"...and V8 pony cars for under $12000,"

That's all well and good, but that excuse misses the mark when you look at the 30-pin connector having basically a similar, "problem." Moreover I'm with you in that none of my multitudinous MicroUSB devices or cables have ever failed.

Why not MicroUSB...like the rest of the planet?

So a car that's shitty enough to lose control under braking gets "above average" in the braking section. If the braking system is crap, it doesn't matter how giant the rotors are or how nice the ceramics are. If the thing can't brake, it shouldn't get an above average score.

Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a good choice here, if an odd one. It tells the coming of age of the main character and his brothers as flashbacks, as well as some of the kids on the main character's block in Ontario, Canada in the present.

CDs are 2 channels of LPCM audio, each signed 16-bit values sampled at 44100 Hz. LPCM is used for the lossless encoding of audio data. CDs are just WAVs, basically. MP3 audio is lossy in that information is removed to make the files smaller.

For what they're designed to do, the market segment, and the quality the Golf R interior is as good as the XJL. Now perhaps it's not as good as the XJL in terms of absolute quality, finish or fit, but VW makes some damn fine interiors (or rather, did before they went down-market in the states) for the market segment.

I was introduced by my wife (girlfriend, at the time) to the concept of buying used CDs from a couple of stores in Portland (OR). 3-6USD per album is great. In fact, I just picked up the 10-disc Led Zep box set for 38USD, it goes for 80-120 online. I get a physical, lossless backup of every album I buy, and I can put…

These aren't absolute scales that Jalopnik is using here. They're looking at the intent of the vehicle.

I'm too lazy to look back in the [retarded] Kinja history, and I'm pretty sure some other designer pedant asshole already told you this, but the text at the bottom of the first image (set in Myriad) isn't set in Myriad, it's set in Avenir.

Shitty Construction company?

Ouch!

A year ago I broke my left humerus near the elbow. It wasn't very good at anything for about a month. Luckily I only needed a temporary brace for the first week after surgery, but the arm was more or less out of commission for about two months before I started really doing PT with it.

"Go to your room!"

The wifi tip is the best, most dramatic way to change your usage. My data usage went from 2gb per month down to just 200mb by using wifi at home and at work.

There's a lot of very big problems—clean drinking water in many African nations, disease and cancer research, education funding and reworking here in the states—that could be fixed with the money they're slinging at frivolous things like designer clothes, expensive alcohols, $250k+ cars. That's were my righteous…

Interactive erotic software. The wave of the future, Dude. One hundred percent electronic!

Online disinhibition effect.