So much manufactured drama from you guys...honestly, at its best it was better than TG USA at its worst...it’s like you want it to fail. I’m hoping for two highly produced series of automotive entertainment.

Bollocks, look at traction control and abs systems, improvements in lighting, improvements in safety gear...motorcycling is also benefitting from improvements in technology.

For Colorado, if you included the population of riders (from Wolfram alpha), it works out to two tenths of one percent...that you’ll die, or be injured...those are pretty good odds. They’ll get ‘even worse’ as we transition to self driving vehicles.

Had an 89 Turbo II. I COMPLETELY agree. (And you could pushstart it in second gear and just keep pushing against the compression until it cleared itself out.)

There’s some of us that resigned ourselves to out fate...until they announced a repair program...I will now have them fix it, because hey, pretty screen.

That’s a common statement. And it’s wrong. There’s absolutely no reason to stay off the wifi, mingle with the Sharks. Just do it with disposable equipment and has no sensitive data. If you can’t keep safe here, you won be safe when life finds you in China, or O’hare, or on Att Free Wifi

How do you nab a ring if it’s state sponsored?

You should research that...perhaps you’ll learn something interesting. (Do you think they would if they could?)

In what world does racing Formula V constitute “a little more than $1500”?

It’s not what you buy, it’s how much you spend on it. That money doesn’t get you a faster processor (much) or more storage (much)...it gets you an internal and external frame and shell that better protects the parts inside. When you buy a $500 machine, you give up the parts of the laptop that protect the internals…

What is it about Dell and their inability to make trackpads? I had three different dells over the last year at work and they all had phantom mouse launching mode issues....and the other folks at work were perfectly happy with “Well just carry a mouse around with you...”

Not only that, but it's a V8, with a non-electric cooling fan, a torque converter, and a big old school air-cleaner...what motors look like this anymore? (Yeah, I know, Floppy Disks mean Save)

Dammit man! WARN people before linking to tvtropes!

I may just have to print that.

What would they use? Pipe dope?

Go do better.

Which "most companies" have you worked for? Short of some military engagements, most I've seen are seriously lax.

You seem to be confusing me with someone who still races. (and has something to prove).

I own an 89 C4 Convertible (noodly as all get out) and a 98 C5. They are both now, far from stock...but I drove them for a very long time, stock. The C4 coupe with Z-51 was the first mass-produced sportscar capable of cresting 150mph and turning more than a G on the skidpad.

Except for that 150mph top speed and 1.0+g cornering.