This rocks. Trust me it’s ugly. But I’m glad it exists.

Finally! An actual mechanical design flaw, not a superficial one!

We don’t have any money to fight wars. I suppose we could abolish universal healthcare so that we would have more money to go kill people, but this would most likely create a 3rd world country on our doorstep.

Have to admit I enjoy watching this short circuit your wingnut brains. Relentless belligerent aggression never had anything to do with actual strength. It is the weak, scared dog that bites. This guy fits perfectly with the (modern) liberal tradition of using your head rather than Ramboing around like an angry drunk.

Center party. Left wing compared to Tea Party types. Our left wing party is the NDP party.

Just going to point out that the current Canadian defence budget now is currently lower (1.0%) as a percentage of GDP than it was under the last Liberal Government (1.1%). And, despite a 3 year spike in spending (‘spike’ being a 0.03-0.5% increase from 1.1% to 1.6%) at the height of our Afghan adventures, it has…

George Bush ruined the world, if you racist Republicans would remember, before Obama got in office. In fact, he called Obama into the White House to help deal with his world crushing blunders before Obama was sworn in.

Sadly, everyone can be nasty.

Sikhs carry a ceremonial knife, the Kirpan, to symbolize their (very literal) fight for survival in the early years of the religion, against violence by Mughals. It represents the duty of each Sikh to defend themselves and all others from oppression, with violence if (but only if) necessary.

I’m not sure that’s true. The last Liberal and Conservative governments in Canada (neglecting Paul Martin, as he wasn’t in office long enough to make a judgement) do conform to that stereotype: under Harper, budgets grew and Canada adopted a more unilateral foreign policy, and it leveraged force; under Chretien,…

Castrol #36 is a reference to the 1997 JGTC GT500 car.

Other than both having 4 rotors based on the 13B, they’re very different.

I was watching in awe at that particular slow-motion disaster. I felt really bad for the fiesta ST that just plowed at full lock straight off the end of the track. Braking: it’s a thing! And those E36 M3s just pushing from the point of turn-in out beyond the exit curbing. How do you even maintain understeer for that…

Two things that these people should have known before setting a tire on track: 1) If you’re going to go off, scrub as much speed as you can and then go STRAIGHT off; 2) In a spin, both feet in.

OUCH :( Seeing at FiST under-steer really hurt to watch (I have one). I think the car does under-steer quite a bit

The US gallon is about 3.8 litres, the imperial one is 4.545, so mpUSg is a lower figure than mpImpg.

comparatively speaking, there is a lot more benefit in improving the economy of low-mpg vehicles than there is in squeezing out a couple more from a high-mpg vehicle. as the article said, an improvement to 12.2 mpg is a 115% improvement. That would be akin to Toyota announcing they've managed to make the Prius…

As far as concepts go, I'm still smitten by the MAN Concept S from 2010

I haven't seen The Hunger Games, but if this list is to be believed, The Hunger Games derives a lot more from Battle Royale the book, rather than the movie. There is no semi-sympathetic Kitano in the book, but absolutely vile Kinpatsu Sakamochi, a self-alledged killer and rapist who runs the game. The purpose of the…