He was apparently a real estate attorney, so he likely made his career out of pushing transactional paperwork.

Upstate New York + Studded snow tires = Get a good look under the car before you buy.

This goes back to my theory on how this happened: there was a wink-wink agreement for Spirit to not fasten down (or even install) those bolts, knowing Boeing would have to remove that door anyways to do interior work. Less unfastening = easier for Boeing. But this informal agreement almost certainly goes against all…

The majority of their pay is through stock options because, at least in the US, capital gains are taxed at a lower percentage than labor income, especially at their level. It also gives them the ability to borrow against that wealth and live off the debt without actually bringing in any taxable income. I know a big…

The problem, of course, is that these options are generally structured to pay out immense sums no matter what the company performance is like.

I get options at work as part of my compensation.  They’re literally worthless if the stock doesn’t climb in value.  If our stock performed like GM or Ford, I’d get nothing out…

I think the whole point of a lot of these “events” is to take over the street ie: be lawless so finding a place that would actually allow it defeats their purpose and likely a great deal of the thrill.

Basically, it was easier to stick a sourced overdrive unit on the back of a 4-speed transmission than to develop a new 5-speed (I believe MGB’s used something similar, I’m sure it was common enough at the time). But more importantly, it’s just fun to say Laycock de Normanville.

Carmax didn’t want your cyberclunk.

Not gonna argue with this take.

I too would like to live in a world where the trash collector pays me every day to pick up my garbage. But then again, if that were to happen, it would probably also mean living in some sort of Monkey’s Paw universe where I have to pay to go to work. I don’t think I want to be the one who establishes the precedent and…

Cuba = Communist with a big ‘C’ in that it is one-party rule where said party is the source of all governmental, professional, and social activity. Like China, you want to get ahead, you must be in the party. Not in the party means you are nothing/marginalized. Oppose the party and find yourself at best in prison. In…

Yeah, I understand how the dealership model has changed (largely by necessity) over the last couple decades and last couple years. When everyone isn’t buying new cars after 3-4 years because 60k miles was a LOT back in the day, it gets harder and harder to build a reputation and make money off of loyalty (same…

I don’t understand why so many commenters are like “if I can’t fill up at a ‘gas-station’ equivalent in 5 mins flat then EVs are a failed enterprise”;

Focusing on ‘boomers’ is really starting to get a bit much on this site. You think they’re the problem right now? That they’re the ones pushing this kind of thing? God no - Gen X and Millennials are every bit as bad. And probably worse for at this point. I get that it’s depressing to confront the fact that it’s “our…

There just isn’t a good enough reason to focus on hybrids on either side.

This reminds me of a mine in England that uses similar idea but with a cable car setup. It’s also been running for nearly a century.

US and Canada are the only first world countries where open bed trucks are the default working man’s vehicle. Everywhere else it’s vans of varying sizes depending on the needs, with pickup trucks relegated to those use cases where nothing else will do.

If anything, that would make me MORE worried since it’s built by hand by people who KNOW that it’ll be a demo/shown to the public, and they still didn’t give enough of a shit to make the panels line up.

How about no.