I'd be happy to charge (European) SUV owners extra (I don't really give a shit about the US ones, I don't live there) because in European cities SUV owners practically always park in one and a half parkings spaces simply because these damn things are usually too big for a regular parking space. On top of that they also often require somewhere between one and a quarter to one and one and a half lanes to get anywhere in cities around here forcing anybody on a two lane street coming the opposite way to park their car somewhere to allow one those monstrosities to pass. Muppets who want to tear up the road network far more than necessary with a 3-5 metric ton SUV, pollute far more than they have to and generally make a bloody nuisance of themselves with expensive fuel guzzling SUVs can surely also easily afford pay an extremely generous premium for that privilege.

True, and the F-106 was also one of the nicest looking fighter aircraft of the Cold War along with them Mirage series.

What is genuinely funny about climate scepticism is that people will refuse to believe this, even when confronted by evidence, but will not hesitate to enthusiastically get behind the idea that 5G masts are beaming nano bots into their bodies to turn them into a communist at the behest of the CCP and the grey aliens.

The idea was to strap an AIR-2 Genie nuclear tipped rocket to an F-89 Scorpion, launch it into one of the massive Soviet bomber formations the Pentagon expected would come over from the USSR and take out that entire Soviet bomber formation in one shot. Then Eisenhower launched the CORONA project which revealed that the fleet of 8000 plus bombers the USSR was supposed to have according to the Washington think tanks actually counted fewer than a hundred aircraft. Even so they kept flying F-101B Voodoo, and F-106 Delta Dagger fighter armed with these things until 1984 regardless of the threat level posed by the Soviet bomber force, because defence contracts and political careers were at stake and one could not admit that the Pentagon, and the Washington think tanks might have been wrong about something.

They should be adversing for a digital archaeologist.

That entire post can be condensed into one word: 'religion'.

Writing every EV on the market off as a completely shitty car is perhaps not kneejerk anti-environmentalist but it is certainly kneejerk anti-EV. I share your concerns about range and charging times (although in the end I don't think either is going to be a show stopper for me). I'm also wondering how resalable some of these lithium battery powered cars will be when the warranty on their batteries runs and people can expect a repair bill for the battery that's higher than what the value of the same car would be if it still had a working battery, but claiming all EVs currently on the market are shitty cars just plain ridiculous hyperbole.

... and it is quite amazing how many people seem to be completely unable to understand that.

Media? ... as in soap operas and movies? Netflix is wondering how many of their customers will actually be able to pay $3500 for a VR headset to watch that kind of media and whether there are enough of these people in their customer base to make it profitable to go into the effort of making a large portion of their library VR compatible. They seem to think that the vast majority of the Netflix watching public will be perfectly happy watching soap operas and Hollywood formula movies in glorious 2D until (a) these headsets can be had for such low prices that most Netflix customers can afford to buy multiple sets for the whole family to enjoy and (b) something makes the majority of Netflix customers decide they actually need some of these headsets. If by 'Media' you mean games, then Netflix had better get on board with this because VR sets is where everything from gaming to all manner of simulator training has been headed quite a while now.

What would actually happen is that you'd get two mini-McDonnell Douglass'es that both inherit Boeings present-day shiftiness and that would both go bankrupt. The problem here is the shittyness of modern US corporate culture in general, not McDonnell Douglas' shitty corporate culture specifically.

While I'm completely in favour of the basic idea of giving people an idea how long they have to wait, you don't need orange cones for that. If Google Maps can tell you what the traffic load is then they can also post waiting times at charging stations and recommendations for when they aren't hopelessly congested so that you can plan for it. Also, there are those EV parking slots with chargers that are intended for people that actually want to charge their car, not for EV or ICE drivers who just want to park there with no intention of using the charger. So how about fitting those charging slots with plate reading cameras so those bozos can be taught a painful lesson via their wallets If they want to park in EV slots? Both ICE drivers and EV drivers who aren't using the charger should be billed as if they had been charging the entire time they parked in the charging slot. If that won't work, tow them. If restaurants can have cars towed for parking is spots reserved for customers, and supermarkets can have people towed for abuisng free parking, then towing people who park in charging slots without using the charger should not be an issue. There is nothing that entitled assholes learn from as quickly as being made to pay many $$$ for their impudence.

All I can add to that is that hopefully the auto industry has learned from this that fortune does not favour the unprepared. This is an opportunity for anybody with the ambition and energy to do so to take some serous market share from the big auto repair businesses whose management has been sitting with their thumbs up their fundaments secure in the knowledge that gasoline and diesel oil are still the future of the motor vehicle industry.

If it's a Boeing I ain't going.

And then what? Abolish bar exams as well? Being taught law until you know it by heart and then regurgitating it in court is literally what a huge part of what the legal profession is all about.

Judges should be appointed based on their legal education, legal experience and ability. Even if you want a system where you are able to vote for judges, because you think it important to have the option to ensure with your vote that only judges with the currently proper political bias get elected, then it should still be the case that candidates who don't possess a proper legal education, legal experience and ability should be precluded from even running .... Now enter stage right, a whole clown posse of Slashdot's local contrarian political nutcases to explain to us why people with no legal education, legal experience or ability make far superior judges.