You know what is even more similar to what religions do? Using a term like "heretics" - only your variant is called "denialists". Yes, religions have been using that trick for hundreds of years to escape questions.

Another way you can tell you are part of a cult is when your high priests are telling you to sacrifice something while they live in comfort and plenty.

I guess really though, we should say what you are involved in it far closer to scientology, with adjusted core sample data replacing e-meters...

haha just like my stovetop burner only affects the temperature of a few millimeters of water on the bottom of the pot

That is far more an example of the effect the sun has on the water than the atmosphere.

If you go into a shallow lake is it the same as ambient air temperature...

Put a few miles of water above your pot and see how far it gets when you turn on the heat below..

I have no killfile because I believe in hearing what other people think.

Like all denialists you cover your ears and go LA LA LA when confronted with heresy to your chosen brands of religion.

It's sad really, that an otherwise intelligent individual can let himself go in a kind of self-imposed Alzheimer's.

The bioluminescent denizens of the deep would like you to step down so as have a chat with you.

The real denialists are, and always have been, the ones who think science is never to be questioned.

You are more the zealot than anyone who ever came out of Bob Roberts U.

It will be nice a decade or two hence when it is undeniable just how far you have allowed yourself to be duped (well actually it is the case now, but even you will admit it in 20 years).

At least they have provided us with a nice visual demonstrating the relationship between the ocean and the atmosphere.

Why is it nice to be misled?

In reality the atmosphere affects the temperature of a few inches of water on top of the ocean.

Far vaster of an impact is solar energy input.

They'll snatch the phone off the person (gathering evidence for their investigation) and the video or the phone will mysteriously disappear.

No it will not because most photos and video syncs to a network service now, and the police know this (mostly).

So you go to McDonalds and upload the video there.

The point is mass remote bricking stops not just communication, but terminates recording devices En Masse. How many people still carry a separate camera with them...

Sure, but the big difference is with Uber someone else is taking car of the car, with Car2Go no-one is, with an expanded version that includes trucks you are just inviting heavy abuse of product.

I use some city rental bike systems, those are usually heavy duty bikes. Even they suffer significant damage at times from abusive users.

My town has a thriving downtown - also has services like Car2Go. That's how I know they can at times be scarce or distant. We also have a city bike rental program that works pretty well.

Since there are no links with real info I have to assume the Helsinki plan is like ZipCar/Car2Go, where you just can collect a car somewhere and use it for some period of time to go wherever - but instead of just the one kind of car, it would include bikes and larger trucks too. I just figure if you do go for that and lean on such a program instead of leasing or owning a car, the vehicles (like all rental cars) may not be treated well.

Being in Helsinki though, it's not as likely as if you tried such a thing in NYC. Even where I live the rental bikes take quite a beating and some of them show it (not hard to find at least one flat tire in a rack of bikes).

To me the plan sounds like you end up with every car you use giving you the reliability of a rental, with the "oops no cars are available now" factor of services like ZipCar...

But perhaps in a more isolated culture where people do not abuse things they do not own, the cars will be treated well and availability will work out well.

"The guy dropped it on the ground by accident, we didn't break it."

Thus, the cloud advice. By the time they got to the phone, audio and video is on the way up.

Provide free farming automation equipment to all farmers within 200 miles of any border.

It seems like that would cut down so heavily on demand for labor, that not many people would find it worth trying to cross.

That is a good point, I had seen that video in the past and it was really the root of my idea... thanks for finding the link.

Increase the speed limits? Then there will be idiots driving even faster.

No, studies have shown that people drive at a speed that feels reasonable, regardless of limit.

Raising a speed limit often means just making legal what everyone is already doing.

There will always be crazy people going faster but they were already ignoring the speed limit entirely to begin with.

Many drivers already drive too fast for the road condition, traffic situation and the limitations of both their car and their driving abilities.

What studies show that?

Instead raising the speed limit in various states has lowered accident rates.