has to be your jurisdiction—you just need to go to your local bar association website. google your city name bar association referral service and just call a few of them. If three or four decline it was probably not a good case, but try more than one. Also, sometimes just a threatening letter is all you need, and an…

Very easy to goad these companies into idiocy. You make a good faith effort to resolve, they act like jackasses. This goes around two, three times, and now you’ve crossed the expense threshold for small claims. I rarely sue, but I’ve done so twice and had hilarious experiences. I’ve just never pushed it into…

you are definitely underestimately the complexity of the operation, overestimating the payoff they would get for it, and underestimating the stupidity of the average group of employees even at a highly technical company.  I mean, look at, for instance, Boeing.  

Why don’t such awesome things happen to me? I know a great attorney! This would be a mini cash bonanza!

At least, why don’t people just do the chargeback?   I mean, if they re-apply the charges so much more ammunition for above attorney!

I love it, but for all that it is, I don’t consider it $22k worth of my money.  It is a special car...for someone else.  It will take a long time to sell.   It’s too unusual a bird. 

I sadly, get this, but I hate it. I carry a pocket knife all the time. But I have to manage it when I go to secure spaces. I’ve inadvertently carried it onto a plane a few times, but to be fair, it was a 2" blade. It was that small that it wasn’t noticed on a scan and I genuinely forgot I had it. I use it a ton...…

Open source maintainers tend to get paid, but these projects are just their sidegigs/labors of love. The reality is, the industry needs to recognize that certain individuals are maintainers and give them time and resources to do that maintaining. Then everything needs to be cryptographically signed by known…

If it was, it was very elaborate. The logs line up with specific holidays of suspected hostile actors and the timezones of those nations. I’m sticking with Occam’s Razor on this one until proven otherwise...which requires that “extraordinary evidence”.  

the plane flew into a flock of Canada geese with the engines each ingesting at least one bird, probably more. One engine was damaged sufficiently to where it probably could not have been restarted, the other might have been restarted had the plane had sufficient altitude but of course, it did not.
This would not be…

Yep

how many immigrants you letting drown in boats? Oh that’s right, you’re not counting! Yeah, the US could do tons better, but let’s not be all high and mighty Europe. The number of wars on your continent is not zero.

AM radio has a legit emergency service concern, as much as I dislike the right-wing nonsense. Let me…

The RAT is not secret, just not well known... in part because “all engines failing” is fortunately, very, very rare. ETOPS is the standard meant to prevent the whole all engines failing thing. Basically, there’s never been an unassisted all engine failure on an ETOPS certified airliner. That said, of course, there…

Maybe our elected officials would get off their asses and stop shoveling money down his throat until he cleans up his safety record, but I won’t be holding my breath.

GM makes lots of bad mistakes, but it was hampered by paying union workers to not work. I mean, I support unions, but that was a mess.

That said, GM makes lots of bad mistakes. They should’ve paired not their brands down, but rather the stable of cars within each brand. I know it would’ve been hell at the dealerships,…

Honestly, this is not a bad idea. I was thinking this. You could get really flexible with it and still have a hell of a lot of fun and practicality.    Some Model 3s are dropping below $20K and that still leaves a lot of headroom for a fun car. 

Well, with just a tiny bit of CGI he did. I mean, I even enjoyed the film. Apparently the 1% who did.

I feel for you. My poor wife had to go overseas to take care of funeral arrangements for her father when our youngest was only six months old. She could not handle it and became demon spawn during the flight and on a lot of the trip due to the time change. I felt so bad for her... I had to work, there were no options…

As is often the case, I have a few.

Rule #1 DO NOT CODESHARE!

Flew out of London to Cincinnati by way of Paris. This was a Delta flight code-shared with Air France. They never got that. When I tried to check in I could not. When I called, they said, just check in at the gate. Silly me. I get up in London at 3:40 am and…

On one hand I’m generally opposed to nuclear, but on the other, if we can build a passive, breeder failsafe, then maybe.

But. I’m not sure we can. Solar PV, battery storage, and wind keep falling dramatically and that’s undeniably a good thing.

Only nuclear has rendered portions of the planet uninhabitable, can be…

carbon tax proposals in the US include a refund of those taxes for the bulk of the tax dollars for those living basically at the middle class or lower.