Why AP over BCS/CFP?

I'm curious how its defined in the off years. Going by straight BCS to CFP, the Average probably wouldn't have gone west of Louisiana.

Which championship decider did you use?

Exactly. Performance isn't just RPM. Which is what you don't understand. That's literally the entire point.

Weight

Horsepower

Lag

Efficiency

Stability

Displacement (forgot this one, oops)

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But RPM is a massive component, or better yet, an indicator. Of course, comparing a bike engine to a car engine is sort of comparing apples to oranges, but that's pretty par for the course for this "discussion"

I mean, I brought up RPM right away. I also brought up the comparison of a 996 V power stroke engine.

Instead of just ignorantly sticking to your guns, you could have admitted you were wrong and asked a question. you were confidently incorrect, and it's taken like 6 comments deep to breach your ego.

> performance

Exactly. Performance isn't just Horsepower. Which is what you don't understand. That's literally the entire point.

Weight

RPM

Lag

Efficiency

Stability

All of these are important factors in engine performance. Many much more so than raw horsepower. ALL of these you neglected. ALL off these you seem to pretend deosn't exist.

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A big, heavy, slow, inefficient low RPM engine (Like the Cadi has) is not a top tier engine, even if it has more horsepower than a top tier engine.

This is it, right here. I am trying to talk calculus with a first grader. You simply lack the necessary base knowledge to actually have a conversation on the topic.

Enjoy taking your Toyotta Tundra out to drag race a Lamborghini and wondering why you lost.

Fine:

No, a Ferrari hand finished performance engine is not the same as a mass produced american big block.

Literally my previous point: The Ford F-250 powerstroke has 475 horsepower. So does the 996. The 996 engine alone is worth more than the F-250. Horsepower alone is a horrible metric to compare engines, and doing so demonstrates a critical lack of understanding to participate in any conversation in an educated manner.

I am not sure about the current Blackwing, but at least the previous generations of the V literally used a variant of GMs top tier racing engine, the one they'd field at LeMans. This is simply not the case for the Fleetwood. It had a very typical engine for it's era.

Just because you aren't educated enough to understand my argument doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You can't argue calculus problems with a first grader.

Gotcha. Friendly advice, when you are this comically uneducated on a subject, don't try and argue it.

A V-12 that limits at 6,800 is the same as a V8 that limits at 3,600? Lets not even get into fit and finish on a Ferrari vs a Cadillac engine.

I bet you assume a GT2RS 996 and a Ford F-250 powerstroke have similar tier engines because they both put out ~475 horsepower? (lets ignore the fact that the engine on a 996 costs more than the entire truck)

Bit of a false comparison. The Blackwing is not the top model luxury sedan. It's the top model luxury sedan with a top model powertrain and performance upgrade

The fleetwood was a luxury car, but it wasn't going toe to toe with NASCAR cars like the blackwing would compete against GTE cars.

Yes. I can read English. why do you compare the market cap to GDP. Why don’t you compare the value of what apple produces in a year to these other countries? That would make sense for a comparison. Market Cap to GDP doesn’t make sense.

To better phrase it, a monkey can throw two numbers on a bar chart. What makes your data beautiful compared to a monkeys?

An even better point

Market cap isn’t the equivalent of a corporations “GDP”. The appropriate comparison would be to compare gross revenue to GDP.

When I was in grade school, I read Gregor the Overlander at least a dozen times. I read it so much, the paperback eventually broke in half. So Id take the first half to school to read until I finished, then went to the second half for my last couple of re-reads. I was absolutely obsessed with it.

I graduated in 2019, It was just over 10k a year for me at a Texas public school. The above includes living expenses as well, which is sort of bullshit.

It included cost of living from what I can gather. Texas is pretty much in the same cost realm as Cali. Our biggest universities by size are all public and cost (about) the same.

I was extremely disappointed by San Francisco when I went there. Doesn’t have the museum clout like DC or NYC, and frankly, it felt like a city who’s spirit was taken out back and shot. It doesn’t even breach my top 3 favorite cities I’ve visited.

I will say, the homelessness and lack of cleanliness was a “negative”, but I love NOLA, and it’s not any better.

Taiwan is interesting. When I think non-American baseball, I immediately think of Central America & Japan.

Meh, I actually like it. The descriptor is pretty simple, and it allows the plotting of 4 separate (year, number of incidents, casualties, & fatalities) variables in two dimensions in a way that's pretty easy to take in

Which to me is sort of why they are classics. The books that really pay off the effort & give a lot back (even if they are tough to read) are the ones that get translated into a bunch of languages and stick around.

The "potato chip" reads come and go because it's not worth the effort to put yourself in a different time/place/language when the same quality can be had in the native language/culture.

> I wouldn’t say it’s easy to read and it requires more thinking

This is my take. Crime & Punishment was good, but also a bit tough to read. I imagine some is lost in translation (as well as cultural assumptions that don't exist in the wester world)

I feel like I am really alone in this, but I found the book overall pretty meh. I do love that first line though.

Just gotta pass a constitutional amendment. DC v Heller prohibits handgun bans.

It depends on the definition. At the widest definition (three injuries, no deaths IIRC), They are shockingly common. At the more colloquial definition (multiple fatalities) there are about one a month on average, still not bad, but not the "at least once a day".

It depends on what issue is being pushed what definition is used.