I was gonna say ... when did they even start putting overflow bottles in the engine bay? I’ve owned a couple pre-1980 vehicles and I don’t recall either of them having an overflow bottle. I’m not even sure if my ‘76 Dodge even had an overflow valve.

If the transmission can change gears without input from the driver under ANY circumstances, then it is an automatic, and only an automatic. A transmission is only manual if gear changes only happen by physical input of the driver.

Synchro-mesh!!!!!!!!

arg ... “released stored energy” ... I met that first hand - er, face first actually - when I was a kid ... it wasn’t technically a robot, but a mechanical (electro-hydraulic) throwing arm for a skeet range. I was the loader.

I was with you until you said “and/or important” ... there is no such thing as “important” information about a computer/video game. Nuclear talks this is not.

sure did a much better job differentiating the signs for Prefectural and National routes than most states here in the US have done to differentiate US and State routes.

Orderly and law-abiding? I find that assertion curious at a minimum. I was a jarhead in Okinawa back in the 80’s, and Japanese drivers there were full of surprises ... cabbies especially had a knack for scaring the living bejeezus out of us ... barrelling down one lane (yet two-way traffic) streets with blind corners…

Or, alternatively, if you are concerned about privacy and how potential employers or others who can impact your life might interpret your “internet activities” you could actually learn something about internet privacy and how to protect it. If you don’t want employers to link the mad rantings of an unhinged lunatic…

Geekthology posited that you actually leave traceable links all over the internet that can be linked back to your Facebook page. So what? How on earth does that have any effect, negative or positive? If you want to use Facebook, use your real name. The excuses you made, that I called you out on, are weak and…

Bubbles, I wasn’t referring to the issue of FB deciding they needed to vet you ... I know that happens and it can happen for many different reasons ... my friend hit that barrier when she was changing her name in FB (had already changed her name at least once after she got married, then decided she wanted to hyphenate…

“force people to use aliases” “not allowed to be honest” “trying to avoid stalkers/family” ... stupidest and lamest excuses ever. You have no reason not to use your real name since you can control who gets to ‘friend’ you and see your shit on Facebook. If you don’t know how to manage your contacts and visibility, it’s…

sorry , replied to wrong comment ... ignore this

I wouldn’t be so fast with the gratitude on the explanation from shoegal ... her/his statment is so far purely anecdotal. I’ve seen to date exactly zero viable news articles that show that such events have ever happened. As in ever. At all. Not one. Just because an anonymous commenter says “shyah, it’s totes for realz…

Real name does not mean your legal name. Your real name is whatever you go by and what your friends call you.

The Hugo is the most respected award? Respected by whom? Another commenter called it prestigious (“the prestige [it] brings”). I’ve read one of the books up there in this list, Redshirts by Scalzi. I’ve read a few other Scalzi books, and for the most part I grok Scalzi’s writing ... fairly light-weight pop sci-fi…

Here’s all they’d need to do to get me in one ... first, enclose the “bed” and make it open with the passenger area; secondly lower the bed floor (I’m thinking removal of the in-bed-trunk feature would enable that); third, make it a tad bit shorter and lower and lighter and a bunch cheaper. Lasty, rename it “Element”.…

seems like a crazy fast speed to sail a boat

a SCALE is something you weigh shit with ... that object in the photo my friend is a RULER.

Why on earth would you use scissors on pizza? Never heard of a pizza wheel? Even a plain half decent kitchen knife works just fine to cut a pizza if one is not a completely uncoordinated spaz.

What is a crossover SUV?