I ran into this last summer. I had never paid MSRP for a car, much less over that, but the Kia dealers in the Portland, Oregon area that had one of the few Telluride SX’s were all asking for a markup, in some cases, $5k over MSRP. I ended up finding a dealer in Washington state, in Puyallup, willing to sell an SX…

I wonder if anyone has looked into importing Soviet-era farm tractors from the late 1980s or 1990s even (so, post-Soviet era, but generally based on Soviet era designs). They were generally legacy designs, but some were produced up until the early 2000s, and didn’t have all of the electronics and digital systems. So,…

I love stories like this. I wish I could somehow get back the games I wrote on my commodore 64 in the late 1980s. Venus Lander III (blatant rip-off of Lunar Lander, but after I put it on all the school’s C-64 floppy disks, and people were playing it all the time, I got in trouble), and my assorted text-adventure…

The Air Force has virtually no rotor-wing aircraft at all - and Chinooks are solely flown by the Army, I believe (or were), unless the Marines had some.

Also, if my memory serves, in red Dawn it was a Hind-A, with the faceted canopy. The helicopter in the picture above, slung under a Chinook, is Hind-D, with the double-bubble canopy.

I think part of the problem is that it takes 20 - 30 minutes to recharge right now, but that problem should get better as newer fast-charging battery tech gets commercialized. There are many companies working on fast-charging Li-Ion chemistries, solid-state batteries, etc, and it's almost certainly a matter of time…

Well, the pre-order is only $100, so it's not exactly a huge commitment. 

Oof. I really assumed that Musk was exaggerating with all the Blade Runner and “cybertruck” comments leading up to this.

Well, one can always hope, yes?

They always do threaten exactly that, whenever states look at implementing legislation at the state level. And those threats are likely b.s.  - the hospital would have to shut itself down, auction off its assets, and fire all its employees. The most likely outcome would be that one of the larger hospital chains would…

This sort of situation could be prevented even short of single-payer nationalized healthcare (disclaimer: I’m in favor of that, but I see it as politically unlikely). We simply need to pass laws that REQUIRE every hospital that receives public funds - taxpayer monies - or that has an IRS tax exemption to offer every…

#Pedant warning!!

I came to post this, but you beat me to it. Take your star!

I don’t get why these guys bother to send hate emails at all (to be fair, the guy in Sweden seemed more infatuated than hateful). I mean - do they really think you care about their opinion of you? It's a bit pathetic. Reading their emails on video, with wine and laughter, is definitely the best reply. Nicely done 😈

I don’t know about their sedans, but I looked at the QX60 while shopping for a three-row crossover SUV this year. Compared to the Volvo XC90, Acura MDX, and the top trim Kia Telluride (which I ended up buying), the QX60 had sort of outdated tech inside. I think the styling was also more "meh" compared to the other…

I suggest a early 2010s BMW 330i or 335i. It’s not the *cheapest* beamer, it’s a nice drive, and there are plenty of 2013-2014 models for sale for under $30k, even as low as $20k.

He's got some weird fetish / bone-to-pick with California, it sounds like. And probably he's a Trumpanzee but trying to hide that fact...

No, what it says right there in the article is that he was okay with leaving the regulations intact if he could strip California of its status to take revenge on the automakers that sided with California. Stop trying to twist around the words to make them say what you wish they would.

That's not calling a spade a spade. This is: the Trump administration is a shitshow with a side of malice. The only reason Trump proposed any changes to the regulations is because they were enacted under Obama (that's the malice), but Trump's gross incompetence, and that of his chosen staff/underlings, couldn't even…

I still think one of the best protections against ransomware - in addition to malicious-software scanning, antivirus, etc - is a good cloud-backup solution. Apps like CloudBerry (and others) have free versions, and the cloud storage is cheap. The apps can continuously monitor for changed/added files, or be run on a…