I....I....I like the taillights.

I’ve been using this lately but it’s appropriate here.

When I was a wee lad growing up in Atlanta, I saw a young man with a golden blonde mullet, and Oakley Razorblades jumping into a Dodge Dakota convertible, in the Disco Kroger parking lot.

It was simply the most amazing thing I have ever seen. If Jeep builds this truck, I’m growing a mullet - because I already have…

So you’re saying that the valet should be able to Ferris Beuller your car?

HARUMPH GRUMPF THIS IS WHY I DON’T VALET LOOK AT ME I’M SUCH A RESPONSIBLE PERSON UNLIKE THIS GENTLEMAN HARUMPH I GUESS YOU SHOULD BE GLAD YOU HAD VALET MODE AM I RIGHT BUDDY?!?!

Exactly, I think Graverobber is trying to see if he can’t dig up a 100% CP. He’s gotten close lately.

Aren’t those often the most fun, though?

Car guys are supportive of other’s habits.

But their owners want to know they *could*.. because Bentley owners are about as in touch with reality as Walt Disney.

Have you seen how much sand gets on the roads in Dubai?

No but I’m waiting for all the videos of people offroading them in the sand in Dubai.

Senator, buddy. Don’t insult me.

This is true, and at the end of the day on luxury vehicles it seems to come down to lease price instead of sticker price more than anything.

Bull. I bought my Mac way back in grad school because it came with GCC for free, and I could do my research work (coding for a large collaboration) while listening to iTunes, plus write documents with MS Word, all without dual-booting. This was 2002, so Linux wasn’t a great option for laptops: I had to travel with it…

Yeah, lick my ass.

Actually, most Apple customers do care about value since their products last longer, and hold their value much better than their counterparts. The side-effect of having more affluent customers is that most of them have the rescources to buy new devices every cycle...this appears to only be a big deal to the people who…

It always amused me then parallels you can draw between America and Iran in some respects. You have the highly educated moderate progressives in the urban centres and the religious conservatives propped up by the rural vote. Then you watched Bush and Ahmadinejad playing to their base banging on about the “evil…

Normal people regardless of nationality, are surprisingly normal.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Iran is not a threat to the US, except vis a vis Israel. Iran is more “western” in outlook (secular, industrialized/tech-y) than our busom buddies Saudi Arabia (religious, free-lunch oil potentate economy), for starters. Despite all the scimitar-rattling and anti-carrier rocket…