Two words: Jon Katz.

Damn our efficient American medical system!

You seem to have confused "down" with "off."

Was she a 'go-er'?

Still possible. Heck, with a prepass, you can even do it driving commercially without stopping at a chicken house.

I've said that off and on for nearly twenty years. I've also tried to make the statement that someone from rural Mississippi is as different from someone from LA or Manhattan as someone from Greece is from someone who is from Denmark.

Teenagers have already been replaced in large swaths of the country by citizens new to the united states. This is certainly the case in the DC metro area, and I've heard reports from elsewhere.

IIRC, the late fees were part of the business model, not merely an annoyance.

Depends on your definition of race fuel. And perhaps this is new. But the last time I went to MIR there were two gas stations within three miles that sold high octane (98 (R+M)/2) race fuel. Plenty of taxes.

I think that just about covers it. A lot of 'better' places have come and gone over the years, but this place still manages to hit a sweet spot.

My biggest concern the other day was just a category or two that I keep getting lured into. I like cars. I like reading about them. I like discussing them. I do not like reading or discussing them on slashdot.

There are some pictures in the second link in TFS.

Having not read the book, I watched the film when I was 20 or so.

I personally thought it was a great critique of military tactics, and massively colourful too. I guess the colours were more important.

The massive thing about the film was the stupidity of all the setups, the roundness of the characters, and the entire presumptuousness of the plot. That, and everything was colourful. It didn't matter that it was dumb.

My PC CPU regularly hits 100 degrees centigrade. My GPU regularly goes over 90. I've got crap cooling. Nothing breaks.

I've had close to 4 months uptime with this computer, which is about 5 years old. It's an E6850, and a newer GTX460 (used to have an 8800GT), if you're interested.

Nothing should break, ever, when it gets hot. It should just turn off.

That's 15 seconds slower than a human, which is about 10%, if I'm reading the article correctly. There aren't any numbers in it. I'd do better than that.

Try driving a car (or HGV) we may be aware that a bike is there, but it is completely impossible to predict what crazy stunt they will pull next.

What? Motorbike riders are generally the most courteous on the road, IMO... they are just a bit faster than the rest of us. That being said, I think I'm the exception - if I think I'm holding someone up, I'll pull over. I've often done that in my HGV, when there was a queue behind me, and there is somewhere to pull over... an obvious example is the A505 (single carriageway straight for miles at a time)... 40mph limit for trucks, and you can see for miles in every direction (that being said, I rarely actually did just 40mph down there... it's silly).

People have also lost the power to overtake... they can't do it any more. It's not that difficult, but I'm often sat behind a queue of cars sitting nose to tail, obviously getting annoyed with the guy up front. I've overtaken a queue of 10 cars straight in the past, wondering why they're not doing the same thing. Also, they're sitting nose to tail, so that people behind them can't overtake.