Some deduct from this that the car is too light. I deduct that the truck is too large (and seems modified). That’s the good and bad of California. No vehicle inspection means anyone can modify your car as you see fit, even if it’s dangerous. You see wacky racers style mods as well as cars that shou...
Jump to postSome deduct from this that the car is too light. I deduct that the truck is too large (and seems modified).
Jump to postThe Israeli right wins elections by fear mongering about palestinians, pandering to colons and extremists, then makes these issues worse so that they can do it again at the next election, will the people finally see the light ?
Jump to postWhile Trump was a known douchebag, it's difficult for people to remember what they thought about him back then vs now.
The cult wasn't as strong, so it might have swayed enough votes.
Also I wonder how do kids living in Florence cope as there is a copy of the statue outside in the street.
Also the Manneken Pis in Brussels (add pedo to pornography, there...).
Someone needs to look up the dictionary definition of pornography...
Too bad she resigned under pressure, I would have either held on until they fired me, or resigned as soon as I heard about the fuss as in "WTF I'm out of there".
I guess the stop & start implementation can vary. In my manual car it definitely takes a fraction of a second and I deactivate it not because I mind that but because I end up stalling at the worst times as I forget about it and engage the 1st gear too quickly. On the automatic car I know well on...
Jump to postDoesn't Germany have un unlimited military budget now ?
Jump to postBecause then you can't call it an accident or a misunderstanding or whatever.
But of course with the chaos that is Russian government some high end people said out loud that basically "yeah we brought it down, so what ?" giving away the plot...
I don't get it either. I don't know if Germany ever used their Tigers in combat, but I can't imagine telling French Tigre pilots who fought in Africa that they would have been better off in an H145.
In fact there were also Gazelles engaged and some pilots were killed because of the lackluster armor.
Accelerate the offshoring off China.
Jump to postYes fishing nets with some metal weights at the bottom so that they form a vertical screen. Mini guns or large caliber machine guns may require more / some structural modification, use a lot of ammo, proposal was a poor mans choice to use what may already be available. A sharp shooter with a 50 cal ...
Jump to postAn alternative to my high end hunter killer UAV armada would be cheap, off the shelf drones just flown into the path of the enemies' drones. Buy thousands of them. Maybe attach some kind of net to them so they catch the propeller of the adversary.
Jump to postIf there is a will, there is a way. A law was passed recently in France to accelerate the building of new nuclear reactors, reducing the number of appeals, commissions, environmental studies, etc. (environmental studies are a moot point as the reactors will be built at existing sites). There is no w...
Jump to postThe manufacturing issue is also true for the chips.
About the M1's secret armor, just having one's hands on it allows to know how it's made and conceive and even test various weapons able to defeat it.
If the French contract was that controversial for 50 billions, I wonder how this one will fare over time.
Jump to postI heard somewhere they could erase the software remotely.
Jump to postYes probably. But insider trading gets you nothing in the US, even when politicians do it.
Jump to postWhat is their point of comparison exactly ? Didn't the accident sequences last several minutes ? Hence more than most crashes, that are very sudden ? In fact, from wikipedia, about Lion Air Flight 610 : Preliminary investigations revealed serious flight control problems that traumatized passengers a...
Jump to posthttps://www.yahoo.com/news/american-drone-lost-black-sea-133142411.html American drone lost in Black Sea found near main Russian base in Crimea That article's title is horrendous, but I see it comes from Ukraine so they probably don't have a good idea of how much Sevastopol is known internationally...
Jump to post"Borders of the special operation area" aka not borders.
Jump to postGenius move by Yellen to have private banks rescue one of their own.
Jump to postThe Supreme Court overturned Roe by saying they're not against abortion but there is no right to it.
If now they ban a perfectly safe drug that makes abortion safer in fact than other means, they clearly show they are in fact against abortion and violating their supposed impartiality.
The idea of letting drones fly hundreds of Km over your country until it gets to its target to be shot down in the last hundreds of meters might not fly with everybody. What about going like for like and having an "UAV Air Force" ? Hundreds, thousands of hunting/killing UAVs you can launch...
Jump to postA country sending a letter to buy fighter jets like that is quite surprising, usually some political negotiations happen first. I don't think the timing is that great, with the Serbian president calling for "great Serbia" and stuff like that. Also, I'm not sure slots are available, since i...
Jump to postHKG is nowhere to be found..... that's unusual. Heck, you'd think with practically nobody using it (compared to what it once was) it'd be pristine! The last time I flew through HKG in 2019, it was to me a disappointment. It used to be a benchmark, but over the last 10 years HKG airport, just like t...
Jump to postYeah about Credit Suisse that's not great and at least in France authorities are appearing a bit pissed that the Swiss Central Bank is doing nothing. Bitcoin is liking this development, though. edit : I see in the last 2 hours the Swiss Central Bank has pledged support to CS. So if the Democrats acc...
Jump to postThey should load those Raptors up with a couple of kilos of steel shot and C4....if this happens again, self destruct and take the fucker with you...and his wingman. THATS plausible deniability. Pretty sure this shit would stop right quick. It seems the Russians were going for plausible deniability...
Jump to postYou'd hope the Chinese situation would be over by then, indeed.
Jump to post4 years ago people were complaining that the livery is old, dating from the 60's. Well, it's on a plane whose looks are from that era too, so no clash there.
Jump to postwonder how much tech from the Sentinel were in all those Iranian drones we have been hearing about None. The Iranian drones use commercial off the shelf chips of western manufacture, but they're not "advanced" in any way. Hobbyists do better. They do the job cheaply, and Iran can't get be...
Jump to postRes rentals, another need for an act of congress: There usually is no owners manual, so no directions on how to open the gas tank, how to use cruise control, possibly lights and windshield wipers. Where the latch is for the trunk. Well, if we're talking rentals I got a fancy PHEV Jeep a couple week...
Jump to postThree things, 1. The fact that small-midsize trucks aren't built for tall people. I'm 6'2" and was seriously considering buying a Toyota Tacoma in 2019 when I was car shopping. The freakin things ceiling is too low! I can slouch and my curls would still touch. Also, if I'm gonna buy a $30000+ ...
Jump to postNo you should allow immigration of young women. They're probably not the ones pushing for that crap (some are, of course), and the sex imbalance should enrage the men in these states (whereas women cope fine without enough men...). And of course declining birth rates there would help too.
Jump to postAbout the 25 billion I haven't read a detailed explanation on this yet but to my understanding it's only to cover potential losses, not the amount of loans the Fed can make ? The Fed can make hundreds of billions in loans, right ?
Jump to postYeah there is no doubt that money talks on both sides of the aisle. Once elected a president has less a need to pander to donors though, especially someone like Trump that could rely on poor people to send money his way, so he could have done the right thing...
Jump to postThe MQ-9 is much cheaper and much more plentiful than the MQ-4, so if it does the job...
Jump to postJust to be clear on the up to date version you can still see older views. On Google Earth. On Google Maps only the street view.
Jump to postWe don't that have crisis here (yet, touch on wood) in France, and I think a lot has to do with not having Purdue Pharma here, nor the lack of laws and regulations that allowed them to do what they did. Being in pain doesn't necessarily lead to be given opioids, and certainly not without strict con...
Jump to postTeen and adult women also died in childbirth at alarming rates without anyone batting eyes...
Jump to postI've seen a video where Rolls Royce said they had to remove some insulation as customers didn't like when it was too quiet inside. What are the most annoying features in cars you cannot stand? I will start.... 1. Auto start stop 2. Everything is controlled through confusing screens 3. Lack of manual...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:“Sketchy assets” are now US Treasuries and backed MBS bonds.
Forgive me for asking... but interest rate risk management is really quite core to running a bank... particularly if you hold a large portfolio of US Treasuries and other fixed coupon bonds. Banks have risk committees... there are all sorts of requirements for banks to measure and report market ris...
Jump to postThe two collapsed banks are now bailed out : https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/16 ... 0810390528
Shareholders and creditors will lose but from my understanding clients will be fine.
Usually tiny houses aren't camping cars. They might be mobile having wheels, but as a trailer.
I'd say the fad is continuing, it's not for me though as I'm a hoarder. And I like big rooms.
Yeah, I was just miffed how so many ignore grandma's role in all this and just label her idiot son the "groomer". I’m pretty confident that Congresswoman Boebert had no role in this whatsoever. Kids are perfectly capable of doing things all on their own. And why label the kid an “idiot”? ...
Jump to postThey didn't hedge the rate risk (a risk that hasn't existed for a long time) but even then their funds are safer than many common banks, their holdings are something like 90% of deposits. One (influential) guy said something (Peter Thiel) and it was enough to kill the bank. This has affected me as I...
Jump to postThe way the A321-200 followed the 100 so quickly, someone must have realized (or some customer pointed out) that with more range the A321 could be a 757 competitor, which it wasn't originally. Personally I'm yet to fly one, so far the flights I took that could be A321 mainstay, I flew on A300s (Fran...
Jump to postWill we see the traditional wife movement grow in red states where conservative, Christians are dictating the politics of those regions? https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/cooking-cleaning-and-controversy-the-tradwife-movement-embraces-a-1950s-housewife-ideal/3174490/?_osource=S...
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