[ale] [OT] Need to lock down a Windows laptop

[Drifter]

I wouldn't let either of my kids take the driver's license test until they 
had proved to me that they could change a flat tire on the car/truck they 
would be driving.  They thanked me later -- much later -- when they 
actually had to change a flat tire miles back down an empty dirt road.
(At that time we lived in a rural county with more than 100 miles of dirt 
roads.)

What I have never understood is how drivers can be so insensitive to the 
feel of the car that they don't know when a tire gets low.  Even with 
power steering and sophisticated suspensions a car handles differently when 
one tire is as little as 10 psi low.  Over the next few years a greater 
percentage of cars will have tire pressure monitoring systems and the 
problem will be ignorant drivers who ignore the idiot light when it 
appears.

Me?  I'm waiting until more tire dealers/repair shops are able to refill 
tires with nitrogen, which significantly reduces the problem of temperature 
related pressure changes setting off the sensors.

Sean

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On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 07:27:04 am Tom Freeman wrote:


> You expect somebody to know how to change a tire???? You monster!!!!
> That is why God gave us phones and AAA memberships!
> 
> Silly sarcasm aside, probably a good idea. Both to expect offspring to
> reload their systems, and to expect every driver to know how (by doing)
> to change a tire.
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