It was fun and it sent the message that it didn’t take itself too seriously. It was different from anything else on the road and that was the point. Don’t like it? Go drive some boring econobox.

I did for 5 years and I’d go back to it in a heartbeat.

Fuck yeah, TOGGLE SWITCHES! I loved them on my 1st gen Mini and I also loved the speedo placement. The car was DIFFERENT and unlike anything else on the road and that was part of the appeal. It took almost no time to get used to it and the curves were tremendously fun. I never minded the steering wheel, but I had the…

I'm always blown away by Tatiana and I tend to completely forget she's playing all the clones. They are simply so different that I don't even notice for first few minutes when there are multiple clones in one scene interacting and I suddenly go "waitaminute, how'd they do that?"

Close, but nothing is worse than Heathrow. I have traveled many times to Malaga via Heathrow and I haven’t made a connecting flight without running yet. It’s a horrible airport and the policies maintained are moronic. I avoid it at all costs. In fact, even though CDG is almost as bad, I’ll happily route through there…

Really? I had a '92 Talon ESi for several years and never had any serious problems with it. What's their reputation?

As per the picture, the flight deck and a lot of other components would have to be steel. But other than a steel frame the rest of the internals could be made of much cheaper (and lighter) materials like wood, fiberglass, drywall, etc. As well, note that the original plans always called for an onboard refrigeration…

Yep, been to the one in QC and it was lovely.

Completely different. The IN law specifically adds protections for businesses who wish to discriminate. It was written with the input of notorious homophobes and signed by a notorious homophobe. It was deliberately written to legalize discrimination.

Jeb Bush, the next hoped-for iteration of the Bush Dynasty has expressed considerable support. That's likely changed over the last few days as he's observed the fallout, though.

I’ve always loved the concept of pykecrete. It’s so cheap that you end up completely rethinking conventional theories of what aircraft carriers do and how they do it. First off, you build them ten times larger and they’re unsinkable. Even in tropical zones they won’t undergo significant melting for weeks. Repairs are…

Privacy rights certainly matter, but there are limits and intentions that need to be factored in. It's famously true that free speech doesn't give you the right to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater and targeting political enemies via a hit list may also be legally questionable. That's going to depend on individual…

Nope, you only have a constitutional right to privacy from governmental search and seizure. The constitution does not protect you against gossip. It may very well be an invasion of privacy and a violation of law (although NOT the constitution) for the government to publish a list of gun owners and their addresses,…

So you're saying that guns never go off when dropped? That no one has ever drunkenly played with a gun and shot someone? That no one has ever had a gun go off while it was being cleaned? That no one has ever forgotten to unload a gun? That no child or teenager has ever found an unsecured gun and shot someone with it?…

Sorry, the the 2nd amendment doesn't guarantee your right to ANONYMOUSLY bear arms. If you want to own a killing machine, you have to put your name on a list. Similarly, if I want to own a car I have to put my name on a list. The difference is that my car must meet certain safety standards, has to be registered and…

People get on lists erroneously all the time. Ted Kennedy 'somehow' ended up on the terrorist no-fly list. People are wrongly accused and convicted of crimes every day. If you're waiting for a perfect system to track offenders, you're going to wait forever. If you're upset because someone might possibly erroneously…

Yep, this is a blatant targeting system. The primary goal is to intimidate people who disagree with the gun nuts, but they'll be delighted if a few of the less stable members of their community (and boy is that ever saying something) decides to kill a few of these people. Remember the non-apology the anti-choicers…

You are absolutely correct. The difference is that when you don't like what I'm saying you have the ability to kill me instantly with almost zero effort. The fact that you and I both know that makes it particularly intimidating (and more than a bit underhanded) to compile a list of people with whom you disagree along…

Similarly, just because a teacher was accused of rape by a 15-year-old student who got a bad grade and ended up on the sex offender registry doesn't necessarily mean he's a serial rapist. But that's the system we have. And since there is no similar governmental system in place to track bad gun owners, society is…

So your stepfather neatly proves the point that knowing where careless gun owners live is useful to the community. Burglaries are incredibly rare, but I'm willing to be he's had a ton of people come through his house while his guns aren't properly locked up. Every one of those people could have easily been killed by a…