Naw, the only mistake we made was not ensuring that the flipside of ANY education is making sure that there are abundant opportunities after formal education (of any kind, 4 year or vocational). This is the real failure of US commerce and education; the propaganda says that we all should go to college in order to gain…

Wait a sec. Trump has a plan? Oh wait, I just need to turn on Fox to see that... oh, there is no plan. No plan at all. 

Correct, it is actually the smartest plan for someone who is motivated. Quite a few people do that in CA; go to a CC for 2 years, stay focused and get good grades, transfer to a UC with 2 years less UC tuition to manage and, hopefully, a little more focus on what you want to major in. The toughest part is not the…

I think this is the result of having too many project cars. Your time, effort, and focus get too diluted from having too many runners, barely runners, and non-runners. So when you’re actually successful in getting a barely runner to runner status and then back to non-running status, your energy is diverted into the…

If you’re ever up in Washington State, Issaquah, : Max's Hot sauce(s)

If you’re ever up in Washington State, Issaquah, : Max's Hot sauce(s)

I must be an Old Fart; I keep looking for multiplayer-multiscreen from one unit as opposed to multiplayer split-screen/Live/SystemLink.....it’ll never happen, of course....

Ya know, there’s a few things on there which I never even knew about. It’d be interesting to see how they worked; for instance, the MyTracks tool would be awesome with a new skin and some additional tools. Guess we’ll never know. Some of them might be considered failures but in other shops considered successful.…

That’s excellent!

Maybe 100 degree C? Seems kinda high....if so....

Hah, friend had one of these. He complained that coming up the Conejo grade in Ventura County was agonizing; it was an automatic, IIRC, and as a Manhattenite, he didn’t know how to use the transmission when he needed to get some more RPMs temporarily. OTOH, they were notorious for being gutless and I convinced him to…

Yup.

When I see 3, that’s when I’ll really start to worry....

This assumes logic rules the day. As we can see, this is not the case. 

The scenario we all live in is that these choices are available at all times for us because we have options. There may be a time when we really don’t have enough energy because all the options we’ve managed to actually get into usage aren’t enough. It sounds apocalyptic but, on the other hand, in 1970, no one thought…

Yeah, the main reason for all these material developments is that definitive need for lightness vs. strength. It’s interesting that it’s not until the turbine era where powerplant output gets really good (relative to weight) that steel actually becomes a decent alternative. Really though, AL is pretty hard to beat…

CP. For that money, I’d get 3 Vipers; 1 really good one, 1 beater, and 1 parts. Maybe four even, if someone had something crashed....

Perhaps you’re referring to the Budd RB-1? Although that was well after wood plane period (excepting, of course, the Mosquito and Hornet). It’s interesting that the RB-1 was primarily SS (but DID use doped fabric for control purpose for some reason-idk, maybe aluminum to steel chemical reactions?). Anyways, while we…

Yes, you’re right. But as evidenced in reality, “practical” trucks aren’t necessarily “practical” in usage even for ICE platforms. And <$25k trucks exist but not because of the regulation, good or bad, but because the demand and price points make them useful to exist.

Ahh, the Sakai days, I wonder if Uchida-san wishes he were back there now.....

Yes, I’d love to see a Hummer setup with hot-swappable battery systems. That’d appeal to boonie-rats and survivalists and to forward-looking people who understand the range and charge time limitations of BEV.