1st/2nd:

Cell phone service is all about the network. if you go with a company with a shitty network, you get shitty signal.

EVs are the same except it is about the charging infrastructure. as of now, Tesla is the only EV with even reasonably ubiquitous charging infrastructure, and even that is only major highways and…

finally, a NPOCP that isn’t InstaCP!

if they follow a meaningful pattern then it will be ok.

for instance - BMW the first digit is car size, the following two (used to) represent engine displacement, but now are just “higher is better” numbers.

F-150/250/350 etc...

Lexus and infinity used to be easy because the first letter was the series and the numbers…

I would probably say Lauda. he outperformed all his teammates, won in shit cars and good, probably would have had at least one more championship if it weren’t for the accident, and maybe a couple more if he hadn’t decided to take a few years away before coming back and winning his last one.  revolutionized driver…

uh, no i don’t. read above, I said in another post that I have exactly the same issue with Schumacher and don’t consider him the best ever for the same reason (and yet, he is still _one_ _of_ the best ever, as is Hamilton. just not _the_ _best_). my top 3 (in no particular order) are Stewart, Senna and Lauda, all of…

This all just confirms that I made the right choice not getting into gaming.

books are so much cheaper.

wow you are fucking dumb.

how many black drivers have ever even competed in F1? oh, wait, Hamilton is the only one ever. Willy T Ribbs tested but never raced.

so any list of all time greats is going to be a bunch of white guys, south americans of largely european descent and Hamilton. A list of drivers who are his…

hatch and stick or no want.

ok, so I missed Piquet, damn, take my F1 card. I hold a grudge because his son fixed a race.

Kimi was clearly champion material the whole time he was at McLaren but they kept building fast but completely unreliable cars. his DNF due to car failure at McLaren was ~40%. he was universally looked on as the next Senna his…

they were clearly the second best team at the time he joined, improving year over year, and an engine manufacturer. with the new engine formula coming in, it was clear you wanted to be on a works team. doesn’t take a genius to see that. he got lucky in that Merc absolutely killed it on the engine on the first try, and…

a lot of Senna’s time was spent in the 2nd or 3rd best car.  his quali record was akin to what Russel has been doing - getting an inferior car much higher up the grid than it deserved.  Hamilton’s quali record is pretty meaningless because the vast majority of his polls came in a car that was functionally in a…

hey look! ad hominem attack! wooo!

I don’t consider Shumi to be the best ever either, and for similar reasons. he had a massively dominant car, compliant #2 drivers, massive power within the team. does that make me racist against white guys?

just admit that you may be a lot stupid.

I was responding to the Toto quote about Bottas being partnered with the greatest F1 driver evar, which he isn’t.  he is certainly one of the best, but for me you don’t get to be the best by driving a car that is effectively in a different class than all the other cars in the race.

spoiler: Hamilton (while certainly _one_ _of_) is not the best F1 driver of all time.
for 6 of his 7 championships (excluding McLaren) he has had the best car by a second a lap or more over the next best car, and equally important a much more reliable engine. he has never been in a shit car, so we can’t ever…

the run of hot garbage on NPOCP continues.

there is no such thing as an american car from 1976 worth over $5k.  a minty fresh 4x4 shortbed stepside pickup, sure, just in parts value, but no car.

you realize that 8M/Sec is only 17 MPH, right?  while you may not impact flat pavement that fast unless you took one hell of a high side, you certainly will whack a curbstone or guardrail or tree at that speed pretty easily.

wait, I thought Level 3 was a YES on the NAP scale of autonomy? are you saying Merc is claiming L3 without NAPS??!??!??!

excellent post, and thank you.

so the takeaway is? which standard should I look for on my next helmet? ECE? which one (05 or 06)? Snell 2020M?

I’m looking to replace my helmet soon as it is a 5 year old HJC CL-17...

well, she is a woman, and therefore prone to hysteria after all. she needs to be protected from men who would take advantage of her. </s>

so, it’s pretty clear Kanye is fully bugnuts at this point, right?