It's like being the best ballerina in Winslow, Arizona.

The sad thing is that if you handed an Amish person your phone and asked them to shoot video with it, they'd do it right and film in landscape orientation instead of goddamn vertical video.

And there are also ways to make very high security key locks, but the vast majority of implementations don't employ those security features because of cost or convenience issues.

You're overthinking it. Fingerprint scans have already been hacked by physically reproducing the target's fingerprint, with ALL the data points. Not intercepting the data - just reproducing the fingerprint in a physical media. Not all that hard to do, either.

Ah, but here's my main point - if someone copies your key, you can get the lock re-keyed. If someone copies your biometric data, you can't get re-eyeballed, re-fingerprinted, or re-voiced.

It's already been done with fingerprint readers, and a retinal scan is just a camera taking a picture of the pattern of blood vessels in your eye... People think biometric scans are this magical thing, and the only way to "break" the scan is to chop off a body part. In truth, all these forms of biometric…

The problem with biometric identification is that once somebody "hacks" it, you're screwed - it's not like you can change the combination, or get it re-keyed. If somebody figures out how to spoof your biometric data, that form of security is no longer useful to you ever again.

Bringing in a large number of Australian-built cars and selling them at a reasonable price would cause a shitstorm with the UAW, so there's another reason why they're so limited and so expensive.

Yep, no cars and bicycles and people interacting where I live! And no nonsensical "laws of men" either.

Except it doesn't. The DeltaWing has to have its own set of rules. Doesn't have a comparable powerplant. Doesn't have to weigh the same.

Some things, like gravity, are not up for debate. If you are not on FOOT, you are not a PEDestrian. It's right there in the root word.

Man, Nissan just has to always be on the bleeding edge of developing racecars that are just plain unpleasant to look at. The DeltaWing wasn't ugly and wrong enough, so they had to go back to first principles with this hideous lump...

She's not a pedestrian.

Right, but they use it to refer to the prop in a streamlined configuration, not a flat pitch configuration.

Minor quibble: "Feathered" almost always is taken to mean "in-line with the flow" to create minimum drag. I think it would be clearer to say "at flat pitch."

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This, exactly. The "official" Z/28 lap was in the rain.

Wait for better weather, then move someplace else.

The "Italian tuneup" doesn't work on Chevys...

...and then I had to take your gold star away for getting Woodhouse's name wrong.