I’d say there is a pretty big difference between exploiting loopholes (more so with a product that will only see limited sales) vs. outright falsifying information and committing fraud. I’d see the LCV situation as less of a Dieselgate situation and more like labeling the PT Cruiser as a light truck to skirt emissions…

When you see me rolling up in this, you know what’s about to happen. I’m about to open the door, and saunter out in my baggy track suit wearing house shoes. I’m here to watch the local co-eds play some volleyball while I eat a concession stand corn dog.

No. That’s fucked up. I would recommend you rethink your perspective on comedy.

I wouldn’t trust many people to pull off an ending, but I trust the guy who did “The Book of Nora” wholeheartedly.

It’s even harder when you work for one of the automakers. I have so much inner conflict. The automaker I work for makes products I like, gives me a job I somewhat enjoy, and provides a very comfortable living for my family. At the same time I hate how much damage we have done and continue to do to the environment. 

the scary thing is that it’s all becoming a game of cards. the only ones that stand a chance of changing the game are also the only ones that are currently winning. the rest of us are just shouting how we want the game to change.

Unfortunately every time anybody suggest a solution, we call him commie and go on with some form of BS about the American way, boot straps, individualism, and Venezuela.

I completely agree, but this is the equivalent at shouting-at-clouds (a terrible analogy, I admit). The system -must- be changed in order for the vast majority of people to move up, economically.

Simple, massively chaotic solution: Stop allowing short-term trading on large companies. If Ford investors were forced to keep their money applied for multiple years, you wouldn’t see half the stupid short-term decisions we currently do.

In between the extremes of “companies should be charities” and “companies should be free to do anything” is “companies should be responsible”. This Wall Street obsession with short term bonuses at the expense of long term health is precisely what’s wrong with the economy today. Companies aren’t spreading wealth…

OK, agreed, but this is the billion-dollar question:

“! Period!” is a pretty damn confusing string of text.

The biggest FUCK goes to the young and indolent who are not registered or are not voting.

I think that’s the point though. You can. We all can, it’s just so fucking hard sometimes. It’s so hard when someone is shitty to you to recognize that they’re probably coming from a place of pain, so we go through a cycle of negativity being shitty to each other around and around. But then if somebody can respond to…

A young person who is passionate about something he remembers fondly from his youth and is willing to stand up in front of a local government with a message of hope and unity is a symptom of everything that’s wrong with this country?

But also for cars

This comment, and many others like it, is a perfect example of the point I’m making. “No,” says the wised-up internet user, “they’re not asking him to take a pay cut; they just want to pay him about half what he’s owed this year. He can earn the rest by playing another year, and working twice as long for the same…

They teased it in their release video. It’s probably an SUV.

You know what? I argue that failed Kickstartes are actually something positive. They show more than anything to the inexperienced gaming public how important a real financial plan that has been thought through is and with what risks the Industry has to deal everytime.

Caveat emptor. I’ve backed nearly forty projects and all of them have delivered, with five active and on track without any red flags. I’ve only had three projects that were unreasonably late/concerning, but they still ended up delivering.