The problem with military spending is not that it doesn’t create jobs, it does, but it does so in one of the most cost-ineffective ways possible with huge amounts of top-level waste, bottom-level exploitation (ask former Plasan employees about that...) and protected IP that benefits only a select few until it becomes…
Perhaps I believe the offense of my moral sensitivities through the misleading practices of those people makes them assholes?
but its not GROWTH, its a spike, and not even a spike so much as a redirection of existing capital. The only true way to grow an economy is to increase consumption, we are now reaching a point where even our highest level consumers are unable to consume the produce of the economy. So in order to expand consumption…
I’ll take that as a compliment(ish)
its funny you should say that: I have a friend who worked for a company that offered to pay for her to get an MBA so that she would be “qualified” to move up in the organization and become a regional manager... After completion of her degree she said “everyone in my classes and in upper management here is so deluded…
its funny because we don’t even know the same people (I didn't know the company founder, and he didn't go on to start another better company, but i DO work for one of the vice-presidents of the bankrupted company who went on to found a new -successful- company after the Harvard MBAs killed the old one...) and it was a…
Yes, but the opening hatch is an extra-cost option (standard on some trim levels), otherwise you have to just stuff things behind the seats from inside the passenger compartment.
The problem is our country in general (business and government) is mostly run the way you describe not doing it any more. Like a college kid buying beer with money he didn’t spend on gas. Too many people with degrees an no real-world experience doing things the way it “theoretically should work” than the way it…
1st gear:
I bought heavy riding gear with intent to ride this winter, and then my carbs started acting up and said “Oh, I’ll wait until spring, rebuild them over the winter...” I haven’t touched them yet, so that’s not gone well...
I need to rebuild the carbs on my F650... I keep not doing it because I’m super busy and when i get home from work i just want to drink a beer and watch something mindless on Netflix or Prime after mowing the lawn... (I don’t remember the lawn EVERY growing this much before, thanks Global Warming!) and I just keep not…
that was my thought too. They may have removed much of the Toyota-ness of the thing, but I applaud the choice of a series-3 3800 based engine. With the right bits and tuning onboard the 3800’s are not to be idly dismissed, and its so much more interesting than "another SBC"
while this is rife with WTFery, it’s also not terribly expensive, and potentially a crap ton of fun. It gets the NP from me. No, its not a Toyota Pickup any more, but its a ballsy little Japanese fun-mobile with unexpected twists.
Thats a really nice looking car, and I would sure as hell drive the shit out of it, but the price gives me pause... Someone with more money than I will buy it for that ask, of that I’m sure. But if I had the required scratch, and only barely, I would be talking him down.. it’s border-land crack pipe. Argh, this one…
yup, cary a loaded Glock in an armpit holster under you jacket when you go on the tour of the state capitol building and that’s fine. Get into your car with that same concealed Glock, and you technically need to unload it and remove the clip or you’re breaking the law.
true, I can do that, but remember that unlicensed concealed cary or not, in Vermont it is illegal to have a LOADED fire arm in a motor vehicle.
here in the People’s Republic of Vermont, we have $35 state inspection that covers; Lights, indicators, wipers, shocks, wheel bearings, tie rods, brakes, tires, emergency brake, window integrity and visibility, general rust and structural integrity, and MIL and emissions control status. This requires putting the…
Thats a pretty clean TDI Passat wagon, but the price is right on the cusp of CP. Some hipster will buy it for that, don’t get me wrong, and then never perform any maintenance on it until it self destructs in another 100K miles... marginal Crack Pipe.
just this spring when Jalopnik ran several articles about the deals you could get on diesel vehicles and the time to ROI on a new diesel vehicle vs. gas “at these low gas prices” I made some comments to the effect of “Gas will go up again, shortsighted thinking is what gets us in trouble every goddamn time” and…
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