If you're in the 49 United States of America, you don't have to. If you're within Arizona's new iron curtain, you'd better have a copy of your birth certificate with you 24/7.
Plus, the tech culture in the Bay Area tends to cultivate workaholics who are dedicated to their job, or at least their project. A jury duty summons invokes thoughts of: "I don't have time for this! I have responsibilities/a deadline/a team/a project/some really cool bit of code I'm wrapped up in".
Also, San Francisco is especially obnoxious in how they handle juror summonses. They don't do anything considerate or sane like just tell you which day to go in, and then maybe you're on a jury and maybe you're not. They make you block off a whole WEEK out of your schedule and make you call in every night to see if you have to go in the next day for juror selection. That asshattery breeds resentment and a desire to make damn sure you're not stuck on a jury.
Finally, lots of people work on contract instead of salary here. So the time you spend at the courthouse is money right out of your pocket. And juror pay barely covers lunch for the day, much less the money you're losing by not doing your job. BIG incentive to figure out how to get out of jury duty there.
And there are plenty of guides to getting out of it online for the tech-savvy person to find... some of which delve down to what's worked with specific judges!
Plus, lawyers don't WANT smart or informed people on the jury anyway. They want compliant and gullible and easy-to-win-over-to-their-side people.
So it should be no surprise to anyone that relatively few tech-savvy people wind up on juries.
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I think the problem people have, is that the court should never have been involved at all. Okay... so he's insubordinate and fired. No problem.
AFTER he's fired, they go to him and STILL want him to do part of his job (disclose the passwords). Tough cookies. The deal in employment is "payment received for services rendered". Once he's fired, he is not receiving payment from the city. So he's under no obligation whatsoever to render services.
You can make a case that he was insubordinate and deserved to be fired. But once he *was* fired, he was entirely in the right to tell the city to FOAD. And the court should have told the city to FOAD as well.
> No, he refused to disclose the password to his supervisors when they asked him for them.
Okay, I don't think anyone has disputed that. But, setting aside the written policy that forbade him to do so, failing to comply with the orders of your boss or supervisor is simple insubordination. That falls solidly under "subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination". Sure, fire the guy.
But to involve the police, DA, and criminal charges of any kind, is 100% out of line and complete and total asshattery.
Generally, it's only in the military that insubordination is a prosecutable offense.
> But there's a level between that concentration and zero where the ash > causes no significant impact on the engines, at which point it's safe to fly
There probably is. But the problem is that no one knows at what level between zero and BA Flight 9 concentrations (and for how long at that concentration) it is safe to fly. The airlines don't know. Boeing and Airbus don't know. And the jet engine manufacturers don't know. The tests and certifications have simply never been done. The airlines were proposing to do said testing live and in the sky with airliners loaded with passengers. Do you see the problem with that?
The second problem is that, even if it were known that a certain concentration of volcanic ash is "safe" to fly through, it takes specialized and uncommon equipment to measure said concentrations. Said equipment is not carried aboard aircraft. And the onboard radar they do carry detects water droplets in weather formations. Volcanic ash doesn't show up at all. So an airliner flying through a "safe" concentration of ash could be five minutes away from a BA Flight 9 type cloud, and they wouldn't know until the engines shut down.
Well. For some reason my fellow americans are convinced that diesel is the pinko commie devil's juice that makes the baby jesus cry. So if we want a car that gets mileage in the 50+ mpg range, we pretty much have no choice to look to Japan and hybrids.
Personally, I think it's stupid as hell. And if the diesels you have over there were available here, I'd get one for my next car no doubt. The one I want is the Subaru Outback diesel... 60mpg, all-wheel drive, and it's a Subaru so it's good for 300K miles or so... zomg, perfect car!
> Saying that 1024 is a kilo never made any sense to anyone. I'm really glad we're finally > entering an age where computers represent datasizes in units people can understand.
Yes it does. It makes perfect sense to anyone who knows anything at all about computers, or at least didn't sleep through their entire degree from start to finish. Using base-2 isn not some silly and arbitrary thing someone made up... like using the size of some king's toenail as a unit of length... it's fundamental to the way computers work! (Unless YOU know of some way to make semiconductors work with ten states instead of two that I... and the entire rest of the industry... seem to have missed.)
Base-10 only came about so some shady hardware component vendors could rip us off. And systems vendors and programmers should never have let the SOBs get away with it.
That depends on how exactly you define "cruise missile".
Usually, it *is* assumed that a cruise missile is an anti-surface or anti-land missile. But there's also a school of thought that the defining characteristic of a "cruise missile" is not its intended target, but its air-breathing sustainer engine. That's why a Harpoon or Tomahawk is a cruise missile but a Maverick or a HARM is not. And by that definition, a BOMARC would qualify.
Even though protection is still wholly inadequate at the federal level; microsoft does business in a number of states where anti-gay discrimination is very illegal and very actionable. I don't believe for a second that they've had a sudden change of heart in the direction of equality and fairness. More likely, legal and PR informed the decision makers that they were about to be on the losing end of some pretty hefty legal action and bad press.
I'm sure someone said the same thing when pilots started bombing from aircraft flying 30,000 feet above, when artillerymen started fireing shells from 20 miles behind the lines, and when archers started shooting arrows instead of wading in and hacking with swords.
The US has screwed over any of a dozen countries in Latin America a hundred times worse than we ever even thought of screwing with the middle east. And we were doing it a hundred years before anyone, save bible scholars, bothered to take notice that the ME was even there. In fact, as I sit here typing this, I'm on land that used to belong to Mexico. And it's considerably nicer than any you'd find in that part of the world too.
Sure, it's simplistic to say things like : "They hate us for our freedom.". But there's a more fundamental incompatibility than just our awful foreign policy.
Looks to me like he was marked as "troll" as a -1 "disagree" mod. I don't see anything wrong or insincere with his point, and I mostly agree with it. In my case, though, I'll eventually pick up a copy down the road when it's in "Battle Chest" form at a discount price.
The way I see it, about 80% of the enjoyment I got out of SC1 was on LAN play. And no, I don't care about my ranking on the battle.net ladder, I don't care about what achievements they may award me, and I don't care how clever Blizzard thinks they are at matching me with some stranger with an equivalent skill level. That 80% was from private LAN play with my friends.
So with only 20% of the value of the game left... actually 1/3rd of 20% of the value... I'm not going to be rushing out to pay full price.
Right on all counts. But I will forever consider rallying to be the more interesting sport because it involves cars which a mere mortal like myself has a chance of owning and driving. I could buy an STI at my local Subaru dealer, strip out some weight, add a roll cage, and have a credible rally car. (Not that I have anywhere near the skill level to drive it.). An F1 car is so far beyond anything I could ever own that it's barely even worth considering.
Back in college, I worked outsourced tier-1 tech support for a major US computer manufacturer one summer. This was before long-distance telephone got so cheap that all that was shipped out to India. Actually, I didn't even last the whole summer it was so terrible a job. There are a few things to remember when calling tech support:
1) The tier-1 people aren't going through those scripts just to frustrate you. They're doing it because they're required to do so and a supervisor could be listening in live or to the recorded call later. If you deviate from the procedure, you could lose your job. So, even if you know exactly what is wrong and exactly how to fix it, you HAVE TO go through the litany of "Is it plugged in?", "Now press the power button", etc.
2) The companies that do outsourced tier-1 support are paid by... and therefore employees are evaluated by... the number of calls precessed per hour. They are NOT paid by whether or not the caller problem is resolved. If a caller hangs up in frustration, that counts as a processed call. If you can subtly goad the caller into swearing (Even a "hell" will do.) you can dump the call as abusive and count it as processed. If you spend half an hour actually troubleshooting and fixing the caller's problem, that's only ONE call processed in the time you're expected to process six. Escalating the caller to a tier-2 tech does NOT count as a processed call.
3) The vast bulk of people who call tech support really ARE mouth-breathing idiots who don't understand that you have to plug everything in and turn the computer on for it to work.
A much better idea than legislating that citizens must endanger themselves is urban renewal. Tear out the decay, rebuild the area, improve the economy, and raise the property values to the point that the sort of violent trash who join gangs can't afford to live there anymore.
It's worked fabulously in the parts of San Francisco wherever and whenever someone's had enough of a pair to tell Chris Daly and his ilk to GTFO and STFU. See, for example, the Fillmore District, Mission Bay, the Valencia Corridor, and the north side of Portreo Hill.
When I switched from Sprint to Pacific Bell (which later became part of Cingular which later became part of SBC which later became part of AT&T); I went from paying $70/month to $40/month, got about 4x the airtime, and got a phone that would actually keep working if I ventured into the East Bay or more than a couple of miles from the freeway on the peninsula. That and my bill was finally charged correctly and consistently and I didn't have to deal with Sprint's appalling idea of customer service anymore.
Granted, this was well before the iPhone. And after years and years of hemorrhaging customers they've gotten desperate and slashed their rates below most of the other carriers. But they used to be a stupendous ripoff... playing the "we give you lots of ANYTIME minutes" game, when the gobs and gobs of night and weekend minutes I got when I switched were (and still are) much more useful to me.
And yeah... their customer service sucks... even AFTER you've cancelled your service (And six months later they decide you owe them some 10-cent fee and start sending you past-due notices that cost them more in postage than they're trying to collect.).
The very fir phases on the American revolution might have been terroristic by the standards of the day. But you'll note that George Washington did eventually raise an army and engage and defeat the british in military combat. He did not send suicide bombers into London to murder civilians.
I don't know about western Washington. But in San Francisco, a unicycling clown is pretty far from the most unusual thing you'd see while walking down the street. I'd bet that most people would hardly bat an eye.
I almost always have headphones in when walking around the city. Sometimes it's music, sometimes it's the phone, sometimes they're just there and turned off (earbuds are a fairly effective panhandler and petition-taker repellant.). And I've not been run down yet. I use the simple tactic of observing the crossing signals.
And Cellphone, iPod, or nothing... distracted or not... If the signal is showing me the little green stick figure, then I have the right of way and you should already be at a complete stop never having entered the crosswalk. So if your ABS is engaging at any point due to pedestrians in crosswalks, maybe you need to review what the yellow and red lights at the intersections mean.
Granted, for the idiots who can't be bothered to walk the hundred feet to the intersection and wander out into the street at random; you do have a point. But those people would do that with or without a cellphone.
I don't think so. I generally try to mod good comments up, instead of modding bad ones down. But I occasionally nick a post with overrated when:
1) Someone with high karma abuses the +1 bonus option on a post that is trite, banal, or otherwise merely mediocre and not (IMO) deserving of said +1. Obviously, the only way I'll ever notice this is if the post is still at a karma of 2. or 2) Someone is obviously trying for a "funny" mod, but fails at... well... actually being funny.
I think either is a perfectly valid and non-abusive use of "overrated".
> 6. Old Fashion Navigation... did you know they called this "Dead Reckoning" for a reason, may as well use inertial sensors.
Celestial navigation is quite far from being the same thing as "Dead Reckoning". It is only somewhat less accurate than LORAN and, like GPS, works anywhere in the world, not just within range of the shore-based transmitters. The sun, moon, and stars will also never suffer an electrical short or dead battery. You simply need to be able to do a little bit of math, which shouldn't be too much to ask of the navigator of a ship at sea.
If the cops have showed up at your doorstep and you didn't call them; they've already decided you're guilty and are there to try to pin something on you; even if it's not your hypothetical kidnapping. And the legal system is simply too complicated now for a layman to safely navigate. So yes... a lawyer is an imperative. (And yeah, as you say, in your scenario you're already and automatically a suspect.)
Even if you have information you do want the cops to have, it's safest and smartest to insist on being provided a lawyer and having him vet and sanitize it for you before releasing it. It doesn't make you any more or less guilty.. you're already guilty in the cops' eyes. It doesn't make them hate or like you any more... to them, you're either cop or you're not.
And once you go over their heads to the realm of lawyers and judges, it still doesn't make you look any more or less guilty. It's never a bad mark and always a good idea and in your best interest to seek legal council when dealing with the legal system.
So an extra 25 grand over the GT-R gets you 2.6 seconds on the Nurburgring... and chevy build quality and reliability (well... the lack therof) instead of Nissan's? Sorry, but you can keep those 2.6 seconds. If I'm ever in the market for a super-car, I'll be keeping with the same rule I'll be following for normal cars: "Don't buy it unless the VIN starts with a 'J'".
I'd still be driving the GT-R years after your chevy was a burnt-out rustheap set up on cinder blocks.
I drive a Subaru. And it's a damn good car, well above merely "acceptable". In fact, it's outlasted every american car I ever owned. put together. and then some. And they seem to trade with Nissan for third and fourth place behind Honda and Toyota trading for one and two every time Consumer Reports does a quality and reliability rating.
Of course, it is heartening to see that they have shed the GM albatross from their neck. But there are quite a lot of much worse cars in the GM lineup that *could* have been re-badged as a Saab.
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If you're in the 49 United States of America, you don't have to. If you're within Arizona's new iron curtain, you'd better have a copy of your birth certificate with you 24/7.
Plus, the tech culture in the Bay Area tends to cultivate workaholics who are dedicated to their job, or at least their project. A jury duty summons invokes thoughts of: "I don't have time for this! I have responsibilities/a deadline/a team/a project/some really cool bit of code I'm wrapped up in".
Also, San Francisco is especially obnoxious in how they handle juror summonses. They don't do anything considerate or sane like just tell you which day to go in, and then maybe you're on a jury and maybe you're not. They make you block off a whole WEEK out of your schedule and make you call in every night to see if you have to go in the next day for juror selection. That asshattery breeds resentment and a desire to make damn sure you're not stuck on a jury.
Finally, lots of people work on contract instead of salary here. So the time you spend at the courthouse is money right out of your pocket. And juror pay barely covers lunch for the day, much less the money you're losing by not doing your job. BIG incentive to figure out how to get out of jury duty there.
And there are plenty of guides to getting out of it online for the tech-savvy person to find... some of which delve down to what's worked with specific judges!
Plus, lawyers don't WANT smart or informed people on the jury anyway. They want compliant and gullible and easy-to-win-over-to-their-side people.
So it should be no surprise to anyone that relatively few tech-savvy people wind up on juries.
I think the problem people have, is that the court should never have been involved at all. Okay... so he's insubordinate and fired. No problem.
AFTER he's fired, they go to him and STILL want him to do part of his job (disclose the passwords). Tough cookies. The deal in employment is "payment received for services rendered". Once he's fired, he is not receiving payment from the city. So he's under no obligation whatsoever to render services.
You can make a case that he was insubordinate and deserved to be fired. But once he *was* fired, he was entirely in the right to tell the city to FOAD. And the court should have told the city to FOAD as well.
> No, he refused to disclose the password to his supervisors when they asked him for them.
Okay, I don't think anyone has disputed that. But, setting aside the written policy that forbade him to do so, failing to comply with the orders of your boss or supervisor is simple insubordination. That falls solidly under "subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination". Sure, fire the guy.
But to involve the police, DA, and criminal charges of any kind, is 100% out of line and complete and total asshattery.
Generally, it's only in the military that insubordination is a prosecutable offense.
> But there's a level between that concentration and zero where the ash
> causes no significant impact on the engines, at which point it's safe to fly
There probably is. But the problem is that no one knows at what level between zero and BA Flight 9 concentrations (and for how long at that concentration) it is safe to fly. The airlines don't know. Boeing and Airbus don't know. And the jet engine manufacturers don't know. The tests and certifications have simply never been done. The airlines were proposing to do said testing live and in the sky with airliners loaded with passengers. Do you see the problem with that?
The second problem is that, even if it were known that a certain concentration of volcanic ash is "safe" to fly through, it takes specialized and uncommon equipment to measure said concentrations. Said equipment is not carried aboard aircraft. And the onboard radar they do carry detects water droplets in weather formations. Volcanic ash doesn't show up at all. So an airliner flying through a "safe" concentration of ash could be five minutes away from a BA Flight 9 type cloud, and they wouldn't know until the engines shut down.
Well. For some reason my fellow americans are convinced that diesel is the pinko commie devil's juice that makes the baby jesus cry. So if we want a car that gets mileage in the 50+ mpg range, we pretty much have no choice to look to Japan and hybrids.
Personally, I think it's stupid as hell. And if the diesels you have over there were available here, I'd get one for my next car no doubt. The one I want is the Subaru Outback diesel... 60mpg, all-wheel drive, and it's a Subaru so it's good for 300K miles or so... zomg, perfect car!
> Computing shouldn't be exempt.
Perhaps, then, you'd care to explain how to make semiconductors (or... heck... vacuum tubes) work with ten states instead of two.
> Saying that 1024 is a kilo never made any sense to anyone. I'm really glad we're finally
> entering an age where computers represent datasizes in units people can understand.
Yes it does. It makes perfect sense to anyone who knows anything at all about computers, or at least didn't sleep through their entire degree from start to finish. Using base-2 isn not some silly and arbitrary thing someone made up... like using the size of some king's toenail as a unit of length... it's fundamental to the way computers work! (Unless YOU know of some way to make semiconductors work with ten states instead of two that I... and the entire rest of the industry... seem to have missed.)
Base-10 only came about so some shady hardware component vendors could rip us off. And systems vendors and programmers should never have let the SOBs get away with it.
That depends on how exactly you define "cruise missile".
Usually, it *is* assumed that a cruise missile is an anti-surface or anti-land missile. But there's also a school of thought that the defining characteristic of a "cruise missile" is not its intended target, but its air-breathing sustainer engine. That's why a Harpoon or Tomahawk is a cruise missile but a Maverick or a HARM is not. And by that definition, a BOMARC would qualify.
Yeah right. Try "Feedback from our lawyers".
Even though protection is still wholly inadequate at the federal level; microsoft does business in a number of states where anti-gay discrimination is very illegal and very actionable. I don't believe for a second that they've had a sudden change of heart in the direction of equality and fairness. More likely, legal and PR informed the decision makers that they were about to be on the losing end of some pretty hefty legal action and bad press.
I'm sure someone said the same thing when pilots started bombing from aircraft flying 30,000 feet above, when artillerymen started fireing shells from 20 miles behind the lines, and when archers started shooting arrows instead of wading in and hacking with swords.
Bingo!
The US has screwed over any of a dozen countries in Latin America a hundred times worse than we ever even thought of screwing with the middle east. And we were doing it a hundred years before anyone, save bible scholars, bothered to take notice that the ME was even there. In fact, as I sit here typing this, I'm on land that used to belong to Mexico. And it's considerably nicer than any you'd find in that part of the world too.
Sure, it's simplistic to say things like : "They hate us for our freedom.". But there's a more fundamental incompatibility than just our awful foreign policy.
Looks to me like he was marked as "troll" as a -1 "disagree" mod. I don't see anything wrong or insincere with his point, and I mostly agree with it. In my case, though, I'll eventually pick up a copy down the road when it's in "Battle Chest" form at a discount price.
The way I see it, about 80% of the enjoyment I got out of SC1 was on LAN play. And no, I don't care about my ranking on the battle.net ladder, I don't care about what achievements they may award me, and I don't care how clever Blizzard thinks they are at matching me with some stranger with an equivalent skill level. That 80% was from private LAN play with my friends.
So with only 20% of the value of the game left... actually 1/3rd of 20% of the value... I'm not going to be rushing out to pay full price.
Right on all counts. But I will forever consider rallying to be the more interesting sport because it involves cars which a mere mortal like myself has a chance of owning and driving. I could buy an STI at my local Subaru dealer, strip out some weight, add a roll cage, and have a credible rally car. (Not that I have anywhere near the skill level to drive it.). An F1 car is so far beyond anything I could ever own that it's barely even worth considering.
Back in college, I worked outsourced tier-1 tech support for a major US computer manufacturer one summer. This was before long-distance telephone got so cheap that all that was shipped out to India. Actually, I didn't even last the whole summer it was so terrible a job. There are a few things to remember when calling tech support:
1)
The tier-1 people aren't going through those scripts just to frustrate you. They're doing it because they're required to do so and a supervisor could be listening in live or to the recorded call later. If you deviate from the procedure, you could lose your job. So, even if you know exactly what is wrong and exactly how to fix it, you HAVE TO go through the litany of "Is it plugged in?", "Now press the power button", etc.
2)
The companies that do outsourced tier-1 support are paid by... and therefore employees are evaluated by... the number of calls precessed per hour. They are NOT paid by whether or not the caller problem is resolved. If a caller hangs up in frustration, that counts as a processed call. If you can subtly goad the caller into swearing (Even a "hell" will do.) you can dump the call as abusive and count it as processed. If you spend half an hour actually troubleshooting and fixing the caller's problem, that's only ONE call processed in the time you're expected to process six. Escalating the caller to a tier-2 tech does NOT count as a processed call.
3)
The vast bulk of people who call tech support really ARE mouth-breathing idiots who don't understand that you have to plug everything in and turn the computer on for it to work.
A much better idea than legislating that citizens must endanger themselves is urban renewal. Tear out the decay, rebuild the area, improve the economy, and raise the property values to the point that the sort of violent trash who join gangs can't afford to live there anymore.
It's worked fabulously in the parts of San Francisco wherever and whenever someone's had enough of a pair to tell Chris Daly and his ilk to GTFO and STFU. See, for example, the Fillmore District, Mission Bay, the Valencia Corridor, and the north side of Portreo Hill.
When I switched from Sprint to Pacific Bell (which later became part of Cingular which later became part of SBC which later became part of AT&T); I went from paying $70/month to $40/month, got about 4x the airtime, and got a phone that would actually keep working if I ventured into the East Bay or more than a couple of miles from the freeway on the peninsula. That and my bill was finally charged correctly and consistently and I didn't have to deal with Sprint's appalling idea of customer service anymore.
Granted, this was well before the iPhone. And after years and years of hemorrhaging customers they've gotten desperate and slashed their rates below most of the other carriers. But they used to be a stupendous ripoff... playing the "we give you lots of ANYTIME minutes" game, when the gobs and gobs of night and weekend minutes I got when I switched were (and still are) much more useful to me.
And yeah... their customer service sucks... even AFTER you've cancelled your service (And six months later they decide you owe them some 10-cent fee and start sending you past-due notices that cost them more in postage than they're trying to collect.).
The very fir phases on the American revolution might have been terroristic by the standards of the day. But you'll note that George Washington did eventually raise an army and engage and defeat the british in military combat. He did not send suicide bombers into London to murder civilians.
I don't know about western Washington. But in San Francisco, a unicycling clown is pretty far from the most unusual thing you'd see while walking down the street. I'd bet that most people would hardly bat an eye.
I almost always have headphones in when walking around the city. Sometimes it's music, sometimes it's the phone, sometimes they're just there and turned off (earbuds are a fairly effective panhandler and petition-taker repellant.). And I've not been run down yet. I use the simple tactic of observing the crossing signals.
And Cellphone, iPod, or nothing... distracted or not... If the signal is showing me the little green stick figure, then I have the right of way and you should already be at a complete stop never having entered the crosswalk. So if your ABS is engaging at any point due to pedestrians in crosswalks, maybe you need to review what the yellow and red lights at the intersections mean.
Granted, for the idiots who can't be bothered to walk the hundred feet to the intersection and wander out into the street at random; you do have a point. But those people would do that with or without a cellphone.
I don't think so. I generally try to mod good comments up, instead of modding bad ones down. But I occasionally nick a post with overrated when:
1) Someone with high karma abuses the +1 bonus option on a post that is trite, banal, or otherwise merely mediocre and not (IMO) deserving of said +1. Obviously, the only way I'll ever notice this is if the post is still at a karma of 2.
or
2) Someone is obviously trying for a "funny" mod, but fails at... well... actually being funny.
I think either is a perfectly valid and non-abusive use of "overrated".
> 6. Old Fashion Navigation... did you know they called this "Dead Reckoning" for a reason, may as well use inertial sensors.
Celestial navigation is quite far from being the same thing as "Dead Reckoning". It is only somewhat less accurate than LORAN and, like GPS, works anywhere in the world, not just within range of the shore-based transmitters. The sun, moon, and stars will also never suffer an electrical short or dead battery. You simply need to be able to do a little bit of math, which shouldn't be too much to ask of the navigator of a ship at sea.
If the cops have showed up at your doorstep and you didn't call them; they've already decided you're guilty and are there to try to pin something on you; even if it's not your hypothetical kidnapping. And the legal system is simply too complicated now for a layman to safely navigate. So yes... a lawyer is an imperative. (And yeah, as you say, in your scenario you're already and automatically a suspect.)
Even if you have information you do want the cops to have, it's safest and smartest to insist on being provided a lawyer and having him vet and sanitize it for you before releasing it. It doesn't make you any more or less guilty.. you're already guilty in the cops' eyes. It doesn't make them hate or like you any more... to them, you're either cop or you're not.
And once you go over their heads to the realm of lawyers and judges, it still doesn't make you look any more or less guilty. It's never a bad mark and always a good idea and in your best interest to seek legal council when dealing with the legal system.
So an extra 25 grand over the GT-R gets you 2.6 seconds on the Nurburgring... and chevy build quality and reliability (well... the lack therof) instead of Nissan's? Sorry, but you can keep those 2.6 seconds. If I'm ever in the market for a super-car, I'll be keeping with the same rule I'll be following for normal cars: "Don't buy it unless the VIN starts with a 'J'".
I'd still be driving the GT-R years after your chevy was a burnt-out rustheap set up on cinder blocks.
I drive a Subaru. And it's a damn good car, well above merely "acceptable". In fact, it's outlasted every american car I ever owned. put together. and then some. And they seem to trade with Nissan for third and fourth place behind Honda and Toyota trading for one and two every time Consumer Reports does a quality and reliability rating.
Of course, it is heartening to see that they have shed the GM albatross from their neck. But there are quite a lot of much worse cars in the GM lineup that *could* have been re-badged as a Saab.