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  1. You need a front air dam more than a bigger spoiler on the back.

    What you really need is a lower final drive gear. You're an American, tune for acceleration, not topout.

  2. Re: Maybe lab grown chicken is best... on Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat' (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly backwards.

    Tequila is the 'good stuff', from a specific area, Mezcal is the generic piss.

  3. In Germany, tuition is generally free. But one bad semester and bouncing down the stairs you will find yourself. Also a large fraction is routed into apprenticeships, starting at age 14. High stakes testing. Teaching to tests etc etc.

    The problem is 'college for everyone' plus 'free college' just can't work. College isn't 'for everyone', much less is it 'for everyone at age 18'.

  4. Re:You don't seem to understand how college works on Actresses, Business Leaders, and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in Massive College Admissions Scandal (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Not the same 'gen-ed' for everyone, and it's generally 2 years of curricula, not the 'first two'.

    You can bet the * studies degree gets the math and science free version. At least half of college grads are innumerate at graduation.

  5. If they had to cheat on digital logic how could they have possibly passed the hard courses?

    Given what you've posted, easy solution. Open book tests. Those were the worst. Let em bring in notes etc. Good luck to them.

    I had open book test for fields, control systems and digital controls. Damn those tests sucked. IIRC thermo too.

    You had 400+ students in senior level classes (which included grad students)? I'm skeptical of your truthfulness.

  6. From a dinky, high revving V8?

    Have you?

    Perhaps you think I'm the one arguing for the 308 not sucking.

  7. Sucks to be you. Gonna suck worse in 2020.

  8. Getting the same GPA as Al Gore.

    Straight 'gentleman's Bs' for both, no math or science to speak of for eather.

  9. Re:Rates of cancer haven't increased on Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt they stood right in the main beam. More likely they knew where a side lobe was.

    The fact remains they, as a group, died at normal ages of the usual things.

  10. Street cars are tuned for comfort. Duh. Turn a wrench. Even BMWs come from the factory on mush.

    All modern cars fall apart on schedule, they've all gotten good at that kind of 'tuning'. There are no worse cars, in the world, than VWs.

  11. Re:Rates of cancer haven't increased on Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks (inverse.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    During the cold war, radar operators/techs in Greenland and northern Canada used to stand in front of the transmitters to _warm_up_.

    They're all dead now, tracked to the grave (which is the gold standard for population studies), they can see the increased cancer for all electronic techs (mostly from flux fumes) but no increase beyond that.

    'Portlandia' is a documentary.

  12. Re: Arrogant engineering and being beta testers on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the alternative? Any pilot with an ATP endorsement has spun a few trim wheels.

  13. Re: Maybe lab grown chicken is best... on Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat' (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let me rephrase the question: How do you cook a vegetarian douchebag when not in England.

    Also: Isn't 'Vegetarian douchebag' redundant?

  14. 'Free enough markets' are everywhere you look.

    For the last two years or so, 'no such thing as a free market' has been idiotic derp repeated by people that don't understand what they say.

    Eyeglasses are another example of this kind of nonsense, made up 'market failures'.

  15. Re:Go vegetarian or vegan on Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat' (wsj.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    No.

    Fuckoff herbivor.

  16. Re:Arrogant engineering and being beta testers on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    They knew it existed but thought it had its old name. The same two switches turn both off.

  17. Re:Had some chicken in mexico. on Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat' (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    'Special chicken' (meow).

  18. That is why you'll always be broke.

  19. Re: Maybe lab grown chicken is best... on Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat' (wsj.com) · · Score: 3

    How do you cook a vegetarian douchebag?

    Sounds tough and stringy.

  20. Sell it to Arbys on Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat' (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Their customers will eat anything.

  21. Re:Microsoft making the problem worse on Intel CPU Shortages To Worsen in Q2 2019: Research (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Be fair, the latest generation of Intel CPUs show a performance increase exactly in line with expectations from the faster RAM.

    Which, of course, is why these CPUs only work with Windows 10.

  22. Re: Teachable moment for fraudsters. on Actresses, Business Leaders, and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in Massive College Admissions Scandal (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    He ran for governor as a Lib. I don't know that he was never an R.

  23. Re:Arrogant engineering and being beta testers on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The pilot has always been able to turn off the system. Using the same two switches that turned off the equivalent (but different) system in previous versions.

  24. Re:The Tesla People on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Let us know when one gets there. All current claims are thoroughly debunked.

  25. Re:I guess the incredibly obvious question is... on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They changed the system acronym (much has been made of this), but the response to 'runaway trim' remained throwing the same two switches. That's been on the troubleshooting checklist of Boeing airplanes forever.

    The second crash was reportedly trailing fire before impact. Eyewitness, so take it with a huge grain of salt.

    Also the copilot is reported to have 200 hours? 200 hours total and flying a multi engine commercial jet? I think it has to be 200 hours in the type.