That article cites nothing. The first step to research is obtaining verifiable facts. Wikipedia is hardly peer-reviewed.

I know where you're coming from, but learning the wrong thing means that you lost the first half of the battle. Besides, I'm not sure that any number of research journals on the subject could classify stereotyping in the lighthearted sense that it's been used on this forum.

 

Stereotyping a group of people and being not fully knowledgeable about a certain race/nationality/ethnic group does not automatically make you racist. It just means that you are ignorant. Ignorance just means that you do not know.

When you combine your ignorance with hate and malicious bias towards a specific people, then you are a racist. I can also know everything about all groups of people, but I can still hate a specific race or all races, so being not ignorant can still have someone to be a racist.

It is only racist when there is hate involved.

 

Rotational inertia is far from being considered old husbands (wifes) tale. If you add more mass to a rotating object the rotational inertia increases (=rotational kinetic energy increases). Obviously it also matters where the mass is added. The further away the mass is placed such as a 20'' rim as opposed to 18'' rim the more increase in rotational inertia you will see. Now the figures I threw were rough estimates, but they are within the ball park. Hell I should know with a degree in Physics and minor in Mathematics.

 

doesnt change the fact that they are crap. he hasn't posted in a while about 80 posts ago. LOL he must feel stupid getting laughed at so badly

 

So basically doesn't what you said above in this post completely goes against what you said earlier about "it being true"? I mean you just said it yourself you can't prove whether its true or not...so how did you come to that fantastic conclusion that you did a few posts ago?

Anyway as with the other guy, lets agree to disagree huh .

 

I wonder if he actually thought anyone would like them... did he expect us to start cheering... like he thought of doing 20's first or something? There is a reason that we didn't do that to our cars..

 

i keep reading waiting for the april fools on these rims.... what in the living hell were you thinking putting these on your car ? Send them back, get your money, and get 2 sets of volks lol

 

They may be positive or negative, but most choose to take it in a negative light

Some people consider all stereotypes to be negative

 

Again, missing the point. It's obvious it's true, whether you only believe it with hard facts or not. The perceived reality is powerful enough. Again, unless you have facts to DISPROVE, then you cannot question me. I am merely stating what is commonly known to society as fact, whether proven or not.

 

No offense intended by my previous words, I was referring to the idea of a linear relationship modeling performance loss in a rotating system. I'm an applied math and electrical engineering double major, so I've taken my fair share of math and physics as well . I just thought it was funny how everyone seemed to be taking the figures as gospel.

 

$4000 grand for those POS wheels? you could have done so much better with other wheels and so much more......Your loss.

The fact that we are already on the 5th page (in 1 day) of negative feedback on your decision should mean something to you....if you even know what kind of car you bought.

You do realize you bought an Evo right?

 

I'm with Clay on this one. Statistically more caucasians buy hip-hop/r&b albums then african americans, however, if you walk up to anyone and ask them what culture they would pair hip-hop with you would get the same answer in any country. Again, technically more caucasians have incorporated hiphop/r&b into their cultures but is sterotypically considered an african american past time.

 

Only 3 - 4 hours old I believe.. Reload the page it jumps 2 - 3 posts everytime!

 

I agree with your argument here....wait... I'm done arguing

 

Also, saying "more" is a misnomer, because "more" typically means a higher number, whereas the more important measurement would be percentage. 20% of 2 billion is a lot more than 50% of 500 million.