You failed to mention that car brakes actually contribute to global warming! Have you ever felt the heat that comes off those things?

Good on our American Government for keeping us safe, or something like that. I guess.

Do you really believe you live in a country where the police are not entrepreneurial?

For the love of God, please do NOT recommend Cobras. They are poorly designed, don't work well, and leak a lot of RF in such a way as the cause false alerts for others who run more effective products. So not only do they not work well, but they are bad neighbors and are problematic for others. Yes they're cheap, but…

Given those options, I'll take the plane.

At least it is not rusting away in field with an owner who wants $100,000 for it.

People have to start questioning what they consider government to be, establishment and protection of freedom for themselves, and everyone else also (libertarian), or a weapon that robs Peter to pay Paul, where Mary gets elected by promising to Paul that she'll to continue to do so as long as he and his friends keep…

Should only be considered a "crime" if there is intent to do harm/danger to a person or property, not just because some people that are in political power don't like it

"Are you sick of the 'Murica f—- yeah!!!!' covering of the new Ford GT yet? No Yes? You must be European. Don't be sad, it doesn't make you a terrible human being!"

Yeah, Patrick pretty much missed your point altogether.

I don't think you're following his reasoning here, that, or I'm not. I think what he's saying is that driving should not be defined as a privilege, because that makes the set of conditions upon which it's granted totally arbitrary, and a lower bar than calling it a right.

On the subject of pilot shortages. There is not a pilot shortage; there is a shortage of people willing to take on 50k - 150k in debt to go make less than a McDonalds shift supervisor to start their airline career at a regional. I made more flying a single-engine full of boxes than I did in my first three years at an…

Jerry Wiegert was a scam artist of the highest order. The Vector was like cold fusion, always promised, in the future but the future never came.

I spent 11 years working on vessels like this, both unloading and loading cars, trucks and pretty much anything that could move and fit in the entrance. So long as the stevedores (longshoremen in the USA) did their job properly, none of the vehicles on board should have moved more than a few inches. The apparatus for…

I for one wouldn't be shocked at all if we saw cities illegalize Uber and continue to protect rent-seeking cab companies that want taxis to continue to be undersupplied.

How is Uber supposed to be regulated in such a way that it remains useful? We know already how cities regulate car services: they impose strict limits on how many there can be with the goal of enabling rent-seeking by taxi companies. If cities exercised the same regulatory control over Uber, how would that end any…

Oh please, they'd be more of a threat than the terrorists. What's more likely in this country? You being killed by a cop or a terrorist? That answer is your chance of dying is far higher at the hands of the police. I'm not saying it's a high chance, just that terrorists are such a low probability that it looks like…

Coast Guard already sank the best ones.

This is what I've been saying all along. Cubans can already buy new cars, but being allowed to buy them and being able to buy them are two different things. The only new cars running around the island belong to either the government or rental car companies. The vintage American cars are kept on the road out of pure…

And that's why I'm a libertarian.