Tell that to someone who lives in the US outside of a major city and you'll get a good laugh.

I would complain about Tesla's marketing to people who can't afford their cars, but ... I can't recall any marketing done by them other than their blog and videos on YouTube.

I would argue that anyone who bought a car that costs more than a year's salary has piss poor money management skills. ;-)

Teslas shouldn't be in the radar of the middle class right now. Leave them for people that make >> $200K for now. Early adopters always pay more and can afford to be out-of-date when the next revision comes down the line a few months later.

I don't understand why people want to buy things they can't afford. I understand that for the economy it's a good thing, but for the individual it has to be better to have less debt.

So true. Wish I had mod points.

Wouldn't say I'm an early adopter. I got mine in March. Still love it as much today as I did last week. Still an awesome car.

Did I wish I waited a year? Well, maybe just a little. But I'm sure a year from now the Model S will have even more features.

Perhaps the autopilot can be retrofitted into the currently on-the-road Model S. After all, the other upgrade over the last year have been available at a mild markup.

As for the dual motors, pretty much the same thing.

As an aside, I wonder how this is going to effect sales. I know a few people who have been hesitating as it wasn't an all wheel drive car. As it is, as of last week the wait list was still over two months.

Currently there are thousands of heart pacemakers which wirelessly connect to interrogator devices that sit next to the bed every night. Those devices check the device every night and check in with the company if there's any problem.

Is it impossible to reprogram those interrogators? The manufacturers say so. I guess we should believe them?

I never understoof the fascination of leasing a car for an individual. I can understand for a company, but most cars are worth something at the time the lease is over. Why give it back or have to go through more tortuous negotiating to buy the car then?

If you can't afford to buy a car, perhaps you should look into a cheaper car.

(I'm discounting those that lease $15K cars, since most leases are for more expensive models.)

I rent from Redbox and transfer to computer with makemkv. I then transcode with Handbrake.

I haven't found a single instance where this didn't work.

Or do they mean 1 in 3 remaining jobs?

As it is, automation has already taken the vast majority of jobs. You can run a small store with just a few employees, something that needed a couple dozen just a century ago.

I'm okay w/ systemd. I don't consider myself an enabler. I use Linux for my day to day work. Whatever the kernel guys put in is fine by me. If it breaks my workflow, I look for something else. That's how I switched from Ubuntu to Mint.

There are plenty of FOSS OSs out there. I don't care about the internals of them. I care about the apps they run so I can get my work done.

Think you hit it on the head with Cartoon Network and other cable offerings.

Why would kids limit themselves to that three hour block on Saturday mornings when they can watch whenever they want on CN?

Cable TV killed the Saturday morning cartoons.

I have an aluminum macbook. They only made them in late 2008.

It's running the latest version of OS X. But it's almost certainly going to be dropped by the next version.

Not bad. Frankly, I'm annoyed that the system hasn't broken yet. I want to buy a newer machine and need an excuse.

I wonder how many people there are advocating smaller federal government and less basic science education/research now?

The truth is, like everywhere else in the world, there are people with extreme views there and more moderates. If anything, Texas is going to be more moderate in the next couple decades due to demographic shifts.

whats wrong with the power companies charging two costs: One for the amount of next electricity drawn per month and a second as a line cost that everyone must pay in order to keep service? The line cost should cover updates to service to the house and stuff like that.

I'm a little unclear how I, as a user, can get exploited by this. (I know that it's bash (which pretty much makes MSWindows users immune), but what about the rest of us?)

Do I need to just browse a website on my computer?
Do I need to install Apache/PHP or some other server and open an appropriate port on my system?
Do I need to have port 22 open?
Do I need to have a root user?