The "S" brings some enticing upgrades to the base Q50, including larger brakes, 19in wheels, stiffened suspension and marvellous magnesium shift paddles that, working with the sequential automatic, held middle gears deep into the Q50's rev band.
Its enthusiastic practitioners, clad in flamboyant ski gear, prefer deep powder snow to groomed trails and jump over obstacles rather than complaining to the ski patrol about them.
It involves innovative spy gear embedded deep in the supply chain, highly selective identity theft and new ways of gaining access at all levels of corporations and government.
Governments around the world using spy gear and deep packet inspections to virtually rape your online life, or the corporations doing the exact same things, and or worse?
Logistically this week is a nightmare for the teams as they need to get all their trucks and gear from deepest, darkest Germany on Sunday night to California by Wednesday.
As Google continues to capture developers with its deep-learning framework TensorFlow, and lock them into its own ecosystem with hardware like the TPU geared toward deep learning, it'll continue to see a lot of momentum as deep learning tools proliferate across the entire technology industry.
Instead, policy makers are gearing up for deep spending cuts, ignoring the damage they are likely to cause.
With their playhouse decisively torn down I imagined some hidden realm of forensic footballing insight might finally be accessible, a gear-change into deep thought, the opening of the footballing third eye.
But behind the bleak news for high-tech companies is good news for their customers.Hardware manufacturers have been hit hardest, with makers of telecoms gear in the deepest trouble because they pumped up the bubble, with generous customer financing and overpriced acquisitions.
