Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway still doesn't pay a dividend after 55-odd years of his ownership.

Amen. People have the causation all mixed up. Backpressure is an undesirable drawback *caused by* containing exhaust gases for a certain purpose such as pulse tuning or noise mitigation. Backpressure does not *cause* any positive benefit, and thus it is beneficial to minimize it.

Backpressure itself doesn't create or support the pressure waves. Backpressure is a negative side-effect of containing the existing pressure waves in a pipe in order to create constructive interference. Pressure waves are generated by the exhaust valves opening. Constructive interference is a product of these generated waves either merging with waves from adjacent pipes, or reflecting from the open end of a pipe. The optimal tuned exhaust is designed such that the advantage from the constructive interference exceeds backpressure by a maximal amount at some critical engine speed.
Once you get past the collector and/or crossover pipe, any backpressure you add by way of restriction only serves to reduce flow efficiency. The lower you can make backpressure the better. There's a reason race cars have as short an exhaust as possible. On a naturally aspirated car ideally a tuned header ending shortly after the collector, but they usually have a pipe and muffler due to sound regulations.

I always order White Hot Chocolate at Tim Hortons, it's really good!

Not at all. Canada does not have nukes. For nukes you have to have a delivery method. We don't have a delivery method. No ICBMs, no cruise missiles, not even the launch capability for cruise missiles. If Canada had nukes we would make them known to the world because they are a bargaining chip.

They gave Thalidomide to pregnant women...doesn't mean it was safe.

According to the latest news on the subject, there are now 8 known strains. Due to slow mutation, they are all very similar.

There is a difference between legally unenforceable and socially unenforceable. If people think something is legally enforceable when it is not, they enforce it on themselves.

However, if the contracts themselves were actually banned, with fines and/or compensation associated with violation of employment law, they would pretty much disappear.

Google has a decently large presence in Canada, in what we call "Silicon Valley North"

Some states (Washington for example) have a revenue tax instead of income tax, it's called a B&O tax. The problem is it prompts companies to vertically integrate because the tax is cumulative at each level of distribution. Vertically integrated companies result in monopolies and fewer jobs.

Definitely. I make about $30/hr and my company charges me out at $120/hr. And we aren't doing highly-specialized consulting, just hvac controls service calls. I imagine the actual rate charged to the customer on a $100/hr wage is in the range of $300-400/hour, which is similar to senior lawyers and accountants.

But if Bob knows John, then the authorities will know who called in the fake test. Pretty risky for John.

Same way they fit inside the alcohol, weapons, and drugs...

Google bought Youtube (Nov 2006) less than two years after Youtube was founded (Feb 2005).

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