Nissan warranties Leaf batteries against capacity loss for 5 yrs or 60K miles.

10 years is a stretch for battery life for pure electrics. Look on the Leaf forums and you'll see plenty of people who start to experience capacity drops after a few yrs. Then again, there will be a market for used Leafs with diminished capacity for people who want a spare car for (very) local commuting.

Don't believe those 200+ mile range for $30K rumors...the costs just don't add up. Probably will see something more like a tiered approach where you can get...

125 miles for $30K
200 miles for $40K

Resale on the Leafs are already getting killed due to tax incentives.

My leaf was MSRP $31K. I'm leasing for $260/month for 24 months w/ 0 down w/ 24K miles allowed. It has a buy out price of $14,500.

Actually, car prices have been increasing at a MUCH lower rate than inflation or other costs due to automation of factories, better designs, electronics prices dropping, etc.

For example:

In 1996 I bought a NEW Honda Accord for $22,500
In 2015 you can buy a much better equipped Honda Accord for around $25,000
That's a 10% increase over 19 yrs! It's actually a decrease in price if you consider what you're getting for the cost (i.e. much more HP, MPG, safety, etc)

For reference...in that same time period, movie ticket prices have doubled, gas prices have tripled, housing prices have doubled.

even if you do advocate killing artists with kalashnikovs, how many artists really carry kalashnikovs?!

in any case, freedom of speech is an american phenomenon and is not automatic in much of europe.

u know that Hamas and their peers in Gaza are an islamist extremist movement who's stated goal is to destroy Israel and then take over the rest of the world.

if they were jews or christians they wouldn't be wielding guns. or at least not attempting to kill infidel civilians all the time.

With the web and bloggers and such, i feel like there are no great surprises yet. It's all stuff that is either 1) already know or 2) an iteration of existing tech. nothing revolutionary.

Sounds about right. There at least several million just in the West Bank and Gaza alone and double that in Syria and Egypt.

typical muslims. they seem happy to kill and murder anyone who insults them or their beliefs. they also seem so happy to die themselves. if only they would value life like the rest of the world.

there's also a nice market for broken stuff these days via ebay...so often people don't fix stuff themselves but they allow others to do so.

you can sell your broken laptop, game system, phone, etc via ebay and recoup some value that can be used to buy a new one.

It's not that we don't know how to shoe horses, it's just that horses are so cheap these days what when their shoes break off, it's cheaper to toss the horse off a cliff and buy a new horse that has newer, more secure shoes on it.

My Nintendo 3DS XL recently broke when it dropped and the screen cracked. I was able to get a new screen on line for $30, thinking I'd spend an hour or two and replace the screen but it has become a huge hassle which has taken 4+ hrs and $10+ in new tools and it's still incomplete. I'd say I have a 50% chance of fixing it at all.

Lesson learned is I should have sold it on ebay as is for $50 and bought a new one for $150. It didn't pay to try to fix.

wish they would have written "improve health/wellness" rather than diet exercise.

i'd like to better deal with some health issues and chronic conditions that extend beyond diet and exercise.

Really? I thought it was really funny. Most of my friends rented it on release day, and most of them thought it was at least kinda funny. No one thought it was bad.

Companies should be free to hire cyber mercenaries to decimate their attackers. Maybe that's what's going on here? Or maybe they're getting a little US Mil support.