The previous models that Ford sold were available for about $600-800. They were actually essentially plugin hybrids - you could run the bike on pedal power, electric, or both. Could you go faster on a high end road bike? Sure. Could you do a 16 mile commute up and down hills without breaking a sweat on a road bike?…

10 minutes? These built-in boosters operate using the normal seatbelt, not a 5 point harness. Boosters that you can get that use the seatbelt are not generally anchored to the vehicle, but just use the belt. The ones we have take all of a minute at most to put in (and even less to take out when covered with puke).…

No - I said that they should have “a reasonable amount of liability insurance”. That means coverage for any final judgement they might face. $563 million isn’t reasonable, but based on precedent, $50 million is not unreasonable to assume would be necessary. And it isn’t unaffordable by any stretch. The fact that you…

Aren’t you lovely? Do you understand what liability insurance costs?

The cost of a policy is determined by the expected payouts. You’re far more likely to face a $1000 judgement than a $100k judgement. You’re far more likely to face a $100k judgement than a $10million judgement. You simply take the sum of the product…

Well good for you. You’re also looking at a resort that is grossly underinsured all to save themselves a few hundred dollars a year.

Its a question of frequency of claims. How often do judgements get anywhere near this large? Not often at all. Your first $2M will cost you much more than your next $2M which will cost you much less than the next $2M. This business apparently had basically nothing. They should have been insured for any reasonable…

It isn’t as expensive as you’d think, though.

Except the old ones could take a 5 mph impact with no damage. The new ones are lucky if they have no damage at 2.5 mph.

Are you so sure that the Soviet Union really dissolved? Russia is still acting much like the USSR used to. Yeah, less territory, but they’re working on that.

6”? Not in Michigan! Back when John Engler was governor, we had a section of highway repaved with only about 1/4” of fresh asphalt. It lasted less than a week.

So you’re telling me this dealership was so grossly negligent that they loaned a car to someone who was drunk and they didn’t have a reasonable amount of liability insurance for their business? It seems I’m better insured than this business...

Sergio’s dreams have zero chance of getting realized. Cooperative development? Sure... but we don’t have evidence that leads to a lack of competition. We have a lot more cooperative development today than 25 years ago, yet prices for midsize sedans with identical equipment haven’t moved a lick.

And who do you think employs the vast majority of government employees in the US?

Once again - you have ZERO evidence, so go fuck yourself if you can’t do better than this.

ZERO evidence provided. Your bullshit only gets deeper. And you keep using Scandanavia as an example on how small governments with low levels of unionization are better? SERIOUSLY? 33.87% of Swedes are employed by their government. 32.3% of Danes are employed by their government. 29.25% of Norsemen are employed by…

First off, our existing corporate regulations don’t allow everyone else to develop a more efficient system. They’re restricted in what they can do unless they strike agreements. By doing so, they can take significant leaps in tech but also focus on making their mousetrap better. They aren’t giving up and just copying…

I’m not dismissing anything. I’m stating that your claims are based on your projected interpretations of the work, NOT what the work actually says. What your “evidence” is is akin to saying “because of the Laffer curve, which shows that collected revenues will decline as marginal tax rates climb above a certain value,…

Some of these are more complex of situations than they’re made out to be. For example, for #1 and #4, the limits may seem low compared to what your vehicle can handle, but on many of these stretches you have dense forests right up to the side of the road, so even while your vehicle can go faster and you might see…

Again, you provide ZERO evidence. None. And I didn’t make ANY claim about Scandanavian countries. NOT ONE. You’re outright lying now.

No, “trapped out”, as in the airframe has hit its lifetime trap limit. Everytime an airplane lands on a carrier, it is “trapped” by the arresting gear. This process puts severe stresses on the airframe and as such it can only land so many times before it is considered to be at the end of its useful life as a carrier…

OTOH, these sorts of tie-ups are often a way to actually spur competition. How, exactly? Take Toyota and Ford as an example. Toyota developed some unique hybrid technology and got patents on it that caused problems for Ford when they wanted to produce a similar system. Meanwhile, Ford had similar tech with patents…