He might not "of" died, but your english teacher would HAVE killed you.

The car's systems are advanced enough to force a controlled deceleration while maninting everything else (they might want to disable the infotainment, no point in giving the thief access to that...).

You forgot the part where the smoke chokes an attack helicopter loaded with ordnance that ends up crashing into the car, in the most awesome Tetris move ever.

People don't generally drive at 100 or 110...

They're really pissed they can't replace the engine oil on the model S... Oh, wait...

For very large values of "large", a large program will still require more memory than available.

The invention of waterproof calculators allowed for whales to more easily perform tedious calculations.

By that logic, no programming language is Turing-complete.

There is no straw man, if anything it's AmiMoJo who introduced one.

Nobody was discussing an "imaginary, fearful hoard of idiots". The discussion was about a very specific group of people, who was then identified with a larger group that acts in a similar way.

You're the one pulling the straw man here.

The question was about the apparent paradox of the two cases mentioned.

For some reason, fear of the radiation boogeyman is greater than their confidence in their interpretation of their faith.

Before I'm accused of calling every religious person an ignorant, allow me to add that religion is only one of many possible sources of ignorance (probably none of them guarantee ignorance either) - however, it is a very visible correlation.

The only thing ignorant people fear more than science in general is "radiation". The reasons for the quotation marks would make for a very long rant about ionizing vs. non-ionizing radiation and their complete ignorance of what is actually going on.

Imagine how much slower it'd be written fully in Java...

Because the general complaint about OpenOffice/LibreOffice was that Java made it too fast. /s

Next up! A web browser written in Javascript.

Yeah, like long-distance questioning is the norm. It's probably less bureaucratic to just drag him over Sweden.

Add to that the fact that they probably considered he posed a high risk of fleeing to some third world country (which he did, in a way)...

The only tragedy is that some people ever took that moron seriously...