Taking the known price of depreciation on a lease is a more predictable bet (if not a safer one) than the unknown price of depreciation when you buy something. That appeals to some people. Plus, in some places, you pay a hell of a lot less tax on a lease because you’d pay sales tax on the full purchase price.

Man, that girl gets considerably more moe as time goes on.

I just read your other comment on this story. That (Pocono being wide, flat, and cars not scrubbing speed as they climb the bank) make a lot of sense. I can see why you’d want to modify the track or remove it from the schedule until it is.

Pocono is very flat and wide. So when cars are sliding around, they’re not scrubbing speed as they go up the banking like they do in a steeply-banked track like Indy. I also wonder if Pocono needs to look at the angle and height of their walls. They have to do something to keep the cars out of the fence.

The thing is though, it must work. Or they wouldn't bother doing it. There's some animal part of our brain that considers a change in the largest-order digit to be a VERY BAD THING, and if it doesn't change, that is BETTER and we are getting a BETTER DEAL.

Speaking as someone who actually bought the game on release and was massively disappointed by it...

I would take a much simpler response to you than anyone else here (as someone who just bought the game for the first time) and say this -

So you’re complaining about a product you didn’t buy.

A better and more accurate narrative is that he overpromised on the original game and was rightly excoriated by the press and the public for it, but after several years of close, honest communication with the gaming community and (free) quality content updates adding tons of additional features and polish to the game…

It’s not that difficult, actually - it’s a process called electrolysis, and all it does is separate the hydrogen and oxygen atoms from the H20 molecules. The problem in this case is that it requires a lot of energy - more than you’d get from burning the hydrogen. The total energy cycle would be rather inefficient.

any combustion engine will run off of H2. there are two issues with it. first, the flame temperature is really freaking high. You have to use significantly more expensive engine internals. second, your efficiency is limited by the Carnot cycle.

because a fuel cell is not a heat engine it’s possible to develop a…

Comparing Uber to mass transit is an apples to oranges situation. But if you must compare apples to oranges, let’s at least put both fruits in similar boxes.

Tally up the first five years of losses for any mass transit system. Adjust those numbers for inflation. Now, just for fun, extrapolate how many years the mass…

Now do it as a cost-per-passenger and factor in the value of distance over time.

As little as they pay drivers, it’s not actually enough.

There is history in this: The original 427 Cobra was legendary for many years its 0-100-0 feat, so much so that Motor Trend years later pitted the Viper against it. Remember, back in the 1960s, most cars had terrible brakes and a lot of weight to handle. The Cobra legend arose because it was essentially a race car for…

This test is significantly more telling than 0-60mph. This looks are available brake friction, available tire grip on the front of the vehicle, as well as how fast engine power can be translated to forward movement.

Yeah, that I can’t understand.

My brothers and I made our own stop action videos called “Action League THEN!” The characters were:

Melt Man! With the power to... melt.

While “Action League Now!” was always my favorite reoccurring series in KaBlam!, I’ll always remember the time I laughed until nearly peeing myself watching “Prometheus and Bob.”  I don’t remember exactly what happened but it was one of the hardest laughs I had as a child.