The only times I’ve seen people turn into super dicks is when they felt the company was mistreating them. And usually I agreed with them because the company was doing similar things to me. They just didn’t deal with it well.

When a project ends people being fired is not uncommon. Being successful technically is not something to rely to keep a job either. 

Material engineers are in off to the side support departments doing specialized analysis and such. The odds of one being a problem person or even being in a place to cause a problem with a development program are approximately zero. That is with one exception however.

I’ve seen people who were problems, I’ve seen…

My guess is they hired him for specific knowledge and to teach others. Once they got what they wanted they worked to fire him.

You’re not biting at anything. You’re trying to divert the subject. I’ll play.  You’ve correctly dated the accounting trick to LBJ. Congrats.What happened to the money from prior decades? They spent it. You can find much of it spread across Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as spent shell casings, mines, and other wreckage…

Well good for you for being old enough with enough savings to buy a house then. The groundwork laid in the Clinton years has been at minimum as key to the financialization process as administrations before and since. This has nothing to do do with the party of the president at any given time. It is above his payscale…

You don’t understand how it works. FICA taxes exceeded SS payments. Without that excess there would have been a small deficit.

The Clinton surplus used the same accounting trick that LBJ started. That is to use FICA taxes as general revenue and put treasuries down as assets of social security at the same time. If the Clinton surplus was a surplus then the fiction of the social security trust fund has to end or it wasn’t a surplus but…

You can get all the power you want at 12V. You just need large cables to handle the current. The point of higher voltage systems is generally to keep the wire size manageable and lower transmission losses.

Always with the narratives....

Government bullshit gets less believable every day. Crown vics never had this problem and raising the hood really won’t help since the flow from the fans is designed to work with it closed. The fans are perfectly capable of maintaining temperature even with the alternator load of the police package. That’s why it’s a…

Good news it’s an old vehicle which means it’s old school paint covered with rattle can. So what you need is old number 7 polishing compound and maybe rubbing compound and a lot of elbow grease. ( a good modern random orbiting buffer should do a good job) If they didn’t do any prep, that is they just sprayed over it,…

CV’s yeah. usually. but with so many different things being used it’s getting more difficult. Seems they aren’t aiming the headlamps up as much either these days. (they intentionally cause glare to hide the light bar, etc at night and usually did it on marked and unmarked)

Maybe, just maybe, cops could stop using umarked cars with regular passenger vehicle plates for traffic enforcement? (like the Illinois state police Ford Fusion I saw being used to pull someone over last week) Also states like Illinois could stop issuing police tribute plates that look like some odd form of government…

That is one sketchy looking dyno set up. And the straps aren’t going to do much of anything if the car should get traction and move forward.

Truth doesn’t matter. If the government finds it useful for this to be international terrorism it will be. If it doesn’t it won’t be. The truth could be either for either.

“Now I wouldn’t count on this helping your purist restoration project– after all, moving the VIN tag from your car to this new shell is legally shady at best here in the U.S.”

It’s not legally shady so long as you legally own the car in question. The body shell is just another part. If the car is so far gone that this…

There has to be some sort of contract provision with the regular advertisers that allowed them to be booted off for an whole station campaign. Otherwise they would have to take and hold each spot one by one as contracts expired and were not renewed. A process that could take quite some time.

Funny how people can understand the way a price increase is necessary to cover increased costs and lower demand under a condition of a simple breakdown but if there’s some sort of large scale event like a bad storm that interrupts supply in a similar matter an increase in price is called price gouging.

People stopping short of the sensor loop. I’ve learned to go around them and stop on the loop if I can. Trying to get them to move forward on to the sensor is almost impossible.