An abbreviation of four-wheel drive to rhyme with 'forward'! That is true genius.

Let's see your four wheel drive get you out of this one!

>> ^StukaFox:
So I live on this really steep hill in Seattle. Last year, the hill became a sheet of ice after a week's worth of snow compacted. And I said this phrase easily a dozen times to people attempting to drive down the hill:
"Don't go down the hill, it's all ice."
And the various responses I got were:
"Fuck you!", "I got four wheel drive!", "Stop telling people what to do!", "I have a Subaru!", "Fuck you!"
All of which were usually followed by:
"... stupid asshole telling what to do I can drive on ice OHFUCK!" -- WHACK!
Moral: lulz, schadenfreude!


I told a guy (not you, not Seattle) "thanks, I'll be alright". Then I went over the crest, down the ice-covered street, past the dozen or so crashed cars, stopped at the bottom, signaled, made a left onto a busy street.

I had studded tires on my truck.

So I live on this really steep hill in Seattle. Last year, the hill became a sheet of ice after a week's worth of snow compacted. And I said this phrase easily a dozen times to people attempting to drive down the hill:

"Don't go down the hill, it's all ice."

And the various responses I got were:

"Fuck you!", "I got four wheel drive!", "Stop telling people what to do!", "I have a Subaru!", "Fuck you!"

All of which were usually followed by:

"... stupid asshole telling what to do I can drive on ice OHFUCK!" -- WHACK!

Moral: lulz, schadenfreude!

>> ^RedSky:
@NordlichReiter
The dollar is only really down to levels it was pre-financial crisis. Taking your reference point at the height of the global financial crisis is unfair because everyone was buying up US treasury bonds and over inflating the currency.
The fact that countries are considering moving away from the US dollar as the reserve currency, the currency they trade in, and which they keep as foreign reserves is a good thing in the long term. This has kept the US dollar overvalued for decades, and has contributed significantly to the unsustainable consumption and housing binge, and was obvious a major catalyst for the global financial crisis. A rebalancing would put the onus further on factors of GDP such as investment as a contributor to economic growth.
To say that the economy is in recovery is not disingenuous. They're simply using leading indicators such as stock price or inventory levels, which are generally good predictors of economic recovery and in this case a pending fall in unemployment. The scale of that is anyone's guess though, as is how much of the economy was spurned by returning business confidence in the private sector rather that purely government stimulus and specific programs such as first home buyer's grants and cash for clunkers.


Cash for clunkers was the biggest waste. The other parts of your arguments I cannot find fault with.

Taking assets that can be modified, recycled reused, and even melted down for metals and destroying them and leaving them in a dump yard is a waste. Why would you destroy something that has re-usable parts and resources?

Differential gears, transmission parts, bearings, four wheel drive parts, pinions, springs, headers, skid plates, hubs, disks, and shoes. Instead they put sodium silicate into the engines. All because the government doesn't want the cars traded in being re-sold back into the market.

I would argue that having a hulking dump of cars, like I see on the side of the Highway is worse than seeing a repaired 78 Volkswagen van that runs on diesel, or electricity.

I picture this with knobby dirt bike tires that they use on the rear wheels of motocross bikes. And with four wheel drive. It could benefit from an active suspension up front so it doesn't nose-dive when you hit the brakes hard. This must feel like a whole new kind of vehicle when you ride it.

A vehicle with performance that rivals that of cars nearly 3 times as expensive, and has four wheel drive and four seats.

I would dare say this is the most significant car to have come out in the past decade.

I need at least 500 horsepower and four wheel drive to even be able to transport such an enormous penis from place to place. Even if I attempted to brake for these lovely ladies, the inertial energy of my package alone would have me skidding on all four wheels. Thats why I use a five point harness for me, and another one for my gear. I've got a penis related restriction code on my drivers license, limiting me to suitable roads and bridges.

It's not a separate production. From Weta:

Weta Workshop are supplying a range of products for all the Halo shorts, in a collaboration between Bungie Studios, director Neill Blomkamp, Weta Workshop, Origami Digital LLC and HT Limited.

We have created a fully functioning four wheel drive Warthog, with a working gun, digital displays, airbags and the ability for the Warthog to crab crawl as well as four wheel steer.

If you ever go to Death Valley, you can go a little further and find the "Racetrack." It is a dry lakebed, above the valley floor on the Northeast side of the Park. Four-wheel drive is recommended, although not entirely necessary.

When you arrive at the Racetrack, you will notice something startling. On the surface of the lake bed are trails left by rocks that have inexplicably moved across the lake. They look like this:

http://www.pictureninja.com/pages/united-states/california/racetrack-rocks.jpg

In this viddy I found on Youtube, we see an explanation given, for the first time, as to how these rocks are able to move without human assistance.

Weirdest spot on earth.

Sc