And thus the birth of the TSA and Homeland Security. Another bloated bureaucracy that has been an abject failure by every measure.

Well, the US hasn't had another 9/11...were you hoping for a worldwide end to people using terror as a weapon?

Drivers don't really have the option not to take rides...they have to accept 90% of rides offered, or they're out of Uber. Uber also doesn't let drivers see the routes they're going to take ahead of time, just where the pickup locations are. Uber also sets prices that the drivers are going to work at.

So going with your analogy, imagine if the agent told the actor, "in order to remain an actor, you're going to work some unknown jobs at specific locations I give you, and I've decided you're going to do this work for 20% less than you received last time, and your only recourse it to quit." It sounds like a W-2 job to me.

It wasn't a CPU in the sense that you could actually process things with it and make it the central design element of a computer.

No they didn't. They developed a 350 GHz room temperature transistor.

I recently had a high school re-union, and some people did look a lot older. I guess you could make a complex theory about how some people genetically age faster than others, even if their overall lifespan is approximately the same. However, the real determination was: "are they fat?" People who weighed more also tend to look older.

No no no no no no no. You underestimate the costs of the new, and over-estimate the costs of the old.

The cost of electricity equivalent to sunlight is quite high. The cost of 5 story warehouses close to a city is high.

Sunlight is free. Water is cheap. Farmland in the middle of nowhere is cheap. Roundup is cheap/environmentally friendly.

You seriously think there are only 6 million Americans in mega-urban areas? What?

And you really think ICEs and "power plants" all the same efficiency? Of course different kind of power plants have different efficiency levels. Not to mention they burn different kind of fuels, and a direct comparison is silly. However, even if they burn off dirty coal, electic motors are more environmentally friendly. This is an easy thing to Google if you have any interest in numbers or the truth (I suspect you don't).

http://www.brighthubengineerin...

Please post less and contemplate more.

Car retains value after the lease of course. If buying outright, it goes from a $33k to a $23k car.

There are fewer than 20 fast chargers in America? In the Bay Area, I see about 40 of them (looking at my cell phone app). The local Whole Foods has one, so does the local mall.

Was your family run over by a Golf? I see you making a few other extremely pointed anti-Golf comments, that have no basis in fact. What's the motivation? There are legitimate complaints to make about electric cars, why imagine things?

That said, the idea behind electric charging is more like, you charge it overnight, rather than on the road. Even a fast charge simply isn't fast enough.

Well, more like $280 a month, with $80 subsidized by the government.

So it's true that if everybody was getting electric cars, the subsidy would be untenable. However, if everybody was getting electric cars, the unit price would go down as well (which is a big part of the motivation behind the subsidies).

Yeah, I went from a gas guzzler to the egolf, but even with a decent gas mileage like 30mpg I'd pay $100/month fuel (and that's with gas prices pretty low right now).

I don't do extended trips often. It happens rarely enough that the prices of gas for her car are kind of a non-factor.

So yeah, range is an issue. On the other hand, I do have a fairly long commute, I go out hiking, I have friends all around the Bay Area, and range hasn't been an issue. In an emergency, charging stations are all over. So it's bad, but not as bad as you might think.

I leased an egolf, it's like $23k to purchase and just looks like a normal golf, if it didn't say "egolf" you wouldn't know. Fiat 500e is same as a 500. Nissan Leafs don't really look any weirder than other Nissans.

Chademo charging stations aren't free (L2 stations often are, but take longer to charge. Tesla stations are as well).

Bay Area has a million charging stations.

Everything single thing in your post was wrong, why are you talking about something you clearly know nothing about?

Electric vehicles are very cheap, if only because the federal government subsidizes $7,500, and the CA state government subsidizes $2500. Additionally, some local governments fund home charging stations.

I leased an egolf for $200/month, versus my old car where I was spending $150/month on fuel. Googling that, leasing a standard golf is the same price, but with the higher fuel/maintenance costs.

There are good reasons not to get an electric car, which basically boil down to range issues - my wife has a normal fuel car, or I wouldn't have even considered an electric car. It's great/cheap as a commuter car, but the (very common) L2 chargers take four hours to fully charge, and even the (uncommon) L3 chargers take an hour. Imagine going on a road trip where every hour and a half you stopped for an hour to charge your car.

It's the restaurant's responsibility, not the DJs. DJs aren't obligated to pay at all. Perhaps the DJ lied to him, perhaps it's just something the guy said after the fact.

But it doesn't really matter. This wasn't a one-time event he was sued for. If you read the article, you'll see that BMI had been warning him for years.

They call you, and warn you that you need a license to play their music? Effectively giving you the option of just not playing their music? Not just surprising you by suing you for currently playing their music?

Why is that thuggish? Aside from just giving their music away freely, how would you want them to act?