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I vote for he knows he’s lying and doesn’t care. Read more

Every gay person I know, and 90% of the women, have much better taste than this.
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Please. It’s a chiseled slab of a car.
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what a desperately unnecessary article. it’s an ugly incoherent box, with the ugliest ass since the AC Cobra hardtop. there is nothing XKE about it, and certainly nothing that reflects all the sexiness that made Jaguar what it was.

it is ugly, it is stupid.
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I don’t know... The modern interpretation of the E type is the F type? Read more

Mr. Golson, that concept has no curves which is what made the “E” what it was. Curves are what made all Jaguars visually what the are. It’s cold. It’s lines are abrupt. It’s corners and ends are sharp. Even taking that it’s still in it’s conception stage, it is visually the antithesis of everything that had always made Read more

I can see what you’re saying. Having said that, it’s a lazy design. They had/have the opportunity to reinvigorate an entire brand, and while choosing to look back on one of the most striking designs from their history is a good call, choosing this dated low-polygon style of design is not forward thinking. It’s like Read more

Perhaps not completely crazy but you’re straining really hard to make it seem that a brutalist design looks like what Enzo Ferrari is reported to have called the most beautiful car ever made. Both cars are fastback coupes with long hoods but proportions aren’t anything alike. The E Type is sinuous, with distinct Read more

See I knew the airplane nerds (no disrespect, nerds are great) would jump in and tell us it’s mostly computer controlled, and I’m ok with that but... Read more

No, the key driver of one of those crashes was a sensor that was installed incorrectly, causing the plane to think it was stalling Read more

You already do trust your life to a computer when you get on a plane- you just don’t realize it. Read more

I understand the use of computers for perhaps 99.5% of every flight, and have no issues with that. But I fly b/c I have faith that the pilots have an equal desire to stay alive as I do (with some exceptions, Germanwings), and therefore will be Herculean in their efforts in a crisis to land us alive. I have no faith an Read more

The pilots are mostly there to plan, communicate, and respond to unusual situations Read more

Many times disaster has been averted by the teamwork of a good aircrew, but I guess Airbus thinks life is cheap. Read more

Indeed, the petroleum industry is renowned for otherwise being awesome companies run by awesome people. Why pay those cretins at Buc-ee’s if you can further enrich ExxonMobil? Read more

F-you about Buc-ee’s. My brother is immobilized with MS. When he and his family travel my sister-in-law has to take him to the restroom. The staff at all of the Buc-ee’s they stop at will clear the woman’s restroom so they can accommodate him and his wife. It gives him and his wife a since of dignity to be treated so Read more