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Agreed. You might not even be intentional. Just an accident. Someone is more likely to remeber a personal plate than your vehicle. While i see your point, in general, cars pared up for drag racing are generaly running within a few tenths of a second from each other. (when running heads up) Thats why races are generaly won at the light "tree". Like my little buddy prateek said, its all good. You didn't waste everyones time. Mistakes are made even by veteran memebers of this forum. The main point is you reconized it. Welcome to the discussion.

Understood. Thank you taking the time to explain your thoughts. You make some valid points. As for recently watched movies, i just saw Ninja Assassin Indredible! let me tell you, there is more action in the first five minutes than any other movie in its intirety shown this year! Great fighting, great action, and good story. Not great, but not bad either. Fair warning though.. It is very grafic. And by grafic i mean blood and gore. Think of the movie 300x 10! Highly recomended.

Very cool moc. You captured the Vector light bar perfect. I've installed quite a few of them on other agencies vehicles (man there garbage ) Over the next year you'll see them getting switched out to Whelen liberty bars. As far as the steady red, do the traffic enforcment trucks have them on the push bumper? I thought it was always on the outerpods of the vector light bar, or on the newer models, center pod only. very cool. I like how your incorperated the traffic advisor inside the camper sheel like the real thing. Spot on!

I sure hope not. That would ruin the orignal 3 movies. What made them so great was the model and alien costume animation. Or lack there of. IMO, they wereruined when Lucus updated them with the extra scences filled with CGI. Anyone seen "Fanboys"? Its about a bunch of frineds that break into the skywalker ranch to try and see episode 1 6months or so before its released. Great movie.

Well a couple things... First, your coment of.. Makes no sence. Neither does.... It seems that reguardless of wither or not your liked the famous landmarks crushing down, you seemed to get the message just fine. So the movie did its job. But is it wrong to be intertained along the way? Its possible to do both. Ya there weere some far fetched parts. Its a movie. Thats going to happen. Movies are going to apeal to a wide range of people. I'm just curious if you ever just sit down and try and enjoy a movie for what it is. And just so were clear, i don't mean that in any disrespect. But it seems that your looking for every movie to make complete sence. Even when supposed to be taken seriously, many movies will always have a bit of "hollywood" in them. Especailymovies thatare about the end of the world.:)

Ya..... Right.

While i can appreciate your views on his music, your feeling and opinion do not represent the general populations feeling on him. While you may think he's the greatest thing since slice bread, several people have pointed out they don't care for his style of music. There are plenty of other styles that supersede his, and while you might think no one will ever get tired of him;... Sorry, but after hearing his song several times throughout the day, it gets old real quick. As far as the video, i don't see the big deal. Just some Lego's on the floor. Big deal.

.... 2012 was a great movie.

The unimog is probably the most capable factory off road vehicle. Over 16" of ground clearance (and that's under the axles, not the frame) two transfer cases, locking front and rear differentials, portal axles, near 90' approach and departure angles. One hell of a beast! Another great factory off road rig. If only the reliability were better on Land Rovers. Either way i agree. A beautiful rig.

Very interesting lineup for Mclaren. Will be interesting to see how two back to back world champions work toeghter. Also interesting to see how Nico works in the Brawn/Mercades car. I have alot more to coment, but its time to get ready for work!

As Big Cam said, you can easily, and reliably surpase 250hp from 2.5 liters. The key is forced induction. IN this case, turbo charging. As of now, the same engine powers the Subaru STI and makes north of 300hp. I'd still much rather see a V8 under the hodd, but its a start.

The point of vehicles like this are for pure show. Like Big Cam said, they serve no practical purpose. Only to show off the companies vehicle, and the talent of of the builder. In this case, someone might not want a 50" TV screen in there vehicle, but figure.. "hey, if they can handle that kind of an install, then they should be able to hook up my car with a couple of head rest monitors and sub woofers no problem!" Hence, getting the company that install the equipment business, and showing off the vehicle suppliers newest vehicles. So in a sense, a car like this is a reality, just not for the masses. While not as hard core as the 70 series Land cruiser, my Toyota FJ Cruiser does fantastic off road. These are old picks. I've changed a few things since then. 4WD, ATRAC traction control (kind of like a limited slip differential for the front), locking rear differential, 3" lift, and 33" (currently) toyo Mud terrain tires. Works great in all types of terrain! Again,its not really a concept car. Just a "show car" built for the Sema Show. That car looks sweet! I agree with Big Cam that it looks to be rear wheel drive. Hopefully they stuck there 4.0 or 4.7 litter V8 under the hood!

Again,depends on whitch service you have. Some service providers have dibs on airing seasons before others. Supposed to be an incentive to choosing one over the other. I have to ask... Why do you feel that americans "deserve" to be bashed?

No article, heard it directly from the Department heads. I build police cars (as well as other emergency vehicles) for a living, and one of the officers was at my shop telling me about it. He was caught in Interstate 5 in Northern California. He was traveling south bound coming from Sacramento heading towards Antioch. Its about a 20mile stretch of practical dead straight roads. I've traveled down that very same stretch of highway many times myself and its a fairly smooth run with only slight elevations changes. I don't know much about bikes,but from what i understand,that bike is a beast and only needs roughly a mile and a half from a dead stop to hit its top speed. (again,I'm going from what I've been told from my bike buddies.) Its possible that at that time of night, with little traffic that he could have hit those speeds. As for the method used to catch him, I'm not sure. But i believe your correct that he was timed between markers. I'll have to find out what exact method was used. Either way, when the guy was decelerating, a CHP Patrol car nailed him on radar for 148mph. So even if the 203MPH charge doesn't stick, they've got him for at least 148. He Made it as for as my town where local PD caught him.

You can get it in the U.S. They broadcast it on BBC America. It just depends who your cable/digital TV provider is.

My Local Police Department just impounded a Hubusa (sp?). Was clocked at 203mph buy a police airplane. Guy was hauling a$$ at 3:00am coming home from work. Cops caught up to him at his house.

Hmm... Hate is a pretty strong word. So i wouldn't use that to describe the feeling some SW fans have towards ST. But I'd have to disagree with Big Cam in the way many SW fans feel about ST in general. After a weekend of visiting comic book stores in an effort to find anime comic books for my niece, I've found that many of the "hard core" SW fans seem to have a dislike for Roddenberry's universe. I'm not saying that all do, but it seemed that every time there we ran into a SW fan, they were trying in one way or another to prove that there universe was super to the other. Funny thing is they couldn't give any legitimate reason why one was better than the other. I think one of the main reasons SW is getting a bigger fan base is they still have the enterst of kids. I believe that both are running out of idea's. There's only so many "Star Wars" you can have. Even if you change species and planets. But for kids, especially ones that are not familiar with the original movies, its much easier to grab there attention. Like you said, ST has always been more of an adult sci-fi than SW ever was. Without any stores to interest a younger audience it will continue to be overshadowed. I think the main thing that made SW as popular as it was, was the animation; Or lack-there-of. Using real models and costumes added to the realism and the whole look and feel was decades ahead of its time. This is proven when the "prequel"moves came out. Heck, even more so when the original trilogy was re-released with Jabba the hut and his gang in full animation. Looked incredibly fake and really took away from one of the things that made film as good as they were.. As you pointed out, the story/plot/dialogue were all unoriginal, so when the realism of the ships and alien characters were lost to CGI, SW 1,2,and 3 were just run of the mill Sci-fi movies that were nothing special. I'd agree with this. Especially when "epicness" is pretty subjective.

10th or 9th best isn't bad! And as much as it cringes me to say, i have to admit i agree with your comment about Alonso. One of the worst chassis of the year, but he did manage to scrape some performance out of it. Well Button's career has been longer than Massa's. That equivalents to more Experience than. As for spins, what are you talking about? In the rain maybe, but Massa'a admittedly isn't the best in the rain. Did he have full backing from Ferrari? Sure. But so did Button. Only difference is he proved competitive in an equal field, unlike button. Again,one only needs to look at the points standing if it were started in the middle of the season. Button would have been like 5th in the points championship. And that's with a car that still has an advantage over the competition. Again, I'm not saying that Button is a bad driver, cause he's not. But he hasn't proven to be anything special either.

Ahh. ok. Cool. What???? Jenson better than Massa???? have you lost your Lego?? There's nothing in his 10year career that shows that he was anything speacial. Before this yr, i believe he only had 2 or three wins under his belt between Renualt and Honda. Massa is a much more consistent driver with much more talent. I mean, isJenson a terrible driver like Nakajima or Piquet Jr? Absolutely not. But he's nothing special that's for sure. And while your correct that not everyone's cars were even, they were matched up better than they were in the beginning of the season. I still believe that Brawn had a much more superior car than anyone else, but Button wasn't able to pull away like he should have. He's just average. If Hamilton, Kimi, Massa, Vettel,or kubica had the Brawn chassis from the start, they would have dominated the entire season. Not just the beginning. We've seen how Jensen handles a poor chassis (his last year at Honda) and how the top runners do. He proved that when he has competition he doesn't have the extra needed to push. While i understand he won the championship, i still strongly believe it had had to do with Brawn's car design.

There's really no need. Jenson in all honesty is nothing speacial. Theonly reason he won the championship was because of his car had such a huge advantage over the rest of the field. Once everyone were on equal playing fields, he fell short. If you do the math and started the points mid season were everyones(wellmost) cars were evenly matched, he would have been like 5th or 6th in points. Hamiltion would have had around 40, and Jenson around 25 or so. Championship or not, He's not worth what he's asking. Kob. is going to kick some serious a$$ next season. He's going to be the underdog that gives all the big players a run for their money. You just watch! Wait, Glock has been confirmed for Renault? Ithought Romian had a 2 year contract or something?

Looks like its a techinc Studless beam that was bent to fit the shape of the lift arm. The moc looks great, but i'm not a fan of modifiing parts in that way to achieve the desired look. i finda feelits cheating.

Any news on 2010' Ferrari or Lamborghini sets?

So what? If you don't like them, then don't buy them. There are alot more things to worry about than an inferior clone brand. Anyhow, competition is good for TLC. As others have already stated TLC needs decent competition to ensure that we get quality sets. Actually, it isn't. It just shows that someone is actually basing there opinions on the subject matter on first hand experience rather than assumptions like many here seem to be. No. As stated, life goes on and there is no reason to get so worked up about this.

I remember a while ago a pest control company had a TV commercial out were it started out as a regular commercial for some ordinary house hold product, then all of a sudden bug started to appear crawling on the screen. Started with a fly or two, then a centipede would crawl on. They had to remove the add cause people were slapping there TVs with swatters. Though i never took a swatter to my TV, i do remember freaking out when i thought i saw an 8" harry centipede crawling on my TV!

Get who? You honestly think that TLC has exclusive rights and there the only ones that are able to make interlocking plastic bricks? It truly amazes me that so many are so blind with there love for Lego to the point that there naive. This isn't pointed at anyone in particular, but it seems every time we get these "clone brand hatter theads" the comments are always the same. especially when most are just judging "book by its cover" and have no first hand experience. While most of these sets may not be up to par with Lego,as Peppermint M said, they still have many advantages over Lego. As for kids and parent knowing the difference, that might be true, but for many price will always be a deciding point. especially in this economy. Also, as mentioned before, clone brands have theme's that TLC won't do. Whether or not there quality is on par with Lego or not, its a theme/ licence that TLC doesn't have that has high interest. One more thing.... Many can hate on clone brands all they want, but they've been in business for yrs. and won't be going away anytime soon. So they must be doing something right.