While bodies are a good measure and I still think there would be more dead than just strapping on a suicide vest the real point would be to strike terror into the general population. And even one or 2 mystery cases would do this. Just look at the money, resources, and freedoms people are willing to sacrifice because of 19 people with box cutters, a dumb ass who tried to set his shoes on fire, and an idiot who set his underpants on fire.

If someone wanted to deliberately spread the disease they should be pissing, coughing, and spitting on just about everything. Do this to people's car door handles, door knobs, trash cans, doors in restaurants, the floor in public places, railings on escalators, the conveyor belt in a grocery store, etc. and watch it spread like wild fire.

I mean if terrorists can recruit people to become suicide bombers why not get someone to infect themselves with Ebola, board a plane when showing no signs and fly to some first world country. Then when you start to show symptoms have at coating as many things a possible in an area with your fluids. Then before you die go rent a car and drive somewhere else very remote (ex. the north woods of Minnesota) and die. This way people who catch it from you aren't on the lookout for Ebola and hopefully can spread it some more before it gets identified.

And that is how you could deliberately create a mass panic in a first world country with Ebola as well as probably getting better results than a simple suicide bomb.

I thought you were in the US so now I understand why so many people are spending so much on a vehicle. Still that seems like a lot of money (percentage of annual income) to be spending on a car. Also I think the prices are similar for those vehicles pretty much everywhere. For SUV prices those looks similar to those in Israel with an entry level jeep commanding about $150k.

Don't spoil the fun. Don't you know mindless spending of money is needed to keep the economy going. /sarcasm

BTW those are some nice numbers and seem to match reality fairly well, although I might chop a bit more off for taxes since SSI is 6.2%, and then there is the Medicaid, Federal, and also likely state income taxes so I would push total the post tax value a little closer to $75k

Wow that is a lot to spend on a car, I guess need to be driving nicer vehicles than I do. I spent about 1/15th of my annual household pre-tax income on my current car (I'm not rich but fairly well off as in I am close to the average near you) a little more than a year ago. I plan on driving this car for at least another 5 years but hoping to make to well over 10. The next most recent vehicle I purchased I spent less than 1% of my annual household income on and that was for a beater to go hunting in. And while my jeep is a beat up rusty pile of junk my daily driver is nice but just not new. Then again I don't play the keeping up with the neighbors game and even in my neighborhood that wouldn't be hard if I cared. Although I wouldn't mind getting a custom ordered brand new M3 but I know I would get into trouble with that car.

Yes Lego was very bad with that during the later parts of the 90's and 2000's and they lost a lot of customers because of it. That said they learned and have gotten a lot better about the special pieces of late. While some of the detail pieces they now have are very detailed and special purpose (looking at you lego frogs and your ilk) there are other pieces that have been been added that are very generic, especially in the studs not on top category. Lego has done a good job in recent years of making more generic parts but using them in interesting ways. Also they have been more willing to use pieces from other themes in other ones so there is a lot more Technic parts in sets that would have never seen them previously.

A great example of this is the recently released Lego Ghostbusters Ecto-1 there are only a few pieces that didn't exist when I was younger (the wheels, slanted grates, some studs not not top ones, and a few others I can't remember) but even at that most of it is made from very generic pieces. It is mostly the reuse of things like pneumatic hose, whips, light saber handles, roof tiles, etc in interesting ways that makes the set. If you would prefer there is this little guy which is also similar in that it has some pieces that didn't exist when I was little but is made from very generic pieces that probably should have been out when I was younger. It does however seem that the style of building has changed a lot from when I was a kid. Now when building vehicles there are a lot fewer bricks used and instead lots of plates and tiles which were fairly rare when I was younger. Or are you implying that if it isn't composed of bricks that are entirely made with right angles it isn't a proper lego set?

Maybe it designed Beta

I would put Minnesota as one of the larger states. Granted it isn't an Alaska or Texas but the 12th largest by land area (top 25%) seems like it should be considered as one of the larger ones. Even population wise it comes in at #21 so still in the top half but outside the Twin Cites metro area population density falls off with a few larger towns like St. Cloud, Duluth, Rochester, and Mankato of which Rochester is the largest of this group with a population of about 110,000 so not exactly a densely packed state.

Might be interesting but as far as data collection goes I want to take it a step further and have a DIY black box pulling in the OBDII data and GPS info as well. That would be much more interesting to me since I do like to poke around with vehicles.

So like the metros but different badge engineering, aka Suzuki swifts. That little 2 seater metro was a fun little car but it got a lot of lift at speed and was squirrely. At normal speeds it handled great since it was a very low slung car with a short wheel base and low center of gravity. Also it was always fun to squeal the tires since it weighed so little and you could just dump the clutch and floor it. The best was when some guy in a mustang wanted to race (seriously you can beat a metro fucking big deal) and I peeled them good and he ended up getting a ticket from the cop, because who would think a geo metro could peel the tires.

And that is what we call a scary ride. I drove a similar vintage Geo Metro convertible and on the track would get it up to 90 and that gets scary since while the car could do it, it isn't advisable.

I'm surprised your wife got 11 was it short city trips or did it have the V8? I have a regular Cherokee with the 4.0L inline 6 (now a light weight version with all the rust) and it basically gets 20 mpg, either going camping/hunting or around town hauling stuff or commuting when the weather is bad.

You are correct in that often it is the nut behind the wheel that has the greatest affect on mileage. If I drive like a reasonable person in my daily drive I get in the 35-37 mpg range (summer time) but when I want to have fun with that car and take it out to the track I can get it down into the single digits for a few runs on a road course.