Best way to deal with congestion is congestion pricing.  City has done a bit of that, but should do more.  The Move NYC plan would be an excellent start, but it keeps running into opposition from outer borough council members and state legislators who have constituents who believe that it’s their god-given right to…

The apps have definitely improved the black car service experience (although at times not wildly, I was typically able to get a car in midtown in <10 mins in many cases), and no doubt that has eroded the value of the exclusive street hail.  

A watch has been added, looks like it reads 9:45.

I went Nice Price, but the altered front end and the two different (and both ugly) wheel choices make my Spidey Sense tingle a bit.  If it were stock, then definitely NP. 

“Uh, hello?! Because they CHEATED so they didn’t have to pay the $700K for a medallion or pay their drivers like employees. Are you fucking kidding with this shit?”

The large majority of the medallions were sold for essentially nothing, back in the 1930s. There are only a couple hundred (out of 13k or so) medallions that were sold by the city for over $250k, and essentially all of those went to speculators.  Medallions sold for $250k in 2004, then ran up, in a speculative bubble,…

In NYC, Uber and Lyft are fully licensed car service companies, all their vehicles have commercial plates, and the drivers have commercial licenses. They’re following all the relevant rules that car services have followed for decades.

From the article, sounds like they had a CO2-based fire suppression system, and once they triggered it, the fire was rapidly put out.  

Why?  Also, even if you set up international mail forwarding with the post office, it doesn’t last forever, and she’d clearly been working overseas for quite a while. 

If you’re an Autobot, yes.  If you’re Megatron or Soundwave, you need a ride.

Relax, don’t worry, everything’s Feynman. 

It’ll depend on the actual facts of how the sale went down, and (most likely) on how involved the dealer was in facilitating the sale.  If Cena called them up out of the blue and said he had one to sell, and they found a buyer, and can credibly claim they didn’t know about the resale prohibition, they should be fine. …

From the coverage I’ve read, it sounds like the contract here was very badly handled from Ford’s end, so that there apparently isn’t a piece of paper with “you may not sell the car within 24 months” somewhere on it and John Cena’s signature at the bottom.  Since the card was technically sold by a dealer, that may have…

Ugh, we have been over this a hundreds times. These kinds of contracts are unenforceable.

I’m certainly not saying Ford’s claim is a slam dunk here, there’s a lot they’d presumably have to show (again, speaking generally, by no means an expert on CA law, or even a lawyer), including that the dealer knew about the terms of Cena’s contract with Ford, and that the dealer at least to some degree encouraged…

“How can Ford enforce clauses on an outside party not part of the agreement? Sure they can sue Cena for breech of contract depending on specifics but this should be a non starter.”

Sure, they could up the manufacturing capacity if they wanted to. It’s not like the GT’s engine requires the blood of one particular individual, who can only give so many pints per week without dying.

Basically, these guys have standardized the “person in the US does measurements, people in Asia make the suits and ship them” model that’s long been done in the form of “Mr. XYZ will be visiting your city on June 2-4, and is available for appointments for measurements and fabric selection at the Hilton.”

Basically, these guys have standardized the “person in the US does measurements, people in Asia make the suits and…

“which commonly have enough assets to trigger the tax”

As noted above, we’re talking about roughly 1 in 500 people being affected.  It’s not just the top 1%, it’s the top 1/5 of 1% who pay any estate tax at all.