The value of Google passed the value of Russia (remember, these are just the publically traded companies - in the US that about half our economy, dunno for Russia). Russia has almost nothing going for it beyond oil, and the Saudis are using oil prices to fuck Iran sideways right now. The current governmental structure of both Russia and Iran are likely to collapse (Putin is pretty savvy - he may emerge as El Presidente for Life without the pretense of democracy he has now, but chaos one way or another). The ruble is almost certain to collapse, so no one's buying ruble-valued anything, (especially debt) and the risk of public companies in Russia getting either nationalized or simply destroyed by unrest is real.

where do you want to spend your money? On food or on energy?

the reason for the longer range is that you move across cells. It is the number of charges (combined with heat) that is detrimental to cells. As such, they will likely always have about 160-250 MPC.
BUT, you are right about rentals for true long distance driving.

These should ONLY be in the service centers and the batteries should be for say 400 MPC. IOW, this is not to be used to fill up for local driving, but instead used for putting in long distance batteries so that you can take a vacation. With a battery that has say over 120 KWH, that first 30 min will still bring you up over 250-300 MPC, which is plenty long for extended driving.

Actually, there is.
Robots, actually androids, can be updated right away with any improvement. With humans, we have to undergo a generation cycle. Basically, look at speed of change of regular cars vs Tesla. Because of Tesla's heavy electronics manufacturing, new updates change it regularly, making the car newer and better, in a much faster way.

Well, that is a good question. I would like to think that it can. But, I do not know.
However, I DO know that they can be held personally liable.

Yes, they CAN go if people would SUE.
I make a habit to never put my CC in stores that run windows or that outsource to India, or any nation where the coders are paid a pitance of western coders. As such, I have not had my CC's stolen.
People need to put together mass lawsuits against companies and their CEO/CIO personally. Once that starts happening, then and only then, will things change.
Even here, it would be nice to see a lawyer step up and state that they are willing to do a class action against these companies.

The company, along with the CEO and CIO need to be held accountable. Once these ppl realize that they can be held PERSONALLY responsible for their bad actions, then and only then, will we see real issues solved.

Look, everybody is ignoring the common things. Instead, they see what the crackers WANT them to see, which is other doorways than what was initially used.

Look, the problem here is that ALL OF THESE COMPANIES THAT WERE CRACKED have 3 things in common:
1) they run windows.
2) they outsourced to India.
3) the company is not allowed to operate in India.

Basically, Indians are being bought off to leave backdoors on the production system.

That happened at Target. And yes, they got CCs, but they also got medical info.

The problem is, that they are no different than any of the others that have been cracked. Every last one of them is running windows and have outsourced to India. Now, 30 years ago, when considering security clearences, payrolls were looked at. Why? Because if somebody was on clearence and had too low of a salary, they could be bought.
Well, the Indian coders are paid less than $10K / year back in India. All it takes is somebody from china, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, etc to offer just ONE of them 100k (or 10 years worth of their salaries) to release a bug in the production systems. Of course, it is happening.
This is how and why these companies are getting cracked. What is really needed is for customers and banks to SUE these companies, and NOW. And not just the company, but the CIO and CEO for putting their data at this much risk. Once CEO/CIOs are looking being held personally responsible for their actions, well, things will change.
Issue solved.

Hey, is anybody noticing a trend that Windows combined with outsourcing == cracked systems.
When will managers learn to think?

Wow, I thought she was a terrible addition to the SCOTUS, I didn't like her at all...

until today...

I might have to reconsider my prior views on her, so long as she feels the same way about the 2nd amendment of course...

I totally believe you... there are whole books written on crazy and silly laws...

The sad thing is that when you make a hundred thousand laws, all you do is make a nation of law breakers. Then you bread contempt for the law since so many of them are trite and silly, and this carries over to the ones that are not...

I don't respect police because of what you describe, the media and some people like to say, "oh, that poor Police officer was hurt in the line of duty"...

Yea, whatever, too many of his friends are scum and that carries over to the whole profession. Clean up your house coppers and you might get some respect.