Why? People have been self-repairing and modifying production cars since there were production cars. It has always been well understood that the owner that does that takes responsibility for their own work.

If all they wanted was a liability waiver, that would be one thing (perhaps a bit paranoid, but not so far out there) but demanding final say over whether or not he is allowed to drive the vehicle is way over the top.

I hope he figures out how to power it up himself and publishes the procedure.

Compared to spending that same amount on blowing up brown people, it is a great thing.

There's always money for blowing up brown people.

What if the information on my phone could be abused to abduct children? What if Chester Molester figures out the back door? Why doesn't the DOJ care about the safety of children?

Just to add to the fun, there is evidence that organized crime in Italy has used the CALEA mandated back door to spy on their government even though there is no CALEA there. The equipment had the back door because it might be sold in the U.S.

Or, you could use a cipher when writing your documents, use an obscure foreign language, or write in deniable innuendo.

They were well aware of ways to make your papers useless to an investigator and they chose to do nothing about it.

If they hadn't spent the last decades battering and abusing the Constitution, there wouldn't be so many people interested in encrypting everything.

That would be relevant if the subject was geology. However, it is climatology.

People in the UK make fun of the intelligence of the Irish and then say that the single-transferable vote system (used in Ireland) would be too complicated for the English voter, so don't be too surprised.

No, because when the ice melts from the land, it flows away into the ocean leaving less total mass in that location.

Probably because the deniers want to use minuscule blips in the temperature to 'support' a claim that decades of measurements mean nothing. All they're trying to do in TFA is quantify a well supported occurrence using recent data.

They must be clicking OK when Sony offers to update Titan's firmware. That is the leading cause of disappearing features. Of course it could be LG...

Achoooooo! Sorry about that.

Overheard at the TSA: OMG NAIL CLIPPERS, TACKLE HIM!!

Whew, that was close! Hey Lou, what about this guy? He's bleeding from his eyeballs! Let 'im through Joe, nothing in the book about that.

And then there's the people in Africa...

Smith's premise of markets depended on there being a great many small buyers and sellers who were of roughly equal economic power (say, within an order of magnitude). He said as much in the often cited but nearly never actually read " An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". (You should read it, it's free!)

So no, two corporate billionaires selling to individuals is nothing like a viable market.

Note too that he was a proponent of strong regulation and an opponent of corporate charters except where absolutely unavoidable. If you buy into the market, you should naturally oppose corporations and seek to minimize them.

As for the FDA, it came into existence because there were poisonous foods and drugs on the market and people were dying.

If you care to call for better regulation, I'm with you. I would love to see the FDA abolished with a ground up replacement, among many other reforms.

As for the current topic, I am glad the FCC i butting out. That was not an appropriate regulation.