So only 500X? Oh, well then. Let's get going tomorrow!

Yes, but you have the heat anyway so inefficiency doesn't matter. It would be a silly way to get cool air if you didn't want the heat in the first place, but that's not what's going on.

The cost of fraud and security is built in to the interchange rates that make up the bulk of card-present fees from Visa et al. By and large, the retailers already cover those costs. If specific retailer-focussed fines are put in place they should be accompanied by a drop in interchange rates (not going to hold my breath here). Also, by reducing cost-sharing and increasing self-insurance, that's another way of squeezing out smaller merchants (who can't begin to cover those costs) in favor of the larger ones (who don't need external underwriting to do so).

Bzzt, no secret spy handshake for you. The correct response being sought was, "Inside of a snake, its too dark to read."

I don't think anyone would argue against their right to say it - making it not a first amendment issue - what's being argued is that they may not have the right to continue to claim the right to avoid both taxes and financial disclosure while at the same time saying what they're saying. That's very different.

That's one area I'd love to see some Supreme Court guidance on. The issues really stem from the fact that Churches are granted an unprecedented tax exemption (every other organization that wants to not pay taxes has to open its books for a start) in exchange for following a very small yet undefined set of rules, some of the most important being 1) claiming to be a church and 2) agreeing to stay out of politics. Risking that massive taxpayer subsidy for a violation of the staying out of politics rules seems like a poor decision on their part at the very least.

Do you really want people so un-dedicated to working for their country that they can't be bothered to get in shape in order to do the job in front of them?

Especially when you're in an environment that places value on physical fitness, getting into reasonable shape is more a matter of discipline and habit than anything else. If someone's unwilling to make that "sacrifice," just like someone who doesn't want to cut their hair they probably don't belong in any unit depending on a certain esprit de corps to continue.

Do you often fill your gas tank up every two days?

The electric is completely full every morning; your wife's a 40 mile round-trip plus a 30 mile jaunt downtown (seems like an excessive estimate, it assumes that she works 20 miles away from downtown and you also live 30 miles outside of downtown in the same direction) is still only 100 miles.

Sounds like you'd be a poor customer - don't buy one.

Thankfully for the electric car business, you're also an outlier - the vast majority of drivers daily needs can actually be satisfied by the electric cars currently on the market.

You also can't build that kind of scale for $5M, even today.

Its like someone announcing that they're getting into the atomic collider game and have raised another $107. Just makes them look silly.

Very well pointed out. Professional website themes are inexpensive these day to the point that anyone using hand-scrawls like http://www.graphviz.org/ are just asking for disdain.

Seems to be https://github.com/ellson/grap...

Also, why does the website need a machine? Throw it on the free GitHub pages and you'll be fine there.

Right now everyone who wants to drive - even those not driving for 4+ hours at a stretch - fuels up at a gas station. With electric, many (certainly not all, but many) people will be able to slow-charge overnight. Having electric fast charge stations be less common will be just fine, and there'll rarely if ever be a need for one in a traditional residential neighborhood.

Oddly enough we've become comfortable with large underground storage tanks that, when not maintained, will start to leak gasoline into the groundwater. Those are coupled with very large trucks delivering fuel often in mostly residential neighborhoods.

Replace the fuel storage with a moderate power buffer (flywheel, battery, whatever), and add a moderate charging line and we'll be fine.

Just because something is different doesn't make it worse - or better.

Agreed. People forget that sloshing gasoline around is dangerous too - we've just become blasé about it.