No I am not. A rusted POS gun would be an obvious drop gun.

The staggering number of “good” people who don’t see a problem with a large prison population (generated primarily by non-crimes) is disgusting.

A gun stashed in shrubs in Chicago will quickly become a rusted unusable mess unless it’s stored in a fairly rugged water and air tight container. We’re talking very short term plans here on good weather days.

The problem is the very premise of modern police forces. Not the premises we are all told as children and led to believe as voters but the ones they are actually for. The parts of the job that there is always time and man power for vs. the ones there isn’t. Economic enforcement, social class preservation, revenue…

This and more is what came to mind for me as well. Not only could they hurt themselves they could burn the place down. I don’t think homeowners insurance covers that. Then there’s not being able to keep your own stuff in your garage unless you want it to go on walkabout with a renter.

Yep, same with me. Which is something I haven’t even argued yet. The freedom of not having loan payments to make.

That might be for a consumer, but I buy and hold my cars.

If we are looking at long term risk profiles instead of sure things then that’s not the challenge I presented. It’s a different argument. The challenge I presented was for a safe return. If we are going to look at long term risk profiles then one is probably mitigating risk more by paying cash and investing present…

“get rich now”? Nice strawman there. I asked for a safe investment that returns more than car loan costs. You can’t answer that so you strawman. I didn’t mention fuckall about ‘get rich now’. How is beating a 4.25% return a get rich quick scheme. That’s all you need to do, show the safe, no-risk return that’s greater…

“As you know, value drops but your stake doesn’t unless you sell.”

30 years.... hmm.... Great, show me the TARDIS so I can go buy right after the crash of ‘87. If you want that 4%+ on buy and hold you better have your timing correct. And that means not buying the all time high like right now. There’s a reason for retail investors, for the professionals to sell to at the top.

That’s a lot of words to avoid answering the question.

I have long argued against government giving even so much as tax breaks but people seem to like government picking winners and losers this way.

I will issue the same challenge I have in every one of these threads that I see upon which nobody ever produces an answer. The closest thing I get is ‘I get paid for that so I’m not telling you’ which amounts to either a non-answer or it’s such a secret one must employ a professional to know it.

What is the _safe_…

“but downright futuristic to us backwards Americans”

A rust free 70s fiat and first generation accord in a salvage yard? Never seen that in my area.

What papers? I’ve seen numerous things on both the Corvair and Pinto over the years and the Pinto case is a myth and the Corvair was simply somewhat behind the curve for rear engine rear drive cars.

If they had kept it at 65 they would have lost market share. A market they shouldn’t have wanted to keep.

For manufactured products in general the politically created regulatory structure largely exists to favor large corporations and allow them market domination with mediocre or worse products. Or generate the sales of their products by force of law. The last thing those corporate entities want is a free market where…

I really dislike the popular misuse of the word “defect”.

The Firestone tires likely did suffer from a manufacturing defect where there were too many that did not perform as designed when subjected to a certain degree of neglect.

This story, if true is not a defect but a misapplication. The tire was simply not…