Well if one government is an expert on endangering civilian planes with missiles it’s certainly Russia.

Moscow claims the tests were too close to its territory and could endanger commercial planes traveling through it airspace.

Why do I get the feeling that every time I read a GT article on Jalopnik now, I’m reading wannabe movie critics try to talk above their paygrade? To me, TG was never about grandiose missions or purpose or whatever. To me, TG was always about life with cars. Sometimes it was beauty. Sometimes it was, yes, purpose, but…

maybe i’m just a child but I laughed every time Richard pissed off James with the hellcat and giggled at the sound of the hellcat through every tunnel. For me the best of the 3 episodes.

Hi, I used to work on PEM-fuel cell h2-based cars (the control systems). The safety system here’s actually pretty good - hydrogen goes up if there’s a leak, and it burns as it goes up. Better than gasoline that stays on the ground and spreads around. There’s some debate on the Hindenburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

It kept the Soviets from colonizing West Germany and Austria.

You don’t have to empathize with them. However, at some point, after losing close to 3/4 of state governorships to the GOP and losing the national Electoral College to a complete buffoon, the Democratic Party needs to do something for Middle America beyond more of the same. The fact is, we need this region’s votes…

I’ll try to explain this in very simple terms.

Also, I never really see an issue with really smart people getting together to think up solutions.

HamNo’s argument is completely inane. It assumes that trying to fix the politics of poverty and the technology of poverty are somehow mutually exclusive. They’re not! Obama is in the last months of his presidency, with a Republican congress. He can’t change the politics of poverty in those few months he’s got left.…

It is now.

Gosh, if only there were historical examples of how radical government-administered redistribution impacted an economy and the people living within it.

So they may or may not come up with solutions, but I am not convinced by your argument that tech people thinking of unique solutions to poverty is a bad endeavor.

Which is to say: it is a political problem

“ensure wealth is spread more fairly”

Craigslist be like,

In case you need another reason to think that Dolly Parton is Awesome, She’s donating a $1000 a month for 6 months to every family in Sevier county who lost their homes in the fire.

Someone needs to give that truck a medal

They can shoot you if you hold a gun in your hand and continue to refuse orders from a cop to drop the gun. Yes, then they can shoot you. If they weren’t allowed to shoot you then, they’d have to wait until the cilvilian starts shooting at them. Nobody would do this job under the premise of serving as target practice…