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More and better photos of the OAK Ligier and Morgan LMP2 cars testing from Onroak Automotive FB Page. Onroak Automotive is the car building arm of OAK Racing: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1502543543294988.1073741835.1466612370221439&type=3

Pics of the OAK Ligier LMP2 in color: https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10338708_783127628379205_6023558608359690404_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/10171167_783128435045791_960572179877813989_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/10291735_783128655045769_3566459727353604479_n.jpg OAK Racing's own test car: https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/t1.0-9/10346316_783129208379047_2467468192899703539_n.jpg

Some videos of something named Griselda that has nothing to do with Guyver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u01xuEEV_VI

Supposed to be stormy and rainy today and tonight. Then after Memorial Day it's supposed to be in the 80s.

Had my pork chops last night. Probably have the last ones tonight, and I'll be trying for chicken nachos Friday night for F1 practice.

Hi everyone. I finished the dishes last night and I had my pork chops. Then, I went to sleep at about midnight until about 9 this morning. I've been getting better sleep lately, and it could be because of the Celexa I'm on now. I'll try and finish up some stuff this morning that I was working on yesterday and try and finish up some gaming, Audi stuff and maybe work on fan fic tonight. I'll be back later

So no info on the explosives that Gaster/Panadyne used? So in my fan fic would I just have to say "2-4 times more powerful than that"? I was also trying to compare that to something in real life to give a realistic gauge on it. Could we maybe get an idea on that from stuff Panadyne or Gaster destroyed? BTW, Camel's explosives are different, they're already mixed (aside from an igniter--within his body, the explosive is inert), and are much more powerful and versatile. Or how about the C-mode Libertus? I don't think there's much data on their explosives either?

Usually, it seems that when a company shutters a plant and lays off/reassigns it work force, it's a sign of big issues. It's also seen as the company not having any short to mid term plans for that plant and that area. There are times where plants have been halted and it's workers sometimes offered paid leave, but that's usually only for one model of car built specifically at one plant. Usually, car makers will make up for losses as write offs a VGuyver pointed out, or though selling parts and services to customers. In auto racing, race car constructors for customer teams don't make a lot of money off initial sales usually. They usually turn a coin on spare parts sales and tech support for customer teams. Car makers benefit from that on the road car side as well.

Don't mess with cats if you're a dog: And don't mess with barn owls, either:

There anything out there that stated how powerful those explosives were? I haven't found anything on the subject anywhere I've looked. Not even for Panadyne, who originally used the same explosives.

BTW, I did say that Melinda looks like Kristen Stewart/Bella Swan and Jess looks like Jenn Proske from Vampires Suck? Photos of them are all over the internet and such. Anyways, about Shizu's hair, should it be like when she first appeared in the manga (straight, parted down the middle), how it was little later on (pulled back into a ponytail with a bow or scrunchie with a couple of dog-ears hanging down the sides of her head), or as it is now (pulled back, some of it held in a ponytail with a band or scrunchie, and the little bangs she has), or some other combination? Shizu and Jennifer are having "girl talk" at this stage. Would it be nice, since most of the characters are female, for more moments like that, or moments between lovers/husbands and wives?

Supposed to be warm, humid, and stormy until Thursday morning.

I'll be trying for a pork chop dinner tonight. Last night, I had a sausage patty and some stronganoff pasta, and I just had some Italian and Vienna bread with some butter.

I'd like to ask a couple of questions to get theories on them. There was some discussion in another topic about the aliens from Aliens and their acidic blood vs Guyvers, and I've always wondered that since in the Twilight Saga that vampire venom is supposed to be pretty acidic, what effect could it have on a Guyver or a zoanoid? I know that if intro'd into a zoanoid, it'd probably kill them. In Twilight, vampires and vampire hybrids have the ability to produce this venom. Also, I wonder how powerful Gaster's plastic explosive stuff was. This is sorta for my fan fic, because my character Camel can produce a plastic explosive that can be used like napalm or in projectiles, and it's 2-4 times more powerful than Gaster's stuff. For reference, the RE factor of the following common conventional explosives compared to standard TNT are as follows. Standard dynamite: 1.25 Gelignite (jellied dynamite): Up to 1.6 RDX/Hexogen: 1.6 Nitropenta/PETN: 1.66 HMX/Octogen: 1.7 So compared to that, could we figure out how powerful Gaster's explosives were?

One of the better looking cars that I've seen recently, the OAK Ligier JS P2, in color: http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/la-ligier-js-p2-du-thiriet-by-tds-racing-a-recu-ses-peintures-de-guerre/

The big problem is that car makers, like all businesses, want to make money. They have to pay workers, pay taxes, invest in their company, all of that stuff to keep the wheels turning. I brought up the British Leyland stuff because that whole mess is a good example of how to run a car company into the ground. BL didn't help matter by building cars that, though popular at the time, have since become ridiculed for unreliability and poor manufacturing quality, even by 1970's standards, when it seemed that anything made by anyone in the car industry sucked ass. Car makers probably see more value in scraping unsold cars, either cannibalizing them for spare parts, or recycling them for more steel and other metals and materials, than to sell them at a reduced price. Usually, it's up to car dealers to slash prices, but one only has to look at the Edsel debacle to see what could happen there. As far as importing vs building locally, both things are sort of a gamble and is a test of what the market will bear. Armalite designed the AR-18 rifle as a simpler, easier to make version of the AR-15/M-16 family of rifles. But it was cheaper for people to buy AR-15s from Colt for their armed forces in the short and long run than to set up a factory to build AR-18s. With the car industry, most of the big companies now have tentacles all over the world, so it might be easier for them to set up local manufacturing and save/make them money in the long run vs importing cars. There's some conditions to that, too. Audi said that they'd build a factory to build cars in North America if worldwide sales exceeded 1 million cars. Audi's parent Volkswagen Group already builds a NA version of the VW Passat in Tennessee, because market demands made it seem like a good idea, and one that's paid off for VW. It does come down to economics, cost, economy (both for the maker and the market, not to mention where the cars are built), and balancing all that out to suit all needs and desires. But still, car makers it seems would rather scrap the old stock of model-year old cars for spare parts and recycling than sell the off a cut prices. The only way it'd be feasible for them is if they can make back on what they'd lose per car by volume sales.

Hi everyone. My cat tried to have another kitten last night, but it was stillborn. The other two still seem to be healthy, though, and our older kitten was given them--and their mother--a bath last night. I didn't do too much last night, but I did get some gaming out of the way, my first run on GT4 in Monaco. I also had a sausage patty and stroganoff pasta for dinner last night before I went to bed. I got up at around 1:00 today, showered and did dishes. I'll try and get to the silverware later tonight. I have plans for fan fic, looking up some Audi stuff and maybe beating a PC game tonight. I'll be back later

Vampire hybrid women are supposed to be extremely beautiful. That, and I'm partial to brunettes. I'd think that Jennifer would look kinda like that because she's part vampire and of Hispanic heritage. I might have one more OC to introduce, and she'll be a blonde, which will be something different.

Since I mentioned her, this is what Jennifer sorta looks like: https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/395505_10150552166694317_591147147_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/t1.0-9/182007_10150097928799317_7822672_n.jpg https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/l/t1.0-9/180932_10150097927239317_826873_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/t1.0-9/1385934_10151620901881739_1654291958_n.jpg Jennifer looks like the pale, brunette woman

They're Marie Callendar's instant pasta that you just add water and microwave. I have one each of chicken, Parmesan, stroganoff, and fettuccine. I've only had the chicken before, and it was pretty good. Also, our older kitten thinks that the cat that just had kittens is her mother or something, since she's sleeping with her and her babies. At least she's helping to keep the little babies warm.

That's an issue. Toyota build more cars in the US than Ford of GM does. Many of their products come from Canada or Mexico, and they build just about as much stuff there as in the US. And we have to look at British Leyland in the UK to see problems that are still endemic today. Car makers are to blame because they want cheap labor and not wanting to deal with American unions--the deals with BL in England taught them that. The Unions are to blame because what started out as an idea to protect workers' rights has evolved to the point where Union leaders are basically CEO's of what is basically a private limited company in all but name--and guess where the union dues go, the union bosses. Both sides have more than their fair share of corruption there and the Government is afraid to upset the status quo out of fear of failing to make both sides more rational and fair. It can be argued here that capitalism sucks, but as Clint Eastwood said in the Dirty Harry film Magnum Force, "I hate the g**damn system! But until someone comes along with changes that make sense, I'll stick to it." Socialism isn't any better, because it limits choices and opportunity, though it can be argued that capitalism does much the same thing though economic Darwinism--the strongest stand the best chance of survival. For example, the tire situation in sports car racing. The IMSA TUSCC series has Continental as exclusive supplier in three out of four classes, as a series endorsed spec tire supplier (similar to what NASCAR has with Goodyear, Indy Car has with Firestone, and F1 with Pirelli). In the FIA WEC, though an open tire formula, Michelin is default tire supplier to every entry in three out of four classes. In TUSCC, Conti is sole exclusive supplier to Prototype, LMPC, and GT Daytona though a spec tire deal. In the WEC, Michelin is sole supplier in LMP1, GTE Pro and GTE Am, supply half the LMP2 class, only in GTE Am are they close to being a spec tire supplier (The FIA and ACO encouraged this as a cost cutting measure, though it's not a full-on spec tire deal yet). The other cases are though Darwinism as the teams voluntarily signed Michelin as their supplier. Every system as pros and cons. But I'd rather see a system where people get rewarded for doing a good job than having to have people in positions of power prop them up. Problem is, the current system on all sides is flawed, but people are also afraid of screwing up trying to shake things up. Only when things are dire will anyone budge.

Hi everyone. I didn't do much last night aside from some gaming and I went to sleep at about 12:00 last night and woke up at about 8:30 or so to make grandma her breakfast and help her out. I'll be looking up some Audi stuff later on today, and tonight I'll be trying to look up more stuff and possibly get caught up with some gaming or fan fic stuff. I don't really have any huge plans for today, but I do plan on trying some pasta stuff my mom got for me yesterday. I'll be back later

However, Barcas failed to control Aptom and has been unable to control him since then. Purgstall also said that Neo ZX-Tole was uncontrollable and hard to track as well.

The car industry is in a bit of a state of contraction to boost profits and simply logistics. Things are trending towards "world cars" whose platforms can be built anywhere in large numbers and can underpin a large number of models. For example, at Audi their Modular chassis in longitudinal engine form underpins the A4, A5, A6, A7 and A8 in various forms, as well as the S and RS variants. The Modular transverse engine platform underpins the Audi A3/S3, VW Golf, VW Jetta, VW Passat (EU)/CC (worldwide), and various other transverse engine/FWD/AWD cars by Skoda and SEAT. The Ford Mondeo/Fusion is a world car (also sold in NA and Asia as the Lincoln MKZ), as is the Buick Regal and Vauxhall/Opel Insignia. The Kia Optima and Hyundai Sonata, and other Kia/Hyundai cars share the same platform (Hyundai and Kia are the same company), and BMW and Mercedes-Benz's RWD/AWD cars all share long and short wheelbase platforms with each other. It's all about economics, profits, interchangeable parts and logistics at this stage. Not a bad thing when done right, but I'm not so sure it's a 100% good thing, either.

@ Yuki, on my end, we have to make do with used cars, because we can't afford a new one. At least the old cars we have can be fixed fairly easily and parts are common for them. I do wish that we could have a car newer than 1995, but unless we get rich soon, that's not gonna happen. But we do have new flat screen TVs at home, mostly because we paid like $250 for them. That's cheap compared to even some of the "old style" TVs we've bought in the past.