Geeto67

I'll count it because of the VR4's rep, and also stick shift.

The market is creating the data, so say what you want about the market, it doesn't agree with you. Yes the analysis part of research can skew, but remember 1) if it skews it will be obvious in the analysis and will be pointed out by it's critics (which isn't really happening so it must be pretty good), and 2) incentive drives the need to skew, and honestly financial incentive to solve the problem does a pretty good job of keeping things honest. I get that you like your xenophobia and you love to call Ethiopians or Somalians turds because it makes you feel good, but don't pretend that your narrow view of immigrants being the problem is actually the problem. Do you want to solve societal problems? or do you just want to talk about how the poor are inferior? All this talk about "entitlement" is a lot of things, but the main thing thing it isn't is helpful to the current situation. It's a fact of life we have children in this country malnourished and dying, growing up in homes that lack stable shelter, and that those situations have long standing effects on society. The context for a living wage and for a social safety net is an attempt to address that, it's not about whether they are entitled to money, but whether they are entitled to not die in the street due to a lot of circumstances beyond their control. It literally wears me out to hear your "entitlement garbage" because it offers nothing. No solution, no assistance, not even a unique or novel perspective on the problem. It's just you saying your fellow man is worthless. I deal with it fine. I just find it intensely hypocritical of you that you blast immigrants for stealing jobs, but have no problem letting the machines take them from Americans while you denigrate your fellow Americans. For someone so anti-government, it's surprising for you to be so anti worker as well. When the market shifts in favor of the worker, it's not stomping their feet and demanding more money - its monetizing the market value of the employee. Their intrinsic value goes up the company shouldn't get that for free, the worker should get paid what they are worth. Companies have no problem doing furloughs, pay adjustments, wage decreases, and even mass layoffs when it goes the other way, why shouldn't the employee play the same game in the rare chance it goes their way? I am the working man, just like you, just like most of us. I am not on the side of management. If you worry about people gaming a system, then mgmt should invent a better game. People are going to rise to the level of their ambition, you can't stop that. Even if the economy goes in the toilet? He's a stable genius, he told us so,what could possibly go wrong? :dumb:

ColorRite used to do automotive paint. I think they sold their automotive division and it's now called express paint. I used ColorRite in the past with good results, but not for a car. https://www.expresspaint.com/

the s30 240z was discontinued in 1978. The S130 280zx replaced it in 1978 and ran through to 1983. Did you mean that one? because it's a different looking car.

Ok, so I thought this would be a fun discussion to have on a Friday. It is completely hypothetical, I'm not looking to buy something off CL with my refund or anything. Say you had about $3500 ($5k if you need to push it) to spend on CL - what 1980's Japanese sports car would you buy today and why? I am going to disqualify the Miata right now because even though it was available in 1989, those are all 1990 models and outside the date range (same applies to all other cars where the 1st year is 1989 as a 1990 model). No million dollar one offs either, must be the kind of car you would expect to see on CL. Ready? Go.....

Or maybe they are just unqualified for that job? If you went to school for a BA in linguistics, and your entire experience working on cars is to change a battery once in an autozone parking lot, you probably shouldn't be under a car doing oil changes. Yeah, there are lazy people in this world that don't want to work, but the number of those people is small. What you are seeing are people who want to work in a job they are qualified for and eventually they will get jobs in their field or enter the labor market another way when they don't. And as they come in, others will leave. It sucks being unemployed and wanting to work, but just because they aren't willing to take any job that comes along that they aren't really qualified for doesn't mean they are lazy. They are your friends (I presume) and they probably bitch and moan about their situation to you, and it probably sucks to have a job and feel awkward around your friend who doesn't. But try to be a little understanding too, this world isn't easy for anybody and making them feel shitty by calling them lazy doesn't help. although I probably wouldn't lend them any money.

Prove that they are lies. Research and studies aren't solutions, they just allow people to make informed decisions. But we get it, you don't value research so to you it's all about how you feel. That's precious but I'm glad that most of the world doesn't share your opinion. Nobody here is talking about entitlement. There is a labor shortage and we are having a discussion about possible things to ease it from the perspective of the employers. You just like shitting on people by calling them entitled because you like to feel superior about how lucky you have been concerning your own life. Honestly, I'm happy there is a skilled labor shortage, it means the working men and women of the world get paid what they are worth if they screw up the courage to ask for it. The only thing I don't like about it is that often employers try to solve for it through investing in tech and outsourcing rather than investing in their people, but that's a different problem for a different discussion. Anybody who is saying there is a labor shortage because people are lazy is out of touch with reality and just looking to justify feeling good about having a job. There are real factors affecting the market that don't have anything to do with laziness and if the employers want a solution that invests in people, there are options. Sadly they will probably choose tech instead. Remember this is all cyclical, it will be interesting to see where we are when the current CIC starts to push his own economic policies instead of coasting off decade long trends and the policies of his predecessors. Labor shortages don't last forever.

Why not? they want the employees, right? They also did that for 100s of years until the technology developed to allow for an international labor pool rather than a national one. Technology has allowed a lot of jobs to be outsourced overseas but having people getting training for those jobs isn't going to stop that. Most of what's gone would pay below the poverty standard in this country anyway so it wasn't staying. Technology It has also created jobs, often with higher skills requirements that the jobs they sent overseas. Technology replaces jobs in this country without outsourcing as well. Immigration and outsourcing isn't the problem - it's creating a job for every job technology makes obsolete and we are losing that fight. And one of the way we are losing that fight is that people are choosing to focus on something as inconsequential as immigration when in reality they need to look at the larger problem holistically.

I don't think I'm smarter than a lot of people I have met in ohio, but for damn sight I'm superior to you. Heck, so are most household pets and inanimate objects. I think the underside of your rock misses you, you should go find it.

I really don't know how you got from here: To this: Obviously, working on a car on a lift is something that has a significant safety concern so I am not talking about waving drug tests for that. In fact I am not even talking about waving drug tests at all, just being a little more open to the idea that a fail for one person isn't the same as a fail for another and if the market wants to solve for it, there are some cautious options. That being said, as a mechanic, you want a labor shortage in the market because that means you have some leverage with respect to your employment situation. Now's the time to ask for raises, or more time off, or get a better paying job. It's rare that the working man gets leverage over his employer, so while you have it make good use of it.

It's a shift in the labor market, we have been heading this way for over 100 years, I don't know why people think it was going to change. First you didn't need any education (1700's), then you needed some education for most jobs (1800's), then by the mid 1900's you needed at least high school for most jobs, and now we are at the point where at least an associates or technical training certification gets you real choices in the market. Can't stop progress as we continue to move faster in the industrial age. Dude, I don't want to be mean to you but, Hasn't your sister's addiction caused enough pain in your life? Do you think that at this point if she had the will to resist the drugs in her system should would have? These chemicals are a poison that once it gets its hooks into a person doesn't let go, and increasingly it is getting it's hooks into people in some sneaky and initially benign ways (like a dr's prescription). I would love for the opoid epidemic to be solved tomorrow by big pharma and the government but it ain't gonna happen and for now we have to deal with the landscape we have in front of us. But there is a big difference between your sister, and some dude who smokes weed on the weekends to relax. And there are a lot of places that require a drug test for jobs that don't have a lot to do with safety. For years the company I work for required janitorial staff to pass drug tests, I mean really do you need to be weed free to do that job? I'm not saying put a heroin addict under a car, but come on man - you need to be "clean" to "clean"? I've seen what the people do to the toilets here during the day, I wouldn't want to do that job without getting high to forget it afterwards either. That's kind of how a labor shortage works. All the skilled people take the skilled jobs, and the rest of the skilled open positions fight over who is left, which are unskilled laborers, and skilled laborers who are disqualified for some reason (like drugs or disability). How do you propose to solve the labor shortage? because I am advocating train the unskilled and try to be a little more forgiving of those who may not pose a significant risk so even if they are overqualified for the position they have the chance to work and prove themselves. what's your solution?

Make it clear all you want, it ain't gonna change the landscape. Also, I'm pretty sure you don't speak for the whole of Ohio, which is good because I don't think it could take the reputation hit of having you as its spokesperson. But keep it up, I'm sure your "your not wanted here" rhetoric won't seem backwards and bigoted someday.

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Been there a couple of times, and even had my honeymoon there at the Secrets resort. It's pretty wonderful, we had a good time. I would stick to the all inclusive resorts and arranged tours though. I will second the mayan ruins tours, Chichen Itza and Ek Balam were amazing.

You talk in these absolutes and you say I'm in a bubble? sheesh, pot and kettle much? I work for a multinational organization. They relocated me here because the Columbus, Ohio job market did not offer enough candidates with the qualifications needed to do my job. Admittedly I am a little overqualified for what my position evolved into but that is more a product of my own efficiencies in automating some processes internally. Good thing they didn't reduce the pay because I still earn a NY salary with Ohio cost of living. But I have to question as to whether you have actually lived anywhere else? For the most part NY has almost all of the same laws we have here in Ohio, so does Louisiana and Massachusetts, heck most of the other states I have lived in. There are some regional differences like being able to register a car in NH without living there, but for the most part its not that different, esp with concern to labor laws. Part of progress is looking toward the future rather than maintaining the status quo. Because Ohio doesn't have enough smart people to do my job, that's why. I thought that was clear? I certainly hope someday you can overcome your ignorance and anger and become a fully functioning member of society. I doubt it, but there is hope. I will say that culturally, the few things that have made Ohio stand out for me is the latent racisim and white supremacy problem (worse than when I lived in the deep south), and the really judgemental attitude that I have seen from some people. Don't get me wrong, people are judgemental everywhere but some of you guys take it to a whole 'nother level, esp when it comes to groups of people and stereotypes. Also your education system concerns me a little. There is a lot less analytical reasoning/thinking I am seeing being taught in the school curriculum than what I got when I was a kid, and there are a lot of indoctrinating things people put their kids through that counteract any critical reasoning they get taught. That isn't all of ohio, and there really are some great people here (not you, obviously), but it is something I have noticed that is stronger here than other places I have lived.

I think you only need to read a couple post back to see xenophobia in action. AS to low wage immigrant workers taking jobs from actual workers, prove it. Because almost all of the studies in this area say otherwise: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=23550 Yes there are a small population of outliers that actually are affected but to paint it as anything more than a nominal problem is very misleading. Why is everything an absolute with you? Just because you recognize something is an issue doesn't mean the immediate and only reaction is to stop doing that thing without any other alternatives. I am not saying that drug tests aren't a necessary part of the landscape, but I do also think that they may be overused in some scenarios, and that there are progressive approaches that can be taken to help alleviate the problem. The current all or nothing system doesn't differentiate between recreational use of things like pot and actual addiction. If the labor shortage is really hitting the market hard, maybe there is a more progressive approach that can be taken with some of the lesser scenarios. I'm not saying you should give a heavy crane operator a job if he fails a drug test for weed, but for some other jobs where safety is a minimal concern, maybe a probationary period with weekly testing would help open up the candidate pool a little. There are some places that have already begun to try this but I would like to see more, esp in the face of employers starting to close off their applicant pool to legal things like smoking. I don't know that there is one solution, or that the question is necessarily an easy answer. There are some things that can be tried. More money into social programs to help people get actual skills training is a good start - education in this country is vastly underfunded so it couldn't hurt to give those without the money to improve themselves access to the opportunity to do so. I don't know that the number of people who don't "want" to improve themselves is as great as you say, but career counseling - actual effective counseling could help.

This idea that "nobody wants to work" is nonsense. It's one of those conservative lies to justify xenophobia or cutting social programs. Drugs, and drug tests, have completely fucked the job market, esp in places like Ohio which are affected by several epidemics. It's getting to the point where the skilled labor market is disqualifying 1/3 of their applicants, that's a huge number of ineligible people. Second, remember we are talking about the "skilled" labor market. The unskilled labor market is doing just fine. Being a skilled worker means you have to meet the necessary qualifications for the job position. I hold two degrees (including one that is considered a doctorate) but nobody should hire me as a finishing carpenter based in that one summer I taught wood shop as a camp counselor. You have to have the skills that qualify you for the job, and honestly a lot of people don't. For profit technical colleges contributed a lot to that, putting lots of young entry level people in massive debt but not really training them properly (there are some good ones but I'm talking about the ITT's of the world, the ones that were quasi scams). Furthermore a lot of companies don't want to invest in skills training, it's expensive and often they lose money when their employee jumps ship after 2 years to go work for someone else. You can't hire skilled workers if the skilled aren't there in the market. Also, let's not forget about the permanently disabled - those who can't work. Their numbers get included in unemployment, which is pretty low right now but they can't rejoin the workforce. Maybe you have a friend or a cousin who is just lazy and doesn't want to work. I'm sure there are some outliers who are just that, but there are rich people like that too. They are such a small group that they are statistically insignificant in the labor pool. To think everyone without a job is that is incredibly short sighted.

I'm not an engineer, I can barely do math. I listen to some very smart people and I retain knowledge like a sponge. Robochan added a nice point on there too - usually the fluid will fail and release clamping power long before the caliper bursts into flames.

And after the most horrific events in formula 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_RA302 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Schlesser everybody got real sensitive about magnesium alloy and it's flash points. Magnesium itself has a low flash point but can burn at some incredible heats, but mixing it with aluminum and zinc can double the temp flash points. Still you don't see a lot of magnesium calipers. so this is an interesting question, but not because of the materials but the engineering. Think of your standard brake system - rotor, pads, and caliper. The rotor itself acts as a heat sync since it is very dense, and also one of the primary sources of heat being the main friction surface. Heat is going to want to transfer evenly offset by heat conductivity of the material (ie it moves faster through aluminum than steel) and the density and size of the piece. Also with the disc, because it is the thinner and the actual friction surface, you'll see disc failure before you see a caliper melting. I'd wager you would probably see the pads catch fire too before that happens. Brakes can get up to about 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, but not from one stop. You'll see that in a competition setting like F1, or top level GT racing (tight road courses). Something I don't think this car is going to see all that much. years ago, when I worked for a corvette shop, we had a 1957 Airbox competition car in for restoration. I was facinated with it and the owner saw my hard lust and said "wanna see something neat"? He then pulled me into the office and showed me a vhs tape of old corvettes racing at various tracks. On some of them you could see the drums glowing red from the overheat. It was fantastic.

They use a special process to do titanium called direct metal laser sintering (DMLS). Basically a line of powder is laid out and then a laser hits it and heats it instantly melting the powder and welding the strand with the previous one at the same time. It's pretty neat. There are more than a few youtube videos demonstrating DMLS if you want to fall down that rabbit hole.

every exotic metal becomes flammable at "High temp" the quesiton is how high. The melting point of Titanium is 3034 °F, and the boiling point is ​5949 °F, however the point at which pure titanium can be consumed by fire is a much lower 1,130 °F, due to it's reactive properties with oxygen (it is fully reactive at 1200°F). The secret to heating titanium to a melting point is to control the amount of oxygen that it is exposed to. These numbers can be raised by creating an alloy of titanium, and the most common is Ti 6Al-4V which is 6% aluminum, 4% vanadium, 0.25% (maximum) iron, 0.2% (maximum) oxygen, and the remainder titanium. It is significantly stronger than commercially pure titanium while having the same stiffness and thermal properties (excluding thermal conductivity). Among its many advantages, it is heat treatable. In case you are wondering how it stacks up against aluminum, aluminum's melting point is 1220°F, boiling point is 4566°F, and can be consumed by fire is also at 1220°F.

You are amazingly naïve. See this is the sheltered bubble Tim I expect to read.

Fundamentally, the majority of them are diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, are on medication, are 63% white, and are 90% male. Prove to me that the lack of father figure is a more important factor than the other ones I have mentioned in cobtributing to the event. Can you? Because I'm pretty sure you need research to do that. I think it's sad that you think the goal of science is to disprove itself. The purpose of science is to better understand our world. The concept you are mis remembering is that we know so little about our world that it's far easier to disprove a theory than it is to prove it because you always have to be open to a possibility not considered as new things are discovered. My point is research will get us closer to more common sense legislation than what we are doing now ever will. So why not try it?

I'm sorry, did someone else write this under you account: Tim, I am not sure if you understand how actual scientific research works in this setting. There is a general outline, but they don't go in saying "we are going to prove X", they go in saying we are going to study this factor and hopefully understand all the things that lead to it and the things it impacts. From that point, the information gets passed to the lawmakers to figure out how to effectively use it to draft laws and regulations. How to make it more effective is a question of the law makers. The researchers should be answering how effective is it if it is effective at all? and in what way is it more or less effective? What are the factors that help or hurt it's effectiveness? These things require actual comparative study of the data, analysis, etc...It's not as simple as let's collect a few data points and then just publish it for others to use (there is that type of research as well but that isn't generally what we are talking about in this scenario). A casualty of the dicky amendment - we can't even study suicides performed with a gun without heavy restrictions at the moment because of the dickey amendment. remember it's a restriction on any research that might possibly advocate gun control - not a restriction on gun research. I mean is there an economic factor shared by all school shooters or even all mass shooters that by changing something in the marketplace might have incentivized their behavior to make different choices. You should be, they still say the same thing today (but perhaps have toned it down). It's important to understand the history of these things. Jay Dickey who wrote the bill (and died last year) wrote an op-ed in 2012 in which he expressly stated that he regrets ever being the mouthpiece for the NRA in proposing this bill. The Bill cost him his seat in congress because his district was moderate. There is always something to learn from researching this, so "no studies needed for that" is not a credible answer. Research provides us with a new perspective, it allows us to look at the problem from different angles and to rule out things that seem like a factor but aren't. Explain to me how this is not an extreme position. I'll wait. Honestly, this is the kind of attitude that needs to change. Nobody serious is talking about an outright repeal of 2A in any of these conversations, but hardliners like to extend any form of gun control as an infringement on 2A. This is a point I have heard you make many many times here. You think the current proposals make sense? you think any of the last proposals for GC were rational? People want movement, and they are going to find someway to get it. The NRA has slowed it significantly but they couldn't stop the brady bill, or the assualt weapons ban, and if the midterms swing democrat they might not be able to stop what's coming next. Wouldn't it be nice to have what's coming next to be fact based and actually have a chance at addressing a problem? You say this, but all I hear is "I'm not for studies that disagree with my feelings about 2A". You have to know some of the things you say are a bit "out there". I know I sound like a screaming liberal hippie sometimes, and I own it. Do you really think you are moderate with "Molon Labe" decals on your car? You argue pretty hard against research when ever we have this conversation. I find people that argue against facts and data suspicious. Why do you hate research Tim? why don't you see it as a necessary part of this process?

You hit on a very interesting and intelligent point here Wags. Guns are a part of the problem, people are a part of the problem too. How much each contributes in aggregate is not really known because we can't even study people related to these mass attacks if a gun was involved because it might lead to gun control. We can kind of say in each individual case, and we could study mass knife attacks but honestly they are few and far between and there would be an obvious skew of the data without real comparison material. We can't even drive change in the mental health area because we don't have the research because it can't be studied because it might be used to write gun control. What if a lot of these incidents are all linked to the same or similar medication used to treat mental illness? we can't even find out because we can't pay for independent research to be done in this area because it may be used to write a gun control law as well.