Geez, you missed the point pretty badly.
I know what to do when my car runs out of fuel. When I'm lucky I have to get a jerrycan from the back and empty it into the tank. When unlucky I have to walk to the nearest petrol station (or perhaps somebody gives me a lift), fill up my jerrycan and get back to fill the car up. Now explain to me how you'd do that with an electric car? You can't, you'll have to move the car, which is not as easy as moving some petrol.

FTFY
As usual it about somebody's profit margin vs. somebody's profit margin. It's not like Musk is doing this to save the planet, he's doing it to make money, preferably lots of it. The oil industry is pretty rotten, but it's pretty naive to assume the green industry is any better.

They bitched about the small fuel capacity (calling it a Zippo) of the Lexus LFA in a recent episode as well.

Of course you can take a break, or you can buy a petrol powered car and not take a break. The fact that a Tesla won't get through a full day on the track without needing a lengthy recharge is still valid and relevant information regardless of how you decide to deal with that info.

It's not even log data. It's a handful of graphs and a bunch of statements, but not the data it is based upon. So it's actually easier to fake then log data. So far it's just the word of Musk against that of Broder. Without any real independent evidence you'll have to make up your own mind, do you trust the CEO or the journalist (or they might actually both be guilty).

It's also kind of annoying the data seems to be available to Tesla only, there is no way to verify it. Musk showed some graphs which are easy enough to fake, I'd like to see the raw data for independent verification.

On top of that, if they want accurate reporting about their cars they should actually provide reporters access to this data, preferably during the trip. It would allow reporters to 'replay' their trip which would be really helpful. But somehow Tesla decided to keep this info to only to make it pop up when they don't like a review, even though it would add a lot of additional depth to any review.

They initially made money selling the browser, later they had an add-supported version besides the paid version. Currently they make money on the desktop from search placements (e.g. using Google as default search engine) and a some stuff like certain bookmarks in the default setup. Besides the desktop they make money from OEMs licensing Opera for with mobile operators and for devices like mobiles and smart tv's.

Me neither, normally
However, to me sites like StackOverflow and newsgroups or mailinglists pretty much represent the same activity (over different protocols). I really like having those together in the same application, and Opera merges those rather nicely.

On top of that they where the first to implement tabs, which for me was the initial reason to start using Opera. And afaik they are still the only browser to have mouse gestures out of the box, something which I wouldn't want to do without anymore.

The other option would be to accept you don't know the outcome of an election till after the election. Sure people will keep asking 'who will win?', but there is no pressing need to answer that question in any other way then counting the votes. I'm serious here, what is it that goes horribly wrong if we don't know the outcome of the elections beforehand?

Yeah, so? People got rich in all sorts of ways, doesn't necessarily make it a good idea or something we should want as a society. 'Make a few people rich at the expense of a lot of others' doesn't fit my idea of 'useful'.

I'll do something. Starting right now I'll vigorously ignore prediction markets. If enough people do the same their impact will be minimal and we won't have about it ever again. Sometimes ignoring the problem actually does make it go away. This is one of those times :)

Well, if that's an issue to you hold the elections a week earlier.

Agreed, but it is what prediction markets are, a way to bet on something. All the talk about it is just people trying to pretend their betting somehow isn't the useless shit it really is. Prediction markets is betting for snobs, nothing more.

Honestly, I can't make anything out of this stuff. If we want to know the outcome of elections, can't we just count the votes? And if we want to loose money placing bets can't we just bet on sports games or buy lottery tickets?

You're all wrong! A fixed lens is one that used to be broken!

Somebody should really start selling variabele-zoom fixed-focus lenses (and invent a fancy name for those). I can't get rid of this nagging feeling of incompleteness because of this missing permutation in my lenses collection. That, and a left-wheel drive car.

Welcome to 'Democratic Airways', the airline which frees you from the dictatorship of pilots.