraduate tuition for 2022-2023 is $260 per credit hour for both Utah residents and non-residents.'"
"I apologize for the confusion. You are correct."
Curiously, Western Undergraduate Exchange does not simply list their tuition and fees, they have a simple table showing on-line tuition for residents and non-residents taking 6 or 12 credits for undergraduate or graduate, but it says to download a PDF for the actual table, page 5.
Page 5 says:
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Students who live out-of-state
Online courses will be charged special tuition only rates as follows:
Undergraduate: $382 per credit
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However, further down it says:
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WESTERN UNDERGRADUATE EXCHANGE (WUE)
Non-resident students who qualify for this program pay 150% of resident tuition rates
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It looks like in-state tuition is $729.20 + $285.27 per credit, but of course they don't come out and say so.
West Georgia charges $60 + $182.13 per credit.
Apparently, Little Rock charges over $10,000 more for out-of-state students.
South Dakota says they charge $354.75 per credit, no fees, but they charge $314.40 for residents, and $103.50 for Communication Disorder students.
Just not on-line or did they neglect to mention that?
I verified that MUMU charges $275 per credit.West Georgia | $606.39 |
MUMU | $825 |
South Dakota | $1,064.25 |
ASU | $1,683 |
Utah State | $2,377.52 |
West Georgia is cheaper than MUMU?!
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05-13-2023, 07:38 PM
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Is there any daylight that far down the rabbit hole? - So, why the heck did it waste my time with schools that cost a couple times as much?!
- keep searching for speech therapy and it keeps trying to make me read about their Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree/Family Nurse Practitioner program.
- "I apologize for the confusion. You are correct."
Personally, my starting position is that it's a means of social control. It steers you in a particular direction, and if you resist it soothes you with apologies.
Given it's patience and cpu cycles to burn, it will be like a pre-schoolers persistent 'why?'s, but in this case it will be 'why not?'
Humanity is going to be gaslighted into extinction.
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05-16-2023, 05:26 AM
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The stupid clearinghouse said that everything was in order with my application and then canceled it.
For once I made a mistake that worked out better. I confused when the application for the school in Mesa was due and when the first on-line program had a deadline.
For some reason I prioritize doing things in-person more.
On the one hand, it frustrates me that there aren't many more on-line programs in 2023, but I have a vastly easier time focusing when there aren't distracting classmates.
With all of my applications and retaking 4 classes I probably could have found somewhere that would take my money by now.
I found a list of the easiest to get into SLP programs.
The top five have at least a 90% acceptance rate!
None were on-line or in Arizona, though.
I had been trying to write the essay for the second on-line program, which was due last night, apparently at midnight Maryland time.
These things never specify!
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Please upload your personal statement that describes professional goals as well as three strengths and three areas of growth related to your place in a graduate program for speech-language pathology
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I remembered 500 words, but not that it was the maximum.
I need to be honest, but not too honest--casually honest?
I didn't think that mentioning my worst challenges would do me any good, so I mentioned real ones, just
Anyway, I went to work on it, but I had been trying to find out when the first two programs made their final decisions. I couldn't find anything on-line, so I asked, and the professor in Mesa asked where I was in the application that I submitted 2 weeks ago.
I went to check the date and it just said "Undelivered."
Like when my e-mail or text messes up and I need to send again?
Eventually I found that at some point they decided that I needed to list every class was clearly written on my transcripts that I completed over 15 years ago and didn't have anything to do with anything relevant.
Of course, entering an entire Bachelor's degree from 16+ years ago was a pain, but they didn't even have several subjects that I took--like Portuguese!
So, I worry that they will kick it back again because I marked the wrong subject, even though they didn't have the right one!
I absolutely could not get it to save the second semester--back in 2000. I hit the help button, but that was automated and useless.
Unfortunately, the human was equally useless, but I finally reloaded the page. I lost all of the data I entered for a semester, but I was able to start over.
I finally finished it and resubmitted my applications. The Mesa school application arrived hours before its bizarrely East coast deadline, if I recall correctly, but I doubt the on-line program will consider an application that was incomplete for 2 weeks.
I finally ate and got ready to see my client.
I worked on my essay, but kept getting distracted, although I was not happy with it.
The paragraphs listing things I was trying to improve was longer than I liked and the parts about what I did well was too short, but I mixed positives and negatives to make the bad points sound better.
I printed a copy, asked Mom to read it, and then checked where the school is located, in case it made a difference.
Maryland.
I showered and Mom was finishing reading the essay.
I made the few changes she indicated, changed it to mention that I lived in Maryland and D.C. from 1998 to 2000, went to upload it, and it was already midnight Maryland time and I was locked out.
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05-18-2023, 05:05 AM
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Name one time that I failed--that would be helpful to share during a grad school interview.
I was already rejected by some random on-line program I hadn't heard of.
They just responded yesterday that they would make their final decisions when they got to it.
I keep thinking about responding like this, but who has the time? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student...er-own-letter/
I am sure that something speech-related would be ideal, although mentioning that I failed to get into another program, so I retook some classes, and kept working in the field would work.
Maybe something like trying to take anatomy the summer I came home from the Army and four groupmates in my four-person group dropped out before I was simply unable to prepare flashcards for 90 muscles, with diagrams, names, insertions, origins, and functions. I couldn't find any alternative to dropping out and retaking it in the fall.
I am doing my usual deep dive, but I don't plan on sharing the rest with you guys.
You don't deserve it!
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