I see tons of EV cars in California. Leafs are everywhere.
If Tesla can make a full-sized sedan with a 265 mile range (85KWh battery) for $73,570 while averaging a 25% profit margin there's no reason why Fiat shouldn't be able to make a profit
Patents.
Perhaps they should...
...not be forced into an industry that they don't want to be in?
It makes sense that the interpretation of the original ancient statement could have been a limiting one, but if I simply believe you without any reference, wouldn't that just be "relying on what I've been told" ?
Imprisonment has three purposes:
- rehabilitation
NO. People have the right to believe whatever they want to believe. If you believe that using or selling drugs should be legal, no amount of prison time should ever be used in a "well if you confess to believing X we'll go easy on you". This is the shit that the catholic church did to Galileo. We don't need to be repeating it, no matter how holy you think US law might be.
- protection of society
NO. The only person responsible for your protection is you. No jury should ever feel like "well he might not be guilty, but I'm going to vote guilty anyway just to protect society". The juror should be thinking "he might not be guilty, and if I'm wrong then it's not the court's responsibility anyway".
- the punishment aspect
NO. We do not enact "eye for an eye law".
The ideal purpose for prisons, as much as you might not like it, is to protect prisoners from the wrath of those who have been hurt. Rather than a mob hanging someone for stealing a horse, we insist on them having a trial and an appropriate "time out" long enough for everyone to stop wanting to kill the offender. There can always be other reasons, and a mix of pros and cons, but this is the main reason. Prisons create order in society by creating equal responses for equal crimes, rather than random mob anger.
Japan and Germany turned out "pretty well" because of the Japanese and the Germans, not because of foreigners.
They probably wouldn't be produced publicly, but the real security that comes from this will be the NSAs ability to terrorize people with their capabilities.
RTFA
"The document is identified as a training tool used in an in-house training exercise where students learn about the basic concepts of military plans and order development through a fictional training scenario,"
Fictional? Maybe that's just what the government wants you to think.
When this happens in Finland they shoot to incapacate(in the leg etc.)...
If a person was leveling a gun at me, and known to be in possession of pain killers, I probably wouldn't shoot him in the leg.
This should be a clue to everyone how important ease of use is. I know that skilled computer users love following 5 pages of directions linked between 8 different websites written by 4 different people to accomplish 1 simple task (looking at you Linux), but for most people, that's a pain in the ass.
Name 1 way to back up her emails and pictures on a remote server that requires fewer mouse clicks than forwarding them herself with email. "I've tried to explain how things should be done" -- first rule of UI design, "don't make me think".
Insightful? Really? I completely agree with parent that public education is pathetic (look up the Harvard 1869 entrance exam if you don't believe me, and realize there was no wikipedia or calculators for those expected to pass).
But "when
Are you trying to suggest that a government funded education run by government employees is the solution to teaching the population to tighten the reigns on the government? God I hope not. Or perhaps you've found out a way to educate people who don't want to be educated, and teach them to distinguish "truth and bullshit"? Well maybe we can create a government agency to decide what is truth and what is bullshit, and have it inform the school system.
If you are looking for blame or solutions in the school system, well I wish you luck with that. You won't be the only person trying to put his own political views into the schools, children are very impressionable, it can be very effective. I had quite a few teachers who tried to teach me to distinguish "truth" and "bullshit", but I was a very bad student, I really only liked math anyway.
Holy shit.
And
If you want bicycles to stay out of the way of traffic, put in bike lanes. It's not that hard. Every county in the US should be making that a requirement for all new roads.
Really, what are the chances of "accidentally" flying a drone into a commercial airliner? Is it more or less than the chances of a blind man "accidentally" sniping someone 700 meters away?
...for those who haven't seen 10000 hours of anime (shame on you), JIJI is japanese slang for a man old enough to be a grandfather. It's like saying "old fart".
40K people died of laws and organizations preventing them from getting food. There is enough food for everyone, there is enough will for people to provide for themselves and those that can't. This isn't 400BC anymore, people die of starvation because of bad policy, not because natural limitations. I'm not saying we shouldn't voluntarily feed them, but feeding them fixes nothing and by itself can actually make the problem worse. It's like giving someone painkillers instead of medicine.
Would mod you up but I already posted.
I program, therefore I am.
