Yes, but we know that businesses do not eat costs if they don’t have to. CDK will look to raise fees to the dealerships, and the dealerships will look to raise rates as well. We’ll all wind up paying at least some of the costs.

I expect that since market rates vary a lot across markets, not all shops look askance at warranty work.

From what I’ve seen, it looks like firing paintballs would/could require human authorization after review of the camera image, so that would presumably prevent first responders getting hit. It still seems like lawsuit territory, though.

I read the book the movie M*A*S*H was based on after seeing the film, mostly because I so wanted the film not to end. That was one of the themes of the book, and Altman did a great job of capturing that feeling with Sutherland and Gould.

It looks like one of the examples from the phishing training that I have to take Every. Damn. Year.

Not to mention that all of his sanctimonious pontificating about free speech has been shown again and again to total bullshit. Every day brings new examples of the platform repressing speech that he doesn’t like.

Really. Cars should not have cheat codes outside of video games.

Let’s face it, nationalization will never happen in the US. But a viable step by the DOJ could be to require Boeing to tie compensation of the entire C suite and Board to an independent monitor looking over Boeing’s quality control efforts. Failure to take quality seriously would zero out compensation. I’ll bet that…

The dumb thing is that bookkeeping is the most mundane aspect of running a business. They probably could have outsourced the work easily, and avoided that part of their demise.

If you ever get a chance to see a Strandbeest, make time for it. I’ve seen a couple indoors, where they started one up briefly, and it’s amazing. I can only imagine how fabulous one would be on the beach.

Well, there’s a data point not on the plot that I’m imagining.

And yet I’m certain that women working at Amazon fulfillment centers have had male co-workers say “I gotta package you can handle right here”, and female vendors at ballparks hearing plenty of jokes about her skill with wieners.

I would really like to see a change in tax law that prohibits companies from using fines as a deduction from revenue. I don’t get to reduce my AGI by the amount of a speeding ticket. Corporations shouldn’t get to either. Perhaps making fines a real hit to profitability would get them to sit up and take notice.

I said that employers are regularly held responsible for the actions of their employees, not necessarily that those employers happen to be celebrities. The rules of liability mean that an employer who happens to be a celebrity will be subject to a lawsuit, much like Walmart was held liable for the accident that…

It sounds, though, like the resellers have quite a few unsold reservations. That’s what is causing trouble for restaurants. Requiring pre-payment would go a long way to making the practice unprofitable.

Yes, US card companies have one-time use card numbers linked to your real card, but you have to request the number each time. I doubt that it could be automated, so that should hinder bots trying to scrape a reservation system for popular slots. And if the restaurant went ahead with a charge to hold a reservation,…

I can’t tell if you are serious or just trolling here, but a simple Google search yields an explainer:

This is how I know that this thing isn’t a Trump backed crypto-coin. He would be talking about it non-stop at his rallies.

Boomer here. I never saw the film, so I don’t have an opinion, but I would like to see a graph of how much people liked it across their ages. I suspect that people who experienced the Beatles during their original heyday are less positive about the film than people who only knew the Beatles as artists from the past.

It’s not being a passenger that would make you responsible. It’s being the employer of the driver that would be the key. Employers are regularly held responsible for the bad behavior of employees. That is why hiring an independent service serves as insulation. If you aren’t the employer of the driver you have no…