He bought 4 put contracts (100 shares each) with a $305/share strike price, for which he paid $16.98 per share, and which expired worthless on 8/3.

California. I would pay the deductible, usually a few thousand at most, and insurance would pay the rest up the covered liability amount of the policy. I'm sure there are subtleties in how it works that I don't understand. But if I caused $200k in damage, and I had to pay $100k, then the insurance wouldn't be doing me much good - I couldn't pay either one.

Where does insurance work like that? Not in the USA...

Do you have a source for this? This is contrary to everything I have ever read. Only a limited number of runways at a limited number of airports even have full auto land capability!

IMHO you buy Dell for the support that is available (albeit usually at additional cost) along with them. If you're not going to maintain your service contracts, then I agree Dell may not offer you a lot of value over Supermicro et al.

On a side note, I think the R310 is about the cheapest server they make, so it wouldn't be fair to judge the company based on those alone.

Mostly agree with you, but there were multiple screen resolution options on both the E6400 and the E6420. I am writing this on a 6420 with a 1600x900 display. Your employer cheaped out with the 1366x768 option.

Me too, and I don't think it's fair to say Lumpy is full of shit. I don't think the lights are any more blinding than any other lights. IMO they're not blinding relative to other HID's and even some halogens. (How can they be so blinding if they don't shine in anyone's eyes or mirrors?) They are bright, but I would say less so than other HID's, and the point was that they were "blinding." I don't see how they are.

4 bags of cement won't fit in the trunk of an S2000! But more seriously, even if they did (I doubt it!) it wouldn't point the nose if the car up noticeably because the suspension is so stiff and the car is small. Not that I disagree with your general point, but there are much better cars to pick on for this - like the HID's on the short wheelbase SUV towing a trailer!

No bullshit. What Lumpy posted is fact. S2000's have projector lenses that only shine down, not up, with a very visible cutoff. And they're only about 18" off the pavement, so they're not shining in anyone's mirrors or eyes. If yours don't put a visible horizontal line of light on the road, and they shine upwards, then they're not right.

And from what you're saying, it sounds like you really liked working there. That operations manager must have been a great guy. Great working environment. Mutual respect all around! So let's make the whole world work that way.

Partly because anyone familiar with the norms of our society expects to get a ticket for double parking. Nobody familiar with the norms of our society expects to get arrested for charging their EV.

And, if everyone plugged in their EV to power outlets in public places, then... well, nothing of much consequence would happen.

Not to mention that the punishment is completely out of proportion with the crime! Basically, you're saying it's ok if they randomly picked this guy to make an example out of?

Seriously? What about your cell phone? Should people be arrested for plugging those into a power outlet in a public place? If no, then where do you draw the line?

Sure, but only for an hour or so per day. And you have to come to wherever my car happens to be at the time. And if someone else is taking their 10 cents worth when you get there, you have to come back later.

As an aside, if you were to steal 10c worth of my of gas, assuming hypothetically it was possible to prove you only intended to steal 10c worth, not the whole tank, and that it were possible for you to do so without causing any other damage like breaking into the gas door, do you think the police would go out of their way to throw you in jail for this 10c theft? Even if I didn't report it or care, and they just happened to notice?

I agree to an extent. You could argue that it's a bit tacky. But do you really think that putting this guy in jail for a night is the appropriate level of response by the police?

No, a better analogy might be if you used the water fountain to fill your water bottle.