LOL. DOJ is pronounced the way it is, because there would be big reputation trouble if it was pronounced “dodge”. By that token, NES is for me “en-ee-es” because a corporation in a country infamous for its inability to speak English clearly is NOT going to tell me, a native English speaker, how to pronounce anything…

They made six cars... so basically one for each member of the team, minus the factory manager, who probably got to enjoy one of the higher end Soviet era cars that were designated for such use.

The cashiers with origins in certain foreign nations cannot find a SKU on your service pet and thus think you’re attempting to steal fresh food items...

Ehhh... The other Soviet amphibious car is rather more reliable. And there was a company down on the Gulf Coast that imported them. Only downside is they are all ex-military and you’ll need to go over them carefully to make sure they haven’t sprung a leak. Oh, and you’ll need to learn how to drive an 8 wheeled vehicle…

A unit of measure for caffeinated beverages, like soda. They sell it in a 2 liter bottle, after all.

I have two takeaways from this:

Love how the team owner has arranged things so that he is a creditor as well. I bet he’ll be first in line with his hand out for a pay off when the time comes to pay the creditors, and that is a line he has no right to be in.

Just to point out for others that your speeding wasn’t excessive, I’ve had to drive from Philly’s NJ suburbs to Pittsburgh and back several times, and it has always been a 4.5 to 5.5 hour trip for me. Even from the western border of CT, you’d have at least an extra 2 hours to drive, depending on behavior of traffic in…

On a completely off topic note, in the first few seconds of the first video, I notice a banner placed by BP... If they had woken up about 30 years earlier, the Decepticons could have simply bought energon instead of having to extract it themselves.

So lame.... If a burnout is going to involve fire, then it needs to be self igniting, not helped along by pouring gas over the tires and flicking a lit match on it. Now those insane Australians, they know how to get the job done.

Dude who did this work is nothing but a money grubber. He could have said “No” and let someone else handle the creation of this absurdity on wheels. And the fact that he even thinks this is defensible just shows you how full of himself he happens to be.

NJ had red light cameras, lots of red light cameras. But most of them have done the way of the do-do, mostly for the same reason - towns were caught again and again cutting the yellow light down timing below the state-mandated 4 second minimum in order to boost the number of offenses and thus revenues. They were even…

Depends on the sort of growth between you and the train, really. I have tracks running about a half mile away, too, with plenty of woods between my home and the tracks. But I know when the trains go through between 1 AM and 1:30 AM four days a week. This area is heavy on maples and little in the way of shrubbery or…

Absorbing the sound isn’t a solution. There is nowhere for that absorbed energy to go. Now if they developed a system to convert that absorbed energy to electricity or something, then I could see it as a long term solution. Otherwise, it is simply a technology that will break down in a fairly short order.

Huh. What I hear is someone complaining about not being able to find parts, but what I see are plenty of opportunities to learn new fabrication skills.

In other news, Airbnb renters are a lazy lot that can’t be bothered to do pre- or post-rental walkthru’s to find damage caused by their ‘guests’. In still other news, give it 100 years, and that script won’t do a single thing to security cameras on a wired, closed network (ie, an old school camera system).

LOL. When it comes time for maintenance, replacing consumables, or outright repairs, you’ll wish it was just a very nice Civic.

That whole paranoid conspiracy theory regarding Musk thinking the automotive world is out to sink his company goes a long way in explaining the absurd drive to add so many robots. Makes me wonder what other particular robot-loving execs suffer from a similar problem. And what makes this delightfully absurd is the way…

Gwinnett County, Georgia...  Yep, thought that was familiar. The sheriff could have saved himself a whole lot of trouble by just using that Live PD revenue to make the purchase instead of using an asset forfeiture kickback scheme the Feds have been supposedly cracking down on for several years now.

Sounds very much like their problem in the 1990's, when they suffered a years long rash of “accidental intrusions” involving driving forklift tangs through computer cases, destroying fully assembled computers. It happened so many times in the Philadelphia area that there is NO WAY it was accidental (we’re talking…