I have wondered if it would be possible to overexpose the red light cams using some IR diodes to avoid getting tickets. the nice thing is if you are ever pulled over by a cop they won't see the light but the camera will. I know a number of states are going towards more automated license plate readers that operate in IR so it would for sure work for those ones but I don't know about the red light cams as those appear to operate in the visible spectrum as well.
Where I live that imaginary line is somewhere between where the turn lane first starts to go off to the left or right and where the solid white line for it starts. If I am clearly past where the solid white starts then I continue through but it I am before where the turn lane starts to go off to the right or left I stop. I find it works for most intersections where I live except a few really goofy ones that have really long or really short turn lanes, or the stop light near my mothers house that it times so it lets 1 maybe 2 cars through on a green because apparently Rosemount wanted a stoplight that was just like the 4 way stop sign it replaced.
The DGAS factor comes from Scottsdale and such where you have someone driving a $200K car and just keeps paying fines
People like this just piss me off. What you need is a big piece of junk like a mid 80's Chevy Suburban or full size Bronco that only has liability coverage. I don't know if Arizona is a no fault state but if Arizona isn't and they smoke one of those in their $200k car you would be fine and they would be screwed. At work we have a few people who drive their $100k-$200k cars to work in the summer and will park diagonally across 2 or 3 parking spots. I love to box them in with my junk truck, it was better when I had the old Bronco II that was really rusty and no two body panels matched but the beat up Jeep Cherokee works just as well. It is best if you can get another person to do it as well and you both are parked less than an inch from their mirrors.
Depends, they still make the old red riders and other $30-$40 BB guns, but for cheap accurate target shooting a.17 or.22 cal air rifle works great. Really good BB guns and air rifles are surprisingly expensive some costing in the $500 range as I found out when purchasing mine. The one I have is better than most as it is a target one that is used in competitions but is by no means the top of the line. It will easily kill a rabbit and shoots right through the gray squirrels and crows, it is even effective on the opossums that have started showing up in my neighborhood. Like you said definitely not a toy. The nicest thing is the pellets are substantially cheaper than bullets for the 91/30 so I can practice on targets for an afternoon and not run through $100 in ammo, than and I can shoot it in my backyard in the city limits.
And just to think when I was little we would jump off the garage roof for fun. When my dad was little he wanted a toy machine gun and that was normal (early baby boomer), now if a kid writes in school that they want a machine gun toy then need counseling.
How about a supercharged alcohol powered 68 MG midget with aluminum doors, hood, and trunk, converted to a modern coil over suspension, with a 5 speed.
their dad took them out when they were six and blew a watermelon into a fine mist with one and said "that's what it will do to your head"
I see I am not the only one who got dad's introduction to firearm safety. I learned how to shoot from my dad and grandfather using my grandfather's 12 gauge when I was only 8, it was like holding a bazooka.
Reminds me of a couple of years back with the new lead in children's toy ban here in the US because so many children were swallowing lead toys . It inadvertently made kid dirt bikes and kid ATVs illegal because they have a substantial amount of lead in them, the the starter battery. If you kid is trying to eat the starter battery on their dirt bike or ATV then you have bigger problems.
Yet the requirements to buy pseudoephedrine are about the same as buying a long gun in my state and take the same amount of time. In both cases you go and show you ID to the sales person, the go and enter some data, you sign and walk out after paying for your item. The biggest difference is that when buying a long gun you can actually hold it and check it out before you purchase it.
More in some cases. I bought a M91/30 for $89, I also have a.22 cal air rifle that shoots at 1100 fps, that cost me $169 on sale and this one wasn't even a fancy one, just something cheap to shoot targets and to control the yard pests.
As a counter I offer up the recent ruling about warnings on cigarette packs in the US that was struck down. For those of you who are unaware the new regulation required that cigarette manufactures have at least 50% of the pack be a rather graphic warning. For more information on this see this wikipedia article.
Also don't forget the "free speech zones". Even though I am fairly libertarian I have never supported the view that corporations are people and deserve the same rights as an individual. Markets are wonderful but a truly free market requires that all the actors are all privy to the same information. Fun fact that torques me off on food labels in the US any food that lists cellulose as an ingredient actually has saw dust. Most people aren't aware of this and thus cannot make an informed decision and it is in a large number of food products, even organic ones as saw dust qualifies as organic, but you do find fewer organic food with it as a filler. Because of games like this I am all for reasonable regulations as it becomes a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the facts from the consumer. I try to be an informed consumer but with games like this by the corporations it becomes virtually impossible.
Totally agree had a similar experience going over Mt. Hood. At the bottom it had just started to rain but up at the top it had switched over to snow and there was about a foot of snow that hadn't been plowed yet. Chains over snow tires make your car go like a tank through the snow.
It depends on what you are doing. I have put chains over snow tires. I was going over Mt. Hoot in Oregon and up at the top there was a close to a foot of unplowed snow. The snow tires work great on light amounts of snow and ice, but when driving a rear wheel drive sports coupe you go from can barely move under its own power to going like a tank through the snow.
They weren't conversion but really poorly engineered engines that were meant to use existing parts. The blocks and if memory serves cranks were not reused but other parts from gasoline engines were. The engine was a giant disaster that Oldsmobile should have never done. Lots of people think that the Olds 350 diesel is just a converted Chevy 350 but it isn't.
As others have pointed out it was Oldsmobile (one of the many defunct divisions of GM) that screwed the pooch with the diesels in sedans in the 80s. Even people who didn't own one have experienced their craptastic quality by being stuck behind one or near one when trying to accelerate, they were basically giant pollution factories.
Which is why we are starting to see some of the diesel euro models from BMW, MB, and VW come back into the US. I don't know if Volvo is shipping diesels here or not and don't feel like looking it up but I wouldn't be surprised if they are.
Lies. I offer you the BMW 335d sedan producing 265 HP, 425 lb-ft torque, and gets 36 mpg. Granted it doesn't come with a manual but it is a 6 speed auto and you can probably put it into sport mode for tire boiling fun like with my 540i with the sport package. I would suggest waiting a few years, used BMWs are really cheap because no one wants a used one but every one I have bought has been really good (the previous 2 were taken out in accidents that were the fault of the other drive). I would hardly call a VW Jetta a sports sedan my wife has a Jetta and I think it sucks hard. It is on its 3rd alternator, 2nd starter, 4th water pump, second radiator, 3 set of brakes, 3rd valve cover gasket but only has 95,000 miles on it. Part of this is because my wife beats on it, stomps the brakes, and only drives short distances. Still compared to my 540i which is on its 3rd set of brakes and second water pump (everything else is original) but has 227,000 on it it does suck.
There have always been engines with really good low end torque. Diesels are probably the most notable but the old inline 6 engines that use to be put into trucks have tons of low end torque. My jeep has a gasoline 4L inline six and puts out all of its power on the low end and is great for pulling stumps (yes I have done this) and also does wonders for pulling dumb asses out of ditches. Granted it only gets 20 mpg US but then it only gets driven 3,000 or so miles a year. Some of the more modern diesels are a riot to drive, this past summer I went and took a test drive of one of the new BMW diesels and those are quick, you want low end torque (quick starting acceleration) you have it.
Don't worry GM already did screw up diesels in cars in the 80s which is why getting most people to buy a diesel in the US is so difficult. The US manufactures got spooked because of the crap they made that no one wanted so there isn't a real demand so they probably won't screw them up again. The people who experienced VW, Volvo, and Mercedes diesels of that era love them.
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I believe that this is the court case that this falls under. A rather interesting read.
I have wondered if it would be possible to overexpose the red light cams using some IR diodes to avoid getting tickets. the nice thing is if you are ever pulled over by a cop they won't see the light but the camera will. I know a number of states are going towards more automated license plate readers that operate in IR so it would for sure work for those ones but I don't know about the red light cams as those appear to operate in the visible spectrum as well.
Where I live that imaginary line is somewhere between where the turn lane first starts to go off to the left or right and where the solid white line for it starts. If I am clearly past where the solid white starts then I continue through but it I am before where the turn lane starts to go off to the right or left I stop. I find it works for most intersections where I live except a few really goofy ones that have really long or really short turn lanes, or the stop light near my mothers house that it times so it lets 1 maybe 2 cars through on a green because apparently Rosemount wanted a stoplight that was just like the 4 way stop sign it replaced.
The DGAS factor comes from Scottsdale and such where you have someone driving a $200K car and just keeps paying fines
People like this just piss me off. What you need is a big piece of junk like a mid 80's Chevy Suburban or full size Bronco that only has liability coverage. I don't know if Arizona is a no fault state but if Arizona isn't and they smoke one of those in their $200k car you would be fine and they would be screwed. At work we have a few people who drive their $100k-$200k cars to work in the summer and will park diagonally across 2 or 3 parking spots. I love to box them in with my junk truck, it was better when I had the old Bronco II that was really rusty and no two body panels matched but the beat up Jeep Cherokee works just as well. It is best if you can get another person to do it as well and you both are parked less than an inch from their mirrors.
This should surprise more than it does.
Depends, they still make the old red riders and other $30-$40 BB guns, but for cheap accurate target shooting a .17 or .22 cal air rifle works great. Really good BB guns and air rifles are surprisingly expensive some costing in the $500 range as I found out when purchasing mine. The one I have is better than most as it is a target one that is used in competitions but is by no means the top of the line. It will easily kill a rabbit and shoots right through the gray squirrels and crows, it is even effective on the opossums that have started showing up in my neighborhood. Like you said definitely not a toy. The nicest thing is the pellets are substantially cheaper than bullets for the 91/30 so I can practice on targets for an afternoon and not run through $100 in ammo, than and I can shoot it in my backyard in the city limits.
Next year's list will include "Anything by Nerf"
And just to think when I was little we would jump off the garage roof for fun. When my dad was little he wanted a toy machine gun and that was normal (early baby boomer), now if a kid writes in school that they want a machine gun toy then need counseling.
And I am stuck without mod points.
How about a supercharged alcohol powered 68 MG midget with aluminum doors, hood, and trunk, converted to a modern coil over suspension, with a 5 speed.
their dad took them out when they were six and blew a watermelon into a fine mist with one and said "that's what it will do to your head"
I see I am not the only one who got dad's introduction to firearm safety. I learned how to shoot from my dad and grandfather using my grandfather's 12 gauge when I was only 8, it was like holding a bazooka.
Reminds me of a couple of years back with the new lead in children's toy ban here in the US because so many children were swallowing lead toys . It inadvertently made kid dirt bikes and kid ATVs illegal because they have a substantial amount of lead in them, the the starter battery. If you kid is trying to eat the starter battery on their dirt bike or ATV then you have bigger problems.
Yet the requirements to buy pseudoephedrine are about the same as buying a long gun in my state and take the same amount of time. In both cases you go and show you ID to the sales person, the go and enter some data, you sign and walk out after paying for your item. The biggest difference is that when buying a long gun you can actually hold it and check it out before you purchase it.
More in some cases. I bought a M91/30 for $89, I also have a .22 cal air rifle that shoots at 1100 fps, that cost me $169 on sale and this one wasn't even a fancy one, just something cheap to shoot targets and to control the yard pests.
I thing you got it wrong there. You are going to have to be the one kissing some ass
As a counter I offer up the recent ruling about warnings on cigarette packs in the US that was struck down. For those of you who are unaware the new regulation required that cigarette manufactures have at least 50% of the pack be a rather graphic warning. For more information on this see this wikipedia article.
Also don't forget the "free speech zones". Even though I am fairly libertarian I have never supported the view that corporations are people and deserve the same rights as an individual. Markets are wonderful but a truly free market requires that all the actors are all privy to the same information. Fun fact that torques me off on food labels in the US any food that lists cellulose as an ingredient actually has saw dust. Most people aren't aware of this and thus cannot make an informed decision and it is in a large number of food products, even organic ones as saw dust qualifies as organic, but you do find fewer organic food with it as a filler. Because of games like this I am all for reasonable regulations as it becomes a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the facts from the consumer. I try to be an informed consumer but with games like this by the corporations it becomes virtually impossible.
Totally agree had a similar experience going over Mt. Hood. At the bottom it had just started to rain but up at the top it had switched over to snow and there was about a foot of snow that hadn't been plowed yet. Chains over snow tires make your car go like a tank through the snow.
It depends on what you are doing. I have put chains over snow tires. I was going over Mt. Hoot in Oregon and up at the top there was a close to a foot of unplowed snow. The snow tires work great on light amounts of snow and ice, but when driving a rear wheel drive sports coupe you go from can barely move under its own power to going like a tank through the snow.
Is GM, a company that's been around over 100 years, truly this incompetent?
yes
Or is this whole progression -- design, execution, tax credits, coverup, part of a larger plan?
Don't assign to malice what can be explained by mere incompetence.
They weren't conversion but really poorly engineered engines that were meant to use existing parts. The blocks and if memory serves cranks were not reused but other parts from gasoline engines were. The engine was a giant disaster that Oldsmobile should have never done. Lots of people think that the Olds 350 diesel is just a converted Chevy 350 but it isn't.
As others have pointed out it was Oldsmobile (one of the many defunct divisions of GM) that screwed the pooch with the diesels in sedans in the 80s. Even people who didn't own one have experienced their craptastic quality by being stuck behind one or near one when trying to accelerate, they were basically giant pollution factories.
Which is why we are starting to see some of the diesel euro models from BMW, MB, and VW come back into the US. I don't know if Volvo is shipping diesels here or not and don't feel like looking it up but I wouldn't be surprised if they are.
Lies. I offer you the BMW 335d sedan producing 265 HP, 425 lb-ft torque, and gets 36 mpg. Granted it doesn't come with a manual but it is a 6 speed auto and you can probably put it into sport mode for tire boiling fun like with my 540i with the sport package. I would suggest waiting a few years, used BMWs are really cheap because no one wants a used one but every one I have bought has been really good (the previous 2 were taken out in accidents that were the fault of the other drive). I would hardly call a VW Jetta a sports sedan my wife has a Jetta and I think it sucks hard. It is on its 3rd alternator, 2nd starter, 4th water pump, second radiator, 3 set of brakes, 3rd valve cover gasket but only has 95,000 miles on it. Part of this is because my wife beats on it, stomps the brakes, and only drives short distances. Still compared to my 540i which is on its 3rd set of brakes and second water pump (everything else is original) but has 227,000 on it it does suck.
There have always been engines with really good low end torque. Diesels are probably the most notable but the old inline 6 engines that use to be put into trucks have tons of low end torque. My jeep has a gasoline 4L inline six and puts out all of its power on the low end and is great for pulling stumps (yes I have done this) and also does wonders for pulling dumb asses out of ditches. Granted it only gets 20 mpg US but then it only gets driven 3,000 or so miles a year. Some of the more modern diesels are a riot to drive, this past summer I went and took a test drive of one of the new BMW diesels and those are quick, you want low end torque (quick starting acceleration) you have it.
Don't worry GM already did screw up diesels in cars in the 80s which is why getting most people to buy a diesel in the US is so difficult. The US manufactures got spooked because of the crap they made that no one wanted so there isn't a real demand so they probably won't screw them up again. The people who experienced VW, Volvo, and Mercedes diesels of that era love them.