"Slim jims" will always exist, and are extremely handy once you learn how to use one.

All of these features will be standard in a few years anyway, and our kids won't believe we ever drove cars without them. Although it is inevitable that some satellite will malfunction or come crashing to the ground someday, and all our technological worlds will be rocked until they get it back online.

Of course not! Moreso than car advances, millions would still be dying of smallpox and other related diseases if we as humans didn't feel the need to create vaccines and the like. Our ability to create is what separates us from animals, and is one of the very things that makes a human, well... human. But my point is this: As far as technology has come, and as much as it has advanced our lives, and as integrated it has become in our society, it can all come crashing down, in the most terrible way imaginable, in the worldly equivalent of the blink of an eye. Trust me: Appreciate technology for what it can do for you, and use it; hell it'* there for that purpose, but don't ever build your life around it so completely and utterly so that you can't live without it, and always keep in mind that, one day, we just might not have it. Realizing this and it'* implications in your life is the first step in bracing yourself for whatever may come, be it good or ill.


Hehe, sorry for making a mountain range out of a grain of sand, but this topic sparked a desire to make publically known what I'd been pondering on and thinking about for quite some time in private. It'* all just part of being self-reliant, I guess. Remember that age-old motto:

"Always be prepared." At least mentally and spiritually, anyway If the heart and mind are prepared, the body will follow...


Anyways, that'* the end of my rant for tonight :P Time to water the damn sod...

either use a slim jim or use a device to pry open the top part of the door to reach in the car. I saw an expert do this and i tried it myself when i locked the keys in my car.

Heh, I was going to brag about the time that I was vallet parking cars and I got in a Benz that didn't have a key. It just had a computer chip that you put in this slot and turned....but apparently that is old technology