Well, increasing wages at the bottom would increase how much companies pay for their 401k matches if they even match for those positions because people at the bottom might actually be able to afford to save for retirement.

Yup, can't afford the best house in the world and the rarest Porsches and Ferraris if you don't constantly push to have more and more money.

No, the poor shouldn’t be exploited. Jobs should pay living wages. If people are not performing, they should be put on a performance improvement plan and fired if they do not improve.

That would be the theory of trickle down. We have seen the income gap become greater since we got on this trickle down kick and we know that there has been no benefit of trickle down to the people it was supposed to trickle down to. In other words, we already know this doesn’t work.

If a job is important enough to need a person to do it, it is valuable enough to pay that person a living wage.

It's not helping that you have to ship it from a military base in Germany.

Does walking count? I once always walked to the office from my hotel. The path was a little seedy and there were some likely homeless people on it everyday. One day one a homeless man was looking at us really weird. Then his face changed to almost one of relief. Then I realized he has pissed his pants right in front…

No worries. I just bought a manual WRX. Mostly to save money but also for fun. I found it really easy to heal-toe and the clutch is light enough for stop and go traffic. It’s definitely a more fun transmission to me than the CVT given this.

I got spanked by a Chevy Malibu while test driving a BRZ. Yes, more power will help sell them.

Yup, the WRX is the biggest problem with the BRZ. Base WRX is just $1,200 more than a BRZ but offers far more performance and doubles as a family car.

The CVT in my Forester XT is good. The 5EAT in out Outback is nice by 2005 standards. The 4EAT is trash. Subaru making a good auto makes their cars so much more desirable.

No, he’s describing how it works in auto mode. It simulates a 6 or 8 speed gear box at all times except in launch mode.

I agree with your points. I also wonder how much time we should spend with our kids. As I see it, we have to balance work, family, sleep, and taking time for ourselves. I think we expect to much of ourselves for a variety of reasons and have no idea what that balance should look like.

I hope he gets to worry about a lifetime ban from Starbucks in the near future.

So realistically speaking, here’s one thing where engineers put in cheats. This one doesn’t seem like something that would result in less reliable cars, but how concerned are people that they are other “cheats” we haven’t found yet, emissions or otherwise?

The funny thing is that it didn’t take long after Xbox Liver came out that all of us quit doing lan parties and just started gaming with each other exclusively online.n I miss split screen, but everyone is too lazy to go somewhere to play games these days...

There's also a bug where if your alarm goes off during a phone call, your phone will no longer output sound from the speaker for future alarms. I've he to reset the phone multiple times because of this.

So is this available in the US? The press release says 2.0 liter engine and has pricing in yen, so I'm guessing Japan only.... :-(

Apple’s 30% cut has always bugged me. I understand they provide a great micro/mini-transaction system. This is great if you’re a smaller company as giving Apple a 30% cut for something that works great is probably a pretty good exchange. For Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc, it’s a raw deal since they do not need…

Not really. One is passing where he shouldn't. The other swerved intentionally causing serious bodily harm and could have killed them. Both in the wrong, but very different degrees and they didn't actually do anything to the driver of the car. He decided to make a traffic infraction his business when it wasn't. Also,…