...followed by the story about the guy being hailed a hero for standing up against the police surveillance state.

Drunk driving and distracted driving is already illegal, as is jay walking.

Yeah, it’s called ‘fortress mentality’ and it’s a direct result of people having kids and no actual problems in life, so they make them up like abduction and myriad other issues, up to and including needing the biggest 7-seater they can[’t] afford to put their one kid in.

I’ll catch heat for this, no doubt, but I’d definitely be in favor of only allowing trucks that are legit commercial vehicles in city centers--like construction and the like--not Bob driving his Ford Super Duty 350 dually to his office job.

No pity for the Buran. The bastards destroyed the equally impressive AN225 Mriya out of pure malice. Hope putin meets with an equally fiery death.

Would be awesome if the Smithsonian could get a hold of one and put in their museum, one of these should be preserved at a higher standard than I'm sure the one in the Russian museum is.  Really a unique piece of aviation history that is rotting away.

Illegal overfishing is what drove fisherman to piracy in the first place.

You aren’t going to believe this, but Senna and Schumacher were also insufferable assholes. 

Glad they’re getting it fixed, but I really hope this doesn’t impede the continued rollout of bus lane parking enforcement in NYC. One inconsiderate ahole can materially slow down the commute for an entire bus full of passengers, if the bus has to merge out of the bus lane and then back in again. We should let people…

Probably humans in India or Pakistan making $2 a day to look at images. The error rate for humans doing this work is particularly low given that the software was given incorrect information as to where the no parking zones were located and the humans would not be expecting to sort those out.

I miss the good old days when all it took to change a hurricane’s course was a Sharpie.

I understand the use of computers for perhaps 99.5% of every flight, and have no issues with that. But I fly b/c I have faith that the pilots have an equal desire to stay alive as I do (with some exceptions, Germanwings), and therefore will be Herculean in their efforts in a crisis to land us alive. I have no faith an…

Henry Ford built The Dearborn Inn, which opened in 1931 as the world’s first airport hotel, directly across the street from Ford’s airport. My father started working at The Dearborn Inn in 1946 and worked there for 40 years. I was a boiler operator there for 18 years until they closed for renovation in 1987. It should…

Trump triumphantly proclaims un-maintained Russian jets can fly to America, Dulles rendered inoperable as dozens of A340s that haven’t been lubricated since the Clinton presidency belly land and collapse on the runways.

Well I suspect after January they won’t have any trouble getting Boeing parts

WTF kind of shit is this? Is this site only rage bait now? Fine, I’ll bite. Oh, the poor moron just wants to assault the flight attendant and open the door of a plane mid flight, but you might find out that daddy didn’t hug him enough and that trauma built up over the years so he gets extreme anxiety whenever he…

“It’s tough to argue what’s the right and wrong move in situations like this”

I grew up with cell phones, my dad was an RF tech that got involved in setting up the towers back in the late 80s.

Yeah, I totally go make five-figure purchases specifically to tell the world I’m upset with a corporation’s CEO!

There’s two ways to ride with a pillion. The easy way, and the stupid way.