The standard time tested techniques were being used on F1 management for years. They didn’t wake up one morning and decide to ban grid girls. 

So replacing paid adults doing a job of their choosing with children. Whom may very well be unpaid to avoid child labor law problems, unless they qualify under some entertainment loophole.

“It often causes us to live above our means.”

The games keep the minds of the peasantry off serious matters. Meanwhile, festival. Are you of the body?

Passenger rail is in the condition it is in because of its own politics going back to before when Lincoln was in the white house. The interstates did not help it but they weren’t the cause either. Passenger travel has to share the interstates with freight as well.

The US fedgov spends the money on the military. Some of which ends up spend in Japan, Germany, and the UK. Ideally that situation would come to an end, but americans would likely continue to prefer military spending over trains.

This is what control freaks do with government. Tell everyone else how to live. But when people long ago talked about property rights and such they were dismissed as kooks. Now the control freaks take full advantage. It’s not your property any longer. You rent it from the government. You have to obey government’s…

It scores quite a few tens on the FMEA there.

The problem itself with the IMS bearing is rather minor. The problem is getting at it and how it can snowball. Really if Porsche had it easy to access, lubricated by engine oil or added a zerk it would have been regular maintenance. (replacement, oil changes, greasing for the three options)

It’s not BS. I’ve experienced it. I’ve been running brembo front calipers for a very long time on my oldest Mustang and the youngest one had them as factory option. While squeal varies with pads it is a natural consequence of these brake systems. In the cold dry weather recently the low speed squeal has reappeared on…

When it comes time to execute this operation they will.

A ford 4.6L V8 is a -wide- engine. Any swap needs to be planned on that basis because it might not fit between the strut towers.

Today’s vehicles are designed around passing the regulatory tests. The customers are now the bureaucrats. Hence the durability and other problems for actual use.

The big problem from diesel engines for humans has been particulates. Which of course modern diesel engines have by and large brought under control. NOx is also something that occurs in nature at a pretty good volume and processed by nature quite quickly as well. So it’s just a question of rate of creation and…

It’s funny how we live in a world where political office holders who through their decisions have caused the murders of countless numbers of people and a great deal of misery get awards and nobody blinks an eye but trying to convince a female employee into a hot tub back in the 1970s is horrific. Just an observation.

It doesn’t surprise me but I am one of the weirdos who used NeXTSTEP to the bitter end. On Motorola black NeXT machines at that. I use windows now because it bothers me the least of the remaining OS choices. I don’t like it and never will, but I can deal with it.

Of course the OS is more robust. When NeXT was folded into Apple, MacOS essentially became NeXTSTEP with a MacOS GUI. Sadly that ruined NeXTSTEP for me since I always disliked MacOS from the GUI on down. The premium price is thus not something I would spend.

It makes sense when viewed as a competition among women. Maximization of one’s own sexual options while minimizing the options of other women.

Did anyone ask the “Grid Girls” what they thought about it? They are the ones being put out of jobs. My guess is demand to get those jobs like NFL cheerleaders is high enough to suppress the wages.

If we are going to discuss complicit DAs, fellow cops, and compliant authority worshiping statist citizenry then no drop gun or prop there of is even required. Because of these conditions pretty much everyone is the same boat these days with regards to cops being able to execute practically anyone they choose and get…