RedGTS

Guess I should have said "almost" all of us can agree on this one, lol. RD's analysis is spot on on all counts IMO. Even if the guy had had the cop's taser in his hand (which he didn't), it doesn't matter because he is running away. Zero reason to use deadly force. This would be very hard to justify IMO if the guy had been running away with a gun in his hand, assuming he hadn't fired it at anyone and wasn't fleeing from the scene of a murder, etc. And yes, I'm not sure I would have still been there filming once I filmed the shooting--believe I would have gotten the hell out of there very shortly after the guy went down.

He didn't have his hands up but was apparently unarmed and running away from the officer. WTF was this cop thinking?

+1. I like the car, but have no idea who came up with their marketing/product development cycle for the 12C/650/675/570. It seems as though no one put much thought into it. I can't imagine how this doesn't make the already brutal depreciation on the 12C's even worse.

This should help the abysmal resale value on the cars they already have out there.

You'll grow old waiting on that to happen. Now if there's some sort of fig leaf half-assed thing he can do to say he did something, he'll go for it.

If that's the base price it won't include a steering wheel or a battery, etc. in true Porsche fashion. It will be $100k+ by the time you get it modestly equipped.

The NSA intercepts are rather superfluous in this situation. You don't get a rare radioactive isotope in your body at a restaurant by accident, and they don't originate with run of the mill criminal or terrorist organizations. Putin had it done, and doesn't care who knows because he knows they won't do much of any consequence about it.

Anyone buying a car with a title that says "parts only" and thinking it looked like anything other than the "before" picture above is getting what they deserve. And if the seller is telling you how little it was damaged and how easy it was to fix all the more reason to forget about it.

You know the incompetence is unprecedented when you have to pause to make sure what you're reading isn't on an Onion type parody site, which I found myself doing again this morning when I read that John Kerry took care of the embarrassing failure to send anyone to Paris for the Charlie Hebdot march by taking James Taylor to Paris with him today to sing "You've Got a Friend" to the French. I even watched part of the video to make sure it was true. Calling this administration a clown posse is a grave insult to clowns.

Lol, I had forgotten about the Shadowman.

Yeah I'm surprised it didn't suffer some serious damage given how much air he got going over the curb, lol.

I wouldn't have thought you could induce the snap oversteer shown here accelerating in a straight line in an M4 if you tried. WTF?! Here is the guy's explanation:

57 rated HP, although actual may be different. And one also weighs 1,000 pounds more than the other. No doubt the Z may be formidable on the track (although the potential overheating issues are yet to be determined), but it's hard not to view its straight line performance as anything other than disappointing given its published stats, performance of the ZR-1, etc.

Looks fantastic SW. As I would expect. Congrats!

The torque reading is nuts but isn't the hp reading low for a car rated at nearly 700 hp?

If judges won't follow the law the law is obviously no help. I really don't expect this suit to go anywhere though.

See my post about 4 posts up. It's BS, but you never know what will happen in a courtroom (especially one in liberal land).

Not only is the suit nutty when judged by common sense and common law tort law principles, but there is a federal statute called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act that was passed in 2005 precisely to prevent this type of suit. Bloomberg and other anti-gun zealots were pursuing a gun control by litigation strategy that posed a serious threat to the gun industry, because even if the suits they were filing claiming guns were defective and unreasonably dangerous products were eventually dismissed, the litigation costs could put many gun related companies out of business. Congress passed the PLCAA to prevent that strategy. So how are these plaintiffs able to sue? There is an exception in the law for "negligent entrustment," meaning that you can still sue, for example, a gun seller who knew or should have known that the person he was selling a gun to was a raving lunatic who intended to use it to murder people, etc. Obviously that wouldn't apply to 99.99% of cases where the buyer isn't mumbling about killing people, etc. What these plaintiffs are claiming is that the seller and others up the chain "negligently entrusted" this weapon because it is a military weapon that is per se unsafe for civilian use. In other words, they're claiming that the sale of EVERY Bushmaster and presumably every other AR-15 type rifle is negligent entrustment simply because of the nature of the weapon. Good luck with that, and what should happen is the plaintiffs and their lawyers should be sanctioned for filing a baseless suit and forced to pay the defendants' legal fees, but with the politics involved who knows what some activist judge may do.

It is a bit heavier but not nearly as heavy as the Hellcat, which traps about the same. Something doesn't add up, but I guess we'll see what happens when they start hitting the track in owner's hands any time now.

Then why is it trapping 126-127 in the mag tests so far? That's more hp and tq than the ZR-1 dynoed, and it trapped 129 or so in the same tests. If that dyno is accurate it seems to me this car should trap 130-131.

So the auto apparently hasn't been released yet, or even made available to order. That's why the sales guy has 4 available at MSRP--they're all manuals. He says on his web page he has 26 orders waiting to input, and 90% of them are for autos. Would be interesting to know what the hold up on the auto is and whether GM has put a hold on them due to a problem, etc. Oh and gee Dodge, you think maybe an auto or DCT for that Viper might have made sense now?

She was very lucky, thanks! Has had some seizures since then and takes medication for that but no other disabilities.

I learned a lot more about them than I wanted to know several years ago when my wife had one rupture. The prognosis for people with ruptured cerebral aneurysms isn't good (half or more die either immediately or within a week or two, and a significant percentage of those that survive have long-term disabilities). But your friend's situation sounds odd. If he's had one for 40 years, presumably capable specialists have determined that it doesn't pose enough of a danger of rupture to coil it or clip it (and either procedure is better to do before rupture than after). If he were having symptoms I would think they would want to fix it, but the fact he's supposedly had it for 40 years would tend to make one think it isn't likely to rupture anytime soon (or that he's erroneously described his problem).

If Obama does the amnesty by executive action after the election results last night, and all signs are that he will, it's going to get really ugly. I'm thinking that there have to be a number of Democrats that are already begging him not to go forward with it, because it may damage the Dem brand so badly that they are screwed for the foreseeable future. I'm also not sure what the Republican options will be for fighting it (short of impeachment).

Manchin in WV would be an obvious candidate. He opposes nearly everything Obama does.