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Comment Re:Not interested in reading your text messages (Score 1) 306

Forget terrorist watch-list. The data is also scraped for any evidence of any crime, which then allows them to permanently store that data and share it with the FBI and DOJ. Since the DOJ can't go after any person who ever commits a crime, the outcome is probably that they can just coerce just about anyone to do anything they want since any mistakes made are there in a neat little package for later use.

Comment Re:Strawman (Score 1) 306

Not quite. Data about most things citizens do has a fairly short shelf-life before the NSA wipes it. However, any data that suggests any crime has taken place is stored and shared with other Government agencies.

The Government isn't building a dossier on every citizen, they are building a gigantic list of selectively enforceable violations so that they can coerce most people whenever they want.

Comment Re:2 Industries 1 Oligopoly (Score 1) 810

Bullshit. Every manufacturer out there would LOVE to make EVs. They aren't bad people taking kickbacks from big oil. EVs have a ton of issues with legality (disposal) and logistics (shipping old batteries that are flamable if not discharged properly and leak hazardous waste) that make it almost impossible for manufacturers to sell them. Plus the laws say the manufacturer is responsible for all that disposal.

If any manufacturer can figure out how to make money on EVs they all will jump on the bandwagon within a year or two.

Savor the irony that it's environmental protection laws that are holding up EVs for all this time.

Comment Re:2 Words (Score 1) 810

If you subtract the costs from legal obligation to dispose of the EV at the end of it's life the price is right in line. The big difference is the hidden tax from these things being unable to go to a landfill or be easily destoryed and the costs associated with disposal being a requirement on the manufacturer.

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