From the attached article it seems the family's lawyer handed it over to the Post not the government.

I will when I'm done with my thesis.

I know but I decided to run with it anyway.

While you're correct in that it will not prove a negative it will get you pretty close to with a high degree of confidence and your hypothesis can be a negative in the first place: x will not happen or y is not true. However the Russian drivers concept isn't that open…

You can though. It's called testing for the null hypothesis where you test the opposite of your hypothesis to see if by proving the opposite you refine your hypothesis and retest until it cannot be countered by a null.

Psst the Communists are some of the folks protesting against the current government.

The lead pic in the attached article show the train's damage which makes it looks like it was hit by the rock not hitting it. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…

I love that movie.

Of course then there's the emotional bond, or lack thereof.

And for apparently partly dismantling a race car theft operation.

I live near a couple refineries and they send their loads via train and truck across the region so if you live in such an area you have explosive trains going by on a regular basis, sometimes daily.

Not sure. I live near active oil operations and they bleed and burn the natural gas still. If we can do that it means we're ignoring and wasting a source of NG. Now hows good a source is it is s different question, but oil fields do seem to contain a good quantity of NG.

Lets embed this in some deeper knowledge, considering how many of the millennial parents worked service industry jobs and management jobs that weren't technically minded their parents set the stage for bringing cars to the mechanic. And this ignores party or political affiliation. Growing up in the 1980's my dad,…

Same here on the where on the oh crap scale is it. Frankly my car is rated for oil changes every 5k and that's what I do.

Wait. This would be funny/sad if it happened almost anywhere else in the world aside from Russia. I mean come on, we can see this happening right here in the US of A and thinking it's just the same.

Oh right because Russia/Ex Eastern Bloc.

That's a cockamamy insinuations.

Depends where in the South. Very rural Alabama, Mississippi, Panhandle Florida,and the 9th ward of New Orleans are poor and southern. Urban and coastal south is actually seeing a bit of an uptick these days.

Well Vietnam is still OK.

I had a friend growing up who's family had one of these. So much stuff would collect in the leading edge of that dash.

Wasn't the the vehicle where the rear seat were some of the gas tanks? Or was that the military model?

Oh I'm not blaming VAG for anything it's just doing what it feels it can to sell us cars.