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Why is it okay for people to live in cities and not dogs?

A glider kit is a new truck rolling chassis, only the engine is remanufactured. Considering how dirty these remanufactured engines are when compared to new ones, it is absolutely a bad thing to put more glider kits on the road. Especially when just about every scrap of metal in an old engine can be recycled into…

In a crash like this how long does it take to go from leaking fuel to fully-involved vehicle fire?

It’s closer to the Tiguan vs the Atlas

High-quality lumber is expensive and extremely time-consuming to prepare, and ultimately has no place as a structural material in a world dominated by lean manufacturing. However in this case where it is readily available as a high-quality material for free (or sunk cost, at least), and the necessary skilled labor is…

Funny you quote Disney when their lobbyists have more or less written modern copyright law to protect the mouse (and all subsequent work) from public domain.

7 hundredths of a cent, or 0.14% of the $0.49 stamp price

It’s interesting how this map doesn’t split states. For example, New York City is Mid-Atlantic, Albany is North East, and Buffalo is Mid-West. Same with east TX/OK being part of the south east and eastern/central NC being part of the Mid-Atlantic. Also, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming should be their own…

It’s simple, if you feel like an ass for not tipping then leave a tip. You don’t have to buy coffee, and they should appreciate your business either way. Tipping is entirely discretionary, and if everyone who didn’t tip stopped buying coffee then the shop would go out of business and the baristas would be out of a job.

The French Laundry is widely considered as one of the best restaurants in the world and it takes months to get a reservation, so in a sense eating there is witnessing a performance.

Torque is way more relevant to daily driving than any racing situation. When I’m driving a car on the road I don’t want to keep it running low gear, max rpm all the damn time everywhere I go. It’s nice being able to just drop in the gas pedal and have the car respond. That said, a 50-80 pull in 3rd gear on a flat…

One reason we don’t do this currently is because the solar/wind farm doesn’t make base load power. If 24/7 on-demand generating capacity to meet base load is a requirement then either chemical (battery) or kinetic (pumped hydro, flywheel) energy storage is required, as well as nameplate capacity multiple times higher…

BP designed the well casing (and tried to dual-purpose the well for exploration and production, which is very uncommon for deepwater drilling) and had full-time supervision of drilling operations on the rig. BP’s design was marginal for maintaining well control; if the well were designed from the start as exclusively…

I see this as a sort of spiritual successor to the 4th generation Acura TL SH-AWD (thankfully not the fascias though). It’s not the best at any one thing but the total package is a joy to drive and comfortable to live with every day, without the maintenance complexity and option inflation that is hallmark of the…

Bangladesh doesn’t grow much cotton, 80% of their exports are RMGs (ready-made garments) made from imported fabric and yarn.

In a global economy wages for low-skill work are always going to be influenced by the rest of the world. Even jobs that can’t be outsourced, such as logistics and food service, will have their wages influenced by more mobile industries such as manufacturing and call centers since these jobs all draw from a similar…

The largest partner university in this program will be University of Florida. It’s a great school, I would be surprised if the other options were of much lower quality.

At the very least it will translate into greater pay and opportunities within the overall employment market. If Walmart doesn’t take advantage of the workforce they’ve paid to educate then some other company will. 

Except for corned beef, beef stew, tripe, chicken soup, and almost every shellfish preparation, among others.