This is the broken-window fallacy though: Even though the people processing the deliberately-destroyed cars (and the people selling their replacements) were better off, society as a whole would have been better off with the cars still functioning. The scrappers would have gotten to every single car eventually anyway.

They wouldn’t want to encourage people to keep and reuse still-working cars. Why not buy her a brand new civic!

I saw the Buemi one on Facebook earlier today (shared by a friend that had shared it from the official F1 page), and I thought:
1) Oh man, I REMEMBER THAT!
2) F1 video snippets posted BY F1? Whaaaaaaat?
3) F1 probably got a lot more coverage because of how many likes the video ended up with*

As a lefty, I like to think that the crap we’re finding wrong with Trump is worse than what the tea-partiers found wrong with Obama, and it almost certainly is.

Sure, but it’d be pretty easy to make a “California” catalytic converter and a “rest of USA’ catalytic converter that simply has less platinum and other expensive goodies in it. Run the line with the good cats for 1 week to make California cars, and for 3 weeks to make Trumpcars. I’m sure there are other examples…

You’ve basically described the LMP1 engine rules at WEC.

Put another way:

So the stakeholders have agreed they want engines that are:
1) Cheaper
2) Louder
3) More powerful
4) Relevant to road cars

Notably, Alsup was also the judge presiding over Oracle v. Google when Oracle was trying to say that Google producing a Java-compatible-but-not-Java compiler was copyright infringement. This is not his first high-profile tech-lawsuit rodeo.

Apparently they’re (currently) averaging about 1 mile per driver intervention*, so the driver probably doesn’t get much time to take his hands off the wheel.

When Caterham went out of business, all the cool recognizable conversation-piece parts (front/rear wings, steering wheels) were all in the five-figures for pricing. Lots of other bits were affordable, but you’d have to be an F1 team owner to get any utility out of them.

They are 13", so the tires on my old 93 Civic LeMons car would fit on them, right?

I remember this video from happier times pre-election: “He forgot about planes!”

The problem with unlimited doping is that people start dying. In the 90s, before there was a test for EPO, cyclists would literally die in their sleep because they’d used so much EPO their blood was like jelly.

I would _not_ want to be Team Sky’s wheel sponsors today. Who appear to be Shimano.

Apparently that is the case this year.

Just gotta check who Mr Kislyak met with in that timeframe. If Trump surrogates show up at a greater-than-random rate, then that’s a bit of a smoking gun that the meetings were _probably_ not just normal senate business.

Fortunately, his claim (about it only being Senate business) is somewhat disprovable:

He met with the Ambassador while a Senator, he says.

$5k pays a middling software engineer’s salary and benefits for a month. For any team made with a teamsize greater than one, $5k is a drop in the bucket.