That's fine, if you want to live in a third-world nation where you can't rely on having power. You know, the kind of place where you can't run a modern, high-tech economy that depends on reliable supplies of electricity.

But then it's pointless, because we do what other third worlders do, and buy a diesel generator.

Maybe, if it stopped, Walmart would have to pay their employees enough to eat.

Just a thought.

Uh, yes, it has. That's why GPU manufacturers often made mid-range cards by putting the same chip on a board with a half-wide memory bus; saves money on RAM, and is significantly slower.

GPUs tend to be more bandwidth-constrained than latency-constrained, as they typically have long pipelines that can hide much of the latency. Though I'm sure you could make them really latency-constrained if you wrote shaders badly.

Yeah, now you just need to get 500W out of that chip that combines a power-hungry AMD CPU with a power-hungry AMD GPU.

Yet there was a scandal in the UK recently when the newspapers discovered some guy had been given a taxi license despite being a convicted rapist and the licensing body knowing he was. There was another a couple of years before that about a taxi driver who'd been picking up hookers and raping them. A few months ago, there was another scandal when newspapers found some women refusing to get in taxis driven by men of a certain persuasion, because they were afraid of being raped.

So, no, that argument doesn't work, either.

How does 'industry regulation' prevent car accidents? When I worked in London, taxis were generally the most dangerous cars on the road; I was almost killed one day by a taxi driver who drove straight across a pedestrian crossing while filling out some paperwork and not looking at the road.

Statists believe everyone is as stupid as they are.

While widespread availbility of narco-yeast seems a bad idea, the only way to prevent it is a global total-surveillance totalitarian state. Which would be far worse.

Most likely the cartels are way ahead of government science in these areas, as they have a ton of money and an eager market.

Telepresence is the real threat. By the time usable driverless cars are available, there won't be much demand for them. Skip the tedious travel part, and just rent a drone wherever you want to be.

To be fair, the reason we decided not to buy one car last year was that the stereo took several minutes to start up if you plugged in a 32GB USB stick full of music. I'd be half-way to work before it started playing.

Hey, it worked for Romney!

Yes, but, in ten or twenty years, Indian and Chinese plumbers will be doing that work over the Internet with plumbing drones.

Modern left-wing dogma is based on 'we're all the same under the skin!' and there's no inherent differences between people and some just succeed through luck so we must take all their stuff and give it to the unlucky ones.

Admit that some people just aren't as good as others at some things, and the whole scam collapses.

Politicians hate freedom. Full story at 11.

Yes, exactly. Sonic booms from airliners have never really been a big problem, because airliners want to fly as high as possible to minimize fuel consumption. Most of the damaging booms are from military aircraft at lower altitudes.

But, unfortunately, saying 'it's no big deal' isn't good enough for the NIMBYs.