Recent content by Tars Tarkas

From Wikipedia: The Catalina Casino gets its name from the Spanish term casino, meaning a "gathering place" or establishment used for social interactions and sometimes shows and dances. Contrary to the common English usage of the word casino, this has never been a facility for gambling.

Really. I haven't gone looking for it but I seem to recall having seen a similar pic of Branson with young women without the bikinis. Could have been edited, I suppose. Wouldn't have taken a lot of effort. TT

Um, maybe. I suppose. But how many is a matter of opinion. Based simply on observation, my opinion is you post about 95% more pictures than needed, or than anyone else, whichever standard you want to use. I could probably post about 16 pictures and screenshots to illustrate my point, but I'm...

You know I was being sarcastic, right?

Huh? No pictures. I don't understand. I'm sure the forum owners are thrilled with your philosophy every time they have to upgrade their storage. But then, how would we all function without a screenshot of what your paid and when your new tool is being delivered by Amazon?! Plus, other than...

Thank goodness someone found a topic that needed over-illustration.

I'm just suggesting an approach to the issue. I think you're always going to have problems with this whether you go with regulating bikes or regulating behavior, but I think regulating behavior is the right approach. To be clear, I mean posting speed limits and expecting people to obey them or...

So, for now, bike riders have absolute immunity? I guess I'd be immune too if I knocked someone in the head with a hammer? There is no license or identification required to carry a hammer. If there is a speed limit and you break it, the bike didn't break the speed limit, you did. Who cares...

I'm not sure different classes of bikes are necessary. A Toyoto Corolla and a Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale are very different in their abilities to go fast, among other things. As far as I know they operate under all the same regulations. And why shouldn't they be? Who needs to do 199 mph? Put...

Hilarious!

I thiink you're trying to put too fine a point on this. There surely aren't Sequoias in the area, but there are trees. Trees are still trees even if they don't grow very big in a desert area. I looked at Google Street View, and I see trees, but yeah, it's mostly brushy. I'm not there and I...

I agree with most of your points but not this one. Looking at google maps there is a lot of acreage covered with trees. I don't know if you're saying there are no forests in the sense that there are no areas of named forests, e.g.: Daniel Boone National Forest, etc. There are plenty of areas...

There probably is some blame to be found, but I think it mght be best to look at this as a learning experience. Even with all that can/should be learned, I'd bet a million dollars codes and other regulations won't be adopted that will prevent something like this from ever happening again...

If you know how to get where you're going without maps, great. Obviously, you don't need GPS either. I just went to Europe for the first time and used GPS all over the place. Amsterdam, Zurich, Milan, Paris, etc. Worked great. Few problems, and no stopping to unfold, firgure things out, and...

So Spokewrench just magically adjusts the point at which it starts to hurt. And we all have the same point at which turning a wrench starts to hurt. And of course we can, and should, send our hands in for periodic ISO recertification anyway. I get where he's coming from. "When it starts to...