Recent content by greencactus

That is, if you want a car with an airbag that kills ... The company will replace the driver's side air bag inflator in the cars because they can deploy with too much pressure, causing the inflator to rupture and injure or kill the driver...

Exactly! It is very hard to compete with this level of financial sacrifice.

The elasticity of house prices seems to be rather stubborn. Based on anecdotal evidence, the time between a NOD and a visit by the Sheriff is too long - this was not factored into these bearish predictions. Another variable is the financial hardship buyers are willing to assume when purchasing...

The whole point of rising interest rates would be to slow down/counteract excessive inflation. Tax hikes can potentially happen as well, lowering the purchasing power further. Also, if you look at the mean wage increases, in recent years only the top 5th percentile (or somewhere around there)...

And now we are in the midst of the solar/green energy bubble ...

That's the real "java" bubble - just plot SBUX over time (ouch!!!).

You guys should try Google Trends. It's a lot of fun!

It's just like taking a trip down memory lane of the IHB forums. We almost got the old forum back. I see you switched it up to Merriam Webster instead of Dictionary.com. At least there is something new.

How about this story ... I bet he thought he had the right to shoot that person. Reminds me of Uncle Jimbo in Southpark "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US! BANG" - sad thing is one is real life, the other a cartoon with a bunch of kids cussing. Gardena man allegedly shoots teen for taking shortcut...

Isn't that a car to be driven in, rather than one to drive yourself?

Hydrogen is just a gimmick to sound environmentally friendly while still catering to an oil/natural gas/fossil fuel based energy model. While it is true that only water vapor is emitted one has to question how the gas is produced (and the emissions or energy requirements of that process) and...

Hydrogen depletes the ozone layer, acts as an indirect green house gas and will most likely be extracted from a fossil fuel. Bad, bad, bad!!! A much better alternative is a methanol fuel cell where the methanol is produced through fermentation of organic materials. This would be a renewable...

Tesla uses Li-Ion packs and I believe the Volt is supposed to have those as well. Toyota gave up on going that route and stuck with NiMH - I guess because of budget and safety constraints. There is some promise in ZnAir batteries as well.

Can't talk while browsing your facebook page ... (ie. no data + voice simultaneously).