My Saab has very bad oversteer in first gear when starting out from a dead stop. On a slick road or on train rails, it can loose traction fast if you’re not paying attention.

On the other hand, if your goal is to play the violin or become an AR-15 marksman, it might be kind of difficult to achieve without a musical instrument or a rifle. You cannot start a running routine with high heels or learn Karate without lessons.

I have come across rattlesnakes many times in the Bay Area and elsewhere. They never bothered me and I never bothered them. A few times, I had to throw rocks at them to convince them to move off the trail.

It is a bit strange that the new trackers are the only devices getting a lot of the new features, even when the old trackers have the hardware to support them.

I mean, Trump was pretty outrageous by debate standards and Clinton was much more offensive than your typical debater, obviously trying to rile him up.

The same thing happened to me when I was a kid. I poured gasoline down their hole and lit it on fire. In retrospect, probably a bad idea. The only thing worse than a swarm of yellow jackets are flaming yellow jackets. It made sense to a teenage brain though.

Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, New York, et cetera.

$600K might buy you a small detached house in one of the worst neighborhoods of Oakland. You might get a studio or 1 bedroom condo in the city for that price, or if you really look hard, a two bedroom house in need of a ton of work in a very bad neighborhood.

Neighborhoods where single-family houses average around $600K tend to fall into disrepair due to those neighborhoods typically being among the poorest. Often these houses are rented out or the owners are poor and simply do not have the money to maintain them. In such low-end neighborhoods, you usually only see…

It is not self defense. It is using force to effect a citizen’s arrest.

Getting hit with a pie is assault and battery. You are allowed under California law, to use whatever force is reasonably necessary to subdue an attacker until the police arrive. That would include beating thrm into unconsciousness if they continue to resist arrest and fight back.

I think the idea of justice also plays into it. When someone is illegally going slowly in a passing lane, you merge a few inches from the front of their bumper to call their attention to the fact. You leave at least two seconds of following distance behind the car in front of you unless someone is doing something…

That does not make much sense. The nutritional labeling requirements already use sophisticated methods to estimate how much net energy is released through digestion. That is why carrots have such a low energy content even though they might release a lot more energy if you simply ignited them in a lab.

It’s a Bay Area thing that started around the 1980's/1990's, maybe Sacramento Valley too.

Most European countries have trains that generally equal or outcompete planes on trips of less than 1000 km, which has made the airlines there really cut prices drastically.

My understanding was that running the pump dry is what damages it. If you are running low on fuel and you accelerate, it can move all the fuel away from the pump, causing it to temporarily suck air, which over time, can damage the pump.

My experience is that dogs aggressiveness is largely determined by how the owner treated them. Sure, there might be some dogs that have been bred to be more aggressive, but all dogs are bred to be highly domesticated, human-socialized animals, so how they are socialized during their lifetime tends to play a much…

Almost all accidents are avoidable and many thousands of more people will likely be killed by mistakes made by autonomous cars. As long as they make fatal mistakes at a lower rate than humans, I am fine with that and you should be to.

I disagree. There will always be flaws. As long as the system is safer than human drivers, it is perfectly ethical to release it.

A human makes a mistake, dies, and nobody learns from it. Maybe, if enough people are injured or killed, speed limits are lowered, traffic lights installed, police patrols are increased.