If it floats in water, it is going to get hit by perpetual exposure to UV radiation.

The same way sailors get sun burnt very quickly. UV gets reflected by water, enlarging the exposure. UV tears apart molecular bonds, which is why, for example, the ozone layer is so important.

YouTube video has developer labouring away making an XXX app ...

Thanks for the detailed information.

I had said: Electric cars will have safety recalls.
You said: None of the things you mention are services that necessarily have to be performed by a dealership...

Safety recall fixes have to be done at a dealership. Like when GM issues a recall for the ignition switch that can catch a car on fire.

"Not specifically Tesla, but electric cars don't have alot of things that car dealers make money"

Electric cars need tires. Electric cars need brakes. Electric cars will have safety recalls. Electric cars can be in accidents. Electric cars can be broken into.

I don't claim to know much about electric cars, but if it has moving parts it will be need to be serviced at some point.

I don't think you thought your post through.

> probably cheaper to buy blackberry than develop a phone from scratch

If Blackberry can't market their own phones, how could a non-phone company like Amazon do so?

What is your advice on when to use semi-colons?

>So, what do you think WILL change it?

Government action and privacy laws are the only solution, which I can't see the government being interested in because they are one of the main perpetrators (NSA spying, etc.).

"Angry posts" didn't stop email spam or telemarketing abuse -- someone complaining on the internet is of no concern to a company that is trying to generate revenue. Both of those were dealt severe blows by laws.

Privacy, sadly, is a losing proposition.

1) Google and advertisers track you + accumulate data.
2) The government does the same
3) Credit reporting agencies and banks selling your debt/credit card transaction data.
4) Employers
5) Insurance companies + on and on

Facebook and Google and LinkedIn are just 3 companies built on invading your privacy and there are tons more.

Short version: You are losing your privacy. "Not liking it", "Angry posts" and the like won't change this.

On the plus side: They really aren't interested in "you". Not in the slightest, they just want to monetize "you".

If you don't like it, create fake awesome information about yourself and spread it all over the internet! Control your brand with utter bullshit!!

>You mean things like banning it on airplane flights, in restaurants

No, I mean very active efforts to slice and dice and causes and solutions and give those venues public funding and awareness campaigns and actually try to solve the problem.

"Smoking" got defeated through social awareness, anti-smoking campaigns, "stop smoking" programs, taxes, and tons of other efforts.

Today, efforts to curb obesity largely involves Michele Obama tinkering with school lunches --- which is a nice gesture, but is merely a gesture.

>Once autonomous vehicles are approved for use

... the cab fare will be the same except there won't be a human receiving the wages.

Like how a Snickers bar costs $1.25 in a vending machine.

Not that there will be commonplace autonomous cars in the next 20 years, they will remain as common as the flying cars hypothesized in the 1960s ... and the reason is simple:

Q) Why won't there be autonomous cars?

A) Because even a car that can handle 99% of normal driving situations is incredibly dangerous in that other 1% scenario. And that 1% scenario --- power is out and stop lights don't work or ad-hoc road construction or a very destructive pothole or severe rain that blunts sensors --- those happen on a very regular basis.

The only autonomous cars will be the ones we already have --- they are called trains! Not that they are "smart", but because their driving conditions are extremely simplified --- yet they STILL have drivers!!!

And governments should be looking for ways to curb/eliminate obesity (as incredibly hard as this is).

I expect governments to do the opposite, however, and not fight against obesity and instead grant it privledges (special park spaces, etc.) and such.

Bloomberg was one of the few politicians willing to stick his neck out and implement common sense reforms.

Obesity needs the treatment that smoking was given.

This game must make you angry and frustrated in order to use the functionality.

Please list out a list of activities that this game has to achieve the anger?

So glass loves water and anything else prone to Van der Waals forces.

Good luck with scaling rock or wood or metal.

Much of the idea of wormholes came from the idea that universe might be spherical in topography --- like a hypersphere --- and a wormhole could poke through the hypersphere to create a shorter distance than even a line segment from Point A to Point B.

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question35.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe

But measurements are looking like the universe is flat.

You never know what scientific discoveries the distant future could hold, but at the moment it looks bleak for the concept of wormholes since the universe doesn't seem to be a hypersphere at all.