More like a human-guided scythe, cutting through damn near every obstacle during an accident - especially human bodies that are outside of the precious Tesla cockpit.
I think you might have written the best advertising material for the car so far.
It's amazing how ineffective American greens are, really. Look at what environmentalist lobbies accomplish in places like Germany and the Netherlands and then look at our flock of self-sabotaging knuckleheads.
Not only do our loudest greens never accomplish anything politically, they also somehow manage to get themselves blamed for everything their enemies do, whether it's relicensing obsolete and soon-to-fail nuclear plants or blocking needed pipelines. Total knuckleheads! Well, except for Elon Musk's crew, those guys do seem to have a clue, I'll admit.
Naturally the pro-we-ignore-the-earths-climate-has-changed-over-millions-of-years crowd cry foul. I cannot ever recall a group of scientists like these folks be so opposed and go to the lengths they do to squelch any and all dissenting views. That is not science but fanaticism.
I do see a group of fanatics at work, but I'm afraid they aren't scientists. Science is carrying on with business as usual, and squabbling over who is right or wrong is a normal part of the process. The scientific method thrives on criticism and dissent, and insisting that a conclusion must proceed from valid premises and data is not "squelching dissent". Some climatologists are raising objections to both Pielke's methodology and his data cherrypicking - and that's what science does, it hones reasoning through criticism. No conspiracies required.
But if you like conspiracies, remember this is slashdot, where there's no lack of right-wing astroturfers standing by to mod any anti-science or pro-nuclear diatribe as "insightful". That conspiracy is a lot more credible.
Why do they think this is a matter for governments to decide?
Ooh, talking points! Let me try! Wait. OK, I've got it!
Every one of the world's mysteries can be explained by proper understanding of the Elvis Factor.
Man, there's a lot of unexplained phenomenon
out there in the world.
Lot of things people say
What the heck's going on?
Let me tell ya!
Who built the pyramids?
ELVIS!
Who built Stonehenge?
ELVIS!
Yeah, man you see guys
walking down the street
pushing shopping carts
and you think they're talking to Allah,
they're talking to themself.
Man, no they're talking to ELVIS!
ELVIS! ELVIS!
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Traingle
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats!
Again, works for me!
I liked the fact that George W. Bush drove the price of petroleum up to suit his corporate puppeteers, even though I didn't really like the way he went about it (far too much torture and sadism).
We need the price of dirty energy to be high enough that clean energy can get the capital investments it needs to reach infrastructure parity (and plutocrat parity). When T. Boone Pickens starts building windfarms, you know you're on the right track. So I'll be happy to help you make a killing in dirty energy market bubbles, my friend, and I hope you have fun spending it, too.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. It's a smugapocalypse!
Funny that you assume I have habits that need changing, though. Nobody's burnt coal on my behalf in more than 20 years.
"Doin' right ain't got no end, Fletcher."
My teenage son got PAX tickets before the acts were announced and he's kind of bummed that you're not on the show list.
Works for me!
Sometimes cynicism is a comfort, I guess.
No need to donate, just stop using electricity altogether - that should offset the use of coal more than the amount you might donate would. Not only would doing so show that you're really serious about the environment, it's a far more reasonable and realistic proposal than shutting down the sole power source for a vast majority of the global population.
I already don't use any coal-generated electricity, thanks. Took that step a dozen or more years ago.
Somehow it has not resulted in the shutdown of any coal mines. Go figure! Something about supply and demand and cost interrelationships.
Or, to put it another way, infinitesimally reducing demand isn't really in any way equivalent to infinitesimally contributing to a blockade of supply.
We can't say for sure, of course; lacking mind-reading prowess we'll have to judge the regulatory powers-that-be by what they do and say.
But currently the government is trying to clamp down even harder on the distribution of the painkillers that some of us actually require (in my case, only occasionally, thank God). Their stated reason is that when patients are prescribed narcotic painkillers, and the government makes it harder to get narcotics, many of these patients then turn to heroin, because it is more readily and cheaply obtained. Then, many of these sufferers become heroin addicts, which in turn causes harm to their families, their communities, and themselves.
The government regulators bluntly state that this process means there should be more restrictions on prescription painkillers. Try, for example, this google search.
So, they know that as they restrict access to painkillers, and make use of heavy doses of painkillers more dangerous and harmful, they are actively driving pain sufferers towards illegal heroin use. They know this, and they say so. So the response is to increase restrictions on painkillers? Judging them by their actions, these people have a strong desire to do harm, specifically by pushing people suffering extreme pain into the heroin trade.
Either that, or they are incredibly, dangerously stupid.
I know you were kidding, but that's what my backup is.
I have five large crates of CDs sitting in a cellar - and that's my backup of my music collection. Of course, my music collection is only about 250 GB of FLAC files, not 2 TB... if the guy's not generating his own video, it's hard to imagine where he'd get 2 TB of legally owned content without any sort of initial distribution media.
Where's the damn kickstarter?
Right - so whats the systemic problem? Under-educated politicians? A culture which dismisses individual achievement and hard science?
We have a political system beholden to an economic system that rewards and empowers sociopaths. New Jersey just outlawed direct sale of Tesla automobiles, to give just one example.
The focus of prisons (from my limited observation) is rarely to rehabilitate.
In the United States, the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 explicitly states that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation. In other words, according to both Congress and the Supreme Court, prison is useless for rehabilitation, and judges are legally barred from considering prison as a rehabilitative measure. Our official incarceration policy exists solely to punish behavior, never to correct it or prevent future crimes. This has always seemed to me like the keystone of the "Reagan Revolution", with Ted Kennedy and Ronald Reagan allying to fundamentally derail the American Dream of an optimally free society, so it seems very appropriate that it was passed in 1984.
The reason everybody is so up in arms is that the opiate is not mixed with acetominophen. The only purpose of putting acetominophen in an opiate painkiller is to make it so it will fry your liver if you take more of it than it was designed for. Basically, such drugs are designed to be deliberately fatal to addicts. So much for "do no harm".
I don't know why you got modded "flamebait". My current doctor and my previous one both told me exactly the same thing. They said they can't prescribe opiates without acetaminophen or their practices will systematically harassed by the government's drug warriors, and they can't help people if they are driven out of business.
Dr. Brad Galer, executive vice president and chief medical officer at Zogenix, says "Zogenix is working on an abuse-deterrent version of Zohydro that should become available in three years."
To me, that says as soon as they add toxicity it'll be acceptable. Because in the USA, the goal of punishing addicts has become more important than the goal of helping people in pain. Authoritarianism is ascendant over compassion.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
