Yea... this is why the “nothing to hide” argument is bullshit, and the only thing you should do when someone utters the phrase is punch them in the mouth.

I wouldn’t really object to the government or a treaty with our neighboring countries determining how the standard is set.

The ironic part is that the interstate system has provided orders of magnitude more economic value to the economy (the estimates I’ve seen are close to three-quarters of a trillion dollars a year in 2023 dollars) than the project ever cost.

This is literally the reason my company stopped using Display Ads in Adwords. The first thing I did when I was on-boarded was ask the marketing agency for the data on where the ads were being run. I then canceled the program because they weren’t being run anywhere relevant, and controlling where the ads appear (or…

It’s top secret in that they don’t usually willingly disseminate information garnered from it. It’s been a plausible deniability thing for quite some time and is the same with most other TS programs. 

It’s about as expensive as a 2 stage Honda snowblower, but it can be used year-round to clean up brush and dissuade the neighbor’s dog from crapping in your yard.

Nothing. But if they close their eyes and pull their ears hard enough the bad guys go away or something.

Security through obscurity is not security. If that’s NHTSAs stance they need to crack the fuck down on manufacturers operating systems immediately, and put in place a secure standard or a physical switch to enable the telemetics. They're basically admitting the scheme is insecure otherwise.

What’s the old car restoration joke? The last 10% is 90% of the work?

95% of the views are probably journalists and muckrakers watching and rewatching his drivel to chase clicks.

I will have to eat my hat on the pricing, as I thought it would be closer to $40k.

Lawl teens and 20 somethings. Someone call Toyota and find out how that went for their Scion sub-brand. That was with sub $20k cars and 2.5% interest rates.

After watching the E539 Restorations Project Chicago build of a B7 Alpina, these things will financially ruin anyone who isn’t maintaining it for YouTube ad revenue. (Also see Hoovie's and LegitStreetCars.)

1. If I’m driving anything larger than an SUV or pulling a trailer, you need to pull up a satellite image of wherever you want to eat before we get to the exit so I can verify we can get in, park, and get out with a minimal amount of annoyance.

“Volvo has its chiropractor-approved buckets (for whatever the approval of Ghost Doctors is worth)“

Because the federal government mandates battery packs be warrantied for 8 years/100k miles and California mandates they be warrantied for 10 years/150k miles.

Thanks for the update. In that case I can root for them that they’ll get through these early growing pains and be a contender eventually.

Do you still have to lease the battery in perpetuity? Because that’s kind of an automatic disqualifier even if all this other stuff wasn’t already.

Yea but searchable archived datasets are a thing. In some ERP systems you archive the active company by appending a separate dataset with the current status of various orders and the inventory.

I mean this is the DMV’s IT infrastructure we’re talking about here. I wouldn’t be surprised if the issue was that the database has a 2 GB limit like systems from the 90's either.