Well, both industries are staffed by people paid to make other people take it up the ass...

Ironically, the headphone jack is the one legacy port the new MacBooks still have.

On tractor trailers, I’ve noticed that the tread on the double width tires seems to match the width of a pair of normal tires, so I’m not sure the gap between the tires would actually be relevant--if the tires on that pickup truck hold to the same principle. Also, even though the wheel is wider, it would only need one…

Given that a truck like that would have originally had a dually tire setup on it, those wheels might actually have less rotational mass than the factory setup.

Yep. It’s an odd, but increasingly common sight seeing an 18-wheeler on the freeway with 10 wheels.

That’s understandable, but keep in mind that you might very well end up helping to kill your child instead. It’s one thing to pull someone out of a burning car after a normal collision, where emergency responders are probably minutes away and speed limits are reasonable. It’s another thing entirely to do that on a…

If rule 46b says not to cross the white line because the other side of the line is where I can get killed by a vehicle moving well over 150mph, or a sudden flare-up can engulf me in flames that my shorts will not protect against, then yes, I’m going to stay at a safe distance. Watching someone or something you love…

Agreed. Given the situation, the father put himself at risk of being the only fatality that day. 

Insomniac didn’t make that engine at Microsoft’s request. They had already made the engine for a previous title, so it was their code. Furthermore, Microsoft didn’t ask Insomniac to make Sunset Overdrive--that was an internally approved project at Insomniac. Microsoft basically just acted as a publisher and gave them…

Correction: Those were trademark issues, not copyright. Different set of laws. Otherwise, I wholeheartedly agree, and with the trademark laws were updated to be more sensible.

No big company would do anything blatantly illegal behind the scenes that might get exposed later. Just ask Volkswagen.

And Facebook made over $40 billion in 2017. It sure didn’t stop Zenimax (Bethesda’s parent company) from suing a Facebook-owned company (Oculus VR) and winning a $500 million judgment. When it comes to a legal battle, Zenimax and Bethesda are perfectly capable of holding their own against the big dogs.

Plus, it’s not affected by the cannon cooldown that happens if you get overrun. On the easiest levels, there’s no need to fire using the mouse button at all. On medium levels so far, I only bother mouse-clicking on the toughest enemies to supplement the [1] attack.

That’s more due to a general unwillingness to punish companies for being anti-consumer. Too many people were willing to buy those games anyway because they wanted to play them, principles be damned.

Not really. It’s surprisingly difficult to pick up all the glass bits from the side of the highway.

Good insurance covers things like flat tires.

Bumping into it is not the problem. The machine worked as designed by shutting down. The problem is that the person jammed their car under a roller. It’s really hard to make machinery that can handle every form of negligence—especially after an emergency shutdown—while still being a functional machine in the first…

Sure, people make mistakes. But it’s not common to make at least three mistakes of increasing escalation all at once. The first mistake was thinking it was necessary to drive through the machine while it was running. Ok, honest mistake. The second mistake was to try to force through the machine after it stopped;…

But the brushes were spinning and acting quite normal until well after the person started driving into them. It looks to me like the machine went into emergency shutdown once the car started doing something it wasn’t supposed to, and once that happened it wasn’t going to start again without intervention from the car…

I wouldn’t say the car wash took a shit, but rather went into emergency shutdown when the car started doing something it wasn’t supposed to. Lots of equipment is designed to immediately power down if certain fault conditions are detected. I certainly wouldn’t want spinning brushes to continue to flail about if…