ITYM their fuel consumption. Overall fuel consumption doesn't even enter into their tiny little minds, which is why they drive like asshats.

Well, we've got them all over here too (SF N.bay and beyond) and if I notice them at all it's because they're in the left lane because they think they're fast, but they're noticeable because I'm having to pass them on the right.

And because you don't see it (possibly because the responsible users have been driven underground alike with the irresponsible ones, but the irresponsible ones are the ones who act out, and thus are seen) it doesn't exist!

And it should be drawn before alcohol, by gum! It's the devil's spirit!

I bought my Impreza GC5 LS from a little old lady. If I were looking for a WRX, I'd be looking to buy one from a middle-aged woman. If she ever used it in anger, it would likely only have been while merging; but she might be likely enough to have actually done that occasionally to have kept massive carbon deposits from building up on the exhaust valves.

The whole point of the car was to give affordable, usable power. You can drive the car at 9/10 on the street at legal speeds, on twisty roads anyway. Turbo kits are already around, couple them with a bit more damping (for anti-squat) and some more rubber and you're off! And the door is open to throw some more powerful engines in there later. Or, perhaps now. I'd very much like to see Subaru and Toyota each roll their own turbo kits, and each bring out their own hot version. They would differentiate the vehicles from one another, in addition to bringing in the people like yourself who feel the car requires more power.

Incidentally, those Subaru engines might be "lacklustre" but they have amazingly flat curves and they have a massive assload of headroom left in them. A lot of them can be wrung out another 1,000 RPM or more, so there's loads of room for tuning. But they're designed to take a lot of abuse. If you maintain a Subaru with a manual transmission well, you can expect it to really hold up. But they're not amazingly well-protected against corrosion, so part of that is underbody maintenance if you live someplace where that's a significant issue. That's fairly unfortunate for a brand known for all-terrain, all-weather performance.

On a one-hour trip, there's no point. On a four-hour trip (or a three-hour tour) you'll save enough time to actually do something with.

The more aerodynamic your car is, the less true that is. My '82 300SD gets its best mileage around 75, I think it has something to do with it being very aero (for its day, especially, but pretty good even by modern standards) and maybe something to do with the non-lockup torque converter. AFAICT those are most efficient at the highest RPMs, and that car cruises at pretty high RPM. My '89 240SX was the same, though it had a stick; it was an even more aerodynamic car. And though I don't have personal experience of getting it up over 26 mpg yet, the 1997 A8 Quattro is reputed to get better mileage at 90 than at 75. I don't personally dare go over about 80 in most scenarios, since I don't have all that fancy laser and radar bullshit. It too has a slush box, but it has a lockup TC. It is however more aero than either of the prior examples.

The safest and most efficient thing is to drive with the flow of traffic, but without being worried about maintaining your place in the race, since you're not racing. Most people are most comfortable in such a situation, which is why you typically see long lines of relatively static traffic. I find myself most comfortable when I don't have stuff coming up behind me...

Choke on me. Choke. Now. Choke on me now.

Hopfather has less IBUs than Pliny, ignoranus. You're only pretending to know anything about beer.

Please feel free to share what you've been reading.

I'd like to know where you read that Chinese vendors have "substituted a working used part for an OEM part"
Here's where I read that counterfeit chips are a problem:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/25/1940247/man-pleads-guilty-to-selling-fake-chips-to-us-navy
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/09/0255231/us-military-trying-to-weed-out-counterfeit-parts
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/0038231/gao-sting-finds-more-fake-military-parts-from-china

It's from reading the writings of the founding fathers on the subject. A quick google search will produce more material than you can possibly choke on.

Oh, you mean that uncanny complete lack of friend-or-foe instinct? Yeah, I've seen that before.

Right. These are the people who commit suicide by exhaust, or by oven, or by other slow methods. They really want to be discovered. The people who commit suicide by gun will instead use a train, or a bridge.

What precisely is it that we're still #1 in, besides arms exports?

9 out of 10 times I drink it at the brewery, I am left wondering where the lovely floral character has gone. Well, it went to Hopfather. Pliny is now their mass market beer.

Isn't this the way Metro Apps work? Seems to me like they were already headed down the right path with Windows 8.1 then. You really can't do anything much about old programs wanting to write to arbitrary parts of the disk, because you'll find a lot of applications that just plain won't work. I guess you could trick the application into thinking it's writing to a certain part of the disk when in reality it's just writing to a subdirectory in it's own private folder, but that would create even more problems, when the user decided to save a file, and couldn't find it later because it saved the file inside some virtual folder that only existed for that one application.

Personally I think it's OK if programs have arbitrary file access because it allow apps such as I have on my Surface 2 (RT) to access network drives just as easily as they would access any other file. On Android or iOS, an application has to be specifically coded to access network drives but not so on Windows (or Windows RT).

I think one thing that could be added would be for the OS to keep track of all registry keys edited by an application and be able to remove them after an application is uninstalled. You could possibly do the same for files, but then there would be risk of the user losing data they had created with that application.

No, not what I said, at all. I said absolutely feel free to do whatever you THINK is right. Those two words are very important.

You asked does right and wrong exist in a universe without God. My answer, is clearly yes. You are now changing the question to "what is right and wrong", and my only answer can be to study those that have come before you, understand their philosophy, understand the questions people have poked in the philosophy, and use it to evaluate your actions. Then choose the most optimal action. If you wish to judge me, judge me the same way. THINK, and THINK in the context of RIGHT/JUST/ETHICS.

There is no script for right or wrong in every case, either in the Bible or in secular belief. It has always been application of philosophy by way of careful thought. I feel the biblical version is myopic, and founded on a fundamentally flawed premise. That is not to say it does not have merit.