Science Abuse

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Even my wife knows that's a repost, wow thats old.

This is true, he's what keeps me reading NASCAR articles.

I am crazy. Also, I like what Scott said; Take the restrictor plate soff and see what happens, the risk would go up from a bit. I put it at "a bit" because wrecks are so common that one can do it with impunity and not have to worry about serious injury, just loosing their place. If bumping cars out of your way is common practice, then your "razors edge" driving is more like walking on a log. If there was risk and fear of death, drivers wouldn't touch each other on purpose. To answer your question Scott: Experience. -Real drivers don't hit eachother on the track. The idea of bumping a car out of your way generates fear. In NASCAwR, it's neccesity. -France's screwing with Tech. They're in slower cars, period. It's nto good for NASCARS image to have them do well. -Have you ever watch a race at Infineon or the Glen? Who logs fastest laps? You have road course guys "arive and drive" and snag top 10s in qualifying. They're faster drivers, they just can't compete in a swarm of 40 guys who's only talent is bumping. Lastly, The top ten drivers int he world won't touch NASCAR, thus they are not in the top ten. Kids die playing little league whent hey get hit by balls. As many millions of kids play each year, you get a few freak accidents.

That's why I worded it the way I did, I never said "You". There are long time fans, but given the growth in popularity since the mid 90s, the "long time fan" base is probably less than 30% of total viewership. Correct and incorrect: Those are games, not sports, beleive it or not there is a very important difference: Risk. You are correct about the promotion of them in the state and elsewhere. Is there risk in NASCAR? A bit, but they've got it very well controlled. More 8 year olds have dies playing little league baseball in the last 10 years. I grew up 1/4 mile from a dirt oval, I know all about the fun had at those events. I also used to play with legos and Hot Wheels. The stuff is fun, but once you look out and around and see what else there, you tend to move away from the simpler things. Not to say I don't still enjoy legos, I just get more out of building life sized things and racing real cars. Australian stock cars: http://www.captivephotographics.com.au/Motoring/Willowbank%20For%20Web/Skaife%2003.jpg

Funny thing about the Recluse, Hobo, and Sac spiders; Their shape is almost identical. Take away texture and color, compare them as a sihloette, and you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart. They alst tent to habitate int he same way. So, knowing that, keep your kids away from spiders that look like that.

It's popular, one doesn't want left out of conversations 'round the water cooler. It's like poker or golf or any other trendy thing; You do it to have something in common with other people and revel in conversations about "Oh yeah, I saw that too!" When the next hot thing comes along, people will jump on that as well. I used to love it, I still have all of my #2 MGD swag, diecasts, a poster may have survived as well. It is sports entertainment, i.e. entertainment disguised as a sport. The rules are designed: -to keep cars and teams from reaching their potential, it is a spec-car series. Everyone has these kinds of rules, but no where else are they taken to such extremes. You drive a car meant to show off sponsors and crash well. -To give as much "action" as possible. Passes and wrecks, that's why they prefer ovals. It's easier to pass and the wrecks are more spectacular without being as deadly. Road courses are slower and more complicated, they require too much skill and patience. In the NASCAR world, that doesn’t sell. The other factor is the publicity machine and what the organizers do to feed it. It is pro wrestling on wheels; whoever they want to be a popular driver is given an advantage in tech, blind eyes are turned. It happens, don't think for a second that it doesn't, and people have left the “sport” because of it. Sure, they have to go out and drive it, but it's still like starting a 100m dash from the 75m mark. BWAHAHAHAHA!!! No you don't! You watch tube framed spec-car billboards run around and crash. Do you even know what the term "stock car" means? NHRA Pro-stock dragsters are closer to stock cars than anything that NASCAR has run in the last 20+ years. In the US, the closest thing we have to televised Stock Car racing IS Speed world challenge (yes, Speed World Challenge is American, it does go on in this country, read a book). You want to see good stock car racing? Move to Australia.

Nascar isn't a sport, and people don't watch it to enjoy racing, they watch to see wrecks and be 'social'. Show them Rally or Speed World Challenge, and they wont care. The other kids watch NASCAR, so the lad wants to watch it too. Just be sure he knows it isn't real, and that Papa France lets whoever he wants to win cheat.

Thats f'n huge. this thread remids me; I've been wanting to bug-bomb my garage. Recomendations?

First one is labeled as a series, not a movie. The 2nd link makes more sense. I want movie.

If you run fromt he cops, run from the cops. Don't turn around, do donuts, or go to tight residential streets where you can't RUN. Cop cars are slow, there's no reason to lose. If you're dumb enough to run, though, you're too dumb to run well. On the hood? If that gets to the judge, it's all fuckin over. You are not in the business of self preservation if you are on the hood of a moving car firing one handed into the drivers seat. Having seen that, if Blue ash cops point guns at me, I'm running for my f'kin life. At no point in the vid (peoples exhibit A) did I see him use his vehicle as a weapon. There's a good lie right there. You pump rounds into a guy who has his foot on the gas...and he removes his foot before dying. The chase would have ended with the arrival of the last car, had they not lit the guy up.

No insect in ohio grows that large. Ohio wolf spiders aren't the only wolf spiders int he world, though. Check your source, it may be African or Australian. 13" is in the "worlds largest" territory.

Every spider everywhere has a poisonous bite, its how they eat. The variable is toxicity, not all of them can hurt you. Wolf spiders are your friend, especially if you've ever experienced a hidden cricket inside your house. Though the venom isn't immediately toxic, bites from most spiders can lead to infection, the nastiest of which is necrosis.

Perhaps they're not dumb. After all, no one else is the worled is going to pay them what they make now to do the shit they do. Who wouldn't bitch and moan and threaten people to keep that job? This should be the end of every UAW negotiation: "We'll give you what you want, but every last mutherfuckin one of you has to go out IMEDIATELY and buy a brand new GM product."

update: Update; I actually looked down into the OE Y pipe today as I was moving it around the garage....oh gawd. It reminds me of the old SHO pipe lay out: http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2346/pipese4.png Sorry for the bitmaps, our camera is busted. This is definitely a quick-shop hack job. I've got my pipes sorted and ready to put back in. I extended the two downtubes by about two feet. Didn't have much of a choice, but that's a long story. All this makes me want longtubes. Just realized my drawign is wrong. The pipe they're going into should be the same size at the other two. It's worse than pictured, by allot. My 2" downtubes are made into 1"x2" ovals in order to make them fit the Y.

"Striking for job security" You're striking, costing your nearly bankrupt employer $100 million a day, for job security? You want better and more costly benefits, and to get them you'll rob your employer of it's ability to provide them? That's smrt.

Dude, by nature, it's safer than soap....unless you buy shitty suits that have glue in them.

Go buy some, it's forever awesome. First, it cleans your MAF. It evaporates immediately, no residue (best part) It cleans all your computer stuff It degreases things And, to impress your girlfreinds: -It DRYCLEANS! Keep it in your car in case you spill coffee on your shirt. I got bike-chain grease/gunk on my pants. I blasted the grease spot from the inside out for 30 sec, and it was gone. 2 mins later, the wet spot was gone, no odor. FTMFW I also prepped oily exhaust pipe for paint with it.

LOL, no, but you caught my mistake. I said you paid $25000. I was measuring money spent, not equity earned...so I should have specified, you win that one. You're going to need to show me the long math on that $1325 figure. As I work it out, 6% of $1041 is 'bout sixty bucks, and 6% of 275,000 is $16,500 (divided 15x12), which is still not $1325. $1325 monthly interest is $238,000 in interest alone over 15 years, plus $187,000 in principal ($1041/mo). Consumers are dumb, but even I have a hard time believing that they'd be dumb enough to pay that much to borrow money. Are you sure you don't mean $1325 payment, $1041 of which is principal?

All these assumptions that the most basic of rules apply all the time. It's cute seeing people make statements oblivious to variables and the fact that consumers are stupid. You may be right about Columbus being a bright shiny point of hope in a gloomy real estate abyss....but no one cares. Just like any market that takes a poop, people will be leary of it for a period of time afterwards. In this case, the afore mentioned people aren't seasoned brokers or traders. They're regular joes who skim the papers without reading or understanding them. They see "Housing slips more OMG", and think "wow, my Realtor/loan officer/mortgage guy must be BS'ing me like all those ones I saw in the paper last year. The "general relativity" of market patterns goes to hell when you ad in the "quantum mechanics" of buyer psyche. But, lets wait and see. I'd make a bet that I'm right, but I'm already wagering my hard earned buck on it.

'fraid not. But we're all entitled to our opinions. As long as markets are driven by consumers, my statements stand.

No, that was a rough figure (round number) based on the commonly advertised range of monthly payments. $1041 being intrest and principal, if any principal is actually paid. The math was meant to show total money in the toilet, including what the bank gets from you. Where exactly did you get $1325 + $1041 from 6%? That doesn't make any sense at all.

That car has Downsyndrome, true f'kn story. http://members.cox.net/scribeokc/post_graphics/DingFriesAreDone.jpg

Incorrect. Purchase price: $275,000 Downpayment: $10,000 24mo of payments: $25,000 You owe $240,000 You sell for $185,000 Not only do you not get anything back, you still OWE $55,000 on a house that you don't even live in. This doesn;t even take into account the repairs/upgrades you;e done, or the taxes you've paid. The real number would be closer to a $75,000 loss. So guess what, you now live in an apartment with 3 kids and 2 dogs, you've sold all of your stuff that doesn't fit in the aprtment, you're paying $600mo in rent and $1000mo in a failed mortgage (real story from a neigbor). If you'd rented the same house for 24 months, you'd be out $24,000, period. Homes are a horrible invenstment right now, so any arguements based on making money off the property are lost. You may be fortunate enough to find a pocket of appriciating home, but chances are 95% that you won't. The historical magical 4% number doesn't apply in this post-boom slide. Do not buy now unless you need a house and intend to be there for a few decades. Prices ahave slipped, but they're not done. We're still on the downward slope and any money spent will be lost. We'll never see another rediculous housing boom like wa saw over the last 10 years. The market will swing back up when: -Median house prices more closely resemble median income or -Something else similar to the "credit revolution" of the late 90's happens (pray it doesn't) or -Every new house build in the last 5 years burns tot he ground without killing anyone, leaving them to need homes. I would love to own a home right now, I need a place for my stuff and freedome to work on my hobbies....but I'm not stupid enough to buy right now. I'll be renting for a few years, patience will pay off.

Short: Buy stuff there. Long: There are enough business owner here to know that only your faults are made public, and good practices aren't talked about. In an effort to change that: My dad's bike needed wheels. It was a 1965 Schwinn Continental rolling on original hoops, so yeah it was a bit rough. I pick up some wheels at another shop, and head up to Lewis center where the bike is. Front wheel swaps lickety splits. The back...about 20mins after I get the wheel off, I realize I'm not getting that sprocket assembly off. "Only two people open the backs of watches; Fools and watchmakers." So, off tot he nearest "watchmaker", A Gear Higher. My boy in one arm, two wheels in my other, I tug on the door; Locked. I look down at their hours, and I was 3mins late, they just closed. As I walk toward my car, a head pops out; "Can I help ya?" I tell'm what I need, and says I can still drop the wheels off and pick them up Monday. We go in, and he calls back to a bearded fella of higher rank and asked how to ring it up. He comes out, looks at the wheels, looks at me, looks at the other guy..."That's it?...C'mon back". Two minutes and a twist of a tool I don't own later, I'm at the register again with my sprocket swapped, all fo the lofty sum three'fiddy. $3.50 for after hours service, can't beat it. http://yellowpages.aol.com/business/a-gear-higher/ashley/oh/1,119854090/