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Actually doesn't work well. The magnets pull the items down harder and increase friction, so the item is more likely to tip over. I think Thorne nailed it with the clear plastic sheet idea. Anyway, definitely fake, the last few items had would have been right off, otherwise.

It looks like the frame is heavy square tube with heavy gauge sheet steel panels. With the batteries and motor and all that, it probably weighs as much as a lawn tractor. The "on-board charging" is just a smart battery charger bolted to the frame and hard-wired in. Found this a couple pages away from thefirst vid:

NWS Blue Angels Sneak Pass: While the rest of the squad is doing maneuvers for the crowd on the boats, one sneaks out of formation and takes a run down the channel behind the flotilla at just barely below trans-sonic.

WANT. I've been trying to find an old electric wheelchair for cheap to build an RC snowblower. This blows my plans away.

No liquor specificly, but I'll never do shots at a party again. Last time I took a shot anywhere other than a bar was when I was 19. I haven't got a fucking clue what those assholes put in the shots, but I woke up buck naked in my kitchen sink, and the last thing I remember from the night before was some dude screaming about Muppets and running headfirst into a steel security door. Apparently a few other people found themselves in odd places that morning, too.

OK, I was all set to hate you, but then I saw that you had pulled the stick-on portholes off, so you get +rep after all. Things look stupid even on Buicks where they belong. Silver one is nice, always liked the stock/dropped look on the 2nd gen. That your S-10 Xtreme in the background of your driveway pic?

I just read most of this thread, and I think I dropped a couple IQ points somewhere around page 12... Is there any possibility that this twerp is one of the wonderfag twins with the Cutlass and Camaro?

ugh, James Litman or something like that. I know the commercials. Total Transformation, right? There's someone who needs a paddle across the ass for making us suffer through those stupid commercials. The only ones more annoying than those are the Gamefly or whatever commercials with the people throwing the bad game tantrum. That stupid bitch screaming right at the start is like getting a liquid-nitrogen-dipped icepick through the eardrum.

If you lock up one side of an open diff, it basically turns into a 2:1 step-up gearbox for the wheel that is spinning, right? (EDIT: What I mean is that it effectively changes the gear ratio from say 3.73:1 for both sides, to 3.73:2 for the spinning side of a one-wheeler, doubling the rate at which the tire turns compared to normal.) And for my question about top speed in third, I heard what sounded like two upshifts, so he was probably in third, and he was building some serious RPM again when it blew, so I'm figuring he was close to fourth. So, he was close to topping out in third, take whatever indicated speed that is and double it to find the speed of the spinning tire. Looking at the rest of the car (hanging headliner, beat seats, rust, and a foglight hanging out of the bumper by it's wires) I wouldn't figure he was spending much money on his tires. So with the one-wheeler, the rights side probably smoked right through it's speed rating by the end of second.

My personal experience was shared by thousands of other kids in the midst of the great ADHD scare of the 80s and 90s. ADHD was the mis-diagnosis of choice for almost every type of behavioral issue from all-out psychosis to simple boredom and too much sugar. I am not stating that the condition doesn't exist, nor am I saying that treatments don't work for people who HAVE the condition, I am saying that I didn't HAVE ADHD, and neither did a great many other kids who got swept up in the Ritalin craze. Medication, behavioral therapy, or whatever else have a very hard time working on conditions that the patient DOES NOT HAVE.

Yes, I took ADHD tests. I probably spent WEEKS of actual time taking behavioral tests. I was diagnosed as ADHD as a kid, spent almost eight years (And my parents spent almost all of my college fund) getting Ritalin, Dexedrine, and a bunch of other crap force fed to me three times a day before a psychologist finally said that I didn't have ADHD, probably NEVER had it, was misdiagnosed like thousands of other kids, and never needed any kind of medication. Should I just open my mouth and get the usual BS from people saying I'm talking out my ass? I put up links to short-cut the fifteen posts it usually takes people here to accuse someone of making shit up before the poster finally finds a link to back up what they're saying. You'd think I'd maybe get a little credit for checking my facts andgetting corroboration before I post.

Truth. Somebody complimented me on my Jag the other day...

Less to do with the speed than the fact that his left tire never so much as twitched. Epic one-wheel-wonder. Where's the 3rd gen top out at in third? Take that and double it for the one tire that was lit.

Regardless of how you argue it, the prosecution never once made any attempt to prove he deliberately hit the other car. It was an ACCIDENT and he got a sentence they don't give very many people who commit deliberate and premeditated assault.

It's also a medical condition that has been wildly over-diagnosed in the past, and continues to be the pop-psych scapegoat of choice for misbehavior. Believe me, been there, done that, got pills shoved down my throat for years while I was being there and doing that. Tim, you're working with old data, dude. New behavioral studies are showing that kids who are spanked up to around the age of six are happier and more productive as teens. It works. http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2010/01/05/children-who-are-spanked-just-may-be-more-successful/ http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2409510 http://topnews.us/content/29657-spanking-students-may-benefit-them-study

Now this is how a company SHOULD handle a possible safety issue. Less than three months, no deaths, no injuries, and they're recalling without NHTSA involvement. Now if they'd just make things right with the GT-R owners, and get an IRS back under the Maxima, I might just buy me a Nissan.

OK, so if your tire blows, and you over-correct and lose control, slamming into an oncoming car, you should serve 8 years? He panicked, didn't react correctly, and they hit him with a sentence normally reserved for armed robbers and child molesters. Seriously, people have served less time for looking through the sights of a gun and pulling the trigger.

Dude, you...I...holy shit, he really did, and I'm laughing so hard I can't think of a single cutting remark.

Firework fountains. This thing would be much cooler if it wasn't just an oversized funny car deliberately ballasted so that 300hp can lift the front end.

Hmm, I'd want an overhead hoist, too, but the lack is easily corrected. Needs a range/oven too, to take care of sides while steaks are grilling on the balcony. Seriously, though, my dream home is basically this, but with a full apartment and the loft section totally closed off for lower HVAC bills.

Nice oil cooler.

He may not have owned the car back in 2001 when the letters went out, and if he did, but still wasn't the original owner, Toyota may not have been able to notify him. Recalls are touchy like that. That's why I always check the VIN on a new(used) car for recalls and completed recall work through a dealer before I buy one.

Just to add a little "lol" back into the thread, my Dad was involved in the cleanup when that chicken manure tank burst at Croton. A few 20-30,000 gallons of liquid chicken shit blew out of a collapsed tank and overflowed the protective moat around the tanks. They had to build dikes and call in dozens of vacuum trucks to remove the lake of this...stuff... While they were doing the initial work to contain the mess, Croton's lawyer showed up in his Mercedes, parked away from the mess and put on a pair of waders to walk out and talk to my Dad and the contractors that were there assessing the damage. As the lawyer started to walk out, myDad and the contractors were yelling at him from the far side of the lake, and the lawyer couldn't hear them over the various equipment running, so he kept wading out into the lake.... ...right into the overflowed moat. Pops told me the only thing they could see of him was one hand holding up the business card the lawyer was bringing out to give him.

And there was a recall a while back for those years because of cruise-control related accelerations, just like the old Jeep recall. Of course, the fact that they hit him with eight years was ridiculous even without that. The worst case they could put together against him was that he accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake, then panicked and pushed harder on the wrong pedal when the car accelerated. Eight years for that is fucking ridiculous. He should have gotten failure to control or reckless ops, at worst.

Well, not Toyota, in this case. ToyoDa. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/53960ada-2607-11df-b2fc-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1