Pretty rich for an Irish company to be criticizing a state in the USA.

Most two driver households have at least 2 cars already. Often folks have one commuter sedan econo car, and one family sized minvan or SUV. Electrics fit nicely into the commuter niche as they are today, and if the 200 mile ones come out as promised they will make good cars for all but road trips. The charging standards need to catch up to where Tesla already is before they will be viable road trip cars for most.

Have you met many Americans?!

We have 2 gassers and a used Nissan Leaf. It is a great commuter car, and we take the other sedan gasser for weekend tripps mor than 60 miles round trip, and the truck for hauling crap or for family camping trips. The Leaf is our favorite to drive and easily is accounting for 2/3 of the miles our household drives, while the truck dropped from 50% to about 5%.

As the previous poster noted, they are great COMMUTER cars, so unless you get a Tesla or like extra adventure the 75-100 mile ones common today are not great choices for your ONLY car. Still, most folks only need over 75 miles a day maybe a half dozen times a year and could still be ahead by renting for those occasions. Similarly an SUV is a poor choice for your only car more times than not, and people just live with the extra rollover risk and poor fuel economy to be covered just in case they have to go offroading in LA some day.

Yes, but they thought they had bought their quota of senators and should not have to answer to the little people anymore.

Awesome technology searching for a need. If not having to drive was such a big deal, but driving time was not then you would see much more carpooling.

Could a German deli put up a "No Jews Served Here" sign and it be all Kosher?

You mean like Comcast in many areas?

So does this mean that as an anti-theist I can refuse service to those who practice religion?

As a Pastafarian can I refuse to serve noodles to those not wearing a colander?

As a Dude-ist can I refuse service to those that don't abide?

Seriously, I am curious to know how much these wingnuts have thought about the possibility that non-Christians might use this crap against them. Imagine the uproar is a Halal butcher turned away some Catholics, or a Jewish deli turned away some Baptists on religious grounds. Faux News would have an outrage-gasm.

1. Libertarians want minimal government, but not one that collects taxes, just one with enough army to enforce all the contracts they want the world to run on. And they want that army to be paid for by someone else, not them. I am pretty sure they miss company towns and want to bring back that model to the whole country, but with th emight of the US military to back it up and give it legitimacy this time around.

2. They expect the government to operate within a budget, but they want that budget to be $0. The whole notion they have is to "starve the beast", to set the budget low enough that the government is bound to be both badly run, and to badly overrun their budget by design. In so doing they can show the A) government doesn't work, and B) government doesn't stay within its budget so that they can be justified in destroying departments or installing their cronies using an invented crisis to further erode it from the inside.

Take Social Security for example. Rather than do something minimal like removing the income cap for taxation, or raising the tax by 2% to cover the long term demographic driven shortfall, they want to burn the whole thing down. We would be better off lower the retirement age than raising it, but the debate has already been pulled so far to the right you can't even talk about improving social security, you can only argue about how big the cuts *MUST* be to save the program.

I heard a lot of Libertarian ranting from my grandfather who spent much of his life in the John Birch society, and spent most of his later years running a small group trying to get income taxes repealed. So yeah, I have heard a lot of the crazy behind Libertarian ideas. It is a fantasyland for the most part. It has gotten recent attention thanks to our two major parties screwing up so bad that folks are ready to vote for the "anything else" option more so than ever before.

Plenty of HP/Agilent/Keysight folks will happily get in front of the camera to tell war stories about how effective she was at steering a very good and well loved company into the rocks. It broke into pieces that still limp on with the scars and damage that her bad management caused. The country is littered with old HP campuses that have been abandoned after off shoring and consolidation, in large part due to activities on her watch.

Her appeal to the right is how effective she was at dehumanizing a culture that used to place great value on its people into 3 pieces that now tout "shareholder value" above valuing its people. Sadly the pieces are pretty un-special at even shareholder value these days. Bill and Dave have to be doing about 3600 rpm in their graves.

My guess is that mostly it would serve as a coercive device against any disgruntled employee who sues them. Bring a suit, and they will pull this agreement out to immediately put almost any plaintiff on the defensive.

I have been designing GaAs MMIC's and RFIC's for 14 years, and none of them were on a silicon wafer. GaAs makes a nearly lossless substrate that makes microwave circuits much better than if they were over a conductive silicon wafer.

Correct. As a compound GaAs is not toxic to deal with. Sodium is nasty, as is Chlorine, but combined together you can eat the stuff.

Tell me what the real speed limit is and I will follow it. Our highway speeds are set too low for the roads and the current car quality, so most folks drive 10 over in light traffic. Most of the times cops won't ticket there (unless they feel like it, equal protection under the law my ass), and many cops will angrily blow past traffic only going 10 over.

Try driving at the speed limit on I5 and you will be more likely to cause an accident than just going with the flow. Heck even Google wants to set their self driving cars to break the speed limit to be safer.