I agree about interests, but it could mean a couple of things. Having the military to protect shipping is a time-tested good idea. It is related to but not the same as having full military hegemony in multiple battlefields in order to effectively control and contain possible aggression from other nations at the…

I totally get what you’re saying, as a layman. But as a layman, I would probably want to have a bayonet on my rifle too, as a backup. I don’t think bayonets are still a thing, though.

Since vertical and hover capability resulted in the boxy airframe that keeps it from being the pure fighter that it might have been, yet has incredible capabilities (some of which have probably not even been discovered yet, there being so few vectored thrust fighters around), maybe B is the one that should get the…

F35 was supposed to be efficient because it is modular. The air force, marines, and navy get the same plane, albeit customized to particular need. So, more parts availability, less need to develop a unique skillset to fix the things, and so on. As a next-generation platform, it is expected to have the best combination…

Oh, I know. Chev is the sporty performance division now. I just liked the badge logo. Which, in the end, was the main differentiation between GM divisions.

Good for GM! Tesla was never about being the only player in this space, just one that would kickstart the changeover to electric from ICE. If the Bolt is great, well, great for the customer.

Jumping jehoshaphat. That’s the defence? Eeeeh. Why not just plea bargain. It’s not that he cares about making the process easier for the women he victimized, obviously, but surely he cares about himself. Why in the blazes would he go out like this - slow, unrepentant, flailing.

It looks like a bad idea, but so did heavier than air flight.

Well, I don’t think anyone was arguing about legalities. The protest was lawful. The non-signing, thus far, is lawful. That’s not controversial.

Yeah! I know more about the CFL than the NFL due to being in Vancouver and of a certain age. QBs in the CFL are usually not pure pocket passers. The wider field would offer Kap better seams for improvised carries and the three-down game tends to create more offence. It might be a lot of fun for him and keep him in…

Mary Barra is well paid and I don’t exactly feel badly for her, but what a hill to climb. She’s not just competing against other manufacturers, but against the sloppy, inefficient, inelegant image that American cars created for themselves from let’s say 1976 to about 2010 (when I think that the quality and build…

True, but I never really cared about top speed. I was the kid that was into vans. Outre art, shag carpet,eccentricity, luxury, and go-anywhere cappucino machine is more my thing than 0-60 times.

Haha! Yes. I didn’t want the Outback either. But my wife said it was great for the kids, tall enough to navigate the rutted dirt road needed to get to her mom’s friend’s cabin, and pointed out that it was better priced than the (unbeknownst to me) lying German diesel that I wanted.

There are cookbooks about using your engine block as the heat source. I can’t imagine this is very good for the tire, or for that matter for the harried, upset driver fishing around for the restraining straps in the dark.

Did Tesla mean it when they said they would allow other companies to freely borrow their patented tech, as long as it advanced the growth of electric cars?

A scary incident, but what a video! The exasperated sigh is just tremendous. What a character.

I agree with your points and I would even add that governments tend to add additional overhead in the form of oversight of the oversight of the restructuring of the vision of the mission committees.

I think workfare is kinda edging into slavery, if not over the line. However, a national service program that gives people something constructive to put on the resume, a sense of accomplishment, and a half-decent per diem sounds like something to explore.

The advantage of govt, in addition to bulk purchasing power that is pretty hard to beat, is transparency by law. Govt is under a continuous audit. So look at the reports closely for waste and overspending, and complain to the media, and make it a political issue.

I get what you’re saying, and sure it’s alarming.