valthun

With the recent announcement of Fiat and BMW to sell Alpha's in the MINI showrooms this could be the first of many. Although I would like to see the 500 hit our shores too. Being a driver of a MINI it would be hard to get me to switch, I am already planning on upgrading to a Cooper S in 2 years. But, if the drive is better, who knows.

System Shock

I was looking throughout the various courses and the new driver coarse deosn't seem to be huge on skid pad, but proper braking, and seat position, to get those idiots to stop laying the seat all the way back, and pushing the seat so far that you can barely touch the pedals. I am all for taking their advanced class, just to learn some additional skills. I am also of the belief that drivers ed is not sufficient and there should be required driving courses for a new driver and then follow-up courses throughout a drivers lifetime. Or at least required driving courses for those idiots that can't stop wrecking their car and other peoples cars because they can't drive.

I worked at Gamestop many years ago. It was standard practice to gut one copy of a game for display. Would it be better for the company to get packages specifically for display? Yeah probably but you then need to get the publisher to do that for you. It still is a new game. It has just been removed from the case to help prevent theft. We would do the same thing to hardware as well, such as video cards. The consoles were alway up on a high shelf that anyone would need a latter to reach.

I no longer shop at Gamestop, not because of this practice. But because they are a pawnshop for used titles, and almost never have a copy of a new release available on the release day. It's a business that cares more about used sales than new sales now. I was working there when they went from NES titles being 1 to 2 bucks used, to an individual price based on title. We had to remark all of those titles with a higher price.