And that's why this government will fail, regardless of what We The People actually do. It will become too paranoid to function effectively. You don't think the most creative minds go to work for government, do you?

Nope. As it turns out, gasoline-burning engines emit more soot than previously believed, as the measuring technique formerly used was incapable of detecting the finest soot particles. The particular irony of this is that the smaller the particulate matter, generally the more hazardous to one's health. PM2.5 (particulates below 2.5 microns in size) are considered to be the most hazardous, largely because they're smaller than cilia. This means that it's difficult for you to expel them from your lungs. Gasoline engines produce more PM2.5 than diesels do! They produce about the same amount of soot, but the soot they do produce is more dangerous.

Supposedly, a great deal of the pollution involved is actually in shipping, much of which goes away when the gigafactory gets built.

The last one I used was minetest, which had just added mobs.

It's massively extensible and had a mod with CPUs which ran code before mc did

If nothing has changed, then EVs are still cleaner than gasoline cars by some 40%, so that's still a win.

If we used technology proven by the USDoE at Sandia NREL in the 1980s, we could be capturing CO2 emissions from those plants and using them to grow algae as a biodiesel feedstock — improving yields by as much as 80%. So while EVs are only part of a comprehensive attempt to improve transportation efficiency, they're a completely valid part, provided that we do the other things that we need to do — which we know how to do already. We're simply not doing them, because money.

Oh, you mean fracking? On with the water wars!

You'd better not.

The problem becomes that you don't want it anywhere near a port in case it goes wrong. Sure, the USN claims they've never lost one of their reactors, let's say that's true for just a moment. Russia has lost some. It's not outside the realm of possibility. And while a computer can in theory substitute for a highly trained crew, in practice uh no, and also no. Not in this case. So basically, it's a useless idea.

We need future-technology electric power storage to really solve this problem, or future-tech materials technology so that we could for example build submerged tube trains, or a chain that would pull container ships along, etc etc. Barring that, we could be producing biodiesel from algae and using that to run ships. NOx goes up a bit, CO2 goes way down, so does soot — as compared to #2 diesel, let alone marine diesel, double extra let alone bunker fuel.

Let's put accelerometer watches on cops to track when they fire shots. Then we can correlate that data (given a useful timecode) with the footage from the cameras that we also need to make them wear if we're going to ensure that they operate in the public interest. They've been telling us all along that if we have nothing to hide, we should not fear scrutiny. Well, them first.

I think these reasons are pretty damned right, actually. The reason is the ol' invisible hand of the free market finally doing the right thing for a change. Microsoft has no choice but to demand what their customers are demanding, which is pretty much what a corporation should actually do, rather than trying to fuck them over at every turn with the normal Microsoft EEE strategy.

I have a feeling we'll have to go full retard to forcibly stop drivers from texting while driving. Like, putting a microcell in the car. That would be a good way to handle vehicle-to-vehicle communications, though, which is probably coming whether we like it or not. If the microcells built a mesh it would also solve the last mile problem pretty conclusively.

1. What's down there? Probably their makeup, or electric razor, as appropriate.
2. I never have understood why people who are eating on the road can't slow the shit down. On the rare occasion that I decide to do the same, that's what I do. I get over into the cud-chewing lane and stay there.
3. Acura and Audi are among the marques with a stupid control scheme for their onboard display which controls everything. BMW and Mercedes do it, too.
4. Motorcyclists can use phones now, too :p

You should note that that only applies to heavy trucks. My 1982 300SD has only an EGR, which failed and started belching exhaust straight to the atmosphere under my hood, puking all over my intake manifold. When the turbo went south I replaced it with a unit from a 1985 300SD (which I rebuilt, down to regrinding the wastegate valve seat with an old valve) which has an EGR in the compressor housing. But my 1992 F250 7.3 has no emissions equipment whatsoever. It doesn't even have equipment to compensate for altitude and turbo boost pressure like the 300SD does (the "ALDA" aneroid boost compensator) and fuel delivery is entirely foot-based anywhere in between idle and max fuel, the only times it runs on the governor. Luckily the turbocharger is pretty much perfectly sized for this engine, so as long as I'm nice to it, I don't make much smoke.

Point is, plenty of crusty-ass diesels still wandering around California. Meanwhile, Federal standards for diesels have actually done a pretty good job of cleaning them up nationwide, heavy equipment aside. What California has done recently has really clamped down on some of the stinkiest vehicles in neighborhoods but hasn't done so much to curb emissions from interstate trucks. No-idling laws (which in their day motivated the purchase of many expensive heat-pump/generator APUs) may have been fairly effective there, however. These new laws are eliminating school buses and light heavy duty trucks, some of which literally have the same engine as the heaviest diesel pickups from the Big Three, and with no less (and no more) emissions equipment.

Hopefully I either get out of California or get my truck trimmed up and sold before they go all-out and force DPF refits on light vehicles...

Originally, not. Then, there was a trend. Now, it is over.

There are handfuls of Minecraft clones, some of which work much better than Minecraft in every way, and which are Open Source. There's really no reason why Minecraft should have even been successful. When the free clones became superior, the community should have jumped ship. Sadly, inertia has won. Everybody has MC now. I gave up on the clones because I couldn't find anyone to play with, but I only bought MC on the basis that it would be Open Sourced when it was done with. So much for that plan.

Pew is the think-tank that claimed that bloggers do not engage in journalism, so my vote is "both"