Now that the GOP has officially returned their backing? Yeah...

It’s really too bad... even with the sandbags, ‘accidents’ happen on battlefields. Especially in Vietnam.

My understanding is that gas stations and truck stops make most of their money from the other stuff you buy while you’re there, not the fuel itself. In that light, this could actually be beneficial for them.

I’d bet on it being EMP tolerant long before surviving an actual blast.

Yes.

You know, I’m not sure about this. Earlier this year, Ford also announced they were moving production of small cars from the US to Mexico. That’s not because they were cutting how many cars were being built in the US, but because it made more sense to build the trucks (high margin) here and the little sedans (low…

Nah: it’s for drifting.

Or, since these are apparently popular wheels, sell the stock ones and get something else. I recommend aluminum rally wheels: they look like steelies (so no one pays attention to them) but perform like alloys.

Any lock can be defeated. The point is to make it more difficult: the longer it takes and the more obviously weird things a thief has to do to try to break it, the more likely they are to get caught in the act. They know that too, so it’s a deterrence. Better to find an easier mark.

I was just thinking I should order some, but you’re right: I’m gonna go over to O’Reilly & AutoZone later (so the keys come from different stores).

This might be viable if the Palestinians weren’t the second most hated group in the region.

There’s a flavor of American antisemitism which is zealously pro-Israel: they want all of us Jews to move there.

Testing with bamboo is a pretty standard test for Japanese swords (and their wielders). That doesn’t look like bamboo, but wood shouldn’t be all that different.

Medieval weapons... medieval money.

How Do Missile Defense Systems Work?

You got me curious: the cheapest manual, CPO 911 on AutoTrader is a black-on-black 2010 Carrera cabriolet with 28k miles, for about $58k. That is not a wholly unthinkable amount to spend.

I have been saying exactly this for a while now. It used to be they charged extra for an auto. People paid it because they wanted it. Some of us would do the same for a stick. It might not make sense for every model, but if you can sell a thousand cars with the $1k manual option, that pays for whatever extra cost they…

I don’t believe they did it on purpose, but if they did it would be for the publicity: make an ultra hot, limited model to rejuvenate the attention the 911 garners.

Maybe we can kill the whole slammed/stanced culture that way?