Would still only result in whole numbers, assuming nhtsa_rating is some form of uint.

Try again. He's shed a large chunk of his wealth into charity. If I remember correctly, most of his wealth is invested to make money to give to charity and provide a continuous income stream for charity.
http://www.davemanuel.com/net-worth/bill-gates/

It doesn't matter where the fuel source was located originally: a debris impact can significantly relocate a fuel line. Some engine bays aren't very big, particularly in small cars, so the move doesn't need to be significant. Wind at highway speeds also tends to aerosol dripping fluids extremely well which leads to an easily ignitable air:fuel ratio and many fuel-coated surfaces. Add multiple high-heat sources to the mix (exhaust, catalytic converter, etc) and things happen in even the best designed cars.

Simply put, debris impact causes rather unpredictable results. You do what you can to mitigate the risk but you cannot eliminate risk from an unknown impact. Tesla is doing a pretty damn good job at minimizing damage done and protecting human life.

That's my thinking as well. They've got a 1/4" plate of steel shielding the battery, but there's a lot of force involved in hitting stationary objects at speed. That's like blaming standard car design when debris severs a fuel line and ends up pouring fuel all over the exhaust manifold, or cracking the oil pan to similar effect.

Hitting things in your car is dangerous, news at 11.

SR-72fri, SR-72mon, and maybe even a SR-72wed if we're lucky.

Fairly renewable? You mean completely renewable? You plant a crop, harvest the food, the excess biomass is sent to the generator, the ash from the generator gets sold off as fertilizer, which helps grow the crop. The CO2 released during the burning gets pulled back in during the growing. And the food ends up as fertilizer eventually as well.

How many government employees have you actually worked with? I've dealt with lots of Democrats that LOVE the system and can't be bothered to do their job. The lack of an efficiency feedback loop means cruft builds up naturally. Government has no such feedback, so yes, it is intrinsic.

Except placing the tracking device, even as a private citizen, is trespassing. The police should need a warrant to request private records from a 3rd party.

You must've gone to the same school my coworker did. He names everything "My".

You missed the court case news earlier this week.

I think you missed the point of putting them in space. No one mentioned adequate life support.

20-30 years from now...Somalia is considered a world leader and the US becomes the "third world" shit hole.

Soda cans and rubbing alcohol make cheap stoves. Bean cans make ok pots. Even at inflated vending machine prices, that's another $2-3 max.

Now do that easily and in an automated fashion for an unknown moving object which is scarcely brighter than the noise level and often orders of magnitude dimmer than your reference points (background stars). The amazing part isn't finding a moving object, it's finding a near-invisible moving object in a rather automated fashion.