@FThorn: My dad felt the first atom bombed dropped on Japan and lived past even today's expected lifespan. Coincidentally, my post here corresponds well with today's subsequent blog post that nukes are more survivable than most people think. ...

We restrain our vaporizing capabilities which also would not cost us much.

@dotnsk: I do not disagree with anything you said.

@Dangerwillrobinson: Depends on whether you are protecting the airplane/airlines, or the actual people. A government that does not change these terrorist-inviting chokepoints thusly sends the signal they are protecting the airplane/airline, I would say.

As other people have pointed out, checkpoints CREATE CHOKEPOINTS that concentrate people BEFORE the security. All someone has to do is detonate a bomb AT THE CHOKEPOINT which will likely have more densely packed people than the airplane itself and cause more death. So, security experts KNOW THIS and the fact that they…

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You won't find many examples of people racing and causing harm like this on priuschat.com. They do not glorify horsepower and unbridled adrenaline surges.

Tanner could still be any of the Top Gear british dudes all day long, it appears.

Must not be much competition to be a gymkana announcer. Certainly has the vocabulary of a 2nd grader.

I am never putting my Prius on a dyno! Never!

I did not need to login to the interwebs to learn that the British are pompous as-hats, even to fellow Brits. ;)

@HykCraft_Returns: It's their recounting of their time with him. You, the reader, get to form an opinion.

I just finished reading the book "In the President's Secret Service". Accounts from SS working with Kennedy. Not much good to say about him at all. Nor Johnson. Anyone that thinks Kennedy was a special guy doing only good should read this and arrive at their own opinion.

Another power grab like the constituted federal government has used the commerce clause to enlarge it's authority illegally for decades now.

You should not drink.

@twinturbo2: Not really. Just normal stuff. The guys really try hard to put out good quality products. Kokomo is the more industrial(ized) city in USA; per capita of blue collar factory workers.

what are those things?

That is where my brother-in-law works and my late brother worked.

F da TSA in da BUTT you MFers!

@daPrinz: Likely defective, but I was unwilling at the time to be a guinea pig tester for Apple. I chose to wait out their bugs.