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  1. It isn't working for me either and I've tried SDSs link multiple times.

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    then why don't I see a generic image icon in your spot? Neither your avatar or Rubes is in the directory. Are you guys deleting them after you don't see them?

     

    My link only works if you upload the avatar, but see only an image holder in it's place.

  2. I was using TBD with FireFox and all of a sudden the board changed.  I didn't do anything to change it.  When I used IE, I noticed that the banners are gone.  Any suggestions?  I asked for advice in another thread and got some good tips, but they didn't help.  Thanks in advance.

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    well, you will need to define "changed".

     

    you probably didn't see the banners in IE because the images were moved. Clearing your cache will solve that or doing a super-reload.

  3. according to the Chrysler CEO "it's the shizzle"

     

    i believe that's enough reason to avoid the car

    as for mercedes engineering, well mercedes and VW put out the most lemon on the road these days...they're living off of the previous luxury reputation...the big 3 were thrilled last year when they found that their cars finally overtook the germans in reliability...still light years behind the japanese though

     

    see consumer reports regarding mercedes and chrysler reliability...extremely poor

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    I just got off the phone with my contact, whom I believe is an honest guy. He claims that the 300 is the finest car they have ever built in terms of quality. He readily admits to the problems of the past, but he claims they have come a long way the last 4 years at DC.

     

    He also said Mercedes is NOT putting out top of the line stuff, but that they used tried and true Mercedes components, such as E class rear suspension, in the 300. He's driving one himself and it just received Motor Trend's Car of the Year.

     

    My deal would be 4-5K off the sticker, which he says is 5% below cost. I assume he means dealer cost.

     

    He is hooking me up with a test vehicle from their MD HQ's for a few days...

     

    Anyhow, I hope American cars can reclaim the reliability ground and style from oversees competitors.

  4. So true stay away from Chrysler. My wife got the PT Dream Cruiser and the extended warranty. They gave me such a hard time repairing a faulty ball joint at about 20 thou. Plus this POS gets damm awful gas mileage. Lease is up in March and we are dumping it. IM not going to go thru the hassle of fighting with these jokers everytime something under warrenty needs to be fixed. That wasn't the only problem we had, just the worst. This was our first and will be our last time dealing with Chrysler.

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    my saving grace is that my former neighbor is head of the mid-Atlantic Sales division and all the dealers in the area jump to the moon when he talks.

  5. It certainly looks good.  Of course, I'm not a woman so I don't buy a car based on that.  Since it's a Chrysler, I'd avoid it like an "underwear optional" party at T-Bone's house.

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    well, are you saying styling doesn't matter at all? Surely it plays a part....

     

    These have a lot of Benz technology in them. I'm not an MAerican car person myslef, but I applaud Chrysler for trying new designs.

  6. If you're referring to the models that are currently made, I wasn't too impressed. I test drove one a few years ago & it's drivetrain reminded me of an overstressed K-car.  For that sort of money, (I thought it was like $30k), you'd expect more.

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    that's the 300M... The 300 is new for this year.

  7. Thanks so much.

     

    I know it's meaningless, and even though I hate math, I like numbers.

     

    I am a walking contradiction I guess.  :devil:

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    not to bum you out, but assuming I'm right - I believe I am - then if you include OUR odds of WW then all the scenarios play out to a 10.5% chance of occuring... <_<

  8. Ah, thank you:)

     

    So we have a 12% chance...

     

    Looks grim when you see it in that format, but it's better than nothing!

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    I doubt that is correct either because you only need one loss out of 2 possible tries for each team. If it was the final game - yes, but not now.

     

    I think it is 0.75^3 = 42%

     

    WW, LW, WL, LL = 75% success for each team....

  9. Simple 50/50.  The events are independent of each other.  If the probablility is 50/50 for each game, it is 50/50 for the scenario you describe.  What are they teaching you kids these days in school ... how to roll a condom on?

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    I don't know the right answer, but I know that you're wrong....

     

    flipping a penny is an independent event too, but the prob. that it is flipped tails 3x in a row is not 50%.

  10. Thanks for missing the point. The point is that if the Bills won that game on the last play, or the Nate play, the practices the next week and the mindset and the effort and the gameplanning and the coaching and the EVERYTHING would have been slightly if not significantly different. So you cannot assume that everything else would have happened the same in the next 13 weeks.

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    the faulty line of reasoning usually happens within the game. 3 missed FG's and a dropped TD turns into 16 missed points. However, we know that we can only count one of those scores and the rest of the game would be different.

  11. Fair point.  Can't blame the season on NC, and really I wouldn't call a 10-6 season a failure regardless.  BUUUUUT, just for the sake of argument, as much as I might buy into your butterfly effect theory, I'd think it's more likely that had the Bills won that game against Jax they would've been more confident in the early part of the season, with the likely outcome that we could've won a few of those other ones we lost... in other words, 12-4 would've been within the realm of possibility.

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    moving one from the loss column and putting it in the win column would obviously be a good thing in most scenarios - but the bottom line is we just don't know. Maybe a bunch of happy Bills jumps on Lee Evans and he strains his back. Nobody knows.

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