Hawt.

While we're on the subject of performance cars being used for work duty (which is awesome and always will be), I'd like to take this chance to once again petition Jalopnik for an article on camera cars. Cayenne turbos and AMG M-klasses blacked out in matte finish and loaded down with equipment is the awesomest thing…

False. It was cool then, too.

You can call me stupid if that's the best argument you have, but the fact is, you're factually and verifiably incorrect. The fact that we move forward in time at unit speed is fundamental to Newtonian mechanics, and provides the definition for the units used in basically all the sciences. It could be called, if you…

I'll certainly check it out after work tonight and get back to you with what I think. Heart click for interesting discussion, btw.

I haven't, but I'll watch it later tonight. Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy Carlin.

But they're not interchangeable, it's their labels that are interchangeable. Once an orthogonal coordinate system is defined by the rules of mathematics, components don't mix. I can go in the i direction all day and I will not move one asymptotic bit in the k direction. As for why pick the z direction as up? …

I'm traveling in time right now. Forward at unit speed. You are confusing "dimension" with "spatial dimension".

Call a duck a duck, but don't call a triangular trade pattern across the Atlantic, the Atlantic triangular trade. Got it. From this point on, it will be referred to as the "Dehumanizing portage of humanity across a great distance to be sold as a commodity on the open market, as conducted by evil bastards."

Time is a subject of measurement, which is the very definition of a dimension.

Not sure about the first part, that labeling axes is trivial. Once you define the first axis, the second must be orthogonal to it. There are simple mathematical ways of checking for orthogonality. As for the third, it must be orthogonal to both. Again, simple math. As for which direction it's orthogonal in, that…

I don't like how his paper used alpha to refer to the angle. When he mentioned that omega was the time derivative of alpha, I wanted to say "no, it's the other way around!" Alpha typically denotes angular acceleration, which is the time derivative of angular velocity.

Am I the only one not seeing a Hofmeister Kink in most of the photos on that NYT post? The Nissan is the closest, but the other ones are either a big stretch to call Hofmeister Kinks, or there just isn't one, period.

Careful, 1991 900S means the 2.1 liter H-engine. Notorious for head gasket issues. I'm not sure I'd touch that one.

I'm not sure it's valid to write something off as "semantics" when your entire point was about word use. Anyway, it's not semantics; the Atlantic triangle trade has always been the Atlantic triangle trade. What do you suggest it should be called?

I wasn't there, but I highly doubt that was the defense. From what it says in the article, I gather that the argument was that he was ticketed by an officer who was moving (presumably driving), and thus it was an optical illusion caused by the officer's motion that made the scientist's car seem to be in motion. …

At every McDonald's I've been to in France, it's actually called "Royal Cheese". There's no "with". Of course, my first time there was in the early 2000's, so it may have changed since the movie was made.

Alvin wasn't built by GE, it was built by General Mills. The Secretary of the Navy at the time was very much opposed to research vessels, so none of the normal defense contractors would touch the project, for fear of finding themselves blacklisted when the next big warship project rolled around. Thus, the vessel was…

Slavery is not referred to as the "Atlantic triangular trade". The slave trade is referred to as such, or at least as one component of it. Sugar, durable goods, and slaves crossing the atlantic in a closed loop has been called the Atlantic triangular trade for as long as it has been studied. Trade like that was a…

This car would be perfect for a wealthy man with a strict catholic wife, and he really wants out of the marriage. That's the only potential buyer I can imagine.