It's not only kids that like the walls. Adults are fond of them, too.

But anyway, you didn't have to drink gasoline to be exposed to the lead it contained. Burning leaded gas increased the amount of lead oxides in the air and in the dust layer on surfaces, both of which were easily ingested.

I got pulled over for speeding through a notorious speed trap in a little town with 400 residents and the cop walked to up me with no less than four 30 round magazines for his M4 strapped to his belt. There is quite literally no crime in this town besides people speeding on the stretch of highway that runs through it and he feels he must have immediate access to 150 rounds for a rifle. The mind boggles.

I couldn't help but actually laugh out loud at him when he waddled up to the window (which didn't help my suave talk-myself-out-of-the-ticket routine at all). It was almost comic in an over the top disturbing way.

This little dialog you've got going on here is stupid and I hate Cadillacs anyway, but the whole comparing-liking-fun-things (fast cars, guns, aircraft, etc) to small penises meme has got to stop. It really says more about your fixation with penises (and penis size) than anything else.

Looking at the console to find the appropriate knob or button is completely different from having to tap through seven different screens of icons to perform a simple task. The goal should be to make regular tasks easy to perform in a normal context. When the context is driving, the design should encourage the driver to keep looking at the road.

From my time on the road, it seems that you're making some serious assumptions about the risks taken by many drivers out there.

They did serve a tour in Japan. "It’s the Curies! We must flee!"

So you bring out some examples of crazy people from the past and hold them up as your definitions of everything. Impressive argument.

Race is involved, in that participation in that culture is responsible for the failure of many black people to do well in our society, but the problem isn't race. Race is tangential to the entire issue, which is correcting dysfunctional cultures, and only figures into this because you care more about the color of people's skin than their behavior. There are plenty of white people caught up in thug culture, too, but they don't figure into your thoughts because their skin is the wrong color for you.

You don't seem to understand... you are the racist. You are the one who is making everything about the color of people's skin, even when it isn't.

Your whole post is just a long string of ad hominem attacks and attempts to associate the opposing viewpoint with something nasty that it is not. Are you the same person who always jumps into debates about Israeli foreign policy crying "antisemitism"?

It's people who think like you who will forever keep us from addressing these problems.

Race is not tied to culture, and criticizing a dysfunctional culture is not racist, bigoted, or an action to be shamed. Your need to tie the self-destructive culture that is held by some urban people (of all races) to a specific race, and imply that they are unable to change their culture, is what is racist.

Thug gangsta culture is not a productive and viable culture, regardless of the color of the practitioner's skin. My saying that is not racist, but your implying that thug culture is an intrinsic part of being black is racist. We get to call out dysfunctional cultures and your attempts to make everything about race and shut down the conversation only make the world an uglier place.

I don't think it's human nature that kicks in, because that is always present even if it's not acted upon. I think it's the lack of accountability and the amount of available power that kicks in. It's too much for the sociopathic politician types to ignore.

OK, good. The ribbing is a contractual obligation, of course!

Hypermiling is as far from driving safely and responsibly as is the videogame style driving you're imagining. It's just as antisocial, self-centered, and dangerous, but the goal is saving gas and not arriving sooner (or having fun or whatever).

You know that the expiration date for this certificate was set on 20 Apr 2013 and has been printed on the certificate for over a year, right?

You don't have to wait for the certificate to actually expire and fail before you renew it. It looks very amateur, and this is coming from an amateur.

This is the part than non-Europeans likely have a hard time understanding. Withdrawing consent for something that happened in the past is an alien concept for Americans, for sure.

Withdrawing consent for something that is ongoing makes sense, but retroactively deciding that you now disagree with something you previously agreed to and expecting history to rewrite itself to cater to your whims is bizarre. It reeks of refusing to take responsibility for your past actions.

They were recovered via a trapeze system. It's mentioned on the wiki page, and in a little more depth here. Pretty interesting stuff.

The number and diversity of test takers has increased dramatically since the 70's, also. The raw average is not a very useful description of data that aren't uniformly distributed. There's a reason why box plots are used, but the tiny variations year-to-year are likely to disappear if they analyze and present the data better. I'd be laughed out of the room if I tried to point out differences between two sets of x when the error bars are 4x wide, but I guess I'm not trying to make policy so my standards are higher.

Keep in mind that I'm not arguing against the trend here, just the presentation of the data.

She's not in the California state legislature, though. Back to civics class for you!