Because owning and driving their own car isn’t a hobby for most people. It’s a total pain in the ass.

Wow. How are things on that side of the rabbit hole?

Or twice the speed limit to transpose it to the next octave.

What 355? All I see is that Boxer...

No kidding. This kind of thing is goofy when you have 400 horsepower on tap, much less 40 or whatever the Miata has these days.

Holy hell, that thing is ugly, isn’t it?

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

Perot made his fortune by starting a company called EDS (Electronic Data Systems) and selling it to its biggest customer, General Motors. As I recall, he was basically competing with IBM’s services division. It was a ten-figure deal.

Wow. It’s almost as if suborbital flight is a lot easier than orbital flight.

No.

Yep. 911 people consider that a feature, not a (VW) bug.

The NSX was a great car, but it wasn’t an icon like the 911. It was always very clear that it owed its conceptual existence to the mid-engine V8 Ferraris. Every time I saw one on the road, I remember thinking, “Hell, for that kind of money you could have bought the real thing.”

There’s good money in the business of fixing automakers’ mistakes, to be sure. Ask Ross Perot...

So Russia has about as much money as.... Apple.

(Shrug) They seem to be getting shit done.

He didn’t pay enough attention during grenade training, I take it...

Germans capitalize adverbs and adjectives?

It’s hard to come up with any FACTS, as you put it, because as we see here, the person whose actions were the first cause of the accident was able to cruise happily away from the scene of the carnage he caused.

It does no such thing unless you grind it up and breathe the dust.

It’s perfectly safe. Plutonium is an alpha emitter. You can hold a lump of it in your hand, and it’ll just feel kind of warm.