Great post. Capitalism can be constrained and directed by taxation and regulation, except when the owners of capital constrain and direct the authors of taxation and regulation. Corruption is giving capitalism a bad name.

Yep that’s how I bought my recent car. I searched all the dealers in the area for what I wanted and what had been in stock for ages but not in service via our dealer network database. Ended up finding one that had been around for 8+ months. Emailed the dealer, said I would be coming later that night for stock # 12345…

I’m tired of these f**king misleading titles. Police are not “monitoring your neighborhood” with your video cameras. They are asking people to provide video when there is a nearby crime. I’ve registered my cameras with the police and they’ve sent me an email once for video (I didn’t have it. They waited too long).…

Happy Labor day bro. 

Cops are probably gonna be a whole lot less excited about this surveillance footage when it fills in the missing time when their body cams were “accidentally” shut off.

I wish this got bumped into the article, GREAT point and honestly one I didn’t think of. 

at some point maybe corporate America will realize selling $35-55k cars is difficult if there is no middle class

Indeed. I bet the first time was not caught on video, or it was but it wasn’t shared with us mere boring netizens...  After all, the SCMP does take Chinese social media videos and passes them off as news stories quite regularly.

No worries. I'm off to troll a Cummins board with my grammar pedantry. 

Huge loss... what a badass woman. Rest in peace, Jessi.

I never realized until now just how much of a bad ass she is. Rest In Peace Jessie.

This is actually a great suggestion, and Torch would be a great host. He has an incredibly wide range of interests, and it could be a travel/cultural exploration show through a car lens (sort of how Bourdain did travel/cultural exploration through a food lens).

Here is my pitch, Torchinsky’s Tour.

This article, and indeed, the Voyager DVD featurette, doesn’t fully describe the premise of the original ride. The story was that you were at Star Trek: Experience, about to get on a Trek-themed motion control ride. The staff spoke as if they were theme park employees, and it seemed a little ho-hum, especially for a…

Great photo! My brother and I took one too. They let us wear TNG uniform replicas, but just the shirts. So I had one of the OPs shirts on with shorts and flip flops - it was casual Friday on the Enterprise. 

Their transporter effect was one of the most memorable bits of magic I’ve ever experienced. Literally smoke and lights and mirrors, but damn if I didn’t feel like I went somewhere new.
Getting to walk around the Enterprise and Bridge was also fantastic. And they had booze at Quarks which is evident by looking at me in…

am in the same boat and still use feedly

>Being able to stay on top of my feeds using either my MacBook or my iPhone is my holy grail of RSS, but to date, I haven’t found a truly reliable way to realize that dream

I still miss GR and its Magic view, but overall I’m with you that a web-based reader (Feedly for me too) slays. Same history across all my devices.

I used a dedicated app when I first got into RSS eons ago, but once I discovered Google Reader and how wonderful it is to have everything web-based and accessible from any device, I never looked back. Been using Feedly since GR went away and have been quite happy with it.