That’s a fair assessment, but I assume they want to get that older crowd that has more money. Several models are barely hanging on, or being discontinued because they picked the wrong target audience. Like when companies made models to attract millennials, only to find out they didn’t have any money, or that they were…

And Apple has NO user data? And does NOTHING with it? The simple fact that their stuff only talks to their stuff says they know everything about you anyway.

Nah, I’m happy. In a Android/Windows World.

As far as software, I switched to LibreOffice and GIMP. Learning can be a bit of a ramp-up, but nobody notices anything odd on the docs I send out.

Good article. But, you know? I had to check and make sure this was Gizmodo. A couple years ago, Giz would never have said anything bad about Apple. Then it was said even God was standing in line for the next iPhone.

That’s NYC for you. I was sitting in traffic one day when gunfire broke out. Some people ducked down in their cars, some ducked into stores, and some just wandered on down the street.

You haven’t read their book, then, have you? It claims, emphatically, that they will own the World, one day, one way or another. And it is not all rainbows and kittens (because dogs are filthy).

I think that the Genesis thing won’t work out in the long run, no matter how they work the dealer setups. I just can’t bring myself to think of anything they build as on a par with Mercedes, or even BMW. Then again, to me, a Lexus is just a ‘gussied up Toyota’.

Holy crap! That’s better than some apartments I had to pay wads of money to stay in! I’m looking at YOU, NYC.

That’s true. But thieves nowadays have a full inventory of those little wrenches. I know somebody who lost theirs, and simply went to a junkyard, going through gloveboxes of that car until he found 2.

Not completely. Just the fact that there was a zillion-dollar war over the simple fact that a button was round versus an oval tells you how far and how stupid companies can get. Some time back, I read in a tech journal that Microsoft puts in for around 3,000 patents a year. They spend millions putting the same thing…

2nd... I think that in the long run, all this patent crap will have to be brought under one single umbrella for car systems. Everyone wants ‘their thing’ to become the industry standard. But patent fights over something that actually may make a car safer? Wrong, wrong, wrong.

While all you say is true, sometimes it’s merely ‘life education’ that hurts some Veterans. I joined at 17, right after high school graduation. After 8 years in the Corps active, I got out to work in the Civilian sector. I took a job on what I thought was a good salary, but still didn’t have the hang of this ‘paying…

Wasn’t he the guy with the fuel line mod?

Regardless of the reasons stated either way, I prefer, in the vast majority of cases, to buy new. I don’t tend to drive fast, nor am I hard on cars. I like the fact I know every mile and every oil change. My current DD is 9 years old, bought new, and in great shape still.

Great. Now my knee AND my brain hurts.

Wouldn’t a better thing to do would build a battery that can separate the components better? I’ve seen battery recycling, and it’s a messy business, with a great deal of loss. The parts are sort of blended together, and separation isn’t cheap or easy yet. Maybe if they could make batteries sort of like Lego sets.

I thought there was a documented case of a woman in the Middle East struck by a meteorite.

GM: “We can’t make this work. Let’s sell it.”

This. They lost the vision. The Mini was to make an affordable car for the masses. But that’s the same way VW lost it, too.