I had thought that they were going after more retirement benefits, only thing I saw in the article was a $ 5k 401k contribution. The comments didn't make sense calling this deal something that would help them to "retire with dignity" whatever that means. Would have been cool (but next to impossible) if they would have gotten back some sort of pension.

My 4 year old's memory ability is all over the place. One day forgets mid sentence what he was talking about about or can't remember if he is wearing pants, then later says, "remember 3 months ago when you promised me a Popsicle" or repeats verbatim the theme song for some random show.

I always worried that it was a vampire draw on the battery and made the waste problem of batteries worse. Open to being wrong though

Shocked face... No surprise to anyone who has actually worked in that environment.

This. I wish I had more than one up vote I could give for this comment.

Prairie dogs along the front range of Colorado, deer in the Colorado mountains...

Shocker ...

Nooooo, say it isn't so!

Please don't do that while hiking around others, lots of people go hiking to get away from constant sounds like that.

I am positive that automakers know this but they are chasing higher profit margin models. Unfortunate short term thinking.

Bit difficult to keep using it since they killed sms interoperability. I understand the security concerns but if no one uses it, doesn't really matter does it.

Just about any Agatha Christie mystery is worth reading. I personally love the Hercule Poirot and Tommy and Tuppence series. Another series I enjoyed is the Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy L. Sayers. I guess the narrow genra I usually read is a cozy mystery because it's easy.