You sir (ma’am?) need FAR more stars for that.

I run track’able nitto’s all summer (and snow tires/wheels) in teh winter for one simple reason:

It’s easy for me to get a friend to go with me to the shop to change my summer/winter tires twice a year.
Not so easy to get my big-vehicle friend to bring my track tires every time I go to the track during the summer.

My brain auto-corrects “CPO”, “Certified Pre Owned”, or “Pre Owned” to what it actually means to the buyer: “Used”

Once your brain assesses your dealership car as “Used”; you’re in a much more powerful position to both conduct a thorough assessment of the car, to have an independent mechanic do a similar assessment,…

Why would you be mad at someone for selling something that is clearly in high demand?

By the same token, how does a company that *LOSES* money every single day continue to operate for years and not go out of business?

And will that green-icon “phone” app:

a) translate automatically from my fluent language into the drivers fluent language?
b) instantly provide me a quote?
c) provide me a live-map of where my driver is and when they’ll arrive to my location for pickup?
d) provide me a live-map of the trip-in-progress when I’m in an…

I’m 110% with you; that’s why I specified that it’s the auto-dealer unions that are doing all of that legislative protectionism.  :)

...Ford’s attempts to restrict resale were an effort to prevent people from flipping cars, which is the very essence of “increased future value”.

Uber has no competitive advantage (in the mobile-app ride sharing market) outside of price.

Exactly!

I need some help here. How does this make sense:

They want me to be silent, they want me to just go away.

The same reason little boys pull the wings off of flies.

So, in the US, we don’t (99% of the time) have those awesome card readers with cellphone cards that the waitstaff bring to the customer. All of our waiters/bartenders have to take our cards back to the hardwired system, and then bring our card and check back to us.

“I’ve never been asked to provide a credit card before they take my order, anywhere in the world,” Vaqua explained to Jezebel.

“Wholphins” of sorts have existed since at least the 80s, when false killer whale and bottlenose dolphin hybrids were born to Tokyo Sea World and Sea Life Park in Hawaii.

I’m happy to see that Groening is evolving his animation style into something new and unique to add more interest to this interesting show.

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