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Fighting over who gets to drink from the whiskey stream first?

Part of that was a NHTSA rule that hilariously (from 79-82) made 85mph speedometers mandatory; but even later, because of tooling costs, those dials persisted.

Not that the DMC-1's PRV v6 and tall Renault 5-speed were gonna make getting to 85 easy...

There's someone near me who has one with a white wrap over it. I see it parked, and I thought:

"If Kenmore had the wherewithal to manufacture 4wd electric chest freezers...that's what they'd look like."

...but I'm not offended by it. I think that sort of whimsical craziness is all too often missing from modern durable goods, so I'm glad it got built.

I'm even happier that its existence upset mincing, peevish little eurotwee Conde-Nasty scribblequeefs like this Wired author. If it'd guarantee him leaping off of a tall pier, I'd pay MSRP for a Cybertruck.

A modern classic, thanks to Bob Zemeckis; without whom it would've been right up there with the Bricklin SV-1.

Setting aside JohnZ's personal failings, the car and its production was a catastrophe.

What sort of IP block would one use for a GPU/display controller? AFAICT, all of those are covered by some licensing deal that probably comes with an NDA...

>that even from europe i know what pop tarts, gushers, mountain dew and a wendys is.

I mean, I know they exist too, but that's orthogonal to wanting to eat any of it...

>Was disappointed by how bad cheeze-its are,

My experience is that Cheez-Its are more often than other chips or crackers, likely to go stale on the shelf-might have something to do with the recipe.

>also taco bell (i know its tex-mex, but still a variety from burgers) opened stores in germany and the netherlands hoping it reaches a broader audience and can get more people attracted as i actually like the food given the price point and being somewhat more healthy than a quarter pounder with cheese.

For many years in RI, Taco Bell was the only mexican place we had. Finding authentic Tex-Mex was worth a trip (as far as North Carolina) when I was in 7th grade. As for it being healthier than a QP...ymmv depending on the menu....

As for drinks...how do you screw up Gatorade & Dr Pepper? The syrup/powder just needs to be reconstituted...is it something in the water?

Also, yes, Moser Roth chocolate at Aldi is a steal, quality-wise.

Marshmallow Fluff is used, amongst other things, to make the traditional questionably-nutritious New England delicacy, the Fluff & Peanut-Butter Sandwich, or fluffernutter. Around the Boston area, it was used more or less like euros use nutella.

Whataboutism: Is There Anything It Can't Do?

Laundries w/ wifi, I have found, are far superior to working at than coffee shops.

just curious, what do you consider 'good' American candy?

I mean, Ghirardelli chocolate is nice, and I am fond of Junior Mints & Bit-O-Honey..but you can miss me with most Hershey and/or Mars products.

..and in the case of some of those Italians, they were absolutely right.

High-trust Anglo civilization is not compatible with the attitude towards civil authority common in the 19th-century Mezzogiorno. It took literal generations to fix.

...which was finally ended by the RICO act; which is almost certainly unconstitutional, but has been allowed to fester b/c the Mob was (so far) worse.

Hold On Right There.

There are people go out of their way to buy...American candy in the UK?

Utterly perverted.

I keep wondering if there's a market for semiconductor products like this:

"Our stuff is not the fastest, not the cheapest, not the most power-efficient...but we're within 50% of the price of the ones that are...and ours come with sufficient documentation (not under NDA!) for anyone to write a driver for!"

I cannot believe that nobody is addressing this. CHRP and ARC, for instance, are decades-old examples.

It could transmit; IIRC it bounced signals off of the moon. Later radio telescopes weren't built w/ that capability, but that one was.

The ocean next to the port city was the color of chocolate; congealing in a stone molcajete...

Oblig. Simpsons:

Homer: “There’s three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!

Lisa: "Isn’t that also the wrong way?"

Homer: "Yeah, but... faster.”

Anybody who is as responsible for popularizing Ruby on Rails & YAML as DHH has, has no standing to call anyone else a loser.

(grauniad;dr)

Top of the line is an electrician who goes to work on a 40kw/400amp circuit, and doesn't go put on his arc-flash suit because it'd take another 15 minutes. Predictably, electricity happens. It's all Microsoft's fault, apparently.

Not necessarily; the goodwill & trademarks (such as it was) plus facilities could remain w/ US buyers.

...and exactly none of these rulings grants anyone a priori the right to interfere with an arrest.

A giant "dwarf" planet? So...just a regular-sized planet, then?

"ideological dissent", in the form of interfering with lawful arrests.

ICE has yet to roust a Philly DSA meeting, in contrast.

>via a 1394-to-IDE adapter, which is freak show stuff.

Wow...do you have pics? I used to have quite a collection of adapters of dubious utility...

"Unprecedented" where we're talking about the constraints of US politics since 1991 isn't very impressive.

I recall people making similar claims about Reagan, for different reasons. I ignored those as well.

Perhaps you have a higher degree of confidence in the abilities of regular government employees just out of college. I can't imagine it was unique or unprecedented.

I'm aware, I just think the gripes are overblown, hysterical overreaction to either nonissues ('Hitler salutes' get a grip, please.) or garden-variety cost-cutting common in all conservative-leaning administrations.

It's always edifying to see where these slanted thumbsucking thinkpieces originate.

I'm not, of course, talking about the Poundland quality brit academic who nominally wrote it; but rather, who paid for it. Let's see...ah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Berggruen

Predictable.

It depends on the audience.

For 99% of drivers, serious active aerodynamic features are irrelevant. You'll never be driving fast enough for it make a difference.

For racers, it's a big deal.