Some good points, but do realize that a very large portion of those car fires are caused by oil, not gasoline. Make sure you include all your flammable petroleum byproducts in your damnation.

That was the "Coppermine". I believe they clocked as low as 500 (5x100) or 533 (4x133), actually. They did steal the Celeron (which already had onboard cache, albeit half as much) socket 370, though most required new chipsets (there were some mainboard manufacturers who setup older chipset equipped boards to run the newer chips; they were generally better also, the early Coppermine chipsets had some production and then other issues.

That's a great theory as long as WWIII happens before someone builds something better than the F22, at which point you are stuck with 5000 planes that suck.

You need to keep pushing technology and keep building enough cutting edge equipment to make it worthwhile for the industry to design/build it, but no more. Then the tech and designs exists in the case you need to spin up production. Otherwise, you're just gambling.

In fairness, the French complain about... pretty much everything.

Interesting, my company purchased ~400 1TB Seagate drives about 6 months ago for data storage arrays (RAID 6). We've had 3-4 failures so far. We must have better than average luck I guess. We replaced ~400 750Gb drives that were in place for a couple years in the same arrays, FWIW. Also Seagates.

Pretzel breading or just a simple flour breading?

Interesting. I know a couple guys that run their trucks on recycled transmission fluid (they buy used fluid and filter it, basically). It's bright red like heating oil. Lucky for them I guess, that they don't do checks like that up here.

Those look just like the buckets that I get transmission fluid in (from the tractor store). Transmission fluid is a petroleum product, and, in fact, will run a diesel engine just fine. I'd have no issues using those buckets to store/transfer diesel fluid.

You shut your mouth! CEOs are worth at least 10x the next best employee and at least 100, if not 1000x the average employee! Just look at their pay, you can see it clearly. If that's enough, just ask them, they'll tell you!

Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the definition of troll. Pointing out that you are randomly spouting off your opinions as facts doesn't make me a troll, it just makes you, well, less than thorough. By all means keep digging though.

...I regularly receive 15 mod points to work with. Perhaps it's based on karma?

Your example is rife with not necessarily valid assumptions. I'd explain it, but I can't be arsed to spend that much time on something so obvious.

Prove it or state that it's your opinion. Randomly stating that you're correct does not, in fact, make you correct.

That is similar to here (Indiana); yellow means to clear the intersection. Generally this is taken to mean you can continue through a yellow light if you are already moving, as long as you do not accelerate through the light. If the light is yellow and you are stopped (say a turn lane) but have not yet broken the "plane" of the intersection, you are not permitted to go, if you are already in the intersection but stopped (again, turn lane) you are allowed to finish the turn.

With rules like this, it's a wonder to me that the massive volume of idiots around don't all run into each other more often, honestly.

If -everyone- was following the letter of the law, none of what you just described above would be happening. The problem is as soon as a few people choose not to, the entire system falls apart. This may have been your overarching point, but your first sentence seems to contradict that.