Crap I forgot about that! Yeah, he’s on it. He smells what I’m steppin in.

Agreed. I’m in the same boat, figuratively speaking (although I don’t have a big sailboat with a head, I do have a rescue BMW that needs TLC, which is about the same as a boat...)

Dammit. You’re going to get me into serious trouble...

This is awesome!

No, but corporations have employees, customers, profit margins and operational expenses.

It looks like an older Hobie 16. Tramp looks decent. Lines are tired, but easy to replace. Mast (aluminum) looks ok. The whole boat does look a bit sunbleached, but no visible damage. Haven’t seen the sails yet, because I’m worried if I call the owner and ask, I’ll end up losing my resolve and buying the dang thing.

Relieved that we just paid our car off last week. Got a final payment from our asshole former business partner and used that to pay off our car. Feels good to get both the asshole and the car loan out of our lives in the same week.

Yeah, and what’s up with the glider too (after you answer Enginerrrrr’s question about the cat...)

Ok, so I’m going to try not to completely bash another person’s opinion by expressing my own, but, well, I think K-cars were crap.

You do realize that the head image of the “Tesla Semi” is actually a Jason Torchinsky original, right?

Nope. No spelling mistakes, actual sentence structure (for the most part), only 1 exclamation point. And its over 140 characters, Trump would have gotten distracted before writing all that...

You have to separate the device from the service.

I never said it was easy. I taught myself computers for the same reason I taught myself cars: I didn’t want to be reliant on someone else to fix stuff when it breaks. I taught myself how to build a phone system for my office because I didn’t want to pay $5,000 for a proprietary phone system that would just be obsolete…

You know, its really not that hard to learn how to muck around with computers. You just need to have the interest and the will. If you don’t, that’s fine, but don’t whine about stuff being locked down through your own apathy.

Agreed, and its something I think about as well. But I also am very aware that we’re in a symbiotic relationship with every company that we buy products and services from, and the governments that regulate our lives, from the federal level down to the local. Unless you entirely detach yourself from modern society and…

No, this isn’t it at all. Pouring in water ruins the beer.

Last Christmas we got held up in our P85 on a remote highway in a snowstorm because some idiot in a Subaru WRX thought his car was invincible, lost control on a curve, tagged an oncoming semi and shut the road down. We were there for about an hour and a half, with outside temps at 19 degrees.

Before I respond, I should point out that the Tesla over-the-air updates are not automatic. They don’t just happen without the owner’s control. You get a notification that there is an update both in the car, and on the smartphone app. Its up to you to install it or not. If you’re suspicious of Tesla’s “control”, you…

This is the literal, real life example of adding insult to injury.

So, I’m struggling to understand what you are concerned about here. Tesla enables certain abilities within some of its cars that its owners knew were not available to them and you see this as evil? Are you concerned with the fact that there are software limited features in a product? If so, doesn’t that situation…