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Comment Re:Move to a gated community (Score 1) 611

"Except Local Traffic" doesn't work because to enforce, an officer would have to follow the driver from the moment they entered the neighborhood until they left, to ensure that they conducted no business in the neighborhood.

You've never had that experience? It doesn't happen to me in my Mercedes, but otherwise...

Comment Re:Docked phone (Score 1) 114

How would the OS X UI be inappropriate for a phone docked to a Bluetooth keyboard and AirPlay monitor? The docked phone's touch screen would behave like a trackpad. Or how would it be inappropriate for an iPad with a clip-on keyboard and trackpad?

It would be squinty, or it would use a lot of screen real estate just like it did on teeny tiny macs back in the day.

Comment Odd career choice. (Score 1) 31

You clearly have interests in engineering. With a Degree in engineering, and Art, you can probably get a good paying career in engineering, using Art to improve your engineering designs. However you choose the opposite route using engineering to improve your are in a career where there is a lot of risk of not getting your next paycheck.

Comment Re:No so easy as throwing money at it, is it? (Score 1) 47

Right now in this political environment, progress will only happen with the few crazy err umm eccentric folks. With the money and resources to attempt it.

Now unlike the government failure is an option. Branson lost a test ship, so he just as a PR issue to fix. If this happened on a government funded watch, you will have congressional hearing (which will never turn out good) The guy who can't point his finger down will take the blame. The next years budget will get cut.

Comment Re:I suppose this is a good thing... (Score 1) 87

Which is already happening. Tesla is in the process of installing grid storage at their superchargers.

Yeah, note there was no complaint for that. It's hard to complain about people adding grid storage, which we desperately need anyway. The thing is, upgrading the grid and using more EVs means less trucks driving around delivering fuel, and even with our mostly-not-HVDC system we only lose about 5% in transmission in the USA and once the system is built it has few externalities, unlike OTR trucking which produces a lot of CO2 and does most of the road damage.

I continue to [casually] promote rail-based solutions including freight rail and PRT, the latter of which is not an inherently rail-based solution but that's how I envision it because tires are always a compromise.

Comment Re:A step too far? (Score 2) 191

The Spanish lawmakers wanted to prevent that.

By what realistic measure did AEDE expect Google to pay, when it outright stated that it'd shut down in Germany before paying? Did they expect Spain to be different?

Like has been said, news aggregation is a loss leader for google - they don't even get advertising money on those pages.

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