That's fantastic. So you know the difference between implementing something across a million domains and data silos. And designing a space simulator.

welcome... To how things really work. I know it might be a shock.

so how would you suggest amplifying that across the myriad of secondary outsourced firms that handle a variety of customer facing tasks such as mail outs using a broad myriad of technologies and systems that do not interface whatsoever?

one database. You think one database runs all of GM? I'm glad that IT degree isn't actually putting people on the moon.

my perspective is irrelevant. There is logic and then there is not logic. Go scroll the rest of the replies. I've had this same discussion a few times already and it's just beating a dead horse. Save me the grief of going through it a third millionth time.

no, thank YOU for playing. Unfortunately, like track and field, all you get is a "participant" ribbon. But hey, bodies in the field!

I was unaware I was making excuses. But if the best you can do is make snide turnarounds on my closing line I don't think you will carry much of an argument on the subject at all. So what's the point?

I would say it is if every person who walks in the door gets charged something different for the same product based on what the grocer feels he can fleece them for and the ability of the buyer to haggle down.

if I may, people in this day and age manufacture their own outrage in the pursuit of political and social haymaking. It's nearly a national past time at this point.

I'm just going to re-paste a reply I used above in a similar query.

it isn't so much a failure as simply the way it is. You really have to approach this from the angle of production, recalls, and notification. There are very few human elements, and certainly no set of staff in a shady office somewhere on campus whispering to one another "we must remove these 13 vins from our massive…

I think you should come frequent Oppositelock. We are a lot more receptive to intelligent commentary. I had a good chuckle at your comment here. It's true. I will probably never set foot on a dealer's lot again. Because of the variance. I can go to three different dealerships and get three different quotes.

but did all the myriad systems, in house as well as the countless third party solutions vendors who operate on a global basis, know how to keep track of them. And further, are all those systems automatically in sync?

this I know. Unfortunately there is a line where the reader's duties become a little lopsided. Where writers are writing things that should be more well thought out and balanced. A reader can only really compensate for so much.

tell me.

you forget a critical part of this. NASA and GM are two wholly different entities. Or did you miss that ;)

*waving*

Don't even get me started...

Jalopnik used to be. And that's terrible to say, but I get the sense that there was a time, and I know it existed because I was there, where there was a LOT more thought and insight on the table.

I wish I could just post this on the dogpile that is starting to roll in as a blanket "This guy said it better than I could have".