Why would you ever want to stow your fenders?

What? Why? Then it would get even worse. People could then create john.doe@gmail.com, johndoe@gmail.com, johndoe.@gmail.com, .johndoe@gmail.com, etc, and all of those would be different people! How likely do you think that is to be messed up?

Queue the elitist comments about cruises being for ignorant fatties in...

Either you didn't watch the video, or you're profoundly unintelligent.

Basically, I don't think what he was doing was journalistic. He was just pissing off an advertiser on his off hours. There was no journalistic value in his actions, so it was silly of him to do so.

I don't think journalistic ethics apply to comments made outside of the paper. This guy was simply nit-picking about an advertiser outside of work. Does that constitute journalism?

I'd say, he was well within his rights to post that on facebook, the dealer was well within his rights to call and threaten to pull his ads, and the paper was (probably) within their rights to let him go. As far was what was right or wrong thing to do.. couldn't care less.

Can we have a moratorium on coverage of the Oculus Rift coverage until it is released to consumers? Often times companies are guilty of keeping something under wraps for too long, until the product is practically shipping... these folks have done the exact opposite. And they seem to be developing it at a glacial pace.

Really? I mean it's nice but... Dat F-type!

oh! Shit! We were actually planning on doing this. Would an 11x17" sheet work?

Well, I think that in general people overstate the importance of fuel economy, particularly when comparing two vehicles in the same class. If you drove 12,000 miles a year, paid $4 a gallon, and got 28 mpg vs 20 mpg (just two semi-random figures), you'd save $685/year. Sure, that's nothing to scoff at, but compared to…

You pay more for a truck every single day you use it. You're not accounting for that.

Anyone care to produce a graph plotting both the average american household size over time as well as the size of the average american car over time?

As a user, I just care about the end product arriving at my house. Who supplies, who maintains, who handles the infrastructure, etc, just don't matter. I'm buying the electricity. When you buy gas, do you pay per gallon and then pay a separate fee for the guy who drove the truck to fill up the station? Nope, it's all…

Yes, but why not increase your rate per kwh to account for those costs? I'm sick and tired of seeing the price of something advertised, only to have a fee tacked on afterwards.

Especially when climbing into their cars?

Even in a much less quick car, it would be extremely foolish to just mash the accelerator in a parking lot mere moments after driving it for the first time.

Well, "eating local" is a lot easier when your entire country is considered local. Typically international trade has increased cost associated with it, so Brits have a built in incentive to eat local that Americans don't have.

That guy didn't have it right. Air resistance increases with velocity and several other things. One of those things is cross sectional area. In general, if someone weighs twice as much as someone else, they don't have twice the cross sectional area. More likely, they have something like 1.5 times greater area.