Most developers get around that “one unit, one vote” by starting the HOA with bylaws that give them tens of votes per property or unit in their possession, even if it is just an empty lot.

A lot of HOAs are actually run by the land developers rather than the local residents. It takes a pretty long time before residents actually have any control.

Not belonging to one is not truly a strategy in many communities. Many municipalities have the necessary rules on the books to allow the conversion of older, “open” neighborhoods to be converted into HOA communities. My neighborhood is more than 60 years old, but a few years ago some newbs moved in and tried to start…

Once you pay the fine, at the very least the clock starts over on a new $1000 limit.

Well, if Karma hears about this, we know precisely what will happen: One (or preferably all) of the HOA board members will come down with the coronavirus and this family will be all like “but we were told not to park it here, and seeing how unreasonable you were, I have no doubt you’ll go back on your word if we loan…

Problem with this correlation is the confusion of luck with intelligence.

“He now claims that he’s in the process of converting one of his factories to manufacturing these devices”

That Lufthansa solution required Germany’s equivalent to the FAA to change regulations to allow it. Flying an aircraft safely requires load balancing, which gets quite complicated almost immediately in a situation like your photo above. And TBH, that is nothing but a publicity stunt. I can guarantee the pasenger…

Well, it is obvious why the “silent” version failed - one point of attachment. Nothing was secured down, so all the vibration traveled up the pipes and mufflers, causing rattling against the exterior of the Fiat. If they had fastened the unholy mess to the roof of the vehicle, it probably would not have been so loud.…

I’ve got one of those too. Fits in my Honda Accord trunk no problem and straps to the interior side trim of my Taurus station wagon. However, I will say the pull out tables aren’t entirely a thing of the past. I see plenty of them on work vans in my region AND they are still fairly ubiquitous for handling coffins on…

Problem is a bit deeper than that. My area has no significant street racing problem because one of the local drag strips quite openly hosts public racing events 1-2 times a week. As a result, we hear about street racing incidents maybe 3 or 4 times a year even though the local broadcast market has a population…

What I really want to know is... Why have none of these numbskulls running these companies put together contingency plans? 9-11 happened. The airlines got grounded. Some failed, others merged. Do they have plans to deal with anything similar happening? Obviously not.... At least nothing beyond asking the US government…

I just want to say, whatever idiot decided forced autoplay on EVERY DAMNED INTERNALLY PUBLISHED VIDEO ON EVERY LAST PAGE was a good idea, well, I would love to catch that bastard in a dark alley and throw him a wet blanket party.

Military service is still a fast track to US citizenship (as well as citizenship in quite a few other nations). Seriously, at one point in the 90's, they were considering citizenship for someone serving like 5 or 6 years, then citizenship for a family member of theirs for each additional 2 years of service

To this day, smashing locomotives is still a potentially possible thing, due to the huge design flaw - throttles that can be locked open on a vehicle that is absurdly slow to accelerate (thus allowing the operator to jump clear of the vehicle long before attempting to do so would become truly dangerous due to speed).

They can have fun trying to hack my phone. I’m stuck on android v.3. They may as well be trying to rule the world with pre-DOS 3.0 virus. Rule of thumb: It is a cell PHONE. Stay off the damned internet.

Ohhhhh.... You blew a perfect chance to be a smartass. “We spent the entire winter testing these hacks out, and now that the weather is warming up, here they are!”

People miss one important point. Rear facing seats are the last line of seats. By facing them to the rear, those seated have direct access to an exit to the vehicle - the rear hatch. If the seat faces forward, you either have to climb over the seat to reach the rear hatch or climb over the second row seats to access…

There is exactly ONE thing to be said which will make you realize this is NOT the only Batmobile that makes sense. And that things is...

So.... You’re saying they’re going to attempt to sell these to the British Army all over again, just as Mercedes sold the G-Wagen to the German and West German militaries for decades? Actually, if memory serves me correctly, Land Rovers managed to sell to at least a dozen militaries and G-Wagens to more than 40…