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Old link but it's a good thread if you haven't seen it. I too am surprised that there hasn't been more of an emphasis on aerodynamics. For most of those mods I'd think the ROI would be pretty darn quick, considering how much diesel they burn through.

Mine didn't either. I had to follow the directions on that page in order to "Try the New Google Sheets", and it still didn't show up. I created a new document and it was there, so I'm guessing Google isn't automatically converting existing sheets to the new format. You may be able to copy/paste everything into a new sheet (after turning on the new stuff) and get it working that way.

American Heart Association? They're OK, I guess, but I've never donated. I voted for Obama twice, if that helps in whatever point you're trying to make about his gonads.

I got into the beta but I had an iPhone at the time. I was so mad. Then I switched to Android and I don't even want to play.

Uhh... thanks for clearing that up.

I'm confused, does it take balls not to "get involved in everything" or not?

I haven't been following this that closely, but it sounds like Russia is just going to end up with Crimea and everyone will grumble about it but do nothing. It's effectively a Russian asset anyway, populated by a bunch of Russians.

According to Wikipedia, there are more than 60 competing cryptocurrencies. In the future, nations won't exist in physical space, but only in cyberspace. Wars will be fought online using online weapons bought with online money. Instead of people dying in real life, only their penises will die, flaccid and unused.

Find out what bank. If it's a local bank, they can get the title and facilitate the transfer -- you give the bank a cashier's check, guy signs the title, the bank notarizes it, and you walk out with a car. If it's not a local bank, I'd walk away.

The Versa is the worst car on the market. I've had them as rentals and they're cheap, noisy, and drive like they're drunks. I also had a Corolla and I didn't really like it, mostly because of the seating position. I'd vote Fit, but that seems like a lot of money for something with 93k miles. The Prius is a one-trick pony; it'll get good mileage but it's slow, noisy, and I don't like the seats. None of the above?

$50K will get you a nice NSX, $40k will get you a decent NSX with money left over for some nice wheels and a Comptech supercharger. I can't think of a better all 'rounder than that.

Took me a while to find a news source that wasn't a direct copy or a rehashing of the NFA press release. Unsurprisingly, the NFA press release is somewhat melodramatic. That said, I'm really surprised Canada doesn't have a grandfather clause.

Sold. I'll call tomorrow to make sure everything's good to go

Can you do it while I wait?

Looking for something closer to downtown than IPS, I'd like to get something done before Sunday and they're a bit of a hike.

Fully pneumatic valves were tried in F1 in the '90s but never made it to races. Supposedly Honda tried it in MotoGP as well but I don't know anything about bikes. While pneumatic or magnetic valves are probably the way of the future, they've been competing against steady advancements from variable valve timing systems, which can shut off valves or whole cylinders already. And there's some camless valvetrains already on the market, although they're still all linked by a spinning shaft. edit: Feel dumb, can't get embedding to work:

Like it or not, any policy you get is going to be ACA compliant, so you can't avoid "anything to do with Obamacare." In fact, without Obamacare you wouldn't be able to get coverage for this pregnancy because it's a pre-existing condition, so if you buy this policy from Anthem for $700/mo you're benefiting from Obamacare. Since you can't escape the provisions of Obamacare, you might as well just go to healthcare.gov and see what policies are out there on the Ohio exchange. After seeing CR members get hosed by family medical bills recently, I'm surprised anyone still has the stomach for being stubborn about this. Voice your opinion at the ballot box, but buying health insurance isn't a political activity.

I don't think that's true; there's no benefit to solving the math problems other than transaction verification. The problems themselves are arbitrary, as long as they take long enough to complete that the public bitchains have time to update. The only one who benefits are other bitcoin users, in that they get a workable digital currency out of the deal. The fact that bitcoins keep popping into existence means it's currently an inflationary currency. Eventually, they'll all be mined, at which point it should, in theory, become a deflationary currency and people will hoard their bitcoins until the rewards for validating transactions become so small that everyone will stop doing it and the system will implode. Or, it could all work out smashingly and be the way of the future. We live in exciting times.

Double spending problem -- I buy something from you for a physical dollar, I no longer have that dollar. However, if I buy something from you for a bitcoin, which is just a string of 1s and 0s, I can simultaneously buy something from Orion using that same bitcoin. Since all transactions are public, you'll both know that you got scammed a few minutes later when your Bitcoin software updates, but by that point I'm long gone. Solution -- All bitcoin transactions are publicly announced when they happen, but they don't "count" until someone out on the internet solves a mathematical problem generated just for that transaction. So if I give you a bitcoin, a bunch of people on the internet use their computers to try and solve that math problem, and the first one to do it gets a bitcoin. (Money for nothing, except hardware and electricity). The math problems take a set amount of time for the collective internet to solve, something like 10 minutes, and are constantly increasing in difficulty to keep up with advances in computing and an increasing number of miners. Once the problem is solved, you get your bitcoin and you hand over whatever I bought. The upshot is that if I give the same bitcoin to you and Orion, then while the internet is crunching this math problem, everyone realizes that I double spent the coin and puts the kibosh on one or both of the transactions. There's some math that governs the reward payouts over time, but that's the gist of it.

All money is nothing; it's just nothing that people agree is worth something for the sake of a functioning economy, whether its dollars, gold, or bitcoins. The mining has nothing to do with it's value as a currency, it's just a technical solution to the problem of double-spending, a problem unique to a digital currency. The mining is just a financial incentive for people to use their computer cycles to validate transactions.

Yeah, "from this time yesterday" it was around $570 (3pm), so it plummeted in response to the news and now it's rallying. Which, hey, I'm amazed that it's rallying.

It did start the day in a ditch. It's still down 10% from this time yesterday, no?

Bitcoin Value Drops Sharply! Just finishing your sentence for you

I've been running a Promise SmartStor (2-bay) NAS box for nearly 5 years now. My friends all told me to build a PC for this, but I wanted something extremely low power and quiet, and it fit the bill. It's had no problem streaming 1080p video, although I'm only doing an SMB connection to my WDTV LIVE boxes, so it's not doing any DLNA transcoding or PLEX serving. I need to upgrade soon and I'm going to get something similar. Not sure what your main priority is, but if it's low power consumption, I wouldn't rule out something like that.

That's how they do it in Europe, probably the same reason drag strips require windows up here (to keep limbs inside the car?). They signal for point-bys with their turn signals. It's funny, it seems so wrong to us, but then you see comments from Brits on track day videos and they're like, "Why in bloody hell are your windows down? And why do you keep sticking your arm outside of the car?" Seems just as wrong to them. Scary video, even sped up I was like, "Just break the goddamn window already!"