Really? Like it or not, the Trump regime has legal authority to proscribe export of US technology without a license that is problematic to obtain, and there is no particular advantage for Google to spend more money than they would earn on a free-to-license product challenging the order. It’s up to Huawei to contest th…

Debt collectors are often working with information years out-of-date. One of the biggest scams is that if a lender or debt collector agrees to accept less than the whole amount owed, they can still sell the uncollected amount to another collector, generally progressively more sketchy and duplicitous as time goes on. I’…

More people having car loans than in 1999 doesn’t necessarily mean financing is more popular vs. other methods of acquisition; some of that increase reflects higher vehicle sales over the last several years vs. the late 1990s, and an increase in loan durations means more people have continuing payments.

It’s mildly interesting that these birds are somewhat exotic for the US and were mostly inadvertently introduced, but there are a variety of intentional introductions of non-native species, some of which have been studied for effect on native competitors. Famously, 100 European starlings were released to Central Park…

It depends on when this occurred, but the original shingles vaccine, Zostavax, was only approved for patients over 60. The current recommended vaccine, Shingrix, was only approved in 2017, but can be given to patients over 50.

As written, it’s 9; any ambiguity is caused by misinterpretation of typography and/or misunderstanding of mathematics.

Well, there are no longer many station wagons to base them on. And most people seem to want 4-doors, so the bed length gets compromised. And almost all pickups are now stanced at 4WD height even if they’re 2WD. So the question is, what is a Honda Ridgeline?—a 4-door, available AWD ute based on a car/crossover…

His Twitter opens with a quote from the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, with a link to his merch store. Truly, he is an inspiration for today’s young Americans.

This looks like a steam locomotive. A steam engine is what motivates it. Larger stationary engines exist.

And if your subject is vertically oriented, you will get a bunch of extraneous background distracting from it, just to calm morons who insist on watching devices for which the media wasn’t shot. People need to learn to cope with tech, or stop bitching; there is no universal aspect ratio.

It seems possible they were based on decades of US Navy combat information centers (CIC) which had transparent boards of various types marked on with grease pencils while the instruments on the outer perimeter—radar and sonar screens—were still visible through them, and also being readable from the reverse side after…

From when my office first acquired some Mac Pluses, my office mate was an advocate for the Kensington trackball, and after trying one I followed suit. Manipulating a large sphere with your fingertips just seemed more facile than moving your forearm from the elbow or your entire arm from the shoulder, and the…

After a supplier to Samsung Display secretly sold folding OLED design details to so-far-unnamed Chinese firms, Samsung Mobile Communications probably felt cheated of their opportunity and some pressure to still make it first.

For the same reason you can’t just pitch a tent and camp in the town square or have a party in a pavilion at the county park when you feel like it. It’s a free-market method of allocation of a limited public resource.

Ummm, they still sold the Scirocco alongside the Pickup back then, years before the GTI came to the USA.

There are a couple of things to remember. One is that Apple combats their rumor industry by spreading disinformation. The other is that, unable or unwilling to design a genuinely budget-friendly contemporary entry-level phone for emerging markets and prepaid carriers, Apple continues to build superseded models and…

I think that maybe more millenials have seen 1940s noir films than 1930s South Pacific adventures, so they “get” the parody of the former more than the latter? As an 60-ish person, I found going off on these tangents for an entire season hilarious, and I don’t understand the criticism of Danger Island vs. Dreamland. Sp…

It’s closer to magenta or fuchsia than purple/violet. The most similar ‘67 Toronado paint chip seems to be Burgundy Mist; maybe the brochure had faded before it was scanned, or there was some artistic license involved.

This myth is the equivalent of conservatives’ “You can file your taxes on a postcard” (yeah, because all the lines that used to be on the 1040 are now on 5 additional schedules; my return was 2 pages longer this year, and if you print, your’re not supposed to print more than one schedule per page even though they…

Hmmm, where I live it’s $32.99K. Plus $995 destination charge. Plus $3K for Sun & Sound Package to match or exceed the spec of the $32,795 Grand Touring Reserve; the Signature has higher-spec trims like the wood and ultrasuede dash and door cards, and Nappa leather that you need to move up to a Stinger GT2 for $51.2K…