hey believe the robbers are part of a group of young Hispanic men in their teens and 20s specifically targeting taco vendors.

This is the most expensive Z32 configuration you could buy back in the day. Nissan intentionally left the turbos off because they thought it would be too expensive for people to then want to spend the extra for the turbos.

Is that the same software that wouldn’t unlock someone’s car because it was too far below ground level, in a parking structure?

I’d listen to your wife. She seems like a very smart woman. 

Five years from now:

I live in the NYC area where incomes are high. We do pretty well and I try to remind my kids of that- keep them somewhat grounded considering there’s a homeless shelter 5 blocks from my comfortable home. I don’t think people realize how that final 1% is sliced up. In the NYC area someone in the 1% ($600k) is a dual…

a polished turd if ever there was

Nearly $5000 for a $2 T-shirt? Well, There’s a sucker born every minute. At least they’re in good company:

Yet the same people are worshipping St-Reagan, the architect of that wealth cleavage.

Some things only exist to keep the super wealthy from running out of things to buy.

Sounds like bullshit to me.

Looks only slightly better than a graphic tee you’d find at a Ross, Marshalls, or TJ Maxx.

...and that doesn’t even account for the fact that even 5% interest (which you can get on a simple Treasury Bond these days) on $1B nets you $50M a year, so it would take him even longer than that to run out of money.

Mulch the rich.

People often get annoyed with me when I point out that a household income in the low $100k range puts them in the top 20% of our area. By ~$120k it doubles the median household income, but remains less than half to even get into the top 5%. Income disparity graphs are depressing. 

I posted this in an article on gizmodo but it feels more appropriate here.

About 8 years ago me, my wife and daughter watched an orb of some kind, from our balcony, slowly approach over Lake Ontario and then pass right over a major urban street and slowly pass beside our building. Over the lake it looked like a ball of fire, which is what caught our attention, but as it got closer the…

So, if this guy was ‘only’ a 1 billionaire, he could pay $138,000 a day for 7,246.4 days, or almost 20 years before he was out of money. Or if it stays a weekly charge, he could keep it parked for 140 years. Not counting the cost of the yacht, of course.

Fucking assholes. And I know a lot of people are going to flame me for saying this but here we are in a world where people are literally starving or barely able to make it and then there are these kinds of people, blowing more money on a fucking parking spot for their stupid yachts than most people make in a year. …

Thats doesn’t even seem that high. From what I understand it takes about 20% the cost of the yacht annual for crew, expendables, upkeep and fees. For Octopus (the unnamed Yacht in question), they say it’s about 29 million annually for upkeep, which is relatively light given its 295 million purchase price.