You think workers would have any say or control then? How cute.

So when the local school principal goes on a drunken bipolar rampage and tries to fire half the staff in a way that permanently revokes their licensure, the union served no purpose in limiting the damage and getting the principal fired instead? mmkay....

I pray you never have to work in an environment where workers are treated so poorly that you learn why unions still exist. And yes, there are plenty of places where this is a problem. And I blame management every time for the existence of a union.

Interesting fact: Those “kickbacks” are entirely voluntary - no one can be compelled to pay a single cent in dues used to provide said kickback.

And why aren’t unions allowed to opt out of representing you when you work in a unionized workplace in a “right to work” state?

Damnit...

Earlier pics had the instrument cluster finally where it should be - in front of the driver. Now this?

Yep - but I wouldn’t read too much into what they said. Our family had an 87 Toyota Camry - it needed an engine replacement at 40,000 miles (this was back in the days when they only gave a 12 month / 12,000 mile warranty). They covered 100% of that bill. They also covered 100% of a second engine replacement at 80,000…

Why do you care about mileage? You won’t be putting any miles on on the road where you’re going.

And I’ve known people to get the same treatment from Ford. And Toyota. And I know plenty of people who Honda told to take a hike when their Odyssey transmissions failed 1000 miles out of warranty.

Good will repairs are highly unpredictable, in my experience.

“Well, when you found it, you should have googled the make/model/year for known problems before you did anything else”

The catch, of course, is that googling *ANY* make/model will result in a mile-long list of all the problems. Determining if the search results are flukes or not can be difficult just from a google…

Based on photo dates at airliners.net, it kept the AA scheme until sometime between July 4, 1982 (when Challenger was delivered) and June 1983.

It isn’t just being a woman on the internet.

I’ve received death threats after standing up for teacher unions.

The block was built 40 miles from the dockyard it was shipped to, yet because it was on the opposite side of the island, they had to transport it over 600 miles.

Yep - sounds like a government spread-the-wealth project to me...

I think you missed the point in the Chevy Volt / Tesla comparison:

Forget about the vehicle - just look at the battery. GM is selling batteries at a lower price per kWh than Tesla says they’ll get to in the mid-term when the gigafactory opens. That means that Tesla has no competitive advantage on battery price, even…

The catch, though, is that the decreasing costs and improvements only help Tesla if they can obtain a competitive advantage. Think about the battery cost, for example. A Chevy Volt replacement battery costs less per kWh than Tesla says batteries coming from the gigafactory will cost. Where’s Tesla’s competitive…

4th:

Sony needs to get its act together in the businesses it already is in before it makes the massive leap into the auto industry. They’re losing money already - they need to get their core businesses profitable first.

True.

But the growth in sales they’d have to experience would be pretty massive, and done without margin erosion. And they’re already experiencing gross margin declines and their operating losses (even taking out R&D) have been increasing with increased sales.

Their operating margin is still highly negative. Case closed.

They don’t make anywhere close to $25k profit per vehicle. You’re confusing gross margin with profits. The two are not one and the same - unless you can get most of your people to work for free. Gross margin is a measure of revenues vs. direct production costs. You can’t even say tesla has a $25k marginal profit per…

Their investments are in CAPITAL assets - which do NOT count against current earnings. They are depreciated as the equipment goes through its useful life. This can’t be that hard to understand. If a company buys a factory for $1 million, that doesn’t reduce their profits by $1 million. If that factory is expected to…