maademperor

a better question is how long have we NOT been a super power? the US is currently allowed to maintain this belief because we consume so much of everything the world makes and have the corporations that "make" these products, but in reality so much of our economy is based on the production of countries that we like to call second and third world that its become counter-productive in the big picture. by effectively giving them the technology to server our corporate needs, we elevated them to a higher level and now it is the US that is dependent on thier production, rather than them being dependent on the US allowing them to produce. this is the result of corrupt unions in the US in my opinion...once we've lost the ability to profitably utilize our own workforce we wont easily get it back. add to that our relatively slow and measured population growth versus say India or China and we are in trouble...India has more students that fit the US standard of Honors/GT than the US has students TOTAL. At the rate that technology is growing, the real money and political power will boil down to intellectual abilities of individual countries to use the resources at thier disposal, countries that have a built in production infrastructure will thrive very well with the resources to conceptualize products, produce those products and finally flood the world with those products. Our military power means less and less as more countries join the nuclear club... I think energy patents/services will be a huge (much bigger than it already is) deal with the coming generations...whomever can perfect hydrogen, solar, electric or whatever format will be in the drivers seat next. as soon as something else is available besides our existing fossil fuels, the world will abandon the middle east... as for foreclosures: people are living far above thier means and we are a society of A) I want it now and JIT-Just In Time. alot of people dont save up for major purchases, they dont forecast issues they may have keeping up (a chick I work with was making just enough with two jobs to pay her $2500 mortgage, car note on the Honda SUV, take care of the kid and food/utils...if she missed time at one job, she was short and something was gonna be missed. my question of why not sell the car at least so you can put some money away got me a look like I was crazy). I've read a lot of the stories with people suffering through foreclosures and soooooo many of them couldnt afford the 600k house anyway much less the luxury car that goes with it. also lenders are to blame, practicing some underhanded practices. federal government has grown too large and unmanageable too. just my thoughts off the top of my head, maybe not right but I aint deleting all this now that its typed. dont bother with any flames as I'll probably forget I typed this

dude..is this your dad ?

MobileMan over at caraudioforum.com built my box, he does good work, doesnt gouge on shipping and is easy enough to work with: http://www.caraudioforum.com/vbb3/showthread.php?t=17579 http://eastcoastenclosures.homestead.com/index.html

wow, thanks this is gonna make my somewhat intimidating cda-9887 settings a great deal more manageable

are you sure they didnt send you back the same unit (ie, your current replacement is definitely NOT the first replacement they sent you)? If it is definitely a different unit, I'd try taking the controller to a gamestop or someplace and asking them if you can test it with thier demo consoles just to make sure there is nothing wrong with the controllers (and verify your process for hooking up the controller). if it works there, and its two broken units in a row, demand to speak to a supervisor straight away and you should be able to get some kind of compensation for this nonsense...

got any friends or family with a driveway you could put it in for a couple of weeks until you get it fixed up (assuming its stuff you can mostly do yourself at less than 5k)? in the meantime, make sure you are backed into whatever space you are parked in, at least that way any passing cars wont see your rear license plates with the expired date in plain view...

ebay or alpine but it will cost you more than just returning it to where you bought it...unless you got it from a non-retail location (ebay or forum member?) check in the faceplate storage box thingy...

....seems to me the kids were the ones that started off on the wrong foot...cop tells you to stop, you need to stop. All skaters know they are in violation of most city's laws regarding skating in non-designated areas, and they do it anyway. The response to law enforcement is always "we arent hurting anyone" but when someone gets knocked down, then they say it was just an accident and try to bounce (seen it with my own two peepers). I can understand why the cop was pissed, you would be too if some punk kids wants to back talk you and whatnot when you are really just doing your job. Yes, someone is being robbed and raped somewhere but right here, someone is breaking another law. I dunno, maybe I'm a little too old to feel for the kids on this one. Or maybe I've seen enough legit brutality to not even consider this an issue. but I do believe choke holds are a no-no for cops in most states.

the one where you put the alcohol in your mouth and swallow is my FAVORITE. the rules are simple...

that is a great link right there...

good idea, and looking at your site I'd guess you know where to find interior parts

yeah, I figured as much, just hoping there was a site google wasnt producing. on the upside tacoma's and 4runners seem to be largely interchangeable....

Hi, first post! anyway, I came across Meade's build and in awe started looking at this site, so far I'm very impressed with the forum members/site, very professional and courteous My question is this: since seeing what folks are doing with thier builds, I'm now interested in exploring my options with modding my 2000 4runner door panels to accomodate larger/deeper speakers and before I go hacking on my existing panels, I wanted to see if there is anyplace anyone knows of where you can purchase them outside of the dealer? I was gonna hit up a couple of junk yards first to practice on whatever I can find, but good quality ones as real replacements in case it all goes horribly wrong with the final run... thanks!