The screws are electrically driven. You can generate a lot of thrust from a small screw with enough RPMs. Container ships and tankers usually are direct driven by the prime-mover so their screw is sized optimally for the engine’s Operating RPM. No such issue on a ship running entirely on Electricity provided by the…

The reoccurring theme with these oversells is they mostly were booked via third party non-corporate travel sites. When you book direct the hotel is getting more revenue from your stay. I imagine a Hilton branded hotel is going to incur much greater costs walking me, an honors diamond member, than they would the guy…

Paul Rudd's running prank on Conan is the only good thing about MAC and me.  That movie is just 90 minutes of torturing a handicapped kid.

I’m gonna agree with you there.  Even half-assed tightened lug nuts would have held on longer than 2 blocks.  I don’t carry a torque wrench with me, but if you tighten the lugs criss-cross (as the instructions say) you can just go *GRUNT* “CLICK” and call it good.

You need the app for Android or iOS, but a windows device like a surface go just needs a web browser.

Streaming movies from American airlines onboard offering is free.  If you’re an Apple music subscriber that is also free over the inflight WiFi.

The IFE screens are just going away. You’ll still have in flight movies, you just have to bring your own screen to watch them. I prefer to do it that way. The ads on American are never-ending plus the credit card pitch from the flight attendants interrupts what I’m watching on the seat back screens.

Anything permanently installed on an aircraft is going to cost ten times more than you think it would.  IFE screens have to be tested and signed off on by the FAA before it can be installed.  Other part of the price tag is the liability insurance premium for the manufacturer.

I’m disappointed nobody has mentioned Mr. Wednesday’s 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood from American Gods. Her name is Betty and she reconstituted herself after Mister Wednesday left her on a railroad track to be destroyed by a locomotive.

At least the interior is fitting of the price.  You can usually find brand new mirages for less than 10k.  Granted they have smaller tires than a harbor freight trailer.

I know right?  Imma bout to make like my grandfather and emigrate.  He left Germany between the wars to get away from this nationalist bullshit.

The Tea-liban kept saying “It’s about taxes and deficits!” I’m like “Where the fuck have you asshats been the past five years when Bush and the GOP-led congress kept cutting blank checks to the MIC?” Oh, that’s right. They were white, Obama is black and a Democrat. It’s okay if a White republican does it.

I’m pretty sure the FAA in the United States won’t let an airline seat any passenger in the Lav even if it’s equipped with O2 masks and a seat belt.

Can someone please explain to me why I should give a fuck about anything this pewdiepie person says or does?  He’s just an obnoxious twat.

It’s a carry over from the film industry. The movie marketing wankateers love saying “From the director of Lord of the Rings!” Box-office turds such as Mortal Engines banked on Peter Jackson’s attachmentt getting people to the theater.

However, I wasn’t arguing the merits of such marketing wank.  Merely saying that’s…

Birmingham is a very short hop from DFW as is Montgomery (The world doesn’t revolve around ATL as much as Delta would like it to). Meanwhile Wichita is, in fact, a major aviation hub as Boeing and Airbus have a major presence in that city. Oh, Wichita is also Cessna’s corporate HQ as well as the HQ of their corporate…

Blackbird has many Alumnus from the original Homeworld team.  The reason Deserts of Kharak wasn’t originally a Homeworld game is that the IP was in rights-purgatory with the THQ bankruptcy.  Back when it was “Hardware: Shipbreakers” pretty much everyone that saw their pitch trailer and played homeworld (myself…

I’d seriously make the trip to DFW honestly.   DFW is a major crossroads of the used car business and there are many sales here that are open to the public.

Speaking from personal experience, a lot of manufacturing plants are in places not served by commercial airlines

Fair enough — I will say, though, that for companies in the physical product space (eg manufacturing) the presence of an actual managerial human being at a factory or distribution center can go a LONG way toward keeping up morale. It’s kind of intangible, but meaningful in a lot of cases.