Why would Colonial integrate billing and controls?

If the pipeline control systems were exposed to the corporate network, then yes, they too had to be shut down to protect them from potential exploitation. But if they could still operate the system, just more slowly and with manual recordkeeping, then no, they did not need to shut down the pipeline operations. It’s a…

Not only allergy suffers, but some road/plane warriors I know as well. Even with their travel barely slowing down from the pandemic, they haven’t been sick anywhere near what they were pre pandemic, it’s crazy what handwashing/sanitizing and wearing a mask does for cutting down on sickness.

I know this is rather weird for a car site, but I recently started using Arm and Hammer Simply Saline Allergy and Sinus, and it has been great for clearing it up coupled with my normal allergy medicine. I think we got it at our local grocery store, so I imagine it would be available most places

It’s also a net positive to wear it with all the particulate pollution in the air.

A couple weeks ago, you could spot the people that were really good about wearing masks by the color of them. If they were Lemon Yellow, they were wearing their masks properly.

Yeah, I was going to suggest that continuing to wear a mask isn’t a bad thing for allergy sufferers. It won’t make it all better but I have to think you’d see improvement. 

Gas shortages, chip shortages, new car shortages, used car shortages?! AIIIEEEE!

I filled up my daily for what may be the last time yesterday. Lease ends 5/31. Next car will be an BEV.

Because who gives a fuck about Telsa when there’s a fucking gas shortage effecting like half the country?

As we all know, all pipelines are interchangeable, and one carrying tar sand oil across the plains would instantly remedy a problem with a distillate delivery pipeline on the east coast.

Agreed. Why is there still a $500 (or more) nav option when CarPlay and Android Auto are standard? I suppose dealerships order them that way, but why would any consumer order a car with nav when the phone just plugs in and works?

Briefly daydreamed about retractable drag planes on a ship’s hull, and then thought a little deeper and realized deploying the things would rip the ship apart, because they’re basically bubbles of steel floating on the water.

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.

The new cars have so many more chips than the infotainment, The Tahoes we are ordering have no power fold seats, no lane keeping assist, no blind zone mirrors, no frontal crash warning, and no active fuel management as each of those requires chips they don’t have. 

Not an original thought though.

It was very annoying. I was packed up and about to leave on a roadtrip and had to sit around and wait for almost half an hour for it to finish.

So what you are saying is that it might be easier to charge my EV than fill a gas tank?

Just like ‘there’s a teacher shortage!’ Nope, there’s a shortage of master’s level educated people willing to work for $40K a year while not being given the proper supplies whilst getting shit on constantly.

Pay more, train more. The amount of corporations who complain about a shortage of this staff, or that staff, and you ask them about their training schemes and they just shrug. It costs money to learn stuff, not just the money to pay for tuition and training, but money to fund all the regular living costs you still…