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There is a lot of speculation floating around about the upcoming mid-engine Corvette. With a series of order guide…
Homer Sarasohn is the other correct answer though he mostly specialized in electronics.
Edwards Deming.
Simple, massively chaotic solution: Stop allowing short-term trading on large companies. If Ford investors were forced to keep their money applied for multiple years, you wouldn’t see half the stupid short-term decisions we currently do.
In between the extremes of “companies should be charities” and “companies should be free to do anything” is “companies should be responsible”. This Wall Street obsession with short term bonuses at the expense of long term health is precisely what’s wrong with the economy today. Companies aren’t spreading wealth…
Neoliberalism is a 19th century term applied to (essentially) “liberal laissez-faire economics”, which essentially means a free market.
This was broadly said in the comments, but to summarize:
which is a relatively recent neoliberal value.
KITTY!!!
This kind of stuff always cracked me up when I saw it. My all time favorite was when we started seeing random interior door panels on new Grand Cherokees that would, for example, be tan when the rest of the interior and other door trim would be grey. We all thought WTF? How could they pass end of line inspection?
Problem is, especially with the interior parts, robots would be way too complicated to program and expensive. I was told by an manufacturing engineer at work that, for the most part, it’s cheaper to have a human, with all their medical benefits than it would be to make a robot that has to maneuver in and around stuff,…
Proven Fact: Left lane hogs bunch up traffic thereby increasing the chance of a collision. Whether or not anyone gets aggressive behind the fuck-o, they are causing a dangerous situation to build up behind them. This is why it is illegal in many states to travel in the left lane. By respecting the left lane as a…
No, it’s not. The EPA rates the Neon at 25/37 on the new EPA economy estimates, and the old economy estimates were as high as 41Mpg freeway depending on the trim and gearing.
It’s hard to pick out much of a handling difference in sport mode
The term “Fiata” isn’t just a cheap jab at FCA for making a car similar to Mazda’s roadster more than two decades late.
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Can we just appreciate that someone in Garden City, MI actually used “its” correctly?