Dude, whatever documentary you saw was way off the mark or you misheard.
Replying to myself...
What on earth are you talking about? Earliest I remember APUC for the F35 was in the 1997 CBO report and that estimated ~80M in 1997 dollars. I don’t recall one, but I would buy a hard ceiling of 100M for URF or maybe APUC, but it was no-way-no-how ever near 1M for either of those targets.
I just use kerosene from my emergency stock. That'll remove pretty much anything and I've never had any paint issues even though everyone flips out when I tell them. Clean, strip, kerosene off all the junk, spot clean, polish, clay, seal every year before winter. Touch up sealant in late spring and GTG.
Don’t surgically declaw a cat, but definitely surgically remove it’s balls or uterus/tubes/eggs.
These aren’t priceless works of art...they’re the shitty ragged out stunt bike/atvs. People have difficulty selling that crap on Craigslist as is. Crushing them is one and done, selling them is a storage/paperwork/man hour upper with a sales downer that is probably close to breaking even.
I'm not weeping.
Not much of one since they already do that in most parts...they've been used here and there for public works projects as well, melted down and used for reefs or as components in building's foundations or steel beams.
People haven't cared about being able to perform basic maintenance in my memory going back a good 3+ decades. Good Samaritans rescuing folks who overheated/ran out of gas/with a flat/etc. was so common it is a trope. All that's really changed is that it is now more slightly more convenient when you do have to pull…
Sweet, so when my car sets off all the alarms in a parking garage there will be legitimate explosions? It’ll be like a military salute. (Yes I realize it probably takes mechanical movement to activate the striker rather than just vibrations so it probably wouldn’t happen, but it’s a fun image)
Also, don't know if that…
You are correct, the F35 scored the lowest on candidate risk (ie, it is the riskiest in the amorphous non-quantifiable risks). There’re lots of methods used to calculate risks (expert panels, parametric models, time phased evaluations, blah blah...not my field) and there’re entire corporations who do only that. Don’t…
Magnuson-Moss doesn’t attach 99% of the time to used cars. If the window sticker has ‘As-is no warranty’ checked you don’t get MM protections. What you’re buying is a third party extended service contract and it will have T&Cs spelled out in it which don’t necessarily align to MM. I’ve seen some that state they will…
Oh, it definitely goes real-time most of the time. If you listen to a scanner whenever an amber alert or stolen car or whatever goes out they’ll activate all the units with scanners (including parking enforcement in some cities) and the radio calls when they get a hit are within seconds. Same with the parking…
Volkswagen Execs Didn’t Do Anything Wrong
You know, other than establishing a culture where manifest deception and violations of the law were necessary to succeed.
Ford puts full GPS capabilities in its cars but keeps the navigation option behind a paywall. Pretty much all the stuff from SYNC 2 till now you can dig around in the menus and find your Lat/Long even in a non-navigation car. It’s slightly different because there’s associated licensing costs for the maps and software,…
Not really...there were a few penalty boxes (sub compacts, Neons, Korean stuff) below, but even extreme base model Cavaliers, Civics and Corollas had crested 10k by 96.
Nah, <10k$ cars were rare in 96. From the depths of memory I think these were in the 14-18k range. Still...CP at 10k today.
They just figured everyone would be asleep by the fourth slide so it wouldn’t matter.
They're sketchy. I've had a 2010 since new (and yes I stayed on top of maintenance, and no I didn't tune it though that was originally the plan until I found out its components were made of tissue paper) and had pretty much every issue listed in this thread plus some. None that left me stranded, a couple that caused…