Fight breaks out at a Vietnamese pho restaurant
Compilation of Russians playing with death
Guy has a seizure while skydiving
Guy pretends to have won an Oscar, walks around Hollywood reaping the benefits
Jackie Chan giving a tour of his secret home
Home made Batman suit blocks multiple punches
Dude moved to Tokyo and is working ~80 hours a week as a “salary man”, here’s a video log of his entire life this week
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Yovanna is a BADASS chick! – Bro My God
Public Confession Board Set Up A Local College…Some Of These Are Heartbreaking – Ned Hardy
21 People Who Are Clearly Having “One of Those “Days” – Linkiest
Moments before disaster strikes – Leenks
Crazy street fight in Hawaii….these dudes actually know how to fight! – Facebook
How Has Stephen Hawking Lived With ALS for 52 Years? – Newser
Russian opposition politician and former deputy PM Boris Nemtsov shot dead on Moscow street – BBC
Alison Brie’s Super Hot GQ Photos – G-Celeb
15+ People Who Took Laziness To Another Level – Bored Panda
It’s Bras Optional Monday, Smile! (36 Pics) – Radass
Demi Lovato inspires girls who look good in bikinis everywhere – Celeb Slam
23 Pronstars Who Know How To Get Dolled Up – Regretful Morning
Super hot blonde in a bikini – Double Viking
First Photos of Rihanna and Leo DiCaprio Together – The Blemish
A Red Sonja Cosplay that Rocks – Unreality Mag
A Frustrated Female Created A Detailed Guide For Guys To Taking Better Dick Pics – Uproxx
Celebrities As Hipsters (Gallery) – World Wide Interweb
Summer living and bikini dreaming (42 Photos) – Bad Sentinel
Fight Club 2…Yup It’s Happening – The Gentleman’s Garage
Michael Jordan still makes $100 million a year off his sneaker deal – Business Insider
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“A quick test of projecting the “Ghostly Apparitions” dvd onto a semi-transparent mesh fabric hung in a doorway to create a holographic effect.
It’s a quick & cheap alternative to the Pepper’s Ghost Illusion setup.
The scenes filmed in this test can be found on the “Ghostly Apparitions” dvd in the Window/Vertical/Hologram mode. You’ll need to turn your projector on its side to display the image properly.”
How to Put out and Prevent a Kitchen Fire
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By Michael Lee
Yup. They see problems in every opportunity.
They complain that the sun is too hot. They cursed the rain for ruining their plans for the day. They blame the wind for ruining their hair.
They think that everyone is against them. They see the problems but never the solutions.
Every little bit of difficulty is exaggerated to the point of tragedy. They regard failures as catastrophes. They become discouraged easily instead of learning from their mistakes.
They never seem to move forward because they’re always afraid to come out of their comfort zones.
They move based on instinct or impulse. If they see something they like, they buy at once without any second thought.
Then they see something better. They regret & curse for not able to take advantage of the bargain.
Then they spend & spend again until nothing’s left. They don’t think about the future. What they’re after is the pleasure they will experience at present.
They don’t think about the consequences. Those who engage in unsafe sex, criminality, and the like are included in this group.
They want to be the star of the show. So they always engage in talks that would make them heroes, even to the point of lying.
Oftentimes they are not aware that what they’re saying is not sensible anymore.
When other people advise them, they close their ears because they’re too proud to admit their mistakes.
In their mind they’re always correct. They reject suggestions because that will make them feel inferior.
Successful people treat failures as stepping stones to success.
Incompetent ones call it quits upon recognizing the first signs of failure.
At first, they may be excited to start an endeavor. But then they lose interest fairly quickly, especially when they encounter errors.
Then they go & search for a new one. Same story & same results. Incompetent people don’t have the persistence to go on and fulfill their dreams.
Incompetent people envy other successful individuals. Instead of working hard to be like them, these incompetent ones spread rumors and try every dirty trick to bring them down.
They could have asked these successful ones nicely. But no, they’re too proud. They don’t want to ask advise. Moreover, they’re too negative to accomplish anything.
They don’t know what to do next. They may just be contented on eating, getting drunk, watching TV, or worse, staring at the blank wall with no thoughts whatsoever to improve their lives.
It’s perfectly fine to enjoy once in a while. But time should be managed efficiently in order to succeed. There should be a proper balance between work & pleasure.
If there are two roads to choose from, incompetent people would choose the wider road with less rewards than the narrower road with much better rewards at the end.
They don’t want any suffering or hardship. They want a good life.
What these people don’t know is that what you reap is what you sow. Efforts & action will not go unnoticed.
If only they would be willing to sacrifice a little, they would be much better off.
Successful people made it through trials & error. They never give up. They are willing to do everything necessary to achieve what they aspire for in life.
(via GlobalOne)
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Scamming a scam company that target the elderly online
Sriracha creator David Tran talks about his sauce and how it is made
He wants you, ladies. The psychology of guys checking out girls
A guy is given the chance to win a gold bar worth $500,000… If he can carry it out the door using only one hand
Lol: Diarrhea In An Elevator Prank!
Famous Timberwolves Fan Known As ‘Jiggly Boy’ Welcomes Kevin Garnett Back With Hilarious Dance Moves
2Pac – Keep Ya Head Up
The Notorious B.I.G. – “Juicy”
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Meanwhile in Canada – Ned Hardy
10 Ways Men Blow Their Dating Opportunities – Nick Notas
Everyone waited for it to be taken down. 150 million views later, it’s still up – Linkiest
Awkward Situations That Every Guy Has Experienced – Leenks
A damn fine collection of cute girls – Bro My God
Transplanting a Human Head? That’s Insane – Newser
Taylor Hill Thong Bikini Pics are the Goodness! – G-Celeb
Google confirms it wants to be a wireless carrier – Mashable
25 Easy-To-Miss Signs That You’re With The Wrong Person – Thought Catalog
Hot girls with strong selfie game – Radass
I love me some hot coffee shop baristas – Double Viking
World: Too Much Human Poo on Mount Everest, Says Nepal – TIME
These Dumpers Are Downright Delicious (22 Pics) – Regretful Morning
Researchers Have Finally Figured Out How Big The Average Penis Is – Elite Daily
Some girls smile better than others – Banned In Hollywood
Claudia Romani misplaced her bikini top – Celeb Slam
15 Girls That Have Amazing Personalities – Classy Bro
The 20 Worst Celebrity Hairstyles Ever! – World Wide Interweb
Cartoon Characters You Didn’t Know were Voiced by Celebrities – Unreality Mag
8 of the Best in Ear Heaphones – The Gentleman’s Garage
The 20 richest people on the planet – Business Insider
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Photo taken by @stevemccurryofficial /Father and daughter in Kamdesh, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. The expressions on their faces reflects sorrow from the results of deadly clashes. Nuristan is one of the most volatile provinces in Afghanistan, and is cut off by mountainous terrain. It has long been a haven for foreign militants, and has seen some of the bloodiest fighting in Afghanistan’s many conflicts.
Photo: Mattias Klum @mattiasklumofficial Man and dog in close partnership herding Merino sheep outside of Sydney, Australia. Some of the world’s very best and most exclusive sheep wool is said to come from these farms near Sydney and in Tasmania
Photo by @edkashi A young man peers through a window at a police checkpoint in Kano, Nigeria on March 31, 2013. The Nigerian Mobile Police, known as Mopols, man a checkpoint to protect the Christian minority during Easter Sunday from rampant violence by Boko Haram
Park rangers at the site of a rhino poaching. Last year 1215 rhinos were killed in South Africa alone. Save the rhino! Rhino horn has been found to have no medicinal value. It is made of keratin, the same tissue as our hair or nails. @stevewinterphoto
Photo by @paleyphoto (Matthieu Paley). This morning, I woke up thinking of those places where life is harsh but beautiful. The heart of the Wakhan corridor in Afghanistan. Outside, the men are out rounding up the animals. The mountain spirits are cold and quiet in winter. Inside, tea is prepared and there is a moment.
Photo by @petekmuller Guineans pile into shared taxis in the capital city of Conakry. Despite the Ebola crisis, it seems that many Guineans do not abide by the recommendations on the avoidance of body contact. At practical level, however, few transportation options exist outside tightly packed shared taxis. Unlike in SierraLeone, many people here still shake hands.
Photo @ladzinski / The delicate process of a difficult rock climbing first ascent is a long and thoughtful one. It’s learning how to move your body, adjust for the smallest nuance, fail, be patient and fight to make the otherwise impossible doable. @sashadigiulian knows this process all too well, having put up first ascents all over the world. Seen here in waterfall Boven South Africa doing that very thing on a nearly blank and beautiful wall.
Photo taken by @stevemccurryofficial // The Holi festival, celebrated by Hindus, is also known as the festival of colors and it’s easy to see why. With powder exploding around him, this man is in a state of reverie as he is carried through the crowd. In recent years, the festival has started to spread to parts of Europe and North America to signify the end of winter and a time for new beginnings.
@marcusbleasdale People displaced by the fighting between Seleka and anti-balaka forces take shelter in an old factory on the grounds of the Catholic church in Bossangoa.This image was used in the 2013 Human Rights Watch report They Came To Kill: Escalating Atrocities in the Central African Republic. Human Rights Watch’s research on Central African Republic helped propel deployment of peacekeepers by the UN Security Council in September 2014.
Photo by @daviddoubilet A lions mane jellyfish hunts in the cold rich waters of Newfoundland Bonne Bay. Lions Manes are the largest species of jellyfish and prefers cold waters.
Photo by @salvarezphoto A Himba woman draws water for her goats in Northern Namibia.
hoto by Corey Rich @coreyrichproductions The Daily Commute: Climbers Tommy Caldwell @tommycaldwell and Kevin Jorgeson @kjorgeson rely on a network of rigged ropes to move up and down the Dawn Wall of El Capitan in order to access the hardest pitches. They leave their portaledge camp each afternoon as the sun dips around the corner, and use mechanical ascenders to climb the ropes and go to work on the day’s climbing adventure
Photo by @DavidDoubilet Father and son fisherman drift over a delicate and beautiful coral garden surrounding a tiny island in Kimbe Bay Papua New Guinea.
Photo by Michael Yamashita @yamashitaphoto. A sea of monks at Labrang Monastery in Gansu, China
Photo by @argonautphoto (Aaron Huey). Mingma Sherpa walks by one of many monuments to climbers who died in the Himalayas. The spot is on the hike to Everest Base Camp.
Photo: @dguttenfelder David Guttenfelder | Rwandans congregate inside the Sainte-Famille catholic church in Kigali for Sunday mass this morning. During the Rwandan genocide of 1994 thousands took refuge in the church but very few survived the massacre. Witnesses said that the priest in charge of the church armed himself and helped Hutu militias take people away to be murdered.
Women stand overlooking the neighborhood of Kroo Bay in Freetown, SierraLeone. Kroo Bay is an historic settlement and one of the most densely populated residential areas of the city. Photo by @petekmuller
Photo by @irablockphoto (Ira Block) Sadhus or Hindu holy men at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal’s most sacred Hindu shrine and one of the great Shiva sites. It is located on the banks of the Bagmati River 5 kilometres north-east of the Kathmandu Valley. The temple is the seat of the national deity, Lord Pashupatinath.
Monks rely on the generosity of others to provide them with their daily meals as they aren’t allowed to cook for themselves or store food overnight. @SteveWinterPhoto
Photo: @randyolson It was unexpected to find how these farmers in Ireland did artificial insemination. They pulled out a go-cart that looked (a bit) like a cow. And the bulls were trained to mount the go-cart and then a guy crawled into it and finished the deal.
Photo // @jimmy_chin There’s something special about waking up at 20,000ft with 3000ft of air under your sleeping bag.
Photo by @paleyphoto (Matthieu Paley). Yahyah Baig and his niece are back home after a whole day’s walk to a high altitude lake. In a remote village of the Karakoram mountains in Pakistan, they singe the small feathers of a duckbefore cooking it.
photo by @vincentjmusi Exotic pets can have a rough life. Born in captivity, there is no wild for them to return to. So where do they go when things don’t work out ? Many owners with the best intentions find themselves unable to care for an animal that eats several hundred pounds of meat per week or can kill you with one blow. There are many shelters that care for dogs and cats who have been given up by their well-meaning owners, but exotic pets have limited options. Most zoos can’t take them and space at sanctuaries is scarce. Mike Stapleton has 5 tigers that he cares for at his Ohio home. He calls it Paws & Claws Animal Sanctuary and all of his animals were unwanted. To comply with new regulations in the state, he is building a much large enclosure than seen in this photograph
Congo River in the middle of equatorial forest at Lukutu district. Photo credit: Pascal Maitre
Photo by @michaelchristopherbrown Alatna River Valley, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.
Photo @coryrichards Pakistani soldiers make tea in the darkness of a fiberglass igloo high in the himalaya on the border of India. The igloos house up to five soldiers at a time for three month tours of duty on the worlds highest and most inhospitable battle ground. Unlike other conflict zones, the disputed border of India and Pakistan sees relatively little open fire. More casualties occur from environmental hazards such as exposure and avalanches.
Annenberg Hall at Harvard University. Photo by @irablockphoto
Photo by @amivitale. A costumed care taker working in a giant-panda enclosure while an inhabitant peers in.
Photo by @adamfergusonphoto A Navy Seal Multi Purpose Canine is treated for wounds by the U.S. Army 438th Medical Detachment Veterinary Team on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. The Belgian Malinois named Falco sustained wounds in a fight with an Afghan dog on a mission in a remote part of Kandahar and was evacuated by helicopter to the veterinary team.
Photo by @amivitale. Kamara, a rhino keeper introduces Samburu warriors to baby rhinos. None of the warriors had ever seen a rhino in the their life and some had never even seen a photo of a rhino. Their eyes got wide and they became very protective of them. The young warriors from Northern Rangelands Trust community conservancies have been visiting to learn about conservation practices such as sustainable land use, grazing programs and endangered species conservation
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“Meant for us to do” is kind of a loaded term. Evolution and natural selection don’t really have an endgoal. What we’re “meant” to do, from an evolutionary perspective, is make more of us. Nothing more, nothing less. If keeping everyone alive makes more of us, then that’s what we’re meant to do. If we make too many and the environment can’t handle us, we’ll starve until we’re back below our limit.
As for whether nature will get sick of us, that’s assigning some kind of agency to nature that doesn’t really exist. Nature doesn’t “get sick” of species. Things either adapt and survive or they die out. Nature doesn’t care how they do it. There are several forces that oppose survival, such as changing environments, diseases, lack of resources, etc. Humans are unusual in that we’ve been able to assert a lot of control over many of these opposing forces. We can eradicate diseases. We can farm, which allows more people to live on less resources. We can create tools to allow us to survive in harsh environments. We can pass exact knowledge down to future generations. Even though we do things that are detrimental to our environment, we can predict the changes and create a means to survive the new environment. Every species up to this point has relied on genetic mutation to adapt. Humans, on the other hand, rely on engineering, which provides solutions in months and years rather than generations. I hate to sound like I’m making more of humanity than it deserves, but from an evolutionary perspective, we really are a tough species to beat.
They want to tap into your impulse buying habit. They don’t want you to think which your mind can’t do as well when it’s trying to process the auctioneer. It’s also a way to increase the speed and thereby increase the pressure on you.
- jimngo
Torque is “rotational force”. It’s how hard you can twist something, in this case, the drive shaft. Power is the amount of work done per unit time. Work is the product of force times displacement (not the cylinder displacement, but the motion of the car) – the distance through which the force acts.
Think of it this way: if you push really hard against a mountain, you have a lot of force you’re applying, but exactly 0 power, since you’re not moving anything. The displacement term is 0. If you blow on a feather and get it to move really fast, that’s a lot of power for very little force. Kind of a poor example, I know, but hopefully gives you the right mental picture.
Extending this to cars, a sports car has a lot of power, because it can move itself really fast (the time part is really small). A semi truck has a lot of power, because it can haul heavy things (the work part is really big). The semi truck, however, likely has a lot more torque, because it has to work harder to get itself moving.
The relationship between torque and power tell you a lot about a vehicle: high torque tends to result in high power, but the load on the vehicle, and the way that it moves, make a big difference. This is why, for instance, tractors and light construction equipment often have power ratings of under a hundred horsepower. In this case, the engines are built to be strong and slow. The Bugatti Veyron has a little more than 1000 horsepower engine, which it uses to get to 270mph. The crawler transporter that brought the space shuttle and Saturn V’s to the pad only has about 5 times more, at 5500 hp, but a top speed of 2mph unloaded. It just needs a crap ton of torque to haul its load of up to 15 million pounds.
This happens for essentially the same reason that you Can “zone out” while you’re walking around, not stumbling or colliding with things. These tasks are called “steriotypic repetitious movements” and they are actually controlled by a different part of the brain after you’ve fully learned the skill! When you start to learn any skill, like riding a bike, your cortex is the part of the brain doing the work of figuring out how to coordinate your muscles appropriately. Its complicated at first, and it involves your full attention, just like when you learned to walk. However, over time your cortex figures out exactly which muscles need to coordinate in exactly the right way, and it basically “saves” that motion in memory. When you go to do that action again after its already been learned (or saved) a cool thing happens, the cortex isn’t nearly as involved anymore, now it’s more subcortical (aka below the cortex, so deeper in the brain) regions that control the movement. The result? Now you perform an action while your cortex is free to think (or not think and “zone out”) and forget you’re actually doing anything complicated at all.
Legally, it’s what’s called a “bona fide occupational qualification” that hooters waitresses must be female. The federal law that protects from employment discrimination says that you can refuse to hire someone based on their gender if their gender is that specific to the job. HOWEVER, Hooters has to be willing to hire male cooks, busboys, etc, because those jobs are “behind the scenes” and so are not protected by the Hooters = women thing. Basically, it works because Hooters’ entire brand is based on hiring women as waitresses. Doesn’t mean they can get away with never hiring men for OTHER jobs, and doesn’t mean any restaurant could get away with it.
If I had a restaurant that was 100% branded to be all about hot guys, I could legally hire only hot guys. But if I had a regular coffee shop that wasn’t marked as a hot guy coffee shop, I could not legally refuse to hire women.
When you’re talking about classical singing, there is absolutely a difference.
Yes, anybody can find a way to coordinate the neuromuscular actions necessary to produce sound. With enough practice, anyone can make the lungs and the diaphragm work with the muscles of larynx to make sound, but it doesn’t mean they’ll have a pleasing tone. That tone – the warmth, the color, all those subjective things we think when we hear an excellent singer – are innate, and many of them can’t be taught. They’re the product of a very distinct set of traits, including laryngeal shape, muscle elasticity, muscle thickness, size and shape of the body’s resonators, and a number of other small details inherent to a person’s physical build.
When it comes to popular music, we as listeners aren’t as concerned with tone, except that it’s pleasing – or, failing that, unique. The voice can be a vehicle for a great many things, and it doesn’t need to be pretty or perfect to be outstanding to listen to. I believe that anyone can manage to sing popular music well and be very entertaining while doing it, given a commitment to the art.
I often differentiate, when talking about singers of all stripes, whether or not I think they’re good singers or good artists. There are some singers I’ll listen to all day who I wouldn’t call “good” or “pleasing”, but who nevertheless make awesome music. It’s not a slight on them that I don’t think they have a beautiful voice. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
The short explanation is that because the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were airbursts (that is, they were detonated high above the ground), they did not produce significant long-term contamination on the ground.
The long explanation requires a little more exposition:
There are two types of radioactive threats from nuclear weapon.
The first is known as “prompt” radiation. This is a bright burst of radiation that fires out immediately when the bomb detonates. It consists of neutrons and gamma rays. If you get too many of these, you get very sick and die of radiation poisoning within a few weeks. If you get a pretty high dose but don’t die, you have an increased long-term cancer risk. If you get a low dose, you get a slightly elevated long-term cancer risk. For bombs on the order of those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you basically have to be within 2 km of where the bomb detonated to be seriously affected by this radiation. It is worth noting that if you are within such a radius you have a much higher chance of getting killed in some other way (such as from the heat or the blast effects). About 20% of the total deaths of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are attributed to prompt radiation effects.
The second are residual radiation effects. These are caused by two things. The first is the aforementioned blast of neutrons. Neutrons have the special property of being able to make other elements radioactive (induced or artificial radioactivity). So some of the things those neutrons hit become a bit radioactive. The level of radioactivity from such a thing is not especially high except maybe near the very epicenter of the bomb blast, and even then it is the sort of thing that would be cleared out in not too long. So people walking immediate through the epicenter area might have been exposed to radiation that way.
The other way is what is known as “fallout.” Atomic bombs work by splitting up of atoms of uranium or plutonium (nuclear fission). Those split halves, known as fission products, are the remaining parts of the reaction, are very radioactive. The range from being “so radioactive they will kill you almost instantly” to “radioactive enough to give you cancer over several decades.” Keep in mind that the more radioactively energetic a substance is, the less time it sticks around. So the “so radioactive they kill you quickly” stuff is around for a week or so at most. The “will give you cancer” stuff can be around for decades and decades. Some of the elements are truly long-lived by human scales (e.g. plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years) but remember that this means that it is not extremely radioactive. You don’t want chronic exposures to low-levels of radioactivity — e.g. in your food or water supply, or embedded in your bones — but short-term exposures will not affect you much.
So the atomic fireball, as it detonates, contains these very radioactive fission products, as well as unreacted nuclear fuel (uranium or plutonium, both long-term radioactive contaminants). This radioactive fireball, however, rises very high into the air — forming the head of the familiar mushroom cloud.
Which gets us to the important point: there are two very different possibilities here. If the fireball does not touch the ground, this hot, radioactive ball of death goes up very high — into the stratosphere — within minutes. It then cools considerably, and looks like a cloud, but is still pretty hot, both thermally and radioactively. The winds blow it over a vast area, but its heat, and the lightness of the particles, keep it in the area for several weeks. After several weeks, it “falls out” down to Earth, but by that point it has been dispersed over thousands and thousands of square miles, and many of the hottest radioactive by-products have already decayed. From a health standpoint it is near negligible — at most a statistical cancer increase in a large population, probably indistinguishable from background sources.
But if the fireball touches the ground, it is a very different situation. If the fireball touches the ground, it will suck up a huge amount of dirt and debris into that radioactive flame. This has the effect of making the dirt and debris radioactive, both from induced radioactivity and because the fission products will attach themselves to the dirt particles. These particles are relatively large — you could view them with a microscope, sometimes even with the naked eye — and they are heavy (compared to regular fission products and debris, which are vaporized atoms and thus very tiny indeed). So they “fall out” within hours. This produces the kinds of fallout plumes we have come to associate with nuclear testing: swathes of the ground which are made quite radioactive indeed, producing short-term hazards for people who live there as well as long-term contamination problems.
All of which gets us to the answer to your question: the fireballs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not touch the ground. The weapons were detonated high above the ground — not, mind you, because it reduced the radioactivity, but because the ideal blast height to destroy civilian structures is as an airburst. The side-effect, though, is that there was essentially no fallout of significance, and as a result, no serious radioactive contamination of the city.
Shooting is hard. Even a well trained marksman still won’t be able to hit a moving leg most of the time. If you’re shooting someone, you better be prepared to kill them because while most bullets aren’t fatal even if they aren’t in the leg, it’s basically impossible to choose whether your shot will kill or not. And if you’re planning on shooting someone, you’ll have the best chance of hitting if you shoot towards the bigger target- their chest.
For two a couple of reasons:
Styling of Cars
Because it simply isn’t possible anymore, there is a lot of red tape. As well crash tests modern cars have to pass. For example in order to pass the frontal crash test of today, the front of a car must have a crumple zone – metal in the car that is designed to be crushed in a crash to absorb energy so that the force of a crash does not deform the passenger compartment and crush the occupants. This therefore limits the way cars can be styled as well as it adds a lot of weight to cars. I’ll talk about weight later. As well as this, there is side crash test small overlap crash test, and crash tests for pedestrian safety. All with their own indirect sets of restrictions on styling because of the way the metal must be shaped to accommodate the shape of the crumple zones and stronger side pillars etc. You can read more about the American tests here.[1]
There are also 1 million different little regulations different governments set on cars sold in their country. For example cars cannot car from factory as low anymore, the headlight must be a minimum height for road safety. As well as the rear hazard lights must be able to still flash if the trunk/hatch/boot of the car is open. This is so that if the car is stopped on the side of the road and the trunk is open to access a spare tire or something, drivers can still see the lights flashing.
There are many different laws in many different countries covering different subject like this one, each imposing little restrictions on styling that add up.
Sports Cars
With regards of older sports car, other than the aforementioned styling, the reason why they are so much more sought after is because they have certain qualities that modern cars lack because of changes in technology and what the modern car buyer wants.
The modern car buyer want comfort, technology, safety, ease of use, and the government wants higher emission & safety standards in every car. While sports cars of old have little to none of those qualities. Weight is a big factor here. Sport cars (generally) used to be a lot lighter because of the lack of these features. No comfort features, at the maximum you’d get air con, and a radio. Or safety, lack of airbags and crumple zones etc. That’s it. Everything thing else adds weight. As well as the lack of computers, and electronic systems. Lower weight means the car handles better (can get around a corner quicker), can accelerate faster, and brake faster as well with the same power and the same brakes, because there less weight to move or slowdown.
Lower weight also helps with another factor: fun Cars that weight less feel much more fun than heavy cars because of certain handling characteristics, they turn in fast, and feel more responsive to your inputs, a lighter objects changes direction easier, people who drive “enthusiastically”, notice these characteristics. A car that’s fun to drive feels like it’s immediately responding to you and is communicating to you though the steering and pedals which is explained bellow.
Another benefit of the lack of technology in older cars is the way the steering feels. Not all cars have this, especially brand new cars, but most cars older than 3-4 have something referred to in the auto industry called steering feel. When you turn the wheel of your car, you can feel little vibrations coming through the wheel and can tell what the front wheels are doing, and you can feel the road beneath you when driving “enthusiastically” or turning normally depending on the car. If you’ve driven a car with it you know what I mean, most people know what I’m talking about.
Feeling these sensations as well as the feeling of the car going over the road in a sports car with a harder ride, makes the driver feel as if s/he is connected with the car and not just there driving it from point A to B it can be quite a lot of fun.
Steering feel usually increases with speed, so the faster you go the more you feel, but with a car with good steering feel you feel more sensations at slower speeds. Older sports cars especially, this was a key focus, back in the day, to have a lot of steering feel. There was no traction & stability control, the feel of the steering wheel would tell you what the front wheels were doing as the feeling of the entire car in general would tell you the limits of the car (what’s the fastest speed I can go around this corner without spinning out?)
Modern cars lack this almost totally. Modern steering systems (electric power steering) kill feel totally almost across the board, older cars have either hydraulic power steering (some cars have hydraulic power steering but with little feel), or no power steering at all which would make steering very heavy, but make the sensations coming through the wheel fantastic. It’s difficult to describe, but the difference is massive, the steering feels crisp and clear you can feel the road though the wheel. (Toyota has used electric power steering in there cars exclusively for a while now, all there cars had power steering in the 90’s which is why a lot of there cars are seen as very boring in the enthusiasts eyes.)
Modern cars lack most sensations because they’re not necessary anymore, with stability control and traction control, unless you have no idea what you’re doing you won’t crash, and its almost impossible to spin out unless you’re driving on ice. While you can drive fast, however it doesn’t as feel fun because the feeling is too refined, it feels like you’re just sitting here telling the car what to do. To get more feeling from a modern sports car, one must drive faster. Which is illegal and dangerous in different ways compared to a old car with no traction/stability control.
In fact these systems are better for an asshat who has no idea what they’re doing because its much harder for them to crash, but in the process of this, it kills fun for the person who has the common sense to learn the limits of there car while driving fast.
The everyday car/driver
However for the average modern car buyer, like the one mom or dad drives to soccer practice and takes to work, modern cars are infinetly better, there much safer, and are much less harmful to the environment and people around us. They are loaded with tech and comfort features But for the enthusiastic driver, there’s nothing like an older car. Think about this for a second, all points that make classic sports cars so desirable, decrease comfort, or safety, or they aren’t necessary anymore because of computer systems. There aren’t as many people who want to buy sports cars like that anymore, so the people who do, buy old ones.
Other reasons for desirability
Here’s what those levels are adjusting:
16Hz – 60Hz = SUB BASS This is the super low-end that can be felt physically by your body on a good subwoofer/sub-bass system. Sounds with these frequencies are the most powerful ones, and they will take up a lot of room in the mix. Use this range to fatten up your kick drums or sub-bass patches. Too much volume in this range makes your mix sound «muddy.»
60Hz – 250Hz = BASS This is where basslines and kick drums have their most important sounds. A common problem is that the bassline and kick cancel each other out due to PHASE problems (easily demonstrated when DJ-ing, if you play two tracks and have them beatmatched, it’s important to cut one of the tracks’ bass level or else the kick drums will cancel each other out and the overall bass level is lowered). A useful trick then is to try PHASE INVERSION on either the bassline or the kick drum, compressing the kick and bass together and/or avoiding to place a bass note on top of a kick drum. This range should also be lowered in most other sounds like guitars, synth lines and vocals so they don’t interfere with the kick and bassline. Too much volume here makes the mix sound «boomy.»
200Hz – 400Hz Too much volume here will cause vocals to sound muddy and unclear. Cut this to thin out drum parts like snares, hi-hats, percussions and cymbals, boost to make them sound warmer or more «woody.»
250Hz – 2kHz = LOW MID or MID-LO Most instruments have their «darkest» parts here; guitars, piano, synthlines. Boosting around 500Hz – 1kHz can sound «horn-like» while boosting 1kHz – 2kHz can sound metallic.
400Hz – 800Hz You can reduce some of these frequencies on the master mix to make your overall bass level sound tighter. Boost or cut here to fatten up or thin out the low end of guitars, synthlines and vocals.
800Hz – 1kHz Here you can also fatten up vocals and make them sound warmer, in a different way than the previously mentioned method. Boosting around 1kHz helps add to the «knocking» sound of a kick drum.
1kHz – 3kHz This is the edgy part of a sound, boost (gently!) here to define guitars, pianos, vocals and add clarity to basslines. Cut here to remove painful mid-frequencies in vocals. This frequency range is very hard on the ears, so be careful not adding too much volume here!
2kHz – 4kHz = HIGH MID or MID-HI Vocals have a lot of sound in this area, the sounds «B», «M» and «V» lie here.
3kHz – 6kHz = PRESENCE Plucky, fingered guitars and basslines can be more defined by boosting in this range. Cut in the lower part to remove the hard sound of vocals. Cut in the upper part to soften/round off sounds, and boost to add more clarity or presence to a sound. Boosting here helps defining most instruments and vocals.
6kHz – 10kHz = HIGH Boost this area to add more air and transparency to a sound. Crispness and and sparkle can be added by boosting this range on guitars, strings and synth sounds. Snares and bassdrums also benefits from boosting this area. In vocals, cut some of these frequencies (a de-esser plugin does this easily) to remove the hissing sounds. The sounds «S» and «T» lies between 6kHz and 8kHz and too much volume there will make the vocals stressful on your ears.
10kHz – 16kHz = HIGH This frequency range is where the crispness and brightness of sounds lie, and hi-hats and cymbals are the dominant drum parts. You can boost here to add even more air and transparency to sounds, and cut here to remove noise and hissing sounds which is unwanted in a bassline, for example. Pads and atmospheric sounds benefits from a boost in this range to make them sound brighter. Be careful not to boost too heavily, or else the mix will sound noisy.
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