As long as it doesn’t have a shitbox Renault engine, he’ll do just fine in the Dakar. Looking forward to seeing him in next year’s rally.

The 60-series Volvo surprises me. Although given the number I see on the roads, I can believe that number. I love my XC60 although it was custom-ordered.

I guess I’m just having a hard time with the notion of money for nothing. It seems completely counter intuitive that a credit card company would just give you free money. There has to be a catch like an annual fee that is more than the cashback would ever be, or something. I just can’t believe that the same…

Clearly I don’t. I would have also guessed that the cashback was considered taxable income but apparently that’s not true either.

Amex (linked to Delta) and Capital One Quicksilver. Chase can burn in hell for how they handled a fraud claim a few years ago. They left the money on the card and had the balls to try to charge me interest on it while they “investigated”. 

Ditto. I have two cards - one for big purchases like airline tickets, and one for emergencies that has never been used. Everything else goes through my debit card.

I choose a low APR in case I ever end up in a situation where interest is going to accrue (like I lose my job and can’t pay the full bill). If you’re paying your bill down before the billing date, I don’t understand how you’re seeing any ‘rewards’. Or do you let the bill come due and THEN pay it? I always pay my card d…

I guess I just prefer debit cards because the money is gone from my account so I can’t spend money I don’t have. With a credit card the temptation is always there to spend more than you have. For the record I’ve never paid interest on a credit card because I pay it off at the end of the month. Then again I only ever…

I’ve never paid interest either, but I also don’t ever see ‘rewards’ because of that. The ‘rewards’ are accrued at the end of the month - I always pay my card down long before the bill is due. I’ve had Chase and Amex cards and I don’t remember ever seeing a ‘reward’ for any purchase. Then again when I chose the cards…

Isn’t the ‘reward’ accrued at the end of the month? So if you pay it off right away you’re actually no better off than just using a debit card?

I’ve never understood the notion of credit card “rewards”.

“people who use their touchscreen mid-drive also frequently inadvertently turn the wheel”

Some of us would love to own a car like that, but for most people that would be a lifetime of saving.

“All things considered, the two series are about in the same ballpark.”

This all sounds like a lousy experience. Get your ass over to Europe and do this again. Amsterdam to Paris or Amsterdam to London. Either one. The time difference door-to-door is negligible (about 45 minutes more by train), the cost is much less, and the railways beat the airlines, hands-down, in every department from…

“Google has a history of launching and then abandoning products, even ones that users really love”

Corporations want to keep their shareholders happy. At quarter-end, as deadlines loom, software is released without proper testing just to check a box on the quarterly report. Do you really want that pushed to your car? Speaking as a software engineer who has to go through this every three months, I sure as fuck…

It’s scary how detached from reality Trump is. The guy has the understanding of a 5-year old. He can’t grasp even the simplest notions of demand-driven economy and basic business. Small wonder almost every business he touched crashed and burned. (steaks, vodka, mortgages, magazines, universities, casinos, bottled…

Putin wanted Trump to declare that the US was out so he could use that as an excuse to escalate and develop more weapons unconstrained. With the INF treaty in place, Russia was under constant scrutiny. For example when they tested that ground-launched cruise missile in 2008, INF observers indicated that it flew to…

My point is that we don’t NEED any more weapons. We could have stayed true and garnered more support from other countries to pressure Putin further. But by caving in, we’ve lost that advantage and squandered years of trust with our allies.