Me too, but GM’s recent V8s (2007 to 2021 5.3, 6.0, 6.2) have had a lot of serious reliability issues, mainly with the AFM/DOD systems and associated lifter and pushrod failure, affecting engines all the way up to 2021. This includes a lot of repeat failures, when GM replaces just one bank on the side of the affected…

He knows all about how paying giant dealer markups can leave you… underwater.

I work in tech. MAYBE 10-15% of companies ever really test their backups...

Been involved in a couple of FAA outages many years ago and both were the result of a single person’s error. Both happened during approver maintenance windows with step by step MOPs in place approved by FAA. Both made national news. One was the result of one person adding one step into an approved procedure. Forgot…

A quote from 1978, or around the time we last updated the software completely.

RBAC (Role Based Access Control) is a reasonably new concept. If this system is 20 years old or more, it's likely that you basically either have user or admin.

Yep the fact that there was no failover server is the real story here.

I hate DeSantis too, but yea, I think American citizens should have priority in buying land and property in their own country over foreign entities. But all foreign entities. Not just China.

“Party of Small-Minded Government"

That’s a false equivalency. It would be more like the electronic scoring system at a track failing for one car only, and the race director telling the driver he had to retire his car as a result. I think he has a right to be annoyed.  Ever been mad at a video game before?  I have, and I wasn’t playing for anything.

Most of the southwest should be ceded back to Mexico, and most of everything else west of the Mississippi should just be given back to the Native tribes.

I wonder what would happen if we did similar with tribal lands because they are severely underrepresented.

We should merge Wyoming with Colorado or Montana, and merge the Dakotas, then grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

It would solve a lot of problems and we wouldn’t need to argue about updating the flag. 

Hmnnn yes. But I once passed on a car that had none of that color.... but lots of this texture.

“Highway miles”

This red.

The actual long block was the ONE part of these that actually was really good though, along with the (manuals only) transmissions. But a quarter million miles is a long, long way, especially on a turbo - and you know somebody cranked up the boost at some point, they never stay unmolested.

The car names are TOO DAMN LONG!

The Gadgetmobile

I thought James Remar was ‘Earnest P Worell’ just being a more serious actor.