A car puts a barrier between the driver and the weather; a bike does not.

Never heard of a rain coat? When I was riding my bike to work I would have to look at the weather, and add 10 degrees to determine what to wear because I would be warmer riding. In the dead of winter my car heater didn't even kick in until I pulled in my driveway.

A car has enough metal surface to trigger induction loops connected to traffic signals; a bike does not.

FALSE. My bike triggers the loops all the time. I did find one that didn't trigger, but a quick email to the city and a day or two wait fixed that issue. He said that it needed tweaked and that my 30lb bike with aluminum wheels wasn't an issue.

A car can carry passengers larger than 50 lbs (22 kg); a typical bike trailer cannot.

FALSE. My trailer supports 100lb, and it is a toys-r-us special. My rear rack has a 50lb limit.

A car can travel on controlled access highways; a bike cannot.

Big deal, a bike can travel on a MUT, a car cannot

Didn't HP have a series of office computers that looked upside down because they put the 5.25 bays on the bottoms of the case?

Almost. It is still recommended that you change the oil every 6 months. I don't do that myself, but you have to run the ICE every so often to keep it from drying out and seizing up. Most engines have to run to pump oil through them or all the oil finds its way into the pan. You also have to think about the gas too, it does have a shelf life.

Something that made Freespace great is that sometimes you didn't "succeed" in the missions. They had missions in the game where the story took a turn for the worst for the player. Unlike Tie Fighter and X Wing where each mission always had a positive outcome no matter how impossible it seemed in real world.

I have a old school big block musclecar (70 Chevelle SS454). I would rather have the Volt to commute so I can put more fix-em-up and gas money into the fun car.

I don't think SSDs are the cause of the current price hike. If that was the case then we would have expensive drives last year.

I noticed that the drives I buy are now almost double the price than 6 weeks ago, probably something to do with Thailand hard drive factories refactored into swimming pools.

It does a windows file sharing server as a fallback, but in my experience it is a little slow. I use it this way to print out documents on my wife's printer. It is a little slow but I only do that once a month.

This source code is a pain to read. I open VIM and for some reason, the back light on my monitor turns off. I close VIM and it comes back on....

(I couldn't resist)

I'm setting the BS flag about car color. The color of the car has no impact on the amount of gas & energy that it takes to run and cool it. Radiator fans are only needed at low speeds because air is not moving as fast through them. Then the air conditioner compressor that is running off the engine belt only has 2 settings, on and off. In the summer people just turn them 'on' and adjust the temperature with the blower fan.

The idea that the paint will last longer has some merit, but then again, that is what car wax is made for.

Boy I believe this. My signal gets knocked down to below 50% just by moving downstairs and over one room.

On top of that I can hardly watch broadcast TV from towers that are less than 10 miles from my home. I get the station, but the UPS truck driving by causes it to go out.