God would I love to see Herta win the Indy 500. I was rooting for Alonso after seeing him at the Rolex 24 and witnessing just how fucking cool he was to everyone in sportscar land (that’s not always the case for F1 drivers). It’s a bummer he failed to qualify, but not all that surprising given his team and how ridiculo…

My point is that it’s a very shallow analysis. I don’t think Musk is the right guy to lead the company — he’s impulsive, prone to self-indulgence, and doens’t know when to just shut up — but I am not certain that the archetypical hero CEO could come in and turn the company around. Musk has built a great product, but…

I didn’t say they were competent, I simply said that the challenges they face are far more difficult than a corner diner faces.

I mean, fucking hell, but do you know what tires he was running? The OEMs on the AT are Dunlop TrailMax tires, which is not a tire I would call a knobby.

I’m no Tesla fan, but I acknowledge that Tesla’s problems are in an entirely different orbit than your average mom & pop restaurant.

It’s not a matter of shortening braking distances, it’s a matter of reducing brake fade. Braking upgrades are the first thing any autocrosser does. Go to a Solo event and ask around about brakes. You’ll get plenty of talk about what upgrades they’ve done. The people who don’t upgrade their brakes have a strategy about…

The regen braking force in a Tesla is significantly greater than any engine braking this side of a LS7 wedged into a Miata.

WTF is “long distance”? I pay $0.0098/min to any number on the continental NANPA.

It’s not caller ID spoofing if the caller bought the number though. For example, if I have an office in Miami, and I need to make a lot of calls in the NYC market, I can purchase a NYC DID from my VoIP provider. If I map this number to outbound calls from a VoIP trunk on a PBX in Miami, I’ve not broken any laws. The…

The key question is this: when you call the number back, does it ring to the caller? If the number rings back to the caller’s company when dialed, it’s not caller ID spoofing, it’s simply a matter of purchasing telephone numbers in the desired markets.

While your classmate might have been on the fringes, this concept is not at all new. It’s called a moral hazard. When the consequence of aberrant behavior is eliminated, individuals are incentivized to engage in said behavior. The thing to keep in mind is that it is not a dichotomy; few things are.

Yeah, but I’m Ayrton Senna reincarnate. Didn’t you hear?

Who would do this?

Yes. Yes they will.

I’d love to know where she found this one. A Google Image search finds very few sites that include this image.

While her actions at Kings Landing do represent a departure in action, they do not represent a departure in thinking. Good characters incorporate the complexity we find in our real lives, and Daenerys (as a character) absolutely succeeds there.

Is Watkins Glen any more hilly than Zandvoort?

It’s hard to get a good feel for the market on bikes like this. The BMW airhead market is up in general, but it’s not like there are that many Paris-Dakar bikes out there to go by. And yess, the PD replica aspect of this bike does add to the value. Though the real money bike is the R80G/S Paris-Dakar.

Some dude: I’m a pretty damn good fabricator.

Holy shit, how the hell do they use the throttle like that?