Perhaps the Sony raid was just a scouting raid to see if it could be done

The Honda debacle is a recent symptom of Japanese quality going down - although that's also a function of car electronics becoming a lot more complex since the 90s. Japanese quality was untouchable compared to American quality in the late 80s to late 90s. Lately, even Lexus is getting some systemic failures. Honda…

well it's probably all done by the chinese to be honest. NK is just the patsy in all this.

it might be similar to gluten allergy

well it's bout mission focus. Sony is not expecting to be targeted by a nation with a specialized cyber-warfare intelligence agency. Sony is built like a mansion with a decent alarm system and a steel safe embedded in the concrete floor. North Korea is ramming a tank through the mansion's door and pulling the safe…

Well, it's brash but I agree that American car companies have acted very poorly toward its customers. By poorly, I include knowingly keeping unsafe cars on the road that are known to kill its occupants due to known defects.

I recall hearing that some of the shows where people got a free house ended up losing them over some of the tax liability issues. can anyone confirm whether the value of the house given can be counted as "income" and therefore taxed accordingly as though you made that much that year?

yes but it is concentrated through man-made processes and the amounts we ingest can be wildly different and higher than what you would get from nature. It's like saying fructose is a natural substance but our dysfunctional dietary habits can lead to overconsumption to the point of negative impacts on health.

that is odd because in the case of automobiles, I can understand a certain level of vanity involved in selecting one brand over another even if they're the same platform and performing cars from one big company (Lexus v. Toyota). But with industrial machines such as a combine or tractors, I would think that the…

this seems like a bullshit story

My impression has always been that the Corvette was an upscale version of the F-bodies (back when they used to exist) Camaro-Trans-am with better performance across the board. It's actually impressive to observe the evolution the Corvette underwent in a couple of decades. It went from a heavy all-show and no-go to a…

yeah I'm grateful now take your jacket and sit down.

did it have some kind of GPS that relayed its location during the flight or radar contact during the time it disappeared?

Autrey should have shut the fuck up once the attendant informed him it was against policy but he pushed for it and now it's national news. What fucking egomaniac. You want your jacket to hang in first class, buy a first class ticket. Everyone should play by the rules. That jacket is not intended to be used as a…

right but I think the article is pointing to policies (such as loosened credit regulations) as facilitating the purchase of new cars or lease of new cars at year X resulting in a delayed effect of a surge of used cars hitting the market, thereby depressing the equilibrium price due to this high supply. The market…

yeah a lot of keys have a passive RFID and those are embedded inside plastic so they're well shielded from things like water and heat. I was responding more on this idea of the article's proposal to use technologies similar to a USB thumb drive where you need metal-on-metal connection and circuitry that is…

what you actually want is something that won't die if you drop it in water or gets fried if it goes through a cycle in a clothes dryer. What you need is a decent mechanical lock. The real theft deterrent will be the manual transmission. If you really need an automatic, couple the fuel pump circuit or the ignition…

No and it's too bad in a nostalgic way because now, there is no urgency to "catch" a show. Shows aren't like appointments to meet. They're just like a book to check out. And people don't talk about it in detail anymore - for fear of being a spoiler jerk - and so the talk is vague.. "game of throne is great...…

all these defense contracts aren't gonna just renew themselves ... oh wait, never mind, they will.

is this thing bumping into stuff a lot?