LOL, I cannot tell you how much I sympathize: my local VW dealership’s service department is so legendarily incompetent that they had my MkIV Jetta GLS TDI for about six months (not hyperbole; I had made them give me a loaner in the interim after their first “repair” failed, so I wasn’t breathing fire down their necks…

Meh, Foreman was 45 when he smoked a 26-year-old Moorer to regain the heavyweight title...

Well, they could set it up the same way, e.g., the Scandanavian countries do, which is to prorate fines according to income, hence things like a $103,000 speeding ticket in Finland for doing 45 in a 30 zone.

I think it’s common everywhere nowadays, I know for a fact that the tiny state school the next town over (which, as a city, has a population density of barely more than half of that of the state of New Jersey, mind you) charges for parking passes.  

Except for the fact that purple is below silver on the list...

LOL, somehow RE5 is the only game in the series I’ve actually completed (hell, it might be the only one where I’ve even reached the end of the very first level), I had a lot of fun with it, specifically because of the co-op. While platting the thing on PS3 back when it originally came out, I kept getting my ass kicked…

Why would we have to manufacture anything? I’m sure Elon will have his minions strip-mining Jupiter’s core by 2045 at the very latest. You might not come back alive, but it’ll be a glorious adventure.

Yeah, and so did I, and I’ll even name the company: Nexicore (then Avnet), which had contracts w/ Toshiba, Sony, LG, etc. And I was absolutely, one million percent a “contractor”.

OMFG, I’ve been wanting a follow-up Oldham/Sweeney collaboration this entire time and had zero idea this was even in the works. Very excited to hit the only remaining area record store tonight, but fully expecting to have to resort to ordering online and firing up Soulseek in the meantime.

Whenever a Republican (and it’s always some card carrying, flag waving Republican) starts blabbering on in front of me regarding personal responsibility and this and that horseshit, I love to throw in their face the fact that their beloved Objectivist Lord and Savior, Ayn Rand her fucking self, received her university…

It’s hardly just Chernobyl, Ted Cruz Dorm Stories was wonderful too and you know it.

Username checks out.

Timely Merino reference, given the frequent appearances of Wes Weckler and Rob Grabowski in recent sporting news.

You are sadly mistaken if you believe for a moment that contractors like mortgage loan closers or on-site warranty repair technicians get any meaningful say over their schedules, other than maybe how many days a week they’ll work.

Eight cars over 27 years, $39,600 total purchase price (none new, obviously); currently have two of them and together they’re probably still worth half of this total, so I can’t really complain (but probably will anyway).  

Amen. I probably have well over 5,000 hours in total into this series, but at this point, after a solid decade of decline, the only way they could get me even modestly interested would be to return to the Bad Company formula of small teams, dense, ultra high-quality maps and maximal environmental damage, which will…

LOL, thank you, that was exactly my reaction. I actually recall having this very same type of exchange w/ Farhad Manjoo on the Slate message boards back before the PS4/XB1 launched; he was all-in on MS, believing their promise of incredible futuristic integrated television bullshit was some sort of insurmountable…

They can do it, I just know they have the juice to get these guys freed. They can call up Egypt and be all like “You’ve got a canal, we’ve got a canal, we’re canal habibis, what’s it gonna take to iron this out?”

Surely the government of Panama can wade into this fray and throw its international weight around a bit, right?

Speaking as a “whale”-level consumer in this particular category, the Storz & Bickel Plenty is the best serious heavy-hitter vape on the market, and as a bonus you can leave it out on your table and tell credulous visitors that it’s a Black & Decker [insert whatever], and they’ll buy it without a second thought.