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Article is interesting but gets a few things wrong:

1. Starting the analysis in 1975 is misleading (the Ford administration). The most interesting cars are from the late 60s early 70s before emission regulations, oil crisis, car bumpers, ect kicked in (and dealt a huge drop in power, increase in weight, ect).

2. Cherry picking a muscle car for its weight is also misleading. Muscle cars weren't light. Some had 6 or 7 liter engines (That's a lot of iron!). They were quick-ish because they were powerful. Muscle cars might be the only cars to have lost weight in the last 40 years, since its ridiculous to have a "sports" car weigh as much as a family SUV.

Look at the accord, or the civic and see the weight gains.

In fact, cars have been getting lighter but over the past 5 years, because they've become ridiculously heavy. This is new and excited (they're still whales though)

3. Yes my SUV has 300 hp, which is insane. But I go around a mountain corner much slower in it with it's 4000 lb than I would a FIAT 127 (kids, remember to downshift to keep the drum breaks cool!).

Point is, a car isn't a good performance just because it has a good weight/power. Just the weight itself is important (light always wins for the same power weight ratio).

Not if they're on an H1B.

I agree that most relationships weren't more meaningful, but I had less meaningless relationships too.

That's the sick part of FB. That I really don't care for my cousin saving the world in Africa, so why should I care what she's doing?

I don't. And the truth is most of us don't care either. We're unable to admit it to ourselves so we pretend to care

Sure it happened somewhat. That's how they caught Solzhenitsyn and that's the protagonist's side job in Catch 22.

But we're talking orders of magnitude of difference.

In general "they" don't read your mail because they can't even if they wanted to. Slow mail is extremely expensive to do a through survailence on.

Interesting. Although I tend to attribute things like this to ignorance and not malice. < Helps me pretend people aren't so bad.

The people who make decisions often don't know what they're deciding about (how can the same person make a good decision about child education, policing standards and public hygiene?) and I think our modern philosophy that a "bad decision made early is better than no decision" amplifies this.

There are some decisions in life that have to made carefully so we don't ask for forgiveness.

Except that anyone who has flown in an airplane knows that these aren't rare, unthinkable, events. Every time we fly we get nasty, rude, on the edge of snapping flight crews.

So, ya I hate the 5 minutes of hate culture, except that's the only defense we, as the public, have against entrenched power.

Same goes for cops, soldiers, Uber, etc. I'm sorry but I no longer buy the "lone bad apple" story.

I don't like the five minutes of hate either. And the over abundance of out-of-context filming going on everywhere.

But I do care that a woman was hit by a stroller and that a baby was almost hit. Mr. Flight Attendant is an employee, not police officer, and has no right to assault anyone.

What upsets me, and everyone else if they spent a minute to think about it, is that flying (among many other things we do) has become a throughly unpleasant.

Flight crews are increadily underpaid, over worked and under extreme stress. If they don't close that gate on time they'll miss departure, have to wait in cue several minutes and cost their company thousands in fuel.

So they're stressed, annoyed, view us a cattle (which we are) and will lay their hands on woman with babies.

It's not the flight attendants fault. It's American Airlines' fault.

At a certain point a criminal investigation needs to be done with a through discovery process.

(Man I hate taxis though)

The testimony of a guy under oath no less. And a testimony consistent with a pattern of illegal behavior that surely warrants a deep (criminal?) investigation with discovery.

They were happy to loose to the West who had less reason (by an order of magnitude or more) to hate them.

That Stalin was butcher seems a bit mute compared to the German responsibility of the savagery of the Eastern Front.

Why not?

Once you're on D7 the pawn can be captured or kept. If black moves to capture the pawn with a bishop, you move the king into pawn's old spot. You capture the black rook with the other pawn for the win.

If there are no more bishops on the diagonal, or if they move their king to the B column, then you get a Queen and finish them off.

Am I missing something (I'm a very bad player)?

WVU's PRT train system runs on VAX.

Any university has dozens of labs with 386s, or similar vintage, because the software they need to operate incredibly expensive equipment is abandonware.

In fact an IT guy I knew kept the best surviving examples of vintage computers in his closet for parts or to transfer data with.

Well there's only 40~45 weeks in a year (if menstruation is no-sexy time) so then that's twice a week.

Sounds about right.

+1

I know of no one in any of the dozen or so cities I've lived who doesn't prefer a typical uber driver to a typical cab driver.

Why can't you have a one (two w/ 180 deg) phase cooker?

How else are you going to get out of a country surrounded by water?

At least w/ Canada there's an agreement for the Canucks to tell CBR that you've left the US (Source: I tried to surrender my i-94 at the US side of the border. The guy told me to give it to Canadians). Not hard to envision another agreement on the Mexican side

Don't forget turkey had the cojones to provoke the Russians by shooting their plane and then commit a war crime by shooting sry the pilots.

They'be become a rogue nation more than any other.

Of course not. Unless you happen to have R. Paul as your senator the GOP typically is worse.

Its playing the two sides off each other that might work. Make the GOP think will vote for them. Make the democrats think they'll loose our contributions.

Getting rid of Feinstein will be an excellent first step.

Think of every demographic in the US that politicians whore themselves to. The most successful ones are not always large. But they vote as a block, in high numbers, and are not overly faithful to any party.

Tech workers should support senators like Wyden or R. Paul and take steps to really knock down Feinsteins or Burrs.

Another brick in the wall.

What are we going to do a out it? Maybe Wikipedia or Google will deface their own websites, and the bill will die only to resurrect shortly after.

A better solution would be for the millions of tech workers to unite and vote GOP just to send a message that we don't automatically vote for anyone or any party.

If California's vote is locked for a certain party, then it is taken for granted.

It was a bit of hyperbole. But digital rot really is not taken as seriously as it should.

I mean the Iowa computers were on combat duty until the 80s.

+1 because you're right about the importance of distribution.

My family are inflation "refugees". It's bad in of itself.

I agree that the distribution of the money is the worse part of the printing press. Giving money to soup kitchens is not as bad giving it to upgrade your military equipment. But, lets not kid ourselves. The central bank is a very powerful instrument of control. The powerful are hardly going to relinquish it!

A bit much, even for me.

But Orwell wouldn't be surprised a bit of quid pro quo. Both are power structures, in competition, ultimately trying to preserve their own controll.

I'm sure if you google it there'll be blurb on their website. But Chomsky points out that appearing impartial is part of the media manipulation.

They'll print the juicier bits, but buried deep were few except geeks and junkies like me will read it.

Another two techniques that infuriate me:

1. Editing published articles after they are published and making the original unavailable. (Editing should look like word's auto-track feature: in bright red)

2. Not following up on a story after you launched salvos into a person/ideas truth worthiness and they are vindicated

I up voted you. I read RT, but their juicier bits I always look up to cross check.[1]

But I don't live in Russia so Putin can't harm me. Therefore, I'm not scared of them.

However, it is an invaluable source to know what we're doing. RT wants to discredit the West, and there is too much truthful material for them to work with for to have to fudge too much.

[1] although is disagree with you there is no western equivalent. I used to be a big fan of the WSJ, NYT and The Economist, after Syria and the Snowden leaks, they have become unreadable. Only The Intercept is left (npr gets a pass because I have a 40 minute drive to work)

My dad's eng degree is in electromagnetic mechanics . He graduated just as mechanical relays (actually analog computer controlling a relay) in the power grid were being replaced by electrical ones.

A few interesting things he points out:

-Throughout his career nothing has had the longevity of these mechanical devices. As late as the 2000s he had projects replacing mechanical relays installed in the 30s. Digital becomes obsolete and needs replacement in ten years when the manufacturer stops support.

-If a Turing machine can be implemented as an electrical circuit, and an digital computer is, ultimately, an analog circuit; then an analog circuit can do at least as much as a digital can. It's just impossibly more difficult to do.

A follow up question to the OP's:

Which courses are worth taking?

If you don't mind which courses did you pay for? Especially, which ones did you pay because they were so high quality?

Agreed. I love Apple's hardware (much more than their user interface), but I dislike being in public with a giant glowing half eaten apple.

NPR suggests people in the director's position have a more legitimate need to cover their webcams "... It's certainly not unreasonable to worry about webcams, especially for someone as high-profile as Comey"

And teenagers?

There is no mention in the article of the "Lower Merion School District" case where school officials were spying on teenagers through their webcams in their rooms.

Call me old fashioned, but I think that's an important case for the general public to know about when discussing webcam privacy...