What kind of shitty analogy is that? No one is concerned about armed cops. They are concerned about poorly trained and inadequately screened cops. Now since you seem to be obsessed with cops and subways the better analogy is: Would I rather be on a subway with 50 armed cops or 50 armed strangers? The answer to that…

I don’t disagree with that statement at all but I suspect the follow up statements will be an area of contention. I happen to like guns and believe they have a purpose but I also believe that they are issued with far too much ease to individuals who have no business handling them. You can imagine that I’m in support…

I could be wrong but based on the look and feel of the vid I assumed it was Gymkhana but for trucks?

Don’t get me wrong, I understand the incredible difficulty in producing even just the enriched uranium. But when you’re thinking 50-100 years from now the ease of acquisition (even purchased from a more developed nation) can change. Advancement/technology marches forward and tends to reduce cost as a result. Even if…

It’s pretty obvious you lack critical thinking abilities because you are making some fairly presumptuous statements about me given very little information to begin with. Did you factor in my bi monthly visits to the gun range (and general love for guns and all things explosive) or did you fuck up as one does when…

The issue for me is down the line when smaller and smaller actors have access to nuclear weaponry (or something else with devastating power). Right now there are relatively few with authority to act but this will change. While I would like to think that a nuclear weapon in every nations hand will produce an impressive…

Thanks?

Validating our long-range nuclear ballistic missile capability to the world may sound morbid, as using that capability operationally would probably mean the apocalypse, but it is entirely necessary. These missiles stand as our deterrent against such a reality ever happening. Testing them occasionally provides…

What’s the rub? I worry about resale value 3-6 years after the initial purchase and I imagine most people could care less if they get $1k versus $4k 25+ years later. It simply doesn’t matter at that point for anyone other than the person buying a 25 year old truck because its what they can afford.

I can’t recall the last time I saw a wagon without a fart can hanging off the back.

That can really be said of any bike.

But look at the pooop!

They don’t have a mill on site because the military blew it up. What kind of crap argument is that?

While you are stating facts, none of it counters my argument. I believe the automotive industry is important and I value the jobs this sector brings to the economy. That said, I think manufacturers that design shoddy products and dump them on consumers should pay fines regardless of the sector they are in. In the long…

One more rule: NO 996’s!!!!!!!!!

This is the kind of logic that flushes America down the toilet. It’s not theoretical that a manufacturer of any product (cars, baby food, etc) will gladly cut corners to increase profits even if cutting that corner means contributing to consumer death or injury. We know it isn’t theoretical because it happens on a…

It doesn’t kill me one bit. At the end of the day you need to hit offending automakers where it hurts which happens to be the bottom line. Shareholders who were happy to ignore recalls or didn’t complain about shoddy build quality because profits were soaring will now raise those complaints when profits are lost due…

The trick is that for many people this is the ideal area (including me) and going anywhere else is really settling for something else. My wife and I are considering a move to Portland or Seattle if the either the housing market or our salaries don’t improve within the next few years so we can buy a house before having…

It’s nice in the sense that the area is beautiful, plenty to do, weather is great and I’m fond of the mixed cultural environment (I grew up in the area, not a transplant). It’s not great in the sense that housing is brutally expensive so even though my wife and I (in our late 20’s) make decent money there is no way we…

Cali indeed (SF Peninsula). I did 3 decent coats on each wheel and it was ridiculously durable. I half expected it to be perferated with rocks a few months in but it just kept trucking along for over a year until I removed them. The wheel finish underneath was pristine too.