“habit of snapping up car companies almost solely because it could”

Not to defend Colonial, but they are a business and they’re in business to make money. Also, the computer systems have replaced the manual paper systems of yore. You can’t just suddenly grab a pad of paper and a calculator to replace complex automated billing systems and having them on standby doesn’t really make…

Indeed, it is unclear. But that won’t stop Clickbat News Network from making a story before they know all the facts.

This post paints a really bad picture without full understanding of how IT infrastructure works. When the good folks down in IT see an activity spike and files start becoming encrypted, they shut everything off in order to isolate the threat. It’s kind of like closing fire doors. Unfortunately this sometimes means…

yah, that’s the nuance we often see in racing. exploit a loophole. it’s not illegal, but it often leads to closing of the loophole. So if you continue it, it’s illegal. but up to that point, technically legal.

I get why it’s so contentious, though.  the messaging around it certainly gives the impression of where…

That’s exactly what they should be doing. Remember there’s a spending cap in place now so every euro that they spend in this year’s car, is an euro that they don’t spend on next year’s car.

That would be amazing! So many government managers, school administrators, and city council members would be thrown in prison if this were the case. (government is the worst when it comes to security)

I’ll put this in perspective. I work for a huge company.

There are different rules for private sales vs. dealers. That one of these real men of genius was a convicted felon who should not have had access to firearms is just icing on the cake for the prosecutors.

It is a nomenclature quibble that may or may not be important, depending on context. Here the salient point is that a one-shot-per-trigger-pull semiautomatic was converted to fully automatic by replacing certain internal parts, which is possible for certain design patterns (most famously though not exclusively the…

I was going to say the same thing; it’s the switch that is illegal, not the pistol per se. You’d think that if his job is to simply repost stories that other people wrote, he could get the salient facts correct.

I didn’t think it was even possible to illegally sell a firearm in Texas

An AR pistol by its self does not make it a “machine gun” nor is it illegal to own an AR pistol (provided it meets pistol requirements). Adding a drop in auto sear however does make any AR an illegal machine gun. 

Any weapon that fires more than one round per trigger pull is classified as a machine gun under Title II of the National Firearms act. Due to that level of specificity, it has allowed clever people to come up with all sorts of devices to assist your finger pulling the trigger.

Not likely. If the idiots hired a GM who had served 15 years for GTA and murder, and a simple background check for $20 would have shown that fact at time of hire, they are likely either complicit or so stupid that they would assume it was a legit transaction.

Not sure what you’re getting at with this statement. It is not typical of anybody in the “right wing media” ( a small but enthusiastic bunch) to criticize the government for pursuing criminals who bought guns illegally. And two guys selling guns out of their demo vehicle has nothing to do with Fast and Furious, which…

This is a misunderstanding of what impacted the auto industry prior to and during the recession.

- Gas prices were increasing prior to the recession. When the recession hit prices cratered.

If Formula E wants to be taken seriously, they need to ease up on the gimmicks. The fan boost thing is silly. Diminishing power because of a safety car is even sillier and I’ve hated it for awhile. Safety cars/cautions are part of racing and always throw an interesting wrench into strategies, it’s fun to watch teams…

Or just...modulate the throttle. 

Maybe if you learn how the throttle works and didn’t aonly have two settings of 0 and 100....