When the term "Graphics Package" is used, you are already fucked...

Assholes! I paid dearly for the Italian, French, and German versions. The even more annoying thing is that I rarely used them, because my memory and comprehension of all 3 languages was far better than I gave myself credit for. I was able to translate about 80% of the German I encountered, and it is my weakest…

I guess maybe you are not clear about what I was saying, but I was agreeing with your original post about the militarization of the police in America. I simply stated that it all began with 9/11.

True. 9/11 just lit the fuse.

Right, I did respond to you. But I never said that tanks and storm troopers would have prevented 9/11, or anything close to that. That would be why I believed your response must have been directed to someone else who did say such things. Again, your photo asked when did police become so militarized, and I replied that…

We have a single train line in Charlotte NC, and when it was nearing completion, someone noticed that they had built several of the station entrances for the trains a bit too low, and they had to re-work the structures. On the only train in the entire city. Just one.

If you were in charge of ordering trains for a country, you would think that you might have the dimensions written down on a post-it note stuck to your computer screen or somewhere else in your cubicle. "Remember 7.25 meters!"

I never said that it would have prevented 9/11. Nor did the person I responded to. His question was about when did the police in America become so militarized. My answer was that 9/11 started it, with the Department of Homeland Security providing funds to local police departments to buy pseudo-military equipment,…

The rest of us are talking about an armored personnel carrier, so I have no idea what you are talking about.

Manhattan fell out of a plane?

"When did this become this?"

The military does not scare me so much. They have a rigid command and control structure, rules of engagement, and years of training with their equipment.

They do a huge show of force every year in my city, Charlotte NC, on the 4th of July. Now mind you, Charlotte is such a polite place, and the citizens sensibilities are so delicate, that you can and will be escorted out of the Carolina Panthers Stadium if you are heard yelling an obscenity during a Panthers game. But…

Take a good look, because your tax dollars will be buying these for your local PD via the Dept of Homeland Security, because Terrorists! Never mind the fact that if the shit in your town ever hits the fan so badly that they actually need something like this, chances are that everyone, including you, are already…

That's a fairly progressive bicycle law for any state, but for Idaho, it's a miracle, especially when you consider their pool of candidates for Governor.

The reliability of various sensors, control modules, and electronics in modern cars is deplorable, no matter who makes them. We really are headed to cars being disposable, and there is no great plan in place for disposing of them. I honestly believe that 20 years from now, you will be more likely to see a 60's or 70's…

I tried that first. The grass and the ground were so wet that there was no steering, I was just along for the ride. Besides, I was a bit overwhelmed by that point. The ABS finally did its job.

Having to pay for a brand new Miata donor car will not be an issue for the type of people who will buy this. I know you are thinking that this would be a great retrofit for an older Miata, and that is how most car guys would think, myself included. But they want people with deep pockets, since this will probably cost…

I knew BMW would be on here, I only clicked to see how bad it would be....

The guys are not leaving him alone because he is the President of Russia, because some of them have been Fun Guys! It's because he is an ex-Special Forces guy, who would probably have them killed if they smacked him around a little. Boris Yeltsin would have body checked himself, before doing a face plant, and knocking…