Except weed.

Jack Welch was a grandstanding fraud.  He used financial engineering and every MBA trick in the book to raise GE’s stock price--aka ‘shareholder value;’ sounds nice, doesn’t it?--while loading GE up with massive debt from stupid acquisitions.  Just like a couple Boeing CEOs.

But you mostly hear Harleys as they pass, not coming.  Look up “Doppler Effect.”

re: “... Save those $2.50 for a new spark plug or some anti-seize or an entire tool set from Harbor Freight, the glorious store for the cheap bastard in all of us, and one that seems to find the weirdest reasons to make sure it’s always having some sort of “sale” (Seriously, there’s a Leap Year Sale going on right…

“They have issues with systems communicating with each other, and think throwing 10000 people at it will somehow help with how they communicate, lol.”

re: “... I see this as a complete failure of the current MBA and engineering education system of the “west.”

I have a ‘55 T-Bird with the 292 V-8.  It’s a smallish land yacht, as far as handling goes.

re: “... Not mention if I wanted a Mustang you can buy a GT for less than that as well.”

OT: Our suspicions scientifically confirmed:

re: “Correct. The operator is mistaking something called ‘auto pilot’ for something that automatically pilots the car.”

All the CFLs I’ve installed lasted no longer than ordinary incandescents, and they contain mercury; do you really think everybody disposes of florescents properly?

Yeah, I want FREE STUFF and deficits to the moon, too.

4th Gear: I’ve always had a gut feeling the Japanese simply really don’t like/want gaijin running their companies.  Now I know for sure.

re: “... if we were able to trade oil for 50+ years with a bunch of Mideast and Venezuelan regimes who secretly hate us...”

re: “My wildest hope is that some thing that is already headed to a landfill could be a battery. The metal in aluminum, the leftover chicken carbonara, or something.”

“...check your 401k”

A (begrudged) star for you.

I had a ‘76 (IIRC). I cut the rear seats out.  I sometimes wonder what I was thinking—well, I had a girlfriend that was a skier—but I put over 100K miles of (mostly) trouble-free miles on it (I did have a CV joint go out), and a couple of my nephews drove it to 175K miles.

I saw a new Ranger in the parking lot at Lowe’s the other day; it didn’t look to be much longer or wider than my ‘96 Ranger Extended Cab (but was about a foot taller).

“It seems like Nissan drivers are the new a-holes of the road. Driving like dicks or very, very slowly.”