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People ask why I would want to put a powerful motor into the Mini Cooper. This illustrates my reasoning. Take a lightweight car like this Smart and add a rocking powerplant like a high-revving Suzuki GSXR motorcycle 4 cylinder. The results speak for themselves. |
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The next Honda Type R is in concept stage, but I kind of like it. They are pushing wheel size to the limit these days. Lets hope the finished version looks this cool. And lets also hope that the 197hp motor is as rock solid as the original B-series VTEC motors. That one seems pretty unlikely. |
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From The Officer’s Club:
"On September 26th, 1983, Soviet Army Lt. Col Petrov settled into his command chair at the top secret Serpukhov-15 bunker outside of Moscow." "Then the computer signalled another inbound missile, and another, and another, adding up to a total of 5 inbound ICBMs, all MIRV capable…" Stanislav Petrov kept his cool and went against orders that night, preventing World War 3. Stanislav, this Bud’s for you. |
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This is just messed up. A kid climbed a 4-foot wooden fence into a restricted area and approached the 10-foot chain-link fence that surrounds the bears at Marymont Park. Wouldn’t you know, he was bitten by the bears, who were probably trying to protect their home against the invader. The kid didn’t even need stiches, he was just given antibiotics. It wasn’t clear which bear bit the child, so both were euthanized by lethal injection. The decision was made because even though bears are low-risk for rabies, it is possible that the child would be infected. The only existing test for rabies can be administered on a dead animal. So they say it was a public health decision.
"Another option would have been to administer the rabies treatment to the child." "Whether the child received treatment or not, we felt from a public-health standpoint we had to know whether either bear had rabies," said Shannon Nicole Marshall, spokeswoman for the state Department of Health. "Our ultimate responsibility is to protect public health." This is just absurd. Way to go killing innocent animals when alternatives are available, DoH. I’m glad I am not the only one that feels this way. A poll on the page shows 95% believing that killing the bears was a bad decision. 1000 comments on the story later, they closed public feedback on the issue. |
