I believe it’s Skip that is incorporating a bike lock into their scooters to prevent theft and to get people to keep them upright against street signs and trees. I saw that on every electric scooter I found in San Francisco a few weeks ago.

The whole idea is to have the center one continue after the side ones drop away. “Dropping weight while firing” is rockets 101. If they just dropped all 3 at the same time, it would be better to just design a 3 times wider rocket with 3 times the engine. (“Staging events”, or “Dropping stuff away” is always risky and…

They don’t. The side boosters are throttled harder than the center core and disconnect earlier in the flight. The center core continues downrange (further, faster, higher) and there isn’t enough fuel to scrub that amount of speed and return back to land.

Actually, in this case an actual crime worth investigating occurred

I hope their paperwork is in order even if they’re taking the scooters off private property—the formalized arrangements familiar from car towing would seem applicable—rather than public property. They would seem to be on shaky ground, even if many view it as the Lord’s work.

Some time ago my wife and I came to the conclusion that the time/cost saving benefits of flying are actually a lot more marginal than we’d realised. We live in Brisbane on Australia’s east coast, which is 9 to 10 hours from Sydney by road, and 1 hour by plane. Melbourne is similarly 9 to 10 hours by road, 1 hour by…

Or perhaps extend the EV tax credit to fuel efficient compact cars (also include used cars). If the ultimate goal is to reduce carbon footprint, make it available for everyone, especially the working class. Give them an incentive to own a small fuel efficient vehicle.

If the goal is to further technology, they are…

But but then only the poors will get it. What do the politicians have to gain from it anymore, if they or their rich buddies, can’t get a nice piece of government money anymore?!

I guess my counterpoint to this (and other comments about how we should trust the human brain over a computer) is that human brains are pretty “buggy” and tend to “freak out” in alarming ways as well. We fall for optical illusions; forget things alarmingly easily; get distracted, tired, or drunk; and learn all sorts…

That’s why I am developing a computer that does what you meant not what you programmed.

A Ferrari collection?

Counterpoint: I push even more when there’s the “wait” voice, it makes me feel like a DJ scratching a record.

Plural of ‘parenthesis’ is ‘parentheses.’ 

Ford CEO: Correct.

Neutral: The way Ghosn was arrested and re-arrested just makes me think there is something seriously fishy and unjust going on. So I’m leaning toward taking Ghosn’s side on this.

Judging from the way he released the clutch, max RPM, dump clutch, idle. I’d say he’s never ridden a bike before in his life, 2, or 4 stoke.

Most people assume that the bikes ridden around illegally weren’t purchased with the rider’s hard-earned money. The riders...”found”...them, and have no trouble ditching the bike if they run into trouble.

The difference is MOSTLY psychological. I work in a plant that produces a very popular sedan for a very large manufacturer as well as a more exspensive version of the same car for its luxury brand.

Fiat 500XXL

As much as I hate to say this, I can kind of understand this after dealing with some frustrating recalls. Recalls used to be a “We are recalling this, so we will have the parts available to fix in a few days and you can get it done this week”; now it is “This is a recall, and the parts should be available in 6 months…