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Crazy talk.

For everyone talking about shooting someone, the laws from state to state vary WIDELY. Knowing the local laws and likely court scenarios can be a high challenge. You'll be a hero on the front page in some states, while in others your family would be slaughtered and you'd be vilified for life. It's truly staggering how assed up some places are. That's not to say whether or not you should defend yourself, but knowing the laws can at least help you come up with a strategy to stay on the offensive and cover your ass rather than reacting blindly in the short hairs, relying on blanket statements of what's important in life. We're all pretty clear on what's important. The "defending yourself" game plan shouldn't end at the muzzle.

Even if I weren't all about individual passions and nostalgia, I'd likely still choose the Diablo from an aesthetic viewpoint simply because it's so low and its wedge is so abrupt and well defined -- pushed full forward starting closer to the ground. The wedge concept started to soften when the Belgian got a hold of the design department. The new cars still look cool to me, but they are getting noticeably taller and the hood-to-windshield line is becoming more interrupted and it incorporates more curvatures. Narrowing rear tires don't help my eye either, but to each his own. The 50th Anni roadsters and SV Aventadors create some really cool distractions in their leading edges to allow the big intake mouths to flow, but a stock Av, Murci, or Reventon is still blocky down low in front whereas the Diablo is more Countach-like in its wedge.

Lots of upsides to guns and dogs, but as for the cons, On Guns, consider, - Your local laws if you actually do shoot someone. Are you going to get off or are you going to be engaged in a six-figure legal battle that lasts ten years with some worthless shitbag because you injured him? If you don't care, shoot to kill...screw maiming someone...easier and cheaper in the long run (Texas = decent. Virginia = horrible). Such is the balancing act between protecting your lives at all costs and rolling the dice to forever alter them. - Your proficiency with firearms. Handguns look easier than they are. Can you be effective? Can the other adults in your home be effective or are they more of a liability? - Your daughter. Children can be a major liability to having guns in various states of accessibility in the house...a high matter to consider when formulating your plan. Kids finding guns unattended, bullets going through walls hitting kids while trying to shoot criminals, the stories abound. On Dogs, consider, - They are carnivorous versions of children and are full-time family members to be effective. You'll hear to not get a security dog if you're not planning on doing A LOT of work with the dog yourself. A dumb yappy dog will sound an effective alarm just the same as a big dog (to notify you vice defend you). A big dog will only scare off some opponents and you could end up with more legal battles if the dog bites someone on your property (because life is unfair). Love my Doberman to no end and is my favorite dog of all time. He's protective, loyal, and willing, but I wouldn't want him to go to battle with someone barely worth the $1 bullet it takes to kill them anyway. ...not trying to talk you out of any of these things...just thoughts to factor into your plan.

Oh, I'm not upset...no ill feelings. I'm just saying if you start with subjective thoughts, end with equivalent subjective thoughts. Like whatever you like, and avoiding applying your qualifiers to every buyer will keep the logic straight.

Actually, I would call the Diablo a very intelligent design, for 1991. I first drove a Diablo in 1995, so I can remember the context that people quickly forget. You mention subjectivity in talking about price perception, but then go full-objective on value perception. It's all about passion. If I knew I could sell my Diablo today for as much as an Aventador, I wouldn't even consider it. I could give two shits about new tech or mass-produced cars. You're right that the choice is yours. But both DosDiablos' and I have already gone fast, done that, so no doubt we're both looking for something different in a car (his sig' is a fighter pilot's mantra). If I had a few mil' to spend on a Zonda, I'd buy it, but I still wouldn't be buying it for its performance or tech. I'm someone who would be bored shitless owning a Huracan. Abosolutely bored shitless. Nice car...amazing car...glad they made it...bored shitless nonetheless. Loving new designs more than older designs has precious little to do with maturing and, if anything, is the inverse of that. There will always be something faster, but "better" isn't fact-based. I haven't ever seen the Diablo as settling for less-than-new or a cheaper entry point into exotics. Quite the contrary. The Diablo and the Countach have always been my end goal, nothing more, nothing less. I realize that's not the case for everyone, so I can only claim a particular car is better for me. AZLambo merely needs to examine what got him into the Diablo in the first place and what he's getting out of his ownership experience, even as lengthy as it is.

Langley AFB cranked up a show this year for the first time in awhile, but it was in late April. The Thunderbirds always perform and there are usually lots of static display aircraft. The NAS Oceana Air Show (Virginia Beach) is usually toward the end of the fiscal year (September). The Blue Angles always perform there. The Blues are hands down a better show than the T-Birds (gawd the T-birds are fking boring). However, the Oceana show is always weak on diversity and lack of static display which is where Langley shines. Both shows end up with a solid presence from the Fighter Factory folks flying warbirds out of VA Beach airport both on static display and airborne, so plenty of warbirds to see either way. There is also Warbirds Over the Beach, next weekend May 20-22 in Virginia Beach.

Umm, what's up with the wing? Looks like an early wing, but with the tips bent down. Not like the later wings with the downward curved tips.

Might look better with [much] wider wheels & tires.

I have heard the exact same assessments of the guy from multiple independent/unrelated people over the years. I take that to mean he had his shit together for the most part. A life well lived.

That's your own problem. Feel free to go be instigating prick somewhere else.

On a positive note, this is definitely a good thing. Every kid is different, and who knows if it's motivational or not. But if it is for at least one kid, there you have it. A Lamborghini was a goal of mine. Granted, I didn't structure my whole life to achieve it and I don't expect these kids to do that either. They will understand as they get older and sort out their priorities on their own. Lamborghinis are the fantasy domain of little kids. They're powerful in their ability to inspire, create smiles, and let imaginations run wild. Their value as pussy magnets or wealth advertisements is comparatively low as the only people with the balls to love them so passionately with the purest of reasons are children -- smaller versions of adults whose dreams are not yet frozen by the encrusted salt that life layers on us.

Some opinions add value and some don't. It means having the wisdom to know when you don't know something, especially among salted veterans of that thing, and using that wisdom to judge when to open your mouth and when to continue listening. High-involvement parenthood is one of those things. Another pro tip, you should expect to get your ass shot off if opening an argument with sarcasm, so this sudden cool-headed response act lacks credibility.

What the fcuk? Ok, dood, here's big dreams lesson #1 from a subject matter expert. We are all our own worst enemies. The immense majority of kids don't do spectacular things because they don't believe that they can. The majority of people in general lead lives of mediocrity because they have no vision of anything else and stop caring. Sure, we all have our limits, but the limits we impose on ourselves are the most powerful. To quote Samuel Halpern, "That woman was sexy...Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won't screw you, don't do it for them." And another thing, theorizing about what you might hope for when you have kids is like being a virgin and theorizing about what pussy feels like; i.e. you don't know shit, so stop talking while you still can.

Could be depression, but I'd say a vet visit is in order too because it's more probable that it's physical since lethargy is a predominant symptom for so many health issues in dogs (and cats).

Yep, nothing is more unforgiving than the ground, and everything that goes up always ends up there sooner or later. Just ask the motorcycle that can't stand up on its own because the ground always wins. Which brings up the motorcycling cliché that there are those who have fallen and those that will. I hope they have a better plan than a water landing to help people to not die. Even falling into water from 60 feet can seriously jack you up. It might as well be concrete.

By far, the best use for a Lambo!

*shrug* didn't see anything that will make me want to watch it. It just comes off like they're trying too hard and smells like desperation. Plus, it looks like it has as much chemistry as the American version, which is another way of saying zero. [/gloom] ...but I can appreciate everyone's optimism for it.

A disgusting display of outrageousness. Lucky bastard.

A Google image search will show plenty of Countach QVs with the late model wing where it should be.

I would just move. Lambos are more important than homes!

Although I'm wondering how you (StoleIt) arrived at these numbers. I can see where (without known angles) measuring these steps could end up with more error and assumptions on those numbers could skew the entire problem. Unless maybe you're using a laser leveler or something to get close. On the lengths/distances are you measuring from up above across the ramp horizontally (120, 48, 91, 106) and then dropping lines down to establish the distances at the various points? All I'm getting at is that this is where the problem will sneak up on you...error in measuring and I realize that it's easy to embrace assumptions on something like this and forget that you made an assumption when you've already moved on to measuring the next thing. Measure twice, drive a Gallardo over it once.

Good lord man...stop sexually harassing me with your low body porn in plain view. Some of us are at work and stuff.

For some reason I thought you had a medical background. I do SolidWorks all the time. Maybe we should get together and take over the world.