There's the part about willfully violating someone's privacy to obtain the image in the first place. Digital trespass laws the gov't throw around when they don't have anything else useful to arrest someone probably cover it.

If something is already on the internet it's very difficult to make a convincing argument that it's actually private anymore. Doesn't make it right to share those ex-girlfriend nudies you downloaded but on a totally different level.

No no...they need some kind of premise to do it. You'd have to be guilty of speeding-while-minority or causing-officer-rage or committing a minor offense that's getting 'targeted-enforcement'. Oh and there's the ever convenient felony-broken-taillight to watch out for.

Seriously though all these horrific things are the vast, vast minority of police interactions. That doesn't excuse them in any way and I think they should be prosecuted of course. It's one thing to use poor judgment (guy waves a gun around screaming in a public place so you shoot him and find out it was a toy) and another to do things obviously illegal, immoral, and unwarranted (without consent ... going into someone's phone to look for nude pictures and sharing them with your friends). Verify the former happened as reported, apologize as appropriate. Prosecute the latter.

If cops have special laws that protect them (assaulting an officer is far different than assaulting joe 6-pack) then there should be mirroring laws that have similarly elevated punishments when they misbehave.

Take a trip down to mexico for example. A few years I went to Cancun on vacation and they were installing something (probably electrical conduit) in the ground alongside the highway.

No backhoe. No construction trucks in sight. Just a dozen guys with shovels that were apparently dropped off there to do their work. Oh, and no supervisor in a vest standing around or silly 'flag men' mindlessly waiving traffic.

It's no so much the cost of products needs to go up...but the excessive compensation of executives and shareholders needs to go DOWN.

Along the same lines...I love the states with helmet laws for motorcycles.

Please...PLEASE ride without a helmet if you prefer. This way when we scrape you off the road we won't have to bother with CPR or expensive rescue/medical bills. Disclosure: 10+ year biker here :)

Perhaps when they start to cost what a beetle did people will start hacking them up like they did to beetles.

Given the way the car is designed though, it's probably far easier to do that then with most other cars.

Your story doesn't add up.

Autoimmune disease from blood agent in the water that was detected multiple times yet wasn't there. Ok...I'll chalk that up to typical hush-hush tin hat stuff.

But hereditary? No way. Not unless they had biological agents far, FAR in advance of anything the US can even do today. The agent would have had to infect your testicles and /change your DNA/ to make the trait inheritable.

Thank you for serving and sorry you have an AI disease ... but if Iraq had bio weapon capability that advanced they'd have taken us apart. It makes no sense that they'd instead use it to make soldiers ill years and years after the fact.

Agreed. They're all just getting greedy (well, finding different ways to satiate the greed I suppose) and the consumer loses out once again.

Netflix was great...their streaming catalog had just about anything I wanted. Now it seems I miss more often than I hit when searching.

The rest? No thanks. 15 bucks a month for this, 10 for that. Look at the NFL prices - $55/month for live out-of-market games on sunday or $70/month for non-live streaming. Are you kidding me? I mean...obviously there are people stupid enough to pay that since it's cheaper than dish but still...

Lucky for me I don't care about live sports and anything I want to watch is usually available via torrent within a half hour of broadcast (or movies which are just there). Paid streaming WAS a great thing and now they're getting greedy, dividing the pie up so much it's taking away the usefulness and savings.

Maybe in a perfect world.

In reality...if they want to be inside the information loop of the White House they have to play ball. Sure, they can give them the finger and be cut out...left to second hand information...and fall behind in all the late breaking stories. They might get something unique, new, or otherwise not commented on once in a while but they're giving up the firehose for the garden hose...at best.

Doesn't everyone realize Obama
- bought the media or
- they bought him or
- a 3rd party bought them both?

That's about the only transparent thing to come out of the joke of his presidency as far as I can tell. I saw it on day 1 when suddenly the front cover of the paper wasn't counting the soldiers who died in iraq 3+ days a week. Sure, there's been negative coverage - they can't just *skip* something like Snowden. But instead of harping on things they're quick to jump to some other (pointless) 'for the children' type crap. OMG 42 people died last year from masturbating with broken glass we need to start a charity, care center, public education, and help the children know that it's unsafe. New at 11.

The fact that the reporters are finally 'doing something' right around the end of his term is comical and just continues to prove the point.

Also, based on math in a previous post of mine you'd realistically only need 1-2MW.

That's for a full electric 'gas station' that is able to serve as many customers as a regular gas station does in a typical day. Technically it's to sell the equivalent number of 'driving miles' since EVs are ~3x more efficient. :)

Let's try apples to apples though - what does an EV filling station need to provide to match a gas station?

Average 2013 new car MPG is 24.9 (use 25)
Tesla MPGe is 89 to 95 (use 90)
1 Gal Gas Equiv = 33.4kWh (wiki)

3000 gallons sold/day * 25MPG = 75000 miles per day
75000 miles / 90MPGe = 833 GGE
833 GGE * 33.4kwh = 27.8MWm over 24 hours is ~1.2MW

The tesla chargers are ~90% efficient and MVA-level grid transformers are mid to high 90% efficient. So even accounting for those losses that your total power grid demand is under 1.5MW for a full service station.

Which is great...and still forgotten in the emergency. Most people typically follow reflexes and known patterns instead. "it might be behind me" isn't in your mind as much as "OMFG F F F F F F F F OMG OMFG THE F PLANE JUST F CRASHED FFFFFFFF"

In reality it takes longer to open the emergency exit than to locate the closest one. Beyond that ... the people by the exits will open them and start exiting. Everyone else is going herd-mode like getting on busy subways in NYC. If there's stupidity happening at your door...often it's faster to go do another door even if it means getting on the end of the line.

Thankfully the people willing to pony up the extra $ for the comfortable exit row are sure to be the most adroit at working the emergency release mechanism and disembarking passengers. Right? Oh...uhm. So much for safety ... profits are more important.

Fine, how about a bunch of people with ear plugs? Those are reasonably common on flights, sold in the airport or on the plane, and intentionally drown out instruction.

In reality the 'danger' is something going flying during takeoff, landing ... or turbulence which isn't really addressed. Instead of trying to come up with silly rules that don't cover the issue airlines would do better to say something like 'folks please make sure your items are either stored or securely held in your hand so they don't fall during takeoff/landing'. I've seen plenty of water bottles, snacks, and other crap go flying during takeoff. People usually keep a better grip on their phones actually.

So this nonsense about electronics is just that: nonsense. Worry more about improperly latched overhead bins and random crap going flying.

Indeed...visiting somewhere and don't want your traffic tracked? few moments with this and back to what you were up to.