You mean the people behind the Pontiac Aztek.

Is there an online mail service that provides encryption but doing so online (like Gmail) without the need to use a client?

I hope Marissa Mayer never runs another company again.

My parents do that and it annoys the shit out of me. “But the iPad is easier to read” says my lovely mother. I sigh and pretend I didn’t know her, like I did in high school.

Unless you’re a single issue voter on guns then NRA is your man, er, group.

I get what you’re saying, and what you just stated is the central theme for both parties to point fingers and say “look, the government is broken!” and tries to get elected. The problem facing our government is a huge collection of these individual problems created by (I’ll use the veteran’s own words) bad decisions…

You hit the nail on the head. I commuted in a Spark EV for a year and it was perfect for 90% of my driving needs. For longer trips we had the Volt.

Heh, back in 1989, it actually snowed in Calabasas - I woke up to my sister screaming about it snowing outside and I thought she was crazy. So don’t worry, it’ll snow again in or near LA, one day.

Go live there for 6 months. Preferably find a girlfriend/boyfriend and just immerse. Nothing motivates like hunger and libido.

You’ll realize eventually that the difference between being able to hit on a chick at some bar in Roppongi or order off a menu is far different than being able to communicate with the proper politeness/grammar. And the circular way in which polite Japanese society uses can be maddening.

Ah yes, my first computer as a kid was a 386DX-25 and it came with a whopping 20MB of Conner 5.25" HDD and a combo 3.5"/5.25" floppy drive. That 20MB only had DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0 on it, so the rest was naturally filled with pr0n downloaded via 2400 baud (4800 with compression) modem to BBS at night. The 20MB HDD…

4th Gear: having lived in China as an expat for a few years and a driver whose Buick GL8 (essentially an Oldsmobile Silhouette) took him and myself on a range of roads and road conditions, I say that China itself is a proving ground. One minute you’re on a smoothly paved road and the next you could be jarred out of…

Excellent point.

I’m totally looking forward to reading the various memoirs for this White House when it’s all done.

Get rid of the carbs in that bacon cheeseburger and you might live a little longer...

Obviously someone who has never spent much time (if any) in China, nor speaks the language, let alone understand the culture.

What credibility?

Typical chaebol incest. And none of their heirs look anywhere near as good as Lee Min-Ho or Park Shin-Hye.

Exotic performance, economy/reliability in maintenance, what’s wrong with that?

The same exact inequality was what led to the violent and bloody downfall of many Chinese dynasties: top 5% of the population owned 90% of the wealth, taxes were levied heavily on the poor and almost nil on the wealthy. Sound familiar? The only people who remember this lessons are historians and Chinese Communist…