I understand your point.

Like I said, I don't think you're wrong. My point was just that there are many folks who have very, very, very much more wealth than him.

That's fair. And who knows - maybe Moore has some plan for giving, I'd at least hope so.

Very well said.

Technically, he likely is. But I don't think people realize just how massively wealthy this 1% is. He's movie producer less successful than many:

Select quotes aside - I don't see the hypocrisy. At least not directly.

If it wasn't in a journalistic capacity, then how do journalistic ethics apply?

I agree overall, but there is something to be said about biting hands that feed you.

There's really no problem, in and of itself. He's free to make that comment, and isn't jailed for it. However, the dealership likewise was free to call to complain, and to pull his support from the newspaper. The newspaper likewise was free (as an at-will employer) to terminate employment of an employee who cost them…

One thing's for sure, this guy's ad is reaching a much larger audience since this incredibly newsworthy "fiasco."

Agreed - the employer might have assumed a sort of "nudge nudge, wink wink" when he made that qualifier. Or it may have made them think of taking it that far when they otherwise wouldn't have, as readily.

Making a public comment criticizing a business that supports his business probably wasn't a smart play.

[Reposting my comment on the earlier Gizmodo article]

I just think they'd be on a closed system, possibly un-"networked" servos to a dedicated electrical (not internet hackable) control panel.

I think he means the concept of a steam pipe being networked is implausible, not the concept of steam pressure itself.

I dunno. IF you assume (or start to watch) that the bus would slow a bit, the large flat front, with all its surface area, might make for sort of a reasonable collision (given that it's a completely stupid thing in the first place, so it's all really relative). You could even sort of "jump" to just get bumped to the…

I'm enjoying (too much, really) picturing this being a refinement of some earlier Rube Goldberg version in which the driver blows cigar smoke at a cat which screeches and scares a mouse into running and turning the indicator wheel. Or similar.

I'm just saying. If I drove a golf cart through a crowd of people six friggin' times, eventually, they'd lock me up.

Or perhaps the remote steering the back had the wheels turned right, as he would to make the left turn (front wheels left obviously, rear wheels right a few degrees), and didn't steer back to center soon enough - and that, rather than the beam pivoting on the rear dolly, is what caused that crabbing out of the lane…

Seriously, are people not seeing the collision with the guardrail, as mentioned in the story?