Good work, lapping is something very little people on earth still understand/can do.

I’ll second that. I can’t begin to count the number of people I’ve known over the years who started their own business, depending upon their spouse’s benefits to cover both of them while the new business was starting out.

In theory a person’s pay should reflect the amount of revenue that they make for a company. Regardless of your education level, if you bring in a lot of money for a company, they should pay you accordingly. Another factor is how many people there are who could potentially replace you.

Back in the days before PCs, I worked at a place where VT100 terminals were the desktop feature instead. When layoffs were happening on a regular basis, you’d know if your time was up if you got in to work early in the morning and you couldn’t log into the VAX system. Fun times!

At least where I live, public transportation is expensive enough that buying a beater and (maybe) paying for the minimum amount of (required) insurance would be pretty close to the same cost.

I wonder how that’s going to work out for all the poors.

So if you win you’re essentially getting to fly nonrev for a year. Which means that if you want to catch a flight, you’ll want to pick off-season dates to the destinations for the best chance of empty seats. You’ll also need to pick early flights so that if you don’t make the first one to the destination, you can try…

I think EMV will be required at the pump in late 2020. Afterwards, the cost of fraud goes to the merchant rather than being taken by the card company.

It seems to be a mixed bag. Depending on where you’re looking, it can appear that a lot of boomers are coasting on relatively fat salaries, while in other places a lot of boomers lost their jobs in the great recession and can’t find jobs paying anywhere near what they were making before.

That’s interesting because as someone who’s over 40, I can tell you that age discrimination in hiring is real.

At least in North Texas, some 2 left hand turn lanes have a lane marker that, for some streets, gives the leftmost lane the left and center lane. Of course, that just means that we get people crossing the lane marker going all the way to the right lane, or the person who’s suppose to go into the right lane crosses…

I drove my family over the Rockies on vacation in one. We were actually able to maintain speed on a fairly steep grade, but I was terrified that something would make me get off the gas, sure that I’d never get back up to speed.

I think it was Tom and Ray who said that the 4-cylinder Plymouth Voyager was a 7 passenger van so that 6 could get out and push.

Well, the A380 in most situations burns more fuel per passenger mile than, say, the 777 or 787, so yeah, she should be. The bean counters at the airlines will be even happier.

There’s no real there there with this story, so everyone’s still kind of in wait-and-see mode. I think it makes too much sense for the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi alliance to remain,...

Looks like a VW bus; the crumple zone is the driver’s legs.

Your fire in the engine bay doesn’t hold a candle to the problems I have when that jiggly cup holder lets my double shot hot mocha spill over my custom made Peruvian llama hide floor mats!

Not as much as a 0.5 psi error in tire pressure.

Don’t worry, they’ll find some way to blame the other party for the fallout.

rigidjunkie has obviously never read any classic literature, or watched any Monty Python.