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Oakland is actually a city with higher incomes, but mixed in with a fair bit of poverty. At least for the Bay Area. That being said, Oakland and Alameda County were struggling through a lot of expensive payments. It wasn't just the Raiders leaving, but they had to come with an agreement with...

The broadcasting contracts keep on getting bigger and bigger. And right now I would think the most lucrative deal in the NFL is the one that Amazon is paying to have games on Prime Video. NFL Sunday Ticket then switched from DirecTV to YouTube TV. So yeah streaming is the big deal. But...

I would think the major cities that might be suitable already have a team (or two). Seattle wants the NBA back. They're the most likely landing spot for a team owner wanting to relocate or an expansion team. I would have thought that if Paul Allen hadn't already owned the Portland...

I used to work in at a large semiconductor company that had a box at Candlestick. Once I got tickets to a Giants game there. They had to pay for the whole year to secure the rights for 49ers games where they feted potential customers. But for most Giants games they offered tickets to...

To some degree they're putting up with less of this sort of environemental mess. Like severely reducing acceptance of recyclables such as plastics and cardboard. The strange thing about it was that a fair deal of those were just going into landfills, but American companies were sending them as...

There's gallium in the US, but whether or not existing mining operations try to recover it is another matter. Others have noted that it's just a byproduct. But the technology to recover it isn't some big secret that would take decades to figure out. Certainly a lot of this has been farmed out...

One of the reasons why so much of this happens elsewhere is China's willingness to deal with the pollution. Or perhaps just ignore it. Australia has that issue too, but then again they have large swaths of land where very few people live, which is unlike China.

Strangely enough, I remember the late 90s Dukes of Hazzard reunion movie had a plot involving gallium arsenide deposits being discovered. Sounded pretty silly. I have an electrical engineering background and knew that gallium arsenide isn’t found naturally. It has to be made in laboratory...

I've seen some old, old stuff from time to time. I remember years ago (maybe 1996) when I was in a collision, the first officer on the scene was a California Highway Patrol officer in an old looking pickup truck. He was wearing a utility uniform, which I understand is primarily for commercial...

You need to pay extra for it since there's a 1.95% fee for any kind of card transaction though. While they say "do it online", if you go in and wait they'll always accommodate people. And the thing they still accept is personal check or money order. Most transactions can still be done by...

Like I said, I still see police Crown Vics on the street. I remember chatting it up with an officer about the Crown Vic he just parked, and he was saying they would keep them as long as they could. Of course those were the backbone of many taxi fleets, but in several cities they have to retire...

I remember a time when law enforcement SUVs seemed like a pipe dream except for specialty vehicles for snowy areas or possibly gravel/dirt roads. The San Francisco Police Department might have been one of the first large police agencies to consider the Explorer back in 1997. But back then the...

Where is this? I remember maybe over a decade ago, they claimed that it was best to wait just before an oil change. They claimed it "depleted motor oil additives" to some degree. But I haven't heard of that being claimed recently.

I was surprised with the Fusion based car since it’s still FWD.

I just happened to be near a large police headquarters recently. Just shopping, but being cheap the closest free parking was a bit away and I walked past the police HQ. They still have a few Crown Vic patrol cars, and I saw them being driven. But they're mostly running Explorer based Police...

Don't want to get too in depth into it, but reasonable portion size is not a bad thing. That's what people don't get about European diets rich in fats, coupled with lower instances of obesity. They simply eat less and are OK when portion sizes a reasonable.

With enough thrust you can get a brick to fly. So I suppose even with missing bits of wings or tails that it's still possible to limp home as long as the engines are putting out thrust.

So it's not true that "the ground is undefeated"? I was under the impression that the joke emphasized how permanent it was to crash into the ground. I've heard pilots refer to an opponent maneuvering into the ground as a "rock kill".

They absolutely get in trouble. Dead is about as in trouble as they can get.

Possibly. How many times have people claimed that they didn't intentionally step on the brake or didn't intentionally step on an accelerator? Or pressed the wrong button. I get that it sounds strange, but this whole situation just seems so bizarre. I looks like the shutdown procedure is...