look, you lost the argument and are responding with a non-sequitur. acknowledge you lost and bow out instead of being an ignorant ass.

I thought your point was to disparage the Detroit 3 for being at the bottom of the CAFE list.

Subprime refers to the creditworthiness of the borrower. The borrower has a low credit score, and thus their loan is a subprime loan. The interest rate is the result of the fact that the loan is subprime. Due to the higher risk the bank takes on in lending to this individual, they charge a higher interest rate to…

If I was a city worker whose pension got vaporized, and there was a single unsold city asset, I can assure you, hostages would be taken.

Mulally to Microsoft will be a replay of when John Sculley went to Apple.

I don't usually want the government's hands in free enterprise but this looks like it was a win for us all. The gov't lost 12 billion on the bailout but they took in 39.4 billion in taxes on the jobs the bailout saved. That is not to mention the resultant future taxes in the years to come. How many of those employees…

Uh, no. You couldn't. Not one that employs anywhere near as many people as GM does.

It's American football tradition to play in any and all weather (if it isn't life threatening), I would say most people would be opposed to the idea of undersoil heating. Heck, a good amount of people are against the idea of indoor stadiums, because it prevents these kinds of games.

I don't agree that adverse weather makes for a farce. No one thinks the Ice Bowl was a farce —people consider it to be epic. A greater challenge doesn't mean inferior, and it certainly wasn't without great play. The Buccs/Bills game was a farce; and there wasn't any snow.

The Ford Vulcan V6. Simple, reliable, easy to repair and maintain, used companywide for over twenty years. Cars, trucks, vans. A little basic care and it'll last forever.

Am I a fan of the automated driving aids promised on the Edge Concept? No, not really, although even I'll admit the remote parking feature is a neat trick. But when we start to see high-end stuff like this on humble Ford crossover vehicles, I think it's proof that these kinds of technologies really are the future.

Amen, brother. I'm so tall, my knees dig into the back of the seat in front of me even without them reclining. If they recline, or try to recline, it is a direct assault on my kneecaps. If they persist, I will inform them that I am sorry, but they cannot recline their seat while I am sitting behind them. If they still…

I'm tall-ish, but by no means unusually so. A fraction of an inch under 6 feet. I have yet to sit in a coach seat on a plane without having my knees in the back of the seat in front of me, even when it's fully upright. That means that the person in front of me can't recline. I'm not trying to be a dick about it,…

Fair enough. I'll be the first to admit that I can be passive aggressive, which is why I let my knees block people from reclining rather than speaking to them.

You're not tall, are you ?

Being Gerard Depardieu

The seatback thing is the only thing I care about. I'm 6'4", and on Delta that means about .5" of legroom (fly Sun Airways instead, since Delta's merger Sun is friendlier, cheaper and, most importantly, has an inch or two more of leg room). When someone leans their seat back, I WILL ask them to kindly put it up again.…

In the real world, missaccounting for leases and preorders results in big financial penalties. That is why GAAP accounting matters.

From a building cars perspective, they're probably doing things about as correctly as they can. From a business perspective, they're shady and spend a lot of time trying to confuse the truth behind anything with a $ sign. Remember their marketing plan of "buy a Tesla for only $600/mo" or whatever that was a bunch of…

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