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Comment Re:Which Invasion? (Score 2) 205

If you think that MSNBC, FOX News and CNN agree on something and it's still not true, well, you better have a helluva citation yourself.

I'm pretty sure someone powerful enough to be putting on a global misinformation campaign has no problem feeding those three news outlets whatever press releases or "news" they want. Not saying that this is happening, but the WMD misinformation wasn't all that long ago.

Comment Re:Not the PSUs? The actual cables? (Score 1) 137

We get a lot of donated machines where I work and one of the standard desktop power cords actually did burn itself in two. Luckily it didn't cause a fire. Your story about a contractor substituting substandard materials reminds me of a documentary on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Turns out one of the contractors was sneaking in substandard steel wires that were woven together for the support cables. I believe that wire is still in there.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 506

As another data point, I was once loading the bed of a '74 Chevy pickup (which had a 454 and 3.73 gears) with gravel and put on the emergency brake. I then proceeded to drive to my friends house with the emergency brake still on and didn't even know it. Those breaks smoked for about 20 minutes after we got there.

Comment Re:point loads on the tread are too high (Score 1) 162

The biggest problem is the curvature of the wheels is concentrating all of the weight of the vehicle on the center of the wheel, and not only that, but with the tread design, all the force is concentrated on a spot about 2 square millimeters. They just need to add a rib going down the middle like bicycle tires.

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