I have to say I couldn’t disagree more. Calls for Tesla to do things more like a traditional car company are so completely tone deaf from a brand loyalty/brand development perspective. No one buys a Tesla because they want a traditional car buying/car ownership experience. Routing customer feedback through a byzantine…

Was entering into a contract for sale on car that Volkswagen knew didn’t meet legal and ethical obligations “in the spirit” of the money he paid them for it? He showed up for a good faith transaction and got screwed. Volkswagen suddenly gets to insist everyone play “in the spirit” of anything because they wanna lawyer…

Tons of tourists? Are going to fly to Seatac, drive 20 minutes into town, take a 45 minute ferry to Bremerton, drive across a bridge to Port Orchard made of old carriers, turn around, drive back, and then another 45 minute ferry back to Seattle where there is, literally, anything else to do?

I sort of doubt it.

Just about everything (no, really) you ever wanted to know about gas turbine (jet) engines, from a guy who works on 'em. Hundreds of videos. He makes for a great teacher... really careful to draw attention to important distinctions, teach and use terminology correctly to make sure he's being clear, and answer viewer…

Yeah, the VC-25s are at Andrews in Maryland. Gotta keep 'em close to DC. :)

Coerced with millions and millions of dollars. Same thing on a grander scale that gets me to work every day instead of sitting on the beach with a mai tai. It's not like it's an unfair trade or that he didn't know what he was signing up for when he put his signature on the contract. We don't have to feel bad for him…

I giggl'd.

I hate this argument. If someone is in the left lane and they shouldn't be, then they're in the left lane and they shouldn't be. Blocking traffic is an egregious sin, in my book. You're in my way. It's rude, and I intend for you to know about it.

"Do your own research" is an abdication of one's responsibility as an activist. You may choose not to be an activist. Or you may choose to be one. But if you choose to be one, educating people... repeating yourself... saying the same damn thing six hundred million times is what activism is. It's not just slogans and…

If you think about it, most of that tower is empty space, and the energy from the explosion had a nice smooth path to follow around the cylindrical shape of the struts, through the empty space, and onward. I'd imagine the legs are pretty well over-engineered anyway to be holding a huge tank of water for decades on end…

You're not entirely wrong, and you ask some okay questions. I'm sorry to respond with such a novel... but you asked, so lemme make a few points:

1.) To clarify: I'm white (like, Northern European all the way back), and I haven't attended any of the protests, although the ones in Seattle have occurred walking distance…

Why are you so interested in distracting from the issue at hand in this article? Why can't you make the case for all of those other things on one or two of the many thousands of articles that are about those issues? Why are you here to tell us not to pay attention to this issue?

Zoom out from this one case and look at…

It's "choked" not "choken" and yeah, he was too choked to death for a petty crime. "Inviting" an interaction with the cops does not mean he was inviting being killed. He was doing nothing that required the cops to put him in a chokehold, let alone a chokehold they knew to be illegal and dangerous, let alone do it for…

"in the end, ask yourself why the cops were on these situations to begin with. What crime was committed. Did the black person cooperate or did they start going on about bring oppressed by the white man. Did they instigate a physical response based on their demeanor or actions."

That argument perpetuates exactly the…

"exterior styling straight out of a bad syfy flick"

This! It's awful.

The thing I hope Cadillac knows is that producing cars that are *as good as* BMW and Mercedes is never going to give them the foothold they need in the marketplace. When you're a latecomer, you have to be better-than. Not just sometimes. Not just on some factors, but really across the board. I want better milage, I…

Making it harder for aerodynamic forces to act on an airplane is the direct opposite of the point of building an airplane. It's a non-starter. Instead of just making it heavier for density's sake (which, remember, diminishing returns are applicable here... a commercial airplane's already pretty damn heavy), you build…

So, we've said Boeing, we've said Spirit, and now we've said BNSF. But frankly, I think you're all wrong. There's not a chance in hell these fuses weren't insured.

I feel like there's someone petulantly complaining that the real world shows up in shareholder meetings at every shareholder meeting. Some people go into investing because the only thing that makes them happy is money. How boring to know how it's made... just make more of it. These are the losers that drive innovative…

It's not just a practical concern, it's also a political one. It's about optics. The President rolls in with the thunderous fanfare of the biggest and best America has to offer as a means of projecting strength around the world. You can argue with the utility of that, for sure, but many of the folks making these…