Dealers are going to go along with whatever VW says... The last thing they want is to be stripped of their franchise because some part time guy thought he was looking out for the company just violated the terms of the settlement. Don’t think there would not be lawyers lined up to take the case of whoever won that…

Dude tell him that radio is never making it off the lot if you take it in.... It’s ether you get it or the guy at the lot grabs it for Ebay...

The only way I see anyone taking an issue is dudes at the lot who already have a scheme going to yank parts themselves. If you get denied drive to another lot.

Salvaged is a title designation. The only reason that is in the clause is to keep guys from going out and buying totaled TDI’s off junkyards and getting them just roadworthy enough to get on the lot.

You can disassemble your car if you want. The car would still have a clear title. You can put it back together and It…

VW does not care... These cars are going to get the exact treatment that the E.T. game got which is to get them out of the public eye as quickly and cheaply as possible. There is no fix for the cars already off the assembly line. YOU MIGHT see a new TDI but these cars are done. VW is not in the biz of selling used…

My entire point is that we have built a house of cards around stealth and sensors with the hope that all the engagements are beyond visual range and that the bad guys don’t find a way to exploit ether of the two. It’s a modern day version of the Thud except it does not have speed on it’s side.. just stealth. It’s the…

Russia already claims that they have an integrated radar system that can detect the F35. Snipers are great until they are located. Once they are triangulated it usually ends badly for them. Considering how much these cost even if they take down 3-4 op force aircraft for every one that is downed it will still be a…

It’s a fancy fifth generation bomb truck that might be ok in a dog fight that was sold to the American people using Snake Oil techniques.

If and when Air defenses evolve to detect it (and they will) it will be relegated to a role of something like the F-117.

The trials have shown the American fourth generation…

The US super carriers will not have that problem. They are designed to launch more than one type of bird regardless. The USS Gerald Ford will most likely sail it’s first deployment without a full squadron of F35's and rely on F18's. The HMS Queen Elizabeth and it’s sister ship are helicopter carriers someone sold the…

What do you do for the Marines and the F35B and Navy with the F35C?

The F22 could not fill ether of those roles. The Navy would almost be better digging out the plans for the Super Tomcat at that point and the Marines would have to ether ditch the VTOL capability all together or upgrade their aging Harrier fleet.  

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Pretty sure it’s the Chevrolet Caprice PPV. I think they are both imported from Holden.

I imagine every conversation with an owner and mayor goes something like this

“You will build me a giant stadium shaped like a boat or maybe a car... or a space ship and outside there will a statue of me holding out my arms like Jesus as fans walk along of path of golden bricks........and outlaw private parking in a…

Until you have a game in late December that is close and has playoff implications and emotions run high.

It’s just a matter of time before someone important gets ejected.

The absurdity of this rule is like Caligula ordering that gladiators must follow Roberts Rules of order while trying to kill each other....

It makes…

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At the end of the day we require 11 bravo’s to run through an escalation of force procedure for guys that honest to god could be wearing a suicide vest or is actively waiving an AK around before they can light them up or risk a trip Leavenworth but we do not put the same restrictions on our police officers.

Tell me…

Dude have you not seen the guys walk around Trump rallys with a black rifle on a tactical sling with their hand on the pistol grip? It takes maybe a second for that rifle to be in play. For most people it actually would be less time than drawing from a holster.

Ask any officer. They would much rather be in a gunfight…

Before we all jump to conclusions it’s important to use the cautionary tale of Waco Police Department’s Sgt. Swanton. Remember that first press briefing after the Twin Peaks Shootout? Go back and see how much of it is just plain public relations BS at this point.

Just because a police department claims something does…

The Tamir Rice case has shown us exactly how accurate the police’s recollection of how long they said “drop your weapon”

In all likelihood this dude got lit up as fast as reaction time allowed by a UC officer. You have to remember that in a majority of police training teaches Gun=Shoot. There is no ROE that require…

The most dangerous thing in a daily newsroom photo department is the college intern who was the photo editor at the school paper.... I had one of my interns, who is my good friend now and a photojournalist at a major metro daily, turn in a single image of a cashier at Victoria Secret ringing up a less than safe for…

It happens. This is why we have been so adamant on trying to limit the number of non working media on the sidelines. Very interesting that you have have a kid with a consumer video body and no vest right next to the credentialed videographer that got smoked on the photo line. He should have been on the yellow line or…

It’s most likely enough for them to decide that maybe this ships not the one for today.