I mean I’m not an engineer but basic common sense would tell you there should be a rim on the inside such that the plug won’t fit through the hole (bolts or no bolts) unless pulled inside and turned.

Wright says he was also compared to ...“Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka.”

Creep (and most of Pablo Honey) is practically by another band. They were part of the alt-rock scene from the get-go, but a totally different lane. They played Creep on MTV’s Beach House back in the day.

What, you want AVC comments unplugged as well??

Prestige television > shoe commercial, I guess.

Classic Rock as a label doesn’t have much of a meaning anymore. I remember the first time I heard REM on classic rock radio I about crashed my car. But Radio Free Europe is 40 years old at this point and was released before Zeppelin’s Coda. When I was a kid you had oldies up through British Invasion (Berry, Beatles…

My main question re: Alaska Air is whether this was a design problem, or a relative handful of people screwed up REALLY badly (didn’t replace bolts, inspector(s) didn’t check to see if bolts were replaced).  Seems like if the bolts had been where they were supposed to be this would never have happened.  I’m also not…

The current situation actually does given them cover to make long-term changes that will damage short-term profitability. Stock market may not like it, but if you have a board installed for purposes of reputation rehabilitation then ultimately it would be good for both safety and profitability. Plus the auto bailouts…

Yeah maybe she was just being specific?

Yeah these stories come off like a guy who just doesn’t understand limits as long as he finds the result funny. Not surprising given his origins.  Doesn’t mean she has to like it, though.  

Index funds.

There  are also the national security implications of Boeing failing (or more likely being severely hobbled). This isn’t Chrysler we’re talking about.

Yeah but that was the result of outright deliberate fraud. Being bad or careless at your job isn’t going to rise to that level of punishment.  But he should volunteer to forego whatever severance is in his contract (not holding my breath).

Board directors have long had full protection via directors & officers insurance policies that cover liability for anything other than criminal wrongdoing. That makes a board role something that is taken only as seriously as the director himself makes it. Granted they can be voted out but again absent some sort of…

I don’t know, people can get nuts over the most trivial things.  Could have been a “NOT TODAY, ASSHOLES!” kind of moment for our “hero.”

I’m gonna be really curious to see what happens when 2030 rolls around. Zero new ICE sales six years from now?

It’s already happening. Everyone but Tesla is taking a bath on EVs right now and the money has to come from somewhere.

If this had been almost any time other than 4AM there’s probably someone parked at those pumps.  

And I read Ann Arbor as meaning the driver was likely a student, which may not be true.