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Looking for someone local who has experience with calipers. Trying to figure out how much I'm going to have to disassemble these things.

I would consider a V6 Mustang with the track pack if I were interested in a Mustang. But I'm not, so I wouldn't.

Hmmm, parts car. Looks like an RS? (Slick top). Power windows/locks? How's the interior, aside from what I can see?

"First they came for the exotic animal owners, and I didn't speak up because I don't own any exotic animals." That's it. I'm not speaking up, because who the fuck wants to own a lion? Morons, that's who. I could give two shits about morons whining that the government's taking away their lions.

Lol, fair enough

Well, I guess we're not on the same page. Evil baddies can want it all they want, but the strength of our society is greater than the sum of its constructs, and tearing down 500 years of western civilization isn't going to be easy. So you can call me naive, and I can call you a crackpot, and that's probably where we're going to have to part ways.

I really think you need to double check your definition of the word "very." Go read up on Brazil in the '80s. There's an example of a giant country with lots of people that lived through a period of obscene inflation, to the point where their currency was essentially worthless. They did not take to killing each other in the streets. That's just one example, there are many others throughout history. I'm not sure why the most prosperous nation on the planet would fare worse.

Just like all those 10s of thousands folks who got killed in their own homes during the LA riots when looting was going on? Or in New Orleans? If we actually get to a SHTF post-apocalyptic wasteland, I'm going to have to drastically shift my outlook in order to survive, but I don't think it's particularly likely that we'll ever get to that point. I think the worst we'd have to put up with in the case of an attack on the banking system is a country-wide Katrina, which didn't exactly necessitate Chuck Norris levels of badassery in order to survive.

I think it'd be a lot harder to cripple the US economy then the scenario laid out in the OP. My answer is that I don't actually need much cash. I work from home and have plenty of food in the house. All my bills are paid on credit, which means it's 30-60 days before anyone shuts off my water/gas/electricity or even thinks about starting to repossess anything. I'd just sit back and wait a few days for the banking system to fix itself and then go about my life. If the OP assumes that the economy must collapse (say, some cartoony super-villain snaps his fingers and there's no batman to save the day), then I'm in bigger trouble. I'm perfectly content to move out to the hills and live like a redneck, but I'd be extremely reluctant to give up my lifestyle. I'd hold out as long as I could; even New Orleans at its worst recovered in a relatively short period of time. I think things would come back soon enough, and I'd hate to be living in a shack with a bunch of ammo while my house was looted, only to return 3 months later feeling like a tard. Major urban centers can exist with basically no money circulating (see Mumbai), but it's not a pleasant way to live and in America, people would get extremely violent well before that point. I'd stick around until the violence got to be unbearable, then I'd leave the country.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/21/romney-blasts-obamas-iraq-decision/ Witness GOP candidates falling over themselves to lambast Obama for carrying out 3 year old plans put in place by Bush. Makes me a little stabby.

[cynic hat on] Obama never intended this bill to pass. It was re-election fodder designed to definitely prove how worthless the republicans are. To wit, he gave up on his "rich people making over 250 thousand a year" schtick and has shifted his target to a 5.4% increase tax increase on people making over a cool mil. And republicans are still dead-set against it. The rest of the bill is chock full of tax cuts and spending cuts and minor increases in unemployment programs. It's not a liberal bill at all; Obama has moved so far to the right that people don't even realize how typical this bill would have been for Bush. I don't think Obama had any intention of this thing passing, I think he just slapped it together to make the opposition look bad for the upcoming election. Hell, at this point he could submit a bill that banned abortion and mandated free guns for everyone and republicans would still find something wrong with it. Anyway, it annoys me that he's already playing the re-election campaign. It annoys me that he's moved so far to the right in order to compromise with lunatics. It annoys me that both parties continue to shove polarizing figures into the spotlight in order to ensure that the cycle continues. +1 on feeling bad for the country. [cynic hat off]

Random coincidence, I swear!

http://catesracing.com/flp/track_daze/Yellow_1/IMG_1337(1).JPG http://catesracing.com/flp/track_daze/Yellow_1/IMG_1583(1).JPG I'm too cheap to buy the pictures, but there you go. This was at Summit Point this weekend. 6.5 of my 8 sessions were under rain. It was a field day for shitty FWD cars that wanted to pass all manner of 500hp monsters. I felt like Senna. Until it started to dry up, then I actually had to work at it.

Looks like I missed the math party, but yeah, my point was that you have 35 million doses, 18,000 "reactions" (ooh, big scary number), but 92% of those reactions are standard for human beings getting, say, a saline shot (even says it in the link.) You have a vanishingly small number of "other" reactions, and an even smaller number of those were "serious." And even then the CDC page makes no effort to say what the cause of those reactions was. If someone gets the vaccine and then gets a cold the next day, it gets written down as a reaction. The next step is to determine if they have more adverse affects than the unvaccinated control group, whatever that may be. And in this case, it looks like the vaccine is perfectly safe. Furthermore, 68 people dying following 35 million of anything is, in all likelihood, statistically insignificant. I'm guessing more people died after watching the first episode of Ashton Kutcher's Two and a Half Man, probably several orders of magnitude more since old people like to watch that show. What matters is if the vaccine can be shown to have caused those deaths, which it wasn't.

Just using the link you posted, this is out of 35 million doses. 92% of those 18,000 cases of side effects are "fainting, pain, and swelling at the injection site (the arm), headache, nausea, and fever. Syncope (fainting) is common after injections and vaccinations, especially in adolescents." Your use of big "scary" numbers here is misguided at best, misleading at worst. Furthermore, 68 deaths in 35 million people, and 0 of them appear to be due to the vaccine: "In the 32 reports confirmed, there was no unusual pattern or clustering to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine and some reports indicated a cause of death unrelated to vaccination." If this is how you do your research, I'm disappointed. You seem to be eager to jump to conclusions based on nothing but scant correlation.

Jesus used to tell people he didn't have any money either, so I think you're good to go.

I rather enjoy being alive. Was that a serious question? If I die, I can't enjoy things anymore. Genetics? Maybe, especially for certain types of cancer. On a whole, I think living longer is the major part of it. Like, if you're looking for a single answer with no nuance, there it is. If you want nuance, then you have to look at things like genetics, diet, lifestyle, etc. Maybe vaccines do have something to do with it, but as far as I know, no study has shown this to be true. In fact, vaccines often prevent cancer, because any time your body is rapidly producing cells, that's a window for cancer to develop. And one of the times your body is most active is when its fighting a disease. Prevent the disease, and you can prevent certain types of cancer. You may have heard of the Herpes vaccine that's all the rage right now -- it's a vaccine that's been proven to reduce the risk of cervical cancer, because cervical cancer can develop when your vag is busy fighting a Herpes infection.

I suppose it's worth looking at, but I'd rather live longer and get cancer at some point than die young. You don't inject heavy metals, they exist in our environment and accumulate over time. Your body can't filter them out like it can with other toxins, so every trace of mercury, lead, etc that you've ever consumed is still in your body. If you've ever eaten an animal, you have heavy metals in you, because those animals couldn't filter them out either. That's why pregnant women aren't supposed to eat tuna or other large fish -- metals are disproportionately high in the ocean, fish are disproportionately carnivores, and tuna and grouper and the like are just chock full of mercury. That mercury will get passed on to the fetus and is prone to cause problems. Plus the fetus can't get rid of the metal either, so if you eat tuna when you're pregnant, your child can die at the ripe old age of 90 with that same mercury somewhere in him. And heavy metals are known to cause cancer. Probably. I don't think a lot of the chemicals are necessarily all that bad for you in moderation, but eating nothing but processed foods is probably not great for you. If nothing else, it tends to make people fat. It's odd until you start thinking about it. Then it kinda makes sense.

You're rather quickly dismissing the fact that it's "bunched in" with Eastern Asia. That's not a throwaway distinction. According to my link, Japan's life expectancy is almost 15 years more than Mongolia, which they got lumped in with on your cancer map. 15 fucking years. You think that might be bringing down their average? eta: Japan's population is also extremely top heavy, since their birth rate is so low and immigration is almost non-existent. Their population is declining, and most of the people left are old. China, on the other hand, has the opposite problem -- lots of babies, and people in rural areas still die young. Lumping the two together makes Japan look much more cancer free than it probably is. http://www.nia.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/ConferencesAndMeetings/WorkshopReport/Figure1.htm You're 5 times more likely to get cancer at 77 than you are at 52. Getting old is probably the leading cause of dying.

Isn't having the longest average life expectancy on the planet good enough? It's pretty clear that development = living longer. Even with higher cancer rates, we're living longer. So... the net is positive. I think you're underestimating the effect of even living (on average) 5 years longer. When you get to be above 75, your DNA is brittle and worthless, your body is full of accumulated heavy metals and free radicals and junk, and your immune system is weak. Hello cancer! Plus, we eat shitty processed foods (FDA approved!), have high levels of obesity, diabetes, heart disease... development = leisure time = shitty lifestyle choices = poor health. And yet, we're still living longer! Fuck you, biology! It's good to investigate these things, but be cautious of buying into implied causality. After all, your same vaccine logic can be used to blame clean water or proper sanitation. Such as, I noticed in Africa that people drink from shit-infested rivers and poop in their kitchens, and they have half the cancer rate!

Great question -- this is the way science works, someone sees a correlation and then tests it to see if there's any causality. I suspect someone out there has already done studies on this, and I also suspect that vaccines have been vindicated. But don't let my hunch stop you from doing more research. As a starting point, I strongly suspect this has something to do with it: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-life-expectancy-map It's hard to get cancer when you die in your late 30s.

Go look at a map.

Wow, I didn't realize there were so many fans of getting woken up in the middle of the night by asshats. Allow me to recalibrate "things I find enjoyable" to include this new activity.

at 2:30 in what I'm guessing was the West Campus parking lot, fuck you for waking me up.

Yay hondas!