Iron Giant most certainly defies the formulaic conventions. Well the animation formulaic conventions. Another favorite in our household is The Incredibles. We’ll watch it any time we pass it channel surfing.

Iron Giant was hung out to dry by Warner Bros. because the “new boss” didn’t want it to interfere with his baby,…

He really is becoming a classic American industrialist. I think we used to have more guys like that.

My Uber drivers who used to drive both, say Uber has targeted incentives to make driving Lyft at the same time, unprofitable.

Aren’t company run unions a violation of the 1934 Labor Relations Act? And banned internationally under ILO Convention 98?

Well, yes. You have all of the same logistics and transport jobs as domestic manufacture for the finished product, plus some jobs at the docs.

1. But you don’t have all the logistics and transport jobs for shipping the parts, the raw materials to make the parts, etc.

2. You don’t have the subcontractor jobs…

I think it’s hilarious that the most likely huge money maker and source of cash flow will be the batteries. The car seems more like a something between a corporate hobby and a PR ploy. I mean, good, but he’s missing the forest from the trees if those graphene supercapacitor batteries work.

He knows their production…

Being a rare specialist can fetch a premium rate for those “who want the best” :)

It also appears that the “hosts” are being deliberately prevented from achieving true sapience. That the hosts becoming self-aware with free will, is the park’s biggest nightmare. Not least because of the odds that if they had free will and original thoughts, the government might declare that they have rights. There…

The Baldwin Hills Dam collapse of 1963 was caused by fault slippage due to hydraulic oil extraction in Los Angeles. While not considered an “earthquake,” it’s somewhat related and long after the period under study.

Disabling touch should be an option. I hope when you disable it, you empower your users with the knowledge to turn it on and off when they want to.

If you’re an artist, a pad next to the laptop and drawing without seeing your lines under the pen, is sub-optimal. If you need a pen, you get a Surface Pro or Surface…

I’m a former visual effects artist. My wife is a storyboard artist. We know a lot of creative professionals in the entertainment business, because those are our people.

You know what actual creative people are talking about? The Surface Book i7. Because portable Cintiq that doesn’t weigh a ton and can be used as a…

Thank you so much for putting so much religious conviction into this most excellent suggestion!

Both of our cars have HD radio capability. Every car we looked at before buying our current cars had it. It seems to be a standard capability in car radios, and has been for years.

Deadlines or not, HD radio capability is widespread enough for these devices to at least justify having an option to use it. 

Both of our cars have HD radio capability. Every car we looked at before buying our current cars had it. It seems to…

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. 

Didn’t cost an existing job for other models, but didn’t ADD NEW ONES either. We have new people being born every day, and we need to add jobs to accommodate them, or we have a consistent attrition of jobs over time, that leaves people at the bottom of the economic ladder with fewer and fewer employment opportunities.…

I don’t think the tax credits are really a long term business model for Tesla. I think they’re necessary until their gigafactory is finished and the Model 3 is on the market.

The auto industry is tough. You lose a shit ton of money every day that you’re building a factory and production capacity, and not producing…

Toyota is jumping on the Li-Ion bandwagon, just when Li-Ion is on the verge of being replaced by newer technologies. But then, this is sort of par for the course for Toyota lately. They just always seem to be years behind almost everyone else. Now they’re catching up to 2010's Chevy Volt.

Really looking forward to cross shopping a Focus Energi RS AWD BEV in about six years :)

We’ve been looking at solar roofing tiles for future home renovations. One thing not mentioned, is that solar roofing tiles insulate your roof from solar heating. Reducing cooling costs. They also reduce heat loss from the house through the roof, slightly reducing heating costs.

But they are currently expensive.…

When will FM transmitters use HD radio so we don’t get the signal overlap you get in big cities? In Los Angeles, those things are useless.

When will FM transmitters use HD radio so we don’t get the signal overlap you get in big cities? In Los Angeles,…