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The police have also said that this appears to be a planned attack, which doesn't fit with the notion that it was related to the dispute. These are facts, not motives, and every bit of coverage I've seen has acknowledged that.

Here's Obama's remarks, I don't hear him saying anything about workplace violence, even though you put that in quotes. Do you have a cite for Obama calling this work place violence? He says we don't know the motives of the shooters, which is true. He directly addresses "people concerned about terrorism," although he doesn't go so far as to directly call this a terrorist attack because at this point nobody can truthfully say that. Right?

FYI, I listen to NPR and their narrative is that nobody knows what the motivation of the shooters was. Where are you getting your information? eta: I mean, you link to a CNN article that says, point blank, "We don't know their motives," while at the same time claiming that the media has already constructed a narrative that doesn't add up.

I recently bought an HP Stream 11 for my daughter to use, similar price and specs. 32GB of storage is pretty stifling, and it's pretty darn slow like Coaster says. But the Stream is a laptop, I'm not sure how I'd feel about it as a tablet. I mean, even as a tablet the specs on that Asus are pretty underwhelming, but it's a $200 tablet so what can you expect. Buy it because it's a dirt cheap tablet and you'll probably like it well enough, buy it as a laptop replacement and you'll hate life.

I have an absolutely ancient Windows XP laptop that you can have for free, it's at least 10 years old and is slow as shit but if you can't find anything else it's yours. It's in my box to go to electronics recycling.

I didn't dislike Nebraska though. I complained at first because it was, you know, Nebraska. That's just the reflex. We all complained before we even got there; how does that make sense? We were just setting ourselves up to be unhappy. It seems trite, but whoever told me that put me in the right mindset to make the most of the next 3 years. I wouldn't choose to go back, but if I was forced to go there again, I'd be fine with it. Pretty sure I'd be fine with anything. Everyone's zen on the internet

Dude, people grow up and live their whole lives in Sudan and shit and still manage to be happy and live fulfilling lives. If you can't be happy in Cleveland I'd say Doc's quote is dead on. My first duty station was in Omaha, and when I got there and all of us newbs inevitably started complaining, that was the first time I heard what I'm sure is a common military trope: "Every assignment is what you make of it." Meaning you can't choose where you go, but you can choose your attitude. And so I found a way to have fun in Nebraska. Would I choose to live there ever again? Heck no. But that's not really the point. Cleveland might not be your favorite place, but that doesn't mean you can't make the most of wherever you are. Happiness is all mental.

You can have a steady 40 hr/week job that you hate and ties you down, or you can have a steady 40/hr week job that you enjoy and that lets you pursue a hobby and take vacations. You can have a house, a family, and responsibilities that tie you down and feel like a burden, or you can have all of those things that bring you joy and stability. Life, especially what we'd call modern life, is all about finding a balance. We don't have to strive for extreme ends of the spectrum; you could be a survivalist dependent on no one, able to live on off the grid on your meager savings for the rest of your life, or you could be a yuppie strung out on debt with no flexibility to adjust course when the mood or the moment strikes because you get high off the thrill of living a high-speed, high-stakes lifestyle. Whatever works for you is fine, I think most of us prefer to be somewhere in the middle. But I'm sure we all second guess our decisions. I choose to drive cheap cars because I don't want to tie money up in something nicer, but when I drive someone's BMW I wonder if maybe that little bit of financial security wouldn't be worth giving up for this badass 27-way power heated and cooled seat. I choose to live in an expensive neighborhood because I like the security and advantages it offers, but when I write my fucking check to RITA every quarter I wonder if maybe those benefits wouldn't be worth giving up to live somewhere outside the loop and have a badass finished basement. You can't have it all, but that doesn't mean you can't find happiness in the middle.

Next up party people, I have these 15" steelies I yanked off our now defunct ChumpCar. Tried to run them at summit point to use up the tires but surprise! they were already used up, 2 had slow leaks and didn't last more than a session. http://i.imgur.com/EX8cU4eh.jpg The plan is to paint them and then throw on the shittiest Chinese tires $180 can buy. Default color is some sort of a medium silver, any other suggestions?

The challenge with this car over the summer has been getting it to a point where I feel safe driving it on street and track. In order to get my racing seat in the right place, I installed a transmission tunnel cutout panel and then took it to Moorespeed to have Jon reinstall the stock seat mounts. This way I can have a race seat mounted as low as possible and still go back to the stock seats for street driving. He does good work, here's his mounting solution before I painted it and put the carpet back: http://i.imgur.com/WzniZb7h.jpg Long story short, after much cutting, drilling, swearing, and utter hatred of such a stupid, small car, I finally have a track car with some proper safety gear when I need it: http://i.imgur.com/QFCIP9jh.jpg I also bought Flyin' Miata's 12lb hitch and picked up this sweet trailer from a guy on FB. Needed some rehab but it's turned out great: http://i.imgur.com/v1HJqLVh.jpg Livin' the life! Two weeks ago I took the car out to Summit Point to flog it around the Shenandoah circuit. As predicted, it's a second or two off the pace of the old Integra, but considering the fact that it's basically stock I'm pretty pleased. Slower on the straights but more grip in the corners, nearest I can tell. It pulled double duty that weekend as I let a friend co-drive it. Direzza ZIIs held up great but the Hawk HP+ were complete garbage as usual, I had to swap them out for race pads over lunch on Saturday and it completely transformed the car. Still some work to be done in this area but for now I'm pleased. Last weekend I took it to Mid-Ohio, check out this suspension travel! http://i.imgur.com/r8aa6sEh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/19X5YOdh.jpg Since I was instructing I almost always had a passenger and I rarely turned on my lap timer, but at one point flyin' solo I managed a 1:50.8 on 205 NT01s. That's 2.5 seconds slower than the Integra, which at this point is mostly attributable to lack of power (the Honda was hitting about 117-118 on the back straight, best I managed in the Miata was 109). But crucially, since I can now compare myself to all the other Miatas out there, it's revealed a big deficit in my driving. I'm sure there's another 1.5 seconds in it as it sits that's within my talent level, so I've got some stuff to work on. Unfortunately I don't always practice what I preach, so next spring I'm going to throw money at the chassis and the suspension.

Thanks, I like using these to follow up on all my old cars.

No worries, someone always spoils it for me anyway, I just thought it was funny how such an innocuous thread title caught me out I'm all caught up now.

Goddamn it, I can't even open random threads on forums named "It's an oversized hat, it's funny" without getting F1 results spoiled for me.

None of us knew that at the time, I saw TPM opening night and was excited as fuck. Left the theater in a daze. Saw it again, tried to convince myself it was good. Yeah, life hurts, I learned a hard lesson that day eta: Remember, this is the fuckstick responsible for the abomination that is Lost. Another series that got me all amped up and then left me with blue balls.

Lots of things have gotten cheaper, you just need to focus on those. I'm assuming you typed up this rant on some device that now costs a pathetic fraction of what it would have in 1995. Electronics, food, clothes, air travel, to name a few. Don't let the man get you down. Or the Joneses. Fuck the Joneses. No offense Jones.

I was happy when I broke in the 49s, assholes Got a vid?

$28.8k for a $13.5k car

They made the Quicksilver, I know a guy who had one. It was actually a decent looking car in an 80s sort of way, but given the shape it's completely inexplicable why they built it on top of a Fiero.

The Corolla S has long gearing, torqueless engine, understeer city, plush ride. Cheap, reliable, sensible, yes. Fun? Meh. I wouldn't look down on anyone for buying one but it wouldn't be at the top of my list.

This, this, a thousand times this. I've never driven an SRT Caliber, but the base model rental car I had was probably the worst handling car made in the last 20 years. Give it a shitload of power and wide tires and you've got a car that's pretty much only fun for the 45 seconds during your morning/evening commutes that you're merging on highways. Why do people optimize their cars for this sort of fun? 99% of the time you're driving at or around the speed limit, get a car that's fun doing that and your dollar to fun quotient drops to something much more reasonable. Get a Focus ZX4 ST with a manual trans -- 2800lbs, 150 hp, willing suspension, skinny tires. You can throw some SVT suspension bits on it from FRPP, they're dirt cheap. That's a fun little car! Heck, just get a base model, mine only had the 2.0 ZETEC and I still thought it was fun to drive. Who cares about power!? How about Honda Fit? Fun car! Or a Mazda3? There's so many good small cars out there right now, there's no reason to feel like you have to choose between a boring automatic sedan and a limited edition performance model.

I think putting 20% down is just a smart idea in general, it won't guarantee that you'll never be underwater but it helps. Useful in case you have to sell in a hurry.

Keep in mind that with the FHA loan you'll have to pay for MIP (mortgage insurance) or PMI. There's an upfront chunk of money that you have to pay for that and then a monthly bit, for me it was 5 years. I put 20% down anyway so I thought it was bullshit, I refinanced after 2 years just to get rid of it (and got a lower rate in the process).

Fuck the SRT, stretch your credit and get a B5 S4, life's too short not to. It'll pay for itself after a few years because it's German, you need something that's built well for your family, and it's only got a 2.7L so it's economical.

You son of a bitch. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/10/21/from-the-archives-kanzler-coupe/

I've figured out that it's an Opel GT base... but google isn't helping from there.