I mean, in this case it certainly is the most likely explanation...there’s no way in hell that anyone could possibly think this was an effective way to skirt regulation, it would be found out right away...as it has been. And anyone involved in the auto industry would know this.

Dude I think most Asian companies are familiar with the concept of a VIN.

That’s what I am thinking. Since the first digits of a VIN generally related to make/model/manufacturing location/trim level and the last few digits are the sequential serial, I would wager that someone working in the registration database incorrectly copied the serial number portion.

Knowing what a clusterfuck of paperwork and confusion it can be sending components and stuff between countries for development/testing purposes, it’s also entirely possible that the evidence they discovered is just an electronic record or piece of paper that someone lazily or incorrectly filled out. Granted, when it…

A real world example would be Henry VII’s claim to the English throne through his mother, Margaret Beaufort. Margaret Beaufort was a direct descendant of Edward III (through John of Gaunt), which made her a Plantagenet and a Lancaster. Henry still had to go out and defeat Richard III at Bosworth to cement his claim…

They call it tuning.

I’ve lost interest in this franchise because I don’t give a damn about the story Scott wants to tell with these prequels. The story of David and the origins of humanity and what it means to play God has ruined the simple elegance of Alien.

No. He Mitachlorianed the whole thing, and I’m not sure I can be bothered to give it another chance.

WordPerfect is still a thing, and my mother still swears by it.

I think the staff at Gizmodo sometime forget that not everyone lives in NYC and blogs for a living.

WordPerfect is much better for formatting (ie, you can actually tell what the program is doing rather than having to guess which is the case in Word). Word’s “Reveal Formatting” function gets Word about 1/3 of the way there but it still only shows what’s actually happening, not WHY and how to fix it. That said, I work…

I thought all lawyers used wordperfect

Enterprise/proprietary software is usually compatible only with Microsoft Word. Exchange is the same way with specific compatibility with the programs we use for communication purposes and our phone systems.

Clara was pretty much established as bisexual, though, right? She talked a few times about what a great kisser Jane Austen was. But I guess since it was never explored outside of a few joking comments...

Eh. Still fits all of the supposed narrative possibilities. He may, after all, just want to know how much *she* knows about herself.

Lucas never wrote anything that resembles something a person would say.

“Kind of hard to put this on Uber.”

Please explain how the taxi drivers choosing to take a one-hour break/protest/whatever helped even one refugee. Just one.