Assuming you work for a corporation, your employer doesn’t employee you out of the kindness of it’s (nonexistant) heart. CEOs and corporations don’t create jobs either; the job is created by the demand for the work you do and the productivity you achieve in your job. If any given corporation didn’t “create” your job…

Well, those dishes aren’t going to clean themselves... take one for the team now and count the days till she’s old enough to do the dishes herself. Then spend a year or two being frustrated becuase kids either over crowd the dishwasher or half fill it (sometimes both) and can never put stuff back in the right place.…

Obviously none of this is meant to be actually used, becuase anybody could do any of this much easier with any number of common vehicles and accessories. an every day minivan with some coolers and camp chairs works better for an impromptu picnic. And these rich people presumably have all sorts of fancy picnic stuff…

Well luckily it’s a car that’s not meant to be driven so we’re probably safe.

Well, at least it’s not an Aznom Palladium.

eccentric weirdo is the best case scenario, most people have to settle for typical rich guy asshole

My guess it the salesman made a very nice commission on that sale.

Sure, each explosion is obviously very expensive. But it’s also great advertising, so they probably don’t mind them blowing up now and then if it gets attention (which it obviously has since we’re talking about it). 

Taiwan has never declared independence from China. Both governments technically claim to be the true government of both mainland china and Taiwan. The Republic of China was the Goverment of china after World War II, and Taiwan had been held by Japan since 1885. at the end of the war, japan had to relinquish Taiwan,…

Plus as chairman he has a fiduciary duty to protect the financial interests of his shareholders. So the board can’t force him to make any single decision, and they can’t really complain if he makes some bad decisions here and there (as you state, they bought shares knowing that he holds a controlling stake). But if he…

I think they’d come under quite a bit of anti-trust pressure if they tried to do that though.

I think (with a few exceptions) The Simpsons got pretty darn good again for a while maybe 8-3 years ago. The last two seasons the writing has felt a bit tired to me but honestly it’s good for a laugh and that’s more than can be said for quite a few network comedies. It’s simply not fair to compare it to the first 11…

Its a fascinating topic, becuase technically they’re both right, in the sense that there’s never been an event or a treaty that caused Taiwan to become a separate state. There is the argument that Japan ceded Taiwan at the end of WWII without ceding it to China, which in turn could lead to the creation of a new state.…

If I was a celebrity these are probably the #1 and 2 foreign relations issues I would not touch with a ten foot pole. It’s literally impossible to say anything about either one without pissing someone off. Even if you do have a considered, rational thought to share on the subject, how would you communicate that thought…

If you want to get technical about it, the Chinese civil war never ended becuase both the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Repuplic of China claim to be sole legitimate government of the whole thing. I think in practice the ROC more or less admitted that it has no claim to mainland China while the PRC has…

Yeah but they are defacto independent and everyone knows it. They haven’t officially declared it for the same reason why Cena apologized and the US tap dances around the entire issue; the economic and political status quo is working pretty well and it’s far preferable to really pissing off china and all the various…

That’s not the comparison they’re making. first of all, the Saturn V isn’t a spaceship, it’s a vehicle that lifts spaceships into space. But more to the point, the analogy is that electric vehicles have very smooth acceleration. Compared to ICE powered vehicles they feel like one might imagine accelerating in zero G…

Those don’t perform as well as plain old whip antennas.

I love getting sattelite radio when on vacation; it gives us a better variety of music than we have stored on our phones and we spend a lot of time road tripping in mountainous areas where radio stations go in and out frequently and cell coverage is spotty at best. but a week or so a year is probably the sweet spot…

Well time trials don’t have the visual drama of racing becuase you can’t see how the cars are competing against each other. You can see the time splits and stuff like that to see how the current car compares to others, but that’s not visually compelling. what if they found a way to represent that visually, for example…