Of all the nitroget claims, that’s the one I hate the most. “Air expands when it gets hot, nitrogen does not”

My approach would have been

Ok, since more info on this situation came out, I can’t claim that what they did is anything other than cheating. However, to illustrate my original point, I’ll use a different example.

Depends on how you define efficiency here. If you consider that a vehicles purpose is to move you, and moving itself is purely incidental, a motorcycle is doing pretty good.

What is that compressed air looking fitting on the back of racecars? Is there a compressed air powered motor starter?

And a national sex ed standard isn’t likely to solve the current funding problems. Your favorite national standard will be taught be the same overworked, underpaid, badly administered staff we have today (substitute lazy, overpaid, corrupt, and unionized if your biases run the other way, reader. Point is, its the same…

Not entirely. Both have to do with minimum standards that we expect educators to teach our kids. It seems that in the case of math and english, too often that is all they teach. Thats reason to be concerned the same thing will happen with sex ed.

Yes, I stay awake at night imagining the day the government comes to my house and takes my birthcontrol and gives my daughters guns, or something like that.

Yep, wrote that before it was clear what they were doing. In this case, I agree, they were subverting the purpose of regulation. Fine em.

You gleaned all that from an asterisk?

Some commenting systems have rather puritanical filters.

Yes, but look at whats happening with standardized tests (especially those used to evaluate school performance).

That is true, but I can’t think of very good reasons not to. Randomized trial would of course be best, but those would be very difficult to implement.

That sounds so reasonable, and yet when it comes to math and reading standards, schools spent months teaching to the tests.

Not at all.

Some commenting systems have rather puritanical filters.

Doing more reading, the rules actually said “do not spit out more than this NOx during the time of of the test” which they technically passed (and it’s really lousy rule making).

Another, tangenially related point, is that people seem to be unifying the need for better s*x education with the need for a national standard for the same education. And that seems strange. Presumably, there are many different ways to teach, and we don’t know for sure which is best, so it makes sense to try several.

I’m sorry, I don’t work in the auto industry, and can’t understand all the abbriviations. I did find this at the LA times site.

I found this