It was possible in July. Why is it not possible in December?

Videoing does not help. Almost everyone can drive just fine when drunk; a car has four wheels and generally stays pointed in the same direction if you do not mess with it.

The problem is what happens when something unusual occurs. That is when being drunk gets you and people around you killed. If you are just videoing someone, you are unlikely to catch them in such a situation, and even if you do, it is too late.

I completely agree. In the normal situation. This is not a normal situation.

This is a situation where health is put a risk on a global scale because we cannot be arsed to pay a few thousand ambulance drivers, and so infected people are left at home to infect their community. It is complete stupidity.

Those ambulance drivers are risking their lives every day. The least we can do is pay them their normal wages.

a) Of course we can. Practically the entire Western world has universal healthcare, and the one country which does not pays more than average on health care per capita.

b) We are not talking about actual treatment. Only about finding a few hundred million dollars to keep existing medical personnel paid while governments in the affected countries are in deep trouble.

If Ebola gets to Western countries, a few hundred million dollars are gone in the blink of an eye.

That is what significancy is! What else would it be?

Do you seriously believe that an article which mentions 2000MPH in general means 2000MPH +/- 0.5MPH? If so, I am not sure how to convince you otherwise.

A lot more could be accomplished by just throwing (not very much) money at the problem. Like Sierra Leone where ambulance drivers are only on half pay due to government budget cuts. It is ridiculous that we (first world countries) cannot find the money to make sure that health care workers in the affected countries are paid reasonable wages.

Your proposed nomenclature is practically not in use. Very few people would understand it.

2000MPH has one significant digit unless you can deduce from context that it was measured more precisely.

Gasoline engines have lousy part-load efficiency. Hence it is great to pair them them with an electric motor so they can run full-load whenever they are running.

Diesel engines do not really have that problem. Hybrid diesels only have the benefit of regenerative braking, and that is not enough for a reasonable payback on investment.

I do not believe that Denmark or the UK (the only countries I have extensive experience in) have a single modern diesel vehicle which does not belch smoke.

Almost all of them burn nice and clean when they are on the motorway, with warm engines and exhaust, but once they get into the cities the smoke starts again. Unfortunately people tend to live in the city, not on the motorway.

Median energy density in waves is too low in most places. You need way too large machines to extract useful amounts of power. The few times you get sufficiently powerful waves they tend to rip your equipment to bits.

Wave energy is one of those ideas which seem really obvious from a distance, so the fact that project after project fails does not seem to dissuade anyone. They were obviously just doing it wrong.

I really hope that I am wrong and this turns out to be a great success, but I am not holding my breath.

Reid technique has ensured that less than 20% of people questioned get counsel. Generally people who are innocent will not ask for counsel; they just want to cooperate so the police can see that they are innocent, and asking for counsel is something they think only criminals do.

So at full load on his system he almost gets to half rated load of the PSU and 85% efficiency. I.e. most of the time, at less than full load, the PSU will be below 85% efficiency.

You will need to back up that claim. The speeds involved are rather extreme.

Cassini had a fairly major public outcry against it, for just a single gravity boost, and that did not even fail.

None of them have AFAIK disintegrated completely, like Rosetta/Philae would have done during a failed gravity boost. A crash during liftoff is not comparable to a high-speed impact.