They already don’t do that. US bound Europe-built cars aren’t equipped with particulate traps, making them more powerful and cheaper then the Euro versions even though the Euro-spec cars would pass US emissions with flying colors. Same thing will happen with split emission requirements. Hell, it’s already happened…

Don’t be confused, they are doing this because it’s in their best interest to have just one standard in the US. They are of the opinion that Trump cannot legally remove CARB’s power to set fuel efficiency and emissions standards. There are something like 15ish other states that follow CARB guidelines. If Trump…

I’d be fine with that, reimburse payment for lodging & travel for all. But put a fixed cap on it so they can’t spend 12 months a year in DC with 1st class trips back and forth. And a (modest) pay bump for things like speaker, etc.

For a long time I’ve believed that Union officials and Congresspeople should have their base pay set to a percentage of the average pay of those they represent. Something like 125% or thereabouts. That gives the person in charge skin in the game of making their constiutant’s lives better.

Too many unions only exist to self-perpetuate. We need a law that caps the Union president’s pay at some fraction of the union’s average pay(I think we need the same thing for congressmen tied to their district’s average pay as well). I’m thinking something around 125% the average union workers pay.

This deal puts the cost of an F-16V at $118-$121 million. It’s rough analog in F-35-land is the F-35A, which has a current cost of $89.2m, to drop to $80m once we move from low production to high production. The -B costs $115.5m and the -C costs $107.7m. Both the B & C are still in LRIP and we don’t know the high…

As with any job, it’s all down to your bosses, and her current one is pretty awful, so she’s not super happy with her job at the moment.

At least at a federal level, the USCG damn well will tell a Malaysian captain what he can or can’t emit from his ship. My wife (who is in the USCG) has forced ships to stay at dock/anchorage for less than that. She once forced a Ukrainian captain to stay at the dock from mid-December to mid-January because a faulty…

I’ve got a 2-fer. On my ‘98 328is, every time I floored it, the traction control would turn off. When I popped the hood the plug for the throttle body that the T/C would be unplugged. I plugged it back in, then the next time I floored it, it would turn off and I’d pop the hood and find it unplugged again. This…

Jag/LR owners would likely welcome BMW reliability with open arms.

That may be the single dumbest thing I have ever seen hollywood put up on a screen(be it big or small).  There is no way anybody involved in filming that has ever used a computer.

At his best in 2013 he hit 42 doubles, 53 HRs, 138 RBIs while batting .286 while slugging .634 and an OPS of 1.004. That was good for 1st in HRs & RBIs for the entire league and 2nd in OPS and total bases in the AL. And he was no worse than 6th in all 3 categories in 2015. When he was on, he was on fire, and was…

I’m not arguing that the C8 isn’t a better deal, it is. But saying the Supra barely looks different from the GT86 is like saying the C8 barely looks different from the C7. Yes there is a familiarity there, as there is with virtually any 2 cars from any product lineup, but they are not identical looking cars, and it…

Maybe an extremely drunk one-eyed man wearing prescription glasses that aren’t his at night might mistake a Supra for a GT86, but anybody else would be pretty hard pressed to make that mistake.

If you actually read the rulebook, it doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t beat the throw. Interfering with the fielders ability to catch the ball is against the rules, full stop, he should have been called out and Weiters moved back to 2nd.

In 20 years of driving I have had 4 people attempt to run me off the road. Every single one of them was in a truck. 1 actually intentionally sideswiped me then tried to claim to the Cop that I rear-ended him. In 3 of the cases all I did was pass them, 2 on a four-lane, one on a 6-lane, I never even moved in front of…

Austal already won half the LCS contract. They build them in the US, so the pork-pursuing politicians still get their kick-backs.

Who is claiming the DDG1000 was $1.8bn? The lowest-end number I’ve seen is $3.5bn.

Low-powered directional antenna pointed upwards towards a communications satellite. Directional isn’t a big deal as it only needs to know where it is and where the satellite is to keep in touch.

I can’t pretend to explain why this was done. Perhaps it was a mistake and aftermarket thermal past was applied to the CPU before the heat sink was mounted and the reviewer simply forgot about it. <sarcasm> Maybe they are being paid by Intel to find something wrong with the product </sarcasm>. Maybe aliens were…