Plus a true keying is usually a long, zig-zag mark. Not neat parallel short marks on a bulge of the car... This is self-inflicted and the author is unwilling to own up to not being able to handle a very big truck.

Agreed. The author is jumping to conclusions.

Good for them! It takes guts not to run with the herd.

Confirmed on the Elise. People give you the "where did YOU get the $150,000 for that car?" to which the canned response is: "I got it used. It cost less than that Camry you drive. Even new it's nowhere near what you think it costs." 

I live in Jersey. My office is in lower Manhattan. I go there... Maybe once per month. I have a "hellish suburban commute" of approximately 50 feet on most days. I am burning up the roads of Sussex County or Eastern PA within 30 minutes of turning the key of a car or motorcycle. I have "gear head" co-workers who…

As an Elise owner, I can only repeat what my Buick GNX-driving friend once said: "that car is not a chick magnet. It's a prepubescent boy magnet. Wherever you go you draw a crowd of teenage boys." But that would look creepy on a sticker.

Yeah, why is it that this giant weta freaks people out but a lobster is just dandy? For the record, lobsters freak me out just as much as this thing.

Heh. You are remarkably close to the truth. Substitute "rj45" with "low latency interconnect" and you've pretty much got the boring gist of modern supercomputer architecture. Give me the old days, with strange and bizarre architectures like the Connection Machine and the BBN Butterfly. Those were the days!

I like how in the digital rendering it's supported on a motorcycle wheel stand suitable for a 400 pound bike. I agree with the people who point out that this is the 1,000th rendering of some student's utterly unbuildable and unworkable design. This is art worthy of a science fiction illustration, not real industrial…

Pennsylvania is interesting in that I, with my NJ drivers license, can go across the border (no further than 60 minutes from anywhere in NJ) and purchase virtually any firework I want. Mega rocket multi-shot boxes costing $250? Yep, got 'em. I can do all these things as long as I have my out of state drivers license…

So why don't these particles shred the membranes of the patient, killing the patient along with the bacteria?

Just because something is effectively free to duplicate does not mean that it has zero economic value. If free download and duplication kills off the movie and music business such that no more movies or music are produced, then I, for one, will be out there clamoring to pay somebody to make me some NEW FUCKING SONGS…

This has happened before. Google "Therac 25," it's a classic case of unforseen technical problems

In college freshman physics we were given an assignment to determine how deep the snow had to be to keep you from killing yourself. Apparently this is a classic task to give freshmen in order to make physics more amusing (as if you needed to do THAT!). IIRC, you don't need as much snow as you would think.

This is the Pruneridge Rd. site, right? HP only acquired that 20 years ago? I live in the NY area, but I think I've spent a cumulative year on and off at that site over the past 19 years that I've been with HP. It's been a ghost town for the past 3-4 years now, since Unix has gone by the wayside. Hope Apple gets some…

Crap! Bought an LX3 just over a month ago! It's the perfect camera for the way I use a camera (light, fast, and versatile), so I shouldn't let gadget jealousy affect me.