“as a cemetery, it becomes land that can never be developed”

Historically in SF, female commanders wear hot dressy outfits. Servalan on Blake’s 7 (bare shoulders and open decollete). Grayza on Farscape (bare shoulders and lace!). Lursa and B’etor on various Star Trek properties (open decollete and push-up bras!). It’s not as though Star Wars is logically or consistently thought …

Because aircraft incidents are so sporadic and 1/1-12/31 is an arbitrary measure, extreme year-to-year fluctuations can be expected, thus making trends over longer periods more important. In the 1960s through the 1990s, 1000 fatalities a year wasn’t uncommon, close to or exceeding 2000 occurred several times. In 1977 a…

“Commercial cars” = trucks and buses. Volvo-branded automobiles such as the ones you linked to have had no connection to AB Volvo, the Swedish truck and bus manufacturer, since 1999, other than maintaining a license to use the Volvo name.

It can actually be illegal to use funds appropriated for a specific purpose for an unrelated purpose. Sometimes reasoning can be twisted to come up with a justification that may or may not stand up in court. Republicans are definitely aware of this because there are still lawsuits proceeding against Obama-era…

Would you believe that when the LUV was current, the expression “wuv” was not generally used by adults? Also that these vehicles were often bought by younger people, even counterculture types? The name wasn’t thought to be odd in the period context of vehicles with names like Gremlin or Honeybee and paint colors like…

Because in winter we tend to wear heavier, warmer garments--unless you’re one of those bros who wears his gym shorts and crop top to the car (good luck if you ever have a flat tire or other mishap, btw). Therefore the temperature setting only needs to be high enough to keep the exposed skin comfortable. There’s no…

It’s not a “wagon”; even on Buick’s web site it’s classified under “SUVs & Crossovers”. It would be a better vehicle without standard AWD, an without elevated ride height, and without excess and bizarrely patterned bright trim. More like the Sportback, which is offered in additional and better-looking paint shades (e.…

Wow, logic is finally catching up to the dotcom boom generation. Delivery of bulky and/or heavy staple items to individuals is inherently wasteful of packaging and transport. It makes much more sense to deliver these items to centralized locations and let individuals pick up what they need and can transport themselves…

It still doesn’t deprive the industry itself of any money; they received that when the share was issued. It is bad publicity, and they don’t like that, and they generally don’t like declining share price because it makes their options less attractive to employees, among other things. But if you actually wanted to…

It’s nice for them that a competitor no longer owns it, but it’s not clear to me why a business whose product is named DuckDuckGo felt entitled to it, as there are any number of other Duck-named entities, e. g., Duck Tape, which must awkwardly go by duckbrand.com online, and Duck, NC, which must use townofduck.com.…

It’s actually somewhat witty and clever, in the same vein as the Geo Storm near where I used to live in Maryland with the plate CALMB4D. Unlike the people who just use the plate to describe or duplicate the badge, like RED911. Sad!

The writer explicated that local dealers weren’t interested in renting and rental companies didn’t have the vehicles. I would expect to be able to find a RAV4 at many rental companies, but it’s quit difficult to get a specific model even if you reserve it--it’s always “or similar”.

Well, Japanese doesn’t have articles, neither definite nor indefinite. And there are other languages that don’t, or use articles in a different manner to English, so identity/style guides from overseas management may seem odd to ‘Murcans. There are other oddities even between different English-speaking nations, like…

Reminds me of my 1990 626's 14"ers, just much bigger.

A somewhat similar movie that I like even more is Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death, aka Stairway to Heaven in original American prints, starring David Niven and Kim Hunter (18 years before playing Dr. Zira in Planet of the Apes). The pilot of a damaged British bomber stays at the…

It happened in northern Allegheny County, PA back in January 2013 because of conducive conditions and 5 cooling towers at two power plants on the Ohio River west of here. I was headed to Butler on PA 8 with no snow in the forecast when it started to fall surprisingly heavily, and lacking pretreatment the road was…

Getrag tough, actually...it’s a 6DCT250.

If it didn’t use a Y-series processor, then it probably couldn’t be fanless. And I’m wondering whether the leather shell could work well if it needed vents for airflow. Points for listing at less than a MacBook with last year’s Y-series (and being more honest that it is a Y-series) and having a hinge instead of a…

This seems like an unnecessarily complicated and expensive solution. In Germany there is available a small device that can be placed on the seat bottom that emits a loud alarm (e. g., “Don’t you go wetting this floor, Cowboy! You never know who’s behind you, so sit down, get your water pistol in the bowl, where it…