I have an Odyssey, too, and it's pretty good for a mini-van. We got it because dogs, not kids, but many of the use cases are similar.

I do miss my Fusion Hybrid that I traded in for it, though. Pretty car, and I liked paying a lot less for gas.

I love reading these stories. Mine is much simpler: I don't remember it because I was 20 months old at the time. My parents did set me down in front of it on the TV though, so the Apollo 11 landing did play out on my retinas then. My dad took pictures of the TV and I remember seeing the album of it when I was kid. Sadly, I think that album was lost when our basement flooded when I was 20.

I only barely remember the last one (17). And to me it is a travesty that people closing in on 50 (I'm older now than my grandparents were then) have effectively no real memory of the event. I feel like our country had a true opportunity for greatness. But we instead put the bean counters in charge, and anything that couldn't be measured in terms of the Almighty Dollar was irrelevant.

Quit being dense. He was specifically referring to the person that jacks the car, not bystanders.

Toast, orange juice, 2 scrambled eggs, bacon, and black coffee in a Holiday Inn in Elk City, Oklahoma, on a cross-country road trip.

No, I don't have a memory of all my breakfasts, you just picked a lucky week. :)

That might be a part of it, but I've received 3 payments from insurance companies of other drivers from their liability and not once was an attorney actually brought in, or was a lawsuit mentioned. Well, I did think about it on one occasion, because the insurance company was dragging their feet and took weeks to schedule a fix (seriously, Farmer's sucks), but in the other two cases I had a check in my hand within 72 hours of the incident.

What mechanism would you provide to ensure people are compensated for loss when another party is at fault?

The only insurance that is required by law in any state I've lived in is liability, i.e. if I fuck up other people's shit or lives, I have some ability to see to it they are compensated. The only time I've been required to carry insurance that compensates for the damage to my car is if I financed it and I still owe money on it, and it's the (private) lender doing that, and understandably so.

Some people mod humor as "insightful" because "funny" didn't/doesn't contribute positive karma to the recipient, whereas "insightful" does.

Assuming there's not a business process patent on it, in which case you'll have licensing fees to work out first. There is the prior art argument working in your favor though.

Well, technically, Apple launched exclusively with Cingular, then they merged with AT&T.

Relax, I was going for funny. I guess that didn't work.

And exclusively with AT&T?! Let me rush right out of here... and start shorting AMZN.

But now you have, so it must be true! :)

I believed it until the IPO. Once a company goes public, all bets are off.

Also, Nixon was never impeached. He resigned before it got that far.

unless I drop cable entirely, which means giving up Game of Thrones, so screw that.

Oh, the horror! I guess not supporting Fox News isn't really that important after all.