"Perhaps I'll be a single drop of rain, but I will still remain, and I'll be back again."

deadeyedick wrote:

If we skip 3 times every 400 years, then how could they be divisible evenly by 400 ?

tonygraz wrote:

So where were you and what were you doing the last time we skipped a leap year? 🌫

danmdevries wrote:

that was Y2K ...I was huddled in a very deep dark cave...

delta1 wrote:

Bruce Springsteen only wrote one, #1 song. And even that song was edited/changed from "the boss's" original penning. The Man (err Mann) that made some adjustments to it was Blinded By the Light. It reached #1 for Manfred Mann'a Earth Band.

8trackdisco wrote:

Never understood what those lyrics were supposed to be about. Teenage exuberance ?

Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night

deadeyedick wrote:

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit, is remembered for its brave actions in World War II. Despite the odds, the 442nd’s actions distinguished them as the most decorated unit in the history of the US military. Hosted by Colin D. Heaton. The Forgotten History Channel is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.

March 26, 1953:Dr. Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a polio vaccine.

Salk, a research director at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said the vaccine had given 90 people protective antibodies against the three types of polio without making them sick. The next year saw close to 2 million children participating in clinical trials of Salk’s vaccine, and in 1955 it was declared safe and effective. After a national inoculation campaign, the number of polio cases fell from 35,000 in 1953 to 161 by 1961, according to the National Library of Medicine. Salk declined to patent the vaccine, and when asked who owned it, he famously answered, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

rfenst wrote:

The government is managing your speed- unless you own a sports car.

Learned from a mechanic today this has been the standard “for a while”. Most vehicles are governed in the lower 100 mphs.
But if you have a higher end car, you shall not be slowed.

You can go to a dealership and request the restriction be removed/recoded. The cost varies. In general, $600 to $1,100. Some refuse to do it.

8trackdisco wrote:

He saved a massive amount of human suffering, pre-COVID anti-vaccination people be dammed.

Gene363 wrote:

It's not the government requiring restrictions. The automakers govern certain cars to protect them against lawsuits like the one against Chevy from a Corvette tire blowing out.

It has to do with the tires. Tires are rated for a max speed. So whatever max speed the factory tires are rated for the car is governed to so they can't be sued. Sports cars are sold with sports tires rated at higher speeds so they're either not governed or possibly governed high. I've heard older Corvettes were governed to 188 mph.

MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:

And guess what?? If you got that vaccine (and it was a vaccine) you did NOT get Polio. Imagine that!!

No boosters, no bullsheit.

MACS wrote:

Thanks for the finer point. Where did you gain your knowledge from? When did this governing bs start?

It’s a right of passage to drive cars way too fast. This is unamerican!

8trackdisco wrote:

Thanks for the finer point. Where did you gain your knowledge from? When did this governing bs start?

It’s a right of passage to drive cars way too fast. This is unamerican!

8trackdisco wrote:

YEAH! Why the hell would they govern my truck at 104!? And why the hell would I be driving a truck that fast!!

Might be American to do so, but it ain't wicked smaahht.

MACS wrote: