I like the "unless the retail customer is a nonprofit organization or a federal, state, or local government or agency" part... Why is it the government doesn't have to buy through dealers? Cost? At some point in the future somebody in the Government will buy a Tesla. Maybe years from now. I hope Tesla makes…

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Alba gu bràth!

It's good, but for $5,000 I would want the Antarctic Blue super sports wagon with the CB and optional Rally Fun Pack.

I agree. In my Air Force days, I worked on some mobile projects. Ironically, the Air Force and DoD refused to use anything but Blackberry because the company had an inability to completely "secure" the device. There were very senior (Air Force CIO) that were asking Apple to do this exact thing. Awesome job gubment.

This is true of so many cars on sale now... you're choice of black, grey, silver, white, slightly darker grey, off-white, and slightly darker black. Interiors too... would you like black, tan, or optional upgrade to grey—all available in low quality leather or 180-grit cloth.

You got to go with the 1-series. 128s still under original BMW warranty for around $20K pop-up from time to time. You can even buy them from CarMax with money left over for a warranty.

The AF looked at doing the blimp thing until they got the bill. In fact we were considering it precisely for WAMI and specifically ARGUS or Blue Devil. I'm not sure how excited the DOD is about the airship idea so the contractors are pushing them on DHS now.

The only thing that beats a plastic dealer plate frame is a broken plastic dealer plate frame. The tech overtightened the screw and it was cracked across the top, apparently they didn't want to spend another $0.25 at the claw machine at Chuck E Cheese so they just left it on there for me.

I worked on some of this when I was in AFRL... the real technical challenge is figuring out how to slow the laser beams down and adding color (red or green depending on which side you're on.)

This and the F-35 point to the larger problem of a fundamentally broken acquisition system. This is definitely not the only case where our national security is victim to this process. These poor budget decisions are just the visible reminders what a Charlie Foxtrot it has become.

Somebody got cut-off for the last time.

And kids, that is why you never drink and post.

I agree with some of his points but then he lost me when he compares the Apple Watch to his Patek Philippe Perpetual... Google it... that's comparing a $350 watch to one north of $100k.

I had the opposite problem when I was military. When I moved they made me cancel my service then signup again (at the time, AT&T had different regions and I was crossing them.) They never properly cancelled the previous accounts so when I called they were confused why I showed up with different accounts. They also…

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What is the new side button for?

My guess is those are two things they have not officially rated yet.

THIS is why Scotland will secede.

I expect the Chevy Volt dancers to come out at any moment!