Yeah, if you’re going to an article about what’s in a “patent” (likely just an application), give the serial number, so interested readers can go look it up.

Size? It’s got the mass of like two Miatas.

Those big plastic guppy gills, often at both ends of the car. Textured plastic with no purpose hanging out near the ends of the bumper. Those make want to slap a baby.

I largely agree with all of these (i.e., as absurd “advice”), but it would be interesting to have some conversations about how some of these arose, or if there is any sliver of truth or insight underlying them, or why these myths persist now.

Okay, I’ll bite. What is the definition of sedan and coupe? Since you know that door number is not a critical determinant, what is the determining factor?

Was this badge-engineered as a Chevy Spectrum? I think I remember when I was a kid, that an adult friend of the family bought one because his parents would only have tolerated American cars, but he wanted this. But it’s a little foggy to me. Oh, and I’m well aware that this article is many years old. I was just out…

One of the rare NPs where I just might actually try to go buy the vehicle. NP all day.

So the Nissan Solstice?

It sounds like you’re starting a Def Leppard song.

bicycle/ car crossover secret. Park Bicycle Tools wheel truing stands have holes in the base that line up perfectly with holes in a flywheel off of an old Volkswagen beetle. If you use a wheel truing stand, go to a u-pull-it and get a VW flywheel. bolt your stand right to that for a seriously weighted base.

Yup. If a person *ever* rear-ends the car in front of him or her, the person is at fault. One must take full responsibility for driving. Maintain a following distance that allows you to come to a complete stop. If there is a chain of 40 cars that all crashed, then there are 39 people who did not maintain a reasonable…

The actual purpose of the wing is to add downforce when you go through a long sweeper at > 170 mph. So every time you have your Scion North of 170, if you feel any skitteshness in the back end, you should be wanting that wing.

So, I think the options are:
(1) client is insane dickbag, and those lawyers were done with it,
(2) client was about to commit perjury or insisted those lawyers go along in a crime,
(3) client never paid and withdrawal could otherwise be shown to be non-prejudicial, or
(4) client and lawyer(s) decided to part ways…

If I were a criminal defense attorney, I wouldn’t have guilty and innocent clients. I would have clients who have been accused of a crime. I would advocate for each client with great energy. In those instances in which the prosecution had a strong case, I would likely need to spend hours working on the matter.

I’ve seen both sides of that: get rid of a non-paying client and see that they go retain another firm; sign up a new client who is parting ways with a firm, and slowly find out that they figure out ways to be non-paying clients.

Agreed. In my context, we petition to withdraw if the client doesn’t pay and we satisfy a few conditions (gave the client notice, our withdrawal doesn’t prejudice them, etc.). But yeah, non-payment, intent to commit perjury, but also, client is just a giant dick, an imbecile, or unhinged nutter who doesn’t understand…

At least it’s uncontroversial that you can have torque without HP—seized lug nuts and all. If the nuts are truly corroded onto the bolts, and I stand on my wrench and breaker bar, all 200 lbs of me, 3 feet from the bolt, but fail to budge the nut, then I’m applying 600 lb-ft of torque with no HP. Everyone agrees iwth…

So, if I throw a 1 kg sack of coffee beans onto a sailboat, and move those coffee beans at 1 m/s, while the ocean is exerting 1 Newton of force against the boat, then I’m getting 1 hp of work done, right?

I’m truly fascinated by this exchange and hope it stays civil. What would be “the authority”? Is there something that’s considered the bible of physics? I’ll go look it up.

I didn’t think horsepower is defined to require rotation. I thought physics books just gave it as a measure of work done, units being Watts. But, I’m not an engineer, and I haven’t taken physics since the 1990s, so if you say so, I will defer to you.