It seems I misread the question, and your reply definitely got me thinking about whether or not my answer still applies. After some thought, I would say yes. Granted, Ralph Lauren is not Jay Leno - he’s not the kind of guy you’d picture going to the pub and drinking a few beers with. But even so, a collection like…

Seinfeld has a lot of great Porsches, but his collection doesn’t exactly demonstrate an appreciation of any aspect of automotive history, culture, or technology beyond that. Glickenhaus is much the same; he just has a hard on Ferraris, and his boasts of owning super-rare and even unique Ferraris is almost a stereotype…

There is, in fact - her keel. By tradition, no matter what happens to the rest of the ship, if the original keel remains intact, she is still considered to be the original. If, on the other hand, the keel is altered in any way, she can be (but is not always) considered a new ship.

They also tend to think that everything is news, right down to an ant shitting in the yard. And herein lies the qualm - it’s not necessarily what we do, it’s why we do it. In this case, a lot was risked to surreptitiously publish stats on a car that were going to be published in less than 24 hours anyways. Taking the…

Apparently you didn’t get it the first time. It’s okay, though.

Re-read it again. You’ll get it eventually.

I’m going to have with “no” on that one. The leaked Camaro document was little more than a leak of spec details and potential PR prep. What might actually be interesting, however, is an article going into how these leaks happen, why they happen, what drives them, and what the consequences of such leaks could and could…

You make a very good point, and I think that an article exploring that point would make for a great read and a great story. It would provide a lot readers a bit of insight into something we don’t normally get to see.

Agreed; that’s the precise perspective I’ve kept it, as I indicated in the first paragraph of the comment that you replied to. That being said, the point I’m trying to make is that that winds up being a double-edged sword. It may be that part of the reason why GM is so upset is that something so comparatively…

I never asserted that you did need GM’s permission. If you did, you obviously would never have published it in the first place.

As the French like to say when faced with an irrational argument, “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”

No, this is not what a reporter does. A reporter does not randomly sling shit at a wall and hope it sticks, consequences be damned. A reporter understands the difference between leaking sensitive data that affects the lives of millions people and would otherwise never see the light of day and publishing a meaningless…

No Black Ops guy is going to tool around in a fancy, one-off customized super car. He’s not James Bond. He detests James Bond and the stereotype the character represents. Rather, he’s going to drive around in the most unassuming, inconspicuous car he can get his hands on. Which car in particular? Any car that he wants…

On the contrary - by publishing it, he was technically being unethical. He may not have been the one to leak it, but by publishing it, he was just as complicit in unethical behavior. It was GM’s document; GM’s data. As such, they have every single right to determine when, where, or even if it gets shared. By…

I think this rather defeats the purpose of the Joker. He doesn’t need a specific car just for his character. The Joker was intended to more or less represent chaos incarnate; he doesn’t care about order or personal identity in such a manner. Joker doesn’t have a single car - he has any car he wants. He just walks up…

“As for the Russians and their Victory Day, as usual I’m less than inclined to give a damn about their celebrations given their country’s conduct during and after the war. Something tells me that if the President of Poland were to choose between the two events, he’d come all the way over here rather than go next door…

Actually, if you check what you actually wrote, you said “during and after the war.”

We carved up Vietnam and Korea pretty well, with many people on both sides of each country being victims of crimes against humanity perpetrated by Americans. It was particularly widespread in Vietnam. From there, we proceeded install destabilize countries and install dictators friendly to us, only to go back and…