Professional drivers need to obey the traffic laws also. I don't see a problem here, unless the rich person was pressuring their chauffer to drive unsafely; in which case that is a workplace-safety issue that can be dealt with separately.

Surely the very high likelihood of a nuclear counterstrike would play some deterrent role here also?

Now that's what I would call a Supercharger! :) (The tinfoil-hat crowd is going to have a tough time near those, though)

I hope you're not a coffee drinker, because if you are, I can foresee the demise of a lot of keyboards from this setup :)

Present company included?

It's a bit odd that there isn't more consideration given to the idea of death by nitrogen asphyxiation. It seems to be a fairly foolproof and painless method of execution, if we must have the death penalty.

Isn't that what most people do anyway? That, plus a keyring.

... and yet Apple products remain wildly popular. Perhaps Apple is on to something? (That something would be that many users value a simple, trouble-free user experience more than maximizing flexibility; i.e. if there are two ways of doing something, Apple will often decide which way is better and then drop support for the other approach. After that, future users of that product have one less decision to make, and therefore one less thing that have to worry about screwing up. It's the paradox of choice as applied to computer use)

It's not to everybody's taste, of course, but it's hard to argue with success.

Yeah, but what percentage of people never go outdoors ever? And how healthy and mentally well-balanced are those people?

Not to mention the fact that if you're going to live your entire life inside a windowless room underground, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to do that on Earth, and outside of the heavier gravity, the experience is the same. Plus that way you retain the option of going outside if/when you finally are about to go insane from cabin fever.

Backups are necessary and proper, but they won't help you recover any data that was written to the SSD recently (i.e. after the most recent backup was made). Not to mention that more than one person has found out the hard way (i.e. post-drive-crash) that their backup system had not been working correctly for some time.

Therefore it would still be useful if you could read your data off the failed SSD. In fact, I seem to recall that that was the one of the touted benefits of SSD technology -- that when it failed, you still would have access to your data.

I'm not convinced that the above is a bad thing -- if the goal was to get lots of solar installed, and cost-shifting incentivized people to figure out how to accomplish that goal, then good -- it worked as designed.

As for whether or not that cost-shifting is "fair" to the utilities or the taxpayers; that's a value judgement, but IMHO it's no more unfair than the cost-shifting that takes place when first-world countries emit carbon whose worst effects are then suffered by third-world countries.

Gee Dave, you must be a rational adult, so what results are you getting from your fleet of temperature-measuring satellites that you put into orbit? Of course you designed, built, and launched them all yourself, because otherwise you'd just be "relying on what someone you trust told you" about global temperatures, and that would be childish.

Now we see the real reason why Apple pulled the infamous "I Am Rich" app from the App Store. They didn't want anyone competing with their hardware implementation of that functionality. ;)

This is true, and a good reason to wait 12 months if you're not satisfied with the v1 product's performance and feature set (and won't have money to upgrade -- although in that case you're probably not in the market for an Apple Watch anyway).

OTOH, this is also the behavior you want to see from a tech company -- products being improved on a regular basis. A hypothetical Apple that didn't release better versions of its products on a regular basis probably would have gone out of business by now.

Which planet are you living on that has a 36-hour day?