Yep, that’s how you know it’s some government nonsense. If your goal is unattainable then your program is unexecutable and you should be sent back to the showers to come up with something that is reasonable so funds aren’t wasted.

It was PM-2A IIRC. Put together in pieces.

Both of them did a good job of making Trump look bad. Hillary did not do a great job of making herself look good so there’s still work to do if she wants to get over the finish line. Wishy-washy undecideds who turn anti-candidate don’t vote. She definitely came out on top, but I doubt she swayed any Trump supporters…

I fill up at 1/4 now since I’m a suburban/urban commuter. I’m only at the gas station every couple weeks and the biggest risk to running out of gas is a random day of gridlock.

When I was a rural commuter, though, with a 90ish mile commute I was at the gas station multiple times a week. I would do near anything to…

“The ad says that’s due to it not getting the cooling system to burp correctly”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...sure buddy.

Lasers don’t require you to carry around a bunch of explody things that make you blow up when stuff goes South. They have ‘unlimited’ ammo as long as you have power. Not needing ammo means that the entire logistics tail of moving around explody stuff goes away. It means the hazardous storage of that stuff and all the…

If a laser is too big to put on a helicopter you could just put the helicopter on the laser.

Meh, a procurement manager isn’t going to put a whole lot of stock in ‘my competitors product is worse/more dangerous/less effective/etc. than my more expensive one’. They all say that always when they've hit their price floor.

You’re lucky you didn’t run into it. It’s extremely common. There’re even syllabi with modules that call for it to be taught (at least there were 13ish years ago when I had to review them).

Yeah, but other simplified systems are taught as “This is a simplified system, you can’t actually have a *frictionless system* (no entropy, etc. etc. insert simplification)“ whereas vehicle acceleration being limited by a coefficient of 1.0 is taught as a fundamental fact and for whatever reason people really…

Yeah, that 'fact' has long been taught in entry level physics and it's just straight incorrect. Some materials have a higher coefficient of friction and some things don't behave as solid bodies when it comes to friction. I dislike that it's taught as some fundamental physics property because, for whatever reason, that…

Billing rate != take home. You’ve got to pay staff, fringe, taxes, benefits, etc. etc. 125$s/hour would land you in the low 6 figure range normally.

Goes below fifth...I don't think I'll ever get used to 6+ gear manuals...I still find myself accidentally cruising the interstate occasionally in 5th even though I've been DDing a 6 speed for 7 years...5 forward gears was good enough

That was my assumption. If they put it together right they can have a selection of ratios for the gov tests and seamlessly move between them while having additional ratios in between for off emissions/consumption cycle driving.

Yeah, but that's where it gets all lawyery. The definition (2) in section 7750 of chapter 85 subchapter II part A defines a motor vehicle as (paraphrase) 'a self-propelled vehicle intended for use on streets or highways'. If they developed it for non-street or testing/development use per customer request they're 100%…

There are some shit wheel bearings out there. I've had no issues with Fords, Chevys, Volvos, Hondas, and (lots of) Mazdas going back to the 1980s. Many over 150k on the originals, a few replacements in the 90-150k range. However, the two VWs I've had straight up ate the things. I was lucky to get 60k on any single…

Been worked on in the past. Tesla bought the company that did this for Toyota IIRC:

Meh, the idea of the two per country rule was introduced after the Japanese Men’s team utterly dominated the 1972 games. They swept individual all-around (they also took 6 of the top 11 positions), P-bars, and high bar while taking 2 of 3 medals in all the other events but vault. The Soviets and East Germans pretty…

If he were that savvy he would have taken the 68k depriciated value the insurance company offered and either used some liquid assets to pay off the note or just rolled into a new loan. He would not have sued for more than the car was worth new.

It was a 2014 Panamera...sounds like his insurance agreed it was their bill and offered 68k which is pretty much in line with 2014 Panamera prices. Sucks to be him, but it ain’t their fault he’s upside down.