Jony Ive: We made the iphone thinner... but to do so we had to remove the headphone port... so those $300 beats headphones you bought from us, are no longer going to work with your phone. We also added a second camera, which makes the camera bump even larger... so really the phone isn’t thinner than the bulge, but we…

The problem with this argument is that literally nobody thinks the people of North Korea are somehow “bad.” This isn’t some cultural misunderstanding, nobody’s sitting there going “Gee, man, I don’t know about those 5 year-old North Korean dirt farmers. They seem pretty sketchy.”

Just because something is classified doesn’t mean it should be classified. The NSA thrashing the 4th Amendment in this country is something that everyone suffers a little bit for, and as for those “innocent lives”, how many of them were black ops agents pulling shady bullshit overseas?

Who is more worthy of contempt?…

For his sake, he should be doing everything in his power to get Hillary elected. I have no doubt Trump would get Russia to turn him over (probably giving Putin something in return) and would have to face president who has publicly stated he should be executed.

I’M SCREAMING

This is terrible and dangerous advice. There is no way that buying furniture with credit card debt in any way could ever put you financially ahead.

I can do a lot of illegal things with a car, but none of them are the dealers concern. Not to mention it should not be illegal to sell your vehicle for export in the first place, especially since the whole deal here seems to be protectionism of MB’s profits. If someone is willing to pay big bucks for a MB but cannot…

Why do you feel sorry for the dealership? They were allegedly assholes to this customer and the will lose future business because of it.

This is good advice. But it is hard to follow. Especially since I love drinks 3 and 4 most of all.

This sounds like a coverup to me. I assume what actually happened is that she unhinged her jaw, stretched her mouth open to the size of a manhole cover, and then seized these staffers with her tentacles, shoving their bodies whole into her gaping maw, later regurgitating their bones and clothes in compact pellets.

Riiiiight. Not to pander to anti-vax voters.

Actually you bring up a very good point. Search the Leaf forums. Nissan dealers are universally reviled as being completely ignorant of the Leaf, reluctant to sell it, and often times actively attempt to steer sales to other cars.

Factually incorrect. If you mean ultrahigh REPAIR you may have a point. And that will improve. It has to. EVs have massively fewer moving or lubricated parts. MAINTENANCE on the other hand is virtually zero.

Yes. This was before I met my wife. Otherwise, I would have told her leave the dealership. I heard this story from her as we were dating. She went in asking specifically for AWD because she used to live in upstate NY where she drove in snow and the salesperson talked her out of it and gave her that nonsense.

here’s the thing- I’m pretty sure most if not all automakers would like to be able to sell cars direct to consumers too. I think the only reason they’ve publicly come out against Tesla is more of a “we’re stuck using independent dealers, why should you get an exception?”

Counterpoint: The BMW salesperson told my wife back in 2010 that the 3 series was front wheel drive. He also said all cars are FWD nowadays and that which wheels driving the car was inconsequential. He also said AWD is superfluous. Then he proceeded to sell my wife the clearcoat package, extended service warranty,…

I can’t find the interview, but Mr. Pang was quoted as saying he doesn’t understand any English whatsoever, so he had no idea what the all English system warnings, user agreements, or commands to retake control of the vehicle meant, so he ignored them. Trying to use an autopilot system in an unfamiliar area, at night,…

I woke up and read this story on CNN. It left me teary and angry. A young woman with opinions murdered by her own brother just for being a young woman with opinions. The waste, the loss... it’s hard to process. How does a society hope to thrive if it threatens half its members with murderous violence for the crime of…

apropos of nothing, airglow over the azores: