I wonder if it can turn all 4 wheels into each other so it can rotate in place.

Who buys this?

As others have pointed out, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In some ways their fan base holds them back more than anything else.  Jettisoning them could free them.

Holy crap.  I didn't know that Romano Fenati was in a videogame.

Well, there you go then.  It has a clear warning label on it, problem solved.

I agree. I like to say that it’s like reading a car and driver’s “body language”. I can’t describe it really, or teach it, but after 20 years of driving I definitely pick up on it.

Makes parking easy.

European big city? With decent public transport? You’re probably fine without.

Believe it or not, when I was briefly in AFROTC I learned a little bit of trivia. With aerial refueling the limiting factor is engine oil. Jets can operate continuously only for so long.

Not quite. I spent 13 years at a very small (12 people) manufacturer of laboratory robots. I am proud of our work there. We did things there that no company that small has any real business doing and somehow the company has survived for 35 years. But our recent downturn is the worst we have ever seen, and I hate to…

Actually, almost but not quite. The history of Buicks in China go back to 1908, when the last Qing Emperor of China, Puyi, bought a Buick as his first state car. Then Sun Yat-sen, the president of the 1912 Chinese republic, used a Buick as a state car. Then the first premier of the PRC, Zhao Enlai, also favored Buicks…

I have said before, “their club, their rules”, but I agree. Having the rules posted somewhere explicitly would be nice. I don’t mean buried in the EULA legalese. I am sure it’s there. I mean more on the level of a mall “code of conduct” sign. And a loose guideline to the process of being ungreyed.

I’ll still be here.  But I will likely be a nights and weekends poster for awhile at least.

I miss usury laws.

The Root is special with special considerations. Fundamentally it’s a publication targeted at a minority group that has long been marginalized. I fully understand why they would want their associated community to be a carefully curated “safe space”. They don’t get many of those, and I don’t begrudge them having their…

I think “apartheid” is a little harsh. At the end of the day it’s their club and they are free to let in and not let in who they choose.

No, not really. The company I am with now has some passing vague similarities to Elio, but the company I am going to is less Tesla and more GE. Think large multinational conglomerate.

Doesn’t work that way. It only works for the thread I am posting in, and only for one time.

Boom

I remember talking to a business colleague in Caen, France. He said that every year come May the town gets at least one clueless tourist who asks where the film festival is.