I don’t keep adjustable wrenches, and I don’t let my technicians keep their either. All they seem to be good for is rounding off bolts.

Good advice, if you happen to find yourself in the 90’s. Less good today.

Yes, indeed. Someon needs to make a set of wrenches labeled

17/32 if you have a good set, 9/16s if you dont. Just keep your wrenches in order, and pick the very next one.

Ah yes, that one is annoying. The one that really drives me nuts if torque vs power, which I swear 80% of gearheads don’t understand.

I’m an engineer and I prefer the imperial system. Oh, I didn’t always feel that way. While learning in theory land (where there is no air resistance, all ropes are inelastic, and all cows are perfectly spherical) the metric system does make the math easier. Not necessarily easy, mind you, just easier. Anytime the math…

“Mass, speed, energy, and gravity are all bound together in a wibbly-wobbly kind of way.”

I have no trouble with 10’s, but the 12’s are never around.

If done by amateurs, automotive jobs should never be measured in minutes, or even hours. It’s best to meausure in number of evenings, or cases of beer.

So killing people is ok, as long as they are not in the US?

I’m not sure that if that assassination was a success that the iraq war had necessarily gone better, but it certainly could have.

And yet the world today is crawling with super sneaky secret squirrel special forces dudes.

No, I’m positively pro immigration. Also, I would not suggest this if I was in anyway likely to end up in the cross hairs.

One could argue that we are better off with “them” trying to kill our president because:

Yes, the chain of incentives is not difficult to trace here.

No, I’m assuming that assasination attempts wont necessarily turn into full fledged wars. I mean if they do, we are no worse than we were before, we still got the same war. However, there is a chance that they wont, and then we’re better off.

Thats some mighty fine super pedanting. I have much respect for these sort of pointless mental gymnastics!

What I find interesting is that it’s against the laws of war to assassinate members of other governments, but it’s perfectly ok to attack their army with your army in order to capture them.

“Low range works by using a second set of gears to multiply your vehicle’s power at lower RPMs.”

In other news, demand curve slopes downward. More at 11.