I feel like now would be a good timed to point out that there is a huge difference between the RICO case described in this article and a civil RICO case.

I wonder what it would taste like without the doritos. I’m not necessarily against chips on a sandwich, but I feel the taste is going to be overwhelming on this one.

I was referring to cities that were financed by the Chinese government to artificially prop up their economy by giving construction companies work, and by extension, the population.

What will you do when that floating apartment building of yours needs total overhaul and refit after X years - just float away 9000 peoples’ homes and belongings to a ship wharf somewhere for months on end?

Have you ever actually been in a cruise ship stateroom? Think prison cell with a shower; you’d have to be nuts to want to live in one full-time.

The straight-up fuel use isn’t so much the problem as the kind of fuel used to run these big ships. Look up bunker oil sometime when you have some spare time... (Spoiler alert: it’s basically thick, black tarry sludge from hell, loaded with sulfur, which burns roughly as cleanly as you would expect it to. Also has to…

Cruise ships could still adapt a power structure that uses renewable sources, I’d bet. I have no doubts that getting rid of the fuel budget would be quite welcome at company headquarters.

Getting drunk and falling off a French cheese boat is arguably a better way to go too!

Exactly. Imagine all of these people visiting all of these places by hopping from island to island via plane.

Completing the ship with more modest accommodations and not using it as a cruise ship, but for housing would offer an alternative recovery of the basic structure.

Let’s look at affordability.

She left for The Autopian, which was started by Torchinsky and DT and now has all the good former Jalopnik writers. I really need to take Jalopnik out of my rss feed.

The irony of a cop saying someone else has a hall monitor vibe.

Exactly. I’ve owned two Dodge vehicles...spaced 18 years apart. Not going to fool me again. And adding Alfa Romeo into the mix would make me even more nervous.

That R/T is interesting though.   Wonder what the $MSRP will be?

The PHEV version is especially interesting as it appears it will be eligible for the $7500 tax credit.

Affordable PHEV’s are pretty rare on the ground, so I could definitely see a market for this... if it weren’t based on an Alfa Romeo. Dodge has enough reliability issues without adding complex electronics to an Alfa product.

I think it is always going to be us vs them as government wants to eliminate this “counter culture”. Nobody seems to try to find compromise (controlled “shows” or something).
Of course then you get another crowd of people just saying: go on the track (but where is the track and how much does it cost and when is it…

Generally low unemployment, like you just referenced, leads to high inflation.

Yeah, no. Wages have nothing to do with inflation and have not, for 50 years. Wages have NOT kept up with inflation for decades.

‘We’ being the nation.