Kamikan’tze

Okay, now I want to see this, if only to hear how one character can be a ‘former kamikaze pilot.’

Along with what Meh said, the tradition of Japanese bureaucracy lends to a tremendous resistance to change. Even in the 1950s, with the film Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa criticizes the immense inertia a bureaucracy has. So, if a problem is found and enough engineering people have given it a pass, it can infect the…

That’s great information - thanks for taking the time to reply. I learned something.

The late 80's-90's recession hit. Which was also compounded by a lot of corruption in the financial district that couldnt be covered up/recovered from easily. That was when most the big under lying issues in Japan either made themselves appaprent(banking/finance/property) and/or started as a result of trying to keep…

WHAT HAPPENED to the Japanese production ethic that powered their recovery from WWII through to the 80's and 90's? When reliability was a byword for their auto and other industries?

Japan’s Corporatism means that their corporations have more rights than their citizens. The big problem is that the same is happening here in the US...

Goes great with a Messerschnitzel.

Is it a mentality like “harming innocent people is bad” or“reckless endangerment is against the law” or “no children should die due to my drunkenness” or “I’d hate to wake up with a hangover and dead kids on my conscience”

This is very true, in Norway they won't even drive after a single drink.  Work gatherings with alcohol had a shuttle to pick up and drop everyone off, just a completely different mentality 

I can’t imagine my knees getting any better even as a zombie. My votes for slow shambling kind.

HA!

$150M is the initial estimate. There’s sure to be cost overruns.

Get Lockheed to build them a $150 million sink to they can run it under warm water. 

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So you’re saying NASA needs to hire the world’s best drillers? 

I love Aston Martin, but in this case I prefer the Volvo P1800 - apart from the grille.

Main trouble area for the Jeep Wrangler appears to be the Jeep Wrangler.

The race organizers are F1 themselves.

Downforce on a race car is, in part, another word for suction. If the covers aren’t fully welded to something that’s not going to move, then the covers are going to move. Happened in an Indy race in Baltimore about 10 years ago. It’s part of the cost of a street race - every single cover along the entire course needs…