You’re right, this isn’t about logic, and that’s okay.

Fear not, “the worst thing on the internet” is a meaningless concept, like the biggest number.  There is always something worse.

If your family had clout back then, you could still have your enlistment defered, or you could get posted some place less hazardous, so even with a draft, if you were poor, or were the wrong colour, you were still more likely to end up with a target on your back. It also took the Korean War and six years of the…

So many of the ones on that list I’ve seen, and thought were great, which kind of confirm that I have an unerring sense for picking box office bombs.

The irony is, the United States might have been one of the first countries to convert to metric, but for the actions of a few pirates. British pirates.

I was in my 20s when Canada switched over to metric. Trust me, you’ll adapt.  You used something enough, it will become second nature.

We had the Cortina in Canada too, but there wasn’t a lot of love for it. Something about British build quality, or rather, the lack thereof.

Of course the flip side are the people who live in a tiny condo in a big city, bike everywhere, and figure this enough for anyone.  The ones for whom it isn’t are either greedy, stupid, or both.

I suspect the ‘65 what how they wanted it all along, but it just took that long to finally get it into production.

It was just the 1965 Riviera that had the hidden vertical lights. For ‘63 and ‘64, they were exposed.

Probably not one of these either.

It should sound like an electric motor.

Apple was also one of the first to market with a home computer, and they lost that market to IBM.

Good for these guys.

Basically, Boomers who don’t want to be called Boomers.

As a rule, I think protecting intellectual property is a good thing, and a necessary thing, but when you’re weighing it against saving human life, that’s some pretty simple math in my books.

On some future iteration of Spacelopnik:

But it’s a good kind of insane.

Sort of like how everyone gave up on the Internet when they found out how much that was going to cost?.

Nah, you’re all going to be eternally young, and you’re never going to die.