“I’ve waited long enough already” doesn’t fit all that nicely with the picture of a dude that put a lot of effort into intentionally running to the bleeding edge of a contractual agreement for the sake of spite.

That’s a way more nuanced discussion than “actually paying taxes” as in many cases they are paying those taxes and in others there is a legitimate debate as to the appropriateness of some of those taxes, regardless of blanket statements about contract vs. full-time labor.

Contra proferentem: ambiguity favors the party which did not draft the contract. language seems to have been drafted in an intentionally vague manner, too, probably to prevent some rogue employee from causing a PR shitstorm by trying to deny a claim. Only thing the agreement is trying to prevent is a car getting…

Why would they be paying taxes on negative taxable income?

Yup, I’ve definitely had this shroom trip, but it was on the state capitol lawn in Austin instead of a lakebed.

Let’s not get carried away with thinking about this for longer than 15 seconds.

Nope, that’s just cured up automotive paint. After sculpting them in clay they place some kind of clay peel product down and then prime and paint like you would a normal car.

On the current E Coupe B-pillar strip is just part of the window frame which rolls down with the window. The tiny bit of window on the C-pillar doesn’t roll down right now, but it’s a different shape to the new C-pillar window so who knows.

All of this aero is going to ruin the wheel to wheel racing!

FitBit isn’t buying branding or customer relationships or any of the other things that go with the sale of the equity of a company. Customer loyalty has no bearing because FitBit is buying IP to use in their own products, not to do anything with Pebble’s existing products.

Often qualifying behind the retiring Massa

Bottas to Mercedes in exchange for Werhlein and funding to Williams via Mercedes is the likely scenario in my mind. Mercedes has stated that they’re not going to poach anyone currently under contract, so some kind of deal like that is the only way a current driver is going to wind up at Mercedes given that the entire…

Really don’t understand why FOM insists on doing this to Austin and Mexico.

Because airline customers continue to display tremendous price elasticity in the face of all other variables. You’re absolutely right that airline execs don’t relish the “bus with wings” concept, but that’s how consumers treat flying.

Tiff and Vicki Butler-Henderson’s Evo vs. STI shootouts were also on that list of random clips, always so great.

What a time it was, waiting 45 minutes for the download of a 15 second clip that may or may not have contained the ever so brief flash of a nipple.

This takes me way back. My very first exposure to Top Gear was small pre-reboot clips that bounced around p2p sites like Kazaa and Morpheus along with Fifth Gear clips; the very first one I remember is actually from one of Clarkson’s specials, a clip of someone at Ferrari blowing up a 456:

$50k hot rod? Sure.

Really doesn’t help that LeEco is about to (but maybe not) have $2 billion wrapped up in the purchase of Vizio, a company that was about to IPO at a valuation somewhere less than $1 billion.