Gas vehicle tech has not quite plateaued, but the cost of improvements is quite high and protectionism has kept them viable until now even without making improvements we know how to make. EVs are improving more quickly than they credibly could at this point so there aren't really sufficient returns to make it worth it.

Other countries have safety inspections like we mostly don't in the USA.

When I tried gentoo the first time, it worked. Last time I tried it, I used only innocuous USE flags and the build broke fairly early on, in stage2 of gcc IIRC. There's also no good reason to run it any more now that all PCs for ages have been amd64, it's not like the old days where we still had K6s.

Found the noob who can't find the DontZap option, which by the way is now the default.

Also found the noob who leaves himself logged into console sessions. They're the same noob!

#skillissue #fixedbyskill

There were people. They left to go do Wayland. 15 years later it still doesn't work well or even do badly all the things they said it would do. So yeah, it's a people problem. And those people are in charge of Wayland.

All credible projections for AGW show an overall reduction in arable land.

This is not just because it takes more than warming to make a cold place a good place to grow crops, but also because weather is becoming more chaotic, so you can't count on having a growing season anywhere... But especially at higher latitudes, where the lows will be lower.

SElinux is not a kind of Linux. It is a feature of Linux.

ITYM 64kB

The downfall was that it was tied to a slow processor (not when it was new, but not so long thereafter) and it had no hierarchical file system which was already an expected feature of a real OS.

Nissan chose not to give it a rating because in this country we expect to tow heavy loads, not just lawn tractors or pedal boats, and they were afraid that someone would tow something heavy with it and they would wind up in court over it. Literally every other vehicle they sold in 2008 was rated for towing including the minivan.

Technically speaking the crime of fraud has three elements: (1) A materially false statement; (2) an intent to deceive the recipient; (3) a reliance upon the false statement by the recipient.

So, if you want to lie to people and want to avoid being charged with fraud, it's actually quite simple. You lie by omission. You distract. You prevaricate (dance around the facts). You encourage people to jump on the bandwagon; you lead them to spurious conclusions. It's so easy to lie without making any materially false statements that anyone who does lie that way when people are going to check up on him is a fool.

Not only is this way of lying *legal*, it happens every time a lawyer makes an closing statement to a jury. It's not a problem because there's an opposing counsel who's professionally trained to spot omissions and lapses of logic and to point them out. But if a lawyer introduces a *false statement of fact* to a trial that's a very serious offense, in fact grounds for disbarrment because that can't be fixed by having an alert opponent.

We have similar standards of truthfullness for advertising and politics because in theory there's competition that's supposed to make up for your dishonesty. In practice that doesn't work very well because there is *nobody* involved (like a judge) who cares about people making sound judgments. But still, any brand that relies on materially false statements is a brand you want to avoid because they don't even measure up to the laxest imaginable standards of honesty.

Now investors have lots of money, so they receive a somehat better class of legal protections than consumers or voters do. There are expectations of dilligence and duties to disclose certain things etc. that can get someone selling investments into trouble. But that's still not as bad as committing *fraud*, which is stupid and therefore gets extra severe punishment.

The '24 F150 will tow up to 13,500 lb (SuperCrew, 6.5â box, 4Ã--4, 3.5L) and all models will tow at least 8,200 lb. And that's just the least of the F-Series, but it is the world's most popular vehicle if you add up all the models so it's the obvious example...

If you want to tow around a big boat or a decently-sized travel trailer, your tiny compact won't do that. Neither will mine, for that matter — I have a 2008 Versa with a 1.8l gas engine and 132 bhp, with no avowed tow rating at all in this country. Supposedly in other markets it's rated for 1323 lb without trailer brakes, or 2204 lb with.

Excuse me, in 1969. You'd think I would at least manage to get that detail in there.

For your personal vehicle it is theoretically still possible to pass emissions with a mechanical diesel, and in a few regions you do not have recurring testing at all for light vehicles. Vehicles with diesels with Bosch M, MW, or P pumps can be (or be retrofit) to have a manual fuel cut, and can be roll or tow started if the transmission and situation allow.

One obvious thing to do with it is make hydrogen. Then you can use the hydrogen to provide power for peak periods later. Storing hydrogen isn't so bad when it's remote and stationary and you can have a large fuel tank because you're not trying to cram it up underneath a car.

The US and Japan have historically traded off who has the strictest crash safety standards, and Europe has been #3. The US was (recently) the first to mandate a partial offset test for example, which itself caused a lot of Euro vehicles to fail and require some significant reinforcement, and more than a few US vehicles too.