I believe in "Government of the People, by the People, For the People." It's too bad that conservatives don't.

And yet stick around they did. Conservatives always seem to want to go back to a "Leave it to Beaver" society but fail to realize what enabled it. You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. If you are so opposed to government move to a libertarian paradise. I'd suggest Somalia.

Oh, what an unmitigated crock of shit. If what you said was true it would not be simple historical fact that America's period of greatest prosperity also occurred when the top marginal tax rate was 90%. (That was also the last time a conservative balanced the budget) But, that is a simple historical fact. Another…

That car, but not that movie.

A truck is a vehicle you can clean with a hose. On the inside.

You are so very correct.

Fluid mechanics hasn't changed, but our ability to computational apply numerical solutions to the governing equations that can not otherwise be solved has grown exponentially along with the growth in computer power and software. The Navier-Stokes equations that describe fluid flow are for many circumstances not…

The innovation in materials science and engineering in the last 40 years is what makes the cars better. A rocket designed recently will take advantage of these advances in finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and materials science to make a better design.

When the soviets designed that rocket, computational fluid mechanics was limited to 2 dimensions. Finite element analysis was still a fetus. Russian manufacturing still struggled to make round things consistently. You may as well claim that a refurbished MIG 17 is as good as a F-15E. You can't polish a turd.

Seriously? A 2.3 Pinto engine will never ever be as reliable as a 2.3 Ecoboost, even at half the power density.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to argue that 1960's Soviet rocket technology is inherently inferior to 2000's rocket technology. Given the advances in materials, manufacturing, and design technologies since then, I do not see how it could be otherwise.

Yes, because clearly a refurbished 1972 Pinto is no more likely to explode than a 2014 Focus.

Bouncy Bouncy!

Love the food, not the chef.

Totally. I borrowed my brother's Mk1 Caravan (remember - condoms prevent minivans) and parked next to one of these. The hoods are about the same height. The Taurus has become a bloated bull.

Brand loyalty is a sucker's play.

Its kind of sad, I think. That poor bike, built to run, and just sitting, never getting to do its thing.

I remember riding the A train on cars like this in the mid '70s. The conductor had to go between the cars and stand with a foot on a little (very little) foot rest on the end of each car, and work the doors with pushbuttons on top of hand grabs also mounted on the outside ends. It seemed pretty sketchy even then.…

I wasn't disagreeing.

Could be, but both are extremely extreme. A small difference in big numbers, if you will.