Well the US government already subsidizes cotton producers in Brazil so why not.

but are you on a frictionless surface in a vacuum?

So an ideal presidential candidate then?

Not sure if that is better or worse pay wise (when taking cost of living into account) than a job offer I got for $35,000/year to work for a medical company in Boston a few years back. I laughed at the person who was so dumb they didn't know if I was laughing because the value was silly high or silly low so they asked if that was good. I replied it was fucking awful and that I made about 3 times that living in a lower cost state.

Hey that's the sound your mom made last night when I had her bent over the kitchen table.

Is this a recent development or was I mostly just lucky that almost 20 years ago the state school I went to (MSU Mankato) offered it as an undergrad class as an option. They also offered compiler construction as an undergrad class which I gather is another one that is fairly rare at the undergrad level.

I'm still trying to figure out what benefit this provides me.

That was one of the best crime sequences I had seen in a long time. It was very imaginative unlike so many other ones.

Same thing in Minnesota. Purchase is 21 own is 18, this applies to the ammo as well.

My understanding of that is that once you strop cranking the 10/22 or mini14 it stops firing so not an automatic weapon. This basically makes any manually driven Gatling gun legal, not sure about ones with an electric motor or not but who knows with the BATFE. With the shoelace hack on the SKS it will fire until empty thus a machine gun. Love these decisions or not they are at least consistent. The BATFE does however seem fairly schizophrenic in other regards as was the case of the arm brace addition to AR and AK platform pistols.

Just because they have made cars for ages doesn't mean they have made good cars. Having had the pleasure of owing a mid 80s Oldsmobile in the late 90s when I was in college and after that owning an early 80s BMW it was night and day difference. While the Oldsmobile felt old and worn out as well as begin rusted out (you could roll the windows down and still see the windows) the BMW drove quite nice and wasn't a rusty shit pile. Also the vehicles had fairly similar mileage on them when I disposed of them. The Oldsmobile was gotten rid of because it died on the road, the BMW was gotten rid of because I was stopped at a light and some ass hole rear ended me while going 55 MPH, I walked away uninjured but the trunk of the car was completely under the car and the rear half of the car bowed out so the rear doors popped open and couldn't be shut.

Every time I see one of those Chrysler commercials about being imported from Detroit I just substitute war torn 3rd world hell hole as it more accurately describes the expected quality. Chrysler use to be a company that made pretty good vehicles and was known for engineering but that was over 40 years ago. I mean when you get to the point of discussing the features of your cup holder as a selling point you really don't have much to offer.

I have been driving BMWs mostly for the last 20 years and they up until recently seem to have stayed away from the excessive electronics at the base trim options. My current car is an 2002 325i (bought used a couple of years ago) with a manual transmission. It doesn't have the fancy infotainment center so when the head unit started flaking out it was just a simple replacement with a ~$100 aftermarket one. It also doesn't have an interment connection or stuff like that. the steering wheel still has a mechanical linkage to the rack, and the brake pedal is still physically connected to the master cylinder. Since I plan on keep the car until it isn't worth fixing I will probably have it for another 10 years at least provided it doesn't get totaled in an accident since it lacks the weak automatic transmission so I may be hard up for something that isn't loaded to the gills with stupid gadgets.

Unfortunately I am not the type of customer most car companies try to target. I want a car that is fun to drive not something that I can have an interactive conversation with as it reads me the latest twitter posts. In dash navigation I can get that if I wedge my phone between the top of the ashtray and bottom lip of the climate control panel. Seriously it fits perfectly there is out of the way and it isn't going anywhere.