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MikePizzo: Tuanorea, You’re right, the probable cause requirement is long gone. Only reason it has taken this long was the time...
to5: And here in Australia we have kangaroos and emus to worry about. Swerve without signalling and the car will take you right back into...
eric: Hi Anonymous, Yup. And how about a federal property tax on homes and land? We already have state income taxes piled on to federal...
Eightsouthman: Mike, the first time I saw a car advertised with a replaceable belt for timing I thought, “you gotta be shitting...
Tuanorea: Mike, Well they did it with airplanes, space travel, and boats. Why not cars? Almost a bit surprising that it has taken so...
Jeremy: Thanks Vonu, I did not know of this movie, I will watch it. Cheers, Jeremy
Mike in Boston: In a perfect illustration of Murphy’s Law my ‘91 Honda Civic lost the timing belt exactly one day before its scheduled...
Vonu: OK, it is an extension of Surface Mount Devices without which the Technology wouldn’t exist. I don’t know of anyone who...
Eightsouthman: I had a neighbor(leased land)briefly like that. My dog survived but I let him know I could hit him at any place on his...
thoughtcriminal2084: Hey Eric, I hope you monitor these older threads. I just got my mafia notice, I was wondering what came of yours....
BrentP: Surface Mount Technology. Components are soldered to pads on the PCB (Printed Circuit Board) rather than having through hole...
ken: If one pays close attention, one can see the intent of all this is so the car can be controlled remotely by law enforcement and the...
Vonu: Jeremy, There is a new movie coming out that you should review for us: The Current War
Nunzio: Even when I had cows, I’d never shoot dogs. Never had a problem. If they were hungry, I’d feed ’em. Do that,...
Anonymous: Just wait until this ‘thinking’ on the part of our overlords is applied to homes. Houses are already massively...
Nunzio: ****”They just all seemed to agree the small dog should be dead.”**** Sounds like they believed in democracy! You...
ozymandias: Those J•eric•ho walls gotta’ tumble. & that ain’t no downstream premise. But, sometimes, there’s things a body can do for...
Anonymous: At this point, I have gotten like the old time ranchers around here and determine to just preemptorily shoot any loose dogs on...
Eightsouthman: With Trump’s sanctions against China, they have reacted by not taking our plastic and recycling it. Now it’s...
brazos_bend: I have driven in drive by wire cars and they are less reactive than ones with a steering shaft. There are oh so slight...
brazos_bend: I was thinking the other day in the Houston rain that these cameras with eyes cannot determine water pooling on the road at...
Eightsouthman: Several years ago I head a commotion and grabbed a gun to see what was going on. 4 dogs out of 5 that ran in a pack had...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I used to have friends from Brooklyn and Queens(and Harlem). They’d be sitting around smoking pot and drinking...
Eightsouthman: eric, like I said about the “raid” in 2016 we two old people endured because of “rumor” told to...
Eightsouthman: My daddy let me steer when I was 4 or 5 to the point I didn’t need his legs to reach the pedal at which point I...
Vonu: Is SMT similar to SMD? Governments in the USA have deferred to the private Federal Reserve for so long that it wouldn’t be up...
Eightsouthman: I would bet if a study was done on backward facing carseats there would be things that happen in the brain and quite...
elysianfield: “Why doesn’t NIPSCO repurpose their coal plants to burn natural gas?” MM, Well, carrying the idea further, why...
Nunzio: Anon, You shot Boris?! o: 😉 Wow…I’ve never even heard of those dogs…. Have’ta look ’em up! (Do...
Anonymous: So you never idle in neutral ??????
Anonymous: Nun, it was a “Russian Bear Dog” that are bred to kill anything/anyone except their handler or family they are...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I have never had my name on a gun of any sort. The Uzi comes in semi-auto and full. The long barrels makes a 9mm...
Zane: Earliest memories I have are sitting in the front seat of my parents car as young as 3-4, and I’m alive and well today...
Eightsouthman: I don’t want it to work that way. There is a reason for it. Only when it gets to the floor, just like on big rigs,...
Chris: My family and I will never buy a car like that. I’d even go as far as saying I would drive a not technically legal vehicle...
Nunzio: I think I read that same article, 8. Been a long time since cops were like that. Back then, it was more the case where it was...
Anonymous: This on a car that I paid for…… I don`t think so. Volvo and the and the Chicoms can go to hell.
Nunzio: Anon, Why would you shoot a dog? Much less a 200 lb. one? Never saw a dog anywhere near that size that was anything but docile....
Nunzio: Hey 8, Yeah…I think .357 is the perfect handgun caliber, but for the noise! I keep one’a them ear-plugs on a...
Anonymous: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws and cops will have guns. But then I repeat myself 😉
Anonymous: I’m sure there’s a way to hot wire the clutch safety switch as on the squarebodies. I just haven’t looked at...
Mark: What will happen when you dodge fallen tree branches and debris after a windstorm? Here we get those from October-February but...
Anonymous: I carry .357 and practice with .22. When I had to shoot for real, I hardly heard the .357 go off and felt no recoil at all. It...
ken: Correction (Edit) He was Chief executive of Columbia/HCA fined (as they all are) for defrauding Medicare and other programs…
ken: Scott is an asshole. Yankee clueless slugs fleeing States they screwed like California and New Jersey are now screwing up Florida,...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I read an article recently by a retired cop from NYC. He said he was taught to de-escalate a situation and only use...
eric: Agreed, Mike… and it’s picking up speed. Five years ago, I was writing almost exclusively about cars. Not about cars...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I Don’t doubt a .357 would take a guy out even if it didn’t penetrate. A heart hit might kill with body...
MikePizzo: Within the lifespan of most of your readers, the automobile will have transformed from one of the greatest symbols of personal...
eric: Hi JWK, I agree… something like this is going to happen again… and at some point, people are going to step in and tear...
eric: Morning, RK! Spot on… it’s a push from several directions toward a common result: The ending of driving in favor of...
JWK: There will come a tipping point. Could have happened in this situation. If a person carrying concealed had seen this thug, in street...
JWK: New car prices, along with the decline in real income, are already encouraging us to keep older cars going, which I’m happy to...
ReadyKilowatt: “But Eric, we have to do SOMETHING!” I think we should outlaw driving unless you are a paid professional. Back...
BrentP: It can be fixed much more cheaply with board level repair. But TM products are filled with these bone head things that make the...
Nunzio: They hate the government because they see it impeding their “beneficence” by bugging them with such things as those...
Nunzio: With ANY automatic, it’s always better to change the fluid and filter before the fluid gets worn or funky, and before the...
Nunzio: The VW TDI’s are (like all VW’s) kind of a conundrum- the “economy” one gets from the superior efficiency...
Anonymous: Once upon a time, a very old man told me something he learned in the army. “All personal armor has one weakness, fire....
Nunzio: ‘Zactly 8. Heck, .357 will almost penetrate. ‘D be sweet if someone made some of that with a pointy tip…then it...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, green tip in 5.56 is the next thing to “armor pierce”. Of course for me it’s a head or crotch...
Eightsouthman: 77 eh? I recovered from back surgery, began fixing RV’s, got fed up with that when we went to polyester Dickies...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, growing up the only guys with new vehicles got in them after their daddies bought them. The rest of us drove used...
Sindawe: I hear you Eric on electric bikes (and cars for that matter). Part of the joy of riding when I still rode was the sound and feel...
Nunzio: Ah! Didn’t know that, Jason. Though better advice might be to use stuff that penetrates the protection, ’cause one...
Eightsouthman: They are leg stretchers and that’s the whole point. You don’t get one to crank in the last 30 yeas without...
Eightsouthman: T, I’d never go for a body shot. I’ve had many guns that put the next round into the same hole. For whatever...
Tuanorea: Jeremy, “especially if they were driving a blue Gremlin” The Levi’s Gremlin if memory serves.
Shotgun Chuck: This is another thing that a lot of “efficiency fetishists” as I call them don’t realize. Electric...
Jason Flinders: Nunz, there was also his practical advice on dealing with government thugs when the SHTF and they come for the...
Jeremy: Tuanorea, “How was your summer of 1977?” It was pretty normal. Parents just told us to be careful, not talk to...
Tuanorea: Jeremy, They found Timothy King not too far from our shop on 8 mile. I remember chauffeuring a ton of kids your age and younger...
Anonymous: Another option. JC jet bike. Jump to 2:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=QC5QbALgnlU Bit loud and not too efficient though....
Nunzio: Hey Eric, If there’s one thing positive I’ll remember G. Gordon Lidflipper for, it’s his definition of a...
Nunzio: Doesn’t have to be electric to be quiet- I’ve seen lots of quiet bikes. I met an old man at a store once; he gets on...
Nunzio: Hmmm, something musta been wrong with me, Ernie! 🙂 I was always into being practical- even when I was a kid. (Well, mostly- I...
Bin: I put one of those kits on my sons bicycle about 6 years ago. The kit was $80 shipped. Bolted it on and it would do about 20 mph. It...
Anonymous: Oh yeah – I know that! It’s just that after living in western CO for so many years, you don’t even pay...
don't need no steekin name: Pickups and trucks at least didn’t used to have that “safety” [idiot] switch. I don’t...
eric: Hi Vonu, What I meant was that a $5k bike that can travel 150 miles on two gallons of $2.40 unleaded is more efficient in the sense...
eric: Hi Eight, The Gman – as he likes to be called on air – is an interesting (and scary) dude. I would not want to be on...
eric: Hi AB, This EV thing is driving me to drink… well, depression. It’s as if the whole world has lost its mind. Or maybe I...
A.B Prosper: I’m grateful for this article. Took this product of clown world off the “maybe” list and added it to to...
Vonu: Jeremy, Washington D.C. economic distinctions run from the most severe poverty of any major American city to the heights of...
Jeremy: Hey Vonu, I’m pretty sure that DC is the wealthiest area in the US, or very close. Considering that DC excels at the...
Ernie: Nunz, really? Who among us isn’t a little boy enjoying his toys? I find the big straight pipes aesthetically annoying, but...
Eightsouthman: Two years ago I lived about 5 miles east of Big Spring during the week…..trucking. The RV park was just down the...
Vonu: Jeremy, There are more of these hucksters and parasites in Washington D.C. than there are congresscritters, largely because they...
Eightsouthman: There is a switch to turn it on and off. It’s a real help on steep grades or when you have to slow quickly to avoid...
Jeremy: Hi Vonu, Well, it depends on the parameter. If I want to drive across the country in the most time efficient manner, a car with a...
Jeremy: Tuanorea, No, I lost it sometime in my many moves, I wish I still did though. Cheers, Jeremy
Jeremy: Hey Tuan, Ah. The Oakland County child killer was a big deal when I was 12, 13 years old. I suspect you knew of it and thought...
Jeremy: Hi Zathras, Thanks for posting the link, another example of a practice, if done by anyone other than Saint Musk, would result in...
Eightsouthman: G Gordon, hard to believe. I wonder how much he’s being paid. No telling since E Howard is there too and J. Mc Cord....
Vonu: It is difficult for those who don’t comprehend the science in any field to effectively consider it in any logical way.
Vonu: Range and efficiency are totally different and not related in any way. If they were related, motorcycles would have much smaller...
Tuanorea: Jeremy, “D.R.E.A.D.” I still have my card. You?
Tuanorea: Jeremy, No. Watergate. Some key members of CREEP (CRP) included: John N. Mitchell – Campaign Director Jeb Stuart Magruder...
Zathras: Apparently about 4 years is all you can realistically expect from a Tesla before it bricks due to worn out flash memory:...
Nunzio: I think the jake-brake was invented by a Dago; ya can tell, ’cause they go “Nnnnnwopowopwopwopwopwo pwopwopwop!

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