I loved the 2008 cars, especially the McLaren. So purposeful, with every curve and extrusion molded to produce more downforce.

By having the pot in the middle you have already disrespected the game, since the pot is not in the rules :-)

The engine manufacturers likely make a profit per marginal engine sold, and these things aren't cheap. They're developed for a targeted price point of something like $10M/apiece. If Merc had done all their R&D and manufacturing budgeting planning on selling 24 engines/year and then RB wanted to buy another 8, that'd…

Ah ok. So assuming Horton never plays again, on opening day each year they need to be $5M short of the cap (to make room for Horton's corpse), but once opening day passes they can hire $5M of help for 99% of a season?

[cap newbie here. Didn't know what I didn't know].

Plus - since Horton is on LTIR, he doesn't count against the Leafs' cap.

[in middle-eastern or eastern-european accent]
"Is crappy plane. Retire it immediately"

"Dress up like lance fucking armstrong for a bike ride"

Running in unpadded shoes (or going barefoot) just tends to cause injuries in different joints. Someone untrained at running barefoot (or running in non-running shoes) _will_ get shin splints or otherwise hurt themselves unless they gradually build themselves up. Even fivefingers recommend you don't do long runs in…

Torque does not matter. To some extent gearing does, because you need the engine to be producing the right amount of power at the right point in your run.

Do you have a source for the deck-melting? I thought the giant fan system would've been more deck-friendly than, say, the harrier. I'd like to read about an F-35 failure mode I wasn't previously aware of.

On the plus side, if they anger enough customers they'll just end up shipping it to themselves :)

The problem is that the IOC votes go towards cities that promise the biggest/fanciest/newest stadiums. Boston might be able to put on a fantastic frugal games like LA did in 1984. Unfortunately, that's not getting the votes, and it'll go to some 3rd-world dictatorship that promises everything to everyone.

The new Miata is a bit of a pig.

I enjoy the Google Trends chart for "Gamergate".

I wanted to try and get some data for your supposition. I picked the Bahrain GP quali times, since Bahrain seems least likely to have rain-affected qualifications. They also haven't permanently changed the circuit.

I poked in on that an hour ago and it was kinda interesting - It was a shaky-sounding guy reminding people "this is all part of the job, our industry has done this before". It wasn't the normal kind of sterile NASA commentary, it sounded like a human.