Oregon is notorious about citing people who use the title ‘engineer’ without a PE. I heard about it 15 or so years ago when attending a conference in Portland...apparently all sorts of people have run afoul of it over the years.

I mean, just from this article it wasn’t solely the testimony of the informant. It was the testimony of the informant, intimate knowledge of at least one of the victims, a signed confession, plus the fact he owned a sawed off shotgun (the article implies a sawed off shotgun was used in the murders but does not say…

GoFundMe is such a bizzare concept. They make a profit on other people begging. It’s like if 7-11 told the perpetual beggars, ‘sure, you can use my stoop, but I need a 5% cut of your quarters and I won’t let you pay me directly, you must use my payment processor Vinnie over here who needs another 3% cut’.
There’d be a…

Back in the 80s my uncle was a general handyman. He had one of these with a rack on the passenger side for 4x8 sheets and constantly towed a trailer full of lawn equipment and various tools. I used to love getting rides in it because the leather in the backseat was so soft I’d just stretch out on my back (seatbelts…

Eh? Pretty much everyone I knew had CBs back in the early 80s. All the dealers around had them available as options. Even well into the early 90s most of the used cars either had them or had previously had them (brackets drilled into the dash and hacked up wiring). Maybe it’s a country vs. city thing (was a rural…

Not just kids. Benadryl doesn’t make me feel sleepy...at all. It just gives me this slightly disconnected feeling that makes me overly anxious and twitchy. Won’t touch that crap, but apparently it works well for most folks.

Yep, it’s a really odd metric that doesn’t tell you much. I put it elsewhere, but the title is inaccurate and should really be something like “Name-plates still being sold that people are most likely to buy used if they have over 200k miles”.

The data set is only vehicles that are still available as a 2016 model and only includes used car sales which is why you don’t see the older models nor ones that owners hold onto.

Yeah, it’s a weird metric since it’s only ‘sold’ cars so it doesn’t include any where the owner keeps driving it well over 200k as well as it does stuff like lump first gen Taurus-s (Taurai) in with the new ones.

Would be better titled ‘Name-plates people are most likely to buy even if they have over 200k miles’ than…

I got pulled over driving home from the record store on the release day of ‘Renegade’ for being too loud (read too metal). Cops don’t grasp the greatness of Hammerfall either.

Oh, I did all the things...luckily in an era before camera phones were a thing.

Worst was on a 91 Prelude: Removed one windshield wiper and installed a long blade on the other one putting the arm at an angle so it stuck up in front of the passenger (just like an endurance car!), hacked into front fender liner and ran…

Said elsewhere, but I’ve seen this a lot. People aren’t used to neutral and both at the entrance and exit of these washes they’ll have issues getting in/out of it. My guess is that she got to the end and was in neutral and hit the gas and didn’t move. Not understanding why she threw on the parking brake and got out to…

I take the winter car to an automated wash pretty much weekly to get the salt/grime off. Every time I stay a full car length back because ~4 times I’ve seen idiots who either don’t know how to get in or out of neutral. Attendants are always annoyed and signaling (or yelling) move up, but meh. It is kind of funny…

In addition to the lack of freeze-thaw destroying them there’s no volume. Australia is about the same size of the continental US and has a population that pretty much matches the NYC CSA and is barely larger than Florida’s. Weather and compression cycles from volume are the two biggest causes of road failures.

Those are the categories they’re trying to tackle, not the engagement range of the particular solution. They basically put out a request that said something like ‘hey industry, what exists or can be quickly turned around that can take out these two types of drones’. ALS responded with ‘well, we’ve got these net shells…

I fly over 100k miles a year and I’m one of those folks...unless I get upgraded. Primary reason is that I cocoon up (ear phones, blanket, sleeping mask) as soon as I get on then sleep. Makes the flights more like teleporters when you’re out from boarding to touchdown. Being on first gets me a head start.

I book the…

I bought a 91 Cavalier in 95-96ish. Read through the owners manual after having it for a week or two and was all ‘what, I’m supposed to keep these buckled in?” Tried it for a few days and it was relentlessly awkward so just went back to using them like standard belts. It was one of the least offensive oddities of that…

Perhaps next he’ll start to call the skeptics deniers to provide a mental link to the holocaust deniers and continue to squelch open conversation out of hand. Works elsewhere.

Sabotage is generally a surreptitious attack on means of production or logistics. If SpaceX was the theoretical target it wouldn’t be sabotage in a launch pad attack...