Wait, is “Patina” a real thing people try to do? Like, I could charge extra when I try to sell my car for the all-natural Michigan Authentic Patina on my rear quarter panel?

They’re also charging about 700 dollars for about 50 bucks worth of gold leaf. 

Tickets run about 280 million bucks each.

And what am I doing in the grays again?  This the kind of quality content so many people are missing out on!

There’s a suspicious number of Greek/Egyptian names going on with this condom naming thing. Two Egyptian, two Greek, and one generic royalty.

I’m surprised there’s no car that I can find called the Sheikh.

There IS however;
Cobra
Romeo
Marathon
Mustang
Panther AND Jaguar
Goliath

No Pullman though. Nor Interceptor. Nor Fury

And…

If you REALLY want that prestige, get a Mercedes badge of ebay and put it on your Kia.  The kind of people you want to impress wouldn’t know the difference anyways.

The only sequel to Avatar that makes sense is humanity showing up in orbit and spending the next two hours carpet bombing the Navi into blue salsa from space.

FLIR.  Forward Looking Infra Red.  Not bubble gum and trading cards.

So, you just photoshopped a giant taco into an unrelated still from the movie to prove your point, right?  The dude is actually handing someone a piece of exhaust pipe or a tool or something.

“Built on the principles of depth, hierarchy, consistency and legibility, the user will be able to see and experience the interface in a way that is safe, easy to use and understand.”

That’s great. But in my car, a 20 year old Chevy shitbox, I can experience the interface without needing to see it at all, because…

What was the fuel economy like for those things? Because I heard some candidate talking about how we had cars with great fuel economy back in the day, and I’m thinking “yeah, with zero emissions controls, running on leaded gas, with none of the safety features that are now mandatory, a crumple zone that was the…

Meanwhile, Seattle’s looking at this, going “Hmmm...”

While it’s not as immediately impressive, a similar thing happened in Virginia near Williamsburg. Almost seventy cars in a mass pileup due to fog and ice. And on the same highway, but an hour or so away through the mountains, you’ll occasionally hear a smash... smash... smash... as car after car winds up in a mega…

We know that what makes a droid a droid can easily be self contained in a tiny part of the actual chassis, most likely the head, as seen in that one combat droid, and also C-3P0 in Cloud City.

So where’s the droids wearing flesh like a human?  Where’s the Terminator droids, with droid armor and reflexes, but looking…

Hey, at least they’re putting it out there somewhere right away, rather than just making it up on the spot years later after someone brings the subject up.

Re: Why are we even bothering to drive.

That’s the idea.  Make it so arduous to drive that people don’t.

No, money down!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-illusion-of-being-observed-can-make-you-better-person/

So here’s the real question. Since we know that the transporter buffer can hold a record of someone in place (see Thomas Riker) and we know that it is turning energy into matter, and since the replicator is turning energy into matter, how often does Worf tell the replicator to talk to the transporter so he can consume …

I’d like to just point out that I was talking about the stupid expensive key in that very article on the slightly less but still very stupid expensive key.

Also, yeah, it’s going to spend most of the time in your pocket.  That’s why it’s UNDERSTATED and subtle elegance.  Or they’re just going to try to sell you a hat…