GM did us bad

[jrsavoie]

Dang bean counters

 

[JayTheCPA]

Soooo... Moral of the story is that when buying the Big 3, to buy Ferd as their bean counters are less destructive than GM's bean counters by not re-engineering a good thing???

Overall, no new news though.

Two thoughts on the video. The 'expert' sounds like somebody I know fairly well. Not just the voice, but also the rhythm of speech, regional accent, and word choice patterns. The guy I know did work for GM some time ago, but the relationship ended in the early 2000's and he switched to a completely different industry.

Second is that there are frequent glitches in the host's video which might indicate editing and possibly post recording insertion of the host into the original recording. News outlets do this all the time when they have a staff minion interview the expert, and then they insert a big-wig reporter's voice into the recording as-if the big-wig actually asked all the questions and had the conversation. Try it this way, listen to the GM expert's voice which smoothly replays through the whole session. Now focus on the host's video playback. The host's video feed has a lot of glitch where it frequently hops forward a half second or so, yet the audio continues smoothly and normally. A plausible explanation is that the recording processor is buffering and cannot remain real-time while it simultaneously processes video and audio, but I have a tough time with this explanation given that even the host's voice is smooth and his lips (per video) remain in sync with audio despite the video gaps and jumps. If it was a buffer issue, I'd expect the video to simply freeze for the half second and then snap to real-time, except there is no freeze.

Sooooo... Tough to tell what is really going on.