ReconRat

No the dealer doesn't have to sell it, but standards of business practice would say the dealer is wrong. Of course, there are always exceptions. If something is listed at a ridiculous low and wrong price, it would be considered a sort of theft if you bought something at that wrong price. The seller doesn't have to honor a reasonable error. Now, the question is, does that translate over into an "error in forgetting the reserve". I believe that generally eBay would say no. There was plenty of time and opportunities to withdraw the offering before it was too late. And is in general, in violation of eBay seller rules. And is this slander by the buyer? Of course not. It's the truth. They need to give him $4000 with a gag order. And sell him the car. edit: oh, and get rid of the person that set the auction up on eBay, those mistakes are getting expensive...

In perspective, from the decline beginning Oct 2008, and the missing value of interest equal to cost of living increase, the market is currently down at least 30% from where it would have been today. So I guess getting excited about a "one day recovery" isn't going to impress me.

Well, it's Tuesday morning @ 6:30am, and the Asian and European markets are already down as much as they were yesterday. It looks like a rough week ahead. I'm just hoping it's not a rough month/year/decade/century. Example: The European DAX was a 9.36% drop on Monday. DAX dropped 9.46% in the first hour on Tuesday. This is panic selling. It's recovered a little already. edit: European market actually showing a recovery early on, for the losses on Tuesday. Asian market, no.

I'm old enough to have seen it happen many times in the USA. Including right here in Columbus. Just remember that what gets burned down, might just stay that way, and you have to live with it. Nothing might ever be built to replace it when it's gone.

Notice that this Monday that the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were downgraded, and hints about downgrading France and Britain were announced. Stay tuned for more... More would be the 10 billion lawsuit against Bank of America for being greedy.

http://articles.dailyamerican.com/2011-07-23/news/29808699_1_dog-gone-run-starboyz-fire-department

I checked both links, and both open with both Adobe Reader 9.3 and Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.4 Your downloaded copy was probably corrupted during the download.

Yes, armed, or with external stores or tanks, or with a full load of internal fuel, the stall speed is much higher. Empty is landing speed minimum stall.

The lesson here, is to be careful about the paperwork when purchasing parts like engines from eBay or CraigsList. Either source is capable of burning the buyer. There needs to be a better way to check out and clear s/n's and parts sources... http://articles.dailyamerican.com/2011-08-05/news/29857319_1_motorcycle-engines-affidavit I think I'll recommend dry sump engines to avoid having to buy 12 to 15 engines a year...

Maybe... still working, and staying maybe till 6 or so. If not dead tired, will head that way.

OEM is often EBC and/or several other common manufacturers from Japan.

LOL ... I would have liked to have seen this. Two F-16s scrambled out of Toledo, and intercepted a tiny KitFox Model II. Which flies at 85mph and often under 500 ft above the ground. That 85mph is just about the minimum stall speed of an F-16. So I guess they were flying big circles around the tiny KitFox trying to get it to land. Flying circles at very low altitude and freaking out all the people on the ground. http://barrington.suntimes.com/news/6877801-418/small-plane-flying-out-of-south-barrington-intercepted-after-violating-obama-air-space.html http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110804/news/708049895/ Who will win? http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-16-j-98821f16wwf.jpg VS: http://www.kitfoxaircraft.com/Model%20II_files/image001.jpg Oh, and this was all to protect Obama in Chicago...

This one was predicted pretty clearly, if you've been watching the financial news this week. Except that it was predicted to occur next week. Which makes next week interesting...

The "vote them all out" syndrome used to occur every fourth federal election. Or every 16 years. I get the impression it's becoming a standard of each election...

I just want to see the 80 pounds of documents that come with the card.

When I used to actually look at firewall logs, I'd often see a thousand attack hits from China per day. Which caused me to block China's address range. And that was just a roadrunner address at home...

Stalin killed more people than Hitler.

Too late. The existing shift in Atlantic currents has covered Britain completely in snow twice already. A drastic change in weather.

Very few surveys are done correctly. A correct survey asks more than one question. None are biased. Any results that are all positive or all negative are discarded. Any results that fail to answer all questions are discarded. No one does that any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQge_Yn-SLM

The survey is biased by quantity, not quality...

Interesting when they groove/grind it for the new asphalt. Get some good continuous wobble going on that stuff...

Here, asteroid and comet impact calculators. Fun to play with and see how big of a hole you can blast in the ground... http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/ http://simulator.down2earth.eu/ http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/ http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact/

It also matters what the asteroid or comet is made of. Iron would be bad, stone not so much, ice would go poof before it got to the ground. Actually, most of them burn up. Even one that hits, isn't much more than a local event with a crater. It takes a truly large chunk to cause actual damage. Which is generally measured in Megatons like a nuclear explosion. There's a blast radius size and crater size and all that stuff. And yes, velocity matters...

Most of the world will run out of an easy supply of fresh water probably long before a fuel crunch or oceans rising or global warming. Wars will be fought over water. Or... as said, less people need less water... edit: Don't forget that the human population dropped to about 80,000 once. Determined from genetic DNA tracing. Barely enough to start over. Not sure what caused it.