After a headline that uses “amount” in place of “number”.

All it would require in this case is a bit of backbone, as it would pretty much mean never going home again.

While I also don’t support deporting all passport holders, I would caution against labeling elite athletes as hapless subjects. Many of them are at least nominally commissioned in the military, a practice dating back to the days of the “amateur” Olympics. For example, Alexander Bolshunov was recently rewarded for his…

I’m assuming none of those five languages is Ukrainian, because Ukrainian does not have a definite article. There literally is no word in that language for “the”.

The doping “ban” is a joke. Pretty much the only things it limits are display of the flag and the playing of the national anthem. The athletes are still totally free to compete, and Putin was still free to be an honored guest at the Olympics.

The nearly identical swoopy lines on the Mercedes and Aston Martin cars make them look like a pair of bar league softball teams that both ordered their jerseys from the same generic template.

That’s the procedure when the fob battery dies. The battery is used for amplification, but if the fob is close enough to the antenna in the car it will work like a passive RFID tag.

I’m pretty sure you don’t need a gps to get from Scranton to DC. It’s like three turns.

His tires must have been matched perfect and staggered special.

Ultimately, the result of this kind of buffoonery is that sponsors start pulling out. They’re investing in the narrative that their efforts are producing results. That gets to be a tough sell when the results look arbitrary, and when sponsors start fleeing a series or league it’s the lower tier teams that suffer the…

The difference is that unlike over at Deadspin, content here is going to improve when everyone quits.

Most of the outrage stems not from the rules, but from the fact that Mercedes made a tactical decision based on how Masi communicated that the rule would be enforced. But then Red Bull was allowed to negotiate a different interpretation of the rule, and Masi went along with it at a point when there was no way for…

All of them. It is simply not possible to get something approved for on-road use without making serious compromises to off-road performance.

I had a car once with seats that felt great for up to four hours, but anything after that was just about crippling. It’s not something I would have figured out on the test drive.

I once took over a chemical engineering lab that had all of the chemicals stored together, sorted alphabetically rather than by hazard classification, with no secondary containment. There was enough HF in there to dispose of a corpse, some of it mixed with organic solvents and stored in glass. The safety inspection…

Quality is job three-ish.

But I bet we never will.

There’s more to fixing something than just throwing parts at it. I recently had to replace a display screen on an instrument only to find that the manufacturer had changed the voltage threshold on one of the logic pins between revisions without putting it in the revision notes. What should have been a simple part-out…

Parts availability isn’t the problem. A tech is going to have to take the car apart to even know what parts were in there to begin with, because Tesla is highly unlikely to be sharing those records with indy shops. Labor costs are going to be brutal.

I’ve never been on a factory tour where there wasn’t at least one off-limits room or piece of equipment covered up. And none of those were facilities where every employee has signed their body weight in NDAs. This is probably the same “tour” they give sponsor VIPs: walk through the shop where they keep parts for old…