The Off Topic Topic

[CountDeMoney]

No idea what good the Chinese Army is in a fight,

It would be interesting to find out.  Probably right nasty bastards.
Back in my bail days, my old boss was a corpsman in Korea, said he still had nightmares whenever he heard a bugle.  That's when you knew they were coming, and they weren't stopping for shit.


Fuck 'em, though.  Fucking godless heathen rat bastard commies.



"I used to stack fucks likes you five feet high in Korea... use ya for sand bags."

[jimmy olsen]

This book is for you, so many great anecdotes.

http://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Tomorrow-Greatest-Story-The/dp/0306818019

[Sheilbh]

Interesting:

The chief of North Korea's military has been removed for 'health reasons' in a sign of Kim Jong-un putting his stamp on the country's ruling hierarchy. More details soon ...

[katmai]

Will someone tell Madonna to think of the children and stop pulling her boobs out at concerts

[DGuller]

Interesting:

The chief of North Korea's military has been removed for 'health reasons' in a sign of Kim Jong-un putting his stamp on the country's ruling hierarchy. More details soon ...

What does he suffer from, a gunshot wound to the back of the head?

[Zanza]

A masterpiece of lobbyism:
All energy-using devices in the EU come with an energy efficiency scale from A to G. This was also introduced for cars recently. The German car industry, with its heavy sedans and SUVs, lobbied to have the weight of the car included in that measure. So a heavy gas-guzzling SUV may have a good energy efficiency if it burns little fuel for its heavy weight. The consequence of that rule is that the Leopard II battle tank has the same EU energy efficiency class as a Volkswagen Golf.

[Tamas]

 

that advert line would look stupid from the other end:

"buy a VW Golf! It has the same energy efficiency as a Leopard II Main Battle Tank!"

[Neil]

Isn't that what efficiency means?

[CountDeMoney]

The consequence of that rule is that the Leopard II battle tank has the same EU energy efficiency class as a Volkswagen Golf.

It certainly has better side impact crash ratings than the Golf.

[Eddie Teach]

Will someone tell Madonna to think of the children and stop pulling her boobs out at concerts

What are you doing at Madonna concerts if you don't want to see her boobs?

[DGuller]

A masterpiece of lobbyism:
All energy-using devices in the EU come with an energy efficiency scale from A to G. This was also introduced for cars recently. The German car industry, with its heavy sedans and SUVs, lobbied to have the weight of the car included in that measure. So a heavy gas-guzzling SUV may have a good energy efficiency if it burns little fuel for its heavy weight. The consequence of that rule is that the Leopard II battle tank has the same EU energy efficiency class as a Volkswagen Golf.

Makes perfect sense to me, as long as the equivalency formula is solid.  You already know whether you have a hatchback, SUV, or a main battle tank.  What's the point of an efficiency rating that would pretty much be perfectly correlated with your class of vehicle?  What additional information would that efficiency rating impart?

[Syt]

Couple of bands coming to Vienna this fall/winter: Laibach, Ultravox, Tiger Lillies, Cranberries, Levellers. I definitely want to see Laibach and Ultravox - I'm betting Ultravox will play "Vienna".

[alfred russel]

I can see how a certain percentage would be considered "undervalued";  where the hell else can you score a foreclosed-upon condo on the water in Miami Beach for $50,000?  Talk about undervalued.

I had this thought too. I looked at some of the high rise condos they are almost giving away. You know a problem they have? The HOA dues would be way more than the mortgage. Everyone in the complex is way upside down, which means for the foreseeable future most of the units are going to end up in foreclosure (maybe some in a short sale). People are going to be walking away, not paying the HOA dues, a lower income class will be moving in that will have trouble paying the dues, and some of these complexes are going to end up in a death spiral.

[Admiral Yi]

Makes perfect sense to me, as long as the equivalency formula is solid.  You already know whether you have a hatchback, SUV, or a main battle tank.  What's the point of an efficiency rating that would pretty much be perfectly correlated with your class of vehicle?  What additional information would that efficiency rating impart?

Passenger mile per unit of fuel.  Presumably the whole point is to steer people towards more eco-friendly cars. 

Whereas this modified system tells people they're driving a super-efficient Hummer.

[katmai]

Will someone tell Madonna to think of the children and stop pulling her boobs out at concerts

What are you doing at Madonna concerts if you don't want to see her boobs?

Sadly there is this thing called the Internet and video cameras so people end up posting it online at sites that I must stop frequenting now.