If you’re short, patient, have tons of disposable income and a garage you’re not going to need for a year or so, do it.

Bringing something like this to market is going to cost billions. Somebody will buy the IP, move the ball forward, but ultimately run out of money, and the cycle will continue. It’ll happen sooner or later, probably EV-Pony Express style, but before that, there will be the inevitable crash and everyone will go nuts,…

A) What tis the point of airing private trauma in today’s culture?

1) Dude, you’re gonna lift weights and grow. Skinny and short is not your forever; sell the fucking Triumph.

the very first time I got into my brand-new 1997 5-speed Maxima, I broke my knee cap on the emergency brake handle. One the one hand, quite a sturdily built car, on the other, who the @#$%! tested the ergonomics? I owned the thing for 10 weeks before I put a mile on it. 

Some of us worked for insurance companies as young people. One of the best things to come out of that gig for me was that I met people who specialized in cleaning the sort of things that would either give one nightmares or cause involuntary regurgitation. They hipped me to products and processes that made a huge…

A guy’s gotta draw a line...

Please call it what it is, a station wagon. At no time in the US did we ever call cars “shooting brakes”, “saloons”, or “estates”. When people use the idiom of a country not well known for its quality vehicles (c’mon, we all know it to be true. To paraphrase a certain Mr Stephenson, the British will build a mailbox…

Malicious use. You’re right that the easiest path is civil - reputational damage, etc, but you don’t need to damage a system to get in trouble for unauthorized use and manipulation. Fucking with the content of their formatted communications could certainly be considered damage, though.

She had been convicted before she conceived the second kid. She should name this one “Strategy”.

You just know someone in the show is going to ask him if that’s really the best ship in which to cart around a kid. No dedicated child-seat. No sanitary facilities, beds or food storage prep for those overnight trips, and no apparent usable luggage space; babies need stuff!

I did not even need to check the plate or read to the end to know that this seller is in a legal-marijuana state. The headline immediately made me think, “That dude is high.”.

Unauthorized use of a computer system to cause damage is most assuredly criminal. 

One could argue that the kid who accessed the equipment to change the labels did commit a crime. He had no permission to change the dealer’s notification sticker, and had to know it was going to cause economic injury to the business. I’m pretty sure some ADA, even in North Carolina, could figure out a plausible charge.

Calling flat-out racism “racially insensitive” is a little racially insensitive, no?

“Dodgy M & S tires”? Nobody’s driving Skodas in Boston, man.

On the upside, we have a constant source of water and don’t have wildfires, such as the one that destroyed my aunt’s place. Plusses and minuses to everything.

This isn’t a particularly controversial move, nor is it much different from the sort of policies private employers have for employer-owned cell-phones or computers. Most companies are quite specific about apps, removable media, etc.. Tik Tok might be a red herring, but the government should be exercising control over…

The average person from Syracuse would, after rolling their eyes at the gross ineptitude, stay out of their car until it was safe. Just because they can’t drive in the snow, any amount of it, doesn’t mean they won’t.

There’s something to that. I’m tall and big (not fat). I’ve made multiple cross-country trips in small cars, and each one was like a prison sentence. Insufficient leg-room is my biggest gripe - where are all the fucking Lilliputians for whom these cars are apparently being built? Don’t even get me started on shoulder…