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I agree wholeheartedly -- the Cruiser has a very high chickitude quotient. Some people have worked pretty hard to try to change this: http://members.tripod.com/pappyspt/id5.htm http://www.californiacruisers.com/street_stages.htm http://custompt.com/shop1/

Well, comparing the base price I find with a quick search of base models, I get $46,805 for the 'vette and $66,500 for the Carrera. Stock, the base 911 was hauling 9.7 pounds per horsepower, while the Vette beat that at 9.2. In terms of grunt, the difference is even greater, with the 911...

Despite grave misgivings about it, I've been very pleased with the Chrysler PT Cruiser my wife picked out for herself. It gets decent (but not great) gas mileage, is very comfortable, and serves as our people- and stuff-hauler (since my car only has 2 seats). The execution of the way the back...

Oh my goodness ... I'm away from the forum for a while and slip by for a quick check and see this ... tsk, tsk, tsk. There are quite a few 911s I would own had we been racing for pink slips, and me with my iron (and fiberglass) junk heap ... At least my car has the motor in the right place ...

I've googled a lot, but finding specific discussion of range has been difficult. There seems to be more on ranges of airborne radar, but all in articles about the aircraft.

I have a question arising from a project I'm working on. Does anyone know any good sources for capabilities of military radar in the 1940s -- WWII and after? I'm looking for both ground-based and airborne, and something that would help me get a grasp on the evolution of the capabilities of...

Pablo, with all due respect, you're being hysterical. Really. We're in for a global depression, there's no question about it. None. But it's not the end of civilization, unless people get hysterical and kill the goose that lays the golden eggs because it's got the flu. Let me make a very...

I'd be an enthusiastic electric road racing fan. Electric drag racing is picking up speed in America (pun intended), a format that shows off the great torque curve of electrics vs. combustion engines. The battery limitations could be overcome -- pit stops to replace battery packs. They'd be...

At this point I'm going to go subject myself to capitalist exploitation, i.e. go to see if I can do some paying work. Let me just suggest a thought to you. I'd ask that you really, really, really think about it before you reply. Ghandi was a lawyer, an English lawyer. His strategy was based...

All I can say to this is that you are completely fooling yourself into thinking you're thinking something really new. Those who are ignorant of history ...

Pablo, I despair of ever having any meaningful impact on your view of the world, but I can’t help but comment on this post. There are two ideas expressed here, both of interest to people who wonder how such notions come to be vital and influential things in people’s minds. They are known by...

Again, I'm not trying to be combative, and there may be a language barrier here, but I honestly find what you've written to be ... incomprehensible. You write: I've spent my whole life studying religion. Various religions make mutually incompatible truth assertions about the world. That's...

That's my impression, too. But it leads me to a question I don't know enough to have any kind of opinion about -- with the steady erosion of the influence of traditional religion on the lives of modern Europeans, what are the sources of moral values for average people? My personal experience...

I honestly don't understand this attitude. Ideas about religion are expressed as assertions. They are statements about the world. Why should discussion of the truth or falsity of such statements be taboo?

Many people use these words this way, but I (and at least some others) don't. I perceive "agnosticism" to be the suspension of the question: "Maybe yes, maybe no." Approaching the theistic proposition like any other, I can't remain in such a suspended state: I conclude that the evidence and...

I'm perfectly familiar with all of this, having lived in the buckle of the Bible Belt much of my adult life. I used to be a much more "militant" atheist, thinking that the liberation of people from superstition could only be a good thing. As I've gotten older, I'm much less willing to spend...

I'm an atheist. On the one hand, I see nothing in the world as it is that requires the hypothesis of supernatural beings. On the other hand, there seem to be many clear natural, historical and social explanations for all the phenomena, practices and doctrines that are called "religion." Theism...

Are you familiar with the "doctrine of abrogation?" http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~tomshoemaker/handouts/abrogation.html http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6594 ... or, in a more argumentative vein: http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=3414&sec_id=3414 Please...

Ahh - so if the site is critical of Islam, anything you find there can't be true? That can't be your meaning, since that would indicate that you have a fixed opinion that can't be subject to rational argument. But you know that if you want to discuss the actual content of the Koran or the...

I would be happy to debate this subject with you, as my time and other matters allow. However, I feel certain that the thread will soon be locked and subject closed for discussion. So I simply offer this for your consideration: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/023-violence.htm