We need to beat on the fact that telecom companies are reliant on PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY to maintain their networks, and that even non-subscribers of the networks are impacted by telecom maintenance work.

This is a point that I and a small number of others have been hitting in comment sections (and hopefully letters to…

I’m not a fan so I don’t know about all this higgledy piggledy about being true to the story and all this, but I’m a dude and even I wouldn’t mind waking up in Scarlett Johansson’s body. It would take some adjustment and leaving the house for the first year might be out of the question, but I’d make it work.

I’m not sure that I agree with the immigration angle. I’m not an anti-immigrant Trumpette, but I don’t necessarily think that should count as NATO spending. It’s not defense spending. Spending on beefing up border controls and methods to assess immigrants as they come seems reasonable to count because it…

I disagreed with you a lot in the Gawker days, but then you would always drop a really self-aware quality article in there. Good on ya.

Since everyone asks when I tell this story I’ll say it in advance: yes this really happened.

I bought a used Grand Cherokee that I specifically bought to not detail and keep super clean. After several typical Jeep failures/issues I wasn’t mean to it, but I certainly saw it as a beater...

I had a 4th gen Maxima back in the day. Not a fast car but it had 235 summer tires and suspension, so it had WAY more grip than it ever had speed. SUV was tailgating me and I did exactly the same thing...maintained the speed limit right through the exit. No crash, but definitely some tire smoke!

‘being a Star Trek fan means the badness is a richer, deeper “fuck you” than it is for the casual viewer’

I saw him speak at a security conference a while ago. I rolled my eyes at his comments on American exceptionalism, but overall I found him to be a pretty thoughtful and interesting guy. He has some quotes out there that are a little scary, but I don’t think that reflects on how he would approach this type of role. …

I find the predictive aspect concerning for all the same reasons but, at the same time, we haven’t really defined what, “intervention” would look like. It seems like the assumption is that intervention would involve law enforcement, be mandatory, involve the criminal justice system, etc. All of these things are prima…

Yea, I thought these cars went for way less than this one is!

Put this thing at $25k or so and I might be in!

What, exactly, makes Trump not a legitimate president? I don’t like him at all, but there really isn’t anything other than his obvious stupidity and conflicts of interest which call his legitimacy into question. Even if the government’s hacking allegations are 100% true, despite the fact that they have provided no…

That’s a pretty crappy, vague, and extremely high level summary that doesn’t really present anything in the way of facts or even polls to back up what it is saying. It’s just an assertion with not much behind it.

The report doesn’t present any evidence at all. I’m not discounting the idea that Russia had a desire to interfere and did interfere with our elections, but so far there is nothing beyond trust of our intelligence agencies to back this up. There is no doubt that our intelligence agencies do many valuable things for…

It was never anything but a gimmick to sell TV’s. In the 70's you had curved screens for projectors, then TVs became less and less curved until a, “flatscreen” was the thing to have. Manufacturers then created curved screens to sell more TVs and told everyone THAT was the thing to have. It’s all marketing BS. …

As someone who had bronchitis more times than I can possibly count growing up - yea, no kidding. At least now that I’m an adult they will give me codeine cough syrup, which actually works.

Disclaimer - this is not a meaningful comment in line with how deep the article goes. Women definitely have their work cut out for them in Trump’s America, as do a lot of people who aren’t straight white males. Our society is way more fucked up than a lot of us realized.

I’m not claiming this was true in your…

Not a Trump supporter at all, but this strikes me as trying to find another thing about him to whine about. The F35 program is fucked and, honestly, as much as we are already in to it, it might be better for America over the long term to show defense contractors that they need to produce results and not just…

One potential issue with this is whether the system pays any attention to cars behind you. Now, bear with me because I know 95% of people have absolutely no awareness whatsoever as to what is happening behind them, but in some cases it can be better to steer to avoid the crash (including going into the breakdown lane…

As long as the diarrhea is controllable, we’re all set.