Feefty watts per channel, babycakes!!

Someone posted some aftermath videos below. Considering how intact most of the interior still looks, I’m thinking that they may well have had and used a fire extinguisher.

Oh, so you prefer a government that makes regulations that benefit the corporation at the exoense fo the consumer? Or is it the unions you dislike? It’s very easy to sut down a factory, it’s happened twice in my town in the past 2 years, one being the lightbulb manufactures you’re discussing. Since the ban against…

The Incandescent lightbulb was banned because the lightbulb manufacturers wanted to stop making them because they were losing money on them.

I don't think there's a problem with GMOs. What I do know is that Monsato, et al, are making a monopoly out of GMOs.

Hydro electric power doesn’t affect the environment.

“Too many Americans vote against their self interest.”

Back to the good ol’ days boys!... Plenty of wood left!

I’ve done my own research on the history of airbags and I agree with all you’ve stated. Putting aside the Takata issue, which is a separate potentially criminal manufacturing and design problem, most people don’t know the back story of how airbags came to be a mandated requirement, how one powerful bureaucrat in the…

Smells like another shrill attempt to smear technology that works, so that some congressman can shove some software contracts favorable to his constituents into an appropriations bill.

It it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Frankly I find it reassuring that our nuclear weapons systems rely on sixty year old technology that cannot be hacked and is so obscure that the average misfit from Anonymous or whatever would barely even recognize it as a computer.

It’s not just about accident payouts. It is also about “defensible” rate penalties. The insurance companies want to also be able to charge as much as they can get away with without losing customers to the competition. If they can advertise a low rate and then nickel and dime you a few hundred, that’s what they will do.

If I’m not mistaken he’s getting out of office soon (I’m an American) probably just wants a low profile car for then. I know I would, no one would suspect it “today I saw a bloke in a Micra who looked JUST like David Cameron, I swear!"

Well, NHTSA spends a lot of time with it’s head up its ass...

the children will have to be moved to the trunk.

That is the most perfect explanation of the American Driver’s Education system that I have ever read.

I just love that the value proposition is that you float a multi-thousand dollar car on a boat that has to be both large and buoyant enough to hold a car, rather than buy a relatively inexpensive outboard motor on a boat that could just be half the size and still offer just as much usable space*

Also, how the hell is…

Being knowledgeable is an almost instant disqualifier from being a Gawker “journalist”.

“The UAW only cares about UAW management..."

I get the feeling this is like the standard Sla chess piece you see everywhere. They’ve designed the structure just right so no support is needed and the piece looks great. Even the metal must need some structure or it would sag, right?