People want to classify carriers as utilities PRECISELY BECAUSE that would prevent carriers from structuring plans into tiers with different quality of service where the lower tiers don’t even meet a minimum standard of usability.

The cell phone carriers are not power utilities. You keep finding different ways to attribute benevolence to the carriers that just is not there. Throttling is not network management. It's not meant to control usage. It is placing ARTIFICIAL restrictions on cheaper plans to give customers a reason to spend more on the…

Bandwidth is not nearly as scarce as the carriers’ PR folks would have you believe. The networks are perfectly capable of prioritizing traffic on their own. If throttling had anything to do with network management, it wouldn’t be the “pay us more and no more throttling” situation it is now.

Load balancing and throttling are completely different. Load balancing is necessary, but it has much less of an impact on users than throttling. Throttling artificially slows down customers’ data because of restrictions on their account, not because of true load balancing. It’s a simple if/then kind of restriction in…

Thanks, yes it’s lowered and has various bushings and other crap upgraded. I love how the 19s look with the drop but if I were doing it again I might go for wider-than-stock 18s for summer wheels as I’d like to have a little more sidewall. My car is awd which has less front suspension travel than rwd, so with the…

What actually makes no sense is replacing a perfectly functional phone every year. Phones, especially flagships, do not become obsolete after a year. But the carriers are happy to provide saps like you with creative financing options.

No. Carriers’ throttling of customers’ data has nothing to do with “network management” and everything to do with encouraging customers to pay for more expensive plans to avoid the throttling.

Well, since the post of yours I replied to was rather limited in scope, I only came here to say that while you are technically correct that not all BMWs have runflats, the majority of them do. I mentioned the lack of spare because BMW’s justification for removing the spare tire wells from their cars was runflat tires.

Most of the US commercial van market has moved away from this style. Basically everybody selling vans in the US except for GM have adopted the lighter-duty European style in big and little sizes.

Ehhhhhhmmmmmmm..... that’s debatable. 

Yeah yeah we know the sporty ones can be had with summer performance tires instead of the runflats, or come with the summers standard. But most regular BMWs do in fact come with runflats, and none of them have spare tires. 

Tire replacement cost isn’t too much of a concern anymore now that so many mainstream vehicles are on 19" or larger wheels. Especially if they’re not all that wide. For example, my wife’s 2018 Mazda CX-5 came with 225/55-19 Toyo A23 tires on it which cost $140 each from Tire Rack. They’re nothing special and I…

One thing that I saw pointed out in another review was that while the workout tracking is in the Suunto app, the 24x7 type stuff like steps is in Google Fit.

Maybe there will be a version similar to the Renegade Trailhawk. The non-Trailhawk Renegades are only marginally off-roadier than a typical crossover. 

I take it you’re a fan of the “corporations are people too” supreme court ruling? 

The proportions are more Freelander/LR2 to me.

You mean like in the future in All Good Things, when Captain Riker showed up in the hotrodded Enterprise D (now with 3 nacelles!) and blew the shit out of those pesky Klingons?

Maybe all of the mass-produced synths like those shown at the beginning of the Utopia Planetia attack had positronic matrices that could've worked for the treatment? There were loads of them in circulation before the ban...

I can afford to, this is ‘Murica, and you can simply COPE with it.

Good lord are you fucking dense or something? The investigation was into FCA overall. He was not the CEO of FCA, he is the CEO of the Ram brand.